diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 133a8059e..6cb41e5a1 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
 # Changelog
 
-## In Git
-* Avoid thread blocking on Ruby 1.9.x under Windows. Patch by Roger Pack.
+## 0.3.3 (June 14th, 2011)
+* disable async support, and access to the underlying file descriptor under Windows. It's never worked reliably and ruby-core has a lot of work to do in order to make it possible.
+* added support for turning eager-casting off. This is especially useful in ORMs that will lazily cast values upon access.
+* added a warning if a 0.2.x release is being used with ActiveRecord 3.1 since both the 0.2.x releases and AR 3.1 have mysql2 adapters, we want you to use the one in AR 3.1
+* added Mysql2::Client.escape (class-level method)
+* disabled eager-casting in the bundled ActiveRecord adapter (for Rails 3.0 or less)
 
 ## 0.3.2 (April 26th, 2011)
 * Fix typo in initialization for older ActiveRecord versions
@@ -15,6 +19,13 @@
 * BREAKING CHANGE: the ActiveRecord adapter has been pulled into Rails 3.1 and is no longer part of the gem
 * added Mysql2::Client.escape (class-level) for raw one-off non-encoding-aware escaping
 
+## 0.2.8 (June 14th, 2011)
+* disable async support, and access to the underlying file descriptor under Windows. It's never worked reliably and ruby-core has a lot of work to do in order to make it possible.
+* added support for turning eager-casting off. This is especially useful in ORMs that will lazily cast values upon access.
+* added a warning if a 0.2.x release is being used with ActiveRecord 3.1 since both the 0.2.x releases and AR 3.1 have mysql2 adapters, we want you to use the one in AR 3.1
+* added Mysql2::Client.escape (class-level method)
+* disabled eager-casting in the bundled ActiveRecord adapter (for Rails 3.0 or less)
+
 ## 0.2.7 (March 28th, 2011)
 * various fixes for em_mysql2 and fiber usage
 * use our own Mysql2IndexDefinition class for better compatibility across ActiveRecord versions
diff --git a/lib/mysql2/client.rb b/lib/mysql2/client.rb
index 0cc99dee7..aac779c89 100644
--- a/lib/mysql2/client.rb
+++ b/lib/mysql2/client.rb
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ class Client
       :database_timezone => :local,   # timezone Mysql2 will assume datetime objects are stored in
       :application_timezone => nil,   # timezone Mysql2 will convert to before handing the object back to the caller
       :cache_rows => true,            # tells Mysql2 to use it's internal row cache for results
-      :connect_flags => REMEMBER_OPTIONS | LONG_PASSWORD | LONG_FLAG | TRANSACTIONS | PROTOCOL_41 | SECURE_CONNECTION
+      :connect_flags => REMEMBER_OPTIONS | LONG_PASSWORD | LONG_FLAG | TRANSACTIONS | PROTOCOL_41 | SECURE_CONNECTION,
+      :cast => true
     }
 
     def initialize(opts = {})
diff --git a/lib/mysql2/version.rb b/lib/mysql2/version.rb
index 559204974..6209d49f8 100644
--- a/lib/mysql2/version.rb
+++ b/lib/mysql2/version.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 module Mysql2
-  VERSION = "0.3.2"
+  VERSION = "0.3.3"
 end
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