Inconsistent reporting of data type. The server still doesn't return all types for *BLOBs *TEXT correctly, so the driver won't return those correctly. (Bug#3570)

UpdatableResultSet not picking up default values for moveToInsertRow(). (Bug#3557)

Not specifying database in URL caused MalformedURL exception. (Bug#3554)

Auto-convert MySQL encoding names to Java encoding names if used for characterEncoding property. (Bug#3554)

Use junit.textui.TestRunner for all unit tests (to enable them to be run from the command line outside of Ant or Eclipse). (Bug#3554)

Added encoding names that are recognized on some JVMs to fix case where they were reverse-mapped to MySQL encoding names incorrectly. (Bug#3554)

Made StringRegressionTest 4.1-unicode aware. (Bug#3520)

Fixed regression in PreparedStatement.setString() and eastern character encodings. (Bug#3520)

DBMD.getSQLStateType() returns incorrect value. (Bug#3520)

Renamed StringUtils.escapeSJISByteStream() to more appropriate escapeEasternUnicodeByteStream(). (Bug#3511)

StringUtils.escapeSJISByteStream() not covering all eastern double-byte charsets correctly. (Bug#3511)

Return creating statement for ResultSets created by getGeneratedKeys(). (Bug#2957)

Use SET character_set_results during initialization to enable any charset to be returned to the driver for result sets. (Bug#2670)

Don't truncate BLOB or CLOB values when using setBytes() and setBinary/CharacterStream(). (Bug#2670)

Dynamically configure character set mappings for field-level character sets on MySQL-4.1.0 and newer using SHOW COLLATION when connecting. (Bug#2670)

Map binary character set to US-ASCII to support DATETIME charset recognition for servers >= 4.1.2. (Bug#2670)

Use charsetnr returned during connect to encode queries before issuing SET NAMES on MySQL >= 4.1.0. (Bug#2670)

Add helper methods to ResultSetMetaData (getColumnCharacterEncoding() and getColumnCharacterSet()) to permit end users to see what charset the driver thinks it should be using for the column. (Bug#2670)

Only set character_set_results for MySQL >= 4.1.0. (Bug#2670)

Allow url parameter for MysqlDataSource and MysqlConnectionPool DataSource so that passing of other properties is possible from inside appservers.

Don't escape SJIS/GBK/BIG5 when using MySQL-4.1 or newer.

Backport documentation tooling from 3.1 branch.

Added failOverReadOnly property, to enable the user to configure the state of the connection (read-only/writable) when failed over.

Allow java.util.Date to be sent in as parameter to PreparedStatement.setObject(), converting it to a Timestamp to maintain full precision. . (Bug#103)

Add unsigned attribute to DatabaseMetaData.getColumns() output in the TYPE_NAME column.

Map duplicate key and foreign key errors to SQLState of 23000.

Backported “change user” and “reset server state” functionality from 3.1 branch, to enable clients of MysqlConnectionPoolDataSource to reset server state on getConnection() on a pooled connection.