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authorDavid Hows <howsdav@gmail.com>2017-01-06 15:17:37 +1100
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Import wiredtiger: 8d2324943364286056ae399043f70b8a937de312 from branch mongodb-3.4
ref: ca6eee06ff..8d23249433 for: 3.4.2 SERVER-26545 Remove fixed-size limitation on WiredTiger hazard pointers WT-2336 Add a test validating schema operations via file system call monitoring WT-2402 Misaligned structure accesses lead to undefined behavior WT-2670 Inefficient I/O when read full DB (poor readahead) WT-283 Add a way to change persistent object settings WT-2960 Inserting multi-megabyte values can cause pathological lookaside usage WT-2969 Possible snapshot corruption during compaction WT-3014 Add GCC/clang support for ELF symbol visibility. WT-3021 Fixes needed for Java log cursor example, Java raw mode cursors, log cursors in raw mode WT-3025 fix error path in log_force_sync WT-3028 Workloads with all dirty pages could trigger diagnostic stuck check WT-3030 Test failure indicating invalid key order during traversal WT-3034 Add support for single-writer named snapshots. WT-3037 Fix some outdated comments in logging WT-3048 WiredTiger maximum size warning uses the wrong format. WT-3051 Remove external __wt_hex symbol. WT-3052 Improve search if an index hint is wrong WT-3053 Review Python and Java calls to internal WiredTiger functions WT-3054 Java PackTest, PackTest03 do not compile WT-3055 Java AsyncTest faults WT-3056 For cursors with projections, keys should be allowed WT-3057 WiredTiger hazard pointers should use the WT_REF, not the WT_PAGE. WT-3061 syscall test runs with checkpoint_sync=false and doesn't acknowledge pwrite64 WT-3064 minor tree cleanups: .gitignore, NEWS misspelling WT-3066 lint WT-3068 Copy wtperf artifacts when running Jenkins tests WT-3069 Fix build failures in LevelDB APIs WT-3070 Fix search_near() for index cursor WT-3071 Java: fix build with -Werror=sign-conversion WT-3075 Document and enforce that WiredTiger now depends on Python 2.7 WT-3078 Fix a hang in the reconfiguration test. WT-3084 Fix Coverity resource leak complaint.
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+WiredTiger release 2.9.0, 2016-09-06
+------------------------------------
+
+New features and API changes; refer to the API documentation for full details:
+
+* WT-2360 Add nesting and disjunction functionality to cursor joins
+* WT-2552 Add a public API to allow custom filesystem implementations
+* WT-2738 Remove the ability to change the default checkpoint name. See the upgrading documentation for details.
+* WT-2711 Change the statistics log configuration options. Restrict where statistics log files can be created to remove security vulnerability. See upgrading documentation for details.
+* WT-2764 Enhance the checkpoint implementation, which led to a change in default eviction settings. See the upgrading documentation for details.
+* WT-2880 Add Zstandard compression support
+* See the upgrading documentation for information about renamed and removed statistics.
+
+Significant changes and bug fixes:
+
+* WT-2026 Fix a bug where in-memory pages were allowed to grow too large
+* WT-2343 Ensure we cannot rename/drop when a backup cursor is open
+* WT-2520 Ensure WT_SESSION::verify does not alter tables
+* WT-2576 Ensure variable-length column-store cannot out-of-order return
+* WT-2664 Change eviction so any eviction thread can find candidates
+* WT-2702 Resolve an issue where under high thread load, WiredTiger exceeds cache size
+* WT-2731 Resolve an issue where raw compression can create pages that are larger than expected
+* WT-2737 Allow reconciliation to scrub dirty pages rather than evicting them
+* WT-2757 Fix a bug in column stores where it was not possible to retrieve the new record number after an append
+* WT-2816 Improve eviction performance
+
+Issues fixed in MongoDB:
+
+* SERVER-23504 Resolve a resource leak
+* SERVER-23588 Stop using _open_osfhandle on Windows
+* SERVER-23659 Improve log error message at startup
+* SERVER-23661 Fix an issue where $sample takes disproportionately long time on newly created collection
+* SERVER-24306 Fix stall in log_flush switching to new files
+* SERVER-24580 Add more eviction stats to track efficiency
+* SERVER-24580 Enhance eviction when application threads are contributing
+* SERVER-24971 Don't cache buffers after application eviction
+* SERVER-25843 Remove a redundant test
+* SERVER-25845 Resolve an explicit null dereferenced
+* SERVER-25846 Resolve a dereference after null with a check
+* SERVER-26753 Don't spin on a read-lock in a tight loop
+
+Other noteworthy changes since the previous release:
+
+* WT-2103 Add incremental backup testing to test/format
+* WT-2330 Ensure In-memory configurations do not create on-disk collection files
+* WT-2450 Resolve an issue where salvage releases pages, then explicitly evicts them. Which can race with the eviction server
+* WT-2453 Add multiple eviction queues
+* WT-2504 Remove READONLY conditional for base config
+* WT-2505 Resolve clang analyzer warnings
+* WT-2508 Ensure test programs should remove test directories on the "clean" target
+* WT-2512 Change how wtperf throttle values per thread are calculated
+* WT-2513 Fix a type conversion warning
+* WT-2517 Resolve incorrect uses of setvbuf on Windows
+* WT-2518 Optimization of LSM checkpoint handle acquisition
+* WT-2522 Resolve incorrect format code in message
+* WT-2525 Miscellaneous cleanups of In-memory configurations
+* WT-2526 Prevent mixing and matching readonly file-handles and read/write data-handles
+* WT-2528 Fix a style error in WiredTiger build
+* WT-2529 Be less aggressive asserting in readonly connections
+* WT-2531 Resolve a case where in-memory tables are wasting space in truncation
+* WT-2532 Change the WT_STREAM_APPEND and WT_STREAM_LINE_BUFFER flags as they overlap
+* WT-2533 Don't let in-memory tables return a zero size
+* WT-2534 Use atomic add when allocating transaction IDs
+* WT-2535 Extend test/format to test for transactions reading their writes
+* WT-2537 Check for an old and new uninitialized LSN for recovery
+* WT-2539 Make streams a separate handle type from files
+* WT-2540 Separate stream and file handle methods
+* WT-2542 Resolve fixed-length column store reconciliation overwriting original values
+* WT-2544 Fix eviction stats when clear is used
+* WT-2546 Change evict server to be smarter when it decides whether or not to evict pages
+* WT-2547 Add eviction testing configurations for 1 thread
+* WT-2548 Cap the amount of data handed to raw compression
+* WT-2550 Add support for raw mode cursors in java
+* WT-2553 Add some In-memory documentation and stress testing
+* WT-2556 Fix a typo in the Java example code
+* WT-2557 Ensure that we truncate logs before closing backup cursor
+* WT-2558 Reorganize WT_PAGE structure
+* WT-2559 Resolve a potential segfault in Windows logging code
+* WT-2560 Add a rwlock to protect transaction state, don't spin on this lock
+* WT-2562 Add sleep loop to adapt for slow machines like PPC
+* WT-2565 Further limit the amount of data passed to raw compression
+* WT-2566 Add explicit memory barriers to Lock/unlock operations
+* WT-2567 Add a check to see if logging is enabled for truncate rather than assuming it is
+* WT-2568 Add a backward compatible constructor for PackInputStream
+* WT-2569 Ensure __win_handle_read is followed by a call to GetLastError()
+* WT-2570 Minor lint and cleanups to code
+* WT-2571 Join code clean up
+* WT-2572 Ensure test/format doesn't select an incompatible set of options for in-memory options configured
+* WT-2573 Resolve a potential case where a double free can occur
+* WT-2574 Ensure test/format frees all allocated configure memory
+* WT-2576 Ensure variable-length column-store cannot out-of-order return
+* WT-2577 Resolve a potential double-free following an in-memory split
+* WT-2579 Change so diagnostic only code can use file streams directly
+* WT-2580 Fix potential SWIG naming conflict in Java
+* WT-2581 Resolve a case where we fail to track saved updates during a page split
+* WT-2582 Fix a case where eviction can return WT_RESTART when running in-memory
+* WT-2584 Change to not use periods at the end of error messages
+* WT-2586 Fix examples/ex_config
+* WT-2589 Ensure we clear the cursor statistics for LAS when 'clear' is set
+* WT-2592 Fix joins for the non-recno, non-raw case
+* WT-2593 Free the dirlist at the end of the function
+* WT-2595 Fix compiler warning in packing test
+* WT-2598 Change so that in-memory has faster lookup on file names
+* WT-2599 Split out the checksum code from the support directory
+* WT-2600 Clean up test program includes
+* WT-2602 In LSM, use the chunk size to set maximum page size in memory
+* WT-2605 Add C tests used in testing joins
+* WT-2609 Resolve incorrect "skips API_END call" error
+* WT-2610 Reduce hazard pointer array size
+* WT-2611 Modify wtperf to handle escaped quotes
+* WT-2612 Ensure the dist/s_prototypes script does not create a debugging file
+* WT-2613 Add WT_UNUSED to a variable to fix Windows compilation
+* WT-2615 Enabling checkpoints in test/format leads to reduced concurrency
+* WT-2616 Fix a deadlock with in-memory size lookups
+* WT-2617 Don't use u_int in the example code. It's not Windows native
+* WT-2621 Fix missing parentheses on call to __wt_errno
+* WT-2622 Clear old position for all random lookups
+* WT-2624 Fix example program build with MSVC 2013
+* WT-2626 Fix MSVC 2015 snprintf redefinition
+* WT-2627 Resolve Coverity complaints
+* WT-2628 Ensure reconciliation doesn't return without unlocking the page lock
+* WT-2629 Ensure stacks are not executable in assembly source
+* WT-2630 Rename pluggable filesystem methods to avoid reserved names
+* WT-2631 Ensure nullptr is not passed for parameters marked with attribute non-null
+* WT-2632 Tolerate EBUSY when a checkpoint cursor is open
+* WT-2637 Update file-extension documentation to cover not-supported cases
+* WT-2638 Add extension to the Windows file system implementation
+* WT-2644 Fix 'wt load -r' (rename) with LSM
+* WT-2645 Move the complexity of dump from the dump utility to the metadata cursor
+* WT-2646 Add checkpoint_wait configuration option to drop
+* WT-2648 Change cache-line alignment for new ports
+* WT-2651 Fix a Coverity found resource leak
+* WT-2652 Remove unnecessary wt_ftruncate call
+* WT-2653 Add display of device configuration to custom file-system example
+* WT-2656 Fix GCC 4.7 compiler warnings
+* WT-2658 Ensure we only include PPC-specific files in PPC builds
+* WT-2659 Assorted lint and cleanup to csuite tests
+* WT-2660 Fix a hang between eviction and connection close
+* WT-2662 For spell check, strip out double quote literals, they confuse aspell
+* WT-2664 Add ability for eviction workers to populate eviction queues
+* WT-2665 Limit allocator fragmentation from the WiredTiger cache
+* WT-2667 Add fops to Evergreen testing for Windows and Linux
+* WT-2668 Create join statistics that are useful and are easy to understand
+* WT-2671 Dump more information about the file layout in verify debug mode
+* WT-2672 Handle system calls that don't set errno
+* WT-2673 Stop automatically increasing memory page max
+* WT-2674 Simplify metadata file check
+* WT-2676 Don't use key size in column store in-memory splits
+* WT-2677 Fix JSON output so only printable ASCII is produced
+* WT-2678 Fix cases where metadata implies that an empty value is true
+* WT-2682 Add option to configure WiredTiger with strict compiler flags
+* WT-2683 Allow in memory storage engine to report zero disk usage
+* WT-2685 Fix clear walk hazard pointer failure
+* WT-2686 Report an error any time we fail to scan the log
+* WT-2687 Provide ability for test suite to verify the exit status of the wt utility
+* WT-2688 Improve build error messages when SWIG is unavailable
+* WT-2689 Fix heap-use-after-free on cursor error path
+* WT-2691 Use wrappers for ctype functions to avoid sign extension errors
+* WT-2692 Fix race in file system example
+* WT-2693 Ensure open_cursor error paths have consistent error handling
+* WT-2695 Integrate s390x accelerated crc32c support
+* WT-2696 Wait if we find an unbuffered flag without the size set yet
+* WT-2698 Change flag into atomically manipulated field to avoid deadlock
+* WT-2702 Block operations when the cache is 100% full
+* WT-2704 Fix bug in diagnostic code tracking duration of stuck cache
+* WT-2706 Fix lost log writes when switching files
+* WT-2707 Add stricter checks in dist/s_label, and add some WT_ERR calls
+* WT-2708 Fix a split child-update race with reconciliation/eviction
+* WT-2709 Resolve a connection reconfigure segfault in __wt_conn_cache_pool_destroy
+* WT-2710 WT_FILE_HANDLE_INMEM no longer needs an off field
+* WT-2713 Document WT_PANIC so pluggable filesystems can panic
+* WT-2715 Resolve random abort test failure with partial write
+* WT-2719 Allow make check without verbose configured
+* WT-2719 Fix memory leak in reconfig test
+* WT-2720 Change the return codes in run.py to error on failures
+* WT-2722 Escape regular expression meta-character so egrep works on all systems
+* WT-2724 Pass in session address, not pointer to it
+* WT-2728 Only verify the log file header during recovery
+* WT-2729 Focus eviction on the largest trees in cache
+* WT-2730 Btree can incorrectly match key slots on new pages
+* WT-2731 Finer adjustment for page size with raw compression
+* WT-2732 Coverity analysis defect 99665, Remove redundant test
+* WT-2734 Improve documentation of eviction configuration settings
+* WT-2739 pluggable file systems documentation cleanups
+* WT-2743 Fixup new I/O thread count statistics
+* WT-2744 Detect and ignore partial line
+* WT-2746 Add a new statistic tracking I/O for checkpoints
+* WT-2751 column-store statistics incorrectly calculates the number of entries
+* WT-2752 Fix errors in wtperf config
+* WT-2755 Fix for cases where tools treats size_t as 4B type
+* WT-2756 Upgrade the autoconf archive package to check for swig 3.0
+* WT-2757 Column tables behave differently when column names are provided
+* WT-2759 Releasing the hot-backup lock doesn't require the schema lock
+* WT-2760 Fix a bug in backup related to directory sync. Change the filesystem API to make durable the default
+* WT-2762 Handle 'Y' as an options from wtperf monitor file
+* WT-2763 Change test ID's in test_intpack to fix OS X test errors
+* WT-2764 Fix a bug calculating the dirty percentage of cache
+* WT-2765 Ensure indices are shown in the dump output
+* WT-2766 Don't sweep LAS cache when aren't making progress in eviction
+* WT-2767 In test/suite/run.py, add -s N option to run an individual scenario
+* WT-2769 Update documentation to reflect correct limits of memory_page_max
+* WT-2770 Add statistics tracking schema operations
+* WT-2772 Adjust log.wtperf config. Remove unneeded config entries
+* WT-2773 Ensure that search_near in an index finds exact matches
+* WT-2774 Minor cleanups/improvements
+* WT-2778 Enhance output formatting when running Python test suite
+* WT-2779 Fix large pages getting generated with raw compression
+* WT-2781 Don't take checkpoint lock if checkpoint_wait=0 for bulk cursor open
+* WT-2782 Minor text changes for file system functions
+* WT-2783 Clean up wtperf configuration object management
+* WT-2785 Scrub dirty pages rather than evicting them single-page reconciliation
+* WT-2787 Include src/include/wiredtiger_ext.h is problematic
+* WT-2788 Do not touch memory already freed during a close API call
+* WT-2791 Have evergreen upload artifacts for each build. Rename current artifacts to "Binaries"
+* WT-2793 Enhance statistics related to overflow values
+* WT-2795 Update documentation about read-only mode
+* WT-2796 Fix a memory leak when using the lookaside table
+* WT-2798 Fix data consistency bug with table creates during a checkpoint
+* WT-2800 Fix incorrect error message
+* WT-2801 Prevent eviction of metadata updates by a running checkpoint
+* WT-2802 Copy values during commit before releasing snapshot
+* WT-2803 Add VERBOSE=1 to all make check jobs
+* WT-2804 Don't read values in a tree without a snapshot
+* WT-2805 Avoid infinite recursion on error stream failure
+* WT-2806 Fix an off-by-one allocation in wtperf
+* WT-2807 Change the memory allocator for wtperf performance tests
+* WT-2811 The checkpoint session should not ignore it's own transaction ID
+* WT-2812 Verify cache_size before dividing to avoid division by 0
+* WT-2813 Configure eviction dirty settings explicitly for LSM in test/format
+* WT-2814 Add new single op truncate mode to wtperf
+* WT-2816 General improvements to WiredTiger eviction performance
+* WT-2817 Add wtperf conf to stress test checkpoints with updates
+* WT-2818 Change the page visibility check when queuing pages for eviction
+* WT-2820 Add gcc warn_unused_result attribute
+* WT-2822 Simplify error handling by using a panic mutex in functions that cannot fail
+* WT-2823 Support file handles without a truncate method
+* WT-2824 Fix double concatenation the config strings
+* WT-2826 Fix a clang38 false positive on uninitialized variable
+* WT-2827 Set a reasonable minimum for log_size
+* WT-2828 Change wtperf long tests to better match MongoDB workloads
+* WT-2829 Fix missing define for BerkeleyDB
+* WT-2831 Skip checkpointing if there have been no modifications
+* WT-2832 Python test uses hard-coded temporary directory
+* WT-2834 Fix sign-change warning with auto conversion from uint to int
+* WT-2834 Shared bloom filters allow only a partial shortcut
+* WT-2835 Stop WT_CONNECTION.leak-memory skipping memory map and cache cleanup
+* WT-2838 Don't free session handles on close if leak memory is configured
+* WT-2839 Remove cases ignoring return value of function
+* WT-2840 Fix garbage values found with clang analysis
+* WT-2841 Initialize verbose checkpoint timer at start of checkpoint
+* WT-2842 Add explicit include in wtperf to resolve build warning
+* WT-2843 If there is no truncate available, manually zero the log file
+* WT-2846 Ensure that all resources are released when destroying a thread group
+* WT-2846 Fixes for new thread group code
+* WT-2847 Merge fair locks into read/write locks
+* WT-2850 Fix clang 4.1 attribute warnings
+* WT-2853 Don't force eviction if multiple cursors are pinning the page
+* WT-2857 POSIX ftruncate calls should be use HAVE_FTRUNCATE define
+* WT-2858 Rename wtperf's CONFIG structure
+* WT-2859 Restructure statistics gathering macros
+* WT-2863 Support UTF-8 paths on Windows
+* WT-2864 Update reconfigure test to detect hangs
+* WT-2865 Fix a bug where the eviction server could panic after a WT_NOTFOUND
+* WT-2866 Don't set eviction stuck unless the cache is full
+* WT-2867 Review and fix barrier usage in __lsm_tree_close
+* WT-2868 Add sample_interval to checkpoint-stress.wtperf
+* WT-2869 Fix a performance regression on secondaries
+* WT-2870 Rename wtperf jobs for consistency
+* WT-2871 Make verbose formats and argument types match
+* WT-2872 Ensure tests with tiny caches don't get stuck due to the dirty trigger
+* WT-2873 Refactor CRC32 code
+* WT-2874 Change test_compact01 to avoid eviction
+* WT-2875 Add environment variable to disable long csuite tests
+* WT-2876 Add an oplog-like ability to wtperf utility
+* WT-2878 Fix an issue where verbose changes affected performance
+* WT-2881 Add -Wpedantic to clang compiler warning flags
+* WT-2883 Remove potentially recursive call for verbose handleops
+* WT-2885 Lint __wt_checkpoint_signal function
+* WT-2886 Ignore dirty eviction settings when in_memory is true
+* WT-2888 Switch functions to return void where possible
+* WT-2892 Fix case where hot backup can race with block truncate
+* WT-2894 Add wtperf stress workload that tries to induce negative scaling
+* WT-2895 Reduce the runtime of make check testing with disable long
+* WT-2896 Fix a resource leak
+* WT-2897 Fix an issue where checkpoints can become corrupted on failure
+* WT-2900 Add ARM8 build support to WiredTiger and fix ARM CRC assembler tags
+* WT-2901 Make checkpoint scrubbing configurable
+* WT-2902 Track per-tree the efficiency of eviction walks
+* WT-2903 Change the eviction_scrub_target default to 15%
+* WT-2904 Fix a bug where the reported checkpoint size could be many times data size
+* WT-2904 Revert overly strong assertion
+* WT-2905 Remove dead code
+* WT-2907 Fixed java concurrent close test to have both insert threads and scan threads
+* WT-2908 Add a dry-run option to python suite
+* WT-2910 When running in-memory, only evict dirty pages
+* WT-2911 Add support for gcc6
+* WT-2912 Make --enable-strict run on the zseries test box
+* WT-2913 Re-sort eviction queues if we find no new candidates
+* WT-2914 In test/csuite program, added explicit call to wiredtiger_open to satisfy some linkers
+* WT-2916 Fix and simplify s_whitespace
+* WT-2917 Split wtperf's configuration into per-database and per-run parts
+* WT-2918 The dist scripts create C files s_whitespace complains about
+* WT-2919 Don't mask error returns from style checking scripts
+* WT-2920 New eviction statistics
+* WT-2921 Reset the count when the last hazard pointer is cleared
+* WT-2923 Fix heap-use-after-free on address in compaction
+* WT-2924 Ensure we are doing eviction when threads are waiting for it
+* WT-2925 Change where the WT_THREAD_PANIC_FAIL flag lives
+* WT-2926 WT_CONNECTION.reconfigure can attempt unlock of not-locked lock
+* WT-2928 Don't give up when the urgent queue is half empty
+* WT-2928 Eviction failing to switch queues can lead to starvation
+* WT-2931 Enforce limits on dirty data for in-memory
+* WT-2932 Add a configuration option allowing tables to ignore cache limits
+* WT-2933 Fix a race between named snapshots and checkpoints
+* WT-2937 Only do an eviction walk after a page has been taken from the current queue
+* WT-2938 Change assembly file extensions from .S to .sx
+* WT-2941 Improve test/format to use faster key-generation functions
+* WT-2942 Verbose messages should not have newlines
+* WT-2945 Occasional hang running reconfigure fuzz test
+* WT-2946 Fix dist/s_docs being incompatible with OS X Xcode installation
+* WT-2947 Replace test suite populate functions with *DataSet classes
+* WT-2948 Simplify error handling by making __wt_epoch return never fail
+* WT-2949 Add option to skip closing the connection after test runs
+* WT-2950 Free all reconciliation memory between calls to eviction
+* WT-2953 Only test for checkpoint/LAS collision if LAS was used
+* WT-2954 Evict pages that exceed memory_page_max even if the transaction ID is stuck
+* WT-2955 Add statistics tracking the amount of time threads spend waiting for high level locks
+* WT-2959 Ensure WT_SESSION_IMPL is never used before it's initialized
+* WT-2961 Add a version drop-down to the web version of the docs
+* WT-2962 Allow configuration of builtin extensions
+* WT-2963 Fix a race bounding eviction in small caches
+* WT-2964 Alter evict walk to not fill all its slots with internal pages when running in aggressive mode
+* WT-2965 Remove sleep and retry loop from __evict_exclusive
+* WT-2968 Don't open file handles on backup
+* WT-2971 Add details on raw-compression into WT documentation
+* WT-2975 Fix a leak of statistics data when reopening handles
+* WT-2976 Add a statistic tracking how long app threads spend reading and writing
+* WT-2977 Remove stash and check code from LSM test
+* WT-2984 Keep sufficient history in the metadata for queries
+* WT-2985 Fix a race during checkpoint that can cause a core dump
+* WT-2987 Fix a bug where opening a cursor on an incomplete table drops core
+* WT-2988 Fix __wt_epoch potentially returning garbage values
+* WT-2991 Fix Coverity REVERSE_INULL
+* WT-2998 Add error messages to error returns that might be confusing
+* WT-2999 Added contributed test case that demonstrated the leak
+* WT-3000 Wait for previous writes on first write to new log file
+* WT-3001 Fix WT_EXTENSION_API references that are named inconsistently
+* WT-3002 Allow applications to exempt threads from eviction
+* WT-3003 Don't generate log record and op types
+* WT-3003 Fix doxygen comment blocks
+* WT-3004 Lint, declare functions that don't return a value as void
+* WT-3005 Add top-level .gitignore file
+* WT-3008 Move wtperf stress jobs to new stress runner folder
+* WT-3009 Remove the eviction_dirty_target from test/format runs with less than 20MB cache
+* WT-3011 Fix __wt_curjoin_open() saving the wrong URI in the cursor
+* WT-3012 Check a btree is LSM primary before switching
+* WT-3012 Don't track the LSM Primary as part of dirty bytes in cache
+* WT-3015 Change when we will evict internal pages
+* WT-3016 Change how file size is determined during compact tests to allow
+* WT-3017 Don't set NULL hazard pointers
+* WT-3020 Always make LSM chunks evictable when they are switched out
+* WT-3022 Change lsm_tree flags to fields to prevent race conditions
+* WT-3023 Don't treat splits as eviction making progress
+* WT-3024 Fix a hang on close caused by leaving a transaction ID pinned
+
WiredTiger release 2.8.0, 2015-03-24
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