History of changes for OraDump Export Kit

v8.5 11/11/2024
	- support for new signatures of Oracle parallel export files
	- improved migration of floating point numbers
	- updated installer with new digital signature

v8.3 08/07/2023
	- initial reading of the dump file goes more than 10 times faster now
	- support for Oracle 21c data pump signature
	- option to create PostgreSQL tables logged/unlogged in OraDump-to-PostgreSQL
	- option to switch between INSERT and COPY methods of writing data in OraDump-to-PostgreSQL

v8.1 01/10/2022
	- improved migration of spatial data (SDO_GEOMETRY)
	- SSL connection for PostgreSQL is supported
	- verified support for Azure PostgreSQL and Azure MySQL

v7.5.1 10/18/2021
	- logging in OraDump-to-CSV
	- fix in processing LONG RAW (SQLT_LBI) data 
	- fix in processing AL32UTF8 CLOB values
	- improved support for partitioned tables

v7.5 08/31/2021
	- 64-bit version is available, 32-bit version is not updated anymore
	- support for latest MySQL and PostgreSQL authentication protocols
	- installer opens installation folder on exit 
	- improved spatial data types
	- improved migration of indexes
	- check privileges to create files when migrating into local script 

v7.3 08/31/2020
	- improved writing into Oracle database in OraDump-to-Oracle
	- improved support for unique constraints
	- misc fixes 

v7.1 06/17/2019
	- support for Oracle 18c data pump signature
	- support for BINARY_FLOAT, BINARY_DOUBLE types
	- support for INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND
	- convert NUMBER(*,0) into BIGINT

v6.5 06/11/2018
	- piecewise writing (big data support) in OraDump-to-MSSQL, 
          OraDump-to-PostgreSQL and OraDump-to-MySQL
	- option to synchronize existing database with data from Oracle dump 
	  file in OraDump-to-MSSQL, 
          OraDump-to-PostgreSQL and OraDump-to-MySQL
	- support for Oracle 12c data pump signature
	- option "NUMBER w/o precision -> bigint" in ord2mss, ord2pgs and ord2sql"
	- option to specify MySQL charset and engine in ord2sql
	- option to export into PostgreSQL script in ord2pgs
	- fix: decimal values 

v6.3 10/19/2016
	- dump file context serialization
	- support for SQLT_NCO
	- improved support for TIMESTAMP(6) type	
	- default values for export into T-SQL in ord2mss
	- option to specify schema and full replication mode in ord2mss
	- bugfixes (skip service/internal fields, shifted columns)

v6.1 05/30/2016
	- improved algorithm of processing multi-part BLOBs in data pump format
	- support for array of user-defined types (type code = 123)
	- improved support for sdo_geometry 
	- fix: short numbers extraction via double

v5.5 05/31/2015
	- ord2mss - with export into T-SQL script file and custom types mapping 
	- ord2xls - with xlsx support
	- support for Oracle 12c EXPDP parallel export dumps in all products

v5.3 08/14/2015
	- fix: rounding for double values
	- ordmerge with support for Oracle 12c EXPDP parallel export dumps

v5.1 03/31/2014
	- enhanced by OraDump-to-Oracle tool
	- support for encrypted dump files

v4.5 03/18/2013
	- enhanced by OraDump-to-PostgreSQL tool 
	- Quick Launch" feature for each converter

v4.3 08/27/2012
	- new installer with digital signature
	- bugfix: reading through 0x?FFFFFFF position 
	- bugfix: reading data splitted into several partitions


v4.1 01/30/2012
	- bugfix: correct support of FLOAT(126) type
	- bugfix: correct processing of LONGs splitted in several chunks
	- bugfix: correct processing for shifted fields (in INSERT query)

v3.5 10/17/2011
	- minor bugfixes

v3.3 04/28/2011
	- better support for v2.1 of data pump format
	- updated ordmerge

v3.1 04/23/2010
	- improved support for "expdp" format
	- support for MySQL v6.x in ord2sql

v1.5 01/31/2010
        - "skip bytes in field size" algorithm has been implemented
	- "expdp" format support

v1.3 05/29/2009 
	- improved support for LONG and LONG RAW types
	- store conversion settings into profile
	- CLOB support

v1.1 01/24/2009
 	- large files (more than 4GB) are supported
	- improved support for v7.x files
	- Unicode support

v1.0 09/29/2008
	- initial version