Libgda and Libgnomedb 3.99.3 released

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I'm pleased to announce the version 3.99.3 of Libgda and Libgnomedb.

 

Changes for Libgda are:

- lots of bug fixed, memory leaks fixes and general performance improvements

(Murray Cumming, Daniel Espinosa, Cygwin Ports maintainer, Phil Longstaff,

Carlos Savoretti, Johannes Schmid, Yuriy Penkin, Vivien Malerba)

- MySQL support starting to work again (Carlos Savoretti)

- documentation improvements

- added function to compute INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE statements from a SELECT

statement, to be able to have writable data models after a SELECT execution

- API changes for easier understanding and usage (gda_init() for example)

- added the possibility to check the validity of a statement using

the database's

associated meta data

- improvements to the convenience functions when creating or dropping

a table (Daniel Espinosa)

- new data model comparator object

- make the SQL parser(s) correctly handle SQL identifiers enclosed in

double quotes

- more checks

- new function to the xslt extension libgda-xslt (Pawel Cesar)

- new SQL code completion feature (incorporated into the gda-sql tool)

- gda-sql tool improvements (SQL completion, command line parsing)

- reworked the authentication mechanism as some database don't

require a username/password

- allow the [[:] ( -at -) ] format of string when

opening a connection using

a predefined data source, or

[://][[:] ( -at -) ]

when opening a connection without a predefined data source

- now internally use SQLite 3.5.9

- use GIO instead of GnomeVFS if found

- preliminary MacOS X support, and better support for cross compilation

- better support for thread safe support

- new distributed transaction support

- added speficications to create a .MSI file as a Windows installer

- bug fixes: #524837, #525601, #525877, #526748, #527892, #527002,

#534805, #536418,

#536971, #537558, #537117

- Translations:

- es (Jorge Gonzalez)

- pt (Duarte Loreto)

- oc (Yannig Marchegay)

 

Changes for Libgnomedb are mainly adaptations to Libgda's V4 API changes, and:

- removed support for the GnomeCanvas (now uses exclusively GooCanvas)

- reworked the login dialog to correctly handle connections which

don't need authentication

- this release is API incompatible with the V3 versions

- added speficications to create a .MSI file as a Windows installer

- now uses GtkSourceView 2

- documentation can now be generated as a PDF

- bug fixes: #520463

- Translations:

- fi (Ilkka Tuohela)

- sl (Matej Urbanèiè)

- es (Jorge Gonzalez)

- oc (Yannig Marchegay)

- eu (Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio)

- hu (Gabor Kelemen)

- ne (Pawan Chitrakar)

- ca (Gil Forcada)

- pt (Duarte Loreto)

- fr (Claude Paroz)

 

Tarballs are available at http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libgda/3.99/

 

To install this new version, you'll need glib, libxml2, and

optionnally libxslt; this version can be installed side by side with

the V3 version.

 

You can find more information at the projects' homepage

(http://www.gnome-db.org), or you can ask any question/propose