LevelDB v1.21 Release Notes

Release Date: 2019-03-29 // almost 5 years ago
    • ๐Ÿ”€ Switched to using Copybara for project synchronization.
    • Minor cleanup in ports.
    • โš  Silence unused argument warnings in MSVC.
    • โž• Add tests for empty keys and values.
    • โœ… Switch corruption_test to use InMemEnv.
    • Replace AtomicPointer with std::atomic.
    • ๐Ÿ‘‰ Make InMemoryEnv more consistent with filesystem based Env's.
    • Align windows_logger with posix_logger.
    • ๐Ÿ‘Œ Improve CI configuration and added AppVeyor (Windows CI) badge to README.
    • ๐Ÿ Added native support for Windows.
    • ๐Ÿ‘‰ Make WriteBatch::ApproximateSize() const.
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix PosixWritableFile::Sync() on Apple systems.
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix fdatasync() feature detection in opensource build.
    • C++11 cleanup for util/mutexlock.h.
    • Rework threading in env_posix.cc.
    • โœ‚ Remove InitOnce from the port API.
    • ๐Ÿ”ฆ Expose WriteBatch::Append().
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix documentation for log file growth.
    • โž• Add move constructor to Status.
    • Replace port_posix with port_stdcxx.
    • Reimplement ConsumeDecimalNumber.
    • ๐Ÿ— Document the building process.
    • Replace NULL with nullptr in C++ files.
    • Remove PLATFORM_IS_LITTLE_ENDIAN from port/posix.h.
    • โž• Add more thread safety annotations.
    • Require C++11.
    • Replace SIZE_MAX with std::numeric_limits.
    • โž• Add CMake build support.
    • Enable thread safety annotations.
    • leveldb::DestroyDB will now delete empty directories.
    • โšก๏ธ Replace SSE-optimized CRC32C in POSIX port with external library.
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix file writing bug in CL 170738066.
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix use of uninitialized value in LRUHandle.
    • Fix issue #474: a race between the f*_unlocked() STDIO calls in env_posix.cc and concurrent application calls to fflush(NULL).
    • Use __APPLE__ instead of OS_MACOS. The former is compiler-provided.
    • Report missing CURRENT manifest file as database corruption.
    • LevelDB: Add WriteBatch::ApproximateSize().
    • ๐Ÿ“š Other minor fixes, code cleanup, and documentation improvements.

Previous changes from v1.20

    • ๐Ÿ“š Convert documentation to markdown.
    • ๐Ÿ‘ Implement support for Intel crc32 instruction (SSE 4.2).
      Based on #309.
    • Limit the number of read-only files the POSIX Env will have open.
    • โž• Add option for maximum file size.