Preparing to release cx_Oracle 7.0.

Author: anthony-tuininga

README.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# cx_Oracle version 6.4
+# cx_Oracle version 7.0
 
 cx_Oracle is a Python extension module that enables access to Oracle
 Database.  It conforms to the [Python database API 2.0
@@ -7,11 +7,11 @@ of exclusions.  See the
 [homepage](https://oracle.github.io/python-cx_Oracle/index.html) for a
 feature list.
 
-cx_Oracle 6 has been tested with Python version 2.7, and with versions
-3.4 and higher. You can use cx_Oracle with Oracle 11.2, 12.1 and 12.2
-client libraries. Oracle's standard client-server version
+cx_Oracle 7 has been tested with Python version 2.7, and with versions
+3.5 and higher. You can use cx_Oracle with Oracle 11.2 and higher client
+libraries (including Oracle 18.3). Oracle's standard client-server version
 interoperability allows connection to both older and newer databases,
-for example Oracle 12.2 client libraries can connect to Oracle
+for example Oracle 18.3 client libraries can connect to Oracle
 Database 11.2.
 
 ## Installation

doc/src/conf.py

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 # The short X.Y version.
 version = '7.0'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '7.0.0-dev'
+release = '7.0.0'
 
 # There are two options for replacing |today|: either, you set today to some
 # non-false value, then it is used:

doc/src/index.rst

@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ Welcome to cx_Oracle's documentation!
 
 **cx_Oracle** is a module that enables access to Oracle Database and conforms
 to the Python database API specification. This module is currently tested
-against Oracle Client 11.2, 12.1 and 12.2 and Python 2.7, 3.4, 3.5 and 3.6.
+against Oracle Client 11.2, 12.1, 12.2 and 18.3 and Python 2.7, 3.5, 3.6 and
+3.7.
 
 **cx_Oracle** is distributed under an open-source :ref:`license <license>`
 (the BSD license).

doc/src/installation.rst

@@ -570,7 +570,7 @@ which the following commands should be run::
 Upgrading from cx_Oracle 6
 ==========================
 
-Review the `releasenotes
+Review the `release notes
 <http://cx-oracle.readthedocs.io/en/latest/releasenotes.html>`__ for
 deprecations and modify any affected code.
 

doc/src/license.rst

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ License
 
 .. centered:: **LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR CX_ORACLE**
 
-Copyright |copy| 2016-2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+Copyright |copy| 2016, 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
 
 Copyright |copy| 2007-2015, Anthony Tuininga. All rights reserved.
 

doc/src/releasenotes.rst

@@ -3,6 +3,56 @@
 cx_Oracle Release Notes
 =======================
 
+7.x releases
+############
+
+.. _releasenotes70:
+
+Version 7.0 (September 2018)
+----------------------------
+
+#)  Update to `ODPI-C 3.0
+    <https://oracle.github.io/odpi/doc/releasenotes.html#
+    version-3-0-0-september-13-2018>`__.
+#)  Added support for Oracle Client 18 libraries.
+#)  Added support for SODA (as preview). See :ref:`SODA Database <sodadb>`,
+    :ref:`SODA Collection <sodacoll>` and :ref:`SODA Document <sodadoc>` for
+    more information.
+#)  Added support for call timeouts available in Oracle Client 18.1 and
+    higher. See :attr:`Connection.callTimeout`.
+#)  Added support for getting the contents of a SQL collection object as a
+    dictionary, where the keys are the indices of the collection and the values
+    are the elements of the collection. See function :meth:`Object.asdict()`.
+#)  Added support for closing a session pool via the function
+    :meth:`SessionPool.close()`. Once closed, further attempts to use any
+    connection that was acquired from the pool will result in the error
+    "DPI-1010: not connected".
+#)  Added support for setting a LOB attribute of an object with a string or
+    bytes (instead of requiring a temporary LOB to be created).
+#)  Added support for the packed decimal type used by object attributes with
+    historical types DECIMAL and NUMERIC
+    (`issue 212 <https://github.com/oracle/python-cx_Oracle/issues/212>`__).
+#)  On Windows, first attempt to load oci.dll from the same directory as
+    the cx_Oracle module.
+#)  SQL objects that are created or fetched from the database are now tracked
+    and marked unusable when a connection is closed. This was done in order
+    to avoid a segfault under certain circumstances.
+#)  Re-enabled pool pinging functionality for Oracle Client 12.2 and higher
+    to handle classes of connection errors such as resource profile limits.
+#)  Improved error messages when the Oracle Client or Oracle Database need to
+    be at a minimum version in order to support a particular feature.
+#)  When a connection is used as a context manager, the connection is now
+    closed when the block ends. Attempts to set
+    ``cx_Oracle.__future__.ctx_mgr_close`` are now ignored.
+#)  When a DML returning statement is executed, variables bound to it will
+    return an array when calling :meth:`Variable.getvalue()`. Attempts to set
+    ``cx_Oracle.__future__.dml_ret_array_val`` are now ignored.
+#)  Support for Python 3.4 has been dropped.
+#)  Added additional test cases.
+#)  Improved documentation.
+
+
+
 6.x releases
 ############
 

odpi

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
     from distutils.extension import Extension
 
 # define build constants
-BUILD_VERSION = "7.0.0-dev"
+BUILD_VERSION = "7.0.0"
 
 # setup extra link and compile args
 extraLinkArgs = []