MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.0.1 has been released

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MySQL Connector/ODBC v5.0 Alpha 2 (5.0.1) for 32-bit Windows platforms
has been published at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/odbc/5.0.html

It has been a long time coming but with it we now have a basis for a
feature complete and easy to maintain ODBC driver.

The short term plan is to have C/ODBC v5 support all major features of
the existing C/ODBC v3 driver as well as flagship MySQL-5.0 features
including stored procedures and views.

The objective is to have these features in place over the next 4 weeks
- - at which time we feature freeze , go Beta, and start focusing on bugs.

I'm enclosing the contents of the README.txt below, so you can decide
whether this is a release that is appropriate for testing with your
applications, or if you should wait until another milestone release.

Please read the entire contents, as the milestone releases, approximate
dates, and the release contents are also included.

Contents of README.txt follow:

Installation
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1) Install the latest myodbc v3 (to get the setup library) if you
haven't already from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/odbc/3.51.html
2) Unzip the archive containing Connector/ODBC 5.0 (if you're reading
this file from the archive, then you've already done this).
3) From a shell and in the base subdirectory of the Connector/ODBC 5.0
directory created when you unzipped the archive, do the following:

C:\...> install 0

This should register the driver (using the MyODBC v3 setup library) and
copy the driver to windows\system32

4) Then create a DSN using the ODBC datasource control panel applet
(the Test connection button may not work) using defaults for everything
except; host, id, pwd, db

Current State of Implementation
---------------------------------
The driver is Unicode-aware (this is what we'd like to see tested most
with this release)

The driver will not work with ADO or complex applications such as
Microsoft Office at this time, but should do so by Milestone 5.

This release is designed to be used with a custom application that uses
the ODBC API directly.

Basic testing has been done with an emphasis on having MYODBCShell.exe
working (see the ?bin? directory for the executable or the sources for
MYODBCShell in the ?MYODBCShell? to see what features are currently
known to be working).

This release of the driver must be used with a Driver Manager, but by
final release the driver can be linked directly into your application if
it does not use a Driver Manager.

The following ODBC API functions are implemented (basically everything
to execute prepared and non-prepared statements without bound columns):

SQLAllocHandle
SQLCloseCursor
SQLColAttribute
SQLColumns
SQLConnect
SQLCopyDesc
SQLDisconnect
SQLExecDirect
SQLExecute
SQLFetch
SQLFreeHandle
SQLFreeStmt
SQLGetConnectAttr
SQLGetData
SQLGetDescField
SQLGetDescRec
SQLGetDiagField
SQLGetDiagRec
SQLGetEnvAttr
SQLGetFunctions
SQLGetStmtAttr
SQLGetTypeInfo
SQLNumResultCols
SQLPrepare
SQLRowcount
SQLSetConnectAttr (*)
SQLSetDescField (*)
SQLSetDescRec (*)
SQLSetEnvAttr (*)
SQLSetStmtAttr (*)
SQLTables

(*) some (perhaps quite a few) attributes/options may not be used at
this time

Reporting Bugs with this Release
- --------------------------------
Please report bugs you find with this release at http://bugs.mysql.com/

For more expedient processing of your Connector/ODBC 5.0 bugs, please
make sure to record the version number with a "5.0" and choose the
"Connector/ODBC (MyODBC)" category so that we find them quicker when
putting together fix lists.

Notice that if a bug is caused by missing functionality, we will defer
processing it until that functionality has been implemented. However, if
you find bugs with the functionality listed above, then we?ll be working
to address those issues in the next milestone release (if possible).

Roadmap for Future Releases
- ---------------------------

We're aiming at having a milestone release every week or so for the next
4 weeks. During this time the following milestones are to be met:

Milestone 3
-----------

This release will see the following features completed for
community testing;

- Remaining C data conversion
- Binding columns
- Binding parameters

It is also expected that some UNICODE issues will arise and need to
be dealt with.


Milestone 4
-----------
We plan that this release will see the following features completed
for community testing;

- The GUI for configuration of DSNs
- SQLDriverConnect
- Basic stored procedure execution


Milestone 5
-----------
We plan that this release will see the following features completed
for community testing;

- Adding Windows x86_64 platform support
- Yet to be decided (based upon feedback from the community, but
we're assuming this is where we start to add more builds on Unix-like
platforms).

We welcome your feedback on this release, and look forward to
interacting with you, the Connector/ODBC community as we have many more
releases this month.

Regards,

-Mark
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