Acknowledgements:
-----------------
- [Mahlon E. Smith](https://github.com/mahlonsmith) for [Ruby bindings](https://rubygems.org/gems/mdbx/).
- [Alex Sharov](https://github.com/AskAlexSharov) for [mdbx-go](https://github.com/torquem-ch/mdbx-go), bug reporting and testing.
- [Artem Vorotnikov](https://github.com/vorot93) for bug reporting and PR.
- [Paolo Rebuffo](https://www.linkedin.com/in/paolo-rebuffo-8255766/), [Alexey Akhunov](https://github.com/AlexeyAkhunov) and Mark Grosberg for donations.
- [Noel Kuntze](https://github.com/Thermi) for preliminary [Python bindings](https://github.com/Thermi/libmdbx/tree/python-bindings)
New features:
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- Added `mdbx_env_set_option()` and `mdbx_env_get_option()` for controls
various runtime options for an environment (announce of this feature was missed in a previous news).
- Added `MDBX_DISABLE_PAGECHECKS` build option to disable some checks to reduce an overhead
and detection probability of database corruption to a values closer to the LMDB.
The `MDBX_DISABLE_PAGECHECKS=1` provides a performance boost of about 10% in CRUD scenarios,
and conjointly with the `MDBX_ENV_CHECKPID=0` and `MDBX_TXN_CHECKOWNER=0` options can yield
up to 30% more performance compared to LMDB.
- Using float point (exponential quantized) representation for internal 16-bit values
of grow step and shrink threshold when huge ones (https://github.com/erthink/libmdbx/issues/166).
To minimize the impact on compatibility, only the odd values inside the upper half
of the range (i.e. 32769..65533) are used for the new representation.
- Added the `mdbx_drop` similar to LMDB command-line tool to purge or delete (sub)database(s).
- [Ruby bindings](https://rubygems.org/gems/mdbx/) is available now by [Mahlon E. Smith](https://github.com/mahlonsmith).
- Added `MDBX_ENABLE_MADVISE` build option which controls the use of POSIX `madvise()` hints and friends.
- The internal node sizes were refined, resulting in a reduction in large/overflow pages in some use cases
and a slight increase in limits for a keys size to ≈½ of page size.
- Added to `mdbx_chk` output number of keys/items on pages.
- Added explicit `install-strip` and `install-no-strip` targets to the `Makefile` (https://github.com/erthink/libmdbx/pull/180).
- Major rework page splitting (af9b7b5605) for
- An "auto-appending" feature upon insertion for both ascending and
descending key sequences. As a result, the optimality of page filling
increases significantly (more densely, less slackness) while
inserting ordered sequences of keys,
- A "splitting at middle" to make page tree more balanced on average.
- Added `mdbx_get_sysraminfo()` to the API.
- Added guessing a reasonable maximum DB size for the default upper limit of geometry (https://github.com/erthink/libmdbx/issues/183).
- Major rework internal labeling of a dirty pages (958fd5b947) for
a "transparent spilling" feature with the gist to make a dirty pages
be ready to spilling (writing to a disk) without further altering ones.
Thus in the `MDBX_WRITEMAP` mode the OS kernel able to oust dirty pages
to DB file without further penalty during transaction commit.
As a result, page swapping and I/O could be significantly reduced during extra large transactions and/or lack of memory.
- Minimized reading leaf-pages during dropping subDB(s) and nested trees.
- Major rework a spilling of dirty pages to support [LRU](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache_replacement_policies#Least_recently_used_(LRU))
policy and prioritization for a large/overflow pages.
- Statistics of page operations (split, merge, copy, spill, etc) now available through `mdbx_env_info_ex()`.
- Auto-setup limit for length of dirty pages list (`MDBX_opt_txn_dp_limit` option).
- Support `make options` to list available build options.
- Support `make help` to list available make targets.
- Silently `make`'s build by default.
- Preliminary [Python bindings](https://github.com/Thermi/libmdbx/tree/python-bindings) is available now
by [Noel Kuntze](https://github.com/Thermi) (https://github.com/erthink/libmdbx/issues/147).
Backward compatibility break:
-----------------------------
- The `MDBX_AVOID_CRT` build option was renamed to `MDBX_WITHOUT_MSVC_CRT`.
This option is only relevant when building for Windows.
- The `mdbx_env_stat()` always, and `mdbx_env_stat_ex()` when called with the zeroed transaction parameter,
now internally start temporary read transaction and thus may returns `MDBX_BAD_RSLOT` error.
So, just never use deprecated `mdbx_env_stat()' and call `mdbx_env_stat_ex()` with transaction parameter.
- The build option `MDBX_CONFIG_MANUAL_TLS_CALLBACK` was removed and now just a non-zero value of
the `MDBX_MANUAL_MODULE_HANDLER` macro indicates the requirement to manually call `mdbx_module_handler()`
when loading libraries and applications uses statically linked libmdbx on an obsolete Windows versions.
Fixes:
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- Fixed performance regression due non-optimal C11 atomics usage (https://github.com/erthink/libmdbx/issues/160).
- Fixed "reincarnation" of subDB after it deletion (https://github.com/erthink/libmdbx/issues/168).
- Fixed (disallowing) implicit subDB deletion via operations on `@MAIN`'s DBI-handle.
- Fixed a crash of `mdbx_env_info_ex()` in case of a call for a non-open environment (https://github.com/erthink/libmdbx/issues/171).
- Fixed the selecting/adjustment values inside `mdbx_env_set_geometry()` for implicit out-of-range cases (https://github.com/erthink/libmdbx/issues/170).
- Fixed `mdbx_env_set_option()` for set initial and limit size of dirty page list ((https://github.com/erthink/libmdbx/issues/179).
- Fixed an unreasonably huge default upper limit for DB geometry (https://github.com/erthink/libmdbx/issues/183).
- Fixed `constexpr` specifier for the `slice::invalid()`.
- Fixed (no)readahead auto-handling (https://github.com/erthink/libmdbx/issues/164).
- Fixed non-alloy build for Windows.
- Switched to using Heap-functions instead of LocalAlloc/LocalFree on Windows.
- Fixed `mdbx_env_stat_ex()` to returning statistics of the whole environment instead of MainDB only (https://github.com/erthink/libmdbx/issues/190).
- Fixed building by GCC 4.8.5 (added workaround for a preprocessor's bug).
- Fixed building C++ part for iOS <= 13.0 (unavailability of `std::filesystem::path`).
- Fixed building for Windows target versions prior to Windows Vista (`WIN32_WINNT < 0x0600`).
- Fixed building by MinGW for Windows (https://github.com/erthink/libmdbx/issues/155).
TODO for a next releases:
-------------------------
- [Get rid of dirty-pages list in MDBX_WRITEMAP mode](https://github.com/erthink/libmdbx/issues/193).
- [Large/Overflow pages accounting for dirty-room](https://github.com/erthink/libmdbx/issues/192).
- [C++ Buffer issue](https://github.com/erthink/libmdbx/issues/191).
- Finalize C++ API (few typos and trivia bugs are still likely for now).
- [Support for RAW devices](https://github.com/erthink/libmdbx/issues/124).
- [Test framework issue](https://github.com/erthink/libmdbx/issues/127).
- [Support MessagePack for Keys & Values](https://github.com/erthink/libmdbx/issues/115).
- [Engage new terminology](https://github.com/erthink/libmdbx/issues/137).
- Packages for [Astra Linux](https://astralinux.ru/), [ALT Linux](https://www.altlinux.org/), [ROSA Linux](https://www.rosalinux.ru/), Fedora/RHEL, Debian/Ubuntu.
Briefly:
- Now constructor/destructor of "Thread Local Storage" handled automatically when possible.
- Otherwise the MDBX_CONFIG_MANUAL_TLS_CALLBACK macro defined to 1 to indicate that mdbx_module_handle() should be called manually.
- Corresponding build option MDBX_CONFIG_MANUAL_TLS_CALLBACK was removed.
Related to https://github.com/erthink/libmdbx/issues/155
Change-Id: Ic4e6a34b44f874676f0ab212ff473460e3d80559
Added features:
- Preliminary C++ API with support for C++17 polymorphic allocators.
- [Online C++ API reference](https://erthink.github.io/libmdbx/) by Doxygen.
- Quick reference for Insert/Update/Delete operations.
- Explicit `MDBX_SYNC_DURABLE` to sync modes for API clarity.
- Explicit `MDBX_ALLDUPS` and `MDBX_UPSERT` for API clarity.
- Support for read transactions preparation (`MDBX_TXN_RDONLY_PREPARE` flag).
- Support for cursor preparation/(pre)allocation and reusing (`mdbx_cursor_create()` and `mdbx_cursor_bind()` functions).
- Support for checking database using specified meta-page (see `mdbx_chk -h`).
- Support for turn to the specific meta-page after checking (see `mdbx_chk -h`).
- Support for explicit reader threads (de)registration.
- The `mdbx_txn_break()` function to explicitly mark a transaction as broken.
- Improved handling of corrupted databases by `mdbx_chk` utility and `mdbx_walk_tree()` function.
- Improved DB corruption detection by checking parent-page-txnid.
- Improved opening large DB (> 4Gb) from 32-bit code.
- Provided `pure-function` and `const-function` attributes to C API.
- Support for user-settable context for transactions & cursors.
- Revised API and documentation related to Handle-Slow-Readers callback feature.
Deprecated functions and flags:
- For clarity and API simplification the `MDBX_MAPASYNC` flag is deprecated.
Just use `MDBX_SAFE_NOSYNC` or `MDBX_UTTERLY_NOSYNC` instead of it.
- `MDBX_oom_func`, `mdbx_env_set_oomfunc()` and `mdbx_env_get_oomfunc()`
replaced with `MDBX_hsr_func`, `mdbx_env_get_hsr` and `mdbx_env_get_hsr()`.
Fixes:
- Fix `mdbx_strerror()` for `MDBX_BUSY` error (no error description is returned).
- Fix update internal meta-geo information in read-only mode (`EACCESS` or `EBADFD` error).
- Fix `mdbx_page_get()` null-defer when DB corrupted (crash by `SIGSEGV`).
- Fix `mdbx_env_open()` for re-opening after non-fatal errors (`mdbx_chk` unexpected failures).
- Workaround for MSVC 19.27 `static_assert()` bug.
- Doxygen descriptions and refinement.
- Update Valgrind's suppressions.
- Workaround to avoid infinite loop of 'nested' testcase on MIPS under QEMU.
- Fix a lot of typos & spelling (Thanks to Josh Soref for PR).
- Fix `getopt()` messages for Windows (Thanks to Andrey Sporaw for reporting).
- Fix MSVC compiler version requirements (Thanks to Andrey Sporaw for reporting).
- Workarounds for QEMU's bugs to run tests for cross-builded library under QEMU.
- Now C++ compiler optional for building by CMake.
TODO for next version(s):
- Rework/speedup the implementation of the dirty page list (lazy compactification, lazy sorting via merge).
- Finalize C++ API (few typos and trivia bugs are likely for now).
- Packages for ROSA Linux, ALT Linux, Fedora/RHEL, Debian/Ubuntu.
Change-Id: I668d77e4545d444b60708b8c64a66ce43b2c56a0
