[Refdb-users] ANN: refdb-0.9.4-pre6 available

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Hi all,

there's a new prerelease available for testing:

http://refdb.sourceforge.net/pre/refdb-latest.tar.gz

The matching Perl client module is right here:

http://refdb.sourceforge.net/pre/RefDBClient-Client-1.8-pre1.tar.gz


There are two major changes compared to the previous prerelease:

1) A few glitches in the character encoding support were
   fixed. Multibyte datasets are now supported whenever it is
   useful. risx and xnote data can now be imported in UTF-16, and all
   data can be exported using multibyte encodings like UTF-16 and
   UTF-32. This required a few changes in the client/server
   communication protocol. That is, older clients won't talk to the
   new server and vice versa.

2) The getref and getnote query languages were changed. So far RefDB
   tried a regexp match in all string comparisons like
   :KW:='whatever'. In order to simplify writing GUI applications, the
   new version tries a literal match in these cases by default. If you
   want a regexp match, use the new tilde operator as in
   :KW:~'whatever'. Please note that Unix regexps are only supported
   by MySQL and PostgreSQL. SQLite supports SQL regexps, although
   rumours say that Unix regexps will be added in the near future.

Please report any problems and suggestions to the list. I'd like to
push out 0.9.4 fairly soon.

regards,
Markus

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