Fixed character-set support for non-Javasoft JVMs (thanks to many people for pointing it out)

Fixed ResultSet.getBoolean() to recognize 'y' & 'n' as well as '1' & '0' as boolean flags. (thanks to Tim Pizey)

Fixed ResultSet.getTimestamp() to give better performance. (thanks to Richard Swift)

Fixed getByte() for numeric types. (thanks to Ray Bellis)

Fixed DatabaseMetaData.getTypeInfo() for DATE type. (thanks to Paul Johnston)

Fixed EscapeProcessor for "fn" calls. (thanks to Piyush Shah at locomotive.org)

Fixed EscapeProcessor to not do extraneous work if there are no escape codes. (thanks to Ryan Gustafson)

Fixed Driver to parse URLs of the form "jdbc:mysql://host:port" (thanks to Richard Lobb)