Cut release 1.6.21.6.2

2 files changed, 31 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index f694f4a5a3a..7c0e0716534 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,31 @@
+WiredTiger release 1.6.2, 2013-06-18
+------------------------------------
+
+This is a bugfix and performance tuning release. The main changes are:
+
+* Fix a race in the WiredTiger pseudo random number generator that was leading
+  to poor distribution of numbers.
+
+* Change the default compression configuration to "uncompressed".
+
+* Fix a race between checkpoints and LSM that could result in a crash. [#543]
+
+* Add an option to output version information at runtime. Configure by
+  including "verbose=[version]" in the wiredtiger_open connection
+  configuration string. [#564]
+
+* Add a configurable prefix to error messages. [#527]
+
+* Add two new extension APIs, one to return a transaction ID, one to return
+  if a transaction ID is visible to the current transaction.
+
+* Add standard metadata functions to the extension API and make extension data
+  sources responsible for their own metadata entries.
+
+* Add a new extension function __wt_ext_config_strget that returns the
+  configuration value from a single string.
+
+
 WiredTiger release 1.6.1, 2013-05-31
 ------------------------------------
 
diff --git a/src/docs/top/main.dox b/src/docs/top/main.dox
index f2c0a167303..b6d2e528e03 100644
--- a/src/docs/top/main.dox
+++ b/src/docs/top/main.dox
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ WiredTiger is an high performance, scalable, production quality, NoSQL,
 @section releases Releases
 
 <table>
-@row{<b>WiredTiger 1.6.1</b> (current),
-	<a href="releases/wiredtiger-1.6.1.tar.bz2"><b>[Release package]</b></a>,
-	<a href="1.6.1/index.html"><b>[Documentation]</b></a>}
+@row{<b>WiredTiger 1.6.2</b> (current),
+	<a href="releases/wiredtiger-1.6.2.tar.bz2"><b>[Release package]</b></a>,
+	<a href="1.6.2/index.html"><b>[Documentation]</b></a>}
 @row{<b>WiredTiger 1.5.3</b> (previous),
 	<a href="releases/wiredtiger-1.5.3.tar.bz2"><b>[Release package]</b></a>,
 	<a href="1.5.3/index.html"><b>[Documentation]</b></a>}