Download SQLite 3.7.6.1

SQLite is a database system developed in C that can be used as a database for websites and embedded applications, among other things. According to the developers, SQLite requires no installation and administration, supports databases up to two terabytes in size and stores an entire database in one file. Furthermore, it supports almost the full SQL92 specification and it is easy via, among others Tcl/Tk to guide. The developer has released version 3.7.6.1 with the following list of changes:

Version 3.7.6.1:

• Fix a bug in 3.7.6 that only appears if the SQLITE_FCNTL_SIZE_HINT file control is used with a build of SQLite that makes use of the HAVE_POSIX_FALLOCATE compile-time option and which has SQLITE_ENABLE_LOCKING_MODE turned off.
• SQLITE_SOURCE_ID: “2011-04-13 14:40:25 a35e83eac7b185f4d363d7fa51677f2fdfa27695”
• SHA1 for sqlite3.c: b81bfa27d3e09caf3251475863b1ce6dd9f6ab66

Version 3.7.6

• Added the sqlite3_wal_checkpoint_v2() interface and enhanced the wal_checkpoint pragma to support blocking checkpoints.
• Improvements to the query planner so that it makes better estimates of plan costs and hence does a better job of choosing the right plan, especially when SQLITE_ENABLE_STAT2 is used.
• Fix a bug which prevented deferred foreign key constraints from being enforced when sqlite3_finalize() was not called by one statement with a failed foreign key constraint prior to another statement with foreign key constraints running.
• Integer arithmetic operations that would have resulted in overflow are now performed using floating-point instead.
• Increased the version number on the VFS object to 3 and added new methods xSetSysCall, xGetSysCall, and xNextSysCall used for doing full-coverage testing.
• Increase the maximum value of SQLITE_MAX_ATTACHED from 30 to 62 (though the default value remains at 10).
• Enhancements to FTS4:
  • Added the fts4aux table
  • Added support for compressed FTS4 content
• Enhance the ANALYZE command to support the name of an index as its argument, in order to analyze just that one index.
• Added the “unix-excl” built-in VFS on unix and unix-like platforms.

Version 3.7.5

• Added the sqlite3_vsnprintf() interface.
• Added the SQLITE_DBSTATUS_LOOKASIDE_HIT, SQLITE_DBSTATUS_LOOKASIDE_MISS_SIZE, and SQLITE_DBSTATUS_LOOKASIDE_MISS_FULL options for the sqlite3_db_status() interface.
• Added the SQLITE_OMIT_AUTORESET compile-time option.
• Added the SQLITE_DEFAULT_FOREIGN_KEYS compile-time option.
• Updates to sqlite3_stmt_readonly() so that its result is well-defined for all prepared statements and so that it works with VACUUM.
• Added the “-heap” option to the command-line shell
• Fix a bug involving frequent changes in and out of WAL mode and VACUUM that could (in theory) cause database corruption.
• Enhance the sqlite3_trace() mechanism so that nested SQL statements such as might be generated by virtual tables are shown but are shown in comments and without parameter expansion. This greatly improves tracing output when using the FTS3/4 and/or RTREE virtual tables.
• Change the xFileControl() methods on all built-in VFSes to return SQLITE_NOTFOUND instead of SQLITE_ERROR for an unrecognized operation code.
• The SQLite core invokes the SQLITE_FCNTL_SYNC_OMITTED file control to the VFS in place of a call to xSync if the database has PRAGMA synchronous set to OFF.

Version 3.7.4

• Added the sqlite3_blob_reopen() interface to allow an existing sqlite3_blob object to be rebound to a new row.
• Use the new sqlite3_blob_reopen() interface to improve the performance of FTS.
• VFSes that do not support shared memory are allowed to access WAL databases if PRAGMA locking_mode is set to EXCLUSIVE.
• Enhancements to EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN.
• Added the sqlite3_stmt_readonly() interface.
• Added PRAGMA checkpoint_fullfsync.
• Added the SQLITE_FCNTL_FILE_POINTER option to sqlite3_file_control().
• Added support for FTS4 and enhancements to the FTS matchinfo() function.
• Added the test_superlock.c module which provides example code for obtaining an exclusive lock to a rollback or WAL database.
• Added the test_multiplex.c module which provides an example VFS that provides multiplexing (sharding) of a DB, splitting it over multiple files of fixed size.
• A very obscure bug associated with the or optimization was fixed.

Version 3.7.3

• Added the sqlite3_create_function_v2() interface that includes a destructor callback.
• Added support for custom r-tree queries using application-supplied callback routines to define the boundary of the query region.
• The default page cache strives more diligently to avoid using memory beyond what is allocated to it by SQLITE_CONFIG_PAGECACHE. Or if using page cache is allocating from the heap, it strives to avoid going over the sqlite3_soft_heap_limit64(), even if SQLITE_ENABLE_MEMORY_MANAGEMENT is not set.
• Added the sqlite3_soft_heap_limit64() interface as a replacement for sqlite3_soft_heap_limit().
• The ANALYZE command now gathers statistics on tables even if they have no indices.
• Tweaks to the query planner to help it do a better job of finding the most efficient query plan for each query.
• Enhanced the internal text-to-numeric conversion routines so that they work with UTF8 or UTF16, thereby avoiding some UTF16-to-UTF8 text conversions.
• Fix a problem that was causing excess memory usage with large WAL transactions in win32 systems.
• The interface between the VDBE and B-Tree layer is enhanced such that the VDBE provides hints to the B-Tree layer letting the B-Tree layer know when it is safe to use hashing instead of B-Trees for transient tables.
• Miscellaneous documentation enhancements.