These bugs have had the following fixes:
#838120 (2006, 'MySQL server has gone away') errors can now be mitigated by adding the autoreconnect=True kwargs to the Connection(). This may become the default in future.
#672059 fetchone() will now not give an error when handling DATE columns that are set to NULL/0 when they were blank.
#582124 GIL is now released on the mysql_stmt_fetch() mysql call.