[ANNOUNCEMENT] DB-1.5.0RC1 (stable) Released.

The new PEAR package DB-1.5.0RC1 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/. Release notes ------------- New Features: - Added $dbh->freePrepared(), for explicitily free a prepared result - Test suite enhanced - Added new *experimental* driver for SQLite Bugs fixed: - Fixed memory leaks with methods that did automatic prepare/execute - ibase: better error handling and various bugfixes - mssql: added port setting to connect and enhancements to the error hanlder - mysql: $db->createSequence(); $db->nextID(); now returns 1 and other minor fixes - odbc: added native quote() function, better error handling, and other bugfixes - pgsql: minor bugfixes Special thanks for those persons who sent patches and bug reports. This release is done for public testing before the final release in sync with the upcomming PHP 4.3.3 version. 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-info.php?package=DB Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package-changelog.php?package=DB Download: http://pear.php.net/get/DB-1.5.0RC1.tgz Authors ------------- Stig Bakken <ssb@fast.no> (lead) Thomas V.V.Cox <cox@idecnet.com> (developer)