[Zope-Annce] ZODB 3.2b2 release

[Jeremy Hylton]

We have released ZODB 3.2b2 available from the usual place:
    http://www.zope.org/Products/ZODB3.2

This release includes several critical bug fixes for ZEO.  The bugs are
more likely to affect sites that see a lot of read conflicts (resolved
or unresolved).  The bugs can cause data loss or corruption.  These are
the same bug fixes that went into ZODB 3.1.2b2 last week.

ZODB 3.2 has a number of new features and improvements over ZODB 3.1:
  - improve performance and stability of ZEO
  - new ZEO authentication protocol
  - new configuration language, ZConfig, for databases, storages, 
    and ZEO servers
  - many bug fixes

I have included the release notes for 3.2b2 below.

Jeremy

What's new in ZODB3 3.2 beta 2
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Release date: 16-Jun-2003

Fixed critical race conditions in ZEO's cache consistency code that
could cause invalidations to be lost or stale data to be written to
the cache.  These bugs can lead to data loss or data corruption.
These bugs are relatively unlikely to be provoked in sites with few
conflicts, but the possibility of failure existed any time an object
was loaded and stored concurrently.

Fixed a bug in conflict resolution that failed to ghostify an object
if it was involved in a conflict.  (This code may be redundant, but it
has been fixed regardless.)

The ZEO server was fixed so that it does not perform any I/O until all
of a transactions' invalidations are queued.  If it performs I/O in the
middle of sending invalidations, it would be possible to overlap a
load from a client with the invalidation being sent to it.

The ZEO cache now handles invalidations atomically.  This is the same
sort of bug that is described in the 3.1.2b1 section below, but it
affects the ZEO cache.

Fixed several serious bugs in fsrecover that caused it to fail
catastrophically in certain cases because it thought it had found a
checkpoint (status "c") record when it was in the middle of the file.

Two new features snuck into this beta release.

The ZODB.transact module provides a helper function that converts a
regular function or method into a transactional one.

The ZEO client cache now supports Adaptable Persistence (APE).  The
cache used to expect that all OIDs were eight bytes long.