[Zodb-checkins] SVN: ZODB/trunk/src/CHANGES.txt Merged changes since 3.8.
Jim Fulton
jim at zope.com
Mon May 4 14:36:32 EDT 2009
Log message for revision 99733:
Merged changes since 3.8.
Changed:
U ZODB/trunk/src/CHANGES.txt
-=-
Modified: ZODB/trunk/src/CHANGES.txt
===================================================================
--- ZODB/trunk/src/CHANGES.txt 2009-05-04 18:31:38 UTC (rev 99732)
+++ ZODB/trunk/src/CHANGES.txt 2009-05-04 18:36:32 UTC (rev 99733)
@@ -2,18 +2,12 @@
Change History
================
-3.9.0 (2009-??-??)
+3.9.0b1 (2009-05-04)
====================
-New Features
-------------
+New Features (in more or less reverse chronological order)
+----------------------------------------------------------
-3.9.0b1 (2009-??-??)
-=====================
-
-New Features
-------------
-
- The Database class now has an ``xrefs`` keyword argument and a
corresponding allow-implicit-cross-references configuration option.
which default to true. When set to false, cross-database references
@@ -79,56 +73,6 @@
opened. This is a renaming of the previous ``_opened`` private
variable.
-
-Bugs Fixed
-----------
-
-- fixed Python 2.6 compatibility issue with ZEO/zeoserverlog.py
-
-- using hashlib.sha1 if available in order to avoid DeprecationWarning
- under Python 2.6
-
-- made runzeo -h work
-
-3.9.0a12 (2009-02-26)
-=====================
-
-Bugs Fixed
-----------
-
-- Connections from old ZEO clients weren't discarded when they were
- closed causing memory to leak and invalidations to become
- increasingly expensive over time.
-
-- The monitor server didn't correctly report the actual number of
- clients.
-
-3.9.0a11 (2009-02-17)
-=====================
-
-Bugs Fixed
-----------
-
-- Packing a blob-enabled file storage in a ZEO server caused blob data
- to be lost.
-
-- Packing could return spurious errors due to errors notifying
- disconnected clients of new database size statistics.
-
-3.9.0a10 (2009-01-05)
-=====================
-
-Bugs Fixed
-----------
-
-- Undo sometimes failed for FileStorages configured to support blobs.
-
-3.9.0a9 (2009-01-04)
-====================
-
-New Features
-------------
-
- FileStorage now supports blobs directly.
- You can now control whether FileStorages keep .old files when packing.
@@ -170,33 +114,6 @@
connections that are created in rare circumstances and that would
consume an unreasonable amount of memory.
-3.9.0a8 (2008-12-15)
-====================
-
-New Features
-------------
-
-- Made ZEO Client Blob Cache control a bit more rational. Now, when
- checking the cache size, the target is::
-
- blob-cache-size * (100 - blob-cache-size-check) / 100
-
- The makes it far more likely (but doesn't guarantee) that the blob
- cache size will remain under the maximum.
-
- The blob-cache-size check was reduced to 10%.
-
-Bugs Fixed
-----------
-
-- Fixed a bug in the logic to reduce the blob cache size.
-
-3.9.0a7 (2008-12-05)
-====================
-
-New Features
-------------
-
- The Blob open method now supports a new mode, 'c', to open committed
data for reading as an ordinary file, rather than as a blob file.
The ordinary file may be used outside the current transaction and
@@ -204,39 +121,14 @@
- ClientStorage now provides blob cache management. When using
non-shared blob directories, you can set a target cache size and the
- cache will periodically be reduced to the target size.
+ cache will periodically be reduced try to keep it below the target size.
The client blob directory layout has changed. If you have existing
non-shared blob directories, you will have to remove them.
-Bugs Fixed
-----------
+- ZODB 3.9 ZEO clients can connect to ZODB 3.8 servers. ZODB ZEO clients
+ from ZODB 3.2 on can connect to ZODB 3.9 servers.
-- Starting ClientStorages sometimes failed with non-new but empty
- cache files.
-
-3.9.0a6 (2008-11-30)
-====================
-
-New Features
-------------
-
-- ZODB 3.9 ZEO clients can connect to ZODB 3.8 servers.
-
-Bug Fixes
----------
-
-- ZODB 3.8 clients couldn't talk to ZODB 3.9 servers.
-
-- The history method on ZEO clients failed.
-
-
-3.9.0a5 (2008-11-21)
-====================
-
-New Features
-------------
-
- When a ZEO cache is stale and would need verification, a
ZEO.interfaces.StaleCache event is published (to zope.event).
Applications may handle this event and take action such as exiting
@@ -251,39 +143,10 @@
- Object saves are a little faster
-- The previous (ZODB 3.8) ZEO client-cache format is supported.
- The newer cache format introduced in ZODB 3.9.0a1 is no-longer
- supported. Cache files can still be larger than 4G. Cache file
- sizes can now be changed.
-
- When configuring storages in a storage server, the storage name now
defaults to "1". In the overwhelmingly common case that a single
storage, the name can now be ommitted.
-Bug Fixes
----------
-
-- ZEO client transaction iterators weren't properly handled after on
- disconnects.
-
-- The code to drop a ZEO client cache rather than verifying didn't
- drop it and didn't leave the client storage in a valid state.
-
-3.9.0a4 (2008-11-06)
-====================
-
-Bug Fixes
----------
-
-- DemoStorage could sometimes hand out the same new object id more
- than once.
-
-3.9.0a3 (2008-11-04)
-====================
-
-New Features
-------------
-
- FileStorage now provides optional garbage collection. A 'gc'
keyword option can be passed to the pack method. A false value
prevents garbage collection.
@@ -302,27 +165,6 @@
The ZConfig configuration for FileStorage now includes a packer
option, corresponding to the packer constructor argument.
-Bug Fixes
----------
-
-- DemoStorage could sometimes hand out the same new object id more
- than once.
-
-3.9.0a2 (2008-10-31)
-====================
-
-Bug Fixes
----------
-
-- MappingStorage hung when committing a transaction *after* committing
- an empty transaction.
-
-3.9.0a1 (2008-10-29)
-====================
-
-New Features
-------------
-
- MappingStorage now supports multi-version concurrency control and
iteration and provides a better storage implementation example.
@@ -368,9 +210,6 @@
- Versions are no-longer supported.
-- ZEO cache files can be larger than 4G. Note that older ZEO cache
- files are not supported.
-
- Document conflict resolution (see ZODB/ConflictResolution.txt).
- Support multidatabase references in conflict resolution.
@@ -378,7 +217,7 @@
- Make it possible to examine oid and (in some situations) database
name of persistent object references during conflict resolution.
-- Moved 'transaction' module out of ZODB.
+- Moved the 'transaction' module out of ZODB.
ZODB depends upon this module, but it must be installed separately.
- ZODB installation now requires setuptools.
@@ -397,6 +236,26 @@
Bugs Fixed
----------
+- fixed Python 2.6 compatibility issue with ZEO/zeoserverlog.py
+
+- using hashlib.sha1 if available in order to avoid DeprecationWarning
+ under Python 2.6
+
+- made runzeo -h work
+
+- The monitor server didn't correctly report the actual number of
+ clients.
+
+- Packing could return spurious errors due to errors notifying
+ disconnected clients of new database size statistics.
+
+- Undo sometimes failed for FileStorages configured to support blobs.
+
+- Starting ClientStorages sometimes failed with non-new but empty
+ cache files.
+
+- The history method on ZEO clients failed.
+
- Fix for bug #251037: Make packing of blob storages non-blocking.
- Fix for bug #220856: Completed implementation of ZEO authentication.
@@ -449,19 +308,9 @@
- Fixed bug in ClientCache that occurred with objects larger than the total
cache size.
-3.8.1b9 (2008-??-??)
-====================
-
-Bugs Fixed:
-
- When an error occured attempting to lock a file and logging of said error was
enabled.
-3.8.1b8 (2008-09-22
-====================
-
-Bugs Fixed:
-
- FileStorages previously saved indexes after a certain
number of writes. This was done during the last phase of two-phase
commit, which made this critical phase more subject to errors than
@@ -477,80 +326,33 @@
- Refactored handling of invalidations on ZEO clients to fix
a possible ordering problem for invalidation messages.
-- An ZEO cache internal data structure can get out of sync
- with the data in a way that prevents data from being loaded into the
- cache. We don't yet know why, but added an exception handler to
- prevent this error from being fatal.
-
-- Fixed setup.py use of setuptools vs distutils, so .c and .h
- files are included in the bdist_egg.
-
- On many systems, it was impossible to create more than 32K
blobs. Added a new blob-directory layout to work around this
limitation.
-
-3.8.1b7 (2008-08-23)
-====================
-
-Bugs Fixed:
-
-- Fixed a bug, introduced in an earlier beta, that allowed
- clients to connect to out of date servers.
-
- Fixed bug that could lead to memory errors due to the use
of a Python dictionary for a mapping that can grow large.
- Fixed bug #251037: Made packing of blob storages non-blocking.
-3.8.1b6 (2008-07-24)
-====================
-
-Bugs Fixed:
-
- Fixed a bug that could cause InvalidObjectReference errors
for objects that were explicitly added to a database if the object
was modified after a savepoint that added the object.
-3.8.1b5 (2008-07-14)
-====================
-
-Bugs Fixed:
-
- Fixed several bugs that caused ZEO cache corruption when connecting
to servers. These bugs affected both persistent and non-persistent caches.
- Improved the the ZEO client shutdown support to try to
avoid spurious errors on exit, especially for scripts, such as zeopack.
-3.8.1b4 (2008-05-23)
-====================
-
-Bugs Fixed:
-
- Packing failed for databases containing cross-database references.
-3.8.1b3 (2008-05-14)
-====================
-
-Bugs Fixed:
-
- Cross-database references to databases with empty names
weren't constructed properly.
-3.8.1b2 (2008-05-13)
-====================
-
-Bugs Fixed:
-
-- The cache used an excessive amount of memory, causing applications
+- The zeo client cache used an excessive amount of memory, causing applications
with large caches to exhaust available memory.
-3.8.1b1 (2008-05-08)
-====================
-
-Bugs Fixed:
-
- Fixed a number of bugs in the handling of persistent ZEO caches:
- Cache records are written in several steps. If a process exits
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