The licensing was unified (LGPL for all drivers,
GFDL for all docs). The Firebird driver was
thoroughly overhauled. Drivers are now linked
against libdbi by default.
This release added support for new MySQL 5.0 data types, improved support for older PostgreSQL releases, and fixed a segfault in the sqlite/sqlite3 drivers. sqlite/sqlite3 now support semicolons in query strings. Concurrent accesses were improved in sqlite3. Various fixes were made to the Oracle and Ingres drivers. The drivers can now be linked against libdbi to allow dlopen'ing libdbi in a dlopen'ed module.
Two bugs in the SQLite and SQLite3 drivers were fixed. An option to improve concurrent access was added to these drivers. The Firebird/Interbase and FreeTDS drivers are now fully functional.