Allow user to alter behavior of Statement/ PreparedStatement.executeBatch() via continueBatchOnError property (defaults to true).

More robust escape tokenizer: Recognize -- comments, and allow nested escape sequences (see testsuite.EscapeProcessingTest).

Fixed Buffer.isLastDataPacket() for 4.1 and newer servers.

NamedPipeSocketFactory now works (only intended for Windows), see README for instructions.

Changed charsToByte in SingleByteCharConverter to be nonstatic.

Use nonaliased table/column names and database names to fully qualify tables and columns in UpdatableResultSet (requires MySQL-4.1 or newer).

LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE ... now works, if your server is configured to allow it. Can be turned off with the allowLoadLocalInfile property (see the README).

Implemented Connection.nativeSQL().

Fixed ResultSetMetaData.getColumnTypeName() returning BLOB for TEXT and TEXT for BLOB types.

Fixed charset handling in Fields.java.

Because of above, implemented ResultSetMetaData.isAutoIncrement() to use Field.isAutoIncrement().

Substitute '?' for unknown character conversions in single-byte character sets instead of '\0'.

Added CLIENT_LONG_FLAG to be able to get more column flags (isAutoIncrement() being the most important).

Honor lower_case_table_names when enabled in the server when doing table name comparisons in DatabaseMetaData methods.

DBMD.getImported/ExportedKeys() now handles multiple foreign keys per table.

More robust implementation of updatable result sets. Checks that all primary keys of the table have been selected.

Some MySQL-4.1 protocol support (extended field info from selects).

Check for connection closed in more Connection methods (createStatement, prepareStatement, setTransactionIsolation, setAutoCommit).

Fixed ResultSetMetaData.getPrecision() returning incorrect values for some floating-point types.

Changed SingleByteCharConverter to use lazy initialization of each converter.