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<li>Documentation updates</li>
</ul></p>
<a name="version_3_1_2"></a>
<h3>2005 February 15 (3.1.2)</h3>
<p><ul>
<li>Fix a bug that can lead to database corruption if there are two
open connections to the same database and one connection does a VACUUM
and the second makes some change to the database.</li>
<li>Allow "?" parameters in the LIMIT clause.</li>
<li>Fix VACUUM so that it works with AUTOINCREMENT.</li>
<li>Fix a race condition in AUTOVACUUM that can lead to corrupt databases</li>
<li>Add a numeric version number to the sqlite3.h include file.</li>
<li>Other minor bug fixes and performance enhancements.</li>
</ul></p>
<a name="version_2_8_16"></a>
<h3>2005 February 15 (2.8.16)</h3>
<p><ul>
<li>Fix a bug that can lead to database corruption if there are two
open connections to the same database and one connection does a VACUUM
and the second makes some change to the database.</li>
<li>Correctly handle quoted names in CREATE INDEX statements.</li>
<li>Fix a naming conflict between sqlite.h and sqlite3.h.</li>
<li>Avoid excess heap usage when copying expressions.</li>
<li>Other minor bug fixes.</li>
</ul></p>
<h3>2005 February 1 (3.1.1 BETA)</h3>
<p><ul>
<li>Automatic caching of prepared statements in the TCL interface</li>
<li>ATTACH and DETACH as well as some other operations cause existing
    prepared statements to expire.</li>
<li>Numerious minor bug fixes</li>
</ul></p>
<h3>2005 January 21 (3.1.0 ALPHA)</h3>
<p><ul>
<li>Autovacuum support added</li>
<li>CURRENT_TIME, CURRENT_DATE, and CURRENT_TIMESTAMP added</li>
<li>Support for the EXISTS clause added.</li>
<li>Support for correlated subqueries added.</li>
<li>Added the ESCAPE clause on the LIKE operator.</li>
<li>Support for ALTER TABLE ... RENAME TABLE ... added</li>
<li>AUTOINCREMENT keyword supported on INTEGER PRIMARY KEY</li>
<li>Many SQLITE_OMIT_ macros inserts to omit features at compile-time
    and reduce the library footprint.</li>
<li>The REINDEX command was added.</li>
<li>The engine no longer consults the main table if it can get
    all the information it needs from an index.</li>
<li>Many nuisance bugs fixed.</li>
</ul></p>
<a name="version_3_0_8"></a>
<h3>2004 October 11 (3.0.8)</h3>
<p><ul>
<li>Add support for DEFERRED, IMMEDIATE, and EXCLUSIVE transactions.</li>
<li>Allow new user-defined functions to be created when there are
already one or more precompiled SQL statements.<li>
<li>Fix portability problems for Mingw/MSYS.</li>
<li>Fix a byte alignment problem on 64-bit Sparc machines.</li>
<li>Fix the ".import" command of the shell so that it ignores \r
characters at the end of lines.</li>
<li>The "csv" mode option in the shell puts strings inside double-quotes.</li>
<li>Fix typos in documentation.</li>
<li>Convert array constants in the code to have type "const".</li>
<li>Numerous code optimizations, specially optimizations designed to
make the code footprint smaller.</li>
</ul></p>
<a name="version_3_0_7"></a>
<h3>2004 September 18 (3.0.7)</h3>
<p><ul>
<li>The BTree module allocates large buffers using malloc() instead of
    off of the stack, in order to play better on machines with limited
    stack space.</li>
<li>Fixed naming conflicts so that versions 2.8 and 3.0 can be
    linked and used together in the same ANSI-C source file.</li>
<li>New interface: sqlite3_bind_parameter_index()</li>
<li>Add support for wildcard parameters of the form: "?nnn"</li>
<li>Fix problems found on 64-bit systems.</li>
<li>Removed encode.c file (containing unused routines) from the 
    version 3.0 source tree.</li>
<li>The sqlite3_trace() callbacks occur before each statement
    is executed, not when the statement is compiled.</li>
<li>Makefile updates and miscellaneous bug fixes.</li>
</ul></p>
<h3>2004 September 02 (3.0.6 beta)</h3>
<p><ul>
<li>Better detection and handling of corrupt database files.</li>
<li>The sqlite3_step() interface returns SQLITE_BUSY if it is unable
    to commit a change because of a lock</li>
<li>Combine the implementations of LIKE and GLOB into a single
    pattern-matching subroutine.</li>
<li>Miscellaneous code size optimizations and bug fixes</li>
</ul></p>
<h3>2004 August 29 (3.0.5 beta)</h3>
<p><ul>
<li>Support for ":AAA" style bind parameter names.</li>
<li>Added the new sqlite3_bind_parameter_name() interface.</li>
<li>Support for TCL variable names embedded in SQL statements in the
    TCL bindings.</li>
<li>The TCL bindings transfer data without necessarily doing a conversion
    to a string.</li>
<li>The database for TEMP tables is not created until it is needed.</li>
<li>Add the ability to specify an alternative temporary file directory
    using the "sqlite_temp_directory" global variable.</li>
<li>A compile-time option (SQLITE_BUSY_RESERVED_LOCK) causes the busy
    handler to be called when there is contention for a RESERVED lock.</li>
<li>Various bug fixes and optimizations</li>
</ul></p>
<h3>2004 August 8 (3.0.4 beta)</h3>
<p><ul>
<li>CREATE TABLE and DROP TABLE now work correctly as prepared statements.</li>
<li>Fix a bug in VACUUM and UNIQUE indices.</li>
<li>Add the ".import" command to the command-line shell.</li>
<li>Fix a bug that could cause index corruption when an attempt to
    delete rows of a table is blocked by a pending query.</li>
<li>Library size optimizations.</li>
<li>Other minor bug fixes.</li>
</ul></p>
<a name="version_2_8_15"></a>
<h3>2004 July 22 (2.8.15)</h3>
<p><ul>
<li>This is a maintenance release only.  Various minor bugs have been
fixed and some portability enhancements are added.</li>
</ul></p>
<h3>2004 July 22 (3.0.3 beta)</h3>
<p><ul>
<li>The second beta release for SQLite 3.0.</li>
<li>Add support for "PRAGMA page_size" to adjust the page size of
the database.</li>
<li>Various bug fixes and documentation updates.</li>
</ul></p>
<h3>2004 June 30 (3.0.2 beta)</h3>
<p><ul>
<li>The first beta release for SQLite 3.0.</li>
</ul></p>
<h3>2004 June 22 (3.0.1 alpha)</h3>
<p><ul>
<li><font color="red"><b>
    *** Alpha Release - Research And Testing Use Only ***</b></font>
<li>Lots of bug fixes.</li>
</ul></p>
<h3>2004 June 18 (3.0.0 alpha)</h3>
<p><ul>
<li><font color="red"><b>
    *** Alpha Release - Research And Testing Use Only ***</b></font>
<li>Support for internationalization including UTF-8, UTF-16, and
    user defined collating sequences.</li>
<li>New file format that is 25% to 35% smaller for typical use.</li>
<li>Improved concurrency.</li>
<li>Atomic commits for ATTACHed databases.</li>
<li>Remove cruft from the APIs.</li>
<li>BLOB support.</li>
<li>64-bit rowids.</li>
<li><a href="version3.html">More information</a>.
</ul></p>
<a name="version_2_8_14"></a>
<h3>2004 June 9 (2.8.14)</h3>
<p><ul>
<li>Fix the min() and max() optimizer so that it works when the FROM
    clause consists of a subquery.</li>
<li>Ignore extra whitespace at the end of of "." commands in the shell.</li>
<li>Bundle sqlite_encode_binary() and sqlite_decode_binary() with the 
    library.</li>
<li>The TEMP_STORE and DEFAULT_TEMP_STORE pragmas now work.</li>
<li>Code changes to compile cleanly using OpenWatcom.</li>
<li>Fix VDBE stack overflow problems with INSTEAD OF triggers and
    NULLs in IN operators.</li>
<li>Add the global variable sqlite_temp_directory which if set defines the
    directory in which temporary files are stored.</li>
<li>sqlite_interrupt() plays well with VACUUM.</li>
<li>Other minor bug fixes.</li>
</ul></p>
<a name="version_2_8_13"></a>
<h3>2004 March 8 (2.8.13)</h3>
<p><ul>
<li>Refactor parts of the code in order to make the code footprint
    smaller.  The code is now also a little bit faster.</li>
<li>sqlite_exec() is now implemented as a wrapper around sqlite_compile()
    and sqlite_step().</li>
<li>The built-in min() and max() functions now honor the difference between
    NUMERIC and TEXT datatypes.  Formerly, min() and max() always assumed
    their arguments were of type NUMERIC.</li>
<li>New HH:MM:SS modifier to the built-in date/time functions.</li>
<li>Experimental sqlite_last_statement_changes() API added.  Fixed the
    the last_insert_rowid() function so that it works correctly with
    triggers.</li>
<li>Add functions prototypes for the database encryption API.</li>
<li>Fix several nuisance bugs.</li>
</ul></p>
<a name="version_2_8_12"></a>
<h3>2004 February 8 (2.8.12)</h3>
<p><ul>
<li>Fix a bug that will might corrupt the rollback journal if a power failure
    or external program halt occurs in the middle of a COMMIT.  The corrupt
    journal can lead to database corruption when it is rolled back.</li>
<li>Reduce the size and increase the speed of various modules, especially
    the virtual machine.</li>
<li>Allow "&lt;expr&gt; IN &lt;table&gt;" as a shorthand for
    "&lt;expr&gt; IN (SELECT * FROM &lt;table&gt;".</li>
<li>Optimizations to the sqlite_mprintf() routine.</li>
<li>Make sure the MIN() and MAX() optimizations work within subqueries.</li>
</ul></p>
<a name="version_2_8_11"></a>
<h3>2004 January 14 (2.8.11)</h3>
<p><ul>
<li>Fix a bug in how the IN operator handles NULLs in subqueries.  The bug
    was introduced by the previous release.</li>
</ul></p>
<a name="version_2_8_10"></a>
<h3>2004 January 13 (2.8.10)</h3>
<p><ul>
<li>Fix a potential database corruption problem on Unix caused by the fact
    that all posix advisory locks are cleared whenever you close() a file.
    The work around it to embargo all close() calls while locks are 
    outstanding.</li>
<li>Performance enhancements on some corner cases of COUNT(*).</li>
<li>Make sure the in-memory backend response sanely if malloc() fails.</li>
<li>Allow sqlite_exec() to be called from within user-defined SQL
    functions.</li>
<li>Improved accuracy of floating-point conversions using "long double".</li>
<li>Bug fixes in the experimental date/time functions.</li>
</ul></p>
<a name="version_2_8_9"></a>
<h3>2004 January 5 (2.8.9)</h3>
<p><ul>
<li>Fix a 32-bit integer overflow problem that could result in corrupt
    indices in a database if large negative numbers (less than -2147483648)
    were inserted into a indexed numeric column.</li>
<li>Fix a locking problem on multi-threaded Linux implementations.</li>
<li>Always use "." instead of "," as the decimal point even if the locale
    requests ",".</li>
<li>Added UTC to localtime conversions to the experimental date/time
    functions.</li>
<li>Bug fixes to date/time functions.</li>
</ul></p>
<a name="version_2_8_8"></a>
<h3>2003 December 17 (2.8.8)</h3>
<p><ul>
<li>Fix a critical bug introduced into 2.8.0 which could cause
    database corruption.</li>
<li>Fix a problem with 3-way joins that do not use indices</li>
<li>The VACUUM command now works with the non-callback API</li>
<li>Improvements to the "PRAGMA integrity_check" command</li>
</ul></p>
<a name="version_2_8_7"></a>
<h3>2003 December 4 (2.8.7)</h3>
<p><ul>
<li>Added experimental sqlite_bind() and sqlite_reset() APIs.</li>
<li>If the name of the database is an empty string, open a new database
    in a temporary file that is automatically deleted when the database
    is closed.</li>
<li>Performance enhancements in the lemon-generated parser</li>
<li>Experimental date/time functions revised.</li>
<li>Disallow temporary indices on permanent tables.</li>
<li>Documentation updates and typo fixes</li>
<li>Added experimental sqlite_progress_handler() callback API</li>
<li>Removed support for the Oracle8 outer join syntax.</li>
<li>Allow GLOB and LIKE operators to work as functions.</li>
<li>Other minor documentation and makefile changes and bug fixes.</li>
</ul></p>
<a name="version_2_8_6"></a>
<h3>2003 August 21 (2.8.6)</h3>
<p><ul>
<li>Moved the CVS repository to www.sqlite.org</li>
<li>Update the NULL-handling documentation.</li>
<li>Experimental date/time functions added.</li>
<li>Bug fix: correctly evaluate a view of a view without segfaulting.</li>
<li>Bug fix: prevent database corruption if you dropped a
    trigger that had the same name as a table.</li>
<li>Bug fix: allow a VACUUM (without segfaulting) on an empty
    database after setting the EMPTY_RESULT_CALLBACKS pragma.</li>
<li>Bug fix: if an integer value will not fit in a 32-bit int, store it in
    a double instead.</li>
<li>Bug fix: Make sure the journal file directory entry is committed to disk
    before writing the database file.</li>
</ul></p>
<a name="version_2_8_5"></a>
<h3>2003 July 22 (2.8.5)</h3>
<p><ul>
<li>Make LIMIT work on a compound SELECT statement.</li>
<li>LIMIT 0 now shows no rows.  Use LIMIT -1 to see all rows.</li>
<li>Correctly handle comparisons between an INTEGER PRIMARY KEY and
    a floating point number.</li>
<li>Fix several important bugs in the new ATTACH and DETACH commands.</li>
<li>Updated the <a href="nulls.html">NULL-handling document</a>.</li> 
<li>Allow NULL arguments in sqlite_compile() and sqlite_step().</li>
<li>Many minor bug fixes</li>
</ul></p>
<a name="version_2_8_4"></a>
<h3>2003 June 29 (2.8.4)</h3>
<p><ul>
<li>Enhanced the "PRAGMA integrity_check" command to verify indices.</li>
<li>Added authorization hooks for the new ATTACH and DETACH commands.</li>
<li>Many documentation updates</li>
<li>Many minor bug fixes</li>
</ul></p>
<a name="version_2_8_3"></a>
<h3>2003 June 4 (2.8.3)</h3>
<p><ul>
<li>Fix a problem that will corrupt the indices on a table if you
    do an INSERT OR REPLACE or an UPDATE OR REPLACE on a table that
    contains an INTEGER PRIMARY KEY plus one or more indices.</li>