[Squirrel-sql-users] SQuirreL SQL Client 1.1rc1 released

SQuirreL SQL Client 1.1rc1 released

Version 1.1rc1 is now available. Downloads are
available at
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=28383&release_id=11362
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This is the first release candidate for
1.1. There should be no changes other
than bug fixes and documentation
updates for the stable version.

The following plugins have also been
updated to work with this version of
SQuirreL.

jEdit 0.17, MySQL 0.11, Oracle 0.11,
SessionScript 0.12, SQLScripts 0.21,
and SQL Validator 0.12.

The changes in this release include:

Enhancements
------------
- Information windows (such as Help) can now be moved
  outside of the main window.
- Add home toolbar button to the HTML Viewer.
- Fix Refresh in HtmlViewer.
- Change icons for commit/rollback. The old icons were
  too similar and confused people.
- Add Proxy settings to Application Preferences.
- Add file sizes into SQuirreL Logs dropdown.
- Sort the driver names in dropdown box in a
  case-insensitive manner.
- Make all windows resizeable.
- Add Refresh button to HTLM Viewer toolbar.
- Add FAQ to the Help menu.
- Added "Install Default Drivers" menu option which will
  copy driver definitions from the default drivers file to
  the drivers list.
- Add SAPDB, DB2 and PointBase to default drivers.
- Add HSQL to list of default drivers (Glenn Griffin).
- Cleanup example URLs for many of the default drivers (Glenn Griffin).
- Add toolbar to HTML Viewer with back, forward and close buttons.
- Documentation updated.
- Allow Squirrel to be run from directories other than the current
  directory (Tim Shadel).
- Treat Types.OTHER columns as strings when displaying data.
- Add plugins location to plugin summary dialog.
- Add plugins location to application dump.
- Create Windows shortcut in installer.
- Make shell script executable in installer.
- Add icons for program shortcuts (Greg Mackness).
- Add an icon to the main window (Greg Mackness).
- The name of the item selected in the object tree will
  be displayed in the statusbar.
- Remove unnecessary borders on UI components.
- Add jTDS to list of default drivers.
- The "Start of line comment" characters can now be
  specified in preferences instead of just using '--'.

Bug Fixes
---------
- Reload Metal Look and Feel when first loading
  SQuirreL so that the "Blue" theme is used.
- Position focus to the text area when first displaying
  the HTML viewer window.
- Stop driver maintenance window from resizing when jars
  added/removed.
- Improve error handling when loading drivers and aliases.
- Incorrect error message was displayed in View Help
  command (Glenn Griffin).
- Fix Nullpointer exception in HTML viewer under JDK1.3.
- CLOB/BLOB columns weren't handled correctly on metadata and
  Content tabs.
- The line/column number displayed for the SQL entry area
  now starts from 1,1 not 0,0
- Make multiple line label use the same font as static text controls not
  editable text controls.
- Links in the Help file now work (Victor Ott).
- Fix deadlock when viewing logs.
- Add missing "contributors" file for About Box.

Plugin API
----------
- Move metadata methods to metadata classes.

Other
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- Don't display icons in menus.
- Cleanup ResultSetMetaData handling.
- Make the installation window resizeable.


jEdit Plugin Changes
====================
- "TRIGGER" is now recognized as an SQL keyword.

SQL Validator Plugin Changes
============================
- Add Connect and Disconnet options to the menus system.
- Move validation menu options to their own hierarchical menu
  off the Session menu.
- Only display logon menu and open a session to the web service
  if a session doesn't already exist.
- Make login dialog resizeable.
- Cleaned up the preference panels.
- Updated for SQuirrel SQL Client 1.1rc1.