FreeTDS Development Group

[Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com>]

FreeTDS 1.3 Release Candidate 2


Hi,
   another updated release candidate.

I expect this is the last release candidate, there were just
some minor updates:
- Fixed some issue with OpenVMS;
- Updated Userguide.

Release changes for next release (available also in NEWS file):

Summary of Changes in release 1.3
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User visible (not in a particular order):
- Generic:
  - Support UTF-8 columns using MSSQL 2019;
  - Do not accept TDS protocol versions "4.6" (never really supported) and
    "8.0";
  - Minor portability issues;
  - Fix log elision for login;
  - Detect some possible minor memory failure in application;
  - Support long (more than 64k) SSPI packets (never encountered but you
    never know);
  - Fix unicode columns for ASA database;
  - Avoid using BCP with old protocols;
  - (*) Fix bulk copy using big endian machines;
  - (*) Fix Sybase uni(var)char and unsigned types for big endian machines;
  - (*) Do not send nullable data during bulk copy if type is not nullable;
- ODBC:
  - Added "Timeout" setting;
- Applications:
  - Improve defncopy utility:
    - Fix some declaration;
    - Fix Sybase support;
  - (*) Fix datacopy and freebcp logging;
- CT-Library:
  - Minor fix for variant type;
  - Better support for timeout setting;
  - (*) Support some missing types (like nullable unsigned integers) for
    Sybase;
- DB-library:
  - Unify date format (all systems can use the same syntax);
  - (*) Allows to pass 0 as type for bcp_bind;
  - (*) Fix DBSETLSERVERPRINCIPAL macro;
  - (*) Do not limit queries length for bcp using Sybase;
  - (*) Add KEEP_NULLS to BCP hints.

(*) Feature backported in stable 1.2 branch.

Implementation:
- Move replacement headers under freetds directory for coherence with other
  internal headers;
- Lots of style updates;
- Optimize UTF-8 encoding for ODBC, reuse common code.

Kind Regards,
  Frediano