Issue #3185269 by mondrake, daffie, alexpott, andypost: Introduce Connection::lastInsertId and deprecate the 'return' query option and Database::RETURN_* constants

Issue #3238452 by alexpott: Exception messages must default to an empty string not a NULL for PHP 8.1

Issue #2665992 by alexpott, klausi, heykarthikwithu, xjm, tstoeckler: @file is not required for classes, interfaces and traits

Issue #1392754 by tss, justAChris, jhodgdon: Comply with new documentation standards for @file for namespaced class files

Issue #2146733 by andypost, chx, InternetDevels, bohart: Select queries should not use rowCount() to calculate number of rows.