Milestone 3.4.0

Features

Major development efforts were undertaken in 2008 towards the release of FDO 3.4.0.

• Bug fixes from 3.3.2 release
• Implement Support for a SQL Server Spatial FDO Provider.  RFC:12[http://trac.osgeo.org/fdo/wiki/FDORfc12]
• Implement Support for a SQLite FDO Provider.  RFC:16[http://trac.osgeo.org/fdo/wiki/FDORfc16]
• Migrate FDO to support Microsoft Visual Studio 2008.  RFC:18[http://trac.osgeo.org/fdo/wiki/FDORfc18]
• New GetSchemaNames, GetClassNames commands, and DescribeSchema Hint.  RFC:23[http://trac.osgeo.org/fdo/wiki/FDORfc23]
• New ExtendedSelect command and Scrollable Reader.  RFC:26[http://trac.osgeo.org/fdo/wiki/FDORfc26]
• Add X,Y,Z and M Expression Functions.  RFC:28[http://trac.osgeo.org/fdo/wiki/FDORfc28]
• Redefining Expression Function EXTRACT.  RFC:29[http://trac.osgeo.org/fdo/wiki/FDORfc29]
• Enhanced 64-bit support.

NOTE: The FDO API and many of its providers where modified to be fully compilable/executable in a 64 bit runtime environment. We have still do not officially release a 64 bit Open Source build, but this should be addressed in FDO 3.5.0.