Dear MonetDB users and developers,
The MonetDB team at CWI is pleased to announce the new "Jun2008" release of the MonetDB suite of programs.
For MonetDB/XQuery, this release marks the roll forward from the old "milprint_summer"-based Pathfinder compiler to the new "Algebra"-based Pathfinder compiler.
MonetDB/SQL has been extended with initial support for OpenGIS via the "Geom[etry]" extension module, aka. MonetDB/SQL/GIS.
Additionally, the configure defaults for compilation from sources on Unix(-like) systems as well as the Windows installers have been cleaned-up.
For more information, please see the detailed release notes at http://monetdb.cwi.nl/Development/Releases/Version4.24/
IMPORTANT NOTE: Before upgrading to the latest "Jun2008" release from any previous release of MonetDB, please make a dump of your database, and rename/move/backup the database directories (dbfarm, sql_logs, xquery_logs). After the upgrade, restore your database, again. Once you have checked and confirmed the correctness of the restore, you can delete the above renamed/moved/backed-up old database directories. For more information, please see the detailed release notes at http://monetdb.cwi.nl/Development/Releases/Version4.24/
The new release consists of the following packages:
MonetDB Common 1.24.0 MonetDB Clients 1.24.0 MonetDB4 Server 4.24.0 MonetDB4 XQuery 0.24.0 MonetDB5 Server 5.6.0 MonetDB5 SQL 2.24.0 MonetDB5 Geom 0.4.0 monetdb-1.8-jdbc.jar
There is of course also a new "Super Source Ball", a tarball containing the combined sources.
All this is available on our SourceForge project page. See https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=56967 for the downloadable files.
Enjoy! The MonetDB development team.