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Version 0.9.0
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MDB Tools is under new management! Update your bookmarks and tell your favorite
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search engine that this is our new home on the WWW:
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https://github.com/mdbtools/mdbtools
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MDB Tools 0.9.0 builds off the fork of cyberemissary on GitHub, collects many
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years of unapplied patches, and includes a number of internal improvements.
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Besides a host of security fixes, GLib is now completely optional, files can
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be opened completely in-memory, and many global variables have been eliminated
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to facilitate thread safety.
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The core library, libmdb, is believed to be thread-safe in the sense that
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several handles can be opened simultaneously and passed between threads.
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However, individual handles are NOT thread-safe, so don't try to do work
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on a single handle from multiple threads without implementing your own
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locking mechanism.
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The auxiliary libraries, libmdbsql and ODBC, still have some non-reentrant
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function calls. Thread safety is not promised, though the situation is
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significantly improved from the 0.7 days.
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The ABI has some slight changes (mostly having to do with struct layouts) so
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you'll need to bump your SO numbers and such. The main changes to the API are
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the introduction of a new function for in-memory parsing:
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MdbHandle *mdb_open_buffer(void *buffer, size_t len, MdbFileFlags flags);
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And the modification of the "mdb_set_date_fmt" function to include a handle
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parameter, so that date formats can be set in a non-global fashion:
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void mdb_set_date_fmt(MdbHandle *mdb, const char *);
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The above function is the most common reason that old projects will fail to
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compile on 0.9, and the fix is straightforward.
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The previously-deprecated functions mdb_init() and mdb_exit() have been
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removed. These functions did nothing; any calls to them should be excised with
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prejudice.
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This release introduces two new CLI tools (mdb-count and mdb-queries) and
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deprecates mdb-array, mdb-header, and mdb-parsecsv. Several man pages have been
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added or otherwise brought up to date.
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The GNOME-based GUI tool that formerly shipped with MDB Tools has been moved to
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a separate project, here:
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https://github.com/mdbtools/gmdb2
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It seems to compile but should probably be classified as abandonware. The
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project uses a deprecated GUI toolkit, and as such gmdb2 is no longer included
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in Linux distros that used to carry it.
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Version 0.7.1
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=============
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autogen.sh is no more. Use "autoreconf -if" to bootstrap the configuration.
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autoconf/automake has been updated to more recent standards.
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- config.guess config.sub depcomp install-sh ltmain.sh missing ylwrap
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files are now in build-aux/ directory
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You'll now need autoconf >= 2.58
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An experimental (buggy) version of ODBC driver that supports UCS-2 interface
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is now available: libmdbodbcW.so
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Note that libmdbodbc supports UTF-8 really well, so that this is usually not
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needed.
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Version 0.3
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===========
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The organization of the project files has changed a bit from that last release.
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The autoconf stuff has been moved to the root directory. The include directory
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has also been moved from src/include to include
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