September to December 2021

December 2021

master branch

• Finished reworking the profiler as plugin as well bugfixes.
• Finished work in Docker build for Linux.
• Finished work in Docker build for Windows.
• Fixed #7077 - EXECUTE BLOCK (without RETURNS) do not work with batches.

v4 branch

• Fixed #7062 - Creation of expression index does not release its statement correctly.
• Fixed #7064 - Linear regression functions aren't implemented correctly.
• Fixed #7088 - MacOS UDR and Legacy_UserManager plugins not working due to not exported entry point.

v3 branch

• #7041 - Helping with MacOS M1 port.
• Fixed #7084 - Creating unique constraints on MacOS fails on larger tables.
• Backported fix for #7088 - MacOS UDR and Legacy_UserManager plugins not working due to not exported entry point.

November

master branch

• Continued work in Docker build for Linux.
• Fixed #7037 - Build problem when using both --with-builtin-tommath and --with-builtin-tomcrypt.
• Discussions about Unicode and character contractions. Continued reworking the profiler as plugin as well bugfixes.
• Improvement #7038 - Improve performance of STARTING WITH with insensitive collations.
• Discussion about request ID and MON$STATEMENTS.
• Fixed #7045 - International characters in table or alias names causes queries of MON$STATEMENTS to fail.
• Added table MON$COMPILED_STATEMENTS and columns MON$STATEMENTS.MON$COMPILED_STATEMENT_ID and MON$CALL_STACK.MON$COMPILED_STATEMENT_ID.

V.4 branch

• Backported Windows build for Visual Studio 2019 and 2022 using project files as VS 2017.

October

master branch

• Private discussions about Unicode and character contractions.
• Finished working in introducing the external memory pool to avoid problems with destructors of external library.
• Started reworking the profiler as plugin as well bugfixes.
• Fixed #7018 - Problems with windows frames.
• Postfix for #6815 - fix request counters.
• Started work in Docker build for Windows.
• Started work in Docker build for Linux.
• Remove remains of help.fdb after QLI removal.
• Windows build for Visual Studio 2019 and 2022 using project files as VS 2017.
• GitHub Actions build for Visual Studio 2019 and 2022.

V.4 branch

• Fixed tzdata update job.
• Backported fix for #7018 - Problems with windows frames.

September

Master branch

• Finished feature #6681 - Support for WHEN NOT MATCHED BY SOURCE for MERGE statement [CORE6448].
• Fixed #6942 - Incorrect singleton error with MERGE and RETURNING.
• Added ObjectsArray iterator for usage with std algorithms.
• Rework messages processing, simplifying the build and avoiding store generated files in git.
• Discussion: Profiler plugin API.
• Verifying crash reported by LibreOffice.
• Windows build: Avoid wipe out others path because of spaces in path.
• Fixed Windows empbuild build in DEBUG configuration.
• Started work in introducting the external memory pool to avoid problems with destructors of external library.
• Fixed AppVeyor x86 build.
• Avoid possible buffer overflow in system blob filter.
• Reviewed and applied PR #6964 - add --with-system-re2 configure option for using system-wide libre2.
• Private discussions about Unicode and character contractions.
• Improve build of external projects using same tools and flags specified by user in POSIX.
• Reviewed PR #6972 - add --with-system-boost configure option for using system-wide boost headers.
• Cleanup: get rid of unused variables.
• Reviewed #6983 - New built-in function BLOB_APPEND.
• Fixed tzdata update job.

v4 branch

• Automate tzdata-update job also for v4 branch.

V.3 branch

• Fixed #6987 - DATEDIFF does not support fractional value for MILLISECOND.