Orafce News - History of user-visible changes
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Version 4.5.0 - 5 Aug 2023
* partial rewriting of dbms_pipe. Now, the synchronization is based on signals instead short sleeping.
  New method is significantly faster.

Version 4.0.0 - 2 Nov 2022
* removed support for PostgreSQL 9.6 and 10
* merged orafce_sql project - implementation of dbms_sql package

Version 3.24.0 - 31 Jul 2022
* fixed badly used plain TOAST strategy of types varchar2 and nvarchar2

Version 3.22.0 - 22 Jun 2022
* deuglification - move all objects from public and pg_catalog to oracle schema

Version 3.14.0 - 22. Dec 2020
* conversion function unistr
* bugfix - allows binary upgrade

Version 3.13.4 - 31. May 2020
* enable utl_file on MS

Version 3.12.0 - 18. May 2020
* trigger functions oracle.replace_empty_strings and oracle.replace_null_strings
& remove support for 9.4

Version 3.11.0 - 30. Mar 2020
* named paths in utl_file package

Version 3.9.0 - 14. Feb 2020
* minor enhancing user_constraints view

Version 3.8.0 - 22. May 2019
* PostgreSQL 12 support

Version 3.7.0 - 7. Dec 2018
* possibility to better emulate || operator for varchar2 and nvarchar2 types
* few bugfixes
* only PostgreSQL 9.4 and newer are supported
* support for PostgreSQL 11, current master branch (future PostgreSQL 12) is supported too

Version 3.6.0
* some Oracle views - user_tab_columns, user_tables, user_objects, ...
* support Oracle bad used lpad and nvl functions

Version 3.5.0
* fix of important issue - missing IMMUTABLE flag for functions ltrim, btrim, rtrim, lpad, rpad

Version 3.4.0 - 2017-03-14
* new aggregate function wm_concat
* PostgreSQL 9.6, 10 are supported well

Version 3.2.0 - 2016-01-xx
* remove support for 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1 (only 9.2 and higher are supported)
* new functions: sysdate, sessiontimezone, dbtimezone

Version 3.1 - 2015-07-11
* remove support for 8.2
* add support for 9.5
* change the releasion number system
* new functions: to_single_byte, to_multi_byte, nanvl, length,
  ltrim, btrim, rtrim, lpad, rpad

Version 3.0.10 - 1. Jan 2015
* fix compilation issue in new code for Pg <= 9.1

Version 3.0.9 - 27. Dec 2014
* new Varchar2 and Nvarchar2 types
* enhanced oracle.substr function
* fix PGXN related issues in process

Version 3.0.7 - 27. Jul 2014
* PostgreSQL 9.4 compilation
* new datatype and related functions: oracle.date

Version 3.0.6 - 8. Sep 2013

* PostgreSQL 9.3 compilation
* some cleaning, fixes, much more regress tests

Version 3.0.5 - X Dec 2012

* PostgreSQL 9.1/9.2 compilation
* ... TODO ...