dean

A small group of volunteers continue to maintain the DBD::Oracle driver without any sponsorship or funding.

Who have curated yet another dev release which has hit the CPAN in the form of v1.91_5 - probably the last dev release before a new version.

It has grown to be quite large so will probably be released as 1.95 or something to give it some distance from the last release. For that same reason I am hoping for anyone using DBD::Oracle in their stack to help us test it out.

Given the nature of Oracle it is very challenging to exhaustively test it, despite having quite a respectable set of unit tests. There are several current supported OS and architectures, and supported client and server versions, on top of Perl versions. Plus all the historical OS and architectures (and client and server and Perl versions) which are still running in production. Support for which is as I mentioned entirely up to volunteers and folks sending in fixes or enhancements.

Because of this, my suggestion is to always set up a CI (or similar) with your specific versions and test every DBD::Oracle version prior to deploying it - rather than yolo'oing it with cpanm.

So, I invite everyone who can to run the dev release through and even try it in production where possible. Please send feedback via github