The most important changes in version 3.2.1 are:
A new utility, ocp, with similar purpose as the standard scp utility, can be used to copy files to and from database directories. The “other end” of the copy is either the system where you execute ocp or it is a cloud bucket. Note that ocp is also available on MS Windows, so if you have database access from a Windows laptop, it can be used to copy files between your laptop and a directory in the database.
To implement ocp, there is support for raw (binary) data to be written or read to files and sent to or from the database using bind, define or bindout. There is currently no other use of this new data type and it can e.g. not be used in expressions or concatenations.
The most important changes in version 3.2.0 are:
Bitwise shift, and, or and exclusive or operators have been added as well as the ability to input hexadecimal integer constants.
Additionally, bitwise set and clear assignments have been added.
Two new functions, dbseconds() and ociseconds() have been added; they return respectively the time spent on the database side and on the clienside when executing select OCI calls.
To make the the rwloadsim scripting language more similar to bash and to make calls to built-in statements and user declared procedures appear identical, there is no longer a requirement to have parentheses around the arguments to procedure calls.
The standard oltp workload has evolved gradually in particular in the area of reporting.