New 1.41 release of DBD::ODBC

I have just uploaded DBD::ODBC 1.41 to the CPAN.

This is the full release of the 1.40 development series and the changes can be found below. I draw your attention to a number of changes in behaviour. Thank you to all contributors.

=head2 Changes in DBD::ODBC 1.41 October 23 2012

   A full release of the 1.40 development release series.

=head2 Changes in DBD::ODBC 1.40_3 October 8 2012

   [BUG FIXES]

   Oops, changes to some rt tests fail when not run to MS SQL Server
   and they should not be run for other drivers - there was a double
   done_testing call.

   [CHANGE IN BEHAVIOUR]

   As I warned literally years ago DBD::ODBC's private function
   DescribeCol has been removed. You can use DBI's statement attributes
   like NAME, PRECISION etc, instead. All test code has been changed to
   remove calls to DescribeCol and GetTypeInfo.

   [MISCELLANEOUS]

   New example sqlserver_supplementary_chrs.pl added which shows that
   in MS SQL Server 2012 you can now store unicode characters
   over 0xFFFF (ones which are surrogate pairs).

   More documentation for odbc_out_connect_string.

=head2 Changes in DBD::ODBC 1.40_2 September 6 2012

   [BUG FIXES]

   Fixed rt 78838 - bind_param does not correctly stringify blessed
   objects when connected to MS SQL Server

   Fix issue in dbd_bind_ph where if you passed a sql type and were
   also attempting to change from in to out or vice versa or increasing
   the size of an output bound param it would not spot this error.

   Allowed the test cases to spot DB2 driver as libXXXdb2.

   [MISCELLANEOUS]

   New test cases added for some rts.

   Added Test::NoWarnings to some tests where it was missing.

=head2 Changes in DBD::ODBC 1.40_1 September 4 2012

   [BUG FIXES]

   Debian/Ubuntu have moved unixODBC into /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu
   so look in this dir for unixODBC as well - thanks to Meastro for finding.

   Fixed rt 78838
   I had a sequence point error which is only seen with some compilers
   as it is sometimes optimized=head2 Changes in DBD::ODBC 1.41 October 23 2012

   A full release of the 1.40 development release series.

=head2 Changes in DBD::ODBC 1.40_3 October 8 2012

   [BUG FIXES]

   Oops, changes to some rt tests fail when not run to MS SQL Server
   and they should not be run for other drivers - there was a double
   done_testing call.

   [CHANGE IN BEHAVIOUR]

   As I warned literally years ago DBD::ODBC's private function
   DescribeCol has been removed. You can use DBI's statement attributes
   like NAME, PRECISION etc, instead. All test code has been changed to
   remove calls to DescribeCol and GetTypeInfo.

   [MISCELLANEOUS]

   New example sqlserver_supplementary_chrs.pl added which shows that
   in MS SQL Server 2012 you can now store unicode characters
   over 0xFFFF (ones which are surrogate pairs).

   More documentation for odbc_out_connect_string.

=head2 Changes in DBD::ODBC 1.40_2 September 6 2012

   [BUG FIXES]

   Fixed rt 78838 - bind_param does not correctly stringify blessed
   objects when connected to MS SQL Server

   Fix issue in dbd_bind_ph where if you passed a sql type and were
   also attempting to change from in to out or vice versa or increasing
   the size of an output bound param it would not spot this error.

   Allowed the test cases to spot DB2 driver as libXXXdb2.

   [MISCELLANEOUS]

   New test cases added for some rts.

   Added Test::NoWarnings to some tests where it was missing.

=head2 Changes in DBD::ODBC 1.40_1 September 4 2012

   [BUG FIXES]

   Debian/Ubuntu have moved unixODBC into /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu
   so look in this dir for unixODBC as well - thanks to Meastro for finding.

   Fixed rt 78838
   I had a sequence point error which is only seen with some compilers
   as it is sometimes optimized out. It could cause DBD::ODBC to omit
   adding the UID/PWD to the end of the connection string when using DSN=.
   Thanks to Zsolt Cserna for spotting it and to ilmari and Leon for
   explaining it to me.

   Fixed rt 79397
   Output bound parameters may be incorrectly bound if changed after
   bind_param_inout is called. If you start with an undef bound param
   and change it to a defined string/number less than 28 characters
   before calling execute the original undef will probably be bound.
   Thanks to runrig on perl monks for providing an example.

   [CHANGE IN BEHAVIOUR]

   If you attempt to bind an rv without amagic DBD::ODBC will now
   croak - related to rt 78838.  out. It could cause DBD::ODBC to omit
   adding the UID/PWD to the end of the connection string when using DSN=.
   Thanks to Zsolt Cserna for spotting it and to ilmari and Leon for
   explaining it to me.

   Fixed rt 79397
   Output bound parameters may be incorrectly bound if changed after
   bind_param_inout is called. If you start with an undef bound param
   and change it to a defined string/number less than 28 characters
   before calling execute the original undef will probably be bound.
   Thanks to runrig on perl monks for providing an example.

   [CHANGE IN BEHAVIOUR]

   If you attempt to bind an rv without amagic DBD::ODBC will now
   croak - related to rt 78838.

Martin
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Martin J. Evans
Easysoft Limited
http://www.easysoft.com