[gnome-db] Release of Libgda 4.1.8

[Vivien Malerba <vmalerba gmail com>]

Two months after the 4.1.7 release, I'm pleased to announce the
release of Libgda version 4.1.8. This version is probably the last
version before the 4.2 release and it contains lots of corrections,
optimizations and improvements.

What is Libgda?
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Libgda is a (relatively small) database access library:
* a wrapper like ODBC but with more features to access several database engines
* a general data model to use CVS or XML files
* a meta data extractor (to know all about database objects in a comman way)
* features several tools: an SQL console application (like mysql, psql
or sqlite3 consoles), a graphical database browser, and a control
center
* relies on GLib, coded in C, its API is easy to use
* optionnally includes some graphical widgets (based on GTK+) for data
bound representations and some graphical tools

Changes from 4.1.7
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 - improved core API (GdaSqlBuilder, GdaServerOperation,
GdaThreadWrapper, GdaConnection)
 - core corrections and optimization, mainly in the SQLite and MySQL
providers, connection (locking
   and thread safe usage)
 - use Gnome Keryring if available to store username and passwords to
be used for data sources (DSN)
 - configuration file monitoring: only use GIO (removed GnomeVFS, gamin or FAM)
 - many improvements to the UI extension
 - many improvements and corrections to the GdaBrowser tool
 - embedd SQLite 3.6.22
 - translations:
	- es (Jorge González)
	- sl (Matej Urbančič)
	- da (Joe Hansen)
	- pt (Nicolau Gonçalves)
	- cs (Petr Kovar, Marek Cernocky)
	- de (Mario Blättermann, Christian Kirbach)
	- nb (Kjartan Maraas)
	- id (Andika Triwidada)

As usual sources are available at
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libgda/4.1/
while WIN32 packages are available at
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/libgda/4.1/

Notes:
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 * This is unstable development release. While it has had
 a bit of testing, there are certainly plenty of bugs
 remaining to be found. This release should not be used
 in production.

 * Installing this version will overwrite your existing
 copy of Libgda 4. If you have problems, you'll need to
 reinstall it.

 * Libgda 4.2 will be source and binary compatible with
 the 4.0 series.

 * Bugs should be reported to http://bugzilla.gnome.org.

See the http://live.gnome.org/ChooseLibgdaSQLite page for additionnal
information about choosing
between Libgda and SQLite when you need a database API.

You can find more information at the projects' homepage
(http://www.gnome-db.org), or you can ask any question/propose
anything you want in the GNOME-DB mailing list, which is available at
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-db-list