This release of IBM_DB gem provides support for specifying the connection timeout in the adapter, i.e now one can specify the time for which the application should wait when trying to establish a connection before generating a timeout, in database.yml file of the Rails application. This release also fixes few bugs whose details can be found in the change log below.

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Change Log: -

- Support for specifying connection timeout in adapter
- Fixed Bug [23317] --> Fixed assumption of id as the primary key while updation/insertion of lob fields
- Fixed Bug [23389] --> Provided proper exception handling.
- Fixed the insertion of incorrect value for lob objects in case of has_and_belongs_to_many associations.