The MonetDB team at CWI/MonetDB BV is pleased to announce the Nov2009-SP2 bug fix release of the MonetDB suite of programs.

More information on this release will be available at http://monetdb.cwi.nl/Development/Releases/Nov2009/.

Fixes include:

- No need to require bash for running the *-config scripts. (SF bug #2914563) - MonetDB5 development package now contains all development include files. (SF RFE #2929558) - Added support for compiling on OpenBSD (contributed, i.e. not tested by us). - General code improvements, partly inspired by running Coverity Scan. - mclient -D will exit with a non-zero exit code if dumping failed. (SF bug #2925674) - The Python interface now uses the same socket options as the C version, giving a boost in performance. (SF bug #2925750) - Fixed a bug in the Python interface to deal with fields with embedded newline characters. (SF bug #2917219) - Added initial support to the Python client interface for specifying the encoding. - Fixed a bug in execute argument parsing in Python interface. - Added missing .sql files to the Windows installer. - In MonetDB/SQL, fixed bug in not(invalidtable). (SF bug #2927174)