Fixed charset conversion issue in getTables(). (Bug #2502)

Fixed ConnectionProperties that weren't properly exposed through accessors, cleaned up ConnectionProperties code. (Bug #2623)

Prepared Statements will be re-prepared on auto-reconnect. Any errors encountered are postponed until first attempt to re-execute the re-prepared statement.

Reduced number of methods called in average query to be more efficient.

Refactored how connection properties are set and exposed as DriverPropertyInfo as well as Connection and DataSource properties.

Fixed stack overflow in Connection.prepareCall() (bad merge).

Enabled streaming of result sets from server-side prepared statements. (Bug #2606)

Allow contents of PreparedStatement.setBlob() to be retained between calls to .execute*().

Fixed IllegalAccessError to Calendar.getTimeInMillis() in DateTimeValue (for JDK < 1.4).

Default result set type changed to TYPE_FORWARD_ONLY (JDBC compliance).

Fixed bug with UpdatableResultSets not using client-side prepared statements.

Class-cast exception when using scrolling result sets and server-side prepared statements. (Bug #2623)

Display where/why a connection was implicitly closed (to aid debugging). (Bug #1673)

DatabaseMetaData.getColumns() is not returning correct column ordinal info for non-'%' column name patterns. (Bug #1673)

Centralized setting of result set type and concurrency.

Implemented Connection.prepareCall(), and DatabaseMetaData. getProcedures() and getProcedureColumns(). (Bug #2359)

Implemented multiple result sets returned from a statement or stored procedure. (Bug #2502)

Fixed NullPointerException in ServerPreparedStatement.setTimestamp(), as well as year and month discrepencies in ServerPreparedStatement.setTimestamp(), setDate(). (Bug #1673)

Fixed character encoding issues when converting bytes to ASCII when MySQL doesn't provide the character set, and the JVM is set to a multi-byte encoding (usually affecting retrieval of numeric values).

Support “old” profileSql capitalization in ConnectionProperties. This property is deprecated, you should use profileSQL if possible.

Added ability to have multiple database/JVM targets for compliance and regression/unit tests in build.xml. (Bug #1673)

Support for transaction savepoints (MySQL >= 4.0.14 or 4.1.1).

Check for closed connection on delete/update/insert row operations in UpdatableResultSet.

Support for NIO. Use useNIO=true on platforms that support NIO.

Fixed sending of queries larger than 16M. (Bug #1673)

Use DocBook version of docs for shipped versions of drivers. (Bug #2671)

Merged fix of data type mapping from MySQL type FLOAT to java.sql.Types.REAL from 3.0 branch. (Bug #1673)

Merged prepared statement caching, and .getMetaData() support from 3.0 branch. (Bug #2359)

Fixed NPE and year/month bad conversions when accessing some datetime functionality in ServerPreparedStatements and their resultant result sets. (Bug #1673)

Removed useFastDates connection property.

Added named and indexed input/output parameter support to CallableStatement. MySQL-5.0.x or newer. (Bug #1673)

Fixed off-by-1900 error in some cases for years in TimeUtil.fastDate/TimeCreate() when unpacking results from server-side prepared statements. (Bug #2359)

Support for mysql_change_user(). See the changeUser() method in com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.

DatabaseMetaData now reports supportsStoredProcedures() for MySQL versions >= 5.0.0

Deal with 0-length tokens in EscapeProcessor (caused by callable statement escape syntax).

Reset long binary parameters in ServerPreparedStatement when clearParameters() is called, by sending COM_RESET_STMT to the server. (Bug #2359)

Server-side prepared statements were not returning data type YEAR correctly. (Bug #2606)

NULL fields were not being encoded correctly in all cases in server-side prepared statements. (Bug #2671)

Implemented long data (Blobs, Clobs, InputStreams, Readers) for server prepared statements.

Correctly initialize datasource properties from JNDI Refs, including explicitly specified URLs.

Ensure that warnings are cleared before executing queries on prepared statements, as-per JDBC spec (now that we support warnings).

Implemented Statement.getWarnings() for MySQL-4.1 and newer (using SHOW WARNINGS).

Unpack “unknown” data types from server prepared statements as Strings.

NULL values for numeric types in binary encoded result sets causing NullPointerExceptions. (Bug #2359)

CommunicationsException implemented, that tries to determine why communications was lost with a server, and displays possible reasons when .getMessage() is called. (Bug #1673)

Fixed rare buffer underflow when writing numbers into buffers for sending prepared statement execution requests. (Bug #2671)

Fix support for table aliases when checking for all primary keys in UpdatableResultSet.

Optimized Buffer.readLenByteArray() to return shared empty byte array when length is 0.

Detect collation of column for RSMD.isCaseSensitive(). (Bug #1673)

Merged unbuffered input code from 3.0. (Bug #2623)