Major Release

• Migrate the CI service from travis-ci to GitHub Actions (#1176, #1183, #1190)
• NullTime is deprecated (#960, #1144)
• Reduce allocations when building SET command (#1111)
• Performance improvement for time formatting (#1118)
• Performance improvement for time parsing (#1098, #1113)

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Major Release

• Added Go Module support
• Dropped support for Go 1.9 and lower
• Implemented Connector interface
• Improved buffering
• Added connection liveness check
• Improved marking of bad connnections
• Updated collations and made utf8mb4 default
• Made mysql.NullTime compatible with sql.NullTime
• Removed support for CloudSQL via appengine/cloudsql

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Bugfix release

• Several fixes of the authentication handling
• Fix TIME format for binary columns
• Fix canceled context broke mysqlConn

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Major Release

• Multi-Results support
• context.Context support
• ColumnType support
• caching_sha2_password (MySQL 8 default) and sha256_password authentication support
• Transaction isolation level support
• Read-Only transactions support
• Many, many bugfixes

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Major Release

• Microsecond resolution on date and time fields
• Placeholder interpolation
• Support for cleartext and native authentication plugins
• Config struct and ParseDSN / FormatDSN funtctions exported
• Read / Write timeouts
• Support for JSON field type
• Support for multi-statements and multi-results
• Many, many bugfixes

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Major release

• Several important bug fixes
• Custom dial function support
• Custom logger support
• Google CloudSQL support
• New parameter to set the connection collation

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Major release

• Lowered Memory Footprint
• Improved Stability
• Slightly improved Performance

New Features:

• old_passwords: Old password auth mechanism
• clientFoundRows: Number of matching rows instead of the number of rows changed
• TLS/SSL: TLS/SSL encrypted connections

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Minor Bugfix release

• Make Close idempotent
• Fix sign byte for positive TIME fields
• No panic on closed connection reuse
• Avoid false nil values for empty strings

Minor Bugfix release

• Fixed false positive io.EOF errors

Minor Bugfix release

• fixes support for reading split packets