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| -rw-r--r-- | src/docs/upgrading.dox | 10 |
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@@ -1,3 +1,53 @@ +WiredTiger release 2.9.1, 2016-12-22 +------------------------------------ + +New features and API changes; refer to the API documentation for full details: + +* SERVER-26545 Remove fixed-size limitation on WiredTiger hazard pointers. See the upgrading documentation for details +* WT-283 Add a new WT_SESSION::alter method that can be used to reconfigure table metadata +* WT-2670 Change the default file system access pattern advice for data files from random to no advice. Add access_pattern_hint configuration option for WT_SESSION::create API that can be used to advise the file system of expected access semantics. See the upgrading documentation for details. +* WT-3034 Add support for including updates when reading from named snapshots + +Significant changes and bug fixes: + +* WT-2960 Reduce likelihood of using the lookaside file, especially when inserting multi-megabyte values +* WT-3056 Allow projected table and join cursors to use primary keys +* WT-3070 Fix a bug in search_near on indexes + +Other noteworthy changes since the previous release: + +* WT-2336 Add a test validating schema operations via file system call monitoring +* WT-2402 Pad structures to avoid cache line sharing +* WT-2771 Add a statistic to track per-btree dirty cache usage +* WT-2833 Add projections to wt dump utility +* WT-2969 Possible snapshot corruption during compaction +* WT-3014 Add GCC/clang support for ELF symbol visibility +* WT-3021 Fixes for java log example, raw mode in java, and raw mode in log cursors +* WT-3025 Fix error path in log_force_sync +* WT-3028 Don't check for blocked eviction with in-memory workloads +* WT-3030 Fix a race between scans and splits reading the index hint +* WT-3037 Clean up some log slot comments +* WT-3048 WiredTiger maximum size warning uses the wrong format +* WT-3051 Remove external __wt_hex symbol +* WT-3052 Improve search if index hint is wrong +* WT-3053 Make Python use internal memory allocation again +* WT-3054 Make a PackOutputStream constructor that is compatible with the previous interface. +* WT-3055 When an AsyncOp is created, cache the whether the cursor is "raw" +* WT-3057 WiredTiger hazard pointers should use the WT_REF, not the WT_PAGE +* WT-3061 Syscall testing should support pwrite64 on Linux +* WT-3064 Minor tree cleanups: .gitignore, NEWS misspelling +* WT-3066 Minor code cleanups +* WT-3068 Copy artifacts of test runs in wtperf_run script +* WT-3068 Have Jenkins include specific files for copy rather than exclude +* WT-3069 Fix LevelDB APIs build failures +* WT-3071 Fixed sign-conversion compiler errors in Java and Python SWIG code +* WT-3075 Document and enforce that WiredTiger now depends on Python 2.7 +* WT-3078 Test reconfiguration hang in the statlog server +* WT-3080 Python test suite: add elapsed time for tests +* WT-3082 Python test suite: shorten default run to avoid timeouts +* WT-3084 Fix Coverity resource leak complaint +* WT-3091 Add stats to test_perf001 test, so we can investigate what happened when it failed + WiredTiger release 2.9.0, 2016-09-06 ------------------------------------ @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -WiredTiger 2.9.1: (December 7, 2016) +WiredTiger 2.9.1: (December 23, 2016) This is version 2.9.1 of WiredTiger. diff --git a/build_posix/aclocal/version-set.m4 b/build_posix/aclocal/version-set.m4 index ecb45b5e73e..b3f2c50fad8 100644 --- a/build_posix/aclocal/version-set.m4 +++ b/build_posix/aclocal/version-set.m4 @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ dnl build by dist/s_version VERSION_MAJOR=2 VERSION_MINOR=9 VERSION_PATCH=1 -VERSION_STRING='"WiredTiger 2.9.1: (December 7, 2016)"' +VERSION_STRING='"WiredTiger 2.9.1: (December 23, 2016)"' AC_SUBST(VERSION_MAJOR) AC_SUBST(VERSION_MINOR) diff --git a/dist/s_string.ok b/dist/s_string.ok index f2429237f21..2b998c27813 100644 --- a/dist/s_string.ok +++ b/dist/s_string.ok @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ Alakuijala Alexandrescu's Alloc Async +AsyncOp Athanassoulis Athlon BBBBB @@ -276,6 +277,7 @@ PRNG PTHREAD PTR PackInputStream +PackOutputStream Pandis Phong PlatformSDK @@ -339,6 +341,7 @@ Split's Stoica StoreLoad StoreStore +Syscall TAILQ TCMalloc TESTUTIL diff --git a/src/docs/top/main.dox b/src/docs/top/main.dox index 01acc849d50..84487c13174 100644 --- a/src/docs/top/main.dox +++ b/src/docs/top/main.dox @@ -6,12 +6,12 @@ WiredTiger is an high performance, scalable, production quality, NoSQL, @section releases Releases <table> -@row{<b>WiredTiger 2.9.0</b> (current), +@row{<b>WiredTiger 2.9.1</b> (current), + <a href="releases/wiredtiger-2.9.1.tar.bz2"><b>[Release package]</b></a>, + <a href="2.9.1/index.html"><b>[Documentation]</b></a>} +@row{<b>WiredTiger 2.9.0</b> (previous), <a href="releases/wiredtiger-2.9.0.tar.bz2"><b>[Release package]</b></a>, <a href="2.9.0/index.html"><b>[Documentation]</b></a>} -@row{<b>WiredTiger 2.8.0</b> (previous), - <a href="releases/wiredtiger-2.8.0.tar.bz2"><b>[Release package]</b></a>, - <a href="2.8.0/index.html"><b>[Documentation]</b></a>} @row{<b>Development branch</b>, <a href="https://github.com/wiredtiger/wiredtiger"><b>[Source code]</b></a>, <a href="develop/index.html"><b>[Documentation]</b></a>} diff --git a/src/docs/upgrading.dox b/src/docs/upgrading.dox index 0b0826f2646..fea0a4a8364 100644 --- a/src/docs/upgrading.dox +++ b/src/docs/upgrading.dox @@ -8,6 +8,16 @@ The \c hazard_max parameter to ::wiredtiger_open is now ignored. Memory is allocated for hazard pointers as required by each session. </dd> + +<dt>Change to the default fadvise behavior for data files</dt> +<dd> +The old default behavior was to advise the file system that access would be +random for data files, and there was no way to alter that. We no longer +call advise the file system of expected access patterns by default, and +have added a new \c access_pattern_hint configuration option available for +WT_SESSION::create that can be used to restore the old default by setting +the value to "random". +</dd> </dl> @section version_290 Upgrading to Version 2.9.0 |