FreeTDS Development Group

["ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT" <Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafone.com>]

As usual here you are my consideration for this upcoming release

I can say that this release contains a lot of fixed and improvements.
>From NEWS file (just updated)

* 0.64
- core library
 - reduce network bandwidth use on Linux and *BSD
 - do not free TDSSOCKET in tds_connect
 - moved network stuff in net.c
 - fixed conversion NUMERIC->NUMERIC changing precision/scale
 - add named instance support (mssql2k)
 - fixed cancel and timeout
 - add support for encrypted connection using mssql
   (using either GnuTLS or OpenSSL)
 - improved numeric conversions performance
 - improved debug logging (added "debug flags" option)
- ctlib
 - ct_dynamic and friends (placeholder support)
- dblib
 - more functions
 - make threadsafe
 - improve bcp
 - support for large files using BCP
 - fixed buffering
- ODBC
 - fixed compute handling in ODBC
 - paramset support
 - constant parameters in rpc (ie {?=call func(10,?)} )
 - configure use automatically odbc_config if available
- compatibility
 - improve PHP support
 - improve DBD::ODBC support
 - partial dos32 support
 - improve Jdbc support
 - added msvc6 project to build dblib library on windows
- support long password on tsql for all platforms
- improved pool server
- RPMs
 - ODBC driver registration (in odbcinst.ini)
 - better dependency for RedHat and SUSE
- a lot of fixes

Many thanks goes to:

  - Liam Widdowson 
  dblib thread safety patch and suggestions
  helped with timeout stuff
  - Flaviano Maricotti
  DOS32 support
  - Craig A. Berry
  updated support for VMS


--
Frediano Ziglio