The MonetDB team at CWI/MonetDB BV is pleased to announce the Oct2012 feature release of the MonetDB suite of programs.
More information about MonetDB can be found on our website at http://www.monetdb.org/.
For details on this release, please see the release notes at http://www.monetdb.org/Downloads/ReleaseNotes.
As usual, the download location is http://dev.monetdb.org/downloads/.
Due to a packaging problem on Debian and Ubuntu, no binary packages for these systems exist. We apologise for the inconvenience. We expect this problem to be resolved by the Oct2012-SP1 release.
Oct 2012 feature release Build Environment * Removed --enable-noexpand configure option. Java Module * Fixed problem with PreparedStatements and setXXX() methods using column numbers instead of names, bug #3158 Client Package * mclient now accepts URIs as database to connect to. * all strings returned by python2 are unicode, removed use_unicode option * python2 and 3 type convertion speed improvements * python2 uses new style objects now (bug #3104) * split python2 and python3 MonetDB5 Server * Removed module attach since it wasn't used or even tested. * The MAL-to-C Compiler (mcc) was removed. The code wasn't tested and most likely non-functional. Merovingian * Fixed problem where monetdbd would refuse to startup when discovery was set to false, bug #3155 MonetDB Common * Removed the gdk_embedded (and embedded) option. The code wasn't tested and most likely non-functional. * BAT-of-BATs is no longer allowed. It was already not allowed to make these types of BATs persistent, but now they can't be created at all anymore. Bug Fixes * 3084: Timestamp arithmetic very slow (especially on Windows) * 3125: Python tests fail after recent Python API changes * 3155: Provide an option for setting discovery to false _______________________________________________ developers-list mailing list developers-list@monetdb.org http://mail.monetdb.org/mailman/listinfo/developers-list