• fixes for easier Win32 binary gem deployment for targeting 1.8 and 1.9 in the same gem
• refactor of connection checks and management to avoid race conditions with the GC/threading to prevent the unexpected loss of connections
• update the default flags during connection
• add support for setting wait_timeout on AR adapter
• upgrade to rspec2
• bugfix for an edge case where the GC would clean up a Mysql2::Client object before the underlying MYSQL pointer had been initialized
• fix to CFLAGS to allow compilation on SPARC with sunstudio compiler - Anko painting anko.com+github@gmail.com