* Full Kerberos and SSPI support for passwordless login to
Microsoft SQL Server from Unix and Windows clients.
Includes Kerberos delegation option.
* Full support for DB-Library under Win32/64 via NMAKE.EXE.
* Built-in support for UTF-8.
* Support for wide characters in ODBC.
* Support for varchar(max) and varbinary(max).
* Better thread-safety in ODBC.
* Distinguish between connect and login errors.
* Bulk-copy functions in CT-Library.
Pkgsrc changes:
+ Support user-destdir installation.
+ Document the way that pkgsrc handles the freetds documentation.
+ Use GENERATE_PLIST instead of creating a .PLIST.doc.
+ Remove patch-ac and patch-ad due to reports of success compiling
FreeTDS on Mac OS X without changes on the freetds@ mailing list.
Package changes:
- libtds.* has been removed. Its objects are now linked directly
into the other client libraries.
- support TLSv1 sessions to MSSQL servers
- fixed timeout handling
- added protocol version discovery
- reduced network bandwidth use on Linux and -BSD
- fixed conversion NUMERIC->NUMERIC changing precision/scale
- added named instance support (mssql2k)
- many other code improvements and bug fixes
- improved pool server
- ODBC:
- cursors (mssql)
- fixed database setting
- fixed SQLGetData result
- fixed compute handling in ODBC
- paramset support
