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2008-06-12 Norbert Sendetzky <norbert@linuxnetworks.de>

* Feature: Builds on Win32 platform using Cygwin or MinGW
* Feature: firebird, sqlite3 backend don't return an error if odbx_row_fetch() is called more often than necessary
* Feature: Conn::finish(), Result::finish() and Lob::close() for cleaning up objects safely
* Feature: odbx_query() can calculate the statement length on its own
* Feature: Inline C++ API documentation (Javadoc style)
* Feature: odbx-sql prints column names for result sets
* Change: Moved type parameter in Conn::create() to the end and made it optional
* Change: Made port in Conn::Conn() and who/cred in Conn::bind() optional
* Change: Shortend and streamlined Exception methods
* Change: odbx_result() uses constant instead of number
* Bugfix: Fixed memory leak in sqlite3 backend if SQL statement is invalid
* Bugfix: Fixed firebird and odbc backend when compiled as single lib
* Bugfix: Added odbx-sql man page to install script
* Bugfix: Cleanup in doc directories doesn't fail anymore if no files are available

2008-05-23 Norbert Sendetzky <norbert@linuxnetworks.de>

* Feature: Added auto completion of SQL keywords in odbx-sql
* Feature: Fetch all outstanding rows in odbx_result_finish()
* Feature: Man page for odbx_lo_*() functions and odbx_result_finish()
* Feature: Man page for odbx-sql
* Change: Made OpenDBX::Result::getResult() parameters optional
* Change: Updated OpenDBX header in man pages
* Bugfix: sqlite3 backend returns correct error message now if database file couldn't be opened
* Bugfix: Fixed error type for invalid database files in sqlite3 backend
* Bugfix: Frees all outstanding result sets in Result::~Result() now
* Bugfix: Fixed memory leak in odbc_odbx_result_finish()
* Bugfix: Correct temporal data types in odbc_odbx_column_type() when using PostgreSQL ODBC adapter
* Bugfix: Added missing stdlib.h to odbc backend
* Bugfix: Fixed delimters and separators in odbx-sql

2008-05-01 Norbert Sendetzky <norbert@linuxnetworks.de>

* Feature: Full-featured ODBC backend
* Feature: Added Result::columnPos() function for mapping column names to positions
* Change: Shortend column and field member function names in OpenDBX::Result
* Bugfix: odbx_escape() didn't work anymore after the change in version 1.3.7
* Bugfix: sqlite3_get_option() returns correct value for ODBX_OPT_THREAD_SAFE
* Bugfix: Fixed memory leak on timeout in sqlite3_odbx_result()
* Bugfix: Fixed timeout handling in sqlite3 backend
* Bugfix: Correct timeout value in sqlite backend

2008-04-05 Norbert Sendetzky <norbert@linuxnetworks.de>

* Feature: odbx_result_finish() can return error conditions and replaces odbx_result_free()
* Feature: Added lob write function to lob extension for Firebird and Oracle
* Feature: odbx-sql history remembers complete statements
* Feature: Gettext support and german translation for odbx-sql
* Feature: Extended regression testing for retrieving results and rows
* Feature: Include C and C++ example application in regression test
* Change: odbx_result_free() is now depricated
* Change: Removed Stmt::bind() from libopendbxplus as it won't work with prepared stmt API
* Change: Moved Stmt::escape() to Conn::escape()
* Bugfix: Ported Bugfixes from release 1.2.5
* Bugfix: Escape backslashes as well in odbx_escape() default implementation
* Bugfix: Class Odbx::Result() was able to cause a segfault on error conditions
* Bugfix: Cleanup outstanding results in Odbx::~Result() if available
* Bugfix: Correct order of backend library loading (user supplied first)
* Bugfix: sqlite3_odbx_result() returned wrong code if called on finished statement
* Bugfix: Timeout of odbx_result() works correctly in sqlite3 backend now
* Bugfix: gettext works if locales are in non-standard directory
* Bugfix: odbx-sql accessed already freed string
* Bugfix: Fixed include and library path for odbx-sql
* Bugfix: Added missing define for setenv() in oracle backend
* Bugfix: Oracle backend returns correct error message if server is unavailable

2008-02-24 Norbert Sendetzky <norbert@linuxnetworks.de>

* Feature: New odbx-sql utility for execution of SQL statements from the shell
* Feature: Richer API for libopendbxplus
* Change: Moved opendbx/api.hpp to opendbx/api
* Change: Switched parameter position for Conn::create()
* Change: Changed signature for Stmt::bind()

2008-02-03 Norbert Sendetzky <norbert@linuxnetworks.de>

* Feature: ODBC backend prototype
* Feature: Added header file names to ./configure error output if not found
* Change: Fixed warnings displayed by new gcc compiler
* Bugfix: wrong errors in odbx-regression.c were possible
* Bugfix: removed unnecessary -ldl for backends and -lz for libmysqlbackend
* Bugfix: documentation updates

2007-08-06 Norbert Sendetzky <norbert@linuxnetworks.de>

* Feature: C++ API for large object functions
* Feature: added missing Conn::getCapability()
* Feature: path to backend library can be supplied in backend parameter of odbx_init()
* Feature: regression test for libopendbxplus
* Change: odbx_lo_open() requires odbx_result_t* instead of odbx_t*
* Change: changed visibility of libopendbxplus class variables to "protected"
* Change: removed "lib/" in front of local header includes
* Change: Added license statements to all files
* Bugfix: pgsql backend returned wrong boolean values if odbx_field_value() is called twice
* Bugfix: libopendbxplus exception returned wrong error

2007-07-09 Norbert Sendetzky <norbert@linuxnetworks.de>

* Feature: new C++ OpenDBX library (libopendbxplus)
* Change: new directory layout for include files: /usr/include/opendbx/api.{h,hpp}
* Bugfix: removed commas from the end of the enumerator lists

2007-06-07 Norbert Sendetzky <norbert@linuxnetworks.de>

* Feature: added enum declariations for all constants to enable strict type checking
* Feature: defined constants for odbx_result and odbx_row_fetch return values
* Feature: added support for new MySQL decimal type in mysql backend
* Feature: added Docbook documentation from OpenDBX 1.2.3 package
* Bugfix: fixed memory leak in firebird backend lob implementation

2007-03-28 Norbert Sendetzky <norbert@linuxnetworks.de>

* Feature: added large object interface (read-only)
* Feature: firebird backend supports lob interface
* Change: refactored backends in interface, basic and "large object" parts
* Change: replaced stdint.h by inttypes.h and removed config.h dependency in odbx.h

2007-03-11 Norbert Sendetzky <norbert@linuxnetworks.de>

* Feature: update from latest stable branch
* Feature: added option --enable-singlelib to build one library including the backends
* Feature: library and api version are available via odbx_get_option()
* Feature: mysql backend supports socket connections via host string
* Feature: mssql, mysql, pgsql and sybase backends support connection timeout via odbx_{get,set}_option()
* Feature: mssql backend works with FreeTDS 0.63 but without ANSI features
* Feature: mssql backend supports timeouts for odbx_result()
* Change: added new error code for invalid handles (severe error type)
* Change: odbx_error_type() returns success for returned values greater than zero
* Bugfix: fixed decimal type in firebird backend
* Bugfix: fixed date type in mssql backend

2007-01-20 Norbert Sendetzky <norbert@linuxnetworks.de>

* Feature: only configured backends are used with ODBX_STATIC
* Bugfix: wrong sqlite3 define in configure.ac

2006-12-20 Norbert Sendetzky <norbert@linuxnetworks.de>

* Feature: updated language files, German translation
* Bugfix: fixed warnings in Oracle backend

2006-12-09 Norbert Sendetzky <norbert@linuxnetworks.de>

* Feature: updated spec file
* Feature: check for memset function
* Bugfix: sqlite3_odbx_result() created an infinite loop if a backend error occured
* Bugfix: removed memleak in sqlite_odbx_finish() and sqlite3_odbx_finish()
* Bugfix: removed memleak in mysql_set_privmode()
* Bugfix: added missing free in firebird_odbx_finish()

2006-10-14 Norbert Sendetzky <norbert@linuxnetworks.de>

* Feature: mssql backend optimization
* Feature: sybase backend optimization
* Feature: mysql backend supports ODBX_TLS_TRY
* Feature: host is optional in firebird backend
* Change: code cleanups in several backends
* Change: compares pointer always to NULL
* Change: replaced ODBX_* types by ODBX_TYPE_*
* Bugfix: fixed off by one bug in odbx_escape()
* Bugfix: pgsql backend returned wrong code for empty queries
* Bugfix: uninitialized host variable in mysql_odbx_init() if host was NULL

2006-09-23 Norbert Sendetzky <norbert@linuxnetworks.de>

* Feature: Oracle backend for OCI 8, 9 and 10
* Feature: compiles now on Solaris
* Feature: updated configure.ac and more checks

2006-09-09 Norbert Sendetzky <norbert@linuxnetworks.de>

* Bugfix: firebird backend failed on parameter checking in firebird_odbx_bind()
* Bugfix: fixed length of malloc()'ed columns in firebird backend
* Feature: new sybase backend for Sybase ASE servers
* Feature: ARRAY type support for pgsql
* Change: renamed freetds backend (using dblib) to mssql
* Change: introduced ODBX_TYPE_* for further use
* Change: removed ODBX_DEPRICATED for now

2006-08-25 Norbert Sendetzky <norbert@linuxnetworks.de>

* Bugfix: fixed clash with errno function in odbx.h
* Bugfix: freetds backend checks for NULL pointer in message and error handler
* Bugfix: freetds backend returns correct number of affected rows
* Bugfix: freetds backend date/time/timestamp were not in ISO format
* Bugfix: altered check for freetds in configure (freetds' libsybdb doesn't always provide the dbopen symbol)
* Bugfix: firebird backend checks for max. number of nested transactions
* Bugfix: firebird backend fixes bug in host/port init code
* Feature: support for different modes in backends (SQL, ANSI SQL, proprietary, etc)
* Feature: MySQL server operates in ANSI SQL mode by default
* Feature: freetds (MSSQL/Sybase) server operate in ANSI SQL mode by default (dates and identifier quotes)
* Feature: freetds backend compiles with Sybase dblib library
* Feature: firebird backend uses isolation level "read committed" by default

2006-08-10 Norbert Sendetzky <norbert@linuxnetworks.de>

* Bugfix: fixed segfault when odbx_finish() is called (thanks to Clizio Merli)
* Bugfix: pgsql backend boolean values return now 1/0 instead of true and false
* Bugfix: pgsql backend wasn't aware of clob types
* Bugfix: mysql backend didn't distinguish between clob and blob types
* Bugfix: firebird backend failed on using transactions
* Bugfix: firebird backend returned wrong type for CHAR columns
* Bugfix: firebird backend formating for decimal values was wrong
* Bugfix: firebird backend date, time and timestamp values were not strings in ISO format
* Bugfix: odbxtest works without installed libraries and with disabled static build
* Feature: added odbxtest.* scripts for regression tesing
* Change: odbx_field_bind() was removed because it couldn't be supported by all backends

2006-07-03 Norbert Sendetzky <norbert@linuxnetworks.de>

* Feature: firebird backend is fully functional
* Feature: odbx_error_type() function to distinguish fatal/non-fatal errors
* Change: odbx_field_bind() is subject to change in the next release

2006-06-27 Norbert Sendetzky <norbert@linuxnetworks.de>

* Bugfix: package contains a working spec file
* Feature: provides generic escape implementation for backends
* Feature: Win32 DLL loader support (who's able to provide a MSVC project file?)
* Change: introduced ODBX_DEPRICATED to hide depricated functions by default
* Change: reworked autoconf/automake support
* Change: Streamlined defines
* Change: Update from stable branch

2006-06-10 Norbert Sendetzky <norbert@linuxnetworks.de>

* New: FreeTDS backend (MSSQL and Sybase support)
* New: Firebird backend prototype (with limited functionality up to now)
* New: odbx_bind() for supporting different bind methods in the future
* New: odbx_field_bind() for providing binary values directly
* Change: odbx_bind_simple() is set to depricated
* Change: Update from stable branch

2006-03-19 Norbert Sendetzky <norbert@linuxnetworks.de>

* Bugfix: FreeBSD fix for dynamic linking (libdl)
* Bugfix: Used freed memory in mysql_bind_simple() after rebinding
* Feature: MySQL host and port are now optional

2006-01-26 Norbert Sendetzky <norbert@linuxnetworks.de>

* Feature: Localization (gettext) support
* Bugfix: odbx_finish() returns more error codes for different types of errors
* Change: Minor cleanups


2005-12-31 Norbert Sendetzky <norbert@linuxnetworks.de>

* Bugfix: The OBBX_ERR_BACKEND define was definitively wrong
* Bugfix: Additional check for handle and backend in odbx_init()
* Feature: ISO C99 clean and no more warnings in -pedantic mode
* Feature: Use of defines for error codes in all backends


2005-10-01 Norbert Sendetzky <norbert@linuxnetworks.de>

* API Change: SQL2003 data types are now returned by odbx_field_type()
* API Change: odbx_field_{count,name,type}() are renamed to odbx_column_{count,name,type}() for clarification
* Change: functions were renamed to *_odbx_*() instead of e.g. mysql_*() to prevent name clashes
* Bugfix: mysql data structure was uninitialized when calling mysql_odbx_set_option()
* Bugfix: Added mysql_thread_end() in mysql_odbx_finish() to prevent memory leaks


2005-09-15 Norbert Sendetzky <norbert@linuxnetworks.de>

* Bugfix: mysql_field_length() returned the length of the column, not the length of the current field
* Bugfix: (char*) to (const char*) {pgsql,sqlite}_field_name() and {pgsql,sqlite}_field_value()
* Feature: use libmysqlclient_r if present
* Feature: pkgconfig file is included


2005-08-04 Norbert Sendetzky <norbert@linuxnetworks.de>

* Bugfix: NULL value handling in pgsql module
* Minor api change: changed return value for odbx_field_name() and odbx_field_value() from (char*) to (const char*)


2005-07-17 Norbert Sendetzky <norbert@linuxnetworks.de>

* SQLite3 support


2004-08-18 Norbert Sendetzky <norbert@linuxnetworks.de>

* Double delete in odbx:mysql_finish() caused segfault on PowerPC
* Moved mysql_init() to odbx:mysql_bind_simple(), prevented rebinding


2004-08-02 Norbert Sendetzky <norbert@linuxnetworks.de>

* SQLite support
* Improved error handling
* PostgreSQL backend fix: Empty result caused infinite loop
* Removed libltdl (not thread safe), used custom way instead


OpenDBX 0.8:
- libtool libltdl support for portability
- enhanced error checking
- deb build scripts and rpm spec

OpenDBX 0.7:
- get/set option support
- SSL support in mysql and pgsql backends

OpenDBX 0.6:
- support for conditional builds

OpenDBX 0.5:
- MySQL support

OpenDBX 0.4:
- support for querying backend capabilities
- pgsqlbackend code cleanup

OpenDBX 0.3:
- minimized visible library symbols

OpenDBX 0.2:
- autoconf, automake and libtool to simplify builds

OpenDBX 0.1:
- initial release
- PostgreSQL support