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@@ -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>} |