Dear all, I aggree with moving towards a new release before the key maintainers go on holiday. Furthermore, major changes over the summer should be carefully checked, which give you not more then about 2 months to invest in something new.

I already announced the 'snapshot' and the feature list of 4.3.18 on the website lately and checked it with Niels. Items that need work: - VOC database example [MK] - Mknife update (there is already a better version out there) - xtables and friends to be finished [PB] - PhP and XML documentation included in the web [Niels, Stefan] - SQL open issues for beta release need to be identified [Niels] - JDBC beta release [fabian] - ODBC beta release [sjoerd]

that's my list

Dear fellow developers,

after recent changes, the latest SQL (intendedly) does not compile with the stable MonetDB-4.3.16, anymore.

Moreover, we plan to have some "major" changes both on MonetDB and on SQL during the summer heading for the first "official" release MonetDB 4.4 in autumn.

Hence, Niels and I had the idea to make a "snapshot" or "intermediate stable" (pre-)release just before we start with major changes.

The proposal is to start new release candidate branches, both for MonetDB and SQL (named MonetDB_4-3-18 and SQL_2-0-18, respectively) sometime this week (i.e., before end of May), getting them, stable as soon as possible, and aim for a release date about mid June.

The current MonetDB code base seems to be doing quite well, hence I do not expect too much work, here, unless we plan to have some more new features (Peter: xtables, aggregates, ...?; Stefan: merged-union?) in the code.

I guess, the same holds for SQL, but I'm not that sure, there.

Are there any other features, that should be included in this "intermediate release"?

A new "stable" also means, that all add-ons that are currently tested with 4-3-16 need to be ported to 4-3-18 (i.e., XML, PathFinder (HEAD), pruning, misq, gis, acoi) --- which probably requires a careful check, that monetdb_config.h is included in the local *_config.h's, and that the latter one is the FIRST include file in EACH .c file...

Any other comments, complaints, suggestions, ...?

Open issues (all, mine, I'm afraid |-() are:

• testing on AIX (sara, "batch mode"),
• testing on medusa (in Tilburg),
• testing on native WindowsXP + VS .NET (on Sjoerd's machine)
• clean-up / re-implementation of TestTools

Stefan

ps: we could of course also postpone this action until after the ICDE deadline on July 2nd and condense it to at most one week ...

This depends on parallel processing modes. For me it's no problem.

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