InterBase Data Access Components History
This page lists the functionality added in each version of InterBase Data Access Components. To view the full changelog including bug fixes, consult the IBDAC revision history.
23-Oct-08 New Features in IBDAC 2.70
- Delphi 2009 and C++Builder 2009 supported
- Extended Unicode support for Delphi 2007 added (special Unicode build)
- Free Pascal 2.2 supported
- Powerful design-time editors implemented in Lazarus
- Completed with more comprehensive structured Help
23-May-08 New Features in IBDAC 2.50
- Added compatibility with UniDAC
- Improved support of default field values
- The new component for metadata receiving added
27-Sep-07 New Features in IBDAC 2.20
- CodeGear RAD Studio 2007 supported
- Added ability to treat integer fields as TBooleanField when the domain name contains "BOOLEAN"
15-Jun-07 New Features in IBDAC 2.10
- C++Builder 2007 supported
22-Mar-07 New features in IBDAC 2.00
- New functionality:
- Delphi 2007 for Win32 supported
- Disconnected model for working offline and automatically connecting and disconnecting supported
- Local failover for detecting connection loss and implicitly reexecuting some operations supported
- Added DataSet Manager to control project datasets
- New component for transferring data between all types of TDataSet descendants added
- Data export and import to/from XML supported
- WideMemo field type in Delphi 2006 supported
- Support for sending messages to DBMonitor from any point of your program added
- Support for more InterBase/Firebird server functionality:
- RETURNING clause in the INSERT SQL statement (Firebird 2 server only) supported
- EXECUTE BLOCK syntax (Firebird 2 server only) supported
- Automatic updates by DB_Key unique field (Firebird 2 server only) supported
- Default values in stored procedures supported
- Extensions and improvements to existing functionality:
- General performance improved
- Master/detail functionality extensions:
- Local master/detail relationship support added
- Master/detail relationship in CachedUpdates mode support added
- Connection pool functionality improvements:
- Efficiency significantly improved
- API for draining the connection pool added
- TIBCScript component improvements:
- Support for executing individual statements in scripts added
- Support for executing huge scripts stored in files with dynamic loading added
- Ability to use standard ISQL tool syntax added
- Working with calculated and lookup fields improvements:
- Local sorting and filtering added
- Record location speed increased
- Improved working with lookup fields
- Ability to customize update commands by attaching external components to TOraUpdateSQL objects added
- Ability to include all fields in automatically generated update SQLs added
- Usability improvements:
- Syntax highlighting in design-time editors added
- Easy-to-use demo projects
28-Aug-06 New features in IBDAC 1.10
- Professional editions of Turbo Delphi, Turbo Delphi for .NET, Turbo C++ supported