New Features

• Support for Prepared Statements!
• Add connection option :sslverify
• Use mariadb_config for MariaDB builds

Bugfixes

• Fix Mysql2::Result#count always returns 0 when using stored procedures and MULTI_STATEMENTS

Changes

• Prevent Timeout::timeout from interrupting query execution
• Use Ruby's String#encode to remove unrecognized characters from error messages
• Convert specs to RSpec 3 expect sytnax
• Refactored the Travis CI test scripts
• Misc cleanups with Rubocop
• Stricter CFLAGS