Fixed issue with updatable result sets and PreparedStatements not working.

Fixed ResultSet.setFetchDirection(FETCH_UNKNOWN).

Fixed issue when calling Statement.setFetchSize() when using arbitrary values.

Fixed incorrect conversion in ResultSet.getLong().

Implemented ResultSet.updateBlob().

Removed duplicate code from UpdatableResultSet (it can be inherited from ResultSet, the extra code for each method to handle updatability I thought might someday be necessary has not been needed).

Fixed UnsupportedEncodingException thrown when “forcing” a character encoding via properties.

Fixed various non-ASCII character encoding issues.

Added driver property useHostsInPrivileges. Defaults to true. Affects whether or not @hostname will be used in DBMD.getColumn/TablePrivileges.

All DBMD result set columns describing schemas now return NULL to be more compliant with the behavior of other JDBC drivers for other database systems (MySQL does not support schemas).

Added SSL support. See README for information on how to use it.

Properly restore connection properties when autoReconnecting or failing-over, including autoCommit state, and isolation level.

Use SHOW CREATE TABLE when possible for determining foreign key information for DatabaseMetaData. Also allows cascade options for DELETE information to be returned.

Escape 0x5c character in strings for the SJIS charset.

Fixed start position off-by-1 error in Clob.getSubString().

Implemented Clob.truncate().

Implemented Clob.setString().

Implemented Clob.setAsciiStream().

Implemented Clob.setCharacterStream().

Added com.mysql.jdbc.MiniAdmin class, which allows you to send shutdown command to MySQL server. This is intended to be used when “embedding” Java and MySQL server together in an end-user application.

Added connectTimeout parameter that allows users of JDK-1.4 and newer to specify a maxium time to wait to establish a connection.

Failover and autoReconnect work only when the connection is in an autoCommit(false) state, in order to stay transaction-safe.

Added queriesBeforeRetryMaster property that specifies how many queries to issue when failed over before attempting to reconnect to the master (defaults to 50).

Fixed DBMD.supportsResultSetConcurrency() so that it returns true for ResultSet.TYPE_SCROLL_INSENSITIVE and ResultSet.CONCUR_READ_ONLY or ResultSet.CONCUR_UPDATABLE.

Fixed ResultSet.isLast() for empty result sets (should return false).

PreparedStatement now honors stream lengths in setBinary/Ascii/Character Stream() unless you set the connection property useStreamLengthsInPrepStmts to false.

Removed some not-needed temporary object creation by smarter use of Strings in EscapeProcessor, Connection and DatabaseMetaData classes.