Version 1.0.0 ============= MDB Tools 1.0 includes a number of new features compared to the 0.9 series. The most significant change is that mdbtools.h is now generated at build time, and its internal HAVE_ macros have been removed. This means that it is now safe for clients to compile against mdbtools.h without needing to provide the same HAVE_ICONV and HAVE_GLIB flags that were present when the library was first compiled. For most users, MDB Tools 1.0 will be ABI and API compatible with the 0.9 series but see the notes in the "Install" section below. The SQL engine has two new operators: ILIKE (case-insensitive pattern matching) and <> (not equals). Changes since 0.9.4: Build: * Generate platform-specific `mdbtools.h` at configure-time #316 * Ensure compiler supports thread-local storage * Fix `AC_PROG_LEX` warning with autoconf 2.70 * Rely on autoconf to define appropriate values of `_XOPEN_SOURCE` and friends * New `--disable-iconv` configure option (falls back to `wcstombs` where possible) * Fix a build error when `./configure` detected iconv, but thought it was not working * Generating the configure script now requires autoconf 2.64 or later Install: * Install `libmdbodbc.so` and `libmdbodbcW.so` into ${libdir}/odbc #315 * Do not install `mdb-sql` if SQL support was not built #276 * Do not install `libmdbsql.pc` if SQL support was not built `pkg-config`: * Simplify `--cflags` for libmdb * Provide correct `--cflags` for libmdbsql libmdb: * Copy date formats when cloning handles #326 * Fix incorrect reading of double values #339 #342 * Fix accidental reads of non-index data #335 #343 * New `mdb_set_repid_fmt()` for setting the format of Rep IDs (UUIDs) #344 SQL: * New case-insensitive, Unicode-aware `ILIKE` operator #244 * New `<>` (not equal) operator #329 * Improved support for comparing floating-point values to integers * Improved support for floating point literals with no fractional digits (e.g. "3.") * Add support for querying Rep IDs ODBC: * Format boolean values correctly as `SQL_C_CHAR` #327 * Add support for the `SQL_C_WCHAR` (UTF-16) return type #347 #348 * The Unicode driver (`libmdbodbcW.so`) no longer uses iconv #332 #333 * Add support for older iODBC installations lacking `odbcinst.h` `mdb-export`: * Convert table names to lower case when exporting to PostgreSQL #322 * Use `CREATE IF NOT EXISTS` when exporting to PostgreSQL #321 * Fix issue where byte columns with values > 127 were exported as negative numbers (regression introduced in v0.9.3-beta1) #350 `mdb-hexdump`: * Deprecate tool Version 0.9.4 ============= libmdb: * Write encrypted pages #305 * Improved support for big-endian platforms * Remove obsolete `AC_HEADER_STDC` macro from configure.ac SQL: * Fix compilation on RHEL 7.9 #301 * Add brackets around table names in `mdb-query` output #307 * Support for brackets around table names in SQL parser * Fix regression in 0.9.3 where `COUNT(*)` resulted in a parse error #318 #319 ODBC: * Fix `-Werror=array-bounds` compile error #313 Version 0.9.3 ============= libmdb: * Support files created with Access 2019 #260 #277 * Fix a warning when reading in binary property values #262 * Fix signed-unsigned comparison warning #269 * Migrate to `g_memdup2` #287 #288 * Fix build when `_XOPEN_SOURCE` was already defined on the platform #298 * Fix build failure with emscripten #299 libmdbsql: * Support negative floating point literals #274 #279 * Improved support for file paths in `CONNECT TO` statements #275 #280 #282 * Comparison operators behaved incorrectly when the constant was on the left #283 #285 * Allow double quoted (") database names #291 * Allow spaces in database names #292 #293 ODBC: * unixODBC now uses the `--libdir` passed at configure-time #261 * Fix a segfault in PyODBC when `SQLGetTypeInfo` is called on an unsupported data type #278 Docs: * Add JET version for access 2013/2016/2019 to docs #286 Version 0.9.2 ============= MDB Tools 0.9.2 is a security and bug-fix release. Due to a number of memory errors uncovered by OSS-Fuzz, all users who use MDB Tools to read data from untrusted sources are encouraged to upgrade to 0.9.2 as soon as possible. The release also includes some minor improvements and behavior changes, described below. libmdb: * Fix infinite loop with malformed input (oss-fuzz/28789) * Fix buffer overrun and some out of bounds memory accesses (oss-fuzz/28832 + oss-fuzz/28807) * Fix potential memory leak (oss-fuzz/28791) * Improved bounds and return value checking (oss-fuzz/29328 + oss-fuzz/29329) * Add support for numeric scale/precision on JET3 databases and floating-point column types * `mdb_col_to_string` now prints a warning and returns `""` for any unsupported data type * Improved warning with invalid row data #253 Command-line tools: * All CLI tools which accept string arguments are now locale-aware (#237) * All CLI tools now accept a `--version` argument (#232) * `mdb-export`: Fix issue where exported SQL field sizes were sometimes twice the necessary size (#112) * `mdb-export`: Improved handling of BLOBs (#250) * `mdb-export`: Implement a serial type and relations for MySQL (#257) * `mdb-queries` now has long option names `--list`, `--newline`, and `--delimiter` * `mdb-schema`: Exit with an error code if the requested table is not found ODBC: * `SQLBindCol` now respects its TargetType (fCType) argument and converts bound data to the requested type (#23 #242) * `SQLFetchCol` now returns `SQL_SUCCESS_WITH_INFO` if a bound column was truncated, and `SQL_ERROR` if a bound value is out of range of the target type. * Fix handling of numeric types in ODBC driver (#255) Build and documentation: * Updated man pages with new SQL features and correct `MDBOPTS` information (#203) * Add generated API documentation (#239) * Move `HACKING` to `HACKING.md` (with a relocation notice) and `TODO` to `TODO.md` * Fuzz-test all pull requests (#230) * Add `-DHAVE_GLIB` to library's `pkg-config --cflags` if needed (#254) Version 0.9.1 ============= * MDB Tools has migrated from Travis CI to GitHub Actions for automated builds * Fix a build error with msys2 (Windows) when GLib was disabled * Remove dependency on math.h #228 * mdb-export now uses scientific notation only for very small numbers #84 * mdb-schema no longer emits illegal ALTER TABLE statements for SQLite relationships #82 * mdb-schema now omits the namespace for PostgreSQL indexes and constraints #93 * Automatically detect character encoding of JET3 databases #224 * JET3: Transcode Latin-1 text to UTF-8 when iconv is not present * JET4: Transcode Unicode text to UTF-8 when iconv is not present (using `wcstombs`) #223 * Fix a buffer overrun with binary string fields OSS-Fuzz/28779 #216 * Fix a stack overflow with malformed input OSS-Fuzz/28780 #217 * Improved validation of date input OSS-Fuzz/28790 #219 * Fix a potential buffer overrun when compiled without iconv OSS-Fuzz/28773 #220 * Fix an extra newline that appeared at the `mdb-sql` prompt when Readline was not present * Fix potential stack corruption with malformed input * mdb-export has a new --escape-invisible flag for C-style escaping of tabs and newlines #222 * Print a warning if MDBOPTS=use_index is set at run-time but libmswstr was absent at compile-time #215 #226 * Improved support for databases that were improperly closed #120 * Remove warnings about mdb_find_row and row_size that did not necessarily indicate a problem Version 0.9.0 ============= MDB Tools is under new management! Update your bookmarks and tell your favorite search engine that this is our new home on the WWW: https://github.com/mdbtools/mdbtools MDB Tools 0.9.0 builds off the fork of cyberemissary on GitHub, collects many years of unapplied patches, and includes a number of internal improvements. Besides a host of security fixes, GLib is now completely optional, files can be opened completely in-memory, and many global variables have been eliminated to facilitate thread safety. The core library, libmdb, is believed to be thread-safe in the sense that several handles can be opened simultaneously and passed between threads. However, individual handles are NOT thread-safe, so don't try to do work on a single handle from multiple threads without implementing your own locking mechanism. The auxiliary libraries, libmdbsql and ODBC, still have some non-reentrant function calls. Thread safety is not promised, though the situation is significantly improved from the 0.7 days. The ABI has some slight changes (mostly having to do with struct layouts) so you'll need to bump your SO numbers and such. The main changes to the API are the introduction of a new function for in-memory parsing: MdbHandle *mdb_open_buffer(void *buffer, size_t len, MdbFileFlags flags); And the modification of the "mdb_set_date_fmt" function to include a handle parameter, so that date formats can be set in a non-global fashion: void mdb_set_date_fmt(MdbHandle *mdb, const char *); The above function is the most common reason that old projects will fail to compile on 0.9, and the fix is straightforward. The previously-deprecated functions mdb_init() and mdb_exit() have been removed. These functions did nothing; any calls to them should be excised with prejudice. This release introduces two new CLI tools (mdb-count and mdb-queries) and deprecates mdb-array, mdb-header, and mdb-parsecsv. Several man pages have been added or otherwise brought up to date. The GNOME-based GUI tool that formerly shipped with MDB Tools has been moved to a separate project, here: https://github.com/mdbtools/gmdb2 It seems to compile but should probably be classified as abandonware. The project uses a deprecated GUI toolkit, and as such gmdb2 is no longer included in Linux distros that used to carry it. Version 0.7.1 ============= autogen.sh is no more. Use "autoreconf -if" to bootstrap the configuration. autoconf/automake has been updated to more recent standards. - config.guess config.sub depcomp install-sh ltmain.sh missing ylwrap files are now in build-aux/ directory You'll now need autoconf >= 2.58 An experimental (buggy) version of ODBC driver that supports UCS-2 interface is now available: libmdbodbcW.so Note that libmdbodbc supports UTF-8 really well, so that this is usually not needed. Version 0.3 =========== The organization of the project files has changed a bit from that last release. The autoconf stuff has been moved to the root directory. The include directory has also been moved from src/include to include