All,
Gerd and I recently made some decisions about the next major release
of SQuirreL.
(This doesn't apply to 2.6.9 which is a minor release and may be
released soon).
We have been adding enhancements to the trunk which have only been available in
the snapshot builds for the entire year of 2008. The enhancements involve many
areas of the code and will give SQuirreL a new look as well as new
features. Also,
some of the UI changes leverage Java APIs that are only available in
Java6. There
are also enhanced JDBC APIs that will be used going forward that are also only
available in Java6. We dropped support for 1.4 on 12/31/2006 with the
2.4 release and
moved to Java5 then. While dropping support for Java5 in this upcoming release
may not be well received by some users, we believe that is the best
way forward for
SQuirreL. Given that there are so many changes, rather than calling
the next release 2.7,
we decided it would be more appropriate to call the release 3.0. As
far as timing, we
are currently planning an end of January release date - although that
is not set in stone.
Let us know of any development or translation concerns on the
appropriate mailing
list as soon as you can.
Rob
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