v0.7.4

This release is primarly to fix the broken builds for MySQL on 32-bit systems. Users of 0.7.3 not expirencing problems can skip or delay upgrading to this release.

What's Changed

• Add missing braces around initializer by @robert-scheck in #78
• Unbreak building against MariaDB 5.5 by @robert-scheck in #77
• Avoid incompatible pointer type error on x86 (32 bit) by @robert-scheck in #76
• New driver for DuckDB. Largely untested and should be considered expiremental at this time.

Full Changelog: v0.7.3...v0.7.4

v0.7.3

This release is entirely bugfixes and improved integer handling.

What's Changed

• oracle column name bugfix by @iisimaginary in #58
• [travis] fix mysql grant error by @linuxmaniac in #60
• Don't break SQLite 3.6.20 as shipped in RHEL/CentOS 6 by @robert-scheck in #57
• dbd/mysql/statement.c: fix compilation with mysql-8 by @ConiKost in #63
• Issue 56: Remove useless setting of is_null by @mwild1 in #61
• Issue-66: dbd/mysql/statement.c: return nil for NULL by @ntki in #67
• Attempt to provide partial fix for Issue #64. by @sparked435 in #75

New Contributors

• @iisimaginary made their first contribution in #58
• @robert-scheck made their first contribution in #57
• @ConiKost made their first contribution in #63
• @ntki made their first contribution in #67

Full Changelog: v0.7.2...v0.7.3

v0.7.2

Another mostly-bugfix release:

• DB2: Fix compilation failure in DB2 driver (#49)
• Postgres: Fix Postgres driver memory leak (#50)
• MySQL: Remove usage of deprecated APIs (#54)
• Oracle: Add support for UTF-8, server ping, and RAC/TAF for clustering/failover (#47)
• SQLite3: Add support for connection flags (#46)

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!

v0.7.1

• Multiple bugfixes and improvements (including significant performance enhancements) to the Oracle backend, courtesy of @JorjBauer
• Fix a crash in the Postgres backend (@linuxmaniac)

Thanks also to @linuxmaniac for significant contributions to our tests and linter, improving our code quality and catching bugs.

v0.6

• Now supports Lua 5.1 through 5.3.
• Basic unit tests, quite a few bugs fixed.
• Addition of last_id() on connection objects, for MySQL and Sqlite3 drivers