Dear MonetDB users and developers (and those who want to become either or both ;-),

On the (late) evening of its due day, Monday February 14 2005, "MonetDB 4.6.0" + "MonetDB/SQL 2.6.0" (nicknamed "Valentijn") was born.

After a thorough health check by the parents, nannies, and family doctors, "Valentijn" is now ready to conquer the world!

For more details, background information, and documentation of MonetDB & MonetDB/SQL, please visit the MonetDB web site: http://monetdb.cwi.nl/ .

You'll find an overview of the most important changes since MonetDB 4.4.2 & MonetDB/SQL 2.4.2 at http://monetdb.cwi.nl/Development/Roadmap/Version4.6/ .

A digest of the detailed CVS log messages will soon be available in the Monetdb-changelogs mailing list on SF: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/monetdb-changelogs/ .

All users are highly advised to use the new release.

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 and/or MonetDB/SQL you are using (as the Mserver tells you at startup)!

Any support for the now obsolete release candidates "MonetDB 4.6.0_rc2" & "MonetDB/SQL 2.6.0_rc2" (and any earlier versions) will stop as of now.

Download ========

Pre-packaged source- & binary-distributions are now available on SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=305151 . (Please bear with them, they're far too popular for their budget!)

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

If you are already using the release branches "MonetDB_4-6" and "SQL_2-6" from CVS, simply run "cvs update -dP" to update your code to the latest release version.

If you are already using a CVS version of MonetDB/MonetDB-SQL, you can run either "cvs update -dP -rMonetDB_4-6-0" "cvs update -dP -rSQL_2-6-0" to get this very release, or "cvs update -dP -rMonetDB_4-6" "cvs update -dP -rSQL_2-6" 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 -dP" (without "-r..." or "-A") will not change your checked-out version; via the second option, however, future "cvs update -dP" will get you again the latest version in the release branch.

CVS check-ins =============

All bug fixes (and only these!) on MonetDB and/or SQL are bound to go to the new release branches ("MonetDB_4-6"/"SQL_2-6"), only. On a regular basis, we will then take care of propagating these bug-fixes back to the respective development trunk.

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

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

Enjoy!

The MonetDB team.