The Connection.isServerLocal() method can now determine if a connection is against a server on the same host.

When auto-reconnect was used with cacheServerConfiguration, errors could occur when the host changed (in an HA setup, for example). (Bug #12325877)

DBMD.getTables and getColumns fail with table names that contain a dot (like "junk_[Sp:e,c/ C-h+a=.r]"). The workaround is to use useInformationSchema=True. (Bug #11782297)

Fixed a timestamp offset bug in com.mysql.jdbc.ResultSetRow.getTimestampFast(). (Bug #60313, Bug #11890729)

ResultSetRow.getTimestampFast and getTime had invalid offsets. (Bug #60313)

wasNull was not set for a DATE field with the value of 0000-00-00 in getDate(), although zeroDateTimeBehavior is defined as convertToNull. (Bug #57808)

A bypassing of the server protocol bug, where the DB should be null-terminated whether it exists or not. This affects COM_CHANGE_USER. (Bug #54425)

Fixed a bug where Connector/J would kill the matching ConnectionID, but on the wrong server. (Bug #54135)