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Release date: 20 Oct 2021

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• Revision #bc9f6c7 Merge branch 'release/2.5.5'

• Revision #a3f0cb1 bump 2.5.5 version

• [] Missing leakDetectionTimeout option in Typescript description #169

• [misc] correct changelog

• [misc] test reliability improvement

• [misc] correct travis link

• [] Pool.query/execute/batch(undefined) never release connection #163

• [misc] pool test rewrite as promise

• Merge branch 'patch-1' into develop

• fix minor typo "JSON.stringfy" in promise-api.md

• [misc] travis correction

• [misc] ensuring PR test suite runs correctly

• [] permitting providing null as a value without an array

• [misc] ensure testing on PR runs standard test

• [misc] documentation addition for non supported experimental ?? syntax

• [misc] ensure test reliability on windows

• Merge branch 'develop'

• [misc] ensure test reliability

• [misc] ensure test reliability with maxscale/skysql ha

• Merge branch 'master' into develop

• [misc] ensure PR travis test

• Merge tag '2.5.4' into develop

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Release date: 14 Jun 2021

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• Revision #519e4ab Merge branch 'release/2.5.4'

• Revision #ba7cd72 [misc] travis test on node.js v16

• version bump

• [misc] dependency bump

• [misc] test improvement for windows env

• [] error initial text and sql

• [] error initial text and sql

• Update index.d.ts

• Update index.d.ts

• Update index.d.ts

• #152

• - new API that list options default value

• misc - proxy test correction

• authentication plugin failing doesn't always return an error

• Use connector common test script

• misc - correcting appveyor url

• misc - correcting appveyor url

• misc test correction for PAM with appveyor

• misc test correction for PAM with appveyor

• [] escape function incorrect use of 'this' #149

• Merge tag '2.5.3' into develop

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Release date: 17 Feb 2022

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• Revision #42e503f bump 2.5.6

• Revision #f0cd822 misc - test reliability improvement

• misc - test reliability improvement

• misc - update documentation with for-await-of use #189

• misc - stored procedure tests async

• misc - documentation improvement indicating that connection.release() is async

• misc - correct character_set_client unexpect error parsing OK_Packet #177

• misc - ensure test reliability

• - change default connection timeout value to 1000ms

• misc 20 Oct 2021- ensuring test stream close

• - fix local infile file name validation for windows #183

• Merge branch 'typescript_fix_missing_event' into develop

• - fix missing event handler #186

• Updating documentation and README examples using mostly async/await

• adding 10.7 test to travis

• Merge tag '2.5.5' into develop

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Release date: 24 Feb 2021

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• Revision #c70948f - Merge branch 'release/2.5.3'

• Revision #5a29ea6 - Bump 2.5.3

• - [misc] test correction

• - [misc] test addition

• - [misc] authentication plugin event multiple emit correction

• - [misc] removing server eol version from test

• - [misc] ensure proper test stability on unix if database not local

• - [] Wrong definition for typescript PoolConnection.release #145

• - [] test 10.6 server latest build

• - Merge branch 'fix/143' into develop

• - [misc] removing unnecessary failing retry

• - Some BigInt Ref replace with String As per Conversation

• - [] Batch error when setting maxAllowedPacket less than an insert parameter value

• - More Ref Removed

• - Converting ALL Bigint Ref

• - Merge tag '2.5.2' into develop

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Release date: 20 Mar 2020

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• Bump 2.3.1 version

• [misc] changing new connection option timeout

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Release date: 23 Jul 2020

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• Revision #ebc9a35 Merge branch 'release/2.4.2'

• Revision #70a92dc bump 2.4.2 version

• [misc] adding documentation example

• Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into develop

• [] Number parsing loss of precision

• Merge tag '2.4.1' into develop

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Release date: 2 Dec 2019

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• Revision #f533435 bump 2.1.4 version

• Revision #a898213 [misc] bump dependencies

• bump dependencies

• [misc] eslint format update

• [] use pool reset only for corrected COM_RESET_CONNECTION

• [] missing pool event definition

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Release date: 8 Jan 2020

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• Revision #5af744f - bump 2.1.5 version

• Revision #822e654 - [misc] correcting maxscale tests since upgrade to mocha 7.0.0

• - [misc] updating dependencies version

• - [misc] correcting travis new link

• - [misc] typescript test correction

• - [] Batch improvement : - Passing an empty array to batch throw an unexpected error - permit use of single array for query with single parameter

• - [misc] update license expression in package.json

• - [misc] change github links to mariadb-corporation

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Release date: 13 May 2019

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• [misc] correcting non publication of typescript definition on npm adding last 2.0.4 missing pool options to typescript definition.

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Release date: 26 May 2020

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• Revision #69f12a1 - [misc] update README about node.js min version

• Revision #2dd9748 - Merge branch 'pull/111' into develop

• - [] typescript eslint correction

• - [] typescript error when trying to use SqlError interface

• - moment-timezone bump

• - [misc] correcting MariaDB Cloud tests

• - [misc] add MariaDB Cloud testing - style correction

• - [misc] add MariaDB Cloud testing

• - [] Duplication error now indicating option checkDuplicate.

• - [] correcting SSL missing import

• - [] Adding 'fast path' implementation: mysql packet usually never splits the header into multiple TCP packets

• - [misc] benchmark configuration correction

• - [] Support extension type format

• - [misc] bump dependencies, prettier code, new version refactoring

• - [misc] code style prettier correction

• - [misc] update test for timeout

• - Merge branch 'master' into develop

• - [misc] correcting timeout test

• - [] error when using multipleStatements with metaAsArray #106

• - [misc] mysql 8 error detection correction

• - [misc] timeout test correction

• - [misc] removing 5.5 servers not available on Docker anymore

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Release date: 26 Oct 2020

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• Revision #dece699 Merge branch 'release/2.5.1'

• Revision #01d8295 bump 2.5.1

• [misc] improve supportBigInt option documentation

• Merge branch 'master' into develop

• [] correcting possible TypeError [ERR_UNKNOWN_ENCODING]: Unknown encoding

• [misc] documentation update for supportBigInt

• Merge tag '2.5.0' into develop

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Release date: 31Jan 2019

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• - Merge branch 'release/2.0.3'

• - bump 2.0.3 version

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Release date: 4 Dec 2020

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• Merge branch 'release/2.5.2'

• [misc] correcting CHANGELOG release date

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Release date: 17 Oct 2019

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• - Merge branch 'develop'

• - Bump 2.1.2

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Release date: 2 Jul 2020

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• Merge branch 'release/2.4.1'

• [misc] set skysql test as allowed failure

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Release date: 20 Mar 2020

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• Merge branch 'release/2.3.0'

• [misc] test correction

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Release date: 19 Nov 2019

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• [] Pam authentication must permit to provide multiple passwords

• [misc] adding other charset test

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Release date: 06 Sept. 2019

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• Revision #24bc77b - [misc] adding changelog for 2.1.1

• Revision #0c0df1a - [misc] test TLS minimum version changes in order to test old mysql server with Node.js 12

• - [misc] small performance improvement to avoid testing debug each packet

• - [misc] force test TLSv1.1 compatibility if Node.js 12 and MySQL before version 8.0

• - [misc] correcting SSL test that now can use TLSv1.3 protocol for

• - [misc] removing memory leak detection for node.js 12 until mem-watch compatibility

• - [misc] removing node.js 6 from CI, ESLint 6 requiring 8 or newer

• - [misc] CI testing replacing node.js v11 by supported LTS v12

• - [misc] update dependencies to latest version

• - [misc] code style correction

• - [misc] type script correction for triple slash importation

• - [misc] Node.js v12 require TLSv1.2 by default Correcting SSL test to permit TLSv1 and TLSv1.1 in case of windows server

• - Merge branch 'pull/73' into develop

• - Merge branch 'master' into develop

• - [misc] benchmark init function using promise or callback implementation depending on benchmark

• - Update package.json

• - bump dependencies

• - [misc] eslint code style correction

• - Merge pull request #71 from kkx/fix/cluster-pool-ordered-selector

• - [misc] documentation improvement for connection.reset(). Error now indicate that minimum version server is required.

• - fix missing parameter for ordered selector

• - Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into develop

• - [misc] test correction for recent MySQL 8 that add a new error when plugin is unknown by client

• - [misc] updating test for 10.4 possible default cipher and mysql non availability of TLSv1.2

• - [misc] correcting indentation to follow lint rules.

• - [misc] correcting test for mysql community before 8.0 version that doesn't support TLSv1.2

• - [misc] adding 10.4 TLSv1.2 testing on windows

• - [] azure CI install ubuntu from tar

• - [misc] benchmark result charset correction

• - [misc] correction callback documentation links and correct connection.batch return description

• - [misc] documentation link correction

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Release date: 25 Sep 2018

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• Revision #1513511 - [misc] tag version as 2.0.0-alpha ¶

• Revision #4c70c51 - [misc] changing test streaming file to internal mariadb server to avoid any socket closed from server end. ¶

• - [] correcting geometry test for MySQL 5.5 that doesn't have ST_LineFromText / ST_PointFromText / ST_PolygonFromText functions - part 2 ¶

• - [] correcting geometry test for MySQL 5.5 that doesn't have ST_LineFromText / ST_PointFromText / ST_PolygonFromText functions ¶

• - [] correcting MySQL geometry test ( ST_* commands not existing before 5.7) ¶

• - [] support geometry type : correction for MariaDB < 10.1.4 and MySQL < 8.0.0 geometry support report information isMariaDB() / hasMinVersion() to information level to permit use on internal functions ¶

• - [misc] simplify use of connection information. ¶

• - [misc] set Promise API documentation to a dedicated page. ¶

• - [misc] connection.end() immediate resolution on socket QUIT packet send. ¶

• - [] support geometric GeoJSON structure format ¶

• - [] new option "sessionVariables" to permit setting session variable at connection ¶

• - [misc] adding test coverage (compression multi-packet + buffer skipping numeric) ¶

• - [misc] avoiding mysql error message if ending and sequence command has not ended ¶

• - [misc] avoid validating all pool connection on benchmark end ¶

• - [] check other connections in pool when an unexpected connection error occur ¶

• - [] adapt geometry test to mysql that for version < 8 doesn't permit empty GeometryCollection ¶

• - [] support geometry type ¶

• - [] Create option to permit setting Object to one prepareStatement parameter ¶

• - [] Callback API is missing ¶

• - [misc] report community documentation change ¶

• - [misc] report community documentation change ¶

• - [misc] report community documentation change ¶

• - [misc] README : changing pipelining image ¶

• - [misc] README : changing pipelining image ¶

• - [misc] correcting image url ¶

• - [misc] README : adding pipelining image ¶

• - [misc] correcting README links ¶

• - [misc] benchmark pool, use max connection number to 4 ¶

• - [misc] removing zip benchmark on travis, since doesn't really have meaning, mysql comparison doesn't have compress option ¶

• - [misc] change pool implementation to permit node 6 compatibility (removal of async await)

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Release date: 4 Feb 2020

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• Revision #2811984 - bump 2.2.0 version

• Revision #22cf7b0 - [misc] improving test reliability

• - [] add query timeout implementation

• - [] ensuring tests robustness

• - [] permit giving values in sql object. example:

• - [misc] bump dependencies

• - [] permit fast-authentication with 'mysql_clear_password' authentication plugin.

• - [] new option to detect Server version using a dedicated SELECT @@version

• - [misc] correcting eslint warning on typescript tests

• - [misc] correcting typescript import of @types/node to version >8

• - [] test addition

• - [] test addition

• - Merge branch 'pull/97' into develop

• - Fix missing Errors require.

• - [misc] running windows tests with

• - [misc] running tests with build version and 10.5.0 on windows

• - [misc] correct appveyor link since moving to github mariadb-corporation

• - [] tests fiability improvement + test correction for MySQL8.0 that nox completly disable loading local data

• - [misc] removing test deprecated , since not available anymore

• - [misc] removing test deprecated , since not available anymore

• - [] Implement a pool leak detection

• - [misc] test correction for MySQL 8.0 that now completely disable Loading local data

• - [misc] correct codecov links

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Release date: 13 Dec 2018

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• Revision #fe3837e - bump 2.0.2-rc tag

• Revision #2a66c70 - [misc] add pool noControlAfterUse callback implementation

• - [misc] new pool noControlAfterUse to permit having no connection validation when giving back connection to pool.

• - [misc] bulk callback test implementation minor corrections : - doesn't send COM_STMT_CLOSE if socket has been interrupted - pool end wait for complete close

• - [misc] using travis npm rebuild

• - [misc] correcting test cases when logPackets is enable

• - [misc] removing npm dependency

• - [misc] correcting batch callback to use MariaDB bulk when possible

• - [misc] correcting batch timezone option handling

• - [misc] adding connection options tests

• - [misc] use logPackets only when enable

• - bump denque

• - update benchmark.js

• - [misc] double escape character in string parsing correction

• - [misc] issues correction: - "_server_host" address connection attributes - rewrite batch error handling correction (too many parameters / or undefined) - bulk batch correction when using object with "toSqlString" function - bulk batch correcting null

• gitrevn:parameter value handling - removed "mysql_clear_password" as default connection plugin, since deprecated - adding test coverage

• - [misc] batch rewrite error correction when having no parameter

• - [misc] correcting batch error handling for filtered pool cluster. adding test coverage for batch error.

• - [misc] Cluster better error message when not retrieving Connection from cluster. filtered cluster test addition + query error better handling

• - [misc] correcting warning test for mysql 8

• - [misc] adding unit test, bulk code cleaning

• - [misc] test correction for better reliability

• - [misc] correcting timezone option parsing bulk date fractional part correction adding test for batch adding reset transaction test

• - [misc] correcting timezone option parsing bulk date fractional part correction adding test for batch

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Release date: 19 Oct 2020

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• - Merge branch 'release/2.5.0'

• - [misc] appveyor correction

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Release date: 10 May 2019

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• Revision #4af181c [misc] default timezone to 'local' - no conversion. 'auto' meaning requesting server timezone for auto configuration.

• Revision #ffd0cdb [misc] default port testing correction

• [misc] build testing version correction

• [] server timezone auto-detection

• [misc] travis testing retry

• [] ensure pool minimum connection when removing connection idle timeout

• [misc] adding timezone documentation description removing unused test message

• [misc] correcting test in case of slow CPU host

• [misc] correcting test in case of slow CPU host

• [misc] testing against 10.4 latest build

• [misc] correct test environment, using node.js version 11, since node-gyp has compatibility issue with 12 for now

• [] Pool improvement small rewrite for better separation in promise and call back implementation

• [] Pool improvement new options : - idleTimeout: Indicate idle time after which a pool connection is released. Value must be lower than @@wait_timeout. In seconds (0 means never release) - minimumIdle: Permit to set a minimum number of connection

• gitrevj: in the pool.

• [] When LOAD LOCAL INFILE is enabled (by option permitLocalInfile) ensure that filename requested by server corresponds to initial query, avoiding issue with malicious server/proxy requesting local file using LOAD LOCAL INFILE protocol

• [] Correcting MySQL 5.5 test for timezone support

• [misc] changing test to node.js 11, since release 12.0.0 yesterday fails with node-gyp

• [] Support named timezones and daylight savings time

• [] Permit set parameter Bigger than javascript 2^53-1 limitation

• [] Error when reading datetimeValue and timezone is set

• [misc] windows name pipe test only if server pipe is enable

• [misc] test correction for database that doesn't support session_track_schema capabilities

• [] Connection changeUser methods now change connector internal state

• [misc] Appveyor repo based on archive to permit testing even if version change

• [misc] correct pipe test in case pipe is not enabled add null test for ENUM

• [misc] Handle error packet during result-set for timed query (SET STATEMENT max_statement_time= FOR )

• [misc] SET datatype return as Array

• [misc] unix style end line to force same behaviour on windows and unix

• test linefeed for windows

• [] adding typescript type definitions

• [misc] unix socket test correction

• [misc] implement prettier changing doublequote to simplequote

• [misc] typecast option permitting getting geometry data

• [misc] correcting missing bulk option in documentation

• [doc] correcting documentation header

• [doc] correcting documentation example

• [misc] small perf improvement

• [misc] removing useless use of variable

• [misc] small perf improvement test improvement for 10.3 new possible authentication error

• [misc] prepared result-set read success correction when prepare result return no parameter and column metadata

• [misc] removing useless condition improve tests for unix

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Release date: 12 Jul 2019

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• Revision #af51635 - bump 2.1.0 version

• Revision #c70a57d - [misc] correcting test for mysql compatibility

• - [] correcting multi-authentication in compress mode

• - [misc] add test coverage (node.js non supported charset encoding)

• - [misc] lint correction

• - [misc] maxscale wrong test correction

• - [] Performance improvement on decoding string

• - [misc] maxscale testing 10 4 bases

• - [misc] azure testing debian fix

• - [misc] testing base server 10.4

• - [] updating documentation

• - [misc] charset script generation update to satisfy eslint

• - [misc] changed max line length to 100

• - [misc] update error codes to 10.4

• - [misc] ensure debug test stability

• - Merge branch 'pull/65' into develop

• - [] changing tests containing passwords to satisfy possible password complexity requirement correcting azure windows server installation

• - [] adding possible default ed25519 authentication when changing user

• - Azure-pipelines server installation on Windows

• - [] Charset collation option mismatch correction

• - [] Array parameter automatic conversion

• - [] install any windows version

• - [] setting root user

• - [] correcting windows installation

• - [] azure pipeline enterprise server test configuration

• - [] correcting removing expired test for mysql since doesn't have possibility to set expired user.

• - [] removing expired test for mysql, since doesn't have possibility to set expired user.

• - [] removing ed25519 authentication plugin from roadmap

• - [] support connection with user having expired password. Connection is possible with user hacing expired password when enabling the option permitConnectionWhenExpired. Only possible oper

• tion in this case will be to change password ('SET PASSWORD=PASSWORD('XXX')') before issuing any other command.

• - [] implement ed25519 authentication plugin authentication [] multiple alternative authentication methods for the same user

• - [misc] adding test coverage

• - [misc] callback documentation link correction

• - [misc] callback documentation correction

• - [] adding event test on callback pool cluster implementation

• - [] Implement pool events according to mysql/mysql2 API

• - Merge branch 'pull/61' into develop

• - [misc] improving test stability

• - [] PoolCluster now emit 'remove' event supporting mysql API

• - [] option restoreNodeTimeout is not respected when removeNodeErrorCount is set

• - emit connection object on new connection

• - [misc] benchmark change on promise-mysql, since 4.0.0 change behaviour on createPool (not returning pool object but promise)

• - [misc] benchmark change on promise-mysql, since 4.0.0 change behaviour on createPool. (now return a promise, not pool object directly)

• - Merge branch 'pull/56' into develop

• - [] adding test case for non readable file

• - Merge branch 'master' into develop

• - [] Setting the time zone on the current IANA might cause an automatic recovery of the server.

• - [fix] Handle LOCAL INFILE read errors

• - Merge branch 'master' into develop

• - [] Missing import dependencies for typeScript

• - [] correction of Typecast FieldInfo.type datatype

• - [] Setting the time zone on the current IANA might cause an automatic recovery of the server.

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Release date: 15 Nov 2018

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• Revision #f2c0687 - Bump 2.0.1-beta release tag

• Revision #0a068e6 - [misc] update changelog for 2.0.1

• - [misc] update batch benchmark results

• - [] Commit pool test correction

• - [] Commit not executed when in transaction and autocommit is enabled

• - [misc] changing query / batching implementation, separating batch packet with a setImmediate. This permit having some CPU time for socket for example, avoiding resulting having server AND client TCP socket full and socket hanging.

• - [misc] compress option work only of server accept compression geometry in bulk working with improve testing geometry with batch

• - [] adding geometry implementation for bulk

• - [] batch race condition correction about number of response packet

• - [] batch correction

• - [misc] debug/debugCompress option separation test modification

• - [misc] debug/debugCompress option separation

• - [misc] test correction for maxscale

• - [misc] removing test debug information, correcting debug test length

• - [misc] ensure batching 4 bytes UTF-8 characters correct string streaming buffer size correction

• - [misc] updating server version for appveyor to latest version

• - [] corrected benchmark test for batch

• - [] mariadb batch protocol implementation

• - [] batch correction to permit date object

• - [] correction to avoid having packet sequence error when receiving server packet answer

• - [misc] add debug option logPackets permitting to log last packets to error

• - [misc] improve test reliability for appveyor

• - [misc] add password in default documentation examples

• - [misc] correcting batch example in documentation

• - [misc] changing tested node.js version to 6/8/10 LTS version + current development for travis / appveyor

• - [] String configuration for Connection / Pool

• - [] race condition when using authentication plugins - part 2

• - [] race condition when using authentication plugins

• - [misc] correcting test stability for PAM authentication

• - [misc] test kill timeout changed to avoid appveyor out of memory

• - [misc] test correction for servers that doesn't permit reset command test modification for better reliability

• - [misc] ensuring connection is valid before registering back to pool

• - [misc] changing test for node.js 11 version when no cipher match

• - [] connection batch callback implementation

• - [] add connection reset method

• - [] adding pool batch method and according documentation

• - [] batch documentation for promise implementation

• - [] changing timeout to permit appveyor to finish tests

• - [] new option maxAllowedPacket to permit batching when maxAllowedPacket is < 16M, batch correction when using protocol compression

• - [] correcting error message test for mysql 8.0

• - [] bulk insert method - add batch benchmark - handle named parameter - correct null handling when streaming - correct strange node.js behaviour about not reusing buffer send to socket - handle error - with multi-packeter listing

• - [] add bulk insert method - handle important number of values, avoiding event implementation - handle value > 16M - handle non rewritable batch - handle rewritable batch with stream values

• - [] add bulk insert method - first part

• - [] test connector with maxscale

• - [misc] correcting pipelining documentation link in README

• - [misc] maxscale travis testing - part 2

• - [misc] maxscale travis testing

• - [misc] better test reliability

• - [] add alias connection.close for connection.destroy

• - [misc] removing pool cluster to TODO list, now implemented

• - [misc] correcting array size initialization (issue 15 from BufoViridis)

• - [] add cluster callback documentation

• - [] cluster callback documentation

• - [] update cluster promise documentation

• - Update package.json

• - lil dependency bump

• - [] cluster promise documentation

• - [] cluster promise implementation - part 2 - implementation of PoolCluster.of - failover handling

• - [misc] correct logo/documentation link

• - [] cluster promise implementation - part 1

• - [] Add option to permit query command when establishing a connection

• - [misc] removing unnecessary variable

• - [misc] correct documentation links

• - [misc] changing test streaming file to internal mariadb server to avoid any socket closed from server end.

• - [] correcting geometry test for MySQL 5.5 that doesn't have ST_LineFromText / ST_PointFromText / ST_PolygonFromText functions - part 2

• - [] correcting geometry test for MySQL 5.5 that doesn't have ST_LineFromText / ST_PointFromText / ST_PolygonFromText functions

• - [] correcting MySQL geometry test ( ST_* commands not existing before 5.7)

• - [] support geometry type : correction for MariaDB < 10.1.4 and MySQL < 8.0.0 geometry support report information isMariaDB() / hasMinVersion() to information level to permit use on internal function