Added new C API function mysql_ping().

Added new API functions mysql_init() and mysql_options(). You now MUST call mysql_init() before you call mysql_real_connect(). You don't have to call mysql_init() if you only use mysql_connect().

Added mysql_options(...,MYSQL_OPT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT,...) so you can set a timeout for connecting to a server.

Added --timeout option to mysqladmin, as a test of mysql_options().

Added AFTER column and FIRST options to ALTER TABLE ... ADD columns. This makes it possible to add a new column at some specific location within a row in an existing table.

WEEK() now takes an optional argument to allow handling of weeks when the week starts on Monday (some European countries). By default, WEEK() assumes the week starts on Sunday.

TIME columns weren't stored properly (bug in MySQL Version 3.22.0).

UPDATE now returns information about how many rows were matched and updated, and how many ``warnings'' occurred when doing the update.

Fixed incorrect result from FORMAT(-100,2).

ENUM and SET columns were compared in binary (case-sensitive) fashion; changed to be case-insensitive.