Release v2.9.0

Release v2.9.0

This is a minor release of Doctrine DBAL that aggregates over 40 fixes and improvements developed by 18 contributors over the last 5 months.

This release includes all changes of the 2.8.x series, as well as feature additions and improvements that couldn't land in patch releases.

Backwards Compatibility Breaks

This doesn't contain any intentional Backwards Compatibility (BC) breaks.

Deprecations

• The usage of NULL to specify the absence of an offset in LIMITed queries is deprecated. Use 0 instead.
• It's not recommended to rely on the default length specified by implementations of Type. These values are not used by the library and will be removed.
• It's not recommended to rely on the string representation of Type objects.
• Regular-expression based asset filters are deprecated in favor of callback-based as more extensible.
• Calling Statement::fetchColumn() with an invalid column index is deprecated.
• The dbal:import CLI command is deprecated. Please use other database client applications for import.

Please see details in the UPGRADE.md documentation.

New Features

• Added support for MariaDB 10.3.
• Added support for Windows authentication for SQL Server.
• Added support for column length in index definitions on MySQL.

Improvements and Fixes

• Implemented handling BLOB objects represented as streams in the MySQL (mysqli) driver.
• Implemented handling BLOB objects represented as streams in the IBM DB2 driver.
• DBAL is now continuously tested with the PDO driver for Oracle.
• Implemented handling of URLs in master-slave and pooling-shard connection configuration.
• The codebase is now fully compatible with the Doctrine Coding Standard v5.0.

Total issues resolved: 45

Deprecations:

• 3244: Deprecated dbal:import CLI command thanks to @morozov
• 3253: Deprecated usage of the NULL offset in LIMITed queries thanks to @morozov
• 3256: Deprecate Doctrine\DBAL\Types\Type::getDefaultLength() thanks to @Majkl578
• 3258: Deprecate Doctrine\DBAL\Types\Type::__toString() thanks to @Majkl578
• 3316: Deprecated regex-based asset filters thanks to @morozov
• 3359: Removed DataAccessTest::testFetchColumnNonExistingIndex() since it covers a bug in PDO thanks to @morozov

New Features:

• 2412: Add mysql specific indexes with lengths thanks to @bburnichon
• 3278: Add support for MariaDB 10.3 thanks to @javiereguiluz
• 3283: MariaDB improvements, support 10.3 thanks to @sidz
• 3333: Allow windows (userless/passwordless) authentication for SQL Server thanks to @odinsey

Bug Fixes:

• 3355: Implemented comparison of default values as strings regardless of their PHP types thanks to @morozov and @Majkl578

Improvements:

• 3201: Fix support for URL to account for master-slave and pooling-shard connections thanks to @stof
• 3217: Fix that MysqliStatement cannot handle streams thanks to @mpdude
• 3235: Use PSR-4 autoloader thanks to @Majkl578
• 3254: Throw ConversionException when unserialization fail for array and object types thanks to @seferov
• 3259: Update export ignores thanks to @Majkl578
• 3309: Implemented handling BLOBs represented as stream resources for IBM DB2 thanks to @morozov and @mpdude
• 3331: Fetch all should use the driver statement's fetchAll method thanks to @michaelcullum

Documentation Improvements:

• 3223: GitHub template grammar/spelling fixes thanks to @GawainLynch
• 3232: Removed NOW() from QueryBuilder usage examples thanks to @morozov
• 3239: 2.8 in README & branch alias to 2.9 thanks to @Majkl578
• 3269: Fixed type hints in DockBlocks thanks to @marforon
• 3275: Add .doctrine-project.json to root of the project. thanks to @jwage
• 3276: Update homepage thanks to @Majkl578
• 3280: Use behaviuor instead of behavior thanks to @BackEndTea
• 3285: Remove old comment from MysqliStatement thanks to @mpdude
• 3318: Removed link to www.doctrine-project.org from doc blocks thanks to @morozov
• 3319: remove ClassLoader thanks to @garak
• 3337: Fix of links in documentation thanks to @SenseException
• 3350: Remove pdo_sqlsrv from known vendor issues list thanks to @ostrolucky
• 3357: Fix typo thanks to @BenMorel
• 3370: Removed 2.7 from README thanks to @morozov

Code Quality Improvements:

• 3252: Replaced call_user_func_array() of a fixed method with the usage of variadic arguments thanks to @morozov
• 3306: Fixed coding standard violations in the codebase thanks to @morozov
• 3303: Updated doctrine/coding-standard to 5.0, thanks to @morozov
• 3317: Implemented proper escaping of string literals in platforms and schema managers thanks to @morozov
• 3363: Remove redundant implements thanks to @BenMorel

Continuous Integration Improvements:

• 3307: Test against the latest stable sqlsrv extension thanks to @morozov
• 3320: Trying to fix failing DB builds thanks to @morozov
• 3325: Updated PHPUnit to 7.4 thanks to @morozov
• 3339: ContinuousPHP configuration for PDO Oracle driver thanks to @morozov
• 3365: Reorganize Travis build matrix thanks to @BenMorel