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2002-11-18 David A. Parker  <david at neongoat dot com>

* release 0.6.7 (the "Happy Birthday" release)
* fixed brown-paper-bag inability to retrieve integer fields

2002-10-27 David A. Parker  <david at neongoat dot com>

* release 0.6.6 (the "Preemptive Ghostbusting" release)
* queries are now sent verbatim. old behavior moved to dbi_conn_queryf
  function. THIS CAN BREAK OLD CODE. IT WILL EAT YOUR FIRSTBORN CHILD.
  (hopefully that got your attention)
* docs are outdated, see README
* fixed mysql returning empty strings as NULL
* adapted to mysql's broken handling of trailing NULLs at the end of
  BINARY fields. see README.drivers
* began eliminating "int" values in favor of explicit types
* minor fix to error handling regarding NULL error messages
* fixed dbi_driver_is_reserved_word() hang
* Debian packaging done, "unstable" users can now apt-get install the
  following packages - libdbi0, libdbi0-dev, libdbd-mysql, libdbd-pgsql

2002-06-14  David A. Parker  <david at neongoat dot com>

* release 0.6.5 (the "Slowly Intoxicated" release)
* new error handling framework
* beginnings of capabilities infrastructure
* extra hooks added to aid garbage collection
* sequencing API (mysql people can now use auto_increment! yay!)
* fixed small memory leak
* fixed big memory leak ;)
* fixed wrong mysql INSERT behavior
* fixed wrong mysql DATETIME parsing
* more cross-platform tweaks (asprintf for Solaris 7)
* new Debian packaging from scratch (bound for sid)
* support for queries with NULL characters
* additional helper functions for driver authors
* pattern matching ability for listing dbs/tables
* minor changes to option handling

2002-02-10  David A. Parker  <david at neongoat dot com>

* release 0.6.4 (the "Only 2 Dog-Weeks Late" release)
* changed libdbi API nomenclature (plugin -> driver, driver -> connection)
* portability tweaks (Win32, FreeBSD, SunOS in particular)
* build system tweaks
* fixed memory leaks
* handful of small bugfixes
* finally, (the beginnings of) a test suite!

2001-08-23  David A. Parker  <david at neongoat dot com>

* release 0.6.2
* (switched to x.y.z versioning scheme)
* fixed one-off errors
* win32 port, better framework for portability
* better debian packaging
* first shot at a plugin author's guide

2001-08-15  David A. Parker  <david at neongoat dot com>

* release 0.6
* added "by index" field functions
* fixed malloc/free bugs, causing weird segfaults
* fixed example code in docs
* added field info accessor functions
* added datetime support (as time_t)
* added DBD quote function
* more explicit NULL handling
* deb packaging tweaks
* bugfixes in plugins

2001-08-04  David A. Parker  <david at neongoat dot com>

* initial release (0.5)