Re: FreeTDS 1.1 Release Candidate 1

Seems good but "no more accepted for default" should probably be "no longer accepted by default", if I've understood your meaning correctly.

February 5, 2019 12:39 PM, "Frediano Ziglio" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Il giorno mar 5 feb 2019 alle ore 09:23
> <[email protected]> ha scritto:
> 
>> It doesn't read to badly to me but you might conisder:
>> 
>> Changed default TDS protocol version during configurefrom, from 4.2 and 7.0 to "auto"
>> , you may still specifcy an explicit version to connect to obsolete servers
>> ("auto" won't attempt these versions). CMake build defaults to
>> version 7.1;
> 
> What about:
> 
> - Changed default TDS protocol version during configure to "auto".
> Versions 4.2 and 7.0 are no more accepted for default, you may
> still specify an explicit version to connect to obsolete servers
> ("auto" won't attempt these versions). CMake build defaults to
> version 7.1;
> 
>> February 5, 2019 8:43 AM, "Frediano Ziglio" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 1:42 PM Frediano Ziglio <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> 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
>> --------------------------------------------
>> 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.
>> 
>> Thank you for the new release prerparation.
>> What is the lowest version freeTDS can connect to now (for both
>> Sybase/SAP ASE and MS)?
>> 
>> Old versions are still supported, what changes is that they are not
>> accepted as default (global settings) but
>> you need to force server by server.
>> Can you help me rephrase to make more clear?
>> 
>> Frediano
> 
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