[baseten-users] BaseTen 1.7 nearing completion

[Tuukka Norri]

Hi!

Work on BaseTen 1.7 is nearly completed. However, instead of just  
promoting the newest SVN revision to 1.7, we'd like to ask you to test  
your applications with it. Current candidate is rev. 1292, but in case  
bugs are found, we'll naturally fix them. As usual, prebuilt disk  
images are available at http://basetenframework.org/autobuilds/

Here are release notes since version 1.6.2. We've also done some work  
on the manual, so please refer to it for more information.

BaseTen
– New features and major changes
	– Time types are now handled.
	– Dates are now assigned UTC or converted to it.
	– NSDates are now converted to date strings using NSCalendar instead
	  of NSCalendarDate.
	– Dates with time zones are now returned as NSDates.
	– Dates are now stored into the database in UTC.
	– The XML data type will now be fetched as NSXMLDocument in case the
	  column also has a constraint like CHECK(column IS DOCUMENT).
	– Bit and varbit fields are now be fetched as NSStrings, because they
	  can't easily be represented as octets. Fetching them probably
	  didn't work earlier.
	– Text fetched from the database will now be normalized to NFD.
	– Instead of storing relationship etc. information with references
	  to PostgreSQL oids, BaseTen's own identifiers are now used. This
	  prevents table and view renaming after having them BaseTen enabled,
	  but allows making backups much more easily.
	– To-many-relationships named after the target relation have now the
	  word “Set” appended to their names. The old names still work. If
	  you want to find the places in your code that use deprecated names,
	  add a symbolic breakpoint to BXDeprecationWarning.
	– In case of one-to-many and one-to-one relationships, the inverse
	  relationship's name can now be stored into the foreign key.
	– Some related objects or their IDs can now be specified in the value
	  dictionary when calling
	  -[BXDatabaseContext createObjectForEntity:withFieldValues:error:].
	– Sending locking queries has now been thoroughly documented and can
	  be (almost) completely disabled.
	– Added more SSL status codes. Now situations where SSL is unavailable,
	  automatic SSL certificate verification fails, user clicks cancel in
	  certificate trust panel and some other SSL error occurs can be
	  distinguished from each other.
	– More BaseTen's internals have now been documented in the reference
	  manual.
– Bug fixes and minor changes
	– Non-bytea columns will no longer be tried to be unescaped.
	– Fixed potential garbage collection -related bugs where objects'
	  internal pointers were used.
	– Changed KVO notification sending during -setPrimitiveValue:forKey:
	  so that willChange methods are guaranteed to be called before the
	  update.
	– Changed references from NSCountedSet to NSMutableSet in BXSetProxies.
	  We still create NSCountedSets but their countability property isn't
	  currently in use.
	– Some connection error messages are now more accurate.
	– Documented BXDatabaseObjectID as thread-safe since it only
	  uses NSURL.

BaseTenAppKit
– BaseTenAppKit now has the Interface Builder plug-in embedded.  
Interface
   Builder loads the plug-in if the framework has been added to a  
project.
– Fixed a crasher which occurred when connecting to a server with SSL
   capability in asynchronous mode. Moved the code into a method which  
both
   the connectors use, so it can be tested easily.
– BXSynchronizedArrayController's property fetchesOnConnect is now  
called
   fetchesAutomatically. If it's set, a fetch will be performed also  
when
   an already-connected database context is assigned to the array  
controller.
– Made sure that BXNetServiceConnector doesn't show an alert panel when
   the user clicks cancel in the trust panel.
– Clicking Cancel in the trust panel displays the connection panel  
again,
   like when clicking cancel in the authentication panel.

BaseTen Assistant
– Relationships are now listed in the Inspector and info windows.
– A graphical representation of the database schema can now be created  
for
   use with Graphviz or OmniGraffle.
– Temporary information can now be deleted from BaseTen schema.
– Optional relationships should now be created as optional.
– Columns will no longer be created for transient attributes in data  
models.
– Help is now more comprehensive.

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Best regards,
Tuukka Norri
MK&C