HikariCP 1.3.2 has been released, with support extended back to Java 6 (formerly Java 7/8 only).

Benchmarks have been completely rewritten yet again using Oracle's Aleksey Shipilёv's excellent JMH micro-benchmarking framework.

Benchmark project here: https://github.com/brettwooldridge/HikariCP-benchmark

Latest results here: https://github.com/brettwooldridge/HikariCP-benchmark/blob/master/README.md#current-results

We have also completed a competitive analysis of all major connection pools, available here:

https://github.com/brettwooldridge/HikariCP/wiki/Pool-Analysis