diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8c0535661..6ec6012d4 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 0.3.7 (August 16th, 2011)
+* ensure symbolized column names support encodings in 1.9
+
 ## 0.3.6 (June 17th, 2011)
 * fix bug in Time/DateTime range detection
 * (win32) fix bug where the Mysql2::Client object wasn't cleaned up properly if interrupted during a query
@@ -33,6 +36,13 @@
 * 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
 
+## 0.2.13 (August 16th, 2011)
+* fix stupid bug around symbol encoding support (thanks coderrr!)
+
+## 0.2.12 (August 16th, 2011)
+* ensure symbolized column names support encodings in 1.9
+* plugging sql vulnerability in mysql2 adapter
+
 ## 0.2.11 (June 17th, 2011)
 * fix bug in Time/DateTime range detection
 * (win32) fix bug where the Mysql2::Client object wasn't cleaned up properly if interrupted during a query
diff --git a/ext/mysql2/result.c b/ext/mysql2/result.c
index 4842b554e..b931de350 100644
--- a/ext/mysql2/result.c
+++ b/ext/mysql2/result.c
@@ -114,10 +114,15 @@ static VALUE rb_mysql_result_fetch_field(VALUE self, unsigned int idx, short int
 
     field = mysql_fetch_field_direct(wrapper->result, idx);
     if (symbolize_keys) {
+      VALUE colStr;
       char buf[field->name_length+1];
       memcpy(buf, field->name, field->name_length);
       buf[field->name_length] = 0;
-      rb_field = ID2SYM(rb_intern(buf));
+      colStr = rb_str_new2(buf);
+#ifdef HAVE_RUBY_ENCODING_H
+      rb_enc_associate(colStr, rb_utf8_encoding());
+#endif
+      rb_field = ID2SYM(rb_to_id(colStr));
     } else {
       rb_field = rb_str_new(field->name, field->name_length);
 #ifdef HAVE_RUBY_ENCODING_H
diff --git a/lib/mysql2/version.rb b/lib/mysql2/version.rb
index 722fee69a..7e88fee8a 100644
--- a/lib/mysql2/version.rb
+++ b/lib/mysql2/version.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 module Mysql2
-  VERSION = "0.3.6"
+  VERSION = "0.3.7"
 end