NEW: Compatibility with Director 11.5 is improved with support for storing ByteArrays in the database

DEPRECATED: as a result of necessary changes to the file handling code, Arca 3.5 no longer supports Director 8.5, MX or MX2004 on the Mac platform. Version 3.0 can still be used when targetting these versions of Director.

IMPROVED: Internal SQLite engine upgraded to the full feature set available in version 3.6.21 of the engine, with Arca-specific features layered on top of it

NEW: Unicode-aware comparison allows matching of accented characters when used with the LIKE operator

FIXED: Image objects created in the database with the Xtra or Arca Database Browser under Leopard are now displayed correctly in all platforms

IMPROVED: New version 3 of the Arca Database Browser tool with dozens of improvements and bug fixes, including feature-parity with the Xtra and much better performance for importing. MacOSX version is now available as an Universal Binary.

NEW: Compatible with Director 11 and Unicode (UTF8) strings

NEW: When used with Director 11, support for Windows Vista and MacOSX Tiger and Leopard on Intel and PPC (UB)

FIXED: The Xtra could fail to open database files on Unicode-enabled versions of Windows, if the pathname to the parent folder contained certain high ASCII characters. Arca now detects this situation properly, and converts the non-Unicode pathname passed in Lingo to a proper UTF8 pathname on these systems. Mac versions were not affected, but the version number was updated to reflect the internal changes in the code.

Maintenance: selected changes from the SQLite 3.2.7 code tree merged with the Arca codebase, resulting in speed improvements and query optimization
NEW: COLLATE LOCALE option added to the ORDER BY operator.
FIXED: Xtra and browser can now import JPEG images larger than 16MB

FIXED: Arca Database Browser no longer sorts fields by name when creating a table

ADDED: Default text format in Arca Database Browser is configurable to PLAIN or AUTO in the PREFERENCES window. Use plain mode to avoid rewriting of HTML tags and RTF information.

Major release: database files from previous versions are not automatically compatible and need to be converted.

Engine upgraded to a custom version of SQLite 3.2.x.

NEW: support for strong encryption.

NEW: support for databases in Unicode (UTF8) format.

NEW: setEncoding() function for user-defined control of Unicode<->Lingo translation

Major new version of Arca Database Browser, with support for all the features in version 2 databases.

FIXED: a problem was identified in the OS9 release of version 1.5.2. The issue is not in the Xtra code, but in the optimizer functions in the compiler (Code Warrior) used to assemble the Xtra. On a small number of machines running OS9 the Xtra registration routine would fail due to a bug in the compiler optimization settings when running a projector from an alias in the desktop or a projector that included the BuddyAPI Xtra. Version 1.5.3 was recompiled with a different optimization level in the affected files to work around the compiler issue. Users that are not delivering Classic projectors do not need to upgrade, as OSX and Windows versions are not affected.

Certified for operation with the Director MX 2004 10.1 update

ADDED: cross platform resources needed to build Classic projectors from MX 2004 10.1 Windows.

FIXED: a bug that could raise a Fatal Error the first select operation with wildcards, only in certain tables with more than 32 fields. There is no need to upgrade unless your project is currently affected by this rare condition.

Certified for Director MX 2004

Includes split files needed to support cross-publishing of projectors when using Director MX 2004

Added direct support for image objects: Arca databases can store image objects with 1, 8, 16 and 32 bit color depth. These objects can be retrieved from the database used directly by imaging Lingo functions, without the need to create a castmember to hold media data.

Bug fixes from SQLite 2.8.11 merged and applied to Arca's source code when appropriate

Maintains 100% compatibility with previous Arca databases and movies, no changes required.

FIXED: fatal error messages with tables containing more than 64 fields

FIXED: getField() result when using JOIN and fields with no types defined