FreeTDS Development Group

[Paul Thurston <pthurston AT netegrate.com>]

Congratulations to the FreeTDS development team!


From: freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org 
[mailto:freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of James K. Lowden
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 11:03 PM
To: TDS Development Group
Subject: [freetds] Release of 0.91


The FreeTDS development team proudly announces the long awaited, much 
anticipated, and richly deserved new version: 0.91.  It obsoletes version 
0.82, released in May 2008.  Users are implored to run, not walk, to their 
nearest Internet connection and upgrade as soon as humanly possible.



FreeTDS is a free implementation of Sybase's DB-Library, CT-Library, and ODBC 
libraries. FreeTDS builds and runs on every flavor of unix-like systems we've 
heard of (and some we haven't) as well as

Win32 (with or without Cygwin), VMS, and Mac OS X.  Failure to build on your 
system is probably considered a bug.  It has C language bindings, and works 
also with Perl and PHP, among others.



Version 0.91 includes many new features and improvements to existing ones, 
including:



1.  Full Kerberos and SSPI support for passwordless login to Microsoft SQL 
Server from Unix and Windows clients.  Includes Keberos delegation option.



2.  Full support for building DB-Library on Win32/64 via NMAKE.EXE.



3.  Built-in support for UTF-8.



4.  Support for wide characters in ODBC.



5.  Support for varchar(max) and varbinary(max).



6.  Better thread-safety in ODBC.



7.  Error messages distinguish between connect and login errors.



8.  Bulk-copy functions in CT-Library.



For Microsoft servers, FreeTDS implements TDS 7.2, the version used by SQL 
Server 2005.



At 100,000 lines of code, the FreeTDS project is mature.  The jump in version 
numbers -- from 0.82 to 0.91 -- represents the asymptotic progress toward 
version 1.0, anticipated in a few years.



More information available at http://www.freetds.org.





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