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							<document>
  <properties>
    <title>Release notes</title>
    <author email="javajedi@users.sf.net">Tim McCune</author>
  </properties>
  <body>
    <release version="2.1.0" date="2015-04-16" 
             description="Relicense to Apache License">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="add">
        OpenHMS relicenses to Apache License, 2.0!
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="2.0.9" date="2015-03-21">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge2" issue="116">
        Make ColumnBuilder.setMaxLength do the right thing regardless of
        column type.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Handle input String boolean values.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="add" system="SourceForge2Features" issue="28">
        Added Database.isLinkedTable method to identify if the given Table is
        linked to the database.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="add" system="SourceForge2Features" issue="28">
        Added TableIterableBuilder for advanced Table iteration.  This allows
        selectively including different table types when iterating the tables
        in a Database.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="add" system="SourceForge2Features" issue="29">
        Lowered the log level for certain warnings related to system tables
        which do not generally affect jackcess functionality.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="add" system="SourceForge2Features" issue="29">
        Added contextual information to many errors and warnings.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="add" system="SourceForge2Features" issue="29">
        Implement support for indexes on BINARY fields.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge2" issue="120">
        Remove useless warning for fixed length columns lengths with longer
        length.  Cleanup some other stuff related to copying existing columns
        in ColumnBuilder.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="2.0.8" date="2014-12-26">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge2" issue="113">
        Add newer sql type to access type mappings if the jvm supports them.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge2Patches" issue="17">
        Fix table name quoting for append and make table queries.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge2Patches" issue="18">
        Don't double quote already quoted identifiers.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Better validation of identifier names (disallow invalid characters
        according to Access naming rules).
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="2.0.7" date="2014-11-22">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge2" issue="111">
        Unicode compression support was not correct for all possibly
        compressed characters.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge2" issue="112">
        Currency columns will now return an accurate scale and precision.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="2.0.6" date="2014-10-04">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge2" issue="109">
        IndexCursor can early exit when searching based on indexed values.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge2" issue="110">
        Fix regression where empty memo values are returned as null.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="2.0.5" date="2014-09-17">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="add">
        Add Cursor.findRow(RowId) for moving to a specific Table row using
        only the RowId.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge2" issue="105">
        Add support for reading and writing calculated column values.
        Jackcess will not evaluate the actual expressions, but the column
        values can be written directly.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="add">
        Add the ability to set properties in DatabaseBuilder, TableBuilder,
        and ColumnBuilder.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="add">
        Add the ability to create tables with calculated fields.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="2.0.4" date="2014-04-05">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="add">
        Add ColumnValidator interface which allows column values to be easily
        manipulated/validated as they are written into the database.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="2.0.3" date="2014-01-30">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge2" issue="100">
        Fix NullPointerException in RowImpl.toString() when value is null.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="2.0.2" date="2013-11-30">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge2" issue="99">
        Rework row add/update so that constraint violations do not leave
        behind partially written rows.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Add ConstraintViolationException to distinguish exceptions due to
        violating database constraints from other random errors.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="2.0.1" date="2013-10-13">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="add">
        Add initial support for creating/parsing ole content.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge2" issue="97">
        Ignore invalid column usage map definitions.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix">
        Make reading long value columns more lenient (MEMO/OLE).
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="add" system="SourceForge2Features" 
              issue="16">
        Add support for modifying PropertyMaps.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="2.0.0" date="2013-08-26"
             description="Major API Revision">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Brand new API!  This release is not backwards compatible with 1.x
        releases.  See Migration Guide at http://jackcess.sourceforge.net/jackcess-2.html
        for more details.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.2.14.3" date="2013-10-13">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge2" issue="97">
        Ignore invalid column usage map definitions.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix">
        Make reading long value columns more lenient (MEMO/OLE).
      </action>
    </release>    
    <release version="1.2.14.2" date="2013-08-25">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge2" issue="96">
        Fix reading of Properties with multiple value blocks.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.2.14.1" date="2013-08-11">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge2Features"
              issue="25">
        Remove extra object flags before checking query type.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.2.14" date="2013-07-23">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge2" issue="95">
        Implement handling of usagemaps for long value (MEMO/OLE) columns.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.2.13" date="2013-06-18">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix">
        Fix partial page updates when using CodecHandlers which can only do
        full page encoding.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Add more methods to Database for retrieving Relationships.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Implement attachment decoding, thanks to Lorenzo Carrara.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.2.12" date="2013-05-09">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge2" issue="94">
        Do not unicode compress strings which are longer than 1024 chars.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.2.10" date="2013-02-18">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Add info to the Column to support MEMO columns which are HYPERLINKS.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge2" issue="22">
        Add optional support for enforcing foreign-key constraints/cascading.
        This is disabled by default (for backwards compatibility), but can be
        controlled globally via a system property and/or on a per-Database
        basis using setEnforceForeignKeys() method.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.2.9" date="2012-10-15">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Add some more functionality to Joiner to facilitate integrity
        enforcement (hasRows and deleteRows).
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="add">
        Added DatabaseBuilder for more convenient and flexible Database
        open/create.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="add">
        Added the MemFileChannel (and associated support in DatabaseBuilder)
        to enable working with Database files completely in memory.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge2" issue="92">
        Fix some more edge cases in date/time conversions.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.2.8" date="2012-07-10">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update" system="SourceForge" issue="3523179">
        Add osgi header information to the manifest.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update" system="SourceForge" issue="3523181">
        Add ImportUtil.toColumns to enable more advanced Table creation
        implementations.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge" issue="3529534">
        Fix NPE when running unit tests with db format MSISAM.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge" issue="3532250">
        Fix writing partial pages when CodecHandler is in use.  Note, this fix
        involves a backwards incompatible change to the CodecHandler interface
        (Jackcess Encrypt 1.0.3 or later is compatible with this version of
        Jackcess).
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.2.7" date="2012-04-02">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update" system="SourceForge" issue="3479560">
        Add initial support for linked tables.  Linked tables will now be
        loaded by the normal Database.getTable method.  Linked tables can be
        created using the new Database.createLinkedTable method.  Linked table
        resolution can be customized per Database by supplying a custom
        LinkResolver.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Rename and refactor the Cursor find methods to improve usability.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.2.6" date="2011-12-16">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update" system="SourceForge" issue="3358272">
        Add support for reading/writing complex column data (version history,
        attachments, multi-value columns).
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix">
        Fix problem with creating tables with indexes where ms access could
        not open the created table.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge" issue="3435774">
        Fix problem with reading row from table with deleted/added columns.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Reuse previously written memo/ole values when updating other values in
        a row in order to reduce unnecessary data duplication.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Allow ImportFilter and ExportFilter to return null from filterRow() to
        indicate that a row should be skipped.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Add option to import file without headers to existing table.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="add">
        Add ImportUtil.Builder and ExportUtil.Builder to simplify
        import/export operations.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.2.5" date="2011-10-19">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Try multiple classloaders when loading resources as streams.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="add">
        Add the Joiner utility and some new methods to IndexCursor to make it
        easier to join tables using pre-defined (index backed) relationships.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Enable basic handling of unsupported data types as binary content.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Add methods to approximate table size.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Add Database.getSystemTableNames to enable retrieving the list of
        system/hidden tables.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix">
        Fix issue with reading Access 97 database with large number of fields.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.2.4" date="2011-05-14">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Refactor table loading to use indexes.  Do not load all table names at
        database startup (should make startup faster).
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="add">
        Add support for reading properties blobs.  Add methods for accessing
        database, summary, and user-defined properties from the Database.  Add
        methods to Table and Column for accessing their respective properties.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="add">
        Add support for Access 2010, including new "General" sort order
        (support for super-long text index entries still needs work).
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge" issue="3287626">
        Access expects a row to be at least big enough to hold all fixed
        values, even if they are null.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Add Index.getReferencedIndex for retrieving the referenced Index for a
        foreign key index.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.2.3" date="2011-03-05">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge" issue="3181334">
        Add support for writing all fixed length column types into variable
        length fields.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge" issue="3192058">
        More fixes related to reading and interpreting index information.
        Handle multiple logical indexes backed by the same index data.
        Interpret foreign key constraint information.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Allow MSISAM files to be written (experimental).
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="add">
        Add support for creating indexes when creating a new table.  Normal
        indexes and primary key indexes are currently supported.  Foreign key
        indexes are not yet supported.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.2.2" date="2010-11-29">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Add support for specifying a quote character on import from flat
        files.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Add support for reading database password.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update" system="SourceForge" issue="3065010">
        Add support for plugging in implementations of various page
        encoding/decoding algorithms.  See the &lt;a href="http://jackcessencrypt.sourceforge.net/"&gt;Jackcess Encrypt&lt;/a&gt;
        project for a CodecProvider implementation which supports a few of the
        Access encodings.  (thanks to Vladimir Berezniker).
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update" system="SourceForge" issue="3101578">
        Implement some tweaks which allow jackcess to be used on the Android
        platform.  See the &lt;a href="faq.html#android"&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; for more
        details.  (thanks to Miha Pirnat).
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update" system="SourceForge" issue="3097387">
        Allow output column order in tables to be configured.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update" system="SourceForge" issue="3105829">
        Add support for custom column value matching when finding rows using a
        Cursor.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix">
        Ignore usagemap inconsistencies in certain (safe) situations.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.2.1" date="2010-08-01">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="add" system="SourceForge" issue="3005272">
        Add ExportUtil and associated utilities for exporting tables to flat
        files (thanks to F. Gerbig).
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge" issue="3011084">
        Fix some places where table/columns names were not being handled
        case-insensitively.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge" issue="3029500">
        Make Database.escapeIdentifier public; add methods to TableBuilder and
        ColumnBuilder to optionally escape names.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update" system="SourceForge" issue="2997751">
        Add support for overriding charset and timezone used when
        reading/writing database.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="add" system="SourceForge" issue="3003375">
        Add support for reading Access 97 (jet format 3) databases (thanks to
        F. Gerbig).
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.2.0" date="2010-04-18">
      <action dev="bhamail" type="update" system="SourceForge" issue="1451628">
        Add support for access 2002/2003/2007 databases.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Enable "large" index support by default.  It can still be disabled via
        a variety of means, see the Database javadoc for more details.
      </action>
      <action dev="bhamail" type="fix" system="SourceForge" issue="2968957">
        Fix BigIndexTest to work in IDE's w/out sys.prop.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.1.21" date="2010-01-19">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge" issue="2899605">
        Further improvements to date handling.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Handle more binary/character input types (Blob, Clob, InputStream,
        Reader), based on user submitted patch.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Refactor import/copy methods from Database into ImportUtil.  Allow
        reuse of existing tables.  make behavior/naming of copy and import
        methods consistent.  (ideas from submitted patch).
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge" issue="2919216">
        Set overflow info in header row, not in last data row.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge" issue="2920092">
        Add support for indexing strings containing any characters from BMP 0.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.1.20" date="2009-11-18">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge" issue="2884599">
        Add support for updating GUID indexes and for auto-number GUID
        fields.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update" system="SourceForge" issue="2802845">
        Add support for updating rows in a table.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge" issue="2886370">
        Support reading/writing fixed length text fields.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.1.19" date="2009-06-13">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="add">
        Add Query reading support.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge" issue="2788029">
        Be more forgiving for input column length.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.1.18" date="2008-11-08">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="add">
        Add ErrorHandler utility for customizing error handling during row
        parsing.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="add">
        Add RowFilter contributed by Patricia Donaldson.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Add Database.getSystemTable method for accessing system tables.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.1.17" date="2008-09-23">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge" issue="2043499">
        Fix simple index handling of tail index pages.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.1.16" date="2008-07-24">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge" issue="2019244">
        Reserve minimum space for memo/ole fields so that greedy inline row
        usage does not cause spurious write failures for wide tables.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge" issue="2018713">
        Better column type translation for very large MEMO/OLE types in the
        Database.copyTable logic.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge" issue="2019244">
        Add some more limit checking into table creation based on what access
        supports (max rows per table, max identifier lengths).
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge" issue="2019244">
        Share out-of-line long value pages in order to generate more compact
        database files.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="add">
        Add primitive support for writing unicode compressed text columns.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="add">
        Add compression code for possible future use; add compression unit
        tests.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.1.15" date="2008-06-27">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge" issue="1998225">
        Fix writing of large memo/ole fields.  Apparently Access does not like
        long value fields longer than 4076 bytes.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix">
        Reduce maximum row size to what Access considers valid.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.1.14" date="2008-04-29">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge" issue="1924705">
        Need to store auto-number values back into row so that indexes can be
        updated correctly.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge" issue="1942330">
        Access seems to limit data pages to a max of 255 rows.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge" issue="1564870">
        Added experimental support for "large" indexes.  The current support
        is optional.  It can be enabled via a variety of means, see the
        Database javadoc for more details.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.1.13" date="2008-03-21">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge" issue="1913775">
        More fixes for index parsing.  Believe index names are now correctly
        matched up with indexes.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Simplify comparison algorithms for RowId and Index.Entry using type
        attributes.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge" issue="1906160">
        Expand the characters supported in index updates to all of the
        ISO-8859-1 character set.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix">
        Fix bug caused by sign extension when reading single-byte row numbers.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Modify Index update support so that it honors the "unique" and
        "ignoreNulls" properties for the Index.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Add support for reading table relationships.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix">
        Fix creation of tables with auto-number columns.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge" issue="1832723">
        Completely fix problems with sporadic usage map corruption.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Add some soft buffer caching in various places to avoid excessive
        buffer reallocation.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="add">
        Add some builder-style utilities for table creation (ColumnBuilder,
        TableBuilder).
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.1.12" date="2008-02-27">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix">
        Resolve more edge cases around date handling.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge" issue="1899076">
        Fix writing of large memo/ole fields.  Apparently Access does not like
        "inline" fields longer than 64 bytes.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge" issue="1898793">
        Fix generation of security access control entries.  Use userIds
        already existing in the database file instead of hard-coded userIds,
        if possible.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.1.11" date="2008-01-20">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix">
        Support reading inline usage maps with more than 512 pages.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge" issue="1832723">
        Fix some problems with sporadic usage map corruption.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Move from cvs to subversion.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.1.10" date="2007-12-26">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="add">
        Add index based table traversal support to Cursor with optional
        sub-range narrowing.  Add position save/restore, row find, and a
        variety of other features.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="add">
        Move table iteration out of Table and into Cursor.  First stage in
        offering more complicated table access.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge" issue="1681954">
        Update table row count correctly on row deletion or bulk row addition,
        bug #1681954.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update" system="SourceForge" issue="1565216">
        Add experimental support for auto-number columns, feature request
        #1565216.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Move project to maven2 and change project groupId to
        com.healthmarketscience.jackcess.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.1.9" date="2007-07-12">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge" issue="1675522">
        Add support for writing large table definitions, bug #1675522.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge" issue="1748827">
        Fix handling of usage maps for large tables, bug #1748827.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge" issue="1672071">
        Fixed some edge cases for reading numeric columns, bug #1672071.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.1.8" date="2007-02-13">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Additional info in DataType to support better type validation
        (scale/precision range).  Add "unit size" concept.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Add CLOB support in JDBC handling.  Add general support for large
        types (BLOB/CLOB).
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Enhance Database.copyTable/importReader to allow for better control
        over column definitions and row values through the ImportFilter.
        Change default type translation to handle large and variable length
        types better.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.1.7" date="2006-10-02">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Refactored DataType class, cleaned up a lot of "custom" data type code
        springled throughout the codebase.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Added sanity checking on table creation (check column/table properties
        for validity).
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Clean up index reading/writing of text columns, add support for more
        characters
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update" system="SourceForge" issue="1563654">
        Support reading 'compressed' indexes (fix 1563654)
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Implement "overflow" row reading.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix">
        Allow multi-page long value reading.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Implement multi-page long value writing.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix">
        Fix decimal data type writing.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update" system="SourceForge" issue="1545857">
        Add support for opening files read-only (fix 1545857)
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.1.6" date="2006-08-07">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge" issue="1530312">
        Handle more tables with more index slots than actual indexes (fix bug
        1530312)
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge" issue="1449812">
        Clean up reading/writing 3-byte ints; long value length is 3-bytes
        (fix bug 1449812)
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix">
        Fix handling of skipped rows
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix" system="SourceForge" issue="1306970">
        When reading multi-page table def, flip buffer before parsing (fix bug
        1306970)
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Treat table names as case insensitive; use stored table names when
        instantiating tables
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Make Database and Table Iterable
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix">
        Use uppercase names when adding text columns to indexes, which fixes
        long standing problem with table names starting with lowercase
        characters (and other situations where tables could not be opened in
        Access).  Remove hack which forced every table name to have uppercase
        first character.
      </action>      
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Clean up compressed text handling.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Implement reading multi-page long binary values
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.1.5" date="2006-07-25">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Add support for currency columns (thanks to James Schopp).
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix">
        Handle tables with no variable length columns correctly.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix">
        Handle reading with deleted columns.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Read information on primary keys and include in Index.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix">
        Fix some issues around reading indexes.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Add write support for numeric/GUID columns.
      </action>
      <action dev="javajedi" type="update">
        Added getRowCount(), getName(), updated toString() on Table.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.1.4" date="2006-6-15">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix">
        Missing break in switch condition.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix">
        Fixes
        to reading/writing MEMO/OLE columns.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="update">
        Made exceptions thrown when opening empty or nonexistent files more
        specific.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix">
        Apply patch from Jon Iles for handilng variable length columns.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix">
        Apply patch from Jon Iles for handling dates.
      </action>
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix">
        Apply patch from Jon Iles for reading GUIDs.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.1.3" date="2006-2-16">
      <action dev="jahlborn" type="fix">
        Fix parsing of NUMERIC type.
      </action>
      <action dev="javajedi" type="fix">
        Applied Jon Iles' patch to allow large table definitions to be read.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.1.2" date="2005-8-26">
      <action dev="javajedi" type="fix" system="SourceForge" issue="1273712">
        Fixed bug where writing null values into fixed-width columns was
        failing.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.1.1" date="2005-8-20">
      <action dev="javajedi" type="fix" system="SourceForge" issue="1261536">
        Fixed bug in reading index count from table definition.  Skip overflow
        rows.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.1" date="2005-8-12">
      <action dev="javajedi" type="update">
        JDK 1.5 upgrades
      </action>
      <action dev="javajedi" type="update">
        Applied Mitchell Friedman's patch for support of additional JDBC data
        types.
      </action>
      <action dev="javajedi" type="update">
        Added support for deleted rows.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.0" date="2005-4-7">
      <action dev="javajedi" type="add">
        Initial release
      </action>
    </release>
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