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    uncovering.
   
}

chng {2009-05-25 (3.6.14.2)} {
<li>Fix a code generator bug introduced in [version 3.6.14].  This bug
    can cause incorrect query results under obscure circumstances.
    [Ticket #3879].
}

chng {2009-05-19 (3.6.14.1)} {
<li>Fix a bug in [group_concat()], [ticket #3841]
<li>Fix a performance bug in the pager cache, [ticket #3844]
<li>Fix a bug in the [sqlite3_backup] implementation that can lead
    to a corrupt backup database.  [Ticket #3858].
}

chng {2009-05-07 (3.6.14)} {
<li>Added the optional [asynchronous VFS] module.</li>
<li>Enhanced the query optimizer so that [virtual tables] are able to
    make use of OR and IN operators in the WHERE clause.</li>
<li>Speed improvements in the btree and pager layers.</li>

<li>Improvements to the <a href="syntaxdiagrams.html">syntax bubble
    diagrams</a>
<li>Various minor bug fixes
}

chng {2009-01-15 (3.6.10)} {
<li>Fix a cache coherency problem that could lead to database corruption.
    [Ticket #3584].
}

chng {2009-01-14 (3.6.9)} {
<li>Fix two bugs, which when combined might result in incorrect
    query results.  Both bugs were harmless by themselves; only when
    they team up do they cause problems.  [Ticket #3581].
}

chng {2009-01-12 (3.6.8)} {
<li>Added support for [SAVEPOINT | nested transactions]</li>
<li>Enhanced the query optimizer so that it is able to use
    multiple indices to efficiently process 
    <a href="optoverview.html#or_opt">OR-connected constraints</a>

    a rollback.  This bug was first introduced in [version 3.6.4].</li>
<li>Two other very minor bug fixes</li>
}

chng {2008-11-19 (3.6.6)} {
<li>Fix a #define that prevented [memsys5] from compiling</li>
<li>Fix a problem in the virtual table commit mechanism that was causing
    a crash in FTS3.  [Ticket #3497].</li>
<li>Add the [sqlite3_pcache_methods2 | application-defined page cache]</li>
<li>Added built-in support for VxWorks</li>
}

chng {2008-11-12 (3.6.5)} {
<li>Add the MEMORY option to the [journal_mode pragma].</li>
<li>Added the [sqlite3_db_mutex()] interface.</li>

}

chng {2008-05-14 (3.5.9)} {
<li>Added <em>experimental</em>
    support for the [journal_mode] PRAGMA and persistent journal.</li>
<li>[journal_mode | Journal mode PERSIST] is the default behavior in
    [locking_mode | exclusive locking mode].</li>
<li>Fix a performance regression on LEFT JOIN (see [ticket #3015])
    that was mistakenly introduced in [version 3.5.8].</li>
<li>Performance enhancement: Reengineer the internal routines used
    to interpret and render variable-length integers.</li>
<li>Fix a buffer-overrun problem in [sqlite3_mprintf()] which occurs
    when a string without a zero-terminator is passed to "%.*s".</li>
<li>Always convert IEEE floating point NaN values into NULL during
    processing.  ([Ticket #3060])</li>
<li>Make sure that when a connection blocks on a RESERVED lock that
    it is able to continue after the lock is released.  ([Ticket #3093])</li>
<li>The "configure" scripts should now automatically configure Unix
    systems for large file support.  Improved error messages for
    when large files are encountered and large file support is disabled.</li>
<li>Avoid cache pages leaks following disk-full or I/O errors</li>
<li>And, many more minor bug fixes and performance enhancements....</li>
}

    Firefox crashes.  Make arrangements to always test SQLITE_SECURE_DELETE
    prior to each release.</li>
<li>Other miscellaneous performance enhancements.</li>
<li>Other miscellaneous minor bug fixes.</li>
}

chng {2008-03-17 (3.5.7)} {
<li>Fix a bug ([ticket #2927]) in the register allocation for
compound selects - introduced by the new VM code in version 3.5.5.</li>
<li>ALTER TABLE uses double-quotes instead of single-quotes for quoting
filenames.</li>
<li>Use the WHERE clause to reduce the size of a materialized VIEW in
an UPDATE or DELETE statement. (Optimization)</li>
<li>Do not apply the flattening optimization if the outer query is an
aggregate and the inner query contains ORDER BY.  ([Ticket #2943])</li>
<li>Additional OS/2 updates</li>
<li>Added an experimental power-of-two, first-fit memory allocator.</li>
<li>Remove all instances of sprintf() from the code</li>
<li>Accept "Z" as the zulu timezone at the end of date strings</li>
<li>Fix a bug in the LIKE optimizer that occurs when the last character
before the first wildcard is an upper-case "Z"</li>
<li>Added the "bitvec" object for keeping track of which pages have
been journalled.  Improves speed and reduces memory consumption, especially
for large database files.</li>
<li>Get the SQLITE_ENABLE_LOCKING_STYLE macro working again on Mac OS X.</li>
<li>Store the statement journal in the temporary file directory instead of
collocated with the database file.</li>
<li>Many improvements and cleanups to the configure script</li>
}

chng {2008-02-06 (3.5.6)} {
<li>Fix a bug ([ticket #2913])
that prevented virtual tables from working in a LEFT JOIN.
The problem was introduced into shortly before the 3.5.5 release.</li>
<li>Bring the OS/2 porting layer up-to-date.</li>
<li>Add the new [sqlite3_result_error_code()] API and use it in the
implementation of [ATTACH] so that proper error codes are returned
when an [ATTACH] fails.</li>
}

chng {2008-01-31 (3.5.5)} {
<li>Convert the underlying virtual machine to be a register-based machine
rather than a stack-based machine.  The only user-visible change
is in the output of EXPLAIN.</li>
<li>Add the build-in RTRIM collating sequence.</li>
}

chng {2007-12-14 (3.5.4)} {
<li>Fix a critical bug in UPDATE or DELETE that occurs when an
OR REPLACE clause or a trigger causes rows in the same table to
be deleted as side effects.  (See [ticket #2832].)  The most likely
result of this bug is a segmentation fault, though database
corruption is a possibility.</li>
<li>Bring the processing of ORDER BY into compliance with the 
SQL standard for case where a result alias and a table column name
are in conflict.  Correct behavior is to prefer the result alias.
Older versions of SQLite incorrectly picked the table column.
(See [ticket #2822].)</li>
<li>The <a href="lang_vacuum.html">VACUUM</a> command preserves
the setting of the 
<a href="pragma.html#pragma_legacy_file_format">legacy_file_format pragma</a>.
([Ticket #2804].)</li>
<li>Productize and officially support the group_concat() SQL function.</li>
<li>Better optimization of some IN operator expressions.</li>
<li>Add the ability to change the 
<a href="pragma.html#pragma_auto_vacuum">auto_vacuum</a> status of a
database by setting the auto_vaccum pragma and VACUUMing the database.</li>
<li>Prefix search in FTS3 is much more efficient.</li>
<li>Relax the SQL statement length restriction in the CLI so that

chng {2007-10-04 (3.5.1)} {
<li><i><b>Nota Bene:</b> We are not using terms "alpha" or "beta" on this
    release because the code is stable and because if we use those terms,
    nobody will upgrade.  However, we still reserve the right to make
    incompatible changes to the new VFS interface in future releases.</i></li>

<li>Fix a bug in the handling of [SQLITE_FULL] errors that could lead
    to database corruption.  [Ticket #2686].
<li>The test_async.c drive now does full file locking and works correctly
    when used simultaneously by multiple processes on the same database.
<li>The CLI ignores whitespace (including comments) at the end of lines
<li>Make sure the query optimizer checks dependencies on all terms of
    a compound SELECT statement.  [Ticket #2640].
<li>Add demonstration code showing how to build a VFS for a raw
    mass storage without a filesystem.
<li>Added an output buffer size parameter to the xGetTempname() method
    of the VFS layer.
<li>Sticky [SQLITE_FULL] or [SQLITE_IOERR] errors in the pager are reset
    when a new transaction is started.
}

}


chng {2007-08-13 (3.4.2)} {
<li>Fix a database corruption bug that might occur if a ROLLBACK command
is executed in <a href="pragma.html#pragma_auto_vacuum">auto-vacuum mode</a>
and a very small [sqlite3_soft_heap_limit] is set. 
[Ticket #2565].

<li>Add the ability to run a full regression test with a small
[sqlite3_soft_heap_limit].

<li>Fix other minor problems with using small soft heap limits.

<li>Work-around for 
[http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32575 | GCC bug 32575].

<li>Improved error detection of misused aggregate functions.

<li>Improvements to the amalgamation generator script so that all symbols
are prefixed with either SQLITE_PRIVATE or SQLITE_API.
}

chng {2007-07-20 (3.4.1)} {
<li>Fix a bug in <a href="lang_vacuum.html">VACUUM</a> that can lead to
    <a href="http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/wiki?p=DatabaseCorruption">
    database corruption</a> if two
    processes are connected to the database at the same time and one
    VACUUMs then the other then modifies the database.</li>
<li>The expression "+column" is now considered the same as "column"
    when computing the collating sequence to use on the expression.</li>
<li>In the <a href="tclsqlite.html">TCL language interface</a>,
   "@variable" instead of "$variable" always binds as a blob.</li>
<li>Added <a href="pragma.html#pragma_freelist_count">PRAGMA freelist_count</a>

    tokenization support to FTS2</li>
<li>Other minor bug fixes and documentation enhancements</li>
}

chng {2007-06-18 (3.4.0)} {
<li>Fix a bug that can lead to database corruption if an [SQLITE_BUSY] error
    occurs in the middle of an explicit transaction and that transaction
    is later committed.  [Ticket #2409].
    See the
    <a href="http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/wiki?p=CorruptionFollowingBusyError">
    CorruptionFollowingBusyError</a> wiki page for details.</i>
<li>Fix a bug that can lead to database corruption if autovacuum mode is
    on and a malloc() failure follows a CREATE TABLE or CREATE INDEX statement
    which itself follows a cache overflow inside a transaction.  See
    [ticket #2418]. 
    </li>
<li>Added explicit <a href="limits.html">upper bounds</a> on the sizes and
    quantities of things SQLite can process.  This change might cause
    compatibility problems for
    applications that use SQLite in the extreme, which is why the current
    release is 3.4.0 instead of 3.3.18.</li>
<li>Added support for [sqlite3_blob_open|Incremental BLOB I/O].</li>
<li>Added the [sqlite3_bind_zeroblob()] API</a>
    and the <a href="lang_expr.html#zeroblob">zeroblob()</a> SQL function.</li>
<li>Added support for <a href="pragma.html#pragma_incremental_vacuum">
    Incremental Vacuum</a>.</li>
<li>Added the SQLITE_MIXED_ENDIAN_64BIT_FLOAT compile-time option to support
    ARM7 processors with goofy endianness.</li>
<li>Removed all instances of sprintf() and strcpy() from the core library.</li>
<li>Added support for
    [http://www.icu-project.org/ | International Components for Unicode (ICU)]
    to the full-text search extensions.
<li>In the Windows OS driver, reacquire a SHARED lock if an attempt to
    acquire an EXCLUSIVE lock fails.  [Ticket #2354]</li>
<li>Fix the REPLACE() function so that it returns NULL if the second argument
    is an empty string.  [Ticket #2324].</li>
<li>Document the hazards of type conversions in
    [sqlite3_column_blob()]
    and related APIs.  Fix unnecessary type conversions.  [Ticket #2321].</li>
<li>Internationalization of the TRIM() function.  [Ticket #2323]</li>
<li>Use memmove() instead of memcpy() when moving between memory regions
    that might overlap.  [Ticket #2334]</li>
<li>Fix an optimizer bug involving subqueries in a compound SELECT that has
    both an ORDER BY and a LIMIT clause.  [Ticket #2339].</li>
<li>Make sure the [sqlite3_snprintf()]
    interface does not zero-terminate the buffer if the buffer size is
    less than 1.  [Ticket #2341]</li>
<li>Fix the built-in printf logic so that it prints "NaN" not "Inf" for
    floating-point NaNs.  [Ticket #2345]</li>
<li>When converting BLOB to TEXT, use the text encoding of the main database.
    [Ticket #2349]</li>
<li>Keep the full precision of integers (if possible) when casting to
    NUMERIC.  [Ticket #2364]</li>
<li>Fix a bug in the handling of UTF16 codepoint 0xE000</li>
<li>Consider explicit collate clauses when matching WHERE constraints
    to indices in the query optimizer.  [Ticket #2391]</li>
<li>Fix the query optimizer to correctly handle constant expressions in 
    the ON clause of a LEFT JOIN.  [Ticket #2403]</li>
<li>Fix the query optimizer to handle rowid comparisons to NULL
    correctly.  [Ticket #2404]</li>
<li>Fix many potential segfaults that could be caused by malicious SQL
    statements.</li>
}

chng {2007-04-25 (3.3.17)} {
<li>When the "write_version" value of the database header is larger than
    what the library understands, make the database read-only instead of

    error.  It used to be silently ignored.</li>
<li>Fix an obscure and relatively harmless problem that might have caused
    a resource leak following an I/O error.</li>
<li>Many improvements to the test suite.  Test coverage now exceeded 98%</li>
}

chng {2007-04-02 (3.3.14)} {
<li>Fix a bug ([ticket #2273])
    that could cause a segfault when the IN operator
    is used one one term of a two-column index and the right-hand side of
    the IN operator contains a NULL.</li>
<li>Added a new OS interface method for determining the sector size
    of underlying media:  sqlite3OsSectorSize().</li>
<li>A new algorithm for statements of the form
    INSERT INTO <i>table1</i> SELECT * FROM <i>table2</i>

}

chng {2007-01-09 (3.3.10)} {
<li>Fix bugs in the implementation of the new 
<a href="c3ref/prepare.html">sqlite3_prepare_v2()</a> API
that can lead to segfaults.</li>
<li>Fix 1-second round-off errors in the 
<a href="http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/wiki?p=DateAndTimeFunctions">
strftime()</a> function</li>
<li>Enhance the Windows OS layer to provide detailed error codes</li>
<li>Work around a win2k problem so that SQLite can use single-character
database file names</li>
<li>The
<a href="pragma.html#pragma_user_version">user_version</a> and
<a href="pragma.html#pragma_schema_version">schema_version</a> pragmas 
correctly set their column names in the result set</li>

<li>VACUUM uses a temporary file in the official TEMP folder, not in the
same directory as the original database</li>
<li>The prefix on temporary filenames on Windows is changed from "sqlite"
to "etilqs".</li>
}

chng {2006-10-09 (3.3.8)} {
<li>Support for full text search using the
<a href="http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/wiki?p=FullTextIndex">FTS1 module</a>
(beta)</li>
<li>Added Mac OS X locking patches (beta - disabled by default)</li>
<li>Introduce extended error codes and add error codes for various
kinds of I/O errors.</li>
<li>Added support for IF EXISTS on CREATE/DROP TRIGGER/VIEW</li>
<li>Fix the regression test suite so that it works with Tcl8.5</li>
<li>Enhance sqlite3_set_authorizer() to provide notification of calls to
    SQL functions.</li>
<li>Added experimental API:  sqlite3_auto_extension()</li>
<li>Various minor bug fixes</li>
}

chng {2006-08-12 (3.3.7)} {
<li>Added support for
<a href="http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/wiki?p=VirtualTables">virtual tables</a>
(beta)</li>
<li>Added support for 
<a href="http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/wiki?p=LoadableExtensions">
dynamically loaded extensions</a> (beta)</li>
<li>The 
<a href="c3ref/interrupt.html">sqlite3_interrupt()</a>
routine can be called for a different thread</li>
<li>Added the <a href="lang_expr.html#match">MATCH</a> operator.</li>
<li>The default file format is now 1.  
}

  if {![regsub -all {(Version) (\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)} $title \
        {<a href="releaselog/\2_\3_\4_\5.html">\0</a>} title]} {
    regsub -all {(Version) (\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)} $title \
      {<a href="releaselog/\2_\3_\4.html">\0</a>} title
  }
  hd_puts "<h3>$date - $title</h3>"
  regsub -all "\n( *\n)+" $text "</p>\n\n<p>" txt
  regsub -all {[Tt]icket #(\d+)} $txt \
      {<a href="http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/tktview?tn=\1">\0</a>} txt
  hd_resolve "<blockquote>$txt</blockquote>"
  hd_puts "<hr width=\"50%\">"
}

newsitem {2018-11-05} {Release 3.25.3} {
SQLite [version 3.25.3] is a third patch against 3.25.0 that fixes various
problems that have come to light and which seem serious enough to 

  SQLite [version 3.6.15] is a general maintenance release containing
  performance and robustness enhancements and fixes for various obscure
  bugs.  
}

newsitem {2009-05-25} {Version 3.6.14.2} {
  SQLite [version 3.6.14.2] fixes an obscure bug in the code generator
  (<a href="http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/tktview?tn=3879">ticket #3879</a>)
  section of SQLite which can potentially cause incorrect query results.
  The changes from the prior release consist of only this one bug fix,
  check-in <a href="http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/chngview?cn=6676">[6676]</a>
  and a change to the version number text.

  The bug was introduced in version 3.6.14.  It is recommended that
  users of version 3.6.14 and 3.6.14.1 upgrade to this release.  Applications
  are unlikely to hit this bug, but since it is difficult to predict which
  applications might hit it and which might not, we recommend that all
  users of 3.6.14 and 3.5.14.1 upgrade to this release.

  allocation subsystem in future releases.
}

newsitem {2007-10-04} {Version 3.5.1} {
  Fix a long-standing bug that might cause database corruption if a
  disk-full error occurs in the middle of a transaction and that
  transaction is not rolled back.
  <a href="http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/tktview?tn=2686">Ticket #2686.</a>

  The new VFS layer is stable.  However, we still reserve the right to
  make tweaks to the interface definition of the VFS if necessary.
}

newsitem {2007-09-04} {Version 3.5.0 alpha} {
  The OS interface layer and the memory allocation subsystems in

  freeze the new design.
}

newsitem {2007-08-13} {Version 3.4.2} {
  While stress-testing the 
  <a href="c3ref/soft_heap_limit.html">soft_heap_limit</a>
  feature, a bug that could lead to
  <a href="http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/wiki?p=DatabaseCorruption">database
  corruption</a> was <a href="http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/tktview?tn=2565">
  discovered and fixed</a>.
  Though the consequences of this bug are severe, the chances of hitting 
  it in a typical application are remote.  Upgrading is recommended
  only if you use the 
  <a href="c3ref/soft_heap_limit.html">sqlite3_soft_heap_limit</a>
  interface.
}

newsitem {2007-07-20} {Version 3.4.1} {
  This release fixes a bug in <a href="lang_vacuum.html">VACUUM</a> that
  can lead to <a href="http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/wiki?p=DatabaseCorruption">
  database corruption</a>.  The bug was introduced in version 
  <a href="changes.html#version_3_3_14">3.3.14</a>.
  Upgrading is recommended for all users.  Also included are a slew of
  other more routine
  <a href="changes.html#version_3_4_1">enhancements and bug fixes</a>.
}

newsitem {2007-06-18} {Version 3.4.0} {
  This release fixes two separate bugs either of which 
  can lead to database corruption.  Upgrading
  is strongly recommended.  If you must continue using an older version
  of SQLite, please at least read about how to avoid these bugs
  at
  <a href="http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/wiki?p=CorruptionFollowingBusyError">
  CorruptionFollowingBusyError</a> and
  <a href="http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/tktview?tn=2418">ticket #2418</a>
  <p>
  This release also adds explicit <a href="limits.html">limits</a> on the
  sizes and quantities of things SQLite will handle.  The new limits might
  causes compatibility problems for existing applications that
  use excessively large strings, BLOBs, tables, or SQL statements. 
  The new limits can be increased at compile-time to work around any problems
  that arise.  Nevertheless, the version number of this release is

newsitem {2007-04-09} {Version 3.3.15} {
  An annoying bug introduced in 3.3.14 has been fixed.  There are
  also many enhancements to the test suite.  
}

newsitem {2007-04-02} {Version 3.3.14} {
  This version focuses on performance improvements.  If you recompile
  <a href="http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/wiki?p=TheAmalgamation">
  the amalgamation</a> using GCC option -O3 (the precompiled binaries
  use -O2) you may see performance
  improvements of 35% or more over version 3.3.13 depending on your
  workload.  This version also
  adds support for <a href="pragma.html#pragma_locking_mode">
  exclusive access mode</a>.
}

  Version 3.3.10 fixes several bugs that were introduced by the previous
  release.  Upgrading is recommended.
}

newsitem {2007-01-04} {Version 3.3.9} {
  Version 3.3.9 fixes bugs that can lead to database corruption under
  obscure and difficult to reproduce circumstances.  See
  <a href="http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/wiki?p=DatabaseCorruption">
  DatabaseCorruption</a> in the
  <a href="http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/wiki">wiki</a> for details.
  This release also adds the new
  <a href="c3ref/prepare.html">sqlite3_prepare_v2()</a>
  API and includes important bug fixes in the command-line
  shell and enhancements to the query optimizer.  Upgrading is
  recommended.
}

newsitem {2006-10-09} {Version 3.3.8} {
  Version 3.3.8 adds support for full-text search using the 
  <a href="http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/wiki?p=FtsOne">FTS1
  module.</a>  There are also minor bug fixes.  Upgrade only if
  you want to try out the new full-text search capabilities or if
  you are having problems with 3.3.7.
}

newsitem {2006-08-12} {Version 3.3.7} {
  Version 3.3.7 includes support for loadable extensions and virtual
  tables.  But both features are still considered "beta" and their

  the library is running much faster again.

  Database connections can now be moved between threads as long as the
  connection holds no locks at the time it is moved.  Thus the common
  paradigm of maintaining a pool of database connections and handing
  them off to transient worker threads is now supported.
  Please help test this new feature.
  See <a href="http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/wiki?p=MultiThreading">
  the MultiThreading wiki page</a> for additional
  information.
}

newsitem {2006-01-10} {Version 3.3.0 alpha} {
  Version 3.3.0 adds support for CHECK constraints, DESC indices,
  separate REAL and INTEGER column affinities, a new OS interface layer
  design, and many other changes.  The code passed a regression

  open-source software.  Thanks, AOL!

  Version 3.2.0 also fixes an obscure but serious bug that was discovered
  just prior to release.  If you have a multi-statement transaction and
  within that transaction an UPDATE or INSERT statement fails due to a
  constraint, then you try to rollback the whole transaction, the rollback
  might not work correctly.  See
  <a href="http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/tktview?tn=1171">Ticket #1171</a>
  for details.  Upgrading is recommended for all users.
}

newsitem {2005-03-16} {Version 3.1.6} {
  Version 3.1.6 fixes a critical bug that can cause database corruption
  when inserting rows into tables with around 125 columns. This bug was
  introduced in version 3.0.0.  See
  <a href="http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/tktview?tn=1163">Ticket #1163</a>
  for additional information.
}

newsitem {2005-03-11} {Versions 3.1.4 and 3.1.5 Released} {
  Version 3.1.4 fixes a critical bug that could cause database corruption
  if the autovacuum mode of version 3.1.0 is turned on (it is off by
  default) and a CREATE UNIQUE INDEX is executed within a transaction but
  fails because the indexed columns are not unique.  Anyone using the

  
newsitem {2005-02-15} {Versions 2.8.16 and 3.1.2 Released} {
  A critical bug in the VACUUM command that can lead to database
  corruption has been fixed in both the 2.x branch and the main
  3.x line.  This bug has existed in all prior versions of SQLite.
  Even though it is unlikely you will ever encounter this bug,
  it is suggested that all users upgrade.  See
  <a href="http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/tktview?tn=1116">
  ticket #1116</a>. for additional information.

  Version 3.1.2 is also the first stable release of the 3.1
  series.  SQLite 3.1 features added support for correlated
  subqueries, autovacuum, autoincrement, ALTER TABLE, and
  other enhancements.  See the 
  <a href="http://www.sqlite.org/releasenotes310.html">release notes
  for version 3.1.0</a> for a detailed description of the