!!! LICENSE CHANGE !!! The
            driver is now GPL. If you need non-GPL licenses, please
            contact me <mark@mysql.com>.
          
            JDBC-3.0 functionality including
            Statement/PreparedStatement.getGeneratedKeys()
            and ResultSet.getURL().
          
Performance enchancements: Driver is now 50–100% faster in most situations, and creates fewer temporary objects.
            Repackaging: New driver name is
            com.mysql.jdbc.Driver, old name still
            works, though (the driver is now provided by MySQL-AB).
          
            Better checking for closed connections in
            Statement and
            PreparedStatement.
          
            Support for streaming (row-by-row) result sets (see
            README) Thanks to Doron.
          
            Support for large packets (new addition to MySQL-4.0
            protocol), see README for more
            information.
          
JDBC Compliance: Passes all tests besides stored procedure tests.
            Fix and sort primary key names in
            DBMetaData (SF bugs 582086 and 582086).
          
            Float types now reported as
            java.sql.Types.FLOAT (SF bug 579573).
          
            ResultSet.getTimestamp() now works for
            DATE types (SF bug 559134).
          
            ResultSet.getDate/Time/Timestamp now
            recognizes all forms of invalid values that have been set to
            all zeros by MySQL (SF bug 586058).
          
Testsuite now uses Junit (which you can get from http://www.junit.org.
The driver now only works with JDK-1.2 or newer.
            Added multi-host failover support (see
            README).
          
General source-code cleanup.
            Overall speed improvements via controlling transient object
            creation in MysqlIO class when reading
            packets.
          
Performance improvements in string handling and field metadata creation (lazily instantiated) contributed by Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes.
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