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[Monetdb-announce] MonetDB 4.12.0 Release Announcement
by Fabian Groffen 23 Jun '06

23 Jun '06

It is my great pleasure to announce the availability of MonetDB 4.12.0 and its accompanying SQL 2.12.0 and XQuery 0.12.0. This release is the next step in delivering the high performance database system that has been under development for several years now. Some of the many changes since the 4.10.2 release include: MonetDB/XQuery 0.12.0 (nick-named "Ceres") Various improvments of functionality and performance. Addition of XPath extensions for XML standoff annotations. "Ceres" is a small detour on our trip to "Mars" [1], as update functionality is unfortunately still not robust enough for consumption by the majority. MonetDB/SQL 2.12.0 Many bugfixes. Support for local and global temporary tables. Preliminary support for triggers. For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the release notes and errata list, available at: http://monetdb.cwi.nl/Development/Roadmap/Version4.12/index.html MonetDB/Five Alpha Release 1 ============================ The efforts on the next generation of MonetDB, version Five, are released now. This snapshot of version Five of MonetDB is the very first alpha release of this ongoing development. Beware: alpha is alpha! This software is only suitable as sneak-preview into the MonetDB developers team's kitchen! Come and taste some of the many delicious spices we prepare. Unlike the previous generation, Five comes with the MAL language, instead of MIL, which makes it completely incompatible with old MIL scripts. However, the SQL sources work fine with this alpha release. Comparing the performance of both backends via SQL should give you an indication of what our cooks will serve for dinner. This first alpha "appetiser" release of MonetDB/Five is nick-named "Tomato Soup". Interested users are invited to visit our MonetDB/Five page for more details: http://monetdb.cwi.nl/Development/Five/index.html Availability ============ The MonetDB family products are supported on i686, x86_64 and ia64 Linux, i686 Solaris 10, ppc and ppc64 Mac OS X 10.4 and i686 Windows XP. Binary distributions are available for Linux and Windows. The new release is available for download from our SourceForge page: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=56967 Acknowledgements ================ Many man-hours were donated by various people to make this release happening. I want to thank al MonetDB developers for their efforts spent into this piece of software. All of our contributors and bug reporters also deserve the credits for the time they put into their contribution. Further Information =================== Further information about MonetDB, MonetDB/SQL and MonetDB/XQuery is available on our web site at: http://monetdb.cwi.nl/ http://monetdb.cwi.nl/SQL/ http://monetdb.cwi.nl/XQuery/ For details about recent changes, migration from earlier versions, and future plans, please visit our roadmap page: http://monetdb.cwi.nl/Development/Roadmap/ [1] See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Ceres and http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_404.html

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[Monetdb-announce] Bug-fix releases "MonetDB/XQuery 0.10.2", "MonetDB/SQL 2.10.2" & "MonetDB 4.10.2" (aka. "Earth")
by Stefan Manegold 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

Dear all, Today we make available a bug-fix release of our open source high-performance database system family: MonetDB 4.10.2 MonetDB/SQL 2.10.2 MonetDB/XQuery 0.10.2 nick-named "Earth". This new release is available for download from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=56967 . In this bug-fix release, crucial bug have been fixed that were detected since the release of MonetDB 4.10.0, MonetDB/SQL 2.10.0, & MonetDB/XQuery 0.10.0 on January 25, 2006. Some of the more noticeable bugs being: - memory leaking in Mserver after prolonged use. - some XQuery queries giving internal MonetDB errors ('maybe you mean...') - hanging MonetDB server when shredding/querying multi-GB documents. For a detailed list please see the MonetDB bug tracker at SourceForge https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=482468&group_id=56967&func=browse or the MonetDB bug mailing list at SourceForge http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/monetdb-bugs . On the XMark benchmark, MonetDB/XQuery now is the only implementation to scale up to 11GB datasets on a single machine, clearly outperforming alternative systems (eXist, Galax, Berkeley DB XML, X-Hive), by more than a magnitude on large XML documents and complex (join) queries. See http://monetdb.cwi.nl/projects/monetdb/XQuery/Overview/Benchmark/ for an in-depth performance comparison of these systems. The next release of MonetDB version 4 is scheduled for April 2006; this will include XQuery Update functionality. By that time we also plan to release the alpha version of the next generation of MonetDB, version 5. Further information about MonetDB, MonetDB/SQL and MonetDB/XQuery is available on our web site at http://monetdb.cwi.nl/ http://monetdb.cwi.nl/SQL/ http://monetdb.cwi.nl/XQuery/ respectively. See http://monetdb.cwi.nl/Development/Roadmap/ http://monetdb.cwi.nl/XQuery/Overview/Roadmap/ for details about recent changes, migration from earlier versions, and future plans. Regards, The MonetDB Development Team ps: For questions, comments, etc. please use the respective mailing lists (cf., http://monetdb.cwi.nl/News/MailChannels/ ; prefered), or send an email to monet(a)cwi.nl. -- | Dr. Stefan Manegold | mailto:Stefan.Manegold@cwi.nl | | CWI, P.O.Box 94079 | http://www.cwi.nl/~manegold/ | | 1090 GB Amsterdam | Tel.: +31 (20) 592-4212 | | The Netherlands | Fax : +31 (20) 592-4312 |

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[Monetdb-announce] Release of "MonetDB/XQuery 0.10", "MonetDB/SQL 2.10" & "MonetDB 4.10" (aka. "Earth")
by Stefan Manegold 25 Jan '06

25 Jan '06

Dear all, we're pround to annonce the new release of our open source high-performance database system family: MonetDB 4.10 MonetDB/SQL 2.10 MonetDB/XQuery 0.10 or simply nick-named "Earth". The new release is avialable for download from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=56967 . The MonetDB release 4.10 ("Earth") marks the end of a period where much attention was given to improving the performance of simple SQL applications. These improvements came from careful analysis of student programs and participating in the "c't" Magazine's database contest featuring the DVDstore benchmark. It led to re-consideration of MAPI -- the communication protocol -- aiming for less overhead and complex structures to be parsed. To facilitate this, JDBC has been largely rewritten at core level to streamline the communication flow even more. Not only JDBC has benefited from the changes made, all MAPI driven communication has been sped up. A second Perl library has been prepared, which more directly uses the MAPI library. It has been registered at the official Perl archive for distribution (CPAN). ODBC has been upgraded to support server side prepared statements like JDBC. More meta-data is now available for columns in JDBC. MonetDB/SQL has been extended with SQL:03's sequences support. This allows for identity columns, serials (PostgreSQL) or auto_increments (MySQL) in MonetDB. A complete rewrite of the catalog and transaction handling removed the overhead encountered in small interactions. The SQL transaction scheme is based on three BATs (stable,inserts,deletes) which are merged at the end of a transaction. MonetDB/XQuery performance has been significantly improved thanks to the introduction of an element index and other optimizations both in the compiler and the server. Further, support for a number of new built-in functions (e.g. subsequence, replace, match) has been added and MonetDB/XQuery now provides (limited) support for XQuery modules. The latter allows defining 'prepared queries' by using functions defined in modules, which results in better response times especially for small queries. See http://monetdb.cwi.nl/XQuery/Documentation/Language/Modules/index.html for more details. The MonetDB software base has been split to ease source distribution. The tools to prepare the source compilation (Mx), source code generators (MEL, Burg) and makefile generators (autogen) are assembled in the buildtools package. They are not needed to recompile the distributed source code. In the kernel area we have added the 'constant' module. It provides functions to work with BATs whose tail consist of a constant value. During this period we have solved numerous bugs reported by our users. In addition we organized 3 bug testing days to encapsulate the problems reported into scripts that became part of our nightly testing scheme. Several smaller performance improvements have been made to the inner core of the server. One semantic error has been the cause of confusion. BATs with signature [void,void] are now allowed. A detailed description of the changes will follow soon. Lack of manpower, expiring access to external machines, ceasing system maintenance and decrepit hardware forced us to stop nightly testing on IBM AIX, SGI IRIX and Sun Solaris. Thus, all active support for these (aging) platforms had to be suspended, too, but can easily be revived on request, once we (re-)gain access to such systems. Higher on our wishlist are more modern systems, especially 64-bit Windows and 64-bit Mac OS X. We welcome any donation in this area: access to respective systems, hardware, and/or (especially in case of the pending 64-bit Windows port of MonetDB) development-expertise and -time. The next release of MonetDB version 4 is scheduled for March 2006. By that time we also plan to release the alpha version of the next generation of MonetDB, version 5. Further information about MonetDB, MonetDB/SQL and MonetDB/XQuery is available on our web site at http://monetdb.cwi.nl/ http://monetdb.cwi.nl/SQL/ http://monetdb.cwi.nl/XQuery/ respectively. See http://monetdb.cwi.nl/Development/Roadmap/ http://monetdb.cwi.nl/XQuery/Overview/Roadmap/ for details about recent changes, migration from earlier versions, and future plans. Regards, The MonetDB Development Team ps: For questions, comments, etc. please use the respective mailing lists (cf., http://monetdb.cwi.nl/News/MailChannels/ ; prefered), or send an email to monet(a)cwi.nl. -- | Dr. Stefan Manegold | mailto:Stefan.Manegold@cwi.nl | | CWI, P.O.Box 94079 | http://www.cwi.nl/~manegold/ | | 1090 GB Amsterdam | Tel.: +31 (20) 592-4212 | | The Netherlands | Fax : +31 (20) 592-4312 |

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[Monetdb-announce] MonetDB et al. Daily Builds available for download
by Stefan Manegold 23 Aug '05

23 Aug '05

Dear all, daily builds of the latest bug fix ("Stable") and cutting-edge development ("Current") versions of MonetDB and its companions are available for download as both source and binary packages from our MonetDB download page at http://monetdb.cwi.nl/GetGoing/Download/ (see section "Daily Builds" at the bottom of the page). In case you require any of the bug fixes that have been applied to the release branches since the last release, please feel free to download the respective "Stable" packages. In case you are interested in the latest cutting-edge development version, please feel free download the respective "Current" package. Please note, these version are generated automatically each night (in Europe); hence, there are no guarantees concerning their availability and/or stability. For details about the stability of the latest versions, please feel free to check our TestWeb at http://monetdb.cwi.nl/Development/TestWeb/ Any kind of feedback is welcome --- preferably via the usual MonetDB mailing lists (cf. http://monetdb.cwi.nl/News/MailChannels/) or via mailto:monet@cwi.nl . Enjoy, Stefan -- | Dr. Stefan Manegold | mailto:Stefan.Manegold@cwi.nl | | CWI, P.O.Box 94079 | http://www.cwi.nl/~manegold/ | | 1090 GB Amsterdam | Tel.: +31 (20) 592-4212 | | The Netherlands | Fax : +31 (20) 592-4312 |

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[Monetdb-announce] New Big-fix Releases: "MonetDB 4.8.2", "MonetDB/SQL 2.8.2" & "MonetDB/XQuery 0.8.2"
by Stefan Manegold 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Dear MonetDB users and developers (and those who want to become either or both ;-), the following new bug-fix release of the MonetDB family are available for download from SourceForge at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=56967 : MonetDB 4.8.2 MonetDB/SQL 2.8.2 MonetDB/XQuery 0.8.2 Changes since the respective ".0" releases are mainly bug fixes. A digest of the detailed CVS log messages is available in the Monetdb-changelogs mailing list on SF: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/monetdb-changelogs/ . All users are highly advised to use the releases as of now (see below for details concerning download and/or CVS checkout/update). See the MonetDB/XQuery web site (http://monetdb-xquery.org/) for detailed product information and the Pathfinder web site (http://pathfinder-xquery.org) as well as the respective technical report (http://www.cwi.nl/htbin/ins1/publications?request=abstract&key=BoGrMaRiTe:T…) for scientific background information. To ask for support and report bugs or problems, please use the MonetDB-Users mailing list at SourceForge (https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/monetdb-users) or the bug tracing system at SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=56967&atid=482468) however, please always state clearly, which version of MonetDB you are using (as the Mserver tells you at startup)! Any support for the now obsolete "MonetDB 4.8.0", "MonetDB/SQL 2.8.0", and "MonetDB/XQuery 0.8.0" will stop as of now. Download ======== Pre-packaged source- & binary-distributions are available on SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=56967 . CVS update ========== If you are already using a CVS version of MonetDB, sql, or pathfinder, you can run either "cvs update -dP -rMonetDB_4-8-2" (MonetDB) "cvs update -dP -rSQL_2-8-2" (sql) "cvs update -dP -rXQuery_0-8-2" (pathfinder) to get this very release, or "cvs update -dP -rMonetDB_4-8" (MonetDB) "cvs update -dP -rSQL_2-8" (sql) "cvs update -dP -rXQuery_0-8" (pathfinder) to get the most recent version in the release branch. The difference is, that via the first option, you are "stuck" with this very release, i.e., future "cvs update -dP" (without "-r..." or "-A") will not change your checked-out version; via the second option, however, future "cvs update -dP" will get you again the latest version in the release branch. CVS check-ins ============= All bug fixes (and only these!) on MonetDB, sql, and/or pathfinder are bound to go to the new release candidate branches ("MonetDB_4-8"/"SQL_2-8"/"XQuery_0-8"), only! On a regular basis, we will then take care of propagating these bug-fixes back to the respective development trunks. All new features are bound to go to the respective development trunks (and only there!). As usually, any (constructive;-)) comments and feedback are more than welcome! Enjoy! The MonetDB/XQuery & Pathfinder Team. -- | Dr. Stefan Manegold | mailto:Stefan.Manegold@cwi.nl | | CWI, P.O.Box 94079 | http://www.cwi.nl/~manegold/ | | 1090 GB Amsterdam | Tel.: +31 (20) 592-4212 | | The Netherlands | Fax : +31 (20) 592-4312 |

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[Monetdb-announce] Release of "MonetDB/XQuery 0.8", "MonetDB/SQL 2.8" & "MonetDB 4.8" (aka. "Mercury")
by Stefan.Manegold＠cwi.nl 30 May '05

30 May '05

Dear MonetDB users and developers (and those who want to become either or both ;-), we proudly announce the release of our new open-source XQuery processor "MonetDB/XQuery 0.8", which is based on the "Pathfinder" XQuery-to-Relational Algebra compiler and powered by "MonetDB 4.8". See the MonetDB/XQuery web site (http://monetdb-xquery.org/) for detailed product information and the Pathfinder web site (http://pathfinder-xquery.org) as well as the respective technical report (http://www.cwi.nl/htbin/ins1/publications?request=abstract&key=BoGrMaRiTe:T…) for scientific background information. All users are highly advised to use the releases as of now (see below for details concerning download and/or CVS checkout/update). Please note, though, that as of MonetDB 4.8 the database format has changed. Hence, MonetDB 4.8 does no longer work with (old) databases created with previous versions! To use the new version, you need to start with a new "virgin" database (i.e., empty "dbfarm" directory). In case your are upgrading from some older version, and want/need to keep/migrate your database(s), please contact us via the MonetDB-Users mailing list https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/monetdb-users (or via email to monet(a)cwi.nl) Detailed information about migrating old databases will soon be made available. To ask for support and report bugs or problems, please use the MonetDB-Users mailing list at SourceForge (https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/monetdb-users) or the bug tracing system at SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=56967&atid=482468) however, please always state clearly, which version of MonetDB you are using (as the Mserver tells you at startup)! Any support for the now obsolete "MonetDB 4.6" & "MonetDB/SQL 2.6" will stop as of now. You'll find an overview of the most important changes since MonetDB 4.6 & MonetDB/SQL 2.6 at http://monetdb.cwi.nl/Development/Roadmap/Version4.8/ . Download ======== Pre-packaged source- & binary-distributions are available on SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=305151 . CVS update ========== If you are already using a CVS version of MonetDB, sql, or pathfinder, you can run either "cvs update -dP -rMonetDB_4-8-0" (MonetDB) "cvs update -dP -rSQL_2-8-0" (sql) "cvs update -dP -rXQuery_0-8-0" (pathfinder) to get this very release, or "cvs update -dP -rMonetDB_4-8" (MonetDB) "cvs update -dP -rSQL_2-8" (sql) "cvs update -dP -rXQuery_0-8" (pathfinder) to get the most recent version in the release branch. The difference is, that via the first option, you are "stuck" with this very release, i.e., future "cvs update -dP" (without "-r..." or "-A") will not change your checked-out version; via the second option, however, future "cvs update -dP" will get you again the latest version in the release branch. CVS check-ins ============= All bug fixes (and only these!) on MonetDB, sql, and/or pathfinder are bound to go to the new release candidate branches ("MonetDB_4-8"/"SQL_2-8"/"XQuery_0-8"), only! On a regular basis, we will then take care of propagating these bug-fixes back to the respective development trunks. All new features are bound to go to the respective development trunks (and only there!). As usually, any (constructive;-)) comments and feedback are more than welcome! Enjoy! The MonetDB/XQuery & Pathfinder Team. -- | Dr. Stefan Manegold | mailto:Stefan.Manegold@cwi.nl | | CWI, P.O.Box 94079 | http://www.cwi.nl/~manegold/ | | 1090 GB Amsterdam | Tel.: +31 (20) 592-4212 | | The Netherlands | Fax : +31 (20) 592-4312 |

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[Monetdb-announce] New release-candidates "MonetDB/XQuery 0.8.0_rc0", "MonetDB-SQL 2.8.0_rc0" & "MonetDB 4.8.0_rc0"
by Stefan.Manegold＠cwi.nl 22 May '05

22 May '05

Dear MonetDB users and developers (and those who want to become either or both ;-), On May 30 2005, we plan to release our new open-source XQuery processor "MonetDB/XQuery 0.8", which is based on the "Pathfinder" XQuery-to-Relational Algebra compiler and powered by "MonetDB 4.8" (see http://pathfinder-xquery.org/ & http://www.cwi.nl/htbin/ins1/publications?request=abstract&key=BoGrMaRiTe:T… for scientific background information). In preparation for this release, I created the respective release-candidate branches "XQuery_0-8" (for pathfinder) "SQL_2-8" (for sql) "MonetDB_4-8" (for MonetDB) in our CVS repository on SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=56967) The first release-candidate versions are tagged as "XQuery_0-8-0_rc0" (pathfinder) "SQL_2-8-0_rc0" (sql) "MonetDB_4-8-0_rc0" (MonetDB) respectively. All users are highly advised to use the new release-candidate( branche)s as of now (see below for details concerning download and/or CVS checkout/update). Please note, though, that as of MonetDB 4.8.0_rc0 the database format has changed. Hence, MonetDB 4.8.0_rc0 does no longer work with (old) databases created with previous versions! To use the new version, you need to start with a new "virgin" database (i.e., empty "dbfarm" directory). In case your are upgrading from some older version, and want/need to keep/migrate your database(s), please contact us via the MonetDB-Users mailing list https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/monetdb-users (or via email to monet(a)cwi.nl) Detailed information about migrating old databases will follow at least with the official release in about a week. In order to produce a stable release, we higly appreciate any help in detecting, locating and fixing bugs. Hence, please use the new version intensively and spread the news about it to attract more interested testers --- a stable release will be your reward! (We have only ONE week left before the release!) To ask for support and report bugs or problems, please use the MonetDB-Users mailing list at SourceForge (https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/monetdb-users) or the bug tracing system at SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=56967&atid=482468) however, please always state clearly, which version of MonetDB you are using (as the Mserver tells you at startup)! For more details, background information, and documentation of MonetDB, MonetDB/SQL & MonetDB/XQuery, please visit the MonetDB web site: http://monetdb.cwi.nl/ . You'll find an overview of the most important changes since MonetDB 4.6 & MonetDB/SQL 2.6 at http://monetdb.cwi.nl/Development/Roadmap/Version4.8/ (in preparation). A digest of the detailed CVS log messages will soon be available in the Monetdb-changelogs mailing list on SF: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/monetdb-changelogs/ . Any support for the now obsolete "MonetDB 4.6.x" & "MonetDB/SQL 2.6.x" will stop as of now. Download ======== Pre-packaged source- & binary-distributions are available on SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=305151 . CVS update ========== If you are already using a CVS version of MonetDB, sql, or pathfinder, you can run either "cvs update -dP -rMonetDB_4-8-0_rc0" (MonetDB) "cvs update -dP -rSQL_2-8-0_rc0" (sql) "cvs update -dP -rXQuery_0-8-0_rc0" (pathfinder) to get this very release, or "cvs update -dP -rMonetDB_4-8" (MonetDB) "cvs update -dP -rSQL_2-8" (sql) "cvs update -dP -rXQuery_0-8" (pathfinder) to get the most recent version in the release branch. The difference is, that via the first option, you are "stuck" with this very release, i.e., future "cvs update -dP" (without "-r..." or "-A") will not change your checked-out version; via the second option, however, future "cvs update -dP" will get you again the latest version in the release branch. CVS check-ins ============= All bug fixes (and only these!) on MonetDB, sql, and/or pathfinder are bound to go to the new release candidate branches ("MonetDB_4-8"/"SQL_2-8"/"XQuery_0-8"), only! On a regular basis, we will then take care of propagating these bug-fixes back to the respective development trunks. All new features are bound to go to the respective development trunks (and only there!). The release-candidate branches will become the new stable/release branches within about ONE week. As usually, any (constructive;-) comments and feedback are more than welcome! Enjoy! Stefan -- | Dr. Stefan Manegold | mailto:Stefan.Manegold@cwi.nl | | CWI, P.O.Box 94079 | http://www.cwi.nl/~manegold/ | | 1090 GB Amsterdam | Tel.: +31 (20) 592-4212 | | The Netherlands | Fax : +31 (20) 592-4312 |

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[Monetdb-announce] Release of "MonetDB 4.6.0" & "MonetDB/SQL 2.6.0" (aka. "Valentijn")
by Stefan.Manegold＠cwi.nl 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

Dear MonetDB users and developers (and those who want to become either or both ;-), On the (late) evening of its due day, Monday February 14 2005, "MonetDB 4.6.0" + "MonetDB/SQL 2.6.0" (nicknamed "Valentijn") was born. After a thorough health check by the parents, nannies, and family doctors, "Valentijn" is now ready to conquer the world! For more details, background information, and documentation of MonetDB & MonetDB/SQL, please visit the MonetDB web site: http://monetdb.cwi.nl/ . You'll find an overview of the most important changes since MonetDB 4.4.2 & MonetDB/SQL 2.4.2 at http://monetdb.cwi.nl/Development/Roadmap/Version4.6/ . A digest of the detailed CVS log messages will soon be available in the Monetdb-changelogs mailing list on SF: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/monetdb-changelogs/ . All users are highly advised to use the new release. Please do not hesitate to ask for support and report bugs or problems, preferably via the bug tracing system at SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=56967&atid=482468) or via email to monet(a)cwi.nl; however, please always state clearly, which version of MonetDB and/or MonetDB/SQL you are using (as the Mserver tells you at startup)! Any support for the now obsolete release candidates "MonetDB 4.6.0_rc2" & "MonetDB/SQL 2.6.0_rc2" (and any earlier versions) will stop as of now. Download ======== Pre-packaged source- & binary-distributions are now available on SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=305151 . (Please bear with them, they're far too popular for their budget!) CVS update ========== If you are already using the release branches "MonetDB_4-6" and "SQL_2-6" from CVS, simply run "cvs update -dP" to update your code to the latest release version. If you are already using a CVS version of MonetDB/MonetDB-SQL, you can run either "cvs update -dP -rMonetDB_4-6-0" "cvs update -dP -rSQL_2-6-0" to get this very release, or "cvs update -dP -rMonetDB_4-6" "cvs update -dP -rSQL_2-6" to get the most recent version in the release branch. The difference is, that via the first option, you are "stuck" with this very release, i.e., future "cvs update -dP" (without "-r..." or "-A") will not change your checked-out version; via the second option, however, future "cvs update -dP" will get you again the latest version in the release branch. CVS check-ins ============= All bug fixes (and only these!) on MonetDB and/or SQL are bound to go to the new release branches ("MonetDB_4-6"/"SQL_2-6"), only. On a regular basis, we will then take care of propagating these bug-fixes back to the respective development trunk. All new features are bound to go to the respective development trunks (and only there!). As usually, any (constructive;-) comments and feedback are more than welcome! Enjoy! The MonetDB team. -- | Dr. Stefan Manegold | mailto:Stefan.Manegold@cwi.nl | | CWI, P.O.Box 94079 | http://www.cwi.nl/~manegold/ | | 1090 GB Amsterdam | Tel.: +31 (20) 592-4212 | | The Netherlands | Fax : +31 (20) 592-4312 |

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Re: [Monetdb-announce] New release-candidates "MonetDB-4.6.0_rc0" & "MonetDB-SQL-2.6.0_rc0"
by Stefan.Manegold＠cwi.nl 25 Jan '05

25 Jan '05

Dear MonetDB users and developers (and those who want to become either or both ;-), As promised, pre-packaged source- & binary-distributions for MonetDB-4.6.0 & MonetDB-SQL-2.6.0 are now available for download from SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=56967 The latest version is "release candidate 2" ("rc2"); some (minor) bugs have been fixes since "release candidate 0" ("rc0"). All users are highly advised (actually "requested" ;-) to use the new release-candidate( branche)s as of now. Please do not hesitate to ask for support and report bugs or problems, preferably via the bug tracing system at SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=56967&atid=482468) or via email to monet(a)cwi.nl; however, please always state clearly, which version of MonetDB-SQL you are using (as the Mserver tells you at startup)! As usually, any (constructive;-) comments and feedback are more than welcome! Enjoy! Stefan (on behalf of the MonetDB Development Team) -- | Dr. Stefan Manegold | mailto:Stefan.Manegold@cwi.nl | | CWI, P.O.Box 94079 | http://www.cwi.nl/~manegold/ | | 1090 GB Amsterdam | Tel.: +31 (20) 592-4212 | | The Netherlands | Fax : +31 (20) 592-4312 |

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[Monetdb-announce] New release-candidates "MonetDB-4.6.0_rc0" & "MonetDB-SQL-2.6.0_rc0"
by Stefan.Manegold＠cwi.nl 21 Jan '05

21 Jan '05

[ Please accept my apologies for this "broadcast mail". ] [ Future announcements concerning MonetDB and its elated projects will only ] [ go to the monetdb-announce mailing list ] [ (http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/monetdb-announce) so please ] [ do not forget to subscribe there, in case you are not subscribed, yet. ] Dear MonetDB users and developers (and those who want to become either or both ;-), In preparation for the release of the new MonetDB-4.6.0 & MonetDB-SQL-2.6.0 (planned for February 14 2005, cf. http://monetdb.cwi.nl/Development/Roadmap/) I just prepared the respective release-candidate branches "MonetDB_4-6" & "SQL_2-6" in our CVS repository on SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=56967) The first release-candidate versions are tagged as "MonetDB_4-6-0_rc0" & "SQL_2-6-0_rc0", respectively. Pre-packaged source- & binary-distributions are not available, yet, but they will be made available for download with in a few days, and announced separately. All users are highly advised (actually "requested" ;-) to use the new release-candidate( branche)s as of now (see below for details concerning CVS checkout/update). Please do not hesitate to ask for support and report bugs or problems, preferably via the bug tracing system at SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=56967&atid=482468) or via email to monet(a)cwi.nl; however, please always state clearly, which version of MonetDB-SQL you are using (as the Mserver tells you at startup)! Any support for the now obsolete "MonetDB-4.4.x" & "MonetDB-SQL_2.4.x" will stop as of now. Contents: ========= - Background - Change Logs - CVS update - CVS check-ins - Testing Background ========== Trying to stick to our road-map (http://monetdb.cwi.nl/Development/Roadmap/) we plan the release of MonetDB-4.6.0 + MonetDB-SQL-2.6.0 for February 14 2004. As with earlier "pre-releases" of MonetDB & MonetDB-SQL, we start with "release-candidates" to allow testing by a larger group of users before we finally make the actual releases. Hence, starting to use the release-candidates as soon as possible will only be for your own benefit ;-) According to our TestWeb (http://monetdb.cwi.nl/Development/TestWeb/) both MonetDB and SQL are doing quite well right now; hence, I don't expect any (major) problems. Change Logs =========== Information about the major changes since MonetDB-4.4.2 / MonetDB-SQL_2.4.2 will follow with the pre-packaged source- & binary-distributions within a few days. CVS update ========== If you are already using the release branches "MonetDB_4-4-0" and "SQL_2-4-0" from CVS, simply run "cvs update -dP" to update your code to this new release candidate version. If you are already using a CVS version of MonetDB/MonetDB-SQL, you can run either "cvs update -dP -rMonetDB_4-6-0_rc0" "cvs update -dP -rSQL_2-6-0_rc0" to get this very release candidate, or "cvs update -dP -rMonetDB_4-6" "cvs update -dP -rSQL_2-6" to get the most recent version in the release candidate branch. The difference is, that via the first option, you are "stuck" with this very release candidate, i.e., future "cvs update -dP" (without "-r..." or "-A") will not change your checked-out version; via the second option, however, future "cvs update -dP" will get you again the latest version in the release candidate branch. CVS check-ins ============= All bug fixes (and only these!) on MonetDB and/or SQL are bound to go to the new release-candidate branches ("MonetDB_4-6"/"SQL_2-6"), only. On a regular basis, I will then take care of propagating these bug-fixes back to the respective main branch. All new features are bound to go to the main branches (and only there!). This release-candidate branch will become the new stable/release branch within the next 3 weeks. Testing ======= Nightly automatic testing will proceed "as usual". See http://monetdb.cwi.nl/Development/TestWeb/ for details. As usually, any (constructive;-) comments and feedback are more than welcome! Enjoy! Stefan -- | Dr. Stefan Manegold | mailto:Stefan.Manegold@cwi.nl | | CWI, P.O.Box 94079 | http://www.cwi.nl/~manegold/ | | 1090 GB Amsterdam | Tel.: +31 (20) 592-4212 | | The Netherlands | Fax : +31 (20) 592-4312 |

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