Documentation Source Text

      <a href="http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/timeline">
      http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/timeline</a>.</p>
    }
    hd_close_aux
    hd_enable_main 1
  }
}

chng {2008 Mar 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 MacOSX.</li>
<li>Store the statement journal in the temporary file directory instead of
colocated with the database file.</li>
<li>Many improvements and cleanups to the configure script</li>
}

chng {2008 Feb 6 (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

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<h3>Current Status</h3>

<p><ul>
<li><a href="releaselog/3_5_7.html">Version 3.5.7</a>
of SQLite is stable and is recommended for all users.</li>
</ul></p>

<h3>Common Links</h3>

<p><ul>
<li> <a href="features.html">Features</a> </li>

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

newsitem {2008-Mar-17} {Version 3.5.7} {
  Version 3.5.7 fixes several minor and obscure bugs, especially 
  in the autoconf-generated makefile.  Upgrading is optional.
  This release of SQLite is considered stable and ready for production use.
}

newsitem {2008-Feb-6} {Version 3.5.6} {
  Version 3.5.6 fixes a minor regression in 3.5.5 - a regression that
  had nothing to do with the massive change ove the virtual machine
  to a register-based design.
  No problems have been reported with the new virtual machine.  This
  release of SQLite is considered stable and ready for production use.