Describe recent ZOOM changes.

[yaz-moved-to-github.git] / NEWS

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@@ -1,6 +1,17 @@
-Added 'exit' as synonym for 'quit' in yaz-client
+Added ZiNG Update Support. New codecs are defined in srw.h. Extended the
+GFS to support this as well. Backend handler, bend_srw_update, does the
+update work. Code contributed by Ko van der Sloot.
+
+Allow retrieval of Search Result-1 information in ZOOM by the
+use of options that are attached to a result set. ZOOM documentation
+updated accordingly.
 
-Possible compatibility problems with earlier versions marked with '*'.
+Fixed bug #416: First/second comb characters not handled in the
+MARC-8 to UTF-8 conversion. Patch by Raj Patel.
+
+Added option -m to GFS to control formatting of timestamps in log file.
+
+Added 'exit' as synonym for 'quit' in yaz-client
 
 Added support for specifying SRW resultSetId + resultSetIdleTime in a
 Generic Frontend Server's search handler. Refer to include/yaz/backend.h
@@ -51,6 +62,15 @@ Modified all YAZ source files - except the source which is auto-generated
 by tools - to use spaces rather than TABS. Emacs/VIM trailer added to
 all source files.
 
+Add ZOOM_connection_option_getl() and ZOOM_options_getl(),
+corresponding to the existing *_setl() function.  These allow option
+values containing arbitrary valuues.
+
+Add ZOOM_resultset_sort1(), which should ALWAYS be used in place of
+ZOOM_resultset_sort() in new applications.  Its behaviour is identical
+except that it returns an indicator of whether or not the sort
+criterion was accepted (0 for OK, -1 for invalid).
+
 --- 2.1.8 2005/06/07 
 
 Fixed bug in yaz_marc_decode_buf. By mistake the routine appended