The FreeTDS development team proudly announces the long awaited, much
anticipated, and richly deserved new version: 0.91.  It obsoletes version
0.82, released in May 2008.  Users are implored to run, not walk, to
their nearest Internet connection and upgrade as soon as humanly possible.

FreeTDS is a free implementation of Sybase's DB-Library, CT-Library,
and ODBC libraries. FreeTDS builds and runs on every flavor of
unix-like systems we've heard of (and some we haven't) as well as
Win32 (with or without Cygwin), VMS, and Mac OS X.  Failure to build
on your system is probably considered a bug.  It has C language
bindings, and works also with Perl and PHP, among others.  

Version 0.91 includes many new features and improvements to existing
ones, including:

1.  Full Kerberos and SSPI support for passwordless login to
Microsoft SQL Server from Unix and Windows clients.  Includes Keberos
delegation option.  

2.  Full support for building DB-Library on Win32/64 via NMAKE.EXE. 

3.  Built-in support for UTF-8.  

4.  Support for wide characters in ODBC.  

5.  Support for varchar(max) and varbinary(max). 

6.  Better thread-safety in ODBC.  

7.  Error messages distinguish between connect and login errors.  

8.  Bulk-copy functions in CT-Library.  

For Microsoft servers, FreeTDS implements TDS 7.2, the version used by
SQL Server 2005.  

At 100,000 lines of code, the FreeTDS project is mature.  The jump
in version numbers -- from 0.82 to 0.91 -- represents the asymptotic
progress toward version 1.0, anticipated in a few years.

More information available at http://www.freetds.org.