Implemented Clob.setString().

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

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).

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

Implemented Clob.setCharacterStream().

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

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

Implemented Clob.setAsciiStream().

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 incorrect conversion in ResultSet.getLong().

Implemented ResultSet.updateBlob().

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

Escape 0x5c character in strings for the SJIS charset.

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

Fixed issue with updatable result sets and PreparedStatements not working.

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

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

Fixed various non-ASCII character encoding issues.

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

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

Fixed ResultSet.setFetchDirection(FETCH_UNKNOWN).

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

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

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

Implemented Clob.truncate().