libmdbx/ChangeLog.md

ChangeLog

v0.9.4 (in development) scheduled at 2021-03-18

TODO:

• Engage new terminology (https://github.com/erthink/libmdbx/issues/137).
• Resolve few TODOs (https://github.com/erthink/libmdbx/issues/124, https://github.com/erthink/libmdbx/issues/127, https://github.com/erthink/libmdbx/issues/115).
• Finalize C++ API (few typos and trivia bugs are still likely for now).
• Packages for ROSA Linux, ALT Linux, Fedora/RHEL, Debian/Ubuntu.

Acknowledgements:

• Mahlon E. Smith for Ruby bindings.
• Alex Sharov for mdbx-go and for bug reporting.
• Artem Vorotnikov for bug reporting and PR.

New features:

• 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 is available now by Mahlon E. Smith.
• 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.

Fixes:

• 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).

v0.9.3 at 2021-02-02

Acknowledgements:

• Mahlon E. Smith for FreeBSD port of libmdbx.
• 장세연 for bug fixing and PR.
• Clément Renault for Heed fully typed Rust wrapper.
• Alex Sharov for bug reporting.
• Noel Kuntze for bug reporting.

Removed options and features:

• Drop MDBX_HUGE_TRANSACTIONS build-option (now no longer required).

New features:

• Package for FreeBSD is available now by Mahlon E. Smith.
• New API functions to get/set various options (https://github.com/erthink/libmdbx/issues/128):
  • the maximum number of named databases for the environment;
  • the maximum number of threads/reader slots;
  • threshold (since the last unsteady commit) to force flush the data buffers to disk;
  • relative period (since the last unsteady commit) to force flush the data buffers to disk;
  • limit to grow a list of reclaimed/recycled page's numbers for finding a sequence of contiguous pages for large data items;
  • limit to grow a cache of dirty pages for reuse in the current transaction;
  • limit of a pre-allocated memory items for dirty pages;
  • limit of dirty pages for a write transaction;
  • initial allocation size for dirty pages list of a write transaction;
  • maximal part of the dirty pages may be spilled when necessary;
  • minimal part of the dirty pages should be spilled when necessary;
  • how much of the parent transaction dirty pages will be spilled while start each child transaction;
• Unlimited/Dynamic size of retired and dirty page lists (https://github.com/erthink/libmdbx/issues/123).
• Added -p option (purge subDB before loading) to mdbx_load tool.
• Reworked spilling of large transaction and committing of nested transactions:
  • page spilling code reworked to avoid the flaws and bugs inherited from LMDB;
  • limit for number of dirty pages now is controllable at runtime;
  • a spilled pages, including overflow/large pages, now can be reused and refunded/compactified in nested transactions;
  • more effective refunding/compactification especially for the loosed page cache.
• Added MDBX_ENABLE_REFUND and MDBX_PNL_ASCENDING internal/advanced build options.
• Added mdbx_default_pagesize() function.
• Better support architectures with a weak/relaxed memory consistency model (ARM, AARCH64, PPC, MIPS, RISC-V, etc) by means C11 atomics.
• Speed up page number lists and dirty page lists (https://github.com/erthink/libmdbx/issues/132).
• Added LIBMDBX_NO_EXPORTS_LEGACY_API build option.

Fixes:

• Fixed missing cleanup (null assigned) in the C++ commit/abort (https://github.com/erthink/libmdbx/pull/143).
• Fixed mdbx_realloc() for case of nullptr and MDBX_AVOID_CRT=ON for Windows.
• Fixed the possibility to use invalid and renewed (closed & re-opened, dropped & re-created) DBI-handles (https://github.com/erthink/libmdbx/issues/146).
• Fixed 4-byte aligned access to 64-bit integers, including access to the bootid meta-page's field (https://github.com/erthink/libmdbx/issues/153).
• Fixed minor/potential memory leak during page flushing and unspilling.
• Fixed handling states of cursors's and subDBs's for nested transactions.
• Fixed page leak in extra rare case the list of retired pages changed during update GC on transaction commit.
• Fixed assertions to avoid false-positive UB detection by CLANG/LLVM (https://github.com/erthink/libmdbx/issues/153).
• Fixed MDBX_TXN_FULL and regressive MDBX_KEYEXIST during large transaction commit with MDBX_LIFORECLAIM (https://github.com/erthink/libmdbx/issues/123).
• Fixed auto-recovery (weak->steady with the same boot-id) when Database size at last weak checkpoint is large than at last steady checkpoint.
• Fixed operation on systems with unusual small/large page size, including PowerPC (https://github.com/erthink/libmdbx/issues/157).

v0.9.2 at 2020-11-27

Acknowledgements:

• Jens Alfke (Mobile Architect at Couchbase) for NimDBX.
• Clément Renault (CTO at MeiliSearch) for mdbx-rs.
• Alex Sharov (Go-Lang Teach Lead at TurboGeth/Ethereum) for an extreme test cases and bug reporting.
• George Hazan (CTO at Miranda NG) for bug reporting.
• Positive Technologies for funding and The Standoff.

Added features:

• Provided package for buildroot.
• Binding for Nim is available now by Jens Alfke.
• Added mdbx_env_delete() for deletion an environment files in a proper and multiprocess-safe way.
• Added mdbx_txn_commit_ex() with collecting latency information.
• Fast completion pure nested transactions.
• Added LIBMDBX_INLINE_API macro and inline versions of some API functions.
• Added mdbx_cursor_copy() function.
• Extended tests for checking cursor tracking.
• Added MDBX_SET_LOWERBOUND operation for mdbx_cursor_get().

Fixes:

• Fixed missing installation of mdbx.h++.
• Fixed use of obsolete __noreturn.
• Fixed use of yield instruction on ARM if unsupported.
• Added pthread workaround for buggy toolchain/cmake/buildroot.
• Fixed use of pthread_yield() for non-GLIBC.
• Fixed use of RegGetValueA() on Windows 2000/XP.
• Fixed use of GetTickCount64() on Windows 2000/XP.
• Fixed opening DB on a network shares (in the exclusive mode).
• Fixed copy&paste typos.
• Fixed minor false-positive GCC warning.
• Added workaround for broken DEFINE_ENUM_FLAG_OPERATORS from Windows SDK.
• Fixed cursor state after multimap/dupsort repeated deletes (https://github.com/erthink/libmdbx/issues/121).
• Added SIGPIPE suppression for internal thread during mdbx_env_copy().
• Fixed extra-rare MDBX_KEY_EXIST error during mdbx_commit() (https://github.com/erthink/libmdbx/issues/131).
• Fixed spilled pages checking (https://github.com/erthink/libmdbx/issues/126).
• Fixed mdbx_load for 'plain text' and without -s name cases (https://github.com/erthink/libmdbx/issues/136).
• Fixed save/restore/commit of cursors for nested transactions.
• Fixed cursors state in rare/special cases (move next beyond end-of-data, after deletion and so on).
• Added workaround for MSVC 19.28 (Visual Studio 16.8) (but may still hang during compilation).
• Fixed paranoidal Clang C++ UB for bitwise operations with flags defined by enums.
• Fixed large pages checking (for compatibility and to avoid false-positive errors from mdbx_chk).
• Added workaround for Wine (https://github.com/miranda-ng/miranda-ng/issues/1209).
• Fixed ERROR_NOT_SUPPORTED while opening DB by UNC pathnames (https://github.com/miranda-ng/miranda-ng/issues/2627).
• Added handling EXCEPTION_POSSIBLE_DEADLOCK condition for Windows.

v0.9.1 2020-09-30

Added features:

• Preliminary C++ API with support for C++17 polymorphic allocators.
• Online C++ API reference 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.

v0.9.0 2020-07-31 (not a release, but API changes)

Added features:

• Online C API reference by Doxygen.
• Separated enums for environment, sub-databases, transactions, copying and data-update flags.

Deprecated functions and flags:

• Usage of custom comparators and the mdbx_dbi_open_ex() are deprecated, since such databases couldn't be checked by the mdbx_chk utility. Please use the value-to-key functions to provide keys that are compatible with the built-in libmdbx comparators.

v0.8.2 2020-07-06

• Added support multi-opening the same DB in a process with SysV locking (BSD).
• Fixed warnings & minors for LCC compiler (E2K).
• Enabled to simultaneously open the same database from processes with and without the MDBX_WRITEMAP option.
• Added key-to-value, mdbx_get_keycmp() and mdbx_get_datacmp() functions (helpful to avoid using custom comparators).
• Added ENABLE_UBSAN CMake option to enabling the UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer from GCC/CLANG.
• Workaround for CLANG bug.
• Returning MDBX_CORRUPTED in case all meta-pages are weak and no other error.
• Refined mode bits while auto-creating LCK-file.
• Avoids unnecessary database file re-mapping in case geometry changed by another process(es). From the user's point of view, the MDBX_UNABLE_EXTEND_MAPSIZE error will now be returned less frequently and only when using the DB in the current process really requires it to be reopened.
• Remapping on-the-fly and of the database file was implemented. Now remapping with a change of address is performed automatically if there are no dependent readers in the current process.

v0.8.1 2020-06-12

• Minor change versioning. The last number in the version now means the number of commits since last release/tag.
• Provide ChangeLog file.
• Fix for using libmdbx as a C-only sub-project with CMake.
• Fix mdbx_env_set_geometry() for case it is called from an opened environment outside of a write transaction.
• Add support for huge transactions and MDBX_HUGE_TRANSACTIONS build-option (default OFF).
• Refine LTO (link time optimization) for clang.
• Force enabling exceptions handling for MSVC (/EHsc option).

v0.8.0 2020-06-05

• Support for Android/Bionic.
• Support for iOS.
• Auto-handling MDBX_NOSUBDIR while opening for any existing database.
• Engage github-actions to make release-assets.
• Clarify API description.
• Extended keygen-cases in stochastic test.
• Fix fetching of first/lower key from LEAF2-page during page merge.
• Fix missing comma in array of error messages.
• Fix div-by-zero while copy-with-compaction for non-resizable environments.
• Fixes & enhancements for custom-comparators.
• Fix MDBX_AVOID_CRT option and missing ntdll.def.
• Fix mdbx_env_close() to work correctly called concurrently from several threads.
• Fix null-deref in an ASAN-enabled builds while opening the environment with error and/or read-only.
• Fix AddressSanitizer errors after closing the environment.
• Fix/workaround to avoid GCC 10.x pedantic warnings.
• Fix using ENODATA for FreeBSD.
• Avoid invalidation of DBI-handle(s) when it just closes.
• Avoid using pwritev() for single-writes (up to 10% speedup for some kernels & scenarios).
• Avoiding MDBX_UTTERLY_NOSYNC as result of flags merge.
• Add mdbx_dbi_dupsort_depthmask() function.
• Add MDBX_CP_FORCE_RESIZEABLE option.
• Add deprecated MDBX_MAP_RESIZED for compatibility.
• Add MDBX_BUILD_TOOLS option (default ON).
• Refine mdbx_dbi_open_ex() to safe concurrently opening the same handle from different threads.
• Truncate clk-file during environment closing. So a zero-length lck-file indicates that the environment was closed properly.
• Refine mdbx_update_gc() for huge transactions with small sizes of database page.
• Extends dump/load to support all MDBX attributes.
• Avoid upsertion the same key-value data, fix related assertions.
• Rework min/max length checking for keys & values.
• Checking the order of keys on all pages during checking.
• Support CFLAGS_EXTRA make-option for convenience.
• Preserve the last txnid while copying with compactification.
• Auto-reset running transaction in mdbx_txn_renew().
• Automatically abort errored transaction in mdbx_txn_commit().
• Auto-choose page size for large databases.
• Rearrange source files, rework build, options-support by CMake.
• Crutch for WSL1 (Windows subsystem for Linux).
• Refine install/uninstall targets.
• Support for Valgrind 3.14 and later.
• Add check-analyzer check-ubsan check-asan check-leak targets to Makefile.
• Minor fix/workaround to avoid UBSAN traps for memcpy(ptr, NULL, 0).
• Avoid some GCC-analyzer false-positive warnings.

v0.7.0 2020-03-18

• Workarounds for Wine (Windows compatibility layer for Linux).
• MDBX_MAP_RESIZED renamed to MDBX_UNABLE_EXTEND_MAPSIZE.
• Clarify API description, fix typos.
• Speedup runtime checks in debug/checked builds.
• Added checking for read/write transactions overlapping for the same thread, added MDBX_TXN_OVERLAPPING error and MDBX_DBG_LEGACY_OVERLAP option.
• Added mdbx_key_from_jsonInteger(), mdbx_key_from_double(), mdbx_key_from_float(), mdbx_key_from_int64() and mdbx_key_from_int32() functions. See mdbx.h for description.
• Fix compatibility (use zero for invalid DBI).
• Refine/clarify error messages.
• Avoids extra error messages "bad txn" from mdbx_chk when DB is corrupted.

v0.6.0 2020-01-21

• Fix mdbx_load utility for custom comparators.
• Fix checks related to MDBX_APPEND flag inside mdbx_cursor_put().
• Refine/fix dbi_bind() internals.
• Refine/fix handling STATUS_CONFLICTING_ADDRESSES.
• Rework MDBX_DBG_DUMP option to avoid disk I/O performance degradation.
• Add built-in help to test tool.
• Fix mdbx_env_set_geometry() for large page size.
• Fix env_set_geometry() for large pagesize.
• Clarify API description & comments, fix typos.

v0.5.0 2019-12-31

• Fix returning MDBX_RESULT_TRUE from page_alloc().
• Fix false-positive ASAN issue.
• Fix assertion for MDBX_NOTLS option.
• Rework MADV_DONTNEED threshold.
• Fix mdbx_chk utility for don't checking some numbers if walking on the B-tree was disabled.
• Use page's mp_txnid for basic integrity checking.
• Add MDBX_FORCE_ASSERTIONS built-time option.
• Rework MDBX_DBG_DUMP to avoid performance degradation.
• Rename MDBX_NOSYNC to MDBX_SAFE_NOSYNC for clarity.
• Interpret ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED from OpenProcess() as 'process exists'.
• Avoid using FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING for compatibility with small database pages.
• Added install section for CMake.

v0.4.0 2019-12-02

• Support for Mac OSX, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, OpenSolaris, OpenIndiana (AIX and HP-UX pending).
• Use bootid for decisions of rollback.
• Counting retired pages and extended transaction info.
• Add MDBX_ACCEDE flag for database opening.
• Using OFD-locks and tracking for in-process multi-opening.
• Hot backup into pipe.
• Support for cmake & amalgamated sources.
• Fastest internal sort implementation.
• New internal dirty-list implementation with lazy sorting.
• Support for lazy-sync-to-disk with polling.
• Extended key length.
• Last update transaction number for each sub-database.
• Automatic read ahead enabling/disabling.
• More auto-compactification.
• Using -fsanitize=undefined and -Wpedantic options.
• Rework page merging.
• Nested transactions.
• API description.
• Checking for non-local filesystems to avoid DB corruption.