[Rlib-devel] Announcing RLIB-1.2.0 STABLE

[Bob D. <bd...@si...>]

Hey All,

SICOM Systems is pleased to announce the next stable release of RLIB.
Over the course of the past year many exciting changes have happened in
RLIB.

* Changed from a PHP Module to a true c library.
* Able to use RLIB in c, php, python, java
* More datasources: MySql, PostgreSQL, ODBC
* Non US Character set support (UFT8, ISO8869, ect)
* RLIB data types got better (dates can go back further then 1970)
* Many cleanups, bug fixes

The last release notes before release:

1.20.0
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- Added Everton as an offical RLIB Color
- Fix PDF Content Type for IE (chet)
- better utf8/no utf8 support (me)
- small variable/ breaking order changes to make it make more sense
(chet)
- compile fixes on other platforms (chet, me)

New SICOM Contributors:

Please join me in welcoming Mike Roth and Steve Tilden to the RLIB
Project.  Both will contribute to the engine/ documentation.

Community Contributors:

First:  A very special thanks goes out to Everton Luis Berz.  He's been
wonderful w/ his testing.  He found tons of bugs over the year, and he
always helped with testing.

Thanks Everton!

Farryp Philippe-Auguste: For testing

Heri Steuer: For datasource bug fixing

Tony Cratz: For different unix testing and some bug reporting

John Buckman: For some small patches and pointing us at SWIG