<commit_before>## 1.1 (pending)

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
  - New Logo
  - Changed the copyright header to include all contributors
  - Optimized the read buffer
  - 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
  - DSN parameter values must now be url.QueryEscape'ed. This allows text values to contain special characters, such as '&'.

New Features:
<commit_msg>changelog: Add write buffer<commit_after>## 1.1 (pending)

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
  - New Logo
  - Changed the copyright header to include all contributors
  - Optimized the buffer for reading
  - Use the buffer also for writing. This results in zero allocations (by the driver) for most queries
  - 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
  - DSN parameter values must now be url.QueryEscape'ed. This allows text values to contain special characters, such as '&'.

New Features:

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