0.97!

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0.97 is out (at last)!

You can pick it up from CPAN, or directly from
  http://www.tmtm.com/CPAN/Class-DBI-0.97.tar.gz

  New Functionality
    - Maintain live object index so subsequent requests for same row return
      the same object (Perrin Harkins)
    - connection() is now preferred over set_db()
    - New relationship architecture (see Class::DBI::Relationship)
    - meta_info now returns more information about relationships
    - search($column => undef) now does an ISNULL search (Bart Lateur,
      Drew Wilson, William McKee)
    - A slice of an iterator in scalar context now gives another
      iterator (Thomas Klausner)
    - Attribute methods can now take slices (Charles Bailey)
    - pass $self to inflation/deflation methods, allowing (amongst other
      things, cross-column processing in a custom method) (Charles Bailey)
    - deflation now happens at distinct trigger points that happen after
      normal before_create/update triggers (Dave Cash)
    - Columns may now set their placeholders:
        Foo->find_column('tdate')->placeholder("IF(1, CURDATE(), ?)");
    - Columns know if they have been constrained

  Documentation
    - add note about needing a RootClass (and fix tests for this)
    - Explain interaction of is_changed and auto-update (William McKee)
    - Better examples for select_val and sql_single (Paul Makepeace)
    - Add note about sprintf interpolation and wildcard searches in
      home-grown queries (Christopher L. Everett)
    - Mention the wiki

  Bug Fixes
    - Better error reporting from failed inflations [Tatsuhiko Miyagawa]
    - You can now have a column named 'first' [Tatsuhiko Miyagawa]
    - inflation and deflation handle edge cases better [Charles Bailey]
    - search_ methods are only generated for SELECT calls
    - add_constructor is now propery subclassable (Thomas Klausner)

  Deprecations
    - Class::DBI::Query is now deprecated. The SQL substitutions are a
      much better approach.
    - sort argument to has_many is now order_by to match search
    - __hasa_rels and __hasa_list are deprecated in favour of meta_info

  Other
    - construct() is no longer a protected method.
    - skip t/17 on error. There's a bug here I can't find, or fix, yet.

Thanks to the many contributors, reporters of bugs, requestors of
features, and providers of advice, without whom...

Have fun,

Tony