[gnome-db] Libgda 4.2.0 released

[Vivien Malerba <vmalerba gmail com>]

Here is version 4.2.0 of the Libgda library! This is the new stable
version, replacing the 4.0.x versions.


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 the previous stable serie:
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Comparing with version 4.0, the most notable changes are:
- new database providers: the Web provider to access databases through
a web server set up for that purpose, the BDBSql provider to access
BDB databases using the new SQL interface available starting from BDB
5.0, the SQLCipher provider to access encrypted SQLite databases, and
the Oracle provider to access Oracle databases.
- new API to execute statement asynchronously
- new API to build DML (SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE) statements
the easy way
- better support for multi threading
- new UI extension based on GTK+
- new UI programs: the gda-control-center program to manage DSN (data
sources names) and the gda-browser program which is a general purpose
database administration tool with extensibility build in mind.
- lots of small improvements
- updated translations

As usual sources are available at
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libgda/4.2/
while WIN32 packages will soon be available at
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/libgda/4.2/

Notes:
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 * Installing this version will overwrite your existing
 copy of Libgda 4. If you have problems, you'll need to
 reinstall it.
 * Libgda 4.2 is 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

Vivien Malerba