I'm glad to let everyone out in Perl Land know that DBD::mysql 4.015 is released. Per the changelog:

* BUG #56664 fixed t/40blobs.t skip_all logic (W. Phillip Moore)
* BUG #57253 Fixed iteration past end of string (crash). (Chris Butler)
* Added a new parameter for old behavior- mysql_bind_comment_placeholders which
  will make it possible to have placeholders bound within comments for those who really
  want that behavior.
* Fixed bind_type_guessing - always on now. Numbers will not be automatically quoted as they are now.

You can get the latest release at:

http://search.cpan.org/~capttofu/DBD-mysql-4.015/

 file: $CPAN/authors/id/C/CA/CAPTTOFU/DBD-mysql-4.015.tar.gz
 size: 132029 bytes
  md5: 4d80bb5000b97bbfbe156140b9560c20
…

It's been an extremely busy year thus far with all the great work we're doing at NorthScale as well as the release of CaptTofu 2.0 (My son Kiran!). With the new UI on rt.cpan.org, in my spare time, I went through and closed some bugs, hence a new release of DBD::mysql, 4.014. In this release:

* BUG 30033 Fixed handling of comments to allow comments that contain characters
  that might otherwise cause placeholder detection to not work properly
* BUG 53844, Fix for memory leak in stats. (Gregory Burmistrov)
* BUG 49719, Fix for handling of NULLs in prepared statements (Gert Pache)
* BUG 55627, Fix for testing failure due to strict mode (Yves)
* BUG 51784, Fix for mysqladmin on Windows in Makefile (Zeeshan Muhammad)
* BUG 41630, Typo in Makefile

There are other bugs in rt.cpan.org, hence a pending release in the next week or two. I like an empty bug list! …