SQLAlchemy 1.2.0b3 Released

[Mike Bayer]

SQLAlchemy release 1.2.0b3 is now available.

Release 1.2.0b3 is possibly the last beta release before 1.2.0 final
is released. The release of 1.2.0b3 was delayed by two major factors.
One was the release of cx_Oracle 6.0, which is a complete rework of
the underlying client library for cx_Oracle that in turn required a
lot of work on the SQLAlchemy side to accommodate, which resulted in
SQLAlchemy's cx_Oracle dialect itself being reworked and modernized to
make more complete use of patterns that were introduced in the 5.x
series of cx_Oracle. The other was made possible by the advent of
Microsoft SQL Server for Linux, which has allowed SQL Server testing
to finally be part of of SQLAlchemy's continuous integration
environment; as a result of this testing effort the library and test
suite have had many long-standing SQL Server issues repaired.

On top of those two efforts were the usual stream of issue fixes that
are backported into the 1.1.x series as well as additional behavioral
adjustments new to the 1.2 series.

The "What's New in SQLAlchemy 1.2?" [1] document as well as the
Changelog [2] will detail these changes as well as the changes since
the 1.1 series overall. Users should carefully review these documents
when testing applications against the 1.2 series, including for the
move from 1.2.0b2 to 1.2.0b3. We'd like to thank the many contributors
who helped with this release.

SQLAlchemy 1.2.0b3 is available on the Download Page. [3]

[1] http://www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/latest/changelog/migration_12.html
[2] http://www.sqlalchemy.org/changelog/CHANGES_1_2_0b3
[3] http://www.sqlalchemy.org/download.html