From 75ff90548bb952b83fa1c05dae84aea78a620910 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Gorrod Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 17:08:36 +1000 Subject: Cut release 1.6.1 --- NEWS | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index b0f28dde3ba..f694f4a5a3a 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,38 @@ +WiredTiger release 1.6.1, 2013-05-31 +------------------------------------ + +This is a bugfix and performance tuning release. The main changes are: + +* Fix the compress_raw API so that it uses platform independent types. See the + upgrade guide for further information. [#561] + +* Add an explicit enable setting to shared_cache configuration. See the + upgrade guide for further information. + +* Fix several bugs in hot backup, including race conditions between backup and + table drop (and other schema level operations). [#556] [#557] + +* Allow any data source type for indices as well as column groups. [#545] + +* Preload btree internal pages into file system cache when opening a table. + +* Change the default allocation size to 4KB so that DIRECT_IO with 4KB blocks + works. [#547] + +* Fix some bugs related to tracking the oldest active transaction. [#552] + +* Fix a bug in the extension API when using multiple databases. + +* Disallow named checkpoints on LSM trees - they aren't supported. [#546] + +* Fix support for custom collators with LSM trees. [#544] + +* Build fixes for gcc 4.1.2. + +See the upgrade documentation for details of API changes that may require +altering existing applications. + + WiredTiger release 1.6.0, 2013-05-16 ------------------------------------ -- cgit v1.2.1