FreeTDS Development Group

[Igor Korot <ikorot01 AT gmail.com>]

Frediano,

On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 7:34 AM Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>     just another updated release candidate.
>
> Changes since previous release candidate:
> - Small update to user guide;
> - Fix build for OpenVMS;
> - Fix build from git for MacOS.
>
>
> Summary of Changes in release 1.2
> ---------------------------------
> User visible (not in a particular order):
> - Sybase server:
>   - All strings are now converted as MSSQL;
>   - Support kerberos login;
>   - DB-Library: add DBSETNETWORKAUTH, DBSETMUTUALAUTH, DBSETDELEGATION and
>     DBSETSERVERPRINCIPAL;
>   - CT-Library: add CS_SEC_NETWORKAUTH, CS_SEC_NETWORKAUTH,
>     CS_SEC_NETWORKAUTH and CS_SEC_NETWORKAUTH;
> - Bulk copies:
>   - DB-Library: fix trim of unicode fields;
>   - (*) Apply character conversion for Sybase, like MSSQL;
>   - (*) Ignore computed columns;
>   - (*) Properly support multibyte strings in column names;
>   - (*) DB-Library: stop correctly on BCPMAXERRS setting;
>   - (*) DB-Library: do not try to convert skipped rows reading file allowing
>     for instance to load CVS files;
> - (*) CT-Library: added CS_DATABASE property to allows to connect correctly
>   to Azure servers;
> - (*) Improve support for MS XML columns for both DB-Library and CT-Library;
> - (*) Fix some issues with MSSQL server redirection (used for instance in
>   Azure);
> - (*) Change SQL_DESC_OCTET_LENGTH value for wise character columns;
> - Better support for SQL_VARIANT:
>   - Better column checks;
>   - (*) CT-Library: now supported, columns are returned as CS_CHAR_TYPE;
> - Some updates to server part:
>   - Set correctly initial state;
>   - IPv6 support;
>   - Fix TDS 7.2 logins;
> - Support extended character using domain logins under Unix;
> - Improve MARS:
>   - Less memory copies;
>   - (*) Remove possible deadlock;
>   - Handle wrapping sequence/window numbers;
>   - Make sure we sent the wanted packet;
> - (*) Support UTF-16 surrogate pairs in odbc_wide2utf and
> odbc_set_string_flag
>   fixing some character encoding support;
> - (*) Fix multiple queries, used by ODBC to optimize data load;
> - (*) Improve emulated parameter queries, fixing minor issues and reducing
>   memory usage;
> - Support DBVERSION_UNKNOWN in dbsetlversion (will use automatic detection);
> - CT-Library: define CS_MIN_SYBTYPE and CS_MAX_SYBTYPE;
> - (*) CT-Library: fix cs_will_convert accepting library constants, not
> libTDS.
>
> (*) Feature backported in stable 1.1 branch.
>
> Implementation:
> - User guide converted to XML;
> - Always use little endian on network level, simpler and faster;
> - Converted some files to markdown;
> - Optimize bytes endianess conversion;
> - Made character lookup faster making character conversion quicker;
> - Optimize data padding in CT-Library;
> - Fix some build dependencies causing some files to not be properly
>   recompiled during development;
> - Add "freeze" support allowing to pause sending in order to simplify
>   lengths computations sending data.

Is there a plan to implement the missing ODBC function?
There is only one left...

Thank you.

>
> Kind Regards,
>    Frediano
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