[soci-users] SOCI 3.2.0 released

Folks,

On behalf of the whole SOCI team I extremely pleased to
announce this new release of SOCI 3.2.0 version.

The source packages are available for download from SF.net:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/soci/files/soci/soci-3.2.0/

or as .zip for the whole 3.2.0 tag directly from the Git repository:

https://github.com/SOCI/soci/tree/3.2.0

documentation for the current version is available at

http://soci.sourceforge.net/doc.html

I'd like to thank each and everyone involved, who helped in any
kind of way to make this release happen: all developers
and contributors as well as SOCI users here and everywhere.
It's a *great* feeling to grow the list with new names on every release.

https://github.com/SOCI/soci/blob/3.2.0/src/AUTHORS


Below, I copied the relevant part of the changelog from

https://github.com/SOCI/soci/blob/3.2.0/src/CHANGES

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Version 3.2.0 differs from 3.1.0 in the following ways:

- SOCI is now organization at GitHub
-- Git repository moved to https://github.com/SOCI/soci
-- Opened new bug tracker (SF.net tracker is read-only)
-- Opened Wiki for FAQ and development articles
-- Website, mailing lists and downloads remain on SourceForge.net
-- Applied GitFlow branching model
-- Added package maintenance repository https://github.com/SOCI/soci-pkg

- Core
-- Added connection_parameters to enable support for session options
used by core, backends or low-level API.
-- Added user-defined query transformation support based on function,
functor and lambda
-- Fixed missing connection check and backend setup ensured for session
-- Fixed backend initialization when used with connection pool (Core)
-- Fixed memory leaks on exception thrown during statement preparation stage

- DB2
-- Added new backend for IBM DB2

- Firebird
-- Fixed bug in repeated statement execution
-- Fixed issues with input parameter binding
-- Fixed connection string parsing to handle possible white-spaces
-- Fixed issues with C++ type unsigned long
-- Fixed reading negative values into C++ type double
-- Added option to fetch numeric/decimal data into string of characters
-- Added CMake configuration
-- Updated tests
-- Continued regular testing on Windows and Unix platforms

- MySQL
-- Replaced use of type=InnoDB with engine=InnoDB
-- Improved CMake configuration

- ODBC
-- Added connection_parameters option ODBC_OPTION_DRIVER_COMPLETE
-- Fixed issues in handling C++ types int and long on 64-bit architectures
-- Added missing CMake configuration for tests
-- Continued regular testing on Windows and Unix platforms

- Oracle
-- Implemented statement::get_affected_rows() operation
-- Use OCI_THREADED and OCI_ENV_NO_MUTEX with OCIEnvCreate
-- Added numerous fixes and improvements in tests
-- Added option to fetch numeric/decimal data into string of characters
-- Fixed issues in binding procedure IN/OUT parameters

- PostgreSQL
-- Add reading of BYTEA data into std::string (not fully-featured
binary data support yet)
-- Add JSON data type support available in PostgreSQL 9.2+
-- Fixed incorrect assertion in postgresql::get_error_details
-- Fixed premature deallocation of prepared statements
-- Fixed servers-side memory leak in prepared statements
-- Fixed memory leak of PGresult on exception thrown
-- Fixed isues in parsing complex PL/PSQL functions

- SQLite3
-- Implemented statement::get_affected_rows() operation
-- Fixed handling of database file path with spaces

- Building, testing and installation
-- Marked Makefile.basic as deprecated (maintainer wanted)
-- Cleaned numerous compilation warnings reported by various compilers
-- Improved compilation using latest version of clang
-- Added numerous improvements in CMake configuration
-- Added SOCI_STATIC option to enable/disable static libraries build
-- Fixed issues with ignored -DWITH_<dependency> options
-- Fixed FindMySQL.cmake to allow use of mysqlclient from custom location
-- Added support of SQLITE_ROOT_DIR variable to FindSQLite3.cmake module
-- Fixed and tested CMake configuration on OSX
-- Fixed and tested CMake configuration on FreeBSD
-- Fixed and tested CMake configuration to use with Ninja
-- Fixed building using Visual Studio 2010
-- Added support for building using Visual Studio 2012
-- Set up SOCI continuous integration at travis-ci.org
-- Added Debian packaging support to soci-pkg repository
-- Added Fedora/CentOS/RedHat packaging support to soci-pkg repository

- Documentation
-- Review and update to catch up with current status quo
-- Updated code examples
-- Start maintenance and hosting of SOCI documentation per released version

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A complete changelog of commits generated from Git history in pretty format
is available as Gist at https://gist.github.com/mloskot/5241027

Best regards,
--
Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net