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- Release Notes - Change Logs - Downloads - CVS update - CVS checkins

Release Notes =============

The new (bug-fix) release "MonetDB-4.4.2" plus "MonetDB-SQL-2.4.2" is available on SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/monetdb/ .

All users are highly advised (actually "requested" ;-) to use the new release as of now (see below for details concerning download and CVS checkout/update).

Please do not hesitate to ask for support and report bugs or problems, preferably via the bug tracing system at SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=56967&atid=482468) or via email to monet@cwi.nl; however, please always state clearly, which version of MonetDB/SQL you are using (as the Mserver tells you at startup)!

You are also welcome to subscribe to any (or all) of the MonetDB related mailing lists on SF, cf. http://monetdb.cwi.nl/News/MailChannels/index.html http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=56967

Any support for the now obsolete release "MonetDB-4.4.0" plus "MonetDB-SQL-2.4.0" (as well as any earlier versions) will stop as of now.

Change Logs ===========

The changes in this release are as follows: This version is only focused on bug fixes. In the SQL front end a number of bugs affecting the SQL integrity were fixed. A bad BAT leak which could lead to a server crash was fixed. In the JDBC code a bug in handling non-ASCII characters was fixed. On the core MonetDB level the MIL cleanup was finished and many documentation improvements were made.

For details, please check out the (coming) changelogs in the Monetdb-changelogs mailing list on SF: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/monetdb-changelogs .

Downloads =========

MonetDB-*-4.4.2-1.i686.rpm -------------------------- These rpm's contain the binary distribution for Linux on i?86 (IA-32) systems. The rpm's were built on a Fedora Core 2 system; however, they should work on other Linux distributions as well (unless there are incompatibilities with dynamically linked system libraries...). While the MonetDB-client-4.4.2-1.i686.rpm can be installed stand-alone, the MonetDB-server-4.4.2-1.i686.rpm requires the matching MonetDB-client-4.4.2-1.i686.rpm to be installed as well. To develop your own add-on modules, you additionally need to install the MonetDB-devel-4.4.2-1.i686.rpm.

MonetDB-SQL*-2.4.2-1.i686.rpm ----------------------------- These rpm's contain the binary distribution for Linux on i?86 (IA-32) systems. The rpm's were built on a Fedora Core 2 system; however, they should work on other Linux distributions as well (unless there are incompatibilities with dynamically linked system libraries...). To get a working MonetDB-SQL server, you need to install the MonetDB-SQL-server-2.4.2-1.i686.rpm (which requires that the MonetDB-server-4.4.2-1.i686.rpm is already installed). MonetDB's "MapiClient" also serves as a textual SQL user interface: simply start it with "MapiClient --language=sql". The MonetDB-SQL-client-2.4.2-1.i686.rpm contains (preliminary) ODBC & JDBC support for MonetDB-SQL. The MonetDB-SQL-devel-2.4.2-1.i696.rpm contains header files for further development.

MonetDB-4.4.2.tar.gz -------------------- This is a gzip'ed tar file containing the source code of MonetDB; read HowToStart or HowToStart-Win32.txt for build instructions.

MonetDB-SQL-2.4.2.tar.gz ---------------------------- This is a gzip'ed tar file containing the source code of MonetDB/SQL; read HowToStart-SQL or HowToStart-SQL-Win32.txt for build instructions.

MonetDB_JDBC-1.0.jar -------------------- Contains the MonetDB JDBC drive & client for MonetDB. See http://monetdb.cwi.nl/TechDocs/APIs/JDBC/index.html for details.

Mknife-1.4.2.jar ---------------- Mknife is a 'Swiss army knife' GUI to ease the interaction with a running MonetDB server. See http://monetdb.cwi.nl/GetGoing/Usage/Mknife/ for details.

MonetDB-Installer-4.4.2.zip --------------------------- This zip file contains a file Setup.exe which is the Windows installer. Extract the zip file somewhere, and start Setup.exe to install MonetDB. The installer also contains the SQL frontend which is automatically installed. Once installed, you can find shortcuts to the SQL server and SQL client in the Start menu. "MonetDB-Installer-4.4.2.zip" is built with Visual Studio .NET 2003, and hence requires the .NET runtime environment to be installed, too.

(In case you need binary installers for other systems/platform, please feel free to contact us.)

CVS update ==========

If you are already using the release branches "MonetDB_4-4-0" and "SQL_2-4-0" from CVS, simply run "cvs update -dP" to update your code to this new release version.

If you are already using a CVS version of MonetDB/MonetDB-SQL, you can run either "cvs update -dP -rMonetDB_4-4-2" "cvs update -dP -rSQL_2-4-2" to get this very release, or "cvs update -dP -rMonetDB_4-4-0" "cvs update -dP -rSQL_2-4-0" to get the most recent version in the release branch. The difference is, that via the first option, you are "stuck" with this very release, i.e., future "cvs update" (without "-r..." or "-A") will not change your checked-out version; via the second option, however, future "cvs update" will get you again the latest version in the release branch.

CVS checkins ============

All bug fixes (and only these!) on MonetDB and/or SQL are bound to go to the release branches ("MonetDB_4-4-0"/"SQL_2-4-0"), first. On a regular basis, these bug-fixes will be propagated back to the respective main trunk.

All new features are bound to go to the main trunks (and only there!).

As usually, any (constructive;-) comments and feedback are more than welcome!

Enjoy!

The MonetDB development team