sqlite3 v2.7.0 Release Notes

  • ๐Ÿš€ (released on August 12th 2015)

    ๐Ÿ†• NEW FEATURES

    • The limit functionality of SQLite is now wrapped.

    ๐Ÿ— BUILD PROCESS

    • ๐Ÿ— Instead of fts3, build fts5 extension when using amalgamation.
    • ๐Ÿ‘‰ use pkg-config for finding SQLite if available
    • โœ‚ Removed the download/unpacking of SQLite amalgamation files. If you now want to statically build against the SQLite amalgamation files, download them yourself and put them in the pysqlite root directory.

    ๐Ÿ‘Œ IMPROVEMENTS

    • ๐ŸŒ Use toc.db file from the SQLite web site and a custom script to make sure that we have all integer constants mapped to Python.
    • ๐Ÿ‘‰ Use Travis CI
    • โž• Added Trove classifier to make sure Python 3 users do not accidentally try to install it.

    ๐Ÿ›  BUGFIXES

    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix for parsing fractional second part of timestamps.
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fixed bug where when using converters, empty strings ended up as None on the Python side.
    • SQLite can cope with text with embedded NUL. We can now, too.
    • many others