History of changes for OraDump-to-MySQL

v8.5 08/07/2023
	- initial reading of the dump file goes more than 10 times faster now
	- support for Oracle 21c data pump signature

v8.3 01/10/2022
	- improved migration of spatial data for EXPDP dump files
	- verified support for Azure MySQL

v8.1 08/16/2021
	- improved support for indexes in Oracle data pump format
	- improved migration of spatial data for EXP dump files (SDO_GEOMETRY)

v7.7 12/21/2020
	- support for latest MySQL authentication protocol
	- 64-bit version is available
	- 32-bit version is not updated anymore

v7.5 03/04/2019
	- support for BINARY_FLOAT, BINARY_DOUBLE types
	- support for INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND
	- convert NUMBER(*,0) into BIGINT

v7.3 06/04/2018
	- option to synchronize MySQL database with Oracle data
	- improved support for large blobs (piecewise writing)
	- option "NUMBER w/o precision -> bigint"
	- bugfix: BLOBs processing in Oracle v10.x EXP dump format
	- bugfix: decimal values 

v7.1 01/29/2018
	- support for Oracle 12c data pump format
	- option to specify MySQL charset and storage engine
	- minor bugfixes

v6.5 08/14/2017
	- dump file context serialization
	- bugfixes (skip service/internal fields, shifted columns)
	- improved support for TIMESTAMP(6) type	

v6.3 05/30/2016
	- support for SQLT_NCO (named collection) type
	- improved support for for timestamp(6) and timestamp(3)
	- verified compatibility with MariaDB and Percona
	- demo limitation is extended up to 50 records

v6.1 06/02/2015
	- option to customize types mapping, select certain columns to convert
	- convert VARCHAR(>=1000) into TEXT to avoid 'Row size it too large...' error

v5.5 03/17/2014
	- support for encrypted Oracle EXPDP dump files
	- performance of the conversion process has been increased
	- improved support for SDO_GEOMETRY type

v5.3 10/07/2013
	- support for Oracle 12 dump format
	- improved handling of large BLOBs
	- updated UI
	
v5.2 03/18/2013
	- Quick Launch feature implemented
	- bugfix: improved processing CLOBs in expdp format

v5.1 08/27/2012
	- new installer with digital signature
	- bugfix: reading through 0x?FFFFFFF position 
	- bugfix: reading data split into several partitions

v4.5 01/30/2012
	- bugfix: correct support of FLOAT(126) type
	- bugfix: correct processing of LONGs split in several chunks
	- bugfix: correct processing for shifted fields (in INSERT query)

v4.3 10/17/2011
	- support for v2.1 of datapump (expdp) format
	- updated ordmerge

v4.1 04/28/2011
	- processing multi-file dumps produced by "expdp"
	- algorithm of fast appeding data to MySQL database
	- bugfix: correct processing large BLOBs

v3.5 10/16/2010
	- improved support for datapump (expdp) format
        - "skip bytes in field size" algorithm has been implemented

v3.3 01/31/2010
	- datapump (expdp) format support
	- support for MySQL v6.x
	- minor bugfixes

v3.1 05/29/2009
	- store conversion settings into profile
	- processing multi-file dumps
	- improved support for LONG and LONG RAW types

v2.3 03/02/2009
	- CLOB support
	- minor bugfixes

v2.1 01/13/2009
	- improved files validation
	- Unicode support 
	- improved support for v7.x files

v1.3 09/29/2008
	- performance of reading dump file has been improved
	- large files (more than 4GB) are supported

v1.1 05/07/2007
	- minor bugfixes

v1.0 12/18/2006
	- initial version