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Added preliminary release notes for version 5.3.

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Version 5.2.next
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Version 5.next
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Version 5.3 (TBD)
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1) Added support for Python 3.6.
2) Dropped support for Python versions earlier than 2.6.
3) Dropped support for Oracle clients earlier than 11.2.
4) Added support for fetching implicit results (available in Oracle 12.1).
5) Added support for Transaction Guard (available in Oracle 12.1).
6) Added support for setting the maximum lifetime of pool connections
(available in Oracle 12.1).
7) Added support for large row counts (larger than 2 ** 32, available in
Oracle 12.1)
8) Added support for advanced queuing.
9) Added support for scrollable cursors.
10) Added support for edition based redefinition.
11) Added support for creating, modifying and binding user defined types and
collections.
12) Added support for creating, modifying and binding PL/SQL records and
collections (available in Oracle 12.1).
13) Added support for binding native integers.
14) Enabled statement caching.
15) Removed deprecated variable attributes maxlength and allocelems.
16) Corrected support for setting the encoding and nencoding parameters when
creating a connection and added support for setting these when creating a
session pool. These can now be used instead of setting the environment
variables NLS_LANG and NLS_NCHAR.
17) Use None instead of 0 for items in the cursor.description attribute that do
not have any validity.
18) Changed driver name to match informal driver name standard used by Oracle
for other drivers.
19) Add check for maximum of 10,000 arguments when calling a stored procedure
or function in order to prevent a possible improper memory access from
taking place.
20) Removed -mno-cygwin compile flag since it is no longer used in newer
versions of the gcc compiler for Cygwin.
21) Simplified test suite by combining Python 2 and 3 scripts into one script
and separated out 12.1 features into a single script.
22) Updated samples to use code that works on both Python 2 and 3
23) Added support for pickling/unpickling error objects
(`Issue #23 <https://bitbucket.org/anthony_tuininga/cx_oracle/issues/23>`_)
Version 5.2.1 (January 2016)
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