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The response to this release has been phenomenal. As people write in Ill be posting additional posts clarifying the program.

RELEASE 4.9.1 shipped

You can download it from our site, DOWNLOAD menu, or directly from http://www.valentina-db.com/download/release URL.

This is mainly bug fix and polish release. There is no major changes in format or API. Into SQL added few new functions to handle unicode normalization. Recommended for use by all 4.x users.

Most probably this is the last 4.9.x release before 5.0.

Deprecated VPHP and VODBC client-only Archives

Historically, we have developed at first VPHP as client-only ADK of Valentina Server. Later we have add vphp_standalone version of archives, which included the whole Valentina engine, and can work without VServer. Actually we have this for all other Valentina ADKs, such as V4RB, VNET, V4REV, … But for VPHP we have got two archives, where others ADKs did have one.

The same did happens with VODBC ADK …

For 4.9.1. release we have decide “resolve” this issue. Now on FTP present only “standalone” full archives, but they are renamed to just vphp_4 style.

All Valentina Linux Archives now go as pair: RMP and DEB

Our Linix guru have did big job and implement new style of archives of all Valentina products for linux. Now we have on FTP pair RPM+DEB for each Valentina product for Linux.

[NEW] Normalization of Unicode Text

We have realize problem of unicode text normalization and have implement tools into 4.9.1 to work with normalization issue. Detailed description of this issue is given on the following wiki page.

[DEPRECATED] I_Field::put_ID()

We have note that put_ID() should not be in the public interfaces of Schema Objects, because developer should not be able change ID of a scheme object.

We have check our sources, and found that only I_Field interface did have such method. So we move it into internal I_FieldEx interface. In the C++ header this method marked as DEPRECATED, and do nothing now. We believe that nobody from C++ developers have used it.

We will consider future ability to do “SET PROPERTY ID of Object name” via SQL, but this will be recommended for use by our own SQL scripts only.

[NEW] VStudio Linux 64 bit Version

We are glad to inform you, that for 4.9.1 version we will introduce Valentina Studio for Linux 64 bit version.

In the nearest 1-2 days we should upload 4.9.1 beta build of VStudio linux 32 and 64 bits.

[NEW] VLink.Count Property

We have discover that interface of VLink miss Count property to easy ask VLink how much pairs it contains.

Now this property is implemented in the vkernel. It works for all kinds of links (Binary, ObjectPtr and ForeignKey). It is implemented in effective way — only header of index is asked actually.

Adding of this property do minor extension of VSERVER protocol also.

[Improve] Warnings.log gets Header with Description

We have realize that if to add simple header to Warnings.log that describes what this log contains, when it should be used, and how it can be disabled for RELEASE then this will help to developers and remove often questions about this.