[ANNOUNCEMENT] DB-1.6.0RC3 (beta) Released.

The new PEAR package DB-1.6.0RC3 (beta) has been released at http://pear.php.net/. Release notes ------------- ============= GENERAL: Loads of small code optimizations implemented, many of which were found using Zend Studio's Code Analyzer. Since most DBMS's need 1/0 for boolean support, use 1/0 in common.php and only put quoteSimple() methods in the few drivers that use true booleans or other formats (dbase, fbase, pgsql). Enhanced 15quote.phpt so it tests boolean features in quoteSmart() and handles more DBMS types. Added new 18get.phpt test. ============= BUGS FIXED: - odbc: Fix connect() so uses 'database' from DSN instead of having to use 'hostspec' as a workaround. Correct DSN syntax is: odbc(db2)://user:password@/database - pgsql: Refine DB_ERROR_NOSUCHTABLE error_regexp. - sqlite: Make freeResult() do what it says it does. - ibase, msql, odbc: quoteSmart() now uses 1/0 for booleans. - ibase, msql, odbc: getSpecialQuery() doesn't return anything in these drivers. Put one in common.php that raises DB_ERROR_UNSUPPORTED. - mysql, mysql4: Removed unused argument "$subject" from modifyQuery(). 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 * Compatible with PHP 4 and PHP 5 DB layers itself on top of PHP's existing database extensions. The currently supported extensions are: dbase, fbsql, interbase, informix, msql, mssql, mysql, mysqli, 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-1.6.0RC3.tgz Authors ------------- Stig Bakken <stig@php.net> (lead) Thomas V.V.Cox <cox@idecnet.com> (lead) Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck@horde.org> (contributor) Daniel Convissor (lead)