Eloquence B.08.10
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Revision: A1, 2009-07-02

Thank you for your interest in the Eloquence B.08.10 A1 release.

This Eloquence test release provides a development snapshot of the
upcoming Eloquence B.08.10 version that has passed some limited QA
process.

By making the test versions available publicly we hope to encourage
wider testing. Please contact support@marxmeier.com to share your
feedback or report a problem.

Please note:

This release is available under the terms of the Eloquence Beta
Test Agreement which is specified in the file AGREEMENT.
http://www.marxmeier.com/eloquence/download/beta/B0810/AGREEMENT

Downloading and installing the software indicates your agreement
to the Beta Test terms and conditions.

This beta release does not meet the release criteria for quality
or performance and is only intended for test usage. If it breaks
you get to keep the pieces.


Introduction
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This beta version currently includes a preliminary version of the
Eloquence B.08.10 database server.

Major Eloquence B.08.10 database goals include:

- security enhancements


Requirements
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To use the B.08.10 beta the following requirements must be met:

- Eloquence B.08.00 must be installed

- Currently, only the HP-UX 11i operating system on PA-RISC 2.0
  and IA64 based and Linux systems are supported.


Installation
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The Eloquence B.08.10 test releases are available for download
from the following location:

HTTP protocol:
http://www.marxmeier.com/download/beta/B0810/

FTP protocol:
ftp://ftp.marxmeier.com/eloq/beta/B0810/

To install, please extract the compressed tar file in the
directory /opt/eloquence/8.0

cd /opt/eloquence/8.0
gzcat /tmp/B0810-A1-hpux-pa20.tar.gz | tar xvf -

This will replace the following files in the B.08.00 installation:

   bin/eloqdb32
   bin/eloqdb64
   bin/dbutil


B.08.00 compatibility
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Eloquence B.08.10 is upwards compatible with previous Eloquence 
versions. However, a database created with B.08.10 should not be 
used with previous Eloquence releases.

To revert to B.08.00 the following procedure is required:

* Re-install the B.08.00 binaries that were replaced by the 
  B.08.10 test release (see above). To do so, simply install the
  B.08.00 patches providing the latest version of that binary.

* Please refer to the compatibility section of item masking
  functionality on databases created with B.08.10 when downgrading
  to a previous Eloquence version.


Documentation
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eq810_item_access.txt
  Describes preliminary implementation of the item masking


Summary of enhancements (relative to the initial B.08.00 release)
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* All B.08.00 patches (as applicable) are merged to B.08.10

* Add preliminary support for item masking


Known issues
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The following issues are known in the current test version:

*none*


Recent Changes
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