History of changes for Oracle-to-MySQL

v8.3 02/12/2024
	- support for MySQL v8.2+ authentication protocol

v8.1 12/05/2022
	- option to select Oracle schema
	- verified support for Azure MySQL

v7.5 10/04/2021
	- improved support for SDO_GEOMETRY, XMLTYPE types
	- intelligent handling MySQL maximum row size 65,535 bytes limit
	- validation of privileges on source and target databases 

v7.3 02/10/2020
	- support for latest MySQL authentication protocol
	- 64-bit version is available
	- 32-bit version is not updated anymore

v7.1 03/03/2019
	- improved support for Unicode
	- support for 4Gb+ rows

v6.5 06/11/2018 
	- piecewise writing to MySQL (big data support)
	- workaround for MySQL 8.0 password hashing

v6.3.3 10/16/2017
	- support for Oracle v12.2
	- improved Unicode support

v6.3 05/08/2017
	- option to specify MySQL charset and engine type
	- option to reorder views	

v6.1 08/20/2015
	- support for Oracle 12c
        - switch between 'all tables' and 'owned by the user' modes
	- improved handling of possible conversion errors 
	- demo limitation has been extended to 50 records

v5.5 12/16/2013
	- ultimate customization of the conversion results (modify type, name 
          and other attributes of every column in the resulting database)
	- option to include Oracle schema in table names

v5.3 08/05/2013
	- validate installation folder according to Oracle requirements 
	- improved support for views

v5.1 02/27/2012
	- optiorn to synchronize existing MySQL tables with Oracle data
	- quick launch
	- convert Oracle views into MySQL format

v4.5 07/18/2011
	- connect to both 32- and 64- bit Oracle server
	- Oracle components installation is not required any more
	- bugfix: copying error messages into Clipboard

v4.3 05/16/2011
	- updated installer
	- updated help
	- bugfix: switching between wizard screens 

v4.1 11/24/2010
	- store conversion settings into profile
	- filtering data to convert using SELECT-queries
	- support Unicode 
	- algorithm of fast appeding data to MySQL database

v3.5 06/09/2008
	- direct connection to Oracle server (via IP address)
	- bugfix: no limits on BLOB size
	- support for MySQL v6.x

v3.3 04/08/2007
	- more accurate conversion of Oracle numbers depending on scale/precision
	- "log_file" and "silent" options in command line version
	- bugfix: correct conversion of binary columns

v3.1 10/06/2005
	- new GUI
	- foreign keys are supported
	- intelligent error handling
	- new MySQL authentication protocol is supported

v2.5 04/15/2004
	- improved handling "Client doesn't support auth. protocol" MySQL error
	- "Make all strings case sensitive" option


v2.3 11/06/2003
	- more accurate conversion of date/time columns
	- bugfix: correct processing defalut values for date columns

v2.1 10/05/2003
	- MySQL dump file formatting options
	- bugfix: allows NULLs for non-unique indexes

v1.5 09/01/2003
	- option of merging data into an existing MySQL database 
	- new command line parameters "tab_file" and "mode"

v1.3 07/28/2003
	- command line version
	- intelligent error handling algorithm

v1.1 05/12/2003
	- option to convert individual tables
	- option to convert Oracle data into local MySQL dump file
	- bugfix: check for oci.dll

v1.0 04/07/2003
	- initial version