FreeTDS 1.1 Release Candidate 1

Frediano Ziglio <[email protected]> Mon, 4 Feb 2019 19:41:40 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.tds.freetds
Message-ID <CAHt6W4dm0t6JTfOqRc8FhzDHjcPBkCoSTVrgSMY2cN4K3bX6HQ@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
   time for a new release.

Although stable branch is kept updated with bugs and minor features new big
features, build improves and potential compatibility changes are not ported
to stable branch. Release bring all these changes, here (available also in NEWS
file) changes for next release:


Summary of Changes in release 1.1
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User visible (not in a particular order):
- Removed 4.2 and 7.0 as default TDS protocol versions during
  configure, the default if not specified is now "auto", to connect
  to such obsolete servers you need to specify explicitly the version
  ("auto" won't attempt these versions). CMake build default to
  version 7.1;
- allows to disable TLS 1.0 support;
- pool server allows to specify different username/password for server
  and clients allowing to hide internal server logins;
- tsql utility now send final partial query to server to avoid to have
  to specify a final "GO" line to terminate commands;
- better support for Microsoft cluster, client will attempt multiple
  connection to server at the same time if DNS reply multiple IPs;
- MONEY/SMALLMONEY types are now formated with 4 decimal digits to
  avoid truncation;
- MARS support is now compiled by default;
- pool server is now compiled by default;
- Fixed SQL_ATTR_LOGIN_TIMEOUT for ODBC;
- Fixed large integer numbers for ODBC RPC constants;
- Fixed encrypted logins if "auto" protocol version is used;
- Support CS_TIMEOUT and CS_LOGIN_TIMEOUT properties under CTLibrary;
- Added a dbacolname function in DBLibrary, similar to dbcolname but
  for compute columns (mainly for Sybase now, Microsoft removed
  support for compute columns);
- NTLMv2 is now on by default.

Implementation:
- Improved UTF-8 performances;
- Use more stdint.h style definitions (like uint32_t);
- Use bool type instead of int;
- pool server compile under Windows too (not as capable as Unix
  version);
- CMake build is now able to do an installation;
- Added a src/utils directory to collect all common code not strictly
  related to replacements or TDS;
- Simplified makefiles;
- Support CP1252 encoding in internal trivial iconv;
- Better ODBC detection. Allows to specify a directory with
  --with-iodbc to specify custom iOBDC.

Kind Regards,
  Frediano