The MonetDB team at CWI/MonetDB BV is pleased to announce the Jan2014-SP3 bugfix release of the MonetDB suite of programs. More information about MonetDB can be found on our website at <http://www.monetdb.org/>. For details on this release, please see the release notes at <http://www.monetdb.org/Downloads/ReleaseNotes>. As usual, the download location is <http://dev.monetdb.org/downloads/>. Jan 2014-SP3 bugfix release Build Environment * Fix configure to continue without Python if the python binary is too old. This instead of always aborting configure if python happens to be too old. Bug Fixes * 3487: dead link to "Professional services" * 3500: MonetDB driver wants an empty string for SQLTables and SQLColumns API calls, where other drivers expect NULL * 3514: mserver5 crash due (assertion failure in gdk_select.c) * 3515: mserver5 crash due (assertion failure in gdk_bat.c) * 3519: Uppercase TRUE/FALSE strings cannot be converted to boolean values