After over 14 months a new release of DBD::Oracle is ready! DBD::Oracle 1.17 has been released.
>From Tim Bunce: : With this release of DBD::Oracle John Scoles at The Pythian Group (http://www.pythian.com) : is taking on the role of lead maintainer - with my support and gratitude. : So I guess John you are now the man in the hot seat for support and : maintenance! Thanks Tim. So here I am in the hot seat making my first release. Myself and many others at Pythian have been long time users of DBD::Oracle and I'm delighted to be able to take the lead role in developing and maintaining it. I must give a special thank you to my boss here at Pythian, Paul Vallee, he has made an ongoing commitment to Tim and myself that this work can be done on company time. This will give me the opportunity to hopefully create releases more frequently. Just a quick note about us at Pythian. We are a groups of DBAs, SAs and a few developers who provide remote DBA services to customers 24/7. We have made extensive use of DBD::Oracle in our Web and other critical internal infrastructure since 1998. DBD::Oracle is also one of the key components in our remote DBA package, and in AVAIL our database monitoring tool which is installed on hundreds of systems worldwide. DBD::Oracle rules! Thanks again to Tim for his support in guiding me through my first release and all the others that have contributed DBD:Oracle. Cheers John Scoles. =head1 Changes in DBD-Oracle 1.17 (svn rev 2493) 10th Febuary 2006 Fixed automatic csform setting for some UTF8 cases and for Oracle 8.0 Fixed truncation error on fetch into UTF8 charset thanks to Honza Pazdziora. Fixed INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND thanks to Honza Pazdziora. Fixed unicode tests for cygwin thanks to Andy Hassall. Fixed undef warnings when connecting with undef $user. Fixed undef warnings from $dbh->get_info(18); Fixed LOB streaming example thanks to Pablo Zorzoli. Added support for nested cursors in select lists thanks to Charles Jardine. Added "Trailing Spaces" section to docs thanks to Michael A Chase. Added support for binary floats/doubles thanks to Dennis Box. Added INSTANCE_NAME, SERVER and SERVICE_NAME as valid connect keywords in the 'dbi:Oracle:x=y' short form of connecting without tnsnames.ora. For example 'dbi:Oracle:host=localhost;service_name=xe;server=dedicated' Added auto-detection of ORACLE_HOME in some configurations. Changed "Binding Cursors" docs, clarifying examples thanks to Charles Jardine. Changed tests to use ORACLE_DSN or DBI_DSN env vars if defined thanks to Jill Vogel. Updated README.vms re logical name tables thanks to Jakob Snoer. Removed README.utf8 since the topic was covered better in the main docs. Updated README.aix thanks to Stephen de Vries. Updated README.macosx thanks to Stephen de Vries. Renamed README.*'s to add .txt suffix to make life easier for some. Changes to Makefile.PL: Instant Client support thanks to Hilmar Lapp, John Scoles and others. Improved HP-UX support thanks to H.Merijn Brand. Avoid risk of sqlplus hanging thanks to Mark Dedlow. More reliably use correct sqlplus thanks to Honza Pazdziora. Improved build rule and Oracle header file detection. Improved cygwin build thanks to Andy Hassall. VMS logical name checks thanks to Jakob Snoer. The Copyright terms for DBD::Oracle have been simplified and now read: The DBD::Oracle module is free open source software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl 5.
