Dear MonetDB users and developers, The MonetDB team at CWI is pleased to announce the new "Jun2008" release of the MonetDB suite of programs. For MonetDB/XQuery, this release marks the roll forward from the old "milprint_summer"-based Pathfinder compiler to the new "Algebra"-based Pathfinder compiler. MonetDB/SQL has been extended with initial support for OpenGIS via the "Geom[etry]" extension module, aka. MonetDB/SQL/GIS. Additionally, the configure defaults for compilation from sources on Unix(-like) systems as well as the Windows installers have been cleaned-up. For more information, please see the detailed release notes at http://monetdb.cwi.nl/Development/Releases/Version4.24/ IMPORTANT NOTE: Before upgrading to the latest "Jun2008" release from any previous release of MonetDB, please make a dump of your database, and rename/move/backup the database directories (dbfarm, sql_logs, xquery_logs). After the upgrade, restore your database, again. Once you have checked and confirmed the correctness of the restore, you can delete the above renamed/moved/backed-up old database directories. For more information, please see the detailed release notes at http://monetdb.cwi.nl/Development/Releases/Version4.24/ The new release consists of the following packages: MonetDB Common 1.24.0 MonetDB Clients 1.24.0 MonetDB4 Server 4.24.0 MonetDB4 XQuery 0.24.0 MonetDB5 Server 5.6.0 MonetDB5 SQL 2.24.0 MonetDB5 Geom 0.4.0 monetdb-1.8-jdbc.jar There is of course also a new "Super Source Ball", a tarball containing the combined sources. All this is available on our SourceForge project page. See https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=56967 for the downloadable files. Enjoy! The MonetDB development team. -- | Dr. Stefan Manegold | mailto:Stefan.Manegold@cwi.nl | | CWI, P.O.Box 94079 | http://www.cwi.nl/~manegold/ | | 1090 GB Amsterdam | Tel.: +31 (20) 592-4212 | | The Netherlands | Fax : +31 (20) 592-4312 |