All releases of Database Independent Abstraction Layer for C


Release Notes: Error handling and reporting was improved, and three string-escaping functions were added.


Release Notes: Support for a timezone suffix in time and date types was added. Error handling and error reporting were vastly improved. Some memory leaks were fixed.


Release Notes: A bug in some of the string retrieval functions was fixed, which caused libdbi to return NULL instead of an empty string.


Release Notes: The internals were thoroughly revised to remove signedness and silent (on i386) type mismatches in an attempt to improve portability beyond the mainstream Linux and BSD systems, including 64bit platforms. Support for connection character encodings and for quoting binary strings was added. The documentation was updated. Native Win32 builds using Mingw are now supported in addition to the Cygwin port.


Release Notes: time_t values are now returned in GMT instead of local time, accessors for encodings and range checking were added, read-only string quoting support was added, and various corner-case bugs were fixed.


Release Notes: This release uses automake-1.4, fixing build problems.


Release Notes: This version splits off the drivers into the libdbi-drivers project, adds a Mac OSX port, adds server ping support, improves error handling and reporting, and includes bugfixes.


Release Notes: A bug that occurred when retrieving integer fields has been fixed.


Release Notes: Changing the behavior of BINARY fields in MySQL with trailing NULL, a new formatted query function so that standard queries are passed on unmodified, and many bugfixes.


Release Notes: Sequence (including AUTO_INCREMENT in MySQL) support was added, along with a new error framework, and support for queries with NULLs. A new capabilities infrastructure was started, cross-platform portability was improved, and extra hooks for garbage collection systems were added. A large memory leak was fixed, and a number of bugfixes were made.