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-WiredTiger release 2.5.0, 2014-12-23
+WiredTiger release 2.5.0, 2014-12-24
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-The WiredTiger 2.4.0 release contains significant new features, API changes
+The WiredTiger 2.5.0 release contains significant new features, API changes
 and many bug fixes.
 
-Now that WiredTiger is part of MongoDB (yay) we are tracking issues related
-to MongoDB usage of WiredTiger in the MongoDB JIRA system. Some entries in the
-changelog now reference JIRA tickets that can be found at:
-http://jira.mongodb.org
+Now that WiredTiger is part of MongoDB, we are tracking issues related to
+MongoDB usage of WiredTiger in the MongoDB JIRA system.  Some entries in
+the changelog now reference JIRA tickets that can be found at:
+
+  http://jira.mongodb.org
 
 New features and API changes:
 
 * Add support for storing large values on-page in a btree rather than in
-  an overflow item. This is useful for workloads that want to keep large
+  an overflow item.  This is useful for workloads that want to keep large
   items in cache - since WiredTiger overflow items are never cached.
-  Configured via new leaf_value_max configuration setting. This enhancement
-  led to the deprecation of internal_item_max and leaf_item_max configuration
-  settings, see upgrading documentation for further information. [#1282]
+  It is configured via new `leaf_value_max` configuration setting.  This
+  enhancement led to the deprecation of internal_item_max and leaf_item_max
+  configuration settings, see upgrading documentation for further
+  information. [#1282]
 
-* Add support for compressing log files. When configured each compressable log
-  record will be compressed. Supported via log=(compressor=X) configuration
-  setting. See upgrading documentation for further information. [#1359]
+* Add support for compressing log files.  When configured each compressable
+  log record will be compressed.  This is configure with the
+  `log=(compressor=X)` configuration setting.  See upgrading documentation
+  for further information. [#1359]
 
 * No longer return EBUSY when opening a bulk cursor, verifying or salvaging
-  a database if a checkpoint is currently running. Allowing applications
-  to do these operations while the checkpoint server is running.
-  [#1397] [#1404] SERVER-16236 SERVER-16457
+  a database if a checkpoint is currently running.  This allows
+  applications to do these exclusive operations without shutting down the
+  checkpoint server thread.  [#1397] [#1404] SERVER-16236 SERVER-16457
 
 * Add support for immutable indexes. [#1344]
 
-* Added several new statistics field, improved accuracy for some statistics
+* Added several new statistics, improved accuracy for some statistics
   tracking and simplified mechanism for querying a particular statistic.
   [#1505]
 
 * Have the eviction server write out unnecessary pages prior to the cache
-  reaching the configured eviction trigger size. This can reduce the amount of
-  eviction application threads do when configured with a large cache.
+  reaching the configured eviction trigger size.  This can reduce the
+  amount of eviction application threads do when configured with a large
+  cache.
 
 * Several enhancements to managing how long we keep files open
 
 * Revert a change in the 2.4.1 release that caused the WT_ROLLBACK (and
-  deprecated WT_DEADLOCK) error return to map to a different numeric value.
-  Applications should ensure they are linking against the correct version of
-  the wiredtiger.h header file, otherwise odd behavior will be experienced.
+  deprecated WT_DEADLOCK) error return to map to different numeric values.
+  Applications should ensure they are compiling against the same version
+  of the wiredtiger.h header file as the library they link against,
+  otherwise odd behavior will be experienced.
 
 * Support setting configuration strings to "none" as being equivalent to an
-  empty string where it makes sense. [#1417]
+  empty string in most cases. [#1417]
 
 * Enhance the hot backup implementation to allow recovery to be run between
   incremental backups. [#1183]
@@ -55,41 +60,45 @@ Other significant changes:
 * Improve performance of cursor open when there are many tables in a database.
   [#1391] [#1443]
 
-* Reduce the impact checkpoints have on concurrent operations. This was done
-  by changing how we lock tables. [#1391] [#1392]
+* Reduce the impact checkpoints have on concurrent operations. This was
+  done by changing how we lock tables. [#1391] [#1392]
 
-* Improve performance when scanning a table that has many deleted items at
-  at the start of the range. SERVER-16247
+* Improve performance when scanning a table that has many deleted items.
+  SERVER-16247
 
 * Fix a bug in checkpoint, where the metadata (turtle) file wasn't being
   synced on checkpoint. [#1383]
 
-* Fix a bug where WiredTiger could accumulate memory, and never free it.
-  Related to tracking when threads may be traversing the index in an internal
-  page. SERVER-16546
+* Fix a bug where WiredTiger could accumulate memory during page splits and
+  never free it.  SERVER-16546
 
 * Many enhancements and bug fixes for Windows.
 
-* Fix a bug where a custom extractor terminate was being called twice. [#1503]
+* Fix a bug where a custom extractor terminate was being called twice.
+  [#1503]
 
 * Fix a bug where a race between closing a handle and checkpointing could
   lead to errors. [#1495] [#1497]
 
 * Validate the block header checksum before we clear it - if the checksum
-  field had been corrupted, we didn't notice. SERVER-16457
+  field had been corrupted, we didn't notice.  SERVER-16457
 
-* Fix a bug in write conflict detection. Cursors configured with no-overwrite
-  could sometimes not see update conflicts for deleted records. SERVER-16351
+* Fix a bug in write conflict detection.  Cursors configured with
+  no-overwrite could sometimes not see update conflicts for deleted
+  records.  SERVER-16351
 
 * Several bug fixes and performance improvements in LSM including:
- - Fix a bug in LSM search_near, where it return a deleted item. BF-694, BF-700
- - Improve background maintenance operation so that it doesn't fill the cache.
- - Fix a bug that could lead to updates being written into old chunks. [#1432] [#1418]
- - Fix a bug in background merge that could skip updates. SERVER-16123
+ - Fix a bug in LSM search_near, where it return a deleted item.
+   BF-694, BF-700
+ - Improve background maintenance operation so that it doesn't fill the
+   cache.
+ - Fix a bug that could lead to updates being written into old chunks.
+   [#1432] [#1418]
+ - Fix a bug in background merge that could skip updates.  SERVER-16123
  - Add support for custom collators in LSM trees. [#1361]
 
-* Fix a bug when maintaining the cache, that could cause checkpoints to skip
-  writing an update that should have been included. [#1419] SERVER-16336
+* Fix a bug when maintaining the cache, that could cause checkpoints to
+  skip writing an update that should have been included. [#1419] SERVER-16336
 
 * Fix a bug in WT_SESSION::drop, where failures generated error output even
   when force was specified. [#1436]
@@ -104,8 +113,8 @@ Other significant changes:
   fcntl(F_FULLFSYNC) instead.
 
 * Work around a bug in clang 3.5.0 compare and swap primitive. The
-  __sync_bool_compare_and_swap version of the API in clang produces bad code
-  for us with -O3 optimization enabled.
+  __sync_bool_compare_and_swap version of the API in clang produces bad
+  code for us with -O3 optimization enabled.
 
 
 WiredTiger release 2.4.1, 2014-11-06