Made TINYINT(1) -> BIT/Boolean conversion configurable using tinyInt1isBit property (default true to be JDBC compliant out of the box). (Bug#5664)

Off-by-one bug in Buffer.readString(string). (Bug#5664)

ResultSet.updateByte() when on insert row throws ArrayOutOfBoundsException. (Bug#5664)

Fixed regression where useUnbufferedInput was defaulting to false. (Bug#5664)

ResultSet.getTimestamp() on a column with TIME in it fails. (Bug#5664)

Fixed DatabaseMetaData.getTypes() returning incorrect (this is, nonnegative) scale for the NUMERIC type. (Bug#5664)

Only set character_set_results during connection establishment if server version >= 4.1.1. (Bug#5664)

Fixed ResultSetMetaData.isReadOnly() to detect nonwritable columns when connected to MySQL-4.1 or newer, based on existence of “original” table and column names.

Re-issue character set configuration commands when re-using pooled connections or Connection.changeUser() when connected to MySQL-4.1 or newer.