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

the following new bug-fix release of the MonetDB family are available for download from SourceForge at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=56967 :

MonetDB 4.8.2 MonetDB/SQL 2.8.2 MonetDB/XQuery 0.8.2

Changes since the respective ".0" releases are mainly bug fixes.

A digest of the detailed CVS log messages is 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 releases as of now (see below for details concerning download and/or CVS checkout/update).

See the MonetDB/XQuery web site (http://monetdb-xquery.org/) for detailed product information and the Pathfinder web site (http://pathfinder-xquery.org) as well as the respective technical report (http://www.cwi.nl/htbin/ins1/publications?request=abstract&key=BoGrMaRiT...) for scientific background information.

To ask for support and report bugs or problems, please use the MonetDB-Users mailing list at SourceForge (https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/monetdb-users) or the bug tracing system at SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=56967&atid=482468); however, please always state clearly, which version of MonetDB you are using (as the Mserver tells you at startup)!

Any support for the now obsolete "MonetDB 4.8.0", "MonetDB/SQL 2.8.0", and "MonetDB/XQuery 0.8.0" will stop as of now.

Download ========

Pre-packaged source- & binary-distributions are available on SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=56967 .

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

If you are already using a CVS version of MonetDB, sql, or pathfinder, you can run either "cvs update -dP -rMonetDB_4-8-2" (MonetDB) "cvs update -dP -rSQL_2-8-2" (sql) "cvs update -dP -rXQuery_0-8-2" (pathfinder) to get this very release, or "cvs update -dP -rMonetDB_4-8" (MonetDB) "cvs update -dP -rSQL_2-8" (sql) "cvs update -dP -rXQuery_0-8" (pathfinder) 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, sql, and/or pathfinder are bound to go to the new release candidate branches ("MonetDB_4-8"/"SQL_2-8"/"XQuery_0-8"), only! On a regular basis, we will then take care of propagating these bug-fixes back to the respective development trunks.

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/XQuery & Pathfinder Team.