0.91RC1

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ALPHA/freetds/stable/release_candidates/freetds-0.91rc1.tgz

FreeTDS proudly, and with great relief, announces the first release
candidate for its next version, 0.91.  It will supersede the current
version, 0.82, released in May 2008.  

The jump in release numbers represents three years' progress.  We issue
releases infrequently to minimize users' administrative overhead.  But
the time has truly arrived to raise the flag and tell everyone to
upgrade.  

Please give it a whirl.  

As a member of this mailing list, your feedback is invaluable both to
the developers and to the larger FreeTDS community. (That community
very likely numbers in the tens of thousands, btw.)  Any problems you
discover with a release candidate is one that can be avoided in the
actual release.  This is your chance to make a difference.  

In particular, we need to know about things we devlopers don't deal with
ourselves, i.e.:

1.  Proprietary OSes, big iron and small. 
2.  Other language bindings, from DBI to PHP and beyond.  
3.  Behavior changes versus 0.82 that necessitate administrative or
programming changes.  

Notable new features, in reverse chronological order:

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 DB-Library under 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.  

9.  Correct handling of query timeouts and cancellations.  

Your humble maintainer, 

--jkl