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.