Virtualized driver subsystem so future releases could easily support client or embedded server support

Setting DbType threw a NullReferenceException. (Bug #5469)

Fixed constructor initialize problems in MySqlCommand() (Bug #5613)

Fixed System.OverflowException when using YEAR data type. (Bug #6036)

Fixed Yet Another "object reference not set to an instance of an object" (Bug #5496)

CP1252 is now used for Latin1 only when the server is 4.1.2 and later

Refactored compression code into CompressedStream to clean up NativeDriver

Fixed Parsing the ';' char (Bug #5876)

Fixed problem where Min Pool Size was not being respected

Fixed problem where connector was not issuing a CMD_QUIT before closing the socket

Fixed MySqlDataReader and 'show tables from ...' behavior (Bug #5256)

Fixed problem where MySqlParameterCollection.Add() would throw unclear exception when given a null value (Bug #5621)

Cannot run a stored procedure populating mysqlcommand.parameters (Bug #5474)

Fixed Russian character support as well

Fixed problem with ConnectionInternal where a key might be added more than once

Implemented SequentialAccess

Fixed IndexOutOfBounds when reading BLOB with DataReader with GetString(index). (Bug #6230)

Fixed MySqlDateTime sets IsZero property on all subseq.records after first zero found (Bug #6006)

Using PacketWriter instead of Packet for writing to streams

Added Aggregate function test (wasn't really a bug)

MySqlCommand saw instances of "?" as parameters in string literals. (Bug #5392)

Field buffers being reused to decrease memory allocations and increase speed

Possible bug in MySqlParameter(string, object) constructor (Bug #5602)

Fixed NET Connector source missing resx files (Bug #6216)

Fixed serializing of floating point parameters (double, numeric, single, decimal) (Bug #5900)

Fixed Method TokenizeSql() uses only a limited set of valid characters for parameters (Bug #6217)

Fixed problem where connection lifetime on the connect string was not being respected

DataReader reported all rows as NULL if one row was NULL. (Bug #5388)

Fixed Can't display Chinese correctly (Bug #5288)

Fixed missing Reference in DbType setter (Bug #5897)

Added test case for resetting the command text on a prepared command

Fixed GetBoolean returns wrong values (Bug #6227)

IsNullable error (Bug #5796)

Fixed DBNull Values causing problems with retrieving/updating queries. (Bug #5798)

Calling GetChars on a LONGTEXT column threw an exception. (Bug #5458)

Fixed problem where using old syntax while using the interfaces caused problems

Fixed problem in PacketReader where it could try to allocate the wrong buffer size in EnsureCapacity