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@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ New features and API changes; refer to the API documentation for full details:
 * 944ccd1  WT-1350: Add a new configuration option to ::wiredtiger_open and WT_CONNECTION::reconfigure called "eviction_dirty_trigger" that causes eviction to start evicting dirty pages from cache once the given threshold has been reached.
 * ab5a8fb  WT-1728: Add a WT_SESSION::reset method to release resources held by a session.
 * 263c5b7  WT-1930: Allow setting "file_manager=(close_idle_time=0)" to ::wiredtiger_open and WT_CONNECTION::reconfigure to disable closing idle handles.
-* 6310c3f  WT-1959: Change verify to distinguish between warnings and errors. Add a new strict mode to verify that causes warnings to be reported as errors. Enable strict mode to match earlier behaivor. See the upgrading documentation for more information.
+* 6310c3f  WT-1959: Change verify to distinguish between warnings and errors. Add a new strict mode to verify that causes warnings to be reported as errors. Enable strict mode to match earlier behavior. See the upgrading documentation for more information.
+* e0d6229  WT-1980: Add a new URI to WT_SESSION::open_cursor for metadata cursors that return strings useful for passing to WT_SESSION::create. The new URI is "metadata:create".
 * 292712e  WT-2065: Add a new configuration option to ::wiredtiger_open and WT_CONNECTION::reconfigure called "shared_cache=(quota)" that limits the amount of shared cache a single participant can be assigned.
 * 4d0ebf4  WT-2104: Add a method to flush log files via a new WT_SESSION::log_flush API. Made WT_SESSION::commit_transaction configuration options match WT_SESSION::log_flush. Change the default WT_SESSION::transaction_sync timeout to 20 minutes rather than infinity.
 * 21b8330  WT-2151: Enhance logging configuration to allow reconfiguration and add a new "log=(zero_fill)" configuration option that causes WiredTiger to zero-fill log files on creation.
@@ -66,79 +67,76 @@ a6da10e  SERVER-21553: Enable fast-path truncate after splits.
 
 Other note worthy changes since the previous release:
 
-405f45e  WT-1481: Fix and clarify some sweep statistics.
 bc2aa57  WT-1744: Throttle worker threads based on eviction targets.
 55a989e  WT-1845: Allow read only transactions to commit after failure.
-df625dc  WT-1869: Avoid doing in memory splits while a tree is being checkpointed.
+df625dc  WT-1869: Avoid doing in memory splits while checkpointing a tree.
 ddac54f  WT-1942: Add atomic implementations for PPC64 architecture.
-f196510  WT-1955: LSM merge aggressive.
 3866fa6  WT-1962: Make the hot_backup_lock a read/write lock.
-58f9e99  WT-1963: Modified Java's next/prev/search/search_near to work with backup cursors.
-4e0fe59  WT-1964: In Java fix session/cursor close in different thread than open.
+58f9e99  WT-1963: Fix backup cursor Java API.
+4e0fe59  WT-1964: Fix a bug in the Java API when closing handles from a different thread.
 60e2150  WT-1966: Change how the shared cache assigns priority to participants.
-76d2e73  WT-1975: Wait for sync_lsn of earlier log files to complete for forced sync.
-e43b22a  WT-1977: Improve the performance of getting snapshots with many sessions.
+76d2e73  WT-1975: Ensure previous log files are complete for forced sync.
+e43b22a  WT-1977: Improve performance of getting snapshots with many sessions.
 5eaf63e  WT-1978: Better checking and tests for index cursor comparison.
-e0d6229  WT-1980: Provide an API to query metadata meaningful to WT_SESSION::create.
 1602a4b  WT-1981: Fix a signed 32-bit integer unpacking bug.
-cd1704d  WT-1982: Track down cached overflow items that are being freed too early.
+cd1704d  WT-1982: Fix a bug where cached overflow items were freed too early.
 57a9f38  WT-1985: Integer packing and other fixes for Python and Java.
 9897eb2  WT-1986: Fix a race renaming temporary log files.
 b10bff9  WT-1989: Improve scalability of log writes.
-f8dc12b  WT-1996: If there is an error applying updates during a page rewrite, don't free the first update.
+f8dc12b  WT-1996: Fix a bug where we would free the fist update during a page rewrite on error.
 144a383  WT-1998: Fixes for indexes with some rarely used key/value formats.
-8af8b8a  WT-2002: If a file is corrupted, verify should not panic.
+8af8b8a  WT-2002: Fix a bug in verify where it would panic when encountering a corrupted file.
 e1d8bc7  WT-2007: Statically allocate log slot buffers to a maximum size.
 911158c  WT-2008: Fix a bug in recovery where a file create went missing.
 3e2e7e6  WT-2009: Apply tracked metadata operations post-commit.
 1255cb2  WT-2012: Fix a bug updating the oldest ID.
 ef9d56f  WT-2013: Add gcc asm definitions for ARM64.
-c8633e6  WT-2014: Checkpoint file fixes.
-9b09e69  WT-2015: Error path failure during block open.
+c8633e6  WT-2014: Fix a bug in checkpoints where files could be flushed in the wrong order.
+9b09e69  WT-2015: Fix a bug in error handling during block open.
 4938b8d  WT-2017: Once an eviction server thread is started keep it running.
 298f86c  WT-2019: Fix a logic bug tracking the maximum transaction ID in clean trees.
 7d6075c  WT-2020: Clarify checksum error failure messages.
 7b302d3  WT-2021: Fix a bug moving the oldest ID forward (introduced by WT-1967).
-9df72d7  WT-2022: When non-existent index cursor is opened, release the base table.
+9df72d7  WT-2022: Fix a bug where a handle was not release when opening a non-existent index cursor.
 81ffc2d  WT-2023: Improve locking primitives: simplify read-write lock operations.
 6b84722  WT-2029: Improve scalability of statistics.
 f97cfe9  WT-2031: Log slot revamp.
-bee11c3  WT-2032: WT_CURSOR::next configured with next_random=true on insert-only pages.
-cf53696  WT-2034: Make shared cache adjustments gradually.
+bee11c3  WT-2032: Improve next_random cursors to work with small trees.
+cf53696  WT-2034: Improve shared cache balancing algorithm.
 aee1c94  WT-2035: For index cursors, keep track of which column groups need to be positioned.
 36310d4  WT-2036: Make handle sweeps more robust.
 c948fbb  WT-2037: Only write a checkpoint to the log on close if it wasn't.
 e25e615  WT-2038: Avoid long scans holding the handle list lock.
-75a4655  WT-2039: Add error check and unit test for log records over 4Gb.
+75a4655  WT-2039: Add error check and unit test for log records over 4 GB.
 5ab26af  WT-2042: Only try to evict tombstones that are visible to all readers.
 ce223ac  WT-2045: Don't let the eviction server do slow reconciliation, it can stall the entire eviction process.
-6665618  WT-2046: Add a counter for search restarts.
-98b4a28  WT-2047: The __wt_random code to handle an uninitialized random state is broken.
+6665618  WT-2046: Add a statistic for search restarts.
+98b4a28  WT-2047: Fix a bug in the random generator code to handle an uninitialized state is broken.
 258e2e1  WT-2050: Show size with memory allocation errors.
 2e1471c  WT-2053: Fix a bug in disk verify messages.
 e316e61  WT-2056: Reorder btree cursor close so stats are maintained correctly.
-70f9100  WT-2057: Strip the verbose configuration as part of writing the base configuration file.
-41b6fb8  WT-2058: Fix mutex and log-slot alignment.
+70f9100  WT-2057: Remove the verbose configuration when writing the base configuration file.
+41b6fb8  WT-2058: Fix an alignment bug in the mutex and log-slot code.
 d72012b  WT-2059: Include non-aggregated stats in cursor results.
 3e0c7bf  WT-2062: Try harder to make progress on in-memory splits.
 66757f7  WT-2064: Don't spin indefinitely waiting for the handle list lock in eviction.
 8f42f02  WT-2066: Update the oldest transaction ID from eviction.
 e167592  WT-2068: Protect discarding handles with the handle list lock.
-fd72a09  WT-2075: Fix a hang in loggging with parallel workload.
-11c0fa0  WT-2078: Prevent segfault with NULL statistics cursor during OOM conditions.
+fd72a09  WT-2075: Fix a hang in logging with parallel workload.
+11c0fa0  WT-2078: Fix a bug in error handling with statistics cursors.
 9734d85  WT-2081: Make verify progress reporting less verbose.
 6008b41  WT-2085: Run some of the log_server threads operations more frequently.
-39a69ec  WT-2086: Add a statistic to track when can_evict sees splittable pages.
+39a69ec  WT-2086: Add a statistic to track when eviction finds a page that can be split.
 334e103  WT-2089: Relax restrictions on multiblock eviction and in-memory splits.
-f13b788  WT-2090: Avoid losing errors from the underlying Windows functions.
+f13b788  WT-2090: Fix a bug in the Windows OS layer that swallowed error returns.
 83b8db7  WT-2092: Free log condition variables after all threads are joined.
 d9391c0  WT-2093: Use the C99 bool type to clarify when functions return true/false.
-f883d27  WT-2094: Eliminate direct write and record unbuffered log records that.
+f883d27  WT-2094: Eliminate direct write and record unbuffered log records.
 9008260  WT-2097: Reintroduce immediate waits when forced eviction is necessary.
 ff1da28  WT-2100: Rename evict to evict_queue so it's easier to search for.
 41db2ee  WT-2101: Don't update the logging ckpt_lsn on clean shutdown.
 e1d6886  WT-2102: Fix a hang in log slot join when forcing log writes.
-0e96683  WT-2105: If a corrupted WT_CELL_VALUE_COPY cell has an offset larger than the current cell's offset in the page, we'll read memory outside of the page image.
+0e96683  WT-2105: Fix a bug where we could read out of bound memory if a file is corrupted on disk.
 6a565bc  WT-2108: Rework in-memory page rewrite support (WT_PM_REC_REWRITE).
 dcb0ddb  WT-2114: Make application eviction fairer.
 10c2f15  WT-2115: Don't skip truncated pages that are part of a checkpoint.
@@ -152,18 +150,18 @@ a0b5d2b  WT-2128: When decoding huffman encoding during salvage it's possible to
 8c223e4  WT-2134: Flush all buffered log records in log_flush.
 d1b5e7f  WT-2135: Fix log_only setting for backup cursor. Fix initialization.
 aab8101  WT-2137: Check the sync_lsn is in the correct file before moving it forward.
-323af84  WT-2139: At read-uncommitted isolation, keep the same ID pinned while cursors are positioned.
-751c628  WT-2146: Do quick searches for short keys.
-62998ce  WT-2148: Change encoding functions to avoid -Wshift-negative-value.
+323af84  WT-2139: Fix a transaction visibility bug in read-uncommitted transactions.
+751c628  WT-2146: Improve performance when searching for short keys.
+62998ce  WT-2148: Fix a compiler warning in encoding functions.
 6c16fdd  WT-2153: Fix bug. Now we always need to start the log_server thread.
 6a5fca3  WT-2154: Make btree dump safer.
 0d74bc6  WT-2155: Remove last use of F_CAS_ATOMIC and the associated macro.
 cc42bda  WT-2156: Allow eviction workers to restart.
-bf1d359  WT-2157: If we give up trying to split a page, make sure it is written by the next checkpoint.
+bf1d359  WT-2157: Fix a bug where a failed page split could lead to incomplete checkpoints.
 ce9d265  WT-2159: Don't check the config twice in one path.
 544f27d  WT-2162: Add null pointer check, needed after an index is dropped.
 0d85ebe  WT-2164: Prevent another LSM chunk checkpoint while the first is still in progress.
-a81aae8  WT-2165: Remove FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE flag from fallocate.
+a81aae8  WT-2165: Stop using FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE flag when pre-allocating files.
 2865a76  WT-2167: Switch recovery to using an internal session.
 5d4c952  WT-2170: Protect the turtle file with a lock.
 497b744  WT-2174: Avoid the table list lock when creating a size only statistics cursor.
@@ -174,7 +172,7 @@ be412b5  WT-2182: When internal pages grow large enough, split them into their p
 c27e78e  WT-2184: Fix log scan bug when final record has many trailing zeros.
 9584be3  WT-2185: Don't do reverse splits when closing a file.
 f6b12d3  WT-2187: Add flag for flushing a slot.
-a4545bf  WT-2189: Make F_SET (and F_CLR) into a void expression.
+a4545bf  WT-2189: Update flag set and clear macros to be less error prone.
 30ab327  WT-2191: In-memory disk image no longer the same as saved updates.
 4ba5698  WT-2192: Fix the logic around checking whether internal page is evictable.
 2f0b3e2  WT-2193: Handle read-committed metadata checkpoints during snapshot transactions.
@@ -184,13 +182,13 @@ ff27fe9  WT-2196: Fix error handling in size only statistics.
 0a1ee34  WT-2199: Fix transaction sync inconsistency.
 2ff1fd6  WT-2203: Release an allocated page on error.
 3b3cf2a  WT-2204: Don't take a local copy of page->modify until we know the page is dirty.
-179d4d0  WT-2206: Change cache operations from flags to an enum.
+179d4d0  WT-2206: Change cache operations from flags to an enumeration.
 82514ca  WT-2207: Track whenever a session has a handle exclusive.
 78bd4ac  WT-2210: Raw compression fails if row-store recovery precedes column-store recovery.
 c360d53  WT-2212: Add a "use_environment" config to ::wiredtiger_open.
 a72ddb7  WT-2218: Add truncate stats.
 ce8c091  WT-2219: Enhancements to in-memory testing.
-e2f1130  WT-2220: Split WT_TIMEDIFF macro into unit specific macros.
+e2f1130  WT-2220: Update time comparison macros.
 59857f9  WT-2222: Add statistics for named snapshots.
 fb9cebe  WT-2224: Track which deleted refs are discarded by a split.
 cace179  WT-2228: Avoid unnecessary raw-compression calls.
@@ -198,13 +196,12 @@ cace179  WT-2228: Avoid unnecessary raw-compression calls.
 6c7338f  WT-2241: Use a lock to protect transaction ID allocation.
 39dfd21  WT-2243: Don't keep transaction IDs pinned for reading from checkpoints.
 4c49948  WT-2244: Trigger in-memory splits sooner.
-fb7fc2f  WT-2245: Add a multiplier to the truncate stones to deal with very high throughput cases.
 9f2e4f3  WT-2248: WT_SESSION::close is updating WT_CONNECTION_IMPL.default_session.
 264ec21  WT-2249: Keep eviction stuck until cache usage is under 100%.
-dca1411  WT-2250: Minor fix.  Use SET instead of INCRV for stat.
+dca1411  WT-2250: Minor fix.  Use SET instead of increment for stat.
 e731ef8  WT-2251: Free addresses when we discard deleted page references.
 4fc3e39  WT-2253: Evict pages left behind by in-memory splits.
-2df5658  WT-2257: Fixes when given multiple thread workload configs.
+2df5658  WT-2257: Fixes when given multiple thread workload configurations.
 
 WiredTiger release 2.6.1, 2015-05-13
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