[ANNOUNCEMENT] DB-1.7.14RC1 (beta) Released.

The new PEAR package DB-1.7.14RC1 (beta) has been released at http://pear.php.net/. Release notes ------------- This release candidate of DB fixes a number of minor issues reported since the release of DB 1.7.13. Note that this release has not yet been tested for databases other than MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite; however I've decided to put it out as a release candidate now as I won't be able to test the other database drivers until next week. All drivers: * Made the definition of DB_common::raiseError() compatible with PEAR::raiseError() by adding dummy parameters. Request 11581. oci8: * Fix for last_query reconstruction with lots of placeholders. Bug 12418, patch by Nicholas Evans. pgsql: * Added special-case to handle SAVEPOINT queries as manip queries. Bug 12260. sqlite: * Added support for another error message in the SQLite driver. Bug 12105, patch by Adam Ashley. Package Info ------------ DB is a database abstraction layer providing: * an OO-style query API * portability features that make programs written for one DBMS work with other DBMS's * 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 * formats fetched rows as associative arrays, ordered arrays or objects * row limit support * transactions support * table information interface * DocBook and phpDocumentor API documentation DB layers itself on top of PHP's existing database extensions. Drivers for the following extensions pass the complete test suite and provide interchangeability when all of DB's portability options are enabled: fbsql, ibase, informix, msql, mssql, mysql, mysqli, oci8, odbc, pgsql, sqlite and sybase. There is also a driver for the dbase extension, but it can't be used interchangeably because dbase doesn't support many standard DBMS features. DB is compatible with both PHP 4 and PHP 5. Related Links ------------- Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/DB Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/DB/download/1.7.14RC1 Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package/DB-1.7.14RC1.tgz Authors ------- Stig Bakken <stig@php.net> (developer) Thomas V.V.Cox <cox@php.net> (developer) Daniel Convissor (lead) Adam Harvey <aharvey@php.net> (lead)