NEWS

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rpgconn 0.4.1

Highlights

• Hardened connection parsing and validation for malformed inputs.
• Redacted credentials in invalid connection-string diagnostics.
• Disabled YAML expression evaluation when loading config/options.
• Added backward-compatible (deprecated) support for dbc(path = ...).
• Reworked tests to be hermetic (isolated config/env state).
• Added optional local PostgreSQL end-to-end test (temp-table based).
• Expanded maintainer onboarding docs (README.md, DEVELOPMENT.md, RELEASE.md, AGENTS.md).

Breaking Changes

• None intended.

Internal/Quality Improvements

• Added regression coverage for URI and keyword/value edge cases.
• Improved config/options YAML structure validation errors.
• Updated package metadata Suggests to cover release/test/docs workflows.

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rpgconn 0.4.0

Breaking Changes

• None. All existing code continues to work without modification.

New Features

• Robust PostgreSQL URI connection string parsing.
• Support for both postgresql:// and postgres:// prefixes.
• Query parameter support (sslmode, connect_timeout, application_name, etc.).
• IPv6 host support with bracket notation.
• URL-encoded credential handling.

Documentation Improvements

• Added three vignettes:
  • vignette("rpgconn")
  • vignette("quickstart")
  • vignette("advanced-workflow")
• Expanded inline rationale comments and cross-referenced docs.

Parser/Validation Improvements

• Validation-first connection-string checks with clearer errors.
• Better handling of colons in passwords and equals signs in query values.
• Improved tokenization for quoted values in key/value format strings.

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rpgconn 0.3.2 (2025-10-16)

• Added config path override support in dbc() and internal loaders.
• Updated Roxygen metadata and docs.

rpgconn 0.3.1 (2025-08-21)

• Previous release.

rpgconn 0.3.0

• Previous release.