[ANNOUNCEMENT] DB-1.6.0RC2 (beta) Released.

The new PEAR package DB-1.6.0RC2 (beta) has been released at http://pear.php.net/. Release notes ------------- ============= NEW FEATURES: - An **experimental** driver for mysql4 has been added. (nicos, Roman, et al) ============= BUGS FIXED: - ibase: Add error mapping for 'no permission for...' - ifx: Use NEXT for fetch_row() instead of null. Bug 598. - sybase: Use false for password when password is empty in order to workaround a PHP bug. Bug 631. - dbase, ifx, mssql, mysql, oci8, sqlite, sybase: Changed $str to $in for boolean test in smartQuote(). - fbsql, ibase: Use getSequenceName() in createSequence(), nextID() and dropSequence() for uniformity between drivers. Package Info ------------- DB is a database abstraction layer providing: * an OO-style query API * a DSN (data source name) format for specifying database servers * prepare/execute (bind) emulation for databases that don't support it natively * a result object for each query response * portable error codes * sequence emulation * sequential and non-sequential row fetching as well as bulk fetching * ordered array, associative array and object formats supported for the fetched rows * row limit support * transactions support * table information interface * DocBook and PHPDoc API documentation DB layers itself on top of PHP's existing database extensions. The currently supported extensions are: dbase, fbsql, interbase, informix, msql, mssql, mysql, oci8, odbc, pgsql, sqlite and sybase (DB style interfaces to LDAP servers and MS ADO (using COM) are also avaible from a separate package). Related Links ------------- Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/DB Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package-changelog.php?package=DB Download: http://pear.php.net/get/DB-1.6.0RC2.tgz Authors ------------- Stig Bakken <stig.bakken@overture.com> (lead) Thomas V.V.Cox <cox@idecnet.com> (lead) Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck@horde.org> (contributor) Daniel Convissor (lead)