History of Changes for MS Access to MySQL Converter

v8.5 02/12/2024
	- support for MySQL v8.2+ authentication protocol 

v8.3 07/18/2022
	- improved support for calculated and attachment columns
	- improved migration of queries
	- verified compatibility with MS Access 2021

v8.1 03/02/2020
	- 64-bit version is available, 32-bit version is not updated anymore
	- MS Access is not required anymore
	- support for recent MySQL authentication protocol 

v7.5 06/11/2018
	- piecewise writing to MySQL (support for big data)
	- workaround for MySQL 8.0 password hashing

v7.3 03/12/2018
	- option to reorder queries to preserve dependencies
	- support for Now() and Date() as def.values for date/time columns
	- improved support for embedded functions in queries
	- improved support for relationships between tables (attributes)

v7.1 01/15/2018
	- improved support for date/time format
	- improved support for functions in default values 

v6.5.3 07/11/2016
	- support for MS Access attachment type
	- support for column description

v6.5 03/28/2016
	- improved check for version of MS Access format 
	- verified compatibility with MariaDB and Percona
	- demo limitation hab been extended up to 50 records per table
	- updated UI

v6.3 04/07/2014
	- new settings (MySQL storage engine, MySQL charset)
	- bugfix: support for 'concat' in MS Access queries 
	- improved converting BLOBs 

v6.1 10/16/2013
	- option to customize field mapping (modify name, type, default values for every column)
	- option to select how to treat boolean values (ANSI or Microsoft)
	- updated help and UI

v5.5 05/22/2012
	- improved processing MS Access queries
	- new installer
	- digital certificate

v5.3 10/24/2011
	- convert MS Access queries into MySQL views

v5.1 08/08/2011
	- synchronization of existing MySQL tables with MS Access data
	- quick launch
	- bugfix: improved support for MS Access default values

v4.7 07/04/2011
	- "User-level security" page has been updated
	- improved algorithm of merging
	- bugfix: Unicode support for MS Access 2007/2010
	
v4.5 07/26/2010
	- bugfix: processing NULL values in MySQL bulk insert statements 
	- updated installer 
	- updated help

v4.3 05/08/2009
	- support for MySQL v6.x
	- support for Access 2007

v4.1 11/29/2007
	- Unicode support 
	- store conversion settings into profile
	- bugfix: multi-line queries in SELECT-filters

v3.5 08/21/2007
	- filtering data to convert using SELECT-queries
	- bugfix: support for delete/update rules in relationships declaration
	
v3.1 12/08/2006
	- algorithm of fast appeding data to MySQL database
	- improved format of MySQL DDL statements for export into dump file
	
v2.5 09/02/2006
	- bugfix: default values enclosed in quotes
	- converting GUIDs into CHAR(38)
	- updated installer 

v2.3 03/20/2006
	- "log_file" and "silent" options in command line version
	- new GUI

v2.1 11/14/2005
	- foreign keys support
	- intelligent error handling
	- new MySQL authentication protocol is supported
	- bugfix: correct conversion of "pure" time
 	- bugfix: correct conversion of empty datetime values

v1.5 11/01/2004
	- command line version
	- MySQL dump file formatting options
	- improved support for BLOB fields

v1.3 10/06/2003
	- select tables to convert
	- option to convert MS Access data into local MySQL dump file
	- bugfix: default values for boolean fields

v1.1 12/09/2002
	- OLE Objects support
	- user/group level (UGL) security support
	- option of merging data into an existing MySQL database 

v1.0.5 09/14/2001
	- bugfix: indexes on BLOB fields
	- conversion progress information has been added

v1.0.3 05/19/2001
	- bugfix: correct processing default values with \ ' " symbols
	- bugfix: correct processing unacceptable field/table/database names

v1.0.1 04/02/2001 
	- bugfix: distinguish empty fields and NULL fields	
	
v1.0 02/26/2001
	- initial version