Charsets now automatically detected. Optimized code for single-byte character set conversion.

Fixed ResultSetMetaData.isSigned() for TINYINT and BIGINT.

Fixed RowDataStatic.getAt() off-by-one bug.

Fixed ResultSet.getRow() off-by-one bug.

Massive code clean-up to follow Java coding conventions (the time had come).

Implemented ResultSet.getCharacterStream().

Added limited Clob functionality (ResultSet.getClob(), PreparedStatement.setClob(), PreparedStatement.setObject(Clob).

Connection.isClosed() no longer “pings” the server.

Connection.close() issues rollback() when getAutoCommit() is false.

Added socketTimeout parameter to URL.

Added LOCAL TEMPORARY to table types in DatabaseMetaData.getTableTypes().

Added paranoid parameter, which sanitizes error messages by removing “sensitive” information from them (such as host names, ports, or user names), as well as clearing “sensitive” data structures when possible.