Reported by Pritpal Bedi: a Harbour mini_xbrowse /ads (ADSCDX → OpenADS) showed every text column truncated — Charlie as Charl, Barcelona as Barcel — where the native DBFCDX run rendered them full.

Root cause: AdsGetField returned CHARACTER values with trailing spaces stripped (make_string in dbf_common.cpp rtrims; decode_field used it for the Character branch). DBF/xbase CHAR fields are fixed-width space-padded — FieldGet of a C(20) field must return 20 characters. With the trimmed value, xbrowse auto-sized each column to the current row's value length and clipped every other row.

AdsGetField now re-pads CHARACTER values to the field's declared width on the way out — both the local and the remote (wire) read paths. The engine's internal decode is left trimming, so SQL comparisons, index keys and AOF filters are untouched.

Verified: tests/smoke/harbour/fieldlenprobe.prg — ADSCDX now matches the DBFCDX baseline (len=20/len=25); idxprobe.prg — index walk still SORTED=YES, all seeks hit; full unit suite 397/397.

`tools/harbour_patch/rddads-compat.patch` applies again

Reported by Pritpal Bedi: git apply rejected the patch with patch failed: contrib/rddads/rddads.h:67. A prior edit had dropped the blank context line after #include "ace.h", so the hunk carried five context lines while its header still declared six. The missing line is restored; verified git apply applies cleanly to a pristine Harbour contrib/rddads tree.

PHP binding

bindings/php gains Cursor::fetchAssoc() / fetchNum() (single-row fetch, null past the last row) and Table::seek() (index key seek via AdsGetIndexHandle + AdsSeek). 37 PHPUnit tests.

CI

The release workflow gains a macOS Intel (x64) build leg — releases now ship a macos-x64 archive alongside macos-arm64.

Full Changelog: v1.0.0-rc26...v1.0.0-rc27

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OpenADS v1.0.0-rc26 — PHP binding

16 May 21:19

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OpenADS v1.0.0-rc26 — PHP binding

PHP binding — bindings/php — and a SQL string-escape fix.

PHP binding (`openads/openads-php`)

Asked by Reinaldo Crespo: the proprietary Advantage PHP extension stopped working around PHP 5.2 and was never modernised. OpenADS now ships its own.

Pure-PHP Composer package — no compiled C. Loads ace64.dll / ace32.dll / libace*.so through PHP's ext-ffi and wraps it in a modern namespaced OOP API: Connection, Statement, Cursor (a \Iterator over result sets), Table, Record. Requires PHP 8.1+.
Local and remote in one path — a Connection takes a local data-directory path or a tcp:// / tls:// URI; AdsConnect60 dispatches on the URI, so the binding has no mode branching.
Parameterised SQL — Statement::query() accepts ? positional or :name named parameters. OpenADS ACE has no host-variable binding, so ParameterBinder substitutes values client-side with per-type quoting in a single pass (a value containing a :token substring cannot corrupt the statement) — the anti-injection boundary, with its own unit tests.
Pinned by 31 PHPUnit tests (21 unit + 10 integration against a live engine) plus a CI leg that builds the ACE library and runs the suite.
Design / plan: docs/superpowers/{specs,plans}/2026-05-16-php-bindings*.

Not yet implemented (follow-up): Cursor::fetchAssoc/fetchNum, Table::seek().

SQL `''` string-escape fix

The SQL parser's read_string_literal scanned to the next ' with no escape handling, so the ANSI-standard doubled-quote escape ('O''Brien') parsed as the string O followed by a stray token — error 7200. Any SQL client inserting a string containing an apostrophe failed. The parser now decodes '' to a single '; the unterminated-literal error path is unchanged. Pinned by a new sql_parser_test case (396/396 engine tests pass).

Full Changelog: v1.0.0-rc25...v1.0.0-rc26

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OpenADS v1.0.0-rc25 — index correctness sweep

16 May 16:41

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v1.0.0-rc25

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OpenADS v1.0.0-rc25 — index correctness sweep

Index correctness sweep — three bugs that broke CDX/NTX ordered access from Harbour rddads and X#'s ADSRDD.

`AdsCreateIndex61` decoded the wrong option bit

ace.h sets ADS_UNIQUE 0x01, ADS_DESCENDING 0x02, ADS_CUSTOM 0x04, ADS_COMPOUND 0x08. The descending flag was read as ulOptions & 0x08 — that bit is ADS_COMPOUND, which both rddads and ADSRDD set for every CDX/NTX tag. Every order built descending: AdsGotoTop landed on the last key and SKIP walked backward. A stale comment and the abi_create_index61 test had the bit values swapped the same way, so the bug was self-consistent and hidden. Now decoded with the named ace.h constants; AdsCreateIndex90 delegates to 61 and is covered too.

`ALIAS->FIELD` qualifiers in index expressions

Harbour INDEX ON CUST->NAME passes the literal text "CUST->NAME" to the RDD. evaluate_index_expr could not parse it — the tokenizer dropped - and >, so the alias parsed as an unknown identifier and every key evaluated blank, degenerating the index to record order. strip_alias_qualifiers() now removes any <ident>-> qualifier (bare and nested, e.g. UPPER(CUST->NAME)) before evaluation.

`AE_NO_CURRENT_RECORD` (5026) for not-positioned reads

Reported by Pritpal Bedi: a Harbour TBrowse over an ADSCDX table failed mid-paint with ADSCDX/5000 table not positioned on a record. Table::read_field returned the generic 5000 (AE_INTERNAL_ERROR) for not-positioned reads; rddads special-cases 5026 as the graceful read-past-EOF path and raises every other code as a hard error. table.cpp now returns the SAP-canonical 5026.

Verified: idxprobe.prg index walk matches the DBFCDX baseline, posprobe.prg goes from 6 ADSCDX/5000 raises to 0, full suite 395/395.

Full Changelog: v1.0.0-rc24...v1.0.0-rc25

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OpenADS v1.0.0-rc24 — AdsMg* server telemetry

16 May 09:13

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v1.0.0-rc24

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OpenADS v1.0.0-rc24 — AdsMg* server telemetry

AdsMg* server-telemetry subsystem

The ~17 AdsMg* management functions — previously zero-fill stubs that
made Harbour's manage.prg print all zeros — now report real telemetry.

MgCollector formats the SAP-canonical ADS_MGMT_* structs from a
MgSnapshot: live counts (connections / work areas / tables / users
/ worker threads), per-entity lists, process RSS, listener port, and
cumulative MgStats (uptime, comm packet totals, high-water marks).
New MgConnect / MgRequest wire opcodes (0xA0..0xA3). Remote
AdsMg* ships a MgRequest to openads_serverd; local mode
enumerates the in-process ABI handle registry. AdsMgConnect
validates a remote server up front and treats a drive path like
rddads' "C:" as local.
Verified end-to-end against a live remote openads_serverd:
manage.prg reports real uptime, packet counts, worker threads,
ports and server RSS instead of the all-zero stub output.