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@@ -1,3 +1,35 @@ +WiredTiger release 1.5.3, 2013-04-26 +------------------------------------ + +This release contains some major new features along with numerous bug fixes +and performance improvements. The significant changes are highlighted +below: + +* Enhance the extension data source API to facilitate implementation of new + data stores in WiredTiger. + +* Add support for the STEC / Memrata KVS data source. + +* Add a Berkeley DB data source via the WiredTiger extension API. + +* Various enhancements to cache eviction management. Mostly to avoid stalls in + application threads. + +* Fixes to shared cache pool implementation, so resources are more + aggressively reallocated. + +* Add new statistics. + +* Implement automatic insert throttling in LSM - enabled by default. + +* Configuration strings are now case sensitive. + +* Enhance LSM merge algorithms to be more efficient as trees grow very large. + +See the upgrade documentation for details of API changes that may require +altering existing applications. + + WiredTiger release 1.5.2, 2013-03-28 ------------------------------------ |