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Prepare for the next Big Bang Release: ODBC (use Rebol with MS Access Wow !!!),SSL/HTTPS,…

news I know I’ve been a bit harsh lately but you all know I’m well intentioned and that you should always take my critics positively. But when time comes when I see something great, well I won’t restrain myself from telling it.

And a few days ago, HostileFork has whispered me that in a future release of Rebol 2, you will have nothing less than ODBC, SSL/HTTPS, in fact it is as if you had Rebol Command for FREE. That is not only great, that is unexpected so I say Wow to RT!

What you can do with ODBC ? Well you can edit MS Access Database with your Rebol 500Ko (instead of dozens of megabytes just for the GUI part, of course the data size will stay as big) or you can use secure SSL with twitter API and other webservices, only imagination is the limit :).

Just have all of us to wait for it except if you join Altme World or Qtask at the moment as it is in beta stage.

Update January 19th: From the link given by Petr
http://www.rebol.com/docs/v2-7.html

* View/Pro features enabled: allowing SSL, ODBC, and encryption
* Adds R2/Forward mezzanine functions (from Brian Hawley)
* Re-enables installation and proper view-root startup (appdata dir on Win32)
* Install and uninstall added to ViewTop GUI panels
* Fixes LOAD with PORTS that return strings to be loaded as blocks.
* Fixes Decode-CGI for url-encoded variables (e.g. used by Flash)
* Fixes Strict-not-equal? of integers and adds != and !== operators