From: KUBO Takehiro <kubo@...>
Date: 2009-03-18T01:36:38+09:00
Subject: [ANN] ruby-oci8 1.0.5 and 2.0.1

Ruby-oci8 1.0.5 and 2.0.1 are released. These are Oracle modules using
OCI8 API.

 http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-oci8/

Ruby-oci8 1.0.5 is a latest stable release. The target ruby version
is 1.8. It doesn't work with ruby 1.9.

Ruby-oci8 2.0.1 is a unstable release. It works on both ruby 1.8 and
1.9 and has usefull features compared with ruby-oci8 1.0.4.
Note: Both active record oracle adapter and released oracle_enhanced
adapter doesn't work with this. Use latest oracle_enhanced adapter
on github instead.

   http://github.com/rsim/oracle-enhanced/tree/master

What's new in 1.0.5.

* fix big/little endian checking problem on Mac OS X ppc.
  (contributed by unknown. See: Bug ID 24284 on rubyforge.)

What's new in 2.0.1.

* binary gem for win32 for following rubys.
  - ruby 1.8 (One-Click Ruby Installer)
  - ruby 1.9.1 p0
(http://www.garbagecollect.jp/ruby/mswin32/en/download/release.html)
* add OCI8#oracle_server_version.
* fix bugs when fetching and binding time objects.
* fix other bugs...