= New Features

* A throw_failures plugin has been added for throwing ValidationFailed
  and HookFailed exceptions instead of raising them.  This can improve
  performance by up to 10x on JRuby and 10-15% on CRuby.  However,
  you would need to modify your exception handling from:

    begin
      # model.save
    rescue Sequel::ValidationFailed => e
      # handle failure
    end

  to:

    e = catch(Sequel::ValidationFailed) do
      # model.save
    end
    if e.is_a?(Sequel::ValidationFailed)
      # handle failure
    end

  The throw_failures plugin will still work if you are not catching
  the exception, falling back to the default behavior of raising
  the exception.

* SQL::Blob.call has been added, so that SQL::Blob can be used
  directly as a callable to create a new instance, resulting in
  better performance in cases where a callable is needed.

= Other Improvements

* Type conversion is many adapters is now faster by switching from
  Proc/Method instances to using singleton call methods on plain
  objects.  This can improve performance of row fetching by up to
  10% in some cases.

* Row fetching is slightly faster in the jdbc and sqlite adapters,
  by switching from each to while.

* tzinfo 2 is now supported when using the named_timezones extension.
  tzinfo 1 remains supported.

* The optimized Dataset#paged_each methods in the postgres and mysql2
  adapters now support being called without a block, returning an
  Enumerator in that case, to mirror the behavior of the default
  Dataset#paged_each method.

* Sequel no longer uses flow-control exceptions in the
  connection_expiration and connection_validator extensions,
  significantly improving performance on JRuby.

* The after_initialize plugin no longer makes the argument to
  Model.call optional.

= Backwards Compatibility

* Some internal by not private constants and methods previously used
  for type conversion in adapters have been removed:

  * JDBC::Oracle.OracleDecimal
  * JDBC::Oracle.OracleClob
  * JDBC::Postgres.RubyPGArray
  * JDBC::Postgres.RubyPGHstore
  * JDBC::SqlAnywhere.SqlAnywhereBoolean
  * JDBC::SQLServer.MSSQLRubyTime
  * MySQL::TYPE_TRANSLATOR
  * Postgres::TYPE_TRANSLATOR