From: Luis Lavena on
sqlite3-ruby version 1.3.0 has been released!

Special thanks goes to Aaron Patterson for the improved Ruby 1.9
support, backward compatibility and newer C backend!

* <http://github.com/luislavena/sqlite3-ruby>
* <http://rubyforge.org/projects/sqlite-ruby>
* <http://sqlite-ruby.rubyforge.org>

This module allows Ruby programs to interface with the SQLite3
database engine (http://www.sqlite.org). You must have the
SQLite engine installed in order to build this module.

Note that this module is NOT compatible with SQLite 2.x.

Changes:

### 1.3.0 / 2010-06-06

* Enhancements
* Complete rewrite of C-based adapter from SWIG to hand-crafted one
[tenderlove]
See API_CHANGES document for details.
This closes: Bug #27300, Bug #27241, Patch #16020
* Improved UTF, Unicode, M17N, all that handling and proper BLOB
handling [tenderlove, nurse]
* Added support for type translations [tenderlove]

@db.translator.add_translator('sometime') do |type, thing|
'output' # this will be returned as value for that column
end

* Experimental
* Added API to access and load extensions. [kashif]
These functions maps directly into SQLite3 own enable_load_extension()
and load_extension() C-API functions. See SQLite3::Database API
documentation for details.
This closes: Patches #9178

* Bugfixes
* Corrected gem dependencies (runtime and development)
* Fixed threaded tests [Alexey Borzenkov]
* Removed GitHub gemspec
* Fixed "No definition for" warnings from RDoc
* Generate zip and tgz files for releases
* Added Luis Lavena as gem Author (maintainer)
* Prevent mkmf interfere with Mighty Snow Leopard
* Allow extension compilation search for common lib paths [kashif]
(lookup /usr/local, /opt/local and /usr)
* Corrected extension compilation under MSVC [romuloceccon]
* Define load_extension functionality based on availability [tenderlove]
* Deprecation notices for Database#query. Fixes RF #28192

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Luis Lavena
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Perfection in design is achieved not when there is nothing more to add,
but rather when there is nothing more to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry