GNU dbm - News
posted by gray, Wed Jul 3 11:54:42 2024 - 0 replies
GNU dbm version 1.24 is available for download. New in this version:
New gdbm_load option: --update
The --update (-U) option instructs gdbm_load to update an existing database.
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posted by gray, Fri Feb 4 14:16:18 2022 - 0 replies
Version 1.23 is available for download.
New in this version:
- Bucket cache switched from balanced tree to hash table (Change suggested by Terence Kelly)
- Speed up flushing the changed buckets on disk ...
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posted by gray, Tue Oct 19 05:48:21 2021 - 0 replies
Version 1.22 is available for download. This version includes several bugfixes and improves the documentation. The list of bugfixes follows:
- Fix file header validation
- Fix key verification in sequential access
- Fix testing with DejaGNU 1.6.3
- Fix stack overflow in print_usage
- Fix a leak of avail entry on pushing a new avail block
- Calls to gdbm_recover preserve crash tolerance settings
posted by gray, Thu Sep 2 14:27:31 2021 - 0 replies
Version 1.21 is available for download. This version introduces an important new feature: Crash tolerance, brought to gdbm by Terence Kelly.
posted by gray, Thu Jun 17 11:06:19 2021 - 0 replies
Version 1.20 is available for download.
Changes in this version:
New bucket cache
The bucket cache support has been rewritten from scratch. The new code provides for significant speed up of search operations.
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posted by gray, Wed Dec 23 12:57:36 2020 - 0 replies
Version 1.19 is available for download. New in this version:
- Pre-read the memory mapped regions on systems that support it.
- gdbmtool: tagged initialization of structured data.
- Preserve locking type during database reorganization.
posted by gray, Sat Oct 27 06:37:23 2018 - 0 replies
Version 1.18.1 is available for download (main GNU ftp, see also list of mirrors).
This is an intermediate release that restores backward compatibility with databases created by gdbm 1.8 (and some later versions, if built with mmapped I/O disabled). See Debian bug 910911 for details.
posted by gray, Tue Aug 21 11:41:22 2018 - 0 replies
Version 1.18 is available for download. This version fixes following bugs:
- Directory entry validation
- Improper use of GDBM_DEBUG macro
- Spurious error from gdbm_dump and gdbm_export
- Return value from gdbm_sync
posted by gray, Mon Jul 30 21:32:21 2018 - 0 replies
Version 1.17 is available for download.
Fixes bug #399. See also the improved version of the GDBM_File Perl module.
posted by gray, Wed Jun 27 19:03:17 2018 - 0 replies
Version 1.16 has been released.
This version improves free space management and fixes a long-standing bug discovered recently due to introduction of strict database consistency checks.
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