Vivien Malerba | 7 Jul 10:59

Libgda and Libgnomedb 3.99.3 released

I'm pleased to announce the version 3.99.3 of Libgda and Libgnomedb.

Changes for Libgda are:
 - lots of bug fixed, memory leaks fixes and general performance improvements
   (Murray Cumming, Daniel Espinosa, Cygwin Ports maintainer, Phil Longstaff,
   Carlos Savoretti, Johannes Schmid, Yuriy Penkin, Vivien Malerba)
 - MySQL support starting to work again (Carlos Savoretti)
 - documentation improvements
 - added function to compute INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE statements from a SELECT
   statement, to be able to have writable data models after a SELECT execution
 - API changes for easier understanding and usage (gda_init() for example)
 - added the possibility to check the validity of a statement using
the database's
   associated meta data
 - improvements to the convenience functions when creating or dropping
a table (Daniel Espinosa)
 - new data model comparator object
 - make the SQL parser(s) correctly handle SQL identifiers enclosed in
double quotes
 - more checks
 - new function to the xslt extension libgda-xslt (Pawel Cesar)
 - new SQL code completion feature (incorporated into the gda-sql tool)
 - gda-sql tool improvements (SQL completion, command line parsing)
 - reworked the authentication mechanism as some database don't
require a username/password
 - allow the [<username>[:<password>]@]<DSN> format of string when
opening a connection using
   a predefined data source, or
[<provider>://][<username>[:<password>]@]<connection string>
   when opening a connection without a predefined data source
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