text: ## Version 1.5 (2020-01-07)
  
  Changes:
  
    - Dropped support Go 1.9 and lower (#823, #829, #886, #1016, #1017)
    - Improve buffer handling (#890)
    - Document potentially insecure TLS configs (#901)
    - Use a double-buffering scheme to prevent data races (#943)
    - Pass uint64 values without converting them to string (#838, #955)
    - Update collations and make utf8mb4 default (#877, #1054)
    - Make NullTime compatible with sql.NullTime in Go 1.13+ (#995)
    - Removed CloudSQL support (#993, #1007)
    - Add Go Module support (#1003)
  
  New Features:
  
    - Implement support of optional TLS (#900)
    - Check connection liveness (#934, #964, #997, #1048, #1051, #1052)
    - Implement Connector Interface (#941, #958, #1020, #1035)
  
  Bugfixes:
  
    - Mark connections as bad on error during ping (#875)
    - Mark connections as bad on error during dial (#867)
    - Fix connection leak caused by rapid context cancellation (#1024)
    - Mark connections as bad on error during Conn.Prepare (#1030)
  
  
  ## Version 1.4.1 (2018-11-14)
  
  Bugfixes:
  
   - Fix TIME format for binary columns (#818)
   - Fix handling of empty auth plugin names (#835)
   - Fix caching_sha2_password with empty password (#826)
   - Fix canceled context broke mysqlConn (#862)
   - Fix OldAuthSwitchRequest support (#870)
   - Fix Auth Response packet for cleartext password (#887)
  
  ## Version 1.4 (2018-06-03)
  
  Changes:
  
   - Documentation fixes (#530, #535, #567)
   - Refactoring (#575, #579, #580, #581, #603, #615, #704)
   - Cache column names (#444)
   - Sort the DSN parameters in DSNs generated from a config (#637)
   - Allow native password authentication by default (#644)
   - Use the default port if it is missing in the DSN (#668)
   - Removed the `strict` mode (#676)
   - Do not query `max_allowed_packet` by default (#680)
   - Dropped support Go 1.6 and lower (#696)
   - Updated `ConvertValue()` to match the database/sql/driver implementation (#760)
   - Document the usage of `0000-00-00T00:00:00` as the time.Time zero value (#783)
   - Improved the compatibility of the authentication system (#807)
  
  New Features:
  
   - Multi-Results support (#537)
   - `rejectReadOnly` DSN option (#604)
   - `context.Context` support (#608, #612, #627, #761)
   - Transaction isolation level support (#619, #744)
   - Read-Only transactions support (#618, #634)
   - `NewConfig` function which initializes a config with default values (#679)
   - Implemented the `ColumnType` interfaces (#667, #724)
   - Support for custom string types in `ConvertValue` (#623)
   - Implemented `NamedValueChecker`, improving support for uint64 with high bit set (#690, #709, #710)
   - `caching_sha2_password` authentication plugin support (#794, #800, #801, #802)
   - Implemented `driver.SessionResetter` (#779)
   - `sha256_password` authentication plugin support (#808)
  
  Bugfixes:
  
   - Use the DSN hostname as TLS default ServerName if `tls=true` (#564, #718)
   - Fixed LOAD LOCAL DATA INFILE for empty files (#590)
   - Removed columns definition cache since it sometimes cached invalid data (#592)
   - Don't mutate registered TLS configs (#600)
   - Make RegisterTLSConfig concurrency-safe (#613)
   - Handle missing auth data in the handshake packet correctly (#646)
   - Do not retry queries when data was written to avoid data corruption (#302, #736)
   - Cache the connection pointer for error handling before invalidating it (#678)
   - Fixed imports for appengine/cloudsql (#700)
   - Fix sending STMT_LONG_DATA for 0 byte data (#734)
   - Set correct capacity for []bytes read from length-encoded strings (#766)
   - Make RegisterDial concurrency-safe (#773)
  
  
  ## Version 1.3 (2016-12-01)
  
  Changes:
  
   - Go 1.1 is no longer supported
   - Use decimals fields in MySQL to format time types (#249)
   - Buffer optimizations (#269)
   - TLS ServerName defaults to the host (#283)
   - Refactoring (#400, #410, #437)
   - Adjusted documentation for second generation CloudSQL (#485)
   - Documented DSN system var quoting rules (#502)
   - Made statement.Close() calls idempotent to avoid errors in Go 1.6+ (#512)
  
  New Features:
  
   - Enable microsecond resolution on TIME, DATETIME and TIMESTAMP (#249)
   - Support for returning table alias on Columns() (#289, #359, #382)
   - Placeholder interpolation, can be actived with the DSN parameter `interpolateParams=true` (#309, #318, #490)
   - Support for uint64 parameters with high bit set (#332, #345)
   - Cleartext authentication plugin support (#327)
   - Exported ParseDSN function and the Config struct (#403, #419, #429)
   - Read / Write timeouts (#401)
   - Support for JSON field type (#414)
   - Support for multi-statements and multi-results (#411, #431)
   - DSN parameter to set the driver-side max_allowed_packet value manually (#489)
   - Native password authentication plugin support (#494, #524)
  
  Bugfixes:
  
   - Fixed handling of queries without columns and rows (#255)
   - Fixed a panic when SetKeepAlive() failed (#298)
   - Handle ERR packets while reading rows (#321)
   - Fixed reading NULL length-encoded integers in MySQL 5.6+ (#349)
   - Fixed absolute paths support in LOAD LOCAL DATA INFILE (#356)
   - Actually zero out bytes in handshake response (#378)
   - Fixed race condition in registering LOAD DATA INFILE handler (#383)
   - Fixed tests with MySQL 5.7.9+ (#380)
   - QueryUnescape TLS config names (#397)
   - Fixed "broken pipe" error by writing to closed socket (#390)
   - Fixed LOAD LOCAL DATA INFILE buffering (#424)
   - Fixed parsing of floats into float64 when placeholders are used (#434)
   - Fixed DSN tests with Go 1.7+ (#459)
   - Handle ERR packets while waiting for EOF (#473)
   - Invalidate connection on error while discarding additional results (#513)
   - Allow terminating packets of length 0 (#516)
  
  
  ## Version 1.2 (2014-06-03)
  
  Changes:
  
   - We switched back to a "rolling release". `go get` installs the current master branch again
   - Version v1 of the driver will not be maintained anymore. Go 1.0 is no longer supported by this driver
   - Exported errors to allow easy checking from application code
   - Enabled TCP Keepalives on TCP connections
   - Optimized INFILE handling (better buffer size calculation, lazy init, ...)
   - The DSN parser also checks for a missing separating slash
   - Faster binary date / datetime to string formatting
   - Also exported the MySQLWarning type
   - mysqlConn.Close returns the first error encountered instead of ignoring all errors
   - writePacket() automatically writes the packet size to the header
   - readPacket() uses an iterative approach instead of the recursive approach to merge splitted packets
  
  New Features:
  
   - `RegisterDial` allows the usage of a custom dial function to establish the network connection
   - Setting the connection collation is possible with the `collation` DSN parameter. This parameter should be preferred over the `charset` parameter
   - Logging of critical errors is configurable with `SetLogger`
   - Google CloudSQL support
  
  Bugfixes:
  
   - Allow more than 32 parameters in prepared statements
   - Various old_password fixes
   - Fixed TestConcurrent test to pass Go's race detection
   - Fixed appendLengthEncodedInteger for large numbers
   - Renamed readLengthEnodedString to readLengthEncodedString and skipLengthEnodedString to skipLengthEncodedString (fixed typo)
  
  
  ## Version 1.1 (2013-11-02)
  
  Changes:
  
    - Go-MySQL-Driver now requires Go 1.1
    - Connections now use the collation `utf8_general_ci` by default. Adding `&charset=UTF8` to the DSN should not be necessary anymore
    - Made closing rows and connections error tolerant. This allows for example deferring rows.Close() without checking for errors
    - `[]byte(nil)` is now treated as a NULL value. Before, it was treated like an empty string / `[]byte("")`
    - DSN parameter values must now be url.QueryEscape'ed. This allows text values to contain special characters, such as '&'.
    - Use the IO buffer also for writing. This results in zero allocations (by the driver) for most queries
    - Optimized the buffer for reading
    - stmt.Query now caches column metadata
    - New Logo
    - Changed the copyright header to include all contributors
    - Improved the LOAD INFILE documentation
    - The driver struct is now exported to make the driver directly accessible
    - Refactored the driver tests
    - Added more benchmarks and moved all to a separate file
    - Other small refactoring
  
  New Features:
  
    - Added *old_passwords* support: Required in some cases, but must be enabled by adding `allowOldPasswords=true` to the DSN since it is insecure
    - Added a `clientFoundRows` parameter: Return the number of matching rows instead of the number of rows changed on UPDATEs
    - Added TLS/SSL support: Use a TLS/SSL encrypted connection to the server. Custom TLS configs can be registered and used
  
  Bugfixes:
  
    - Fixed MySQL 4.1 support: MySQL 4.1 sends packets with lengths which differ from the specification
    - Convert to DB timezone when inserting `time.Time`
    - Splitted packets (more than 16MB) are now merged correctly
    - Fixed false positive `io.EOF` errors when the data was fully read
    - Avoid panics on reuse of closed connections
    - Fixed empty string producing false nil values
    - Fixed sign byte for positive TIME fields
  
  
  ## Version 1.0 (2013-05-14)
  
  Initial Release
  