libmdbx v0.11.6 Release Notes
Release Date: 2022-03-24 // about 2 years ago-
๐ The stable release with the complete workaround for an incoherence flaw of Linux unified page/buffer cache. Nonetheless the cause for this trouble may be an issue of Intel CPU cache/MESI. ๐ See issue#269 for more information.
Acknowledgements:
- David Bouyssiรฉ for Scala bindings.
- Michelangelo Riccobene for reporting and testing.
๐ Fixes:
- Added complete workaround for an incoherence flaw of Linux unified page/buffer cache.
- Fixed cursor reusing for read-only transactions.
- Fixed copy&paste typo inside
mdbx::cursor::find_multivalue()
.
Minors:
- Minor refine C++ API for convenience.
- Minor internals refines.
- Added
lib-static
andlib-shared
targets for make. - Added minor workaround for AppleClang 13.3 bug.
- Clarified error messages of a signature/version mismatch.
Previous changes from v0.11.5
-
๐ The stable release with the hotfix/workaround for a flaw of Linux 4.19 (at least) unified page/buffer cache. ๐ See issue#269 for more information.
Acknowledgements:
- Simon Leier for reporting and testing.
- Kai Wetlesen for RPMs.
- Tullio Canepa for reporting C++ API issue and contributing.
๐ Fixes:
- Added workaround for a flaw of Linux 4.19 (at least) unified page/buffer cache.
- Fixed/Reworked move-assignment operators for "managed" classes of C++ API.
- Fixed potential
SIGSEGV
while open DB with overrided non-default page size. - Made
mdbx_env_open()
idempotence in failure cases. - Refined/Fixed pages reservation inside
mdbx_update_gc()
to avoid non-reclamation in a rare cases. - Fixed typo in a retained space calculation for the hsr-callback.
Minors:
- Reworked functions for meta-pages, split-off non-volatile.
- Disentangled C11-atomic fences/barriers and pure-functions (with
__attribute__((__pure__))
) to avoid compiler misoptimization. - Fixed hypotetic unaligned access to 64-bit dwords on ARM with
__ARM_FEATURE_UNALIGNED
defined. - Reasonable paranoia that makes clarity for code readers.
- Minor fixes Doxygen references, comments, descriptions, etc.