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+WiredTiger release 1.6.1, 2013-05-31
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+
+This is a bugfix and performance tuning release. The main changes are:
+
+* Fix the compress_raw API so that it uses platform independent types. See the
+  upgrade guide for further information. [#561]
+
+* Add an explicit enable setting to shared_cache configuration. See the
+  upgrade guide for further information.
+
+* Fix several bugs in hot backup, including race conditions between backup and
+  table drop (and other schema level operations). [#556] [#557]
+
+* Allow any data source type for indices as well as column groups. [#545]
+
+* Preload btree internal pages into file system cache when opening a table.
+
+* Change the default allocation size to 4KB so that DIRECT_IO with 4KB blocks
+  works. [#547]
+
+* Fix some bugs related to tracking the oldest active transaction. [#552]
+
+* Fix a bug in the extension API when using multiple databases.
+
+* Disallow named checkpoints on LSM trees - they aren't supported. [#546]
+
+* Fix support for custom collators with LSM trees. [#544]
+
+* Build fixes for gcc 4.1.2.
+
+See the upgrade documentation for details of API changes that may require
+altering existing applications.
+
+
 WiredTiger release 1.6.0, 2013-05-16
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