Stable version of zeoslib 7 is released.

The most important improvement you’ll find in this version is support for the compilers Delphi2009 and newer, with their unicode strings.

Other changes in this release are

– Some new components for grouping connections (alpha status)

– Postgres event alerter component comparable with the existing Interbase/Firebird event alerter (alpha status)

– Pooled connections (alpha status)

– Real prepared statement support (always for firebird, on demand for mysql and postgres), allowing to prepare queries once and execute them multipe times with different input variables.

– New FreeTDS driver for connections to Mssql and Sybase that can replace the old dblib protocol.

– TZStoredproc got a full makeover. Now Stored procedures should work for postgres, firebird, mysql, mssql and oracle (alpha status)

– A load of bugs have been fixed.

Downloads of the new beta release can be found on sourceforge or our mirror download directory http://zeosdownloads.firmos.at/downloads/