ANNOUNCING
mxODBC Plone/Zope Database Adapter
Version 2.2.3
for the Plone CMS and Zope server platform
Available for Plone 4.0-4.3 and Plone 5.0,
Zope 2.12 and 2.13, on
Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and other platforms
This announcement is also available on our web-site for online reading:
http://www.egenix.com/company/news/eGenix-mxODBC-Zope-DA-2.2.3-GA.html
INTRODUCTION
The eGenix mxODBC Zope DA allows you to easily connect your Zope or
Plone CMS installation to just about any database backend on the
market today, giving you the reliability of the commercially supported
eGenix product mxODBC and the flexibility of the ODBC standard as
middle-tier architecture.
The mxODBC Zope Database Adapter is highly portable, just like Zope
itself, and provides a high performance interface to all your ODBC
data sources, using a single well-supported interface on Windows,
Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and other platforms.
This makes it ideal for deployment in ZEO Clusters and Zope hosting
environments where stability and high performance are a top priority,
establishing an excellent basis and scalable solution for your Plone
CMS.
Product page:
http://www.egenix.com/products/zope/mxODBCZopeDA/
NEWS
The 2.2.3 release of our mxODBC Zope/Plone Database Adapter product is
a patch level release of the popular ODBC database interface for Plone
and Zope. It includes these enhancements and fixes:
Feature Updates
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* We have integrated a new option to force serialized connects on a
per Zope connection object basis. This can be used to work around
bugs in ODBC drivers which are not fully thread-safe in the connect
phase. The option is disabled per default.
Driver Compatibility Enhancements
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* ODBC driver compatibility updated. Upgraded to the latest mxODBC
3.3.5 release, adding compatibility enhancements for MS SQL
Server. See the mxODBC 3.3.5 release announcements for full
details.
Installation Enhancements
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* Added pip install compatibility to mxODBC Zope DA by creating
prebuilt archives and uploading a web installer to PyPI. This can
be useful if you are installing Zope or Plone using a
requirements.txt type approach, e.g. using
pip install ThreadLock Products.ZSQLMethods egenix-mxodbc-zopeda
* Enabled creating wheels from the prebuilt archives, which helps
when running pip with the wheels package installed. pip then tries
to build wheels during installation and caches them for future
reuse.
The complete list of changes is available on the mxODBC Zope DA
changelog page.
http://www.egenix.com/products/zope/mxODBCZopeDA/changelog.html
mxODBC Zope DA 2.2.0 was released on 2014-12-11. Please see the mxODBC
Zope DA 2.2.0 release announcement for all the new features we have
added.
http://www.egenix.com/company/news/eGenix-mxODBC-Zope-DA-2.2.0-GA.html
For the full list of features, please see the mxODBC Zope DA feature
list:
http://www.egenix.com/products/zope/mxODBCZopeDA/#Features
The complete list of changes is available on the mxODBC Zope DA
changelog page.
UPGRADING
Users are encouraged to upgrade to this latest mxODBC Plone/Zope
Database Adapter release to benefit from the new features and updated
ODBC driver support. We have taken special care not to introduce
backwards incompatible changes, making the upgrade experience as
smooth as possible.
For major and minor upgrade purchases, we will give out 20% discount
coupons going from mxODBC Zope DA 1.x to 2.2 and 50% coupons for
upgrades from mxODBC 2.x to 2.2. After upgrade, use of the original
license from which you upgraded is no longer permitted. Patch level
upgrades (e.g. 2.2.0 to 2.2.3) are always free of charge.
Please contact the eGenix.com Sales Team with your existing license
serials for details for an upgrade discount coupon.
If you want to try the new release before purchase, you can request
30-day evaluation licenses by visiting our web-site or writing to
sa...@egenix.com, stating your name (or the name of the company) and
the number of eval licenses that you need.
http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxODBCZopeDA/#Evaluation
DOWNLOADS
Please visit the eGenix mxODBC Zope DA product page for downloads,
instructions on installation and documentation of the packages:
http://www.egenix.com/company/products/zope/mxODBCZopeDA/
If you want to try the package, please jump straight to the download
instructions:
