2003-07-09 David A. Parker <david at neongoat dot com> * release 0.7.1 (the "Double Banana Split" release) * rebuilt tarball with automake-1.4, fixing braindead issues with automake-1.5 and depcomp. [expletives removed]. 2003-06-25 David A. Parker <david at neongoat dot com> * release 0.7.0 (the "Banana Split" release) * split off drivers into libdbi-drivers project * dropped support for nonstandard ENUM/SET types * enabled compilation with alternate dynamic loading mechanisms, now working properly on Mac OSX * added backend ping support * added get_currow accessor * date and time-related bugfixes * improvements to error handling and reporting * result metadata (column names, types, etc) can now be retrieved before rows are fetched 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 (hopefully that got your attention) * docs are outdated, see README * fixed mysql returning empty strings as NULL * adapted to mysql's broken handling of trailing NULLs at the end of BINARY fields.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)
