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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 ------------------------------------ |