GNU dbm - News
posted by gray, Tue 02 Jul 2024 02:28:09 PM UTC
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 04 Feb 2022 02:18:28 PM UTC
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
posted by gray, Tue 19 Oct 2021 05:49:09 AM UTC
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 02 Sep 2021 02:28:17 PM UTC
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 17 Jun 2021 11:07:51 AM UTC
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 23 Dec 2020 12:59:32 PM UTC
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 27 Oct 2018 06:39:33 AM UTC
Version 1.18.1 is available for download (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, Mon 30 Jul 2018 09:34:12 PM UTC
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 27 Jun 2018 07:05:54 PM UTC
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.
posted by gray, Sat 16 Jun 2018 04:52:39 PM UTC
GDBM version 1.15 is available for download. Important changes in this release:
Extensive database consistency checking
GDBM tries to detect inconsistencies in input database files as early as possible. When an inconcistency is detected, a helpful diagnostics is returned and the database is
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