From: KUBO Takehiro <kubo@...>
Date: 2009-05-17T23:25:54+09:00
Subject: [ANN] ruby-oci8 1.0.6 and 2.0.2

Ruby-oci8 1.0.6 and 2.0.2 are released. These are Oracle modules using
OCI8 API.

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

Ruby-oci8 1.0.6 is a latest stable release. The target ruby version
is 1.8. It doesn't work with ruby 1.9.

Ruby-oci8 2.0.2 is an unstable release. It works on both ruby 1.8 and
1.9 and has usefull features compared with ruby-oci8 1.0.6.
Note: Active record oracle adapter doesn't work with 2.0.2.
Use Active record oracle_enhanced adapter instead.
  http://rubyforge.org/projects/oracle-enhanced

What's new in 1.0.6.

* fix a problem when compiling for Oracle 8.0.
  (reported by Axel Reinhold as a ruby-oci8 2.0 issue)

* [dbi] fix to pass a newly added sanity check in dbi 0.4.1.
  (reported by Dirk Herzhauser as a ruby-oci8 2.0 issue)

* [dbi] fix dbh#columns for Oracle 8.1 or lower.
  The data dictionary all_constraints doesn't have index_name
  column on Oracle 8i. Rewrite DBI::DBD::OCI8::Database#columns
  by using all_cons_columns.
  (backport from ruby-oci8 trunk)

What's new in 2.0.2.

* add new methods

  - OCI8#select_one(sql, *bindvars)  -> first_row

  - OCI8#ping   -> true or false

    Verifies that the Oracle connection is alive.
    OCI8#ping also can be used to flush all the pending OCI
    client-side calls to the server if any exist.

  - OCI8#client_identifier = client_id

    Look at the following link to know what is the client identifier.
      http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/database-solutions/oracle-session-tracing-part-i-16356

    Note that the specified identifier doesn't change the v$session
    immediately. It is done by the next network round trip
    such as OCI8#exec or OCI8#ping.

* fix problems when compiling with Oracle 9.2 and 8.0.
  (reported by Axel Reinhold)

* [dbi] fix to pass a newly added sanity check in dbi 0.4.1.
  (reported by Dirk Herzhauser)

* fix an error when executing "select NULL from dual".
  http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?thread_id=32468&forum_id=1078
  (contributed by Raimonds Simanovskis)

* [ruby 1.9] fix OCI8::BLOB to read/write binary. Prior to 2.0.1,
  it was treated as text tagged with NLS_LANG encoding.

* [ruby 1.9] fix to bind string data by the length got from String#bytesize
  converted to OCI8.encoding, not by String#size.