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Welcome to the exciting world of MDB Tools! MDB Tools is a set of programs to
help you extract data from Microsoft Access files in various settings.
After several years of neglect, MDB Tools is under new management as of 2020.
Update your bookmarks and tell your favorite search engine that this is the new
address:
https://github.com/mdbtools/mdbtools
A brief history: the last *official* release (version 0.7.1) occurred in 2016.
[cyberemissary](https://github.com/cyberemissary) (whose work this fork is
based on) made a release in December 2018 and called it 0.8.2. In September
2020, @brianb moved his repository to the current address, and gave
administrative access to @evanmiller, who acts as the present maintainer.
An official 0.9 release is planned for late 2020. Areas of improvement since
the 0.7/0.8 days:
- [x] Security / stability / fuzz testing
- [x] Thread safety
- [x] In-memory database API
- [x] GLib is now optional
- [x] Improved ODBC compliance
- [x] Continuous integration with Travis and AppVeyor
- [x] New `mdb-queries` tool
The rest of this README explains what you can find in the project, how to
install it, and how to contribute.
# Components
The major pieces of MDB Tools are: