From jtv at xs4all.nl  Tue Feb 16 02:41:37 2010
From: jtv at xs4all.nl (Jeroen Vermeulen)
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:41:37 +0100
Subject: [Libpqxx-announce] libpqxx 3.1 released
Message-ID: <4B7A05E1.5010807@xs4all.nl>

After a long hiatus, libpqxx 3.1 is now officially available.

The list of changes is pretty long, but please take a moment to read 
through it because some of these changes may affect you.

  - Shared libraries are now versioned by ABI: 3.1 instead of 3.1.0 etc.
  - Threading behaviour is now documented, and can be queried.
  - Version information available at compile time.
  - Supports parameterized statements.
  - Result tuples now support slicing.
  - Configure with --with-tr1=boost to use BOOST shared_ptr.
  - String conversion now has its own header file.
  - Supports read-only transactions.
  - Fixed breakage with Solaris "make".
  - Uses shared_ptr if available.
  - binarystring::str() is no longer cached; no longer returns reference.
  - Fixed problems in Visual C++ Makefile for test suite.
  - Fixed problems with RPM packaging.
  - Fixed build problem on RedHat/CentOS 5.
  - Lets you check whether a prepared statement has been defined.
  - "Varargs" prepared statements.
  - Unnamed prepared statements now supported.
  - Results have iterator as well as const_iterator.
  - Rewrite of robusttransaction logic; may actually do its job now.
  - Connections support async query cancel from signal handler or thread.
  - More documentation for performance features.

As always, get the latest at 
https://pqxx.org/development/libpqxx/wiki/DownloadPage


Enjoy!

Jeroen