NEWS
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2024-10-04
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	Open Cobol ESQL (Ocesql) 1.4 released

	<< New features >>
	* Group items can be used as host variables in INSERT.
	* Fixed a non-zero error code is returned as RETURN CODE when a compilation error occurs.
	* Support for NATIONAL item or NATIONAL CHARACTER item.

	<< Bug fixes >>
	* Support for the precompilation of variable-length character strings (PIC X VARYING).
	* Fixed problem with duplicated last line of program.

2022-03-24
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	Open Cobol ESQL (Ocesql) 1.3 released

	<< New features >>
	* Changed the license to GPL3.

	<< Bug fixes >>
	* Updated urls in README
        * Removed useless debug messages for OCESQL developpers.
        * Fixed a parser to show warning messages when COMP5 is used for bind variables.
        * Fixed installation problem on Fedora 34.
        * Fixed a code that may cause buffer overflows while processing PIC S9(n) data.
        * Fixed a parser to accept source code that contains empty string literals.

2019-04-19
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	Open Cobol ESQL (Ocesql) 1.2 released

	<< New features >>
	* Add new configure options.
		- --enable-debug        : enable C compiler debug option(-g).
		- --disable-precompiler : If you want only install library.
	* The following new functions now work on Open Cobol ESQL,
		- CONNECT without arguments.

	<< Bug fixes >>
	* Fixed memory access violation during INSERT with undecleared valiable.
	* Fixed log feature, Enable output to file.
	* Fixed problem that row number in error message
	  after using "INCLUDE" is different.
	* Fixed cursor reopen error.
	* link libpq to libocesql at run makecommand.

2015-03-31
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	Open Cobol ESQL (Ocesql) 1.1 released

	<< New features >>
	* The following new functions now work on Open Cobol ESQL
		- Designation of the database connection by the AT clause
		- PREPARE command
		- WHERE CURRENT OF clause
		- Variable-length string
	* Added new function that avoids a transaction abort when the SQL execution was failed.
	* Open Cobol ESQL now works on Windows.
	
	<< Bug fixes >>
	* Fixed memory access violation during FETCH command runnning.
	* Fixed bug not to generate the precompilation error when using 
	  not-supported clause such as USAGE COMP-5.
	* Fixed bug to fail in precompilation when using multi-part searches 
	  in a SELECT command (such as subquery,UNION).
	* Fixed possible memory leak
	* Fixed some of bugs not to make Open Cobol ESQL work.
	
    << Changes >>
    * When connecting to the Database, you can specify the character set 
      using an environment variable.
    * The database connection parameter of a CONNECT command, the argument of 
      the command takes precedence over an environment variable.
    * Improved performance for the Batch fetches with OCCURS.

2013-06-28
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	Open Cobol ESQL (Ocesql) 1.0 released
