Release of Zeos 8.0.0

[marsupilami79 8]

The Zeos Team is proud to announce the availability of Zeos 8.0.0 as a stable release. This is the newest stable version of Zeos. It deprecates Zeos 7.2, and any previous version of Zeos. We urge all people still using older versions of Zeos to upgrade. If you have any problems with Zeos 8.0, please get in contact with us on the forums or on the bugtracker.

The most outstanding changes in Zeos 8.0 are

• Support for Delphi NextGen compilers to support Android, iOS and Mac OS X
• Two new bridge drivers for OleDB and ODBC
• A new driver that uses the Firebird interface based API for accessing Firebird versions 2.5 and above
• A special proxy server and an according driver that can be used to access any Zeos supported database using SOAP over HTTP(S) from (mobile) clients.
• Propper support for numeic and decimal fields by using TBCDField and TFMTBCDField
• Nested transactions using savepoints
• Two new components: TZTransaction and TZMemTable
• better overall performance and smaller memory footprint
  

Besides these improvements Zeos has seen a ton of other additions and improvements. For an overview of the changes in Zeos 8.0 see the release notes.

To download, the new version of Zeos please use this link.

[SnowSonic 0]

When using FB25, the speedup is ±35% (14800 → 9760). Thanks