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Release 2.4.4 (Night of the Living Dead)

Fixes for Data Explorer autocomplete, compilation fixes, other small fixes.

API-breaking changes

None.

Changes

• Server
  • Avoid unaligned memory accesses and bus errors on 32-bit ARM (#7128)
• Compilation
  • Replace bad zlib URL with working one (#7121)
  • Fix new include errors (#7119)
  • Avoid using deprecated fstat64 function (#7141)
• Web UI
  • Fix data explorer auto-complete (#7111, #7113)
  • Update ReQL documentation link (#7112, #7114)

Contributors

• @sg5506844
• Sam Hughes (@srh)

Release 2.4.3 (Night of the Living Dead)

Windows release, FreeBSD 13 compilation, certificate chain support, no update checker complaint.

API-breaking changes

None. Some console output is altered, though.

Changes

• Server
  • Fail correctly when failing to remove directory (#4647)
  • Improve --initial-password help text (#7064)
  • Add machine arch and uname to rethinkdb version output (#7060)
  • Improve general help formatting (#7095)
  • Update OpenSSL version (if fetched and statically linked) to 3.0.7 (#7099)
  • Make TLS configuration support certificate chains (#6969)
  • Regenerate the version correctly (eliminating update checker annoyance) (#7100)
• Compilation
  • Get the Windows build working (#7074, #7075, #7082, #7083)
    • Switch from QuickJS to QuickJSpp (our fork hosted at https://github.com/rethinkdb/quickjspp )
  • Include <time.h> in files using time function (#7091)
    • and add more explicit includes for future-proofing (#7098)
  • Get FreeBSD build working (#7088, #7098)
  • Avoid some uses of egrep (#7092)
• Web UI
  • Update jQuery to 3.6.1 (#6937)

Contributors

• Mariano Rodríguez (@MarianoRD)
• Hung-Te Lin (@hungte)
• Antoni Mróz (@MrBoombastic)
• unx (@unxcepted)
• Russel Beswick (@besworks)
• Sam Hughes (@srh)
• Gábor Boros (@gabor-boros)

Special thanks are due to Antoni Mróz and unx for getting the Windows release working.

Release 2.4.2 (Night of the Living Dead)

Released on 2022-04-24

Bitrot, futureproofing, and bug fix release.

Compatibility

No migration is required when upgrading from RethinkDB 2.4.x. Please read the RethinkDB 2.4.0 release notes if you're upgrading from an older version.

RethinkDB 2.4.x servers cannot be mixed with servers running RethinkDB 2.3.x or earlier in the same cluster.

API-breaking changes

The r.js ReQL command now uses QuickJS to run instead of v8. Because RethinkDB's v8 version was old, this will allow you to use newer JavaScript features. However, performance and the results of your JavaScript code may differ.

Substantive Changes

(Issue numbers point into the https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb bugtracker. For a completionist list of changes, run git log v2.4.1..v2.4.2.)

• Server
  • Fix 32-bit overflow bug with Raft log indexes (#7036)
  • Make r.http requests use HTTP/1.1 (#7012). This works around r.http's inability to parse HTTP/2 responses.
  • Fix saslname decode logic (#7016)
  • The limit of 127 threads has been removed (#6895)
  • On newer MacOSes, make assertion failures abort the process (#7049)
  • On newer MacOS builds, upon assertion failures, generate backtraces correctly (#7049)
  • Fix an O(1) memory leak (#7010)
  • Fix some newer MacOS warnings and compilation errors (#7014)
  • Fix some other GCC warnings (various commits)
  • Update curl dependency to 7.82.0
  • Update jemalloc dependency to 5.2.1
  • Update libidn dependency to 1.38
  • Update openssl dependency (if fetched) to 3.0.1
  • Get Apple M1 building working
• Compilation
  • Split out web assets code and its build dependency chain to the old_admin branch (#6979)
  • Package generation updates for Ubuntu 21.10, 22.04, and Debian Bullseye (#7021)
  • More package generation updates for Debian (commit da34c2f)
  • Make install-include depend on dependency install witness (commit 79c6857)
  • Make RPM building explicitly name fetched dependencies and dynamically link (#7035)
  • Add RDB_NO_BACKTRACE flag for musl users (#7052)
  • A patch for wider boost compatibility was supplied (#6934)
• Web UI
  • The web UI was excised to the branch https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/tree/old_admin (#6979)

Contributors

Many thanks to the following contributors whose patches made it into the RethinkDB 2.4.2 server release:

• Rui Chen (@chenrui333)
• Mathieu Schroeter (@Skywalker13)
• Yong-Hao Zou (@zouyonghao)
• zadcha (@zadsza)
• Leo Arias (@elopio)

And many thanks go to the driver committers, alternative admin console client developers, bug reporters, and other helpful people who are not listed here.

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Release 2.4.1 (Night of the Living Dead)

Released on 2020-08-13

Bug fix release.

Compatibility

No migration is required when upgrading from RethinkDB 2.4.x. Please read the RethinkDB 2.4.0 release notes if you're upgrading from an older version.

RethinkDB 2.4.0 servers cannot be mixed with servers running RethinkDB 2.3.x or earlier in the same cluster.

Changes

(Issue numbers point into the https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb bugtracker.)

• Server
  • Force flushing when stdout isn't on a TTY (#6819)
  • Fix code style issues (#6842)
  • Fix warnings about missing assignment definitions in clang 10.0.0 (commit 3ca96904)
• Compilation
  • Fix aarch64 builds in 2.4.x using clang++ (commit 01683d3e)
  • Fix Linux Mint 20 build errors (commit 328ebfb)
• Web UI
  • Reintroduce update checker (#6879)
  • Allow hyphens in table and database names (#6908)

Release 2.4.0 (Night of the Living Dead)

Released on 2019-12-19

RethinkDB 2.4 introduces write hooks and a few other enhancements.

Compatibility

Data files from RethinkDB version 1.16 onward will be automatically migrated. As with any major release, back up your data files before performing the upgrade. Please read the RethinkDB 2.3.0 release notes if you're upgrading from version 2.2.x or earlier.

RethinkDB 2.4.0 servers cannot be mixed with servers running RethinkDB 2.3.x or earlier in the same cluster.

Official Drivers

Except for JavaScript, the official drivers are now generally maintained as separate projects. But note that there is some coupling of RethinkDB console commands, like rethinkdb dump, with the Python driver. RethinkDB 2.4 contains some old copies of the drivers to keep ./test/run working with minimal effort. The JavaScript driver is still used in the Web UI. However, the web assets are now pre-generated, at src/gen/web_assets.cc, making the presence of the driver in the repository not strictly necessary.

Here are links to the official drivers:

• Python: https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb-python/
• Ruby: https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb-ruby/
• Java: https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb-java/
• JavaScript: https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/tree/next/drivers/javascript

API-breaking changes

• Write hooks add a new field to the table configuration.
• A bugfix changes the match command's behavior on empty regexes. It had previously been behaving incorrectly.

Substantive Changes

(Issue numbers point into the https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb bugtracker.)

• ReQL
  • Added the set_write_hook and get_write_hook commands, which attach to tables a function that can modify the behavior of any write. (#5813)
  • Added bitwise operators for number types: bit_and, bit_not, bit_or, bit_sal (or bit_shl), bit_sar, bit_shr, and bit_xor. (#6534)
  • Permitted the hyphen character (-) to be used in table names. (#5537)
  • Users may be granted permissions on system tables. (#5692)
  • Make iso8601 command round, not truncate. (#6909)
  • Fix timestamp millisecond down-truncation bug. (#6272)
• Server
  • Fixed crash with limit change feed inserted guarantee failure. (#6710)
  • Avoid using DNS resolution when finding network interface addresses. (#6588)
  • Removed update checker. (#6791)
  • Added experimental support for arm64/aarch64. (#6438)
  • Added experimental support for Power8/LE platform. (#6317)
  • Fixed race condition in the query cache. (#6564)
  • Avoid quadratic growth in segmented vector. (#6385)
  • Big-Endian fixes and s390x support. (#6242)
• Web UI
  • Implemented a new table viewer widget for browsing the contents of tables. (#6767)
  • Improved table page performance in case with many databases. (#6790)
• Compilation
  • The web assets are now pre-generated, so that macOS users can build them. (#6770)
  • Debian package building is now parallelized. (#6780)
  • Fixed extproc spawner bug. (#5572)
  • Allowed building against libressl. (#6671)
• JavaScript Driver
  • Avoided mutating object passed to r.connect. (#6575)
• Python Driver
  • See more details at https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb-python/releases
• Other Drivers
  • Changes omitted, as they're in separate repositories.

Release 2.3.6 (Fantasia)

Released on 2017-07-17

Bug fix release

Notes

This is the first release of RethinkDB since October 2016. The RethinkDB project has joined the Linux Foundation. This release is brought to you by volunteers from the Open RethinkDB team. The RethinkDB source code is now licensed under an ASLv2 license.

Compatibility

On 32-bit platforms and on Windows (64 and 32 bit), RethinkDB 2.3.6 servers should not be mixed with servers running RethinkDB 2.3.3 or older in the same cluster. Doing so can lead to server crashes when using the web UI or when accessing the logs system table.

On 64-bit platforms, RethinkDB 2.3.6 servers can be mixed with older RethinkDB 2.3.x servers in the same cluster. We recommend that you run a mixed-version cluster only temporarily for upgrading purposes.

No migration is required when upgrading from RethinkDB 2.3.x. Please read the RethinkDB 2.3.0 release notes if you're upgrading from an older version.

Changes

• Server
  • Improved the compatibility of the web UI with Chrome 49 and Edge (#5878, #5426, #5300) -- @danielmewes
  • Fixed a crash caused by unwanted connections (#6084) -- @danielmewes
  • Fixed a crash caused by recreating indexes with active changefeeds (#6093) -- @danielmewes
  • Sizes passed to sample are now bound by the array size limit (#6148) -- @AtnNn
  • Fixed a crashing bug in the implementation of the interleave argument to union (#6139) -- @AtnNn
  • Fixed a crash caused by eqJoin of system tables when using the uuid identifierFormat (#6108) -- @nighelles
  • Fixed a bug that caused r.match('') to return wrong results (#6241) -- @AtnNn
  • Miscellaneous regression fixes and code improvements by @srh and @VeXocide
  • Fixed argument order in pretty-printed queries in the jobs table (#6240) -- @AtnNn
• Packaging
  • Fix glibc version detection in RPM packaging script (#6229) -- @gamename
  • Add packages for Ubuntu Yakkety and Zesty (#6364) -- @AtnNn

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Release 2.3.5 (Fantasia)

Released on 2016-08-26

Bug fix release

Compatibility

On 32-bit platforms and on Windows (64 and 32 bit), RethinkDB 2.3.5 servers should not be mixed with servers running RethinkDB 2.3.3 or older in the same cluster. Doing so can lead to server crashes when using the web UI or when accessing the logs system table.

On 64-bit platforms, RethinkDB 2.3.5 servers can be mixed with older RethinkDB 2.3.x servers in the same cluster. We recommend that you run a mixed-version cluster only temporarily for upgrading purposes.

No migration is required when upgrading from RethinkDB 2.3.x. Please read the RethinkDB 2.3.0 release notes if you're upgrading from an older version.

Bug fixes

• Server
  • Improved the efficiency of the on-disk garbage collector to reduce the risk of excessive file growth (#5923)
  • Improved the latency of read queries under heavy write loads (#6072)
  • Fixed a bug that could cause the server to crash with a deserialization error or to stop completing any table reads (#6033)
  • Fixed a bug in the implementation of the interleave option of the union command, which could potentially lead to results being generated in the wrong order (#6041)
  • Fixed a bug in the batch handling of the fold and multi-stream map commands, that would stop results from being generated correctly if these commands were applied to a changefeed (#6007)
  • Fixed an issue that could cause proxies to remain listed in the connected_to field of the server_status table, even after they had disconnected (#5871)
  • Fixed the detection of non-deterministic conflict functions in the insert command (#5842)
  • Improved the Raft election timeout logic to avoid infinite Raft election loops (#6038)
  • Improved the response time when reading from the table_status system table (#4589)
  • The server no longer logs the message Rejected a connection from server X since one is already open when trying to connect to itself (#5456)
  • Fixed a bug that could cause an Uncaught exception server crash if a TLS-encrypted connection was closed during a certain connection stage (#5904)
  • Fixed a bug in merge that could cause r.literal objects to remain after the merge and be stored in a table (#5977)
  • On Windows: Fixed a bug in the r.http command that resulted in decoding issues (#5924)
  • On Windows: RethinkDB now binds TCP ports exclusively (#6008)
  • On Windows: No longer print an error to the log whenever a connection attempt fails (no issue #)
  • Fixed a build issue that caused system libraries to not be found during make on OpenSUSE (#2363)
• JavaScript driver
  • Fixed the server nonce validation in the connection handshake (#5916)
  • The host argument to connect is now optional (#5846)
• Java driver
  • Cursors now implement the Closeable interface (#5468)
  • Fixed no-reply queries as run through runNoReply (#5938)
  • Fixed a bug in the reconnect method (#5841)
  • Fixed a memory leak in the Connection object that was caused by the driver not properly cleaning up closed cursors (#5980)
• Python driver
  • The asyncio loop type is now available when using the driver from a Python .egg file (#6043)
• Ruby driver
  • Fixed a rounding issue with time objects (#5825)

Contributors

Many thanks to external contributors from the RethinkDB community for helping us ship RethinkDB 2.3.5.

• Arve Seljebu (@arve0)
• Ben Sharpe (@bsharpe)
• Brian Chavez (@bchavez)
• Dan Wiechert (@DWiechert)
• mbains (@mbains)
• QianJin2013 (@QianJin2013)
• Raman Gupta (@rocketraman)

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Release 2.3.4 (Fantasia)

Released on 2016-06-03

Bug fix release

Compatibility

On 32-bit platforms and on Windows (64 and 32 bit), RethinkDB 2.3.4 servers should not be mixed with older RethinkDB 2.3.x servers in the same cluster. Doing so can lead to server crashes when using the web UI or when accessing the logs system table.

On 64-bit platforms, RethinkDB 2.3.4 servers can be mixed with older RethinkDB 2.3.x servers in the same cluster. We recommend that you run a mixed-version cluster only temporarily for upgrading purposes.

No migration is required when upgrading from RethinkDB 2.3.x. Please read the RethinkDB 2.3.0 release notes if you're upgrading from an older version.

Bug fixes

• Server
  • Fixed a segmentation fault in the orderBy.limit changefeed implementation (#5824)
  • Fixed an incompatibility in the cluster protocol between Windows and Linux / OS X servers (#5819)
• Python driver
  • Fixed various bugs in the connection class for the asyncio event loop (#5795, #5816, #5820)

Contributors

Many thanks to external contributors from the RethinkDB community for helping us ship RethinkDB 2.3.4.

• Ultrabug (@ultrabug)

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Release 2.3.3 (Fantasia)

Released on 2016-06-01

Bug fix release

Compatibility

RethinkDB 2.3.3 servers can be mixed with older RethinkDB 2.3.x servers in the same cluster. We recommend that you run a mixed-version cluster only temporarily for upgrading purposes.

No migration is required when upgrading from RethinkDB 2.3.x. Please read the RethinkDB 2.3.0 release notes if you're upgrading from an older version.

Windows support

RethinkDB 2.3.0 was the first version to include native Windows compatibility. In RethinkDB 2.3.3, the Windows port is ready to emerge from "beta" testing. We now officially support RethinkDB on the Windows platform alongside our existing support for Linux and Mac OS X. We're also extending our commercial support services to include RethinkDB on Windows.

Although RethinkDB is now stable on Windows, there are still a few remaining limitations that we are actively working to address. We also haven't yet carried out as much performance tuning on the Windows port as we have on the Linux and OS X releases.

Bug fixes

• Server
  • Fixed a bug in orderBy.limit changefeeds that caused the server to crash with Guarantee failed: [sub_it != real_added.end()] (#5561)
  • Improved the performance of the table_status system table when the cluster is under high load (#5586)
  • Fixed a race condition in the cluster connection logic that could cause occasional crashes with a Guarantee failed: [refcount == 0] error (#5783)
  • Fixed a stack overflow when executing queries with a very high number of chained commands (#5792)
  • Made the fold command work on a changefeed stream (#5800)
  • Fixed the server uptime calculation on Windows (#5388)
  • Fixed source code incompatibilities with GCC 6.0 (#5757)
• JavaScript driver
  • The Connection class is now exported from the RethinkDB JavaScript module (#5758)
• Java driver
  • Added the clientPort and clientAddress methods to the Connection class in the Java driver (#5571)

Contributors

Many thanks to external contributors from the RethinkDB community for helping us ship RethinkDB 2.3.3.

• Gergely Nemeth (@gergelyke)

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Release 2.3.2 (Fantasia)

Released on 2016-05-06

Bug fix release

Compatibility

RethinkDB 2.3.2 servers can be mixed with older RethinkDB 2.3.x servers in the same cluster. We recommend that you run a mixed-version cluster only temporarily for upgrading purposes.

No migration is required when upgrading from RethinkDB 2.3.x. Please read the RethinkDB 2.3.0 release notes if you're upgrading from an older version.

Bug fixes

• Server
  • Fixed a data corruption issue in the secondary index construction logic. The issue could be triggered by creating a secondary index while the table is under write load and could result in a Guarantee failed: [token.has()] error when accessing the index (#5715)
  • Fixed an issue in the Windows beta release that caused data corruption whenever growing a table to more than 4 GB (#5719)
  • Fixed a crash with the message Guarantee failed: [num_subs == 0] that could occur when shutting down a server while trying to start new changefeeds at the same time (#5708)
  • Fixed a crash with the message Guarantee failed: [!pair.first.inner.overlaps(region.inner)] that could occur when using changefeeds while resharding (#5745)
  • Added a --tls-min-protocol server option for reducing the minimum required TLS protocol version. Drivers using an old OpenSSL version (e.g. on OS X) might require this option in order to connect to a TLS-enabled RethinkDB server (#5734)
  • Added a check to disallow using order_by with a non-deterministic predicate function (#5548)
  • Fixed a segmentation fault at address 0x18 that could occur in low-memory conditions on Linux (#5348)
  • Fixed a stack overflow issue when parsing very deeply nested objects (#5601)
  • Improved the stack protection logic in order to avoid exceeding the system's memory map limit. This issue affected Linux servers when having a very high number of concurrently running queries (#5591)
  • The server is now built with jemalloc version 4.1 on Linux (#5712)
  • Fixed the message that is displayed when a query times out in the Data Explorer (#5113)
  • Improved the handling and reporting of OpenSSL-related errors (#5551)
  • Added a new server option --cluster-reconnect-timeout to control how quickly RethinkDB gives up trying to reconnect to a previously connected server (#5701)
  • Fixed a race condition when writing to system tables that could lead to incorrect update results (#5711)
  • A custom conflict resolution function for the insert command can now return null in order to delete a conflicting document (#5713)
  • Improved the error message emitted when opening a changefeed on an orderBy.limit query that has additional transformations (#5721)
  • Fixed an incompatibility with Safari that could cause undesired page reloads in the web UI (#3983)
• Python driver
  • The Python driver's ssl option now supports older Python versions from 2.7 up (#4815)
  • Added a REPL mode that can be launched through the new python -m rethinkdb command (#5147)
  • Added a cache for PBKDF2 authentication tokens to reduce the costs of repeatedly opening connections (#5614)
  • Refactored how the RethinkDB import and export scripts load the driver (#4970)
  • Improved the error message reported when attempting to connect to a pre-2.3.0 server (#5678)
  • Fixed an incompatibility with Python 3 in the rethinkdb dump script that caused name 'file' is not defined errors (#5694)
  • Fixed an incompatibility with Python 3.3 in the protocol handshake code (#5742)

Contributors

Many thanks to external contributors from the RethinkDB community for helping us ship RethinkDB 2.3.2. In no particular order:

• Matt Broadstone (@mbroadst)
• Saad Abdullah (@saadqc)

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Release 2.3.1 (Fantasia)

Released on 2016-04-22

Bug fix release

Compatibility

RethinkDB 2.3.1 servers can be mixed with RethinkDB 2.3.0 servers in the same cluster. We recommend that you run a mixed-version cluster only temporarily for upgrading purposes.

No migration is required when upgrading from RethinkDB 2.3.0. Please read the RethinkDB 2.3.0 release notes if you're upgrading from an older version.

Supported systems

We now provide packages for Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus).

The r.http command no longer supports fetching data from encrypted https resources on OS X 10.7 and 10.8 (#5681). Newer releases of OS X are not affected.

Bug fixes

• Server
  • Fixed a segmentation fault triggered by performing a batched insert with multiple occurrences of the same primary key (#5683)
  • Fixed an uncaught exception bug in the hostname_to_ips function that could be triggered by connecting a server with an unresolvable address (#5629)
  • Fixed a query failure when opening a changefeed with the squash: true option on a system table (#5644)
  • Fixed a crash that was triggered when joining servers with identical server names (#5643)
  • Fixed an issue with the random number generator that stopped initial server names from getting randomized correctly (#5655)
  • Fixed a bug that caused memory to not be released properly after dropping a table or removing its replicas from a server (#5666)
  • Fixed a bug causing eqJoin to freeze the server when chained after a changes command (#5696)
  • Fixed an issue that caused the returnChanges: "always" option of the insert command to miss certain types of errors in the changes result (#5366)
  • Fixed a crash on OS X 10.7 when using the .dmg uninstaller (#5671)
  • The OS X .dmg uninstaller is now signed (#5615)
  • Fixed an edge case in the error handling for auto-generated primary keys when inserting into a system table (#5691)
  • RethinkDB can now be compiled with GCC 5.3 (#5635)
• JavaScript driver
  • Renamed the username option of the r.connect command to user. The username option is still supported for backwards-compatibility with existing code (#5659)
  • Improved the error message shown when connecting with the 2.3 driver to an older server (#5667)
• Python driver
  • Improved the error message that is emitted when trying to connect to a server with a wrong password (#5624)
  • Fixed the "global name 'options' is not defined" bug in the rethinkdb import script (#5637)
  • Fixed a Python 3 incompatibility in the rethinkdb restore script (#5647)
• Java driver
  • Implemented the timeout option for getNext (#5603)
  • Losing the server connection while having a changefeed open now correctly results in an error (#5660)
  • The driver now caches authentication nonces in order to speed up connection setup (#5614)

Contributors

Many thanks to external contributors from the RethinkDB community for helping us ship RethinkDB 2.3.1. In no particular order:

• Brian Chavez (@bchavez)
• Neil Hanlon (@NeilHanlon)
• Jason Soares (@JasonSoares)
• Magnus Lundgren (@iorlas1)

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Release 2.3.0 (Fantasia)

Released on 2016-04-06

RethinkDB 2.3 introduces a users and permissions system, TLS encrypted connections, a Windows beta, and numerous improvements to the ReQL query language. ReQL improvements include up to 10x better performance for distributed joins, and a new fold command that allows you to implement efficient stateful transformations on streams.

Read the blog post for more details.

Compatibility

Data files from RethinkDB version 1.16 onward will be automatically migrated. As with any major release, back up your data files before performing the upgrade.

If you're upgrading from RethinkDB 1.15.x or earlier, please read the data migration guide to find out about the required migration steps.

RethinkDB 2.3.0 servers cannot be mixed with servers running RethinkDB 2.2.x or earlier in the same cluster.

Managing password-protected clusters

If you migrate a cluster from a previous version of RethinkDB and have an auth_key set, the auth_key is turned into the password for the "admin" user. If no auth_key is set, a new "admin" user with an empty password is automatically created during migration.

RethinkDB 2.3 adds a new restriction when adding a server to an existing cluster. If the existing cluster has a non-empty password set for the "admin" user, a new server is only allowed to join the cluster if it has a password set as well. This is to avoid insecure states during the join process. You can use the new --initial-password auto command line option for joining a new server or proxy to a password-protected cluster. The --initial-password auto option assigns a random "admin" password on startup, which gets overwritten by the previously configured password on the cluster once the join process is complete.

API-breaking changes

• The eqJoin command no longer returns results in the order of its first input. You can pass in the new {ordered: true} option to restore the previous behavior.
• Operations on geospatial multi-indexes now emit duplicate results if multiple index keys of a given document match the query. You can append the .distinct() command in order to restore the previous behavior.
• Changefeeds on queries of the form orderBy(...).limit(...).filter(...) are no longer allowed. Previous versions of RethinkDB allowed the creation of such changefeeds, but did not provide the correct semantics.
• The commands r.wait, r.rebalance and r.reconfigure can no longer be called on the global r scope. Previously, these commands defaulted to the "test" database implicitly. Now they have to be explicitly called on either a database or table object. For example: r.db("test").wait(), r.db("test").rebalance(), etc.
• The {returnChanges: "always"} option with the insert command will now add {error: "..."} documents to the changes array if the insert fails for some documents. Previously failed documents were simply omitted from the changes result.
• The special values r.minval and r.maxval are no longer permitted as return values of secondary index functions.

Deprecated APIs

• The JavaScript each function is deprecated in favor of eachAsync. In a future release, each will be turned into an alias of eachAsync. We recommend converting existing calls of the form .each(function(err, row) {}) into the eachAsync equivalent .eachAsync(function(row) {}, function(err) {}). You can read more about eachAsync in the documentation.
• The auth_key option to connect in the official drivers is deprecated in favor of the new user and password options. For now, a provided auth_key value is mapped by the drivers to a password for the "admin" user, so existing code will keep working.

Discontinued packages

We no longer provide packages for the Debian oldstable distribution 7.x (Wheezy).

When compiling from source, the minimum required GCC version is now 4.7.4.

New features

• Added support for user accounts, user authentication, and access permissions. Users can be configured through the "users" system table. Permissions can be configured through either the new "permissions" system table or through the grant command. (#4519)
• Driver, intracluster and web UI connections can now be configured to use TLS encryption. For driver and intracluster connections, the server additionally supports certificate verification. (Linux and OS X only, #5381)
• Added beta support for running RethinkDB on Windows (64 bit only, Windows 7 and up). (#1100)
• Added a fold command to allow stateful transformations on ordered streams. (#3736)
• Added support for changefeeds on getIntersecting queries. (#4777)

Improvements

• Server
  • The --bind option can now be specified separately for the web UI (--bind-http), client driver port (--bind-driver) and cluster port (--bind-cluster). (#5467)
  • RethinkDB servers now detect non-transitive connectivity in the cluster and raise a "non_transitive_error" issue in the "current_issues" system table when detecting an issue. Additionally, the "server_status" system table now contains information on each server's connectivity in the new connected_to field. (#4936)
  • Added a new "memory_error" issue type for the "current_issues" system table that is displayed when the RethinkDB process starts using swap space. (Linux only) (#1023)
  • Reduced the number of scenarios that require index migration after a RethinkDB upgrade. Indexes no longer need to be migrated unless they use a custom index function. (#5175)
  • Added support for compiling RethinkDB on Alpine Linux. (#4437)
  • Proxy servers now print their server ID on startup. (#5515)
  • Raised the maximum query size from 64 MB to 128 MB. (#4529)
  • Increased the maximum number of shards for a table from 32 to 64. (#5311)
  • Implemented a --join-delay option to better tolerate unstable network conditions (#5319)
  • Added an --initial-password command line option to secure the process of adding new servers to a password-protected cluster. (#5490)
  • Implemented a new client protocol handshake to support user authentication. (#5406)
• ReQL
  • Added an interleave option to the union command to allow merging streams in a particular order. (#5090)
  • Added support for custom conflict-resolution functions to the insert command. (#3753)
  • The insert command now returns changes in the same order in which they were passed in when the returnChanges option is used. (#5041)
  • Added an includeOffsets option to the changes command to obtain the positions of changed elements in an orderBy.limit changefeeds. (#5334)
  • Added an includeTypes option to the changes command that adds a type field to every changefeed result. (#5188)
  • Made geospatial multi-indexes behave consistently with non-geospatial multi-indexes if a document is indexed under multiple matching keys. getIntersecting and getNearest now return duplicates if multiple index keys match. (#3351)
  • The and, or and getAll commands can now be called with zero arguments. (#4696, #2588)
  • Disallowed calling r.wait, r.rebalance and r.reconfigure on the global scope to avoid confusing semantics. (#4382)
  • The count and slice commands can now be applied to strings. (#4227, #4228)
  • Improved the error message from reconfigure if too many servers are unreachable. (#5267)
  • Improved the error message for invalid timezone specifications. (#1280)
• Performance
  • Implemented efficient batching for distributed joins using the eqJoin command. (#5115)
  • Optimized tableCreate to complete more quickly. (#4746)
  • Reduced the CPU overhead of ReQL function calls and term evaluation. (no issue number)
• Web UI
  • The web UI now uses the conn.server() command for getting information about the connected server. (#5059)
• All drivers
  • Implemented a new protocol handshake and added user and password options to the connect method to enable user authentication. (#5458, #5459, #5460, #5461)
  • Added clientPort and clientAddress functions to the connection objects in the JavaScript, Python and Ruby drivers. (#4796)
• JavaScript driver
  • Added new variants of the cursor.eachAsync function. (#5056)
  • Added a concurrency option for cursor.eachAsync. (#5529)
  • r.min, r.max, r.sum, r.avg and r.distinct now accept an array argument (#4594)
• Python driver
  • Added a "gevent" loop type to the Python driver. (#4433)
  • Printing a cursor object now displays the first few results. (#5331)
  • Removed the dependency on tar for the rethinkdb restore and rethinkdb dump commands. (#5399)
  • Added a --tls-cert option to the rethinkdb import, rethinkdb export, rethinkdb dump, rethinkdb restore and rethinkdb index-rebuild commands to enable TLS connections. (#5330)
  • Added --password and --password-file options to the rethinkdb import, rethinkdb export, rethinkdb dump, rethinkdb restore and rethinkdb index-rebuild commands to connect to password-protected servers. (#5464)
  • Added a --format ndjson option to rethinkdb export that allows exporting tables in a newline-separated JSON format. (#5101)
  • Made rethinkdb dump rethinkdb restore and rethinkdb import able to write to stdout and load data from stdin respectively. (#5525, #3838)
  • r.min, r.max, r.sum, r.avg and r.distinct now accept an array argument (#5494)
• Java driver:
  • Made it easier to publish the driver on local Ivy and Maven repositories. (#5054)

Bug fixes

• Server
  • Fixed a crash with the message [cmp != 0] when querying with r.minval or r.maxval values inside of an array. (#5542)
  • Fixed in issue that caused orphaned tables to be left behind when deleting a database through the "db_config" system table. (#4465)
  • Fixed a crash when trying to restore a backup from a version of RethinkDB that is too new. (#5104)
  • Fixed a bug in data migration from RethinkDB 2.0.x and earlier. (#5570)
  • Fixed a race condition causing server crashes with the message Guarantee failed: [!pair.first.inner.overlaps(region.inner)] when rebalancing a table while simultaneously opening new changefeeds. (#5576)
  • Fixed an issue causing backfill jobs to remain in the jobs system table even after finishing. (#5223)
• ReQL
  • Disallowed changefeeds on queries of the form orderBy(...).limit(...).filter(...), since they do not provide the correct semantics. (#5325)
  • Coercing a binary value to a string value now properly checks for illegal characters in the string. (#5536)
• Web UI
  • Fixed the "The request to retrieve data failed" error when having an orphaned table whose database has been deleted. (#4985)
  • Fixed the maximum number of shards display for clusters with more than 32 servers. (#5311)
  • Fixed an empty "Connected to" field when accessing the web UI through a RethinkDB proxy server. (#3182)
• JavaScript driver
  • Fixed the behavior of cursor.close when there are remaining items in the buffer. (#5432)
• Python driver
  • Fixed a bug in the __str__ function of cursor objects. (#5567)
  • Fixed the handling of the error generated for over-sized queries. (#4771)
• Ruby driver
  • Fixed the handling of the error generated for over-sized queries. (#4771)

Contributors

Many thanks to external contributors from the RethinkDB community for helping us ship RethinkDB 2.3. In no particular order:

• Aaron Rosen (@aaronorosen)
• @crockpotveggies
• Daniel Hokka Zakrisson (@dhozac)
• Igor Lukanin (@igorlukanin)
• @janisz
• Joshua Bronson (@jab)
• Josh Hawn (@jlhawn)
• Josh Smith (@Qinusty)
• Marshall Cottrell (@marshall007)
• Mike Mintz (@mikemintz)
• Niklas Hambüchen (@nh2)
• Qian Jin (@QianJin2013)
• Taylor Murphy (@tayloramurphy)
• Vladislav Botvin (@darrrk)
• Adam Grandquist (@grandquista)
• @bakape
• Bernardo Santana (@bsantanas)
• Bheesham Persaud (@bheesham)
• Christopher Cadieux (@ccadieux)
• Chuck Bassett (@chuckSMASH)
• Diney Wankhede (@dineyw23)
• Heinz Fiedler (@heinzf)
• Mark Yu (@vafada)
• Mike Krumlauf (@mjkrumlauf)
• Nicolás Santángelo (@NicoSantangelo)
• Samuel Volin (@untra)
• Stefan de Konink (@skinkie)
• Tommaso (@raspo)

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Release 2.2.6 (Modern Times)

Released on 2016-03-25

Bug fix release

Compatibility

RethinkDB 2.2.6 servers cannot be mixed with servers running RethinkDB 2.2.1 or earlier in the same cluster.

No migration is required when upgrading from RethinkDB 2.2.0 or higher. Please read the RethinkDB 2.2.0 release notes if you're upgrading from an older version.

Bug fixes

• Fixed two bugs in the changefeed code that caused crashes with an "Unreachable code" error in certain edge cases (#5438, #5535)
• Fixed a SANITY CHECK FAILED: [d.has()] error when using the map command on a combination of empty and non-empty input streams (#5481)
• The result of conn.server() now includes a proxy field (#5485)
• Changed the connection behavior of proxy servers to avoid repeating "Rejected a connection from server X since one is open already" warnings (#5456)
• The Python driver now supports connecting to a server via IPv6, even when using the async API (asyncio, tornado, twisted) (#5445)
• Fixed an incompatibility with certain versions of Python that made the driver unable to load the backports.ssl_match_hostname module (#5470)
• Fixed a resource leak in the Java driver's cursor.close() call (#5448)
• Cursors in the Java driver now implement the Closeable interface (#5468)
• Fixed a remaining incompatibility with Internet Explorer 10 in the JavaScript driver (#5499)

Contributors

Many thanks to external contributors from the RethinkDB community for helping us ship RethinkDB 2.2.6. In no particular order:

• Paulo Pires (@pires)
• Mike Mintz (@mikemintz)

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Release 2.2.5 (Modern Times)

Released on 2016-02-23

Bug fix release

Compatibility

RethinkDB 2.2.5 servers cannot be mixed with servers running RethinkDB 2.2.1 or earlier in the same cluster.

No migration is required when upgrading from RethinkDB 2.2.0 or higher. Please read the RethinkDB 2.2.0 release notes if you're upgrading from an older version.

Improvements

• Improved the CPU efficiency of orderBy queries on secondary indexes (#5280)
• Improved the efficiency of geospatial queries on indexes with point values (#5411)
• Connections in the Java driver are now thread-safe (#5166)
• Made the JavaScript driver compatible with Internet Explorer 10 (#5067)
• The Ruby driver now supports nested pseudotypes (#5373)

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused servers to not connect and/or reconnect properly (#2755)
• Fixed an issue that caused servers to time out when running queries on secondary indexes with long index keys (#5280)
• Changefeeds now always emit events for documents leaving or entering the changefeed range (#5205)
• Fixed a bug in the Java driver that caused null pointer exceptions (#5355)
• Fixed the isFeed() function in the Java driver (#5390, #5400)
• The r.now command now performs arity checking correctly (#5405)
• Fixed a test failure in the unit.ClusteringBranch test (#5182)

Contributors

Many thanks to external contributors from the RethinkDB community for helping us ship RethinkDB 2.2.5. In no particular order:

• Mike Mintz (@mikemintz)
• Paulo Pires (@pires)
• Nicolas Viennot (@nviennot)
• Brian Chavez (@bchavez)

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Release 2.2.4 (Modern Times)

Released on 2016-02-01

This bug fix release addresses a critical bug in RethinkDB's clustering system, that can lead to data loss and invalid query results under certain rare circumstances. The bug can appear if a table is reconfigured during a network partition (read more in GitHub issue #5289).

We recommend upgrading to this release as soon as possible to avoid data loss.

If you see replicas get stuck in the transitioning state during a reconfiguration after upgrading, you can run .reconfigure({emergencyRepair: '_debug_recommit'}) on the table to allow the reconfiguration to complete. Please make sure that the cluster is idle when running this operation, as RethinkDB does not guarantee consistency during the emergency repair.

Compatibility

RethinkDB 2.2.4 servers cannot be mixed with servers running RethinkDB 2.2.1 or earlier in the same cluster.

No migration is required when upgrading from RethinkDB 2.2.0 or higher. Please read the RethinkDB 2.2.0 release notes if you're upgrading from an older version.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug in the clustering system that could lead to data loss, inconsistent reads, and server crashes after reconfiguring a table during incomplete connectivity (#5289, #4949)
• Fixed a segmentation fault that occurred when requesting certain documents from the stats system table (#5327)
• Changefeeds on system tables now support map, filter and related commands (#5241)
• Backtraces are now printed even if the addr2line tool is not installed (#5321)
• The Java driver now supports SSL connections thanks to a contribution by @pires (#5284)
• Fixed the "Serialized query" debug output in the Java driver (#5306)
• Fixed an incompatibility of the rethinkdb import script with Python 2.6 (#5294)

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Release 2.1.6 (Forbidden Planet)

Released on 2016-02-01

Legacy bug fix release

Legacy support release

This release maintains full compatibility with RethinkDB 2.1.5, while fixing a critical bug in RethinkDB's clustering system.

We recommend installing this version only if upgrading to RethinkDB 2.2.4 is not an option, for example if you depend on a driver that still uses the old protocol buffer client protocol.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug in the clustering system that could lead to data loss, inconsistent reads, and server crashes after reconfiguring a table during incomplete connectivity (#5289, #4949)

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Release 2.2.3 (Modern Times)

Released on 2016-01-11

Bug fix release

Compatibility

RethinkDB 2.2.3 servers cannot be mixed with servers running RethinkDB 2.2.1 or earlier in the same cluster.

No migration is required when upgrading from RethinkDB 2.2.0 or higher. Please read the RethinkDB 2.2.0 release notes if you're upgrading from an older version.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug in the changefeed code that caused crashes with the message Guarantee failed: [env.has()] (#5238)
• Fixed a crash in r.http when using pagination (#5256)
• Fixed a bug that made orderBy.limit changefeeds prevent other changefeeds on the same table from becoming ready (#5247)
• Replaced a call to the deprecated Object#timeout function in the Ruby driver (#5232)

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Release 2.2.2 (Modern Times)

Released on 2015-12-21

Bug fix release

Compatibility

RethinkDB 2.2.2 servers cannot be mixed with servers running RethinkDB 2.2.1 or earlier in the same cluster. The protocol change was necessary to address correctness issues in the changefeed implementation.

No migration is required when upgrading from RethinkDB 2.2.0 or higher. Please read the RethinkDB 2.2.0 release notes if you're upgrading from an older version.

Bug fixes

• Server
  • Fixed an issue causing include_initial changefeeds to miss changes (#5216)
  • Fixed an issue causing include_initial changefeeds to stall and never reach the "ready" state (#5157)
  • Fixed an issue causing include_initial changefeeds to emit unexpected initial results with a null value (#5153)
  • Improved the efficiency of skip in combination with limit (#5155)
  • Fixed an issue with determinism checking in geospatial commands (#5130)
  • Fixed an invalid memory access that caused segmentation faults on ARM (#5093)
  • Fixed a crash with "Unreachable code" when migrating from versions of RethinkDB older than 1.16 (#5158)
  • Fixed an issue where the server would send an extra response to the client after a cursor completed (#5159)
  • Fixed a build dependency issue with OpenSSL on OS X 10.11 (#4963)
  • Fixed compiler warnings on ARM (#4541)
  • Made the APT repository compatible with APT 1.1 (#5174)
• Drivers
  • Fixed missing backtraces on ReQLCompileError in the JavaScript driver (#4803)
  • Upgraded the version of CoffeeScript used to compile the JavaScript driver in order to avoid errors in strict mode (#5198)
  • Fixed a syntax error warning in the Python driver during installation on older Python versions (#4702)
  • rethinkdb restore now waits for tables to be available (#5154)

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Release 2.2.1 (Modern Times)

Released on 2015-11-16

Bug fix release

Compatibility

RethinkDB 2.2.1 is fully compatible with RethinkDB 2.2.0. Please read the RethinkDB 2.2.0 release notes if you're upgrading from an older version.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a crash with the message "Guarantee failed: [found_hash_pair]" when running getAll queries (#5085)
• rethinkdb export and rethinkdb dump now limit the number of subprocesses to reduce memory consumption (#4809)
• Fixed a segmentation fault in orderBy.limit changefeeds (#5081)
• Fixed a crash when using getAll with illegal keys (#5086)
• r.uuid is now considered a deterministic operation if it is passed a single argument (#5092)
• Fixed the "Task was destroyed but it is pending!" error when using the asyncio event loop on Python (#5043)

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Release 2.2.0 (Modern Times)

Released on 2015-11-12

RethinkDB 2.2 introduces atomic changefeeds. Atomic changefeeds include existing values from the database into the changefeed result, and then atomically transition to streaming updates.

Atomic changefeeds make building realtime apps dramatically easier: you can use a single code path to populate your application with initial data, and continue receiving realtime data updates.

This release also includes numerous performance and scalability improvements designed to help RethinkDB clusters scale to larger sizes while using fewer resources.

Read the blog post for more details.

Compatibility

Data files from RethinkDB version 1.16 onward will be automatically migrated. As with any major release, back up your data files before performing the upgrade.

If you're upgrading from RethinkDB 1.14.x or 1.15.x, you need to migrate your secondary indexes first. You can do this by following these steps:

• Install RethinkDB 2.0.5.
• Update the RethinkDB Python driver (sudo pip install 'rethinkdb<2.1.0').
• Rebuild your indexes with rethinkdb index-rebuild.

Afterwards, you can install RethinkDB 2.2 and start it on the existing data files.

If you're upgrading directly from RethinkDB 1.13 or earlier, you will need to manually upgrade using rethinkdb dump.

API-breaking changes

• Changefeeds on .orderBy.limit as well as .get queries previously provided initial results by default. You now need to include the optional argument includeInitial: true to .changes to achieve the same behavior.
• The deprecated protocol buffer driver protocol is no longer supported. The newer JSON protocol is now the only supported driver protocol. Older drivers using the deprecated protocol no longer work with RethinkDB 2.2.0. See the drivers list for up-to-date drivers.
  • If you're using Java, please note that at the time of writing, existing community drivers have not been updated to use the newer JSON protocol. However, an official Java driver is in active development and will be available soon.
• Certain argument errors that used to throw ReqlDriverError exceptions now throw ReqlCompileError exceptions. See #4669 for a full list of changes.

Supported distributions

RethinkDB 2.2.0 now comes with official packages for Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) and CentOS 7.

We no longer provide packages for Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx), which has reached end of life.

New features

• Added full support for atomic changefeeds through the include_initial optarg (#3579)
• Added a values command to obtain the values of an object as an array (#2945)
• Added a conn.server command to identify the server for a given connection (#3934)
• Extended r.uuid to accept a string and work as a hash function (#4636)

Improvements

• Server
  • Improved the scalability of range queries on sharded tables (#4343)
  • Improved the performance of between queries on secondary indexes (#4862)
  • Reduced the memory overhead for large data sets (#1951)
  • Redesigned the internal representation of queries to improve efficiency (#4601)
  • Removed the deprecated protocol buffer driver protocol (#4601)
  • Improved the construction of secondary indexes to make them resumable and to reduce their impact on any production workload (#4959)
  • Improved the performance when using getAll with a secondary index in some edge cases (#4948)
  • Removed the limit of 1024 concurrent changefeeds on a single connection (#4732)
  • Implemented automatically growing coroutine stacks to avoid stack overflows (#4462)
  • Optimized the deserialization of network messages to avoid an extra copy (#3734)
  • Added a raft_leader field to a table's status to expose its current Raft leader (#4902)
  • Made the handling of invalid lines in the 'logs' system table more robust (#4929)
• ReQL
  • indexStatus now exposes the secondary index function (#3231)
  • Added an optarg called changefeed_queue_size to specify how many changes the server should buffer on a changefeed before generating an error (#3607)
  • Extended branch to accept an arbitrary number of conditions and values (#3199)
  • Strings can now contain null characters (except in primary keys) (#3163)
  • Streams can now be coerced directly to an object (#2802)
  • Made coerceTo('BOOL') consistent with branch (#3133)
  • Changefeeds on filter and map queries involving geospatial terms are now allowed (#4063)
  • Extended or and and to accept zero arguments (#4132)
• Web UI
  • The Data Explorer now allows executing only parts of a query be selecting them (#4814)
• All drivers
  • Improved the consistency of ReQL error types by throwing ReqlCompileError rather than ReqlDriverError for certain errors (#4669)
• JavaScript driver
  • Added an eachAsync method on cursors that behaves like each but also returns a promise (#4784)
• Python driver
  • Implemented an API to override the default JSON encoder and decoder (#4825, #4818)

Bug fixes

• Server
  • Fixed a segmentation fault that could happen when disconnecting a server while having open changefeeds (#4972)
  • Updated the description of the --server-name parameter in rethinkdb --help (#4739)
  • Fixed a crash with the message "Guarantee failed: [ts->tv_nsec >= 0 && ts->tv_nsec < (1000LL * (1000LL * 1000LL))] " (#4931)
  • Fixed a problem where backfill jobs didn't get removed from the 'jobs' table (#4923)
  • Fixed a memory corruption that could trigger a segmentation fault during getIntersecting queries (#4937)
  • Fixed an issue that could stop data files from RethinkDB 1.13 from migrating properly (#4991)
  • Fixed a "Guarantee failed: [pair.second] key for entry_t already exists" crash when rapidly reconnecting servers (#4968)
  • Fixed an "Uncaught exception of type interrupted_exc_t" crash (#4977)
  • Added a check to catch r.minval and r.maxval values when writing to the '_debug_scratch' system table (#4032)
• ReQL
  • Fixed the error message that's generated when passing in a function with the wrong arity (#4189)
  • Fixed a regression that caused r.asc("test") to not fail as it should (#4951)
• JavaScript driver
  • Object keys in toString are now properly quoted (#4997)

Contributors

Many thanks to external contributors from the RethinkDB community for helping us ship RethinkDB 2.2. In no particular order:

• Peter Hollows (@captainpete)
• Zhenchao Li (@fantasticsid)
• Marshall Cottrell (@marshall007)
• Adam Grandquist (@grandquista)
• Ville Immonen (@fson)
• Matt Broadstone (@mbroadst)
• Pritam Baral (@pritambaral)
• Elian Gidoni (@eliangidoni)
• Mike Mintz (@mikemintz)
• Daniel Compton (@danielcompton)
• Vinh Quốc Nguyễn (@kureikain)
• Shayne Hodge (@schodge)
• Alexander Zeillinger (@alexanderzeillinger)
• Ben Gesoff (@bengesoff)
• Dmitriy Lazarev (@wKich)
• Chris Gaudreau (@clessg)
• Paweł Świątkowski (@katafrakt)
• Wang Zuo (@wangzuo)
• Chris Goller (@goller)
• Mateus Craveiro (@mccraveiro)

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Release 2.1.5-2 (Forbidden Planet)

Released on 2015-10-08

Bug fix release

Compatibility

• RethinkDB 2.1.5 servers cannot be mixed with servers running RethinkDB 2.1.4 or earlier in the same cluster

Bug fixes

• Fixed a memory corruption bug that caused segmentation faults on some systems (#4917)
• Made the build system compatible with OS X El Capitan (#4602)
• Fixed spurious "Query terminated by rethinkdb.jobs table" errors (#4819)
• Fixed an issue that caused changefeeds to keep failing after a table finished reconfiguring (#4838)
• Fixed a race condition that resulted in a crash with the message std::terminate() called without any exception. when losing a cluster connection (#4878)
• Fixed a segmentation fault in the mark_ready() function that could occur when reconfiguring a table (#4875)
• Fixed a segmentation fault when using changefeeds on orderBy.limit queries (#4850)
• Made the Data Explorer handle changefeeds on orderBy.limit queries correctly (#4852)
• Fixed a "Branch history is incomplete" crash when reconfiguring a table repeatedly in quick succession (#4866)
• Fixed a problem that caused indexStatus to report results for additional indexes that were not specified in its arguments (#4868)
• Fixed a segmentation fault when running RethinkDB on certain ARM systems (#4839)
• Fixed a compilation issue in the UTF-8 unit test with recent versions of Xcode (#4861)
• Fixed an Assertion failed: [ptr_] error when reconfiguring tables quickly with a debug-mode binary (#4871)
• Improved the detection of unsupported values in r.js functions to avoid a Guarantee failed: [!key.IsEmpty() && !val.IsEmpty()] crash in the worker process (#4879)
• Fixed an unitialized data access issue on shutdown (#4918)

Performance improvements

• Improved the performance of getAll queries that fetch multiple keys at once (#1526)
• Optimized the distribution of tasks across threads on multi-core servers (#4905)

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Release 2.1.4 (Forbidden Planet)

Released on 2015-09-16

Bug fix release

Compatibility

• RethinkDB 2.1.4 servers cannot be mixed with servers running RethinkDB 2.1.1 or earlier in the same cluster

Bug fixes

• Fixed a data corruption bug that could occur when deleting documents (#4769)
• The web UI no longer ignores errors during table configuration (#4811)
• Added a check in case reconfigure is called with a non-existent server tag (#4840)
• Removed a spurious debug-mode assertion that caused a server crash when trying to write to the stats system table (#4837)
• The rethinkdb restore and rethinkdb import commands now wait for secondary indexes to become ready before beginning the data import (#4832)

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Release 2.1.3 (Forbidden Planet)

Released on 2015-09-04

Bug fix release

Compatibility

• RethinkDB 2.1.3 servers cannot be mixed with servers running RethinkDB 2.1.1 or earlier in the same cluster

Bug fixes

• Fixed a data corruption bug in the b-tree implementation (#4769)
• Fixed the ssl option in the JavaScript driver (#4786)
• Made the Ruby driver compatible with Ruby on Rails 3.2 (#4753)
• Added the backports.ssl_match_hostname library to the Python driver package (#4683)
• Changed the update check to use an encrypted https connection (#3988, #4643)
• Fixed access to https sources in r.http on OS X (#3112)
• Fixed an Unexpected exception error (#4758)
• Fixed a Guarantee failed: [pair.second] crash that could occur during resharding (#4774)
• Fixed a bug that caused some queries to not report an error when interrupted (#4762)
• Added a new "_debug_recommit" recovery option to emergency_repair (#4720)
• Made error reporting in the Python driver compatible with celery and nose (#4764)
• Changed the handling of outdated indexes from RethinkDB 1.13 during an import to no longer terminate the server (#4766)

Performance improvements

• Improved the latency when reading from a system table in r.db('rethinkdb') while the server is under load (#4773)
• Improved the parallelism of JSON encoding on the server to utilize multiple CPU cores
• Refactored JSON decoding in the Python driver to allow the use of custom JSON parsers and to speed up pseudo type conversion (#4585)
• Improved the prefetching logic in the Python driver to increase the throughput of cursors
• Changed the Python driver to use a more efficient data structure to store cursor results (#4782)

Contributors

Many thanks to external contributors from the RethinkDB community for helping us ship RethinkDB 2.1.3. In no particular order:

• Adam Grandquist (@grandquista)
• ajose01 (@ajose01)
• Paulius Uza (@pauliusuza)

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Release 2.1.2 (Forbidden Planet)

Released on 2015-08-25

Bug fix release

Compatibility

• RethinkDB 2.1.2 servers cannot be mixed with servers running earlier versions in the same cluster
• Changefeeds on a get_all query no longer return initial values. This restores the behavior from RethinkDB 2.0

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue where writes could be acknowledged before all necessary data was written to disk
• Restored the 2.0 behavior for changefeeds on get_all queries to avoid various issues and incompatibilities
• Fixed an issue that caused previously migrated tables to be shown as unavailable (#4723)
• Made outdated secondary index warnings disappear once the problem is resolved (#4664)
• Made index_create atomic to avoid race conditions when multiple indexes were created in quick succession (#4694)
• Improved how query execution times are reported in the Data Explorer (#4752)
• Fixed a memory leak in r.js (#4663)
• Fixed the Branch history is missing pieces error (#4721)
• Fixed a race condition causing a crash with Guarantee failed: [!send_mutex.is_locked()] (#4710)
• Fixed a bug in the changefeed code that could cause crashes with the message Guarantee failed: [active()] (#4678)
• Fixed various race conditions that could cause crashes if changefeeds were present during resharding (#4735, #4734, #4678)
• Fixed a race condition causing a crash with Guarantee failed: [val.has()] (#4736)
• Fixed an Assertion failed issue when running a debug-mode binary (#4685)
• Added a workaround for an eglibc bug that caused an unexpected address family error on startup (#4470)
• Added precautions to avoid secondary index migration issues in subsequent releases
• Out-of-memory errors in the server's JSON parser are now correctly reported (#4751)

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Release 2.0.5 (Yojimbo)

Released on 2015-08-25

Bug fix release

• Added precautions to avoid secondary index migration issues in subsequent releases
• Fixed a memory leak in r.js (#4663)
• Added a workaround for an eglibc bug that caused an unexpected address family error on startup (#4470)
• Fixed a bug in the changefeed code that could cause crashes with the message Guarantee failed: [active()] (#4678)
• Fixed a bug that caused intermittent server crashes with the message Guarantee failed: [fn_id != __null] in combination with the r.js command (#4611)
• Improved the performance of the is_empty term (#4592)

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Release 2.1.1 (Forbidden Planet)

Released on 2015-08-12

Bug fix release

• Fixed a problem where after migration, some replicas remained unavailable when reconfiguring a table (#4668)
• Removed the defunct --migrate-inconsistent-data command line argument (#4665)
• Fixed the slider for setting write durability during table creation in the web UI (#4660)
• Fixed a race condition in the clustering subsystem (#4670)
• Improved the handling of error messages in the testing system (#4657)

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Release 2.1.0 (Forbidden Planet)

Released on 2015-08-11

Release highlights:

• Automatic failover using a Raft-based protocol
• More flexible administration for servers and tables
• Advanced recovery features

Read the blog post for more details.

Compatibility

Data files from RethinkDB versions 1.14.0 onward will be automatically migrated. As with any major release, back up your data files before performing the upgrade.

If you're upgrading directly from RethinkDB 1.13 or earlier, you will need to manually upgrade using rethinkdb dump.

Note that files from the RethinkDB 2.1.0 beta release are not compatible with this version.

Changed handling of server failures

This release introduces a new system for dealing with server failures and network partitions based on the Raft consensus algorithm.

Previously, unreachable servers had to be manually removed from the cluster in order to restore availability. RethinkDB 2.1 can resolve many cases of availability loss automatically, and keeps the cluster in an administrable state even while servers are missing.

There are three important scenarios in RethinkDB 2.1 when it comes to restoring the availability of a given table after a server failure:

• The table has three or more replicas, and a majority of the servers that are hosting these replicas are connected. RethinkDB 2.1 automatically elects new primary replicas to replace unavailable servers and restore availability. No manual intervention is required, and data consistency is maintained.
• A majority of the servers for the table are connected, regardless of the number of replicas. The table can be manually reconfigured using the usual commands, and data consistency is always maintained.
• A majority of servers for the table are unavailable. The new emergency_repair option to table.reconfigure can be used to restore table availability in this case.

System table changes

To reflect changes in the underlying cluster administration logic, some of the tables in the rethinkdb database changed.

Changes to table_config:

• Each shard subdocument now has a new field nonvoting_replicas, that can be set to a subset of the servers in the replicas field.
• write_acks must now be either "single" or "majority". Custom write ack specifications are no longer supported. Instead, non-voting replicas can be used to set up replicas that do not count towards the write ack requirements.
• Tables that have all of their replicas disconnected are now listed as special documents with an "error" field.
• Servers that are disconnected from the cluster are no longer included in the table.
• The new indexes field lists the secondary indexes on the given table.

Changes to table_status:

• The primary_replica field is now called primary_replicas and has an array of current primary replicas as its value. While under normal circumstances only a single server will be serving as the primary replica for a given shard, there can temporarily be multiple primary replicas during handover or while data is being transferred between servers.
• The possible values of the state field now are "ready", "transitioning", "backfilling", "disconnected", "waiting_for_primary" and "waiting_for_quorum".
• Servers that are disconnected from the cluster are no longer included in the table.

Changes to current_issues:

• The issue types "table_needs_primary", "data_lost", "write_acks", "server_ghost" and "server_disconnected" can no longer occur.
• A new issue type "table_availability" was added and appears whenever a table is missing at least one server. Note that no issue is generated if a server which is not hosting any replicas disconnects.

Changes to cluster_config:

• A new document with the id "heartbeat" allows configuring the heartbeat timeout for intracluster connections.

New ReQL error types

RethinkDB 2.1 introduces new error types that allow you to handle different error classes separately in your application if you need to. You can find the complete list of new error types in the documentation.

As part of this change, ReQL error types now use the Reql name prefix instead of Rql (for example ReqlRuntimeError instead of RqlRuntimeError). The old type names are still supported in our drivers for backwards compatibility.

Other API-breaking changes

• .split('') now treats the input as UTF-8 instead of an array of bytes
• null values in compound index are no longer discarded
• The new read_mode="outdated" optional argument replaces use_outdated=True

Deprecated functionality

The older protocol-buffer-based client protocol is deprecated in this release. RethinkDB 2.2 will no longer support clients that still use it. All "current" drivers listed on the drivers page use the new JSON-based protocol and will continue to work with RethinkDB 2.2.

New features

• Server
  • Added automatic failover and semi-lossless rebalance based on Raft (#223)
  • Backfills are now interuptible and reversible (#3886, #3885)
  • table.reconfigure now works even if some servers are disconnected (#3913)
  • Replicas can now be marked as voting or non-voting (#3891)
  • Added an emergency repair feature to restore table availability if consensus is lost (#3893)
  • Reads can now be made against a majority of replicas (#3895)
  • Added an emergency read mode that extracts data directly from a given replica for data recovery purposes (#4388)
  • Servers with no responsibilities can now be removed from clusters without raising an issue (#1790)
  • Made the intracluster heartbeat timeout configurable (#4449)
• ReQL
  • Added ceil, floor and round (#866)
  • Extended the ReQL error type hierarchy to be more fine-grained (#4544)
• All drivers
  • Added driver-side support for SSL connections and CA verification (#4075, #4076, #4080)
• Python driver
  • Added Python 3 asyncio support (#4071)
  • Added Twisted support (#4096)
  • rethinkdb export now supports the --delimiter option for CSV files (#3916)

Improvements

• Server
  • Improved the handling of cluster membership and removal of servers (#3262, #3897, #1790)
  • Changed the formatting of the table_status system table (#3882, #4196)
  • Added an indexes field to the table_config system table (#4525)
  • Improved efficiency by making datum_t movable (#4056)
  • ReQL backtraces are now faster and smaller (#2900)
  • Replaced cJSON with rapidjson (#3844)
  • Failed meta operations are now transparently retried (#4199)
  • Added more detailed logging of cluster events (#3878)
  • Improved unsaved data limit throttling to increase write performance (#4441)
  • Improved the performance of the is_empty term (#4592)
  • Small backfills are now prioritized to make tables available more quickly after a server restart (#4383)
  • Reduced the memory requirements when backfilling large documents (#4474)
  • Changefeeds using the squash option now send batches early if the changefeed queue gets too full (#3942)
• ReQL
  • .split('') is now UTF-8 aware (#2518)
  • Improved the behaviour of compound index values containing null (#4146)
  • Errors now distinguish failed writes from indeterminate writes (#4296)
  • r.union is now a top-level term (#4030)
  • condition.branch(...) now works just like r.branch(condition, ...) (#4438)
  • Improved the detection of non-atomic update and replace arguments (#4582)
• Web UI
  • Added new dependency and namespace management system to the web UI (#3465, #3660)
  • Improved the information visible on the dashboard (#4461)
  • Improved layout of server and replica assignment lists (#4372)
  • Updated to reflect the new clustering features and changes (#4283, #4330, #4288, ...)
• JavaScript driver
  • The version of bluebird was updated to 2.9.32 (#4178, #4475)
  • Improved compatibility with Internet Explorer 10 (#4534)
  • TCP keepalive is now enabled for all connections (#4572)
• Python driver
  • Added a new --max-document-size option to the rethinkdb import script to handle very large JSON documents (#4452)
  • Added an r.__version__ property (#3100)
  • TCP keepalive is now enabled for all connections (#4572)
• Ruby driver
  • TCP keepalive is now enabled for all connections (#4572)

Bug fixes

• time_of_date and date now respect timezones (#4149)
• Added code to work around a bug in some versions of GLIBC and EGLIBC (#4470)
• Updated the OS X uninstall script to avoid spurious error messages (#3773)
• Fixed a starvation issue with squashing changefeeds (#3903)
• has_fields now returns a selection when called on a table (#2609)
• Fixed a bug that caused intermittent server crashes with the message Guarantee failed: [fn_id != __null] in combination with the r.js command (#4611)
• Web UI
  • Fixed an issue in the table list that caused it to get stuck showing "Loading tables..." if no database existed (#4464)
  • Fixed the tick marks in the shard distribution graph (#4294)
• Python driver
  • Fixed a missing argument error (#4402)
• JavaScript driver
  • Made the handling of the db optional argument to run consistent with the Ruby and Python drivers (#4347)
  • Fixed a problem that could cause connections to not be closed correctly (#4526)
• Ruby driver
  • Made the EventMachine API raise an error when a connection is closed while handlers are active (#4626)

Contributors

Many thanks to external contributors from the RethinkDB community for helping us ship RethinkDB 2.1. In no particular order:

• Thomas Kluyver (@takluyver)
• Jonathan Phillips (@jipperinbham)
• Yohan Graterol (@yograterol)
• Adam Grandquist (@grandquista)
• Peter Hamilton (@hamiltop)
• Marshall Cottrell (@marshall007)
• Elias Levy (@eliaslevy)
• Ian Beringer (@ianberinger)
• Jason Dobry (@jmdobry)
• Wankai Zhang (@wankai)
• Elifarley Cruz (@elifarley)
• Brandon Mills (@btmills)
• Daniel Compton (@danielcompton)
• Ed Costello (@epc)
• Lowe Thiderman (@thiderman)
• Andy Wilson (@wilsaj)
• Nicolas Viennot (@nviennot)
• bnosrat (@bnosrat)
• Mike Mintz (@mikemintz)
• Lahfa Ryan (@raitobezarius)
• Sebastien Diaz (@sebadiaz)

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Release 2.0.4 (Yojimbo)

Released on 2015-07-08

Bug fix release

• Fixed the version number used by the JavaScript driver (#4436)
• Fixed a bug that caused crashes with a "Guarantee failed: [stop]" error (#4430)
• Fixed a latency issue when processing indexed distinct queries over low-cardinality data sets (#4362)
• Changed the implementation of compile time assertions (#4346)
• Changed the Data Explorer to render empty results more clearly (#4110)
• Fixed a linking issue on ARM (#4064)
• Improved the message showing the query execution time in the Data Explorer (#3454, #3927)
• Fixed an error that happened when calling info on an ordered table stream (#4242)
• Fixed a bug that caused an error to be thrown for certain streams in the Data Explorer (#4242)
• Increased the coroutine stack safety buffer to detect stack overflows in optarg processing (#4473)

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Release 2.0.3 (Yojimbo)

Released on 2015-06-10

Bug fix release

• Fixed a bug that broke autocompletion in the Data Explorer (#4261)
• No longer crash for certain types of stack overflows during query execution (#2639)
• No longer crash when returning a function from r.js (#4190)
• Fixed a race condition when closing cursors in the JavaScript driver (#4240)
• Fixed a race condition when closing connections in the JavaScript driver (#4250)
• Added support for building with GCC 5.1 (#4264)
• Improved handling of coroutine stack overflows on OS X (#4299)
• Removed an invalid assertion in the server (#4313)

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Release 2.0.2 (Yojimbo)

Released on 2015-05-22

Bug fix release

• Fixed "duplicate token" error in the web UI that happened with certain browsers (#4174)
• Fixed a cross site request forgery vulnerability in the HTTP admin interface (#2018)
• Fixed the EventEmitter interface in the JavaScript driver (#4192)
• Fixed a problem with the RDBInterrupt.InsertOp unit test in some compilation modes (#4038)
• Added packages for Ubuntu 15.04 (#4123)
• Added a return_changes: 'always' option to restore the return_changes behavior from before 2.0.0 (#4068)
• Fixed a bug with return_changes where it would populate changes despite an error occurring (#4208)
• Fixed a performance regression when calling get_all with many keys (#4218)
• Added support for using r.row with the contains command in the JavaScript driver (#4125)

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Release 2.0.1 (Yojimbo)

Released on 2015-04-20

Bug fix release

• Fixed a regression in the backup scripts that detected the server version incorrectly (#3706)
• Fixed a bug in the cache balancer that could degrade performance (#4066)

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Release 2.0.0 (Yojimbo)

Released on 2015-04-14

Release highlights:

• Support for attaching a changefeed to the get_all and union commands
• Improved support for asynchronous queries
• The first production-ready release of RethinkDB

Read the release blog post for more details.

Compatibility

Data files from RethinkDB versions 1.13.0 onward will be automatically migrated to version 2.0. As with any major release, back up your data files before performing the upgrade.

Handling of negative zero in indexes

IEEE 754 floating point numbers distinguish between negative (-0) and positive (+0) zero. The following information is only relevant if you are storing negative zero values in your documents. We expect very few users to be affected by this change.

ReQL compares -0 and +0 as equal in accordance with IEEE 754. In previous versions of RethinkDB, -0 and +0 were however treated as distinct values in primary and secondary indexes. This could lead to inconsistent behavior and wrong query results in some rare cases.

Starting with RethinkDB 2.0, -0 and +0 are indexed as equal values. Secondary indexes can be migrated online using the rethinkdb index-rebuild utility. If any of your documents have negative zero values in their primary keys, those documents will become partially inaccessible in RethinkDB 2.0. You will need to re-import the affected tables using the rethinkdb dump and rethinkdb restore commands. See the article "Back up your data" for more information.

If you are unsure if any of your documents are affected, you can run python -m rethinkdb._negative_zero_check after upgrading both the server and Python driver. See the output of python -m rethinkdb._negative_zero_check --help for additional options.

API-breaking changes

• between no longer accepts null bounds. The new r.minval and r.maxval can be used instead

• The any and all commands have been removed. The or and and commands can be used instead

• indexes_of has been renamed to offsets_of

• The squash argument to changes now defaults to false

• The type hierarchy for exception types in the Python driver changed. All exceptions including RqlDriverError now inherit from the RqlError type. RqlRuntimeError, RqlCompileError and RqlClientError additionally inherit from the new RqlQueryError type

New features

• Overall
  • Reached a production-ready state (#1174)
• ReQL
  • Added support for changefeeds on get_all and union queries (#3642)
  • between no longer accepts null as a bound. The new r.minval and r.maxval can be used instead (#1023)
  • Added support for getting the state of a changefeed using the new include_states optarg to changes (#3709)
• Drivers
  • Added support for non-blocking cursor.next (#3529)
  • Added support for executing multiple queries in parallel on a single connection (#3754)
  • Consolidated the return types and use the new ResponseNotes field to convey extra information (#3715)
• Python driver
  • Added an optional script that warns for documents with negative zero in a primary key (#3637)
  • Added an asynchronous API based on Tornado (#2622)
• Ruby driver
  • Added an asynchronous API based on EventMachine (#2622)

Improvements

• Server
  • Report open cursors as a single entry in the jobs table (#3662)
  • Timestamps are no longer sent between servers in batchspec_t (#2671)
  • Some expensive changefeed checks are no longer performed in release mode (#3656)
  • Include the remote port number in the heartbeat timeout message (#2891)
  • Improved the ordering and throttling of reads and writes (#1606)
  • Limit the number of documents per write batch to reduce the impact of large writes on other queries (#3806)
  • Execute multiple queries in parallel on a single connection (#3296)
  • Improved the performance of sending responses (#3744)
  • Immediately send back an empty first batch when the result is a changefeed (#3852)
  • Simplified the multi_throttling infrastructure (#4021)
  • The server now reports handshake errors to client drivers earlier (#4011)
  • Set TCP_NODELAY in the Python and Ruby driver to avoid delays in combination with noreply (#3998)
• Web UI
  • Added a configurable limit for the results per page in the Data Explorer (#3910)
  • Added an "add table" button to each database (#3522)
• ReQL
  • table.rebalance with insufficient data is no longer an error (#3679)
  • Renamed indexes_of to offsets_of to avoid confusion with secondary indexes (#3265)
  • Removed any and all in favor of or and and (#1581)
  • Trivial changes are filtered out from return_changes (#3697)
  • Reduced the size of profiles (#3218)
  • Changefeeds are no longer squashed by default (#3904)
• JavaScript driver
  • Added an upper bound to the bluebird dependency (#3823)
• Ruby driver
  • Added a timeout option to r.connect (#1666)
  • Improved the code style (#3900, #3901, #3906)
  • Strings are now allowed as keys in the config options (#3905)
• Build
  • Upgraded to a more recent version of V8 and dropped support for out-of-tree V8 (#3472)
  • Added support for building with Python 3 (#3731)
• Packaging
  • Got rid of the outdated bash completion script (#719)
  • Allow installing RethinkDB in 32-bit OS X on a 64-bit processor (#1595)
• Tests
  • Increased the number of retries in the RDBBtree tests to avoid false positives (#3805)

Bug Fixes

• Server
  • Fixed a race condition that could be caused by concurrent queries (#3766)
  • Deleted servers and tables are no longer counted during version checks (#3692)
  • Made JSON parsing more strict (#3810)
  • Fixed a bug that could cause the server to crash when killed (#3792)
  • Databases can no longer be renamed to "rethinkdb" (#3858)
  • Return an initial value for point changefeeds on system tables (#3723)
  • Improved the handling of negative zero (#3637)
  • Correctly abort order_by.limit changefeeds when a table become unavailable (#3932)
  • Do not unlink files early to avoid crashing in virtual environments (#3791)
  • Fallback to TCP4 when binding sockets (#4000)
  • No longer crash when the data files are in a VirtualBox shared folder (#3791)
• ReQL
  • Fixed the behavior of point changefeeds on system tables (#3944)
  • noreplyWait no longer waits for non-noreply queries (#3812)
  • Initial values for order_by changefeeds are now returned in order (#3993)
  • Reduced the size of profiles when deleting documents (#3218)
• Web UI
  • Fixed a bug that caused the status icon to be green when a table was unavailable (#3500)
  • Fixed a bug that truncated labels in the performance graph (#3751)
  • Correctly handle the escape key in modal dialogs (#3872)
  • Fixed a bug that caused an InternalError when loading large tables (#3873)
  • Fixed a bug that caused the Data Explorer to break when reading older data from localStorage (#3935)
  • Fixed a bug that caused autocompletion to fail in certain cases (#3143)
• Python driver
  • Fixed rethinkdb export compatibility between Python 2 and Python 3 (#3911)
  • Fixed a bug that caused rethinkdb export to hang when certain errors occur (#4005)
• JavaScript driver
  • Fixed a bug that caused cursor.each to fail with an exception (#3826)
  • Fixed a bug that caused connection errors to be discarded (#3733)
  • Fixed a bug that could be triggered by calling close twice (#4017)
  • Fixed a bug in feed.close (#3967)
• Ruby driver
  • Fixed a bug that caused failures when using JRuby (#3795)
  • Signals are now handled correctly (#4029)
  • Fixed a bug in the arity check (#3968)
• Build
  • Fetching Browserify during the build process is now more reliable (#4009)

Contributors

Many thanks to external contributors from the RethinkDB community for helping us ship RethinkDB 2.0. In no particular order:

• Andrey Deryabin (@aderyabin)
• Krishna Narasimhan (@krishnanm86)
• Elian Gidoni (@eliangidoni)
• Sherzod Kuchkarov (@tundrax)
• Jason Dobry (@jmdobry)
• Justin Mealey (@justinmealey)
• Jonathan Ong (@jonathanong)
• Andrey Deryabin (@aderyabin)
• Angelo Ashmore (@angeloashmore)
• Bill Barsch (@billbarsch)
• Ed Costello (@epc)
• Ilya Radchenko (@knownasilya)
• Kai Curry (@webmasterkai)
• Loring Dodge (@loringdodge)
• Mike Marcacci (@mike-marcacci)
• Param Aggarwal (@paramaggarwal)
• Tinco Andringa (@tinco)
• Armen Filipetyan (@armenfilipetyan)
• Andrei Horak (@linkyndy)
• Shirow Miura (@sharow)

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Release 1.16.3 (Stand By Me)

Released on 2015-03-26

Bug fix update.

• Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when reading from a secondary index in some rare circumstances (#3976)
• Fixed a bug that could cause a connection to hang indefinitely on OS X (#3954)
• Fixed rethinkdb export compatibility between Python 2 and Python 3 (#3911)
• Heartbeat timeout messages now include the remote port number (#2891)
• Python driver: patched to work in PyPy (#3969)
• Python driver: fixed an "Unterminated string" error during rethinkdb restore (#3859)
• JavaScript driver: fixed a bug that caused cursor.each to fail with an exception (#3826)
• JavaScript driver: fixed a bug that caused connection errors to be discarded (#3733)
• Ruby driver: fixed a bug that caused failures when using JRuby (#3795)

Contributors

• Sherzod Kuchkarov (@tundrax)
• Elian Gidoni (@eliangidoni)

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Release 1.16.2 (Stand By Me)

Released on 2015-02-16

Bug fix update.

• Fixed a bug in r.range that caused query failures (#3767)
• Fixed a race condition in the implementation of .order_by.limit.changes (#3765)
• Fixed a build error that caused very slow r.js performance (#3757)
• Removed spurious comma in the Data Explorer (#3730)

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Release 1.16.1 (Stand By Me)

Released on 2015-02-12

Bug fix update.

• Write a message to the log every time a file is deleted (#1780)
• Fixed rethinkdb dump and other backup scripts to correctly detect the server version (#3706)
• Changed the output of rethinkdb dump to clarify that indexes are being saved (#3708)
• Fixed unbounded memory consumption when using the official OS X package or when building with boost 1.56.0 or higher (#3712)
• Fixed the written_docs_total field of rethinkdb.stats (#3713)
• Fixed a bug that caused the web UI to hang when creating or deleting indexes (#3717, #3721)
• Fixed rounding of document counts in the web UI (#3722)
• Fixed a bug that broke the -f flag of rethinkdb import (#3728)
• Fixed a bug that prevented the web UI from loading data properly (#3729)
• Fixed a bug that caused RethinkDB to refuse to link with jemalloc dynamically (#3741)
• Fixed an uncaught exception in the handling of r.js (#3745)

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Release 1.16.0 (Stand By Me)

Released on 2015-01-29

The highlights of this release are:

• A new administration API
• Changefeeds on complex queries
• Numerous improvements and enhancements throughout RethinkDB

Read the release blog post for more details.

Compatibility

Backwards-compatible changes

Data files from RethinkDB versions 1.13.0 onward will be automatically migrated to version 1.16.x. As with any major release, back up your data files before performing the upgrade. If you are upgrading from a release earlier than 1.13.0, follow the migration instructions before upgrading.

Secondary indexes now use a new format; old indexes will continue to work, but you should rebuild indexes after upgrading to 1.16.x. A warning about outdated indexes will be issued on startup.

Indexes can be migrated to the new format with the rethinkdb index-rebuild utility. Consult the troubleshooting document for more information.

The abstraction of datacenters has been replaced by server tags. Existing datacenter assignments will be converted to server tags automatically.

API-breaking changes

The tableCreate, tableDrop, dbCreate and dbDrop terms have a new set of return values. The previous return values created and dropped have been renamed to tables_creates / dbs_created and tables_dropped / dbs_dropped respectively. The terms now additionally return a config_changes field.

Consult the API documentation for these commands for details: tableCreate, tableDrop, dbCreate, dbDrop

Changefeeds on a table now combine multiple changes to the same document into a single notification if they happen rapidly. You can turn this behavior off by passing the squash: false optional argument (see the API documentation for details).

Strings passed to ReQL are now rejected if they are not valid UTF-8. Non UTF-8 conformant data can be stored as binary data instead.

New features

• ReQL admin: a new cluster management and monitoring API (#2169)
  • Added a special system database named rethinkdb
    • The table_config table allows changing a table's configuration (#2870)
    • The server_config table allows listing and managing servers in the cluster (#2873)
    • The db_config table allows listing and renaming databases (#151, #2871)
    • The cluster_config table contains cluster-wide settings (#2924)
    • The table_status table displays each table's availability and replication status (#2983, #3269)
    • The server_status table contains information about the servers in the cluster (#2923, #3270)
    • The current_issues table lists issues affecting the cluster and suggests solutions (#2864, #3258)
    • The jobs table lists running queries and background tasks (#3115)
    • The stats table contains real-time statistics about the server (#2885)
    • The logs table provides access to the server logs (#2884)
    • The identifierFormat optional argument to table switches how databases, tables and servers are referenced in the system tables. Can be either "name" or "uuid" (#3266)
    • Added hidden debug tables (_debug_table_status, _debug_stats). These tables are subject to change and not part of the official administration interface (#2901, #3385)
  • Improved cluster management
    • Servers can now be associated with multiple tags using the --server-tag flag or by updating the server_config table (#2856)
    • Removed the datacenter abstraction and changed the arguments to tableCreate (#2876)
    • Removed the rethinkdb admin command line interface
    • Added a reconfigure command to change the replication and sharding settings of a table (#2932)
    • Added a rebalance command to even out the size of a table's shards (#2981)
    • Added a config command for tables and databases as an alias for the corresponding row in db_config or table_config
    • Added a status command for tables as an alias for the corresponding row in table_status
    • Most of the /ajax endpoints have been removed. Their functionality has been moved to the system tables (#2878, #2879)
    • The stats now contains the number of client connections (#2989)
    • Added more information to the return value of db_create, db_drop, table_create and table_drop (#3001)
    • Changed how durability and write_acks are configured (#3066)
    • The cache size can now be changed at runtime (#3166)
    • Improved the scalability for large table creation and reconfiguration in large clusters (#3198)
    • Added a new UI for table configuration (#3229)
    • Empty tables can now be sharded (#3271, #1679)
• ReQL
  • Added r.range which generates all numbers from a given range (#875)
  • Enforce UTF-8 encoding on input strings (#1181)
  • Added a wait command which waits for a table to be ready (#2259)
  • Added toJsonString which converts a datum into a JSON string (#2513)
  • Turned map into a variadic function for mapping over multiple sequences in parallel (#2574)
  • Added a prefix version of map (#3321)
  • Added an optional squash argument to the changes command, which lets the server combine multiple changes to the same document (defaults to true) (#2726, #3558)
  • min and max now use an index when passed the new index parameter (#2974, #2981)
  • It is now possible to get changefeeds for more types of queries. changes can now be chained onto:
    • Ranges generated with between (#3232)
    • Single documents with get
    • Subsets with filter
    • Sub-documents and modified documents with map and other commands that are stream-polymorphic such as merge
    • Certain reductions such as min and max
    • Top scoring documents with orderBy and limit
    • Combinations of the above, such as between followed by map
• Server
  • Made buffered IO the default, added a --direct-io flag to enable direct IO and deprecated the --no-direct-io flag (#3391)
• Python driver
  • rethinkdb export now exports secondary index information and rethinkdb import re-creates those indexes unless it is given the --no-secondary-indexes flag (#3484)

Improvements

• Web UI
  • The web assets are now compiled into the rethinkdb executable (#1093)
  • getAll queries on secondary indexes are now shown in the performance graph (#2379)
  • Added getField to the autocompletion in the Data Explorer (#2624)
  • Added live updates for changefeeds in the Data Explorer (#2643)
  • Reduced the amount of data transferred to and processed by the browser by the dashboard (#2786)
  • The database view was removed (#3491)
  • Added a secondary index monitor to the dashboard (#3493)
• Server
  • Removed code used to support outdated tests (#1524)
  • Improved implementation of erase range operations (#2034)
  • jemalloc is now used by default instead of tcmalloc, which solves some memory inflation (#2279)
  • Replaced vector clocks with automatic timestamp-based conflict resolution (#2784)
  • No longer complain when stderr can't be flushed (#2790)
  • Replaced uses of the word "machine" to use "server" instead. The old --machine-name flag is now --server-name (#2877, #3254)
  • The server now prints its own name on startup (#2992)
  • Adjusted the formatting of log levels, no longer print info: lines to stderr and added a notice log level (#3040)
  • Added a --no-default-bind option that prevents the server from listening on loopback addresses (#3154)
  • Lower the CPU load of an idle server (#3185)
  • The OS disk cache is now ignored when calculating available memory (#3193)
  • kqueue is now used instead of poll for events on OS X for better performance (#3403)
  • Tables now become available faster and table metadata takes less space on disk (#3463)
  • Queries that perform multiple HTTP requests now share the same cookies (#3469)
  • Made resolving of ties in secondary indexes more consistent (#3550)
  • The server now calls home to RethinkDB HQ to check for newer versions and send anonymized statistics. This can be turned off with the new --no-update-check flag (#3170)
• Testing
  • The ReQL tests can now run in parallel (#2305, #2672)
  • The Ruby driver is now tested against different versions of Ruby (#2526)
  • Relaxing floating point comparison to account for rounding issues (#2912)
  • No longer depend on external HTTP servers (#3047)
  • Switched to using the new cluster management features in the test suite (#3398, #3401)
• ReQL
  • Allow querying the version of the server (#2698)
  • Improved the error message when pseudo-types are used as objects (#2766)
  • The names of types returned by typeOf and info now match (#3059)
  • No longer silently ignore unknown global optional arguments (#2052)
  • Improved handling of socket, protocol and cursor errors (#3207)
  • Added an isOpen method to connections (#2113)
  • info on tables now works when useOutdated is true (#3355)
  • info on tables now includes the table id (#3358)
• Driver protocol
  • Made internal names of commands more consistent (#3147)
  • Added the SUCCESS_ATOM_FEED return type, used when returning changes for a single document (#3389)
• JavaScript driver
  • Upgrade to bluebird 2 (#2973)
• Python driver
  • Added a next method for cursors (#3042)
  • r.expr now accepts any iterable or mapping (#3146)
  • rethinkdb export now avoids traversing each table twice by using an estimated document count (#3483)
• Build
  • Updated code to build with post-Yosemite versions of Xcode (#3219)
  • Fetch Curl 7.40.0 when not using the system-installed one (#3540)
• Packaging
  • Added procps as a dependency in the Debian packages (#3404)
  • Now depend on jemalloc instead of gperftools (#3419)

Bug fixes

• Tests
  • Fixed the TimerTest test (#549)
  • Always use the in-tree driver for testing (#711)
• Server
  • Some startup log messages are now consolidated into a single log entry (#925)
  • Fixed continuation of partially-interrupted vectored I/O (#2665)
  • Fixed an issue in the log file parser (#3694)
• ReQL
  • Changed type of between queries to from TABLE to the more correct TABLE_SLICE (#1728)
• Web UI
  • Use a real fixed width font for backtraces to make them align correctly (#2065)
  • No longer show empty batches when more data is available (#3432)
• Python driver
  • Correctly handle Unicode characters in error messages (#3051)
• JavaScript driver
  • Added support for passing batch configuration arguments to run (#3161)
• Ruby driver
  • Optional arguments can now be passed to order_by (#3221)

Contributors

Many thanks to external contributors from the RethinkDB community for helping us ship RethinkDB 1.16. In no particular order:

• Adam Grandquist (@grandquista)
• Ilya Radchenko (@knownasilya)
• Gianluca Ciccarelli (@sturmer)
• Alexis Okuwa (@wojons)
• Mike Ma (@cosql)
• Patrick Stapleton (@gdi2290)
• Mike Marcacci (@mike-marcacci)
• Andrei Horak (@linkyndy)
• Param Aggarwal (@paramaggarwal)
• Brandon Zylstra (@brandondrew)
• Ed Costello (@epc)
• Alessio Basso (@alexdown)
• Benjamin Goodger (@goodgerster)
• Vinh Quốc Nguyễn (@kureikain)

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Release 1.15.3 (Lawrence of Arabia)

Released on 2015-01-08

Bug fix update.

• Fixed a bug that caused the endpoints of a reversed range to not be correctly included or excluded (#3449)
• Fixed the reverse_iterator implementation for leaf nodes (#3446)
• Fixed a bug that could cause a bad ordering of secondary indexes for rows with different primary key sizes (#3444)
• Fixed a bug that could cause a crash under high load when using changefeeds (#3393)
• Fixed a bug that made it impossible to chain between and distinct (#3346)
• Changed some calls to avoid passing NULL to memcpy (#3317)
• Fixed the installer artwork on OS X Yosemite (#3253)
• Changed the version scheme for the JavaScript driver to avoid mis-use of pre-release numbers (#3281)
• Fixed a bug that could cause rethinkdb import and rethinkdb export to hang (#3458)

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Release 1.15.2 (Lawrence of Arabia)

Released on 2014-11-07

Bug fix update.

• Added packages for Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" (#3237)
• Fixed a bug with memory handling in S2 (#3201)
• Fixed a bug handling paged results in the Data Explorer (#3111)
• Fixed a bug that caused a crash on exit if a joined server with an open changefeed crashed (#3038)
• Fixed a bug that caused a crash when unsharding discarded more rows than expected when batching results (#3264)
• Fixed a bug that could lead to crashes when changefeeds were frequently registered and unregistered (#3205)
• Changed the r.point constructor to be deterministic, allowing it to be used in secondary index functions (#3287)
• Fixed an incompatibility problem between Python 3.4 and the import command (#3259)
• Fixed a buffer alignment issue with object_buffer_t data (#3300)

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Release 1.15.1 (Lawrence of Arabia)

Released on 2014-10-07

Bug fix update.

• Fixed a bug where tables were always created with hard durability, regardless of the durability option (#3128)
• Fixed a bug that caused HTTPS access with r.http to fail under OS X (#3112)
• Fixed a bug in the Python driver that caused pickling/unpickling of time objects to fail (#3024)
• Changed the Data Explorer autocomplete to not override Ctrl+Tab on Firefox (#2959)
• Fixed a bug that caused a crash when a non-directory file was specified as RethinkDB's startup directory (#3036)
• Added native packages for Debian (#3125, #3107)
• Fixed a compilation error on ARM CPUs (#3116)
• Support building with Protobuf 2.6.0 (#3137)

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Release 1.15.0 (Lawrence of Arabia)

Released on 2014-09-23

The highlights of this release are support for geospatial objects and queries, and significant performance upgrades relating to datum serialization (twice as fast for many analytical workloads). Read the release blog post for more details.

Only documents modified after upgrading to 1.15 will receive these performance gains. You may "upgrade" older documents by performing any write that modifies their contents. For example, you could add a dummy field to all the documents in a table and then remove it:

r.table('tablename').update({dummy_field: true})
r.table('tablename').replace(r.row.without('dummy_field'))

There are no API-breaking changes in this release.

New features

• ReQL
  • Added geospatial query and index support (#2571, #2847, #2851, #2854, #2859, #3003, #3011)
  • Added r.uuid for generating unique IDs (#2063)
  • Added a BRACKET term to the query language, to improve the bracket operator in client drivers (#1179)

Improvements

• Server
  • Significantly improved performance of read operations by lazily deserializing data: ~1.15x faster for simple queries, ~2x faster for many analytical queries, and ~50x for count queries (#1915, #2244, #2652)
  • Removed the option for datum_t to be uninitialized (#2985)
  • Improved the performance of zip by replacing the zip_datum_stream_t type with a transformer function (#2654)
  • Clarified error messages when the data in the selection could not be printed (#972)
  • Improved performance of r.match by adding regex caching and a framework for generic query-based caches (#2196)
• Testing
  • Removed unnecessary files from test/common (#2829)
  • Changed all tests to run with --cache-size parameter (#2816)
• Python driver
  • Modified r.row to provide an error message on an attempt to call it like a function (#2960)
• JavaScript driver
  • Errors thrown by the driver now have a stack trace (#3087)

Fixed bugs

• ReQL
  • Fixed a bug for r.literal corner cases (#2710)
  • Improved error message when r.literal is used in an invalid context (#1600)
• Web UI
  • Fixed a bug that caused selection in the query text area to become unresponsive with large queries (#3043)
  • Fixed a bug that caused "more data is available" to be displayed incorrectly in certain cases (#3037)
• Server
  • Fixed a display bug with log entries in the web UI (#2627)
  • Fixed a bug where Makefile miscounted dependencies when ql2.proto was changed (#2965)
  • Fixed a bug where the connection authorization key was improperly encoded (#2952)
  • Fixed an uninitialized variable warning during builds (#2977)
• Testing
  • Fixed various bugs in tests (#2940, #2887, #2844, #2837, #2603, #2793)
• JavaScript driver
  • Fixed a bug in the JavaScript driver that caused backtraces to not print properly (#2793)
• Python driver
  • Replaced or isinstance with a tuple of types (#2968)
  • Removed unused kwarg assignments (#2969)
• Ruby driver
  • Fixed a bug where default_db, host and port were not exposed in the Connection object (#2849)

Contributors

Many thanks to external contributors from the RethinkDB community for helping us ship RethinkDB 1.15. In no particular order:

• Sathyanarayanan Gunasekaran (@gsathya)
• Adam Grandquist (@grandquista)
• Duane Johnson (@canadaduane)
• Colin Mattson(@cmattson)
• Justas Brazauskas (@jutaz)
• Matt Stith (@stith)
• Dmitry Minkovsky (@dminkovsky)

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Release 1.14.1 (Brazil)

Released on 2014-09-09

Bug fix update.

• Fixed a bug that caused rethinkdb index-rebuild to fail with auth keys (#2970)
• Changed rethinkdb export to specify binary_format='raw' to work with binary data correctly (#2964)
• Fixed rethinkdb import to handle Unicode in CSV files (#2963)
• Updated the Valgrind suppressions file to fix false "uninitialized value" warnings (#2961)
• Fixed a bug that caused duplicate perfmons when recreating an index (#2951)
• Fixed a bug that could cause r.http to crash when used with pagination and coerce_to (#2947)
• Improved the printing of binary data in Python and Ruby REPLs (#2942)
• Fixed a bug that could corrupt databases larger than 4GB on 32-bit systems (#2928)
• Fixed permission issues with the web admin interface files (#2927)
• Fixed a bug that caused a crash due to incorrect error handling in profile mode (#2718)
• Fixed a bug that caused a crash when existing servers tried to connect to a new server with an unresolvable hostname (#2708)

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Release 1.14.0 (Brazil)

Released on 2014-08-20

The highlights of this release are:

• Support for storing binary data
• Seamless database migration
• Support for Python 3

Read the release blog post for more details.

Compatibility

Backwards-compatible changes

Data files from RethinkDB versions 1.13.0 onward will be automatically migrated to version 1.14.x. As with any major release, back up your data files before performing the upgrade. If you are upgrading from a release earlier than 1.13.0, follow the migration instructions before upgrading:

Secondary indexes now use a new format; old indexes will continue to work, but you should rebuild indexes after upgrading to 1.14.x. A warning about outdated indexes will be issued on startup.

Indexes can be migrated to the new format with the rethinkdb index-rebuild utility. Consult the troubleshooting document for more information:

API-breaking changes

The return_vals optional argument for insert, delete and update has been changed to return_changes, and works with all write operations (previously, this only worked with single-document writes). The returned object is in a new format that is backwards-incompatible with previous versions. Consult the API documentation for insert, delete, and update for details:

The upsert optional argument to insert has been replaced with conflict and new allowed values of error, replace or update. This is a backwards-incompatible change. Consult the API documentation for more information.

New features

• Server
  • Return old/new values for multi-row write operations (#1382)
  • upsert replaced with conflict argument for insert (#1838)
  • Added binary data type support via binary (#137, #2612, #2931)
  • binary_format="raw" added to run (#2762)
  • Secondary indexes can be renamed with index_rename (#2794)
  • Secondary indexes can be duplicated (#2797)
  • Out of date secondary indexes logged on startup (#2798)
  • r.http can return a binary object (#2806)
• Python driver
  • Added Python 3 support (#2502)
• Data Explorer
  • Support for displaying binary types (#2804, #2865)

Improvements

• Server
  • Server names now default to the hostname of the machine (#236, #2548)
  • distinct is faster and now works on indexes (#1864)
  • Improve secondary index queue handling (#1947)
  • The array limit is now configurable (#2059)
  • Allow initializing an empty directory (#2359)
  • Max number of extprocs raised (#2391, #2584)
  • Argument count errors are prettier (#2568)
  • Better error reporting in r.js (#2748)
  • index_status provides more info (#2791)
• Command line
  • Table names in the CLI are disambiguated (#2360, #2550)
• Python driver
  • Cleanup unneeded files (#2610)
  • Documentation examples are now PEP8 compliant (#2534)
• Testing
  • Polyglot targets for Ruby 1.8, 1.9, 2.0, 2.1 (#773)
  • Multiple versions of Python can be tested simultaneously
• Web UI
  • Added a notification and helpful message for out-of-date secondary indexes (#2799)

Fixed bugs

• Server
  • --runuser and --rungroup set proper permissions when used with rethinkdb create (#1722)
  • Improved behavior and error messages for write acks (#2039)
  • Fix getaddrinfo error handling (#2110)
  • Fix a bug with machine name generation (#2552, #2569)
  • Fix a bug when compiling on GCC 4.7.2 (#2572)
  • Fix memory corruption error (#2589)
  • Fix stream cache error (#2607)
  • Fix linking issue with RE2 (#2685)
  • Miscellaneous build fixes (#2666, #2827)
  • Fix rare conflict bug in cluster config (#2738)
  • Fix variable initialization error (#2741)
  • Fix bug in RPCSemilatticeTest.MetadataExchange (#2758)
  • Changefeeds work on multiple joined servers (#2761)
  • Secondary index functions ignore global optargs (#2767)
  • Secondary indexes sort correctly (#2774, #2789)
  • Fix crashing bug with undefined ordering (#2777)
  • Fix dependency includes in Makefile (#2779)
  • Convert query_params to a map (#2812)
  • Convert header_lines into a map (#2818)
  • Improve robustness with big documents (#2832)
  • Wipe out old secondary index tree when post-constructing (#2925)
  • Preliminary fix for web permission issues on CentOS (#2927)
• ReQL
  • Fix a bug in delete_at (#2696)
  • insert and splice now check array size limit (#2697)
  • Fix error in undocumented batch_conf option (#2709)
• Web UI
  • Improve interval notation for shard boundaries (#2081, #2635)
  • The Data Explorer now remembers the current query on disconnects (#2460)
  • The Data Explorer now hides overflowing text in its popup containers (#2593)
• Testing
  • Miscellaneous testing improvements (#2396, #2583, #2760, #2787, #2788, #2795)
  • Update testing scripts for drivers (#2815)
• Python driver
  • Make all and any behave like and_ and or_ (#2659)
  • Use os.path.splitext to check file extensions (#2681)
• JavaScript driver
  • Return errors rather than throw them (#2852, #2883)

Contributors

Many thanks to external contributors from the RethinkDB community for helping us ship RethinkDB 1.14. In no particular order:

• Sathyanarayanan Gunasekaran (@gsathya)
• James Costian (@jamescostian)
• Ed Rooth (@sym3tri)
• Cole Gleason (@colegleason)
• Mikhail Goncharov (@metaflow)
• Elian Gidoni (@eliangidoni)
• Ivan Fraixedes (@ifraixedes)
• Brett Griffin (@brettgriffin)
• Ed Costello (@epc)
• Juuso Haavisto (@9uuso)
• Nick Verlinde (@npiv)
• Ayman Mackouly (@1N50MN14)
• Adam Grandquist (@grandquista)

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Release 1.13.4 (My Name is Nobody)

Released on 2014-08-14

Bug fix update.

• Resolved several memory leaks (#2899, #2840, #2744)
• Added a --temp-dir option to rethinkdb dump and rethinkdb restore (#2783)
• The batchConf argument to run now works in the JavaScript driver (#2707)
• Fixed the Accept-Encoding header sent by r.http (#2695)
• Improved the performance of inserting large objects from the JavaScript driver (#2641)
• cursor.close now takes a callback in the JavaScript driver (#2591)
• Fixed a bug that caused illegal to destroy fifo_enforcer_sink_t errors (#2264)
• Fixed a bug that caused Assertion failed: [!parent->draining.is_pulsed()] errors (#2811)
• Improved the error message when running into version incompatibilities (#2657)
• Improved the garbage collection for r.js (#2642)

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Release 1.13.3 (My Name is Nobody)

Released on 2014-07-07

Bug fix update.

• Fix a compiler warning: cluster_version may be used uninitialized (#2640)
• Fix code that used std::move twice on the same object (#2638)
• Prepare for live cluster upgrades (#2563)
• Fix a bug that could lead to inconsistent data (#2579)

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Release 1.13.1 (My Name is Nobody)

Released on 2014-06-26

Bug fix update.

• Fixed a bug that caused Assertion failed: [ptr_] errors when shutting down (#2594)
• Fixed a performance issue in the JSON parser (#2585)
• The JavaScript driver no longer buffers change feeds (#2582)
• Fixed a bug that caused Uncaught exception of type "cannot_perform_query_exc_t" errors (#2576)
• No longer crash when a secondary index is named primary (#2575)
• Queries that return null are now handled correctly in the Data Explorer (#2573)
• r.http now properly parses headers when following a redirection (#2556)
• Improved the performance of write operations on sharded tables (#2551)
• Fixed a bug that caused r.js to crash in certain circumstances (#2435)
• Correctly handle EPIPE errors when connecting to an old version of the server (#2422)
• Fixed a bug that caused Could not bind socket errors when using --bind (#2405)
• Fixed a bug that caused Failed to parse as valid uuid errors (#2401)
• Improved the bad magic number error message (#2302)
• default now catches index out of bounds errors on streams (#1922)
• Improved arity error messages in the JavaScript driver (#2449)

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Release 1.13.0 (My Name is Nobody)

Released on 2014-06-13

The highlights of this release are the r.http command for external data access, change feed support via the new changes command, and full support for Node.js promises in the JavaScript driver.

Read the release blog post for more details.

Compatibility

This release is not compatible with data files from earlier releases. If you have data you want to migrate from an older version of RethinkDB, please follow the migration instructions before upgrading:

There are also some backwards incompatible changes in the JavaScript driver.

• The hasNext command for cursors has been removed. next can be used instead.

New features

• ReQL
  • Added r.random for generating random numbers (#865)
  • Made the second argument to slice optional (#2048)
  • eq_join now accepts a function as its first argument, and does not fail if the field doesn't exist (#1764)
  • nth can now return a selection, just like get (#348)
  • Improved the master not available error message (#1811)
  • Switched to the JSON protocol in the Ruby, JavaScript and Python drivers (#2224, #2390)
  • Added the changes command for creating live change feeds (#997)
  • Added r.args to allow specifying a dynamic number of arguments to commands such as get_all (#1854)
  • Added r.http for interfacing with external APIs (#1383)
• Server
  • Added a JSON protocol to replace the protobuf protocol, which is now deprecated (#1868)
  • Added a README describing the structure of the src/ folder (#2301)
  • Switched to manual versioning of the intra-cluster protocol (#2295)
  • Made the serialization format version-aware (#2308, #2353)
  • Improved the error message when running out of disk space (#1945)
• JavaScript driver
  • Added support for promises (using bluebird) (#1395)
  • Removed the hasNext command (#2497)
  • Added the on, once, removeListener and removeAllListeners methods to cursors (#2223)
  • The first argument to r.connect has been made optional (#2273)
• Tests
  • Improved the run-test script and ported it to Python (#2235)
  • Improved the ReQL tests (#1402)
• Build
  • Symbol files are now generated (#2330)
  • Build with debugging symbols by default (#2323)
  • Added a signature to the OS X package (#1565)
  • Dropped support for GCC 4.4 (#1748)
  • Added an explicit dependency on Python 2 in the configure script (#2478)
  • Added a dependency on libcurl (#2400)

Improved performance

• Server
  • Allocate smaller pages in the cache (#2130)
  • Reduce overhead by handling requests locally on the primary if possible (#2083)
  • Adjusted the value of chunk_processing_semaphore (#2392)
  • Improved backfilling on rotational drives (#2393)
  • Metadata is no longer copied when evaluating r.db (#1907)
  • No longer update the stat block when updating secondary indexes (#2431)
  • Block writes are better combined in the cache (#2127)
  • Concurrent garbage collection to improve disk space efficiency (#2457)
• Testing
  • Added automated performance regression tests (#1963)

Fixed bugs

• Server
  • Fixed the threaded coroutine implementation (#2168, #2332)
  • HTTP 500 errors are now accompanied by an error message (#511)
  • Got rid of vestigial memcache support (#803)
  • Made order_by and other sortings be stable (#2155)
  • Cleaned up blob_t code to make it more reliable (#2227)
  • Fixed a bug that caused crashes when dropping secondary indexes under load (#2251)
  • Fixed a bug in the JSON parsing code that caused a crash (#2489)
  • Fixed a bug that could cause segfaults (#2491)
  • Avoid high memory consumption on startup (#2329)
  • Disabled Nagle algorithm for outgoing TCP connections (#2529)
  • Remove some potentially objectionable server names (#2468)
  • Fixed a bug that caused Callstack overflow in a coroutine errors (#2357)
  • Merged upstream fixes to cJSON (#2496)
  • Fixed a bug that could cause a segmentation fault (#2500)
  • Fixed a bug in the serializer garbage byte calculation (#2541)
• ReQL
  • Added the database name to error messages (#2280)
  • No longer report run-time errors as client errors (#1908)
  • Arguments to r.expr are now properly validated (#2384)
  • No longer crash when r.js returns a bad datum (#2409)
  • Fixed handling of global optargs (#2525)
• Ruby driver
  • Ignore close errors when reconnecting (#2276)
  • Fixed conflicts with active support (#2284)
  • Added a missing nesting_depth argument to r.expr (#2408)
  • Modified the driver to work with JRuby (#2296)
  • The driver now prefetches cursor data (#2373)
• JavaScript driver
  • Improved the variable names in error messages (#2461)
• Web UI
  • Fixed a bug that caused JavaScript exceptions (#2503)
  • Fixed the per-server document count (#1836)
  • The database name is now shown on the table page (#2366)
  • Removed the inconsistent green tick next to the secondary index status (#2084)
  • Fixed email highlighting (#2378)
  • Large responses no longer cause the Data Explorer to become unresponsive (#2481)
  • Fixed a bug triggered by clearing the Data Explorer history (#2389)
• Tests
  • Converted the memcache tests to use ReQL (#803)

Contributors

Many thanks to external contributors from the RethinkDB community for helping us ship RethinkDB 1.13. In no particular order:

• Liu Aleaxander (@Aleaxander)
• Nicolas Viennot (@nviennot)
• Elian Gidoni (@eliangidoni)
• Matthew Frazier (@leafstorm)
• Masatoshi Ishida (@Masatoshi)

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Release 1.12.5 (The Wizard of Oz)

Released on 2014-05-21

Bug fix update.

• Fixed a bug that caused Guarantee failed: [!mod_info->deleted.second.empty() && mod_info->added.second.empty()] errors (#2285)
• Fixed the behaviour of order_by following between (#2307)
• Fixed a bug that caused Deserialization of rdb value failed with error archive_result_t::RANGE_ERROR errors (#2399)
• JavaScript driver: reduce no longer accepts the base argument (#2288)
• Python driver: improved the error message when a cursor's connection is closed (#2291)
• Python driver: improved the implementation of cursors (#2364, #2337)

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Release 1.12.4 (The Wizard of Oz)

Released on 2014-04-22

Bug fix update.

• Fixed a bug that caused Assertion failed: [page->is_disk_backed()] errors (#2260)
• Fixed a bug that caused incorrect query results and frequent server crashes under low memory conditions (#2237)

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Release 1.12.3 (The Wizard of Oz)

Released on 2014-04-17

Bug fix update.

• Compilation no longer fails with SEMANTIC_SERIALIZER_CHECK=1 (#2239)
• Identical --join options no longer cause a crash (#2219)
• Fixed a race condition in the Ruby driver (#2194)
• Concurrent backfills are now limited to 4 per peer and 12 total (#2211)
• Failure to fsync a directory is now a warning instead of an error (#2255)
• Packages are now available for Ubuntu 14.04, codename Trusty Tahr (#2101)

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Release 1.12.2 (The Wizard of Oz)

Released on 2014-04-08

Bug fix update.

• Fixed a bug that caused illegal to destroy fifo_enforcer_sink_t errors (#2092)
• Fixed a bug that caused Guarantee failed: [resp != __null] errors (#2214)
• Fixed a bug that caused Segmentation fault errors (#2222)
• Use less memory for common operations (#2164, #2213)
• Ruby 2.1.1 support (#2177)
• Fixed the PageTest unit test (#2187)
• Updated the documentation (#2197)
• Updated the sample config file (#2205)

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Release 1.12.1 (The Wizard of Oz)

Released on 2014-03-27

Bug fix update.

• Fixed crash evicter.cc at line 124: Guarantee failed: [initialized_] (#2182)
• Fixed index_wait which did not always work (#2170, #2179)
• Fixed a segmentation fault (#2178)
• Added a --hard-durability option to import/restore
• Changed the default --cache-size to be more friendly towards machines with less free RAM
• Changed tables to scale their soft durability throttling based on their cache size
• Fixed some build failures (#2183, #2174)
• Fixed the Centos i686 packages (#2176)

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Release 1.12.0 (The Wizard of Oz)

Released on 2014-03-26

The highlights of this release are a simplified map/reduce, an experimental ARM port, and a new caching infrastructure.

Read the release blog post for more details.

Compatibility

This release is not compatible with data files from earlier releases. If you have data you want to migrate from an older version of RethinkDB, please follow the migration instructions before upgrading:

There are also some backwards incompatible changes in ReQL, the query language.

• grouped_map_reduce and group_by were replaced by group
• reduce no longer takes a base argument; use default instead
• table_create no longer takes a cache_size argument
• In JavaScript, the calling convention for run has changed.

New features

• Server
  • Added support for the ARM architecture (#1625)
  • Added per-instance cache quota and removed per-table quotas (#97)
    • Added a --cache-size command line option that sets the cache size in MiB for a single instance
    • Removed the cache_size optional argument for table_create
  • Wrote a new and improved cache (#1642)
  • Added gzip compression to the built-in web server (#1746)
• ReQL
  • merge now accepts functions as an argument (#1345)
  • Added an object command to build objects from dynamic field names (#1857)
  • Removed the optional base argument to reduce (#888)
  • Added a split command to split strings (#1099)
  • Added upcase and downcase commands to change the case of a string (#874)
  • Change how aggregation and grouping is performed (#1096)
    • Removed grouped_map_reduce and groupBy
    • Added group and ungroup
    • Changed the behavior of count, sum and avg and added max and min
• Web UI
  • Display index status and progress bars in the web UI (#1614)

Improved performance

• Server
  • Improved the scalability of meta operations (such as table creation) to allow for more nodes in a cluster (#1648)
  • Changed the CPU sharding factor to 8 for improved multi-core scalability (#1043)
  • Batch sizes now scale better, which speeds up operations like limit (#1786)
  • Tweaked batch sizes to avoid computing unused results (#1962)
  • Improved throttling and LBA garbage collection to avoid stalls in query throughput (#1820)
  • Many optimizations to avoid having the web UI time out when the server is under load (#1183)
  • Improved backfill performance by using batches for sending and inserting data (#1971)
  • Reduced wasteful copies when serializing (#1431)
  • Evaluating queries now yields occasionally to avoid timeouts (#1631)
  • Reduced performance impact of backfilling on other queries (#2071)
• Web UI
  • Improved how the web UI handles large clusters with many tables (#1662)
• Ruby driver
  • Removed inefficient construction-location backtraces (#1843)
• Tests
  • Added automated performance tests (#1806)

Fixed bugs

• Server
  • Improved the code to avoid heartbeat timeout errors when resharding (#1708)
  • Resharding one table no longer makes other tables unavailable (#1751)
  • Improved the blueprint suggester to distribute shards more evenly (#344)
  • Queries from the data explorer are now interruptible (#1888)
  • No longer fail if IPv6 is not available (#1925)
  • Added support for the new v8 scope API (#1510)
  • Coroutine stacks now freed to reduce memory consumption (#1670)
  • Added range get, backfill and secondary index reads to the stats (#660)
  • r.table(...).count() no longer stalls inserts (#1870)
  • Fixed crashes when adding a secondary index (#1621, #1437)
  • Improve the handling of out-of-memory conditions (#2003)
  • Secondary index construction is now reported as a write operation in the stats (#1953)
  • Fixed a crash that occasionally happened during replication (#1389)
  • linux_file_t::set_size no longer makes blocking syscalls (#265)
  • Fixed a crash caught by the unit tests (#1084)
• Command line
  • rethinkdb admin now prints warnings to stderr instead of stdout (#1316)
  • The import and export scripts now display a row count when done (#1659)
  • Added support for log_file and no_direct_io in the init script (#1769, #1892)
  • Do not display a stack trace for regular errors printed by the backup scripts (#2098)
  • rethinkdb export no longer fails when there are no tables (#1904)
  • rethinkdb import no longer tries to parse CSV files as JSON (#2097)
• Web UI
  • No longer display wrong number of rows when a string is returned (#1669)
  • The data explorer now properly closes cursors (#1569)
  • The data explorer now displays empty tables correctly (#1698)
  • Links are now relative so they can be proxied from a subdirectory (#1791)
  • The server time reported by the profiler is now accurate (#1784)
  • Improved the flow for removing dead servers (#1366)
  • No longer lower replicas to 0 if the datacenter is primary (#1834)
  • Now displays consistent availability information (#1756)
  • Fixed a XSS security issue (#2018)
  • Changing the number of acks no longer displays the sharding bar (#2023)
  • The backfilling progress bar doesn't disappear when refreshing the page (#1997)
  • Correctly handle newlines in the data explorer (#2021)
  • Sort the table list in alphabetical order (#1704)
  • Added mouseover text to the query execution time (#1940)
  • The replication status no longer blinks (#2019)
  • Fix inconsistencies in dates caused by DST (#2047)
• Ruby driver
  • Added a missing close method on cursors (#1568)
  • Improved conflict handling (#1814)
  • Use define_method instead of method_missing, which improves compatibility with Sinatra (#1896)
• Python driver
  • Improved the quality of the generated documentation (#1729)
  • Added missing and_ and or_ and a warning for misuse of | and & (#1582)
  • Added support for r.row in eq_join (#1810)
  • Added a detailed error message when brackets are not used properly (#1434)
  • count with an argument now behaves correctly (#1992)
  • Added missing get_field command (#1941)
• JavaScript driver
  • Added support for r.row in eqJoin (#1810)
  • Timeout events on the socket are now handled correctly (#1909)
  • No longer use the deprecated ArrayBuffer API (#1803)
  • Fix backtraces for optional arguments (#1935)
  • Changed the syntax of run (#1890)
  • Exposed the error constructors (#1926)
  • Fixed the string representation of functions (#1919, #1894)
  • Backtrace printing now works correctly for both protobufjs and node-protobuf (#1879)
  • No longer extend Array.prototype (#2112)
• Build
  • ./configure now checks for boost and can fetch it if it is not installed (#1699)
  • The source distribution now includes the v8 source (#1844)
  • Use Python 2 to build v8 (#1873)
  • Improved how the build system fetches and builds external packages, and changed the default to not fetch anything (#1231)

Packaging

• Support for Ubuntu Raring has been dropped (#1924)

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Release 1.11.3 (Breakfast at Tiffany's)

Released on 2014-01-14

Bug fix update.

• Fixed a crash on multiple ctrl-c (#1848)
• Ruby driver: fixed mutable backtraces (#1846)
• Fixed a build failure on older versions of GCC (#1824)
• Added missing durability argument to the Javascript driver (#1821)
• Fixed a crash caused by changing the cluster configuration when there are unresolved issues (#1813)
• Fixed a bug triggered by using order_by followed by count (#1796)
• Tables can now be referenced by full name (e.g. database.table) in rethinkdb admin (#1795)
• Fixed a bug triggered by chaining multiple joins (#1793)
• Fixed a crash occasionally triggered by dropping an index (#1789)
• The init script now fails when given wrong arguments (#1779)
• RethinkDB now refuses to start if it cannot open the log file (#1778)
• Fixed a JavaScript error in the Web UI (#1754)
• Speed up count queries (#1733)
• Fix a bug with thread-local storage that caused a segfault on certain platforms (#1731)
• get of a non-existent document followed by replace now works as documented (#1570)

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Release 1.11.2 (Breakfast at Tiffany's)

Released on 2013-12-06

Bug fix update.

• Fixed a bug caused by suggesting r.ISO8601 in the Data Explorer
• Cursor in the Data Explorer is restored when a command is selected via dropdown
• Fixed a bug where queries returning null in the Data Explorer could not be parsed (#1739)
• Always fsync parent directories to avoid data loss (#1703)
• Fixed IPv6 issues with link-local addresses (#1694)
• Add some support for Python 3 in the build scripts (#1709)

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Release 1.11.1 (Breakfast at Tiffany's)

Released on 2013-12-02

Bug fix update.

• Drivers no longer ignore the timeFormat flag (#1719)
• RethinkDB now correctly sets the ResponseType field in responses to STOP queries (#1715)
• Fixed a bug that caused RethinkDB to crash with a failed guarantee (#1691)

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Release 1.11.0 (Breakfast at Tiffany's)

Released on 2013-11-25

This release introduces a new query profiler, an overhauled streaming infrastructure, and many enhancements that improve ease and robustness of operation.

Read the release blog post for more details.

New Features

• Server
  • Removed anaphoric macros (#806)
  • Changed the array size limit to 100,000 (#971)
  • The server now reads blobs off of disk simultaneously (#1296)
  • Improved the batch replace logic (#1468)
  • Added IPv6 support (#1469)
  • Reduced random disk seeks during write transactions (#1470)
  • Merged writebacks on the serializer level (#1471)
  • Streaming improvements: smarter batch sizes are sent to clients (#1543)
  • Reduced the impact of index creation on realtime performance (#1556)
  • Optimized insert performance (#1559)
  • Added support for sending data back as JSON, improving driver performance (#1571)
  • Backtraces now span coroutine boundaries (#1602)
• Command line
  • Added a progress bar to rethinkdb import and rethinkdb export (#1415)
• ReQL
  • Added query profiling, enabled by passing profile=True to run (#175)
  • Added a sync command that flushes soft writes made on a table (#1046)
  • Made it possible to wait for no-reply writes to complete (#1388)
    • Added a wait command
    • Added an optional argument to close and reconnect
  • Added index_status and index_wait commands (#1562)
• Python driver
  • Added documentation strings (#808)
  • Added streaming and performance improvements (#1371)
  • Changed the installation procedure for using the C++ protobuf implementation (#1394)
  • Improved the streaming logic (#1364)
• JavaScript driver
  • Changed the installation procedure for using the C++ protobuf implementation (#1172)
  • Improved the streaming logic (#1364)
• Packaging
  • Made the version more explicit in the OS X package (#1413)

Fixed Bugs

• Server
  • No longer access perfmon_collection_t after destruction (#1497)
  • Fixed a bug that caused nodes to become unresponsize and added a coroutine profiler (#1516)
  • Made database files compatible between 32-bit and 64-bit versions (#1535)
  • No longer use four times more cache space (#1538)
  • Fix handling of errors in continue queries (#1619)
  • Fixed heartbeat timeout when deleting many tables at once (#1624)
  • Improved signal handling (#1630)
  • Reduced the load caused by using the Web UI on a large cluster (#1660)
• Command line
  • Made rethinkdb export more resilient to low-memory conditions (#1546)
  • Fixed a race condition in rethinkdb import (#1597)
• ReQL
  • Non-indexed order_by queries now return arrays (#1566)
  • Type system now includes selections on both arrays and streams (#1566)
  • Fixed wrong inserted result (#1547)
  • Fixed crash caused by using unusual strings in r.js (#1638)
  • Redefined batched stream semantics (includes a specific fix for the JavaScipt driver as well) (#1544)
  • r.js now works with time values (#1513)
• Python driver
  • Handle interrupted system calls (#1362)
  • Improved the error message when inserting dates with no timezone (#1509)
  • Made RqlTzInfo copyable (#1588)
• JavaScript driver
  • Fixed argument handling (#1555, #1577)
  • Fixed ArrayResult (#1578, #1584)
  • Fixed pretty-printing of limit (#1617)
• Web UI
  • Made it obvious when errors are JavaScript errors or database errors (#1293)
  • Improved the message displayed when there are more than 40 documents (#1307)
  • Fixed date formatting (#1596)
  • Fixed typo (#1668)
• Build
  • Fixed item counts in make (#1443)
  • Bump the fetched version of gperftools (#1594)
  • Fixed how termcap is handled by ./configure (#1622)
  • Generate a better version number when compiling from a shallow clone (#1636)

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Release 1.10.1 (Von Ryan's Express)

Released on 2013-10-23

Bug fix update.

• Server
  • r.js no longer fails when interrupted too early (#1553)
  • Data for some get_all queries is no longer duplicated (#1541)
  • Fixed crash Guarantee failed: [!token_pair->sindex_write_token.has()] (#1380)
  • Fixed crash caused by rapid resharding (#728)
• ReQL
  • pluck in combination with limit now returns a stream when possible (#1502)
• Python driver
  • Fixed undefined variable error in tzname() (#1512)
• Ruby driver
  • Fixed error message when calling unbound function (#1336)
• Packaging
  • Added support for Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy) (#1554)

Release 1.10.0 (Von Ryan's Express)

Released on 2013-09-26

Read the release blog post for more details.

New Features

• Added multi-indexes (#933)
• Added selective history deletion to the Data Explorer (#1297)
• Made filter support the nested object syntax (#1325)
• Added r.not_ to the Python driver (#1329)
• The backup scripts are now installed by the Python driver (#1355)
• Implemented variable-width object length encoding and other improvements to serialization (#1424)
• Lowered the I/O pool threads' stack size (#1425)
• Improved datum integer serialization (#1426)
• Added a thin wrapper struct threadnum_t instead of using raw ints for thread numbers (#1445)
• Re-enabled full perfmon capability (#1474)

Fixed Bugs

• Fixed the output of rethinkdb admin help (#936, #1447)
• make no longer runs ./configure (#979)
• Made the Python code mostly Python 3 compatible (still a work in progress) (#1050)
• The Data Explorer now correctly handles unexpected token errors (#1334)
• Improved the performance of JSON parsing (#1403)
• batched_rget_stream_t no longer uses an out-of-date interruptor (#1411)
• The missing protobuf_implementation variable was added to the JavaScript driver (#1416)
• Improved the error and help messages in the backup scripts (#1417)
• r.json is no longer incorrectly marked as non-deterministic (#1430)
• Fixed the import of rethinkdb_pbcpp in the Python driver (#1438)
• Made some stores go on threads other than just 0 through 3 (#1446)
• Fixed the error message when using groupBy with illegal pattern (#1460)
• default is no longer unprintable in Python (#1476)

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Release 1.9.0 (Kagemusha)

Released on 2013-09-09

Read the release blog post for more details.

Bug fix update.

• Server
  • Fixed a potential crash caused by a coroutine switch in exception handlers (#153)
  • No longer duplicate documents in the secondary indexes (#752)
  • Removed unnecessary conversions between datum_t and cJSON (#1041)
  • No longer load documents from disk for count queries (#1295)
  • Changed extproc code to use datum_t instead of cJSON_t (#1326)
• ReQL
  • Use Buffer instead of ArrayBuffer in the JavaScript driver (#1244)
  • orderBy on an index no longer destroys the preceding between (#1333)
  • Fixed error in the python driver caused by multiple threads using lambdas (#1377)
  • Fixed Unicode handling in the Python driver (#1378)
• Web UI
  • No longer truncate server names (#1313)
• CLI
  • rethinkdb import now works with Python 2.6 (#1349)

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Release 1.8.1 (High Noon)

Released on 2013-08-21

Bug fix update.

• The shard suggester now works with times (#1335)
• The Python backup scripts no longer rely on pip show (#1331)
• rethinkdb help no longer uses a pager (#1315, #1308)
• The web UI now correctly positions SVGRectElement (#1314)
• Fixed a bug that caused a crash when using filter with a non-deterministic value (#1299)

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Release 1.8.0 (High Noon)

Released on 2013-08-14

This release introduces date and time support, a new syntax for querying nested objects and 8x improvement in disk usage.

Read the release blog post for more details.

New Features

• ReQL
  • order_by now accepts a function as an argument and can efficiently sort by index (#159, #1120, #1258)
  • slice and between are now half-open by default (#869)
    • The behaviour can be changed by setting the new optional right_bound argument to closed or by setting left_bound to open
  • contains can now be passed a predicate (#870)
  • merge is now deep by default (#872)
    • Introduced literal to merge flat values
  • coerce_to can now convert strings to numbers (#877)
  • Added support for times (#977)
    • +, -, <, <=, >, >=, == and !=: arithmetic and comparison
    • during: match a time with an interval
    • in_timezone: change the timezone offset
    • date, time_of_day, timezone, year, month, day, weekday, hour, minute and second: accessors
    • time, epoch_time and iso8601: constructors
    • monday to sunday and january to december: constants
    • now: current time
    • to_iso8601, to_epoch_time: conversion
  • Add the nested document syntax to functions other than pluck (#1094)
    • without, group_by, with_fields and has_fields
  • Remove Google Closure from the JavaScript driver (#1194)
    • It now depends on the protobufjs and node-protobuf libraries
• Server
  • Added a --canonical-address HOST[:PORT] command line option for connecting RethinkDB nodes across different networks (#486)
    • Two instances behind proxies can now be configured to connect to each other
  • Optimize space efficiency by allowing smaller block sizes (#939)
  • Added a --no-direct-io startup flag that turns off direct IO (#1051)
  • Rewrote the extproc code, making r.js interuptible and fixing many crashes (#1097, #1106)
  • Added support for V8 >= 3.19 (#1195)
  • Clear blobs when they are unused (#1286)
• Web UI
  • Use relative paths (#1053)
• Build
  • Add support for Emacs' flymake-mode (#1161)

Fixed Bugs

• ReQL
  • Check the type of the callback passed to next and each in the JavaScript driver (#656)
  • Fixed how some backtraces are printed in the JavaScript driver (#973)
  • Coerce the port argument to a number in the Python driver (#1017)
  • Functions that are polymorphic on objects and sequences now only recurse one level deep (#1045)
    • Affects pluck, has_fields, with_fields, etc
  • In the JavaScript driver, no longer fail when requiring the module twice (#1047)
  • r.union now returns a stream when given two streams (#1081)
  • r.db can now be chained with do in the JavaScript driver (#1082)
  • Improve the error message when combining for_each and return_vals (#1104)
  • Fixed a bug causing the JavaScript driver to overflow the stack when given an object with circular references (#1133)
  • Don't leak internal functions in the JavaScript driver (#1164)
  • Fix the qurey printing in the Python driver (#1178)
  • Correctly depend on node >= 0.10 in the JavaScript driver (#1197)
• Server
  • Improved the error message when there is a version mismatch in data files (#521)
  • The --no-http-admin option now disables the check for the web assets folder (#1092)
  • No longer compile JavaScript expressions once per row (#1105)
  • Fixed a crash in the 32-bit version caused by not using 64-bit file offsets (#1129)
  • Fixed a crash caused by malformed json documents (#1132)
  • Fixed a crash caused by moving func_t betweek threads (#1157)
  • Improved the scheduling the coroutines that sometimes caused heartbeat timeouts (#1169)
  • Fixed conflict_resolving_diskmgr_t to suport files over 1TB (#1170)
  • Fixed a crash caused by disconnecting too fast (#1182)
  • Fixed the error message when js_runner_t::call times out (#1218)
  • Fixed a crash caused by serializing unintitialised values (#1219)
  • Fixed a bug that caused an assertion failure in protob_server_t (#1220)
  • Fixed a bug causing too many file descriptors to be open (#1225)
  • Fixed memory leaks reported by valgrind (#1233)
  • Fixed a crash triggered by the BTreeSindex test (#1237)
  • Fixed some problems with import performance, interruption, parsing, and error reporting (#1252)
  • RethinkDB proxy no longer crashes when interacting with the Web UI (#1276)
• Tests
  • Fixed the connectivity tests for OS X (#613)
  • Fix the python connection tests (#1110)
• Web UI
  • Provide a less scary error message when a request times out (#1074)
  • Provide proper suggestions in the presence of comments in the Data Explorer (#1214)
  • The More data link in the data explorer now works consistently (#1222)
• Documentation
  • Improved the documentaiton for update and pluck (#1141)
• Build
  • Fixed bugs that caused make to not rebuild certain files or build files it should not (#1162, #1215, #1216, #1229, #1230, #1272)

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Release 1.7.3 (Nights of Cabiria)

Released on 2013-07-19

Bug fix update.

• RethinkDB no longer fails to create the data directory when using --daemon (#1191)

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Release 1.7.2 (Nights of Cabiria)

Released on 2013-07-18

Bug fix update.

• Fixed wire_func_t serialization that caused inserts to fail (#1155)
• Fixed a bug in the JavaScript driver that caused asynchronous connections to fail (#1150)
• Removed nice_crash and nice_guarantee to improve error messages and logging (#1144)
• rethinkdb import now warns when unexpected files are found (#1143)
• rethinkdb import now correctly imports nested objects (#1142)
• Fixed the connection timeout in the JavaScript driver (#1140)
• Fixed r.without (#1139)
• Add a warning to rethinkdb dump about indexes and cluster config (#1137)
• Fixed the debian/rules makefile to properly build the rethinkdb-dbg package (#1130)
• Allow multiple instances with different port offsets in the init script (#1126)
• Fixed make install to not use /dev/stdin (#1125)
• Added missing files to the OS X uninstall script (#1123)
• Fixed the documentation for insert with the returnVals flag in JavaScript (#1122)
• No longer cache index.html in the web UI (#1117)
• The init script now waits for rethinkdb to stop before restarting (#1115)
• rethinkdb porcelain now removes the new directory if it fails (#1070)
• Added cooperative locking to the rethinkdb data directory to detect conflicts earlier (#1109)
• Improved the comments in the sample configuration file (#1078)
• Config file parsing now allows options that apply to other modes of rethinkdb (#1077)
• The init script now creates folders with the correct permissions (#1069)
• Client drivers now time out if the connection handshake takes too long (#1033)

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Release 1.7.1 (Nights of Cabiria)

Released on 2013-07-04

Bug fix update.

• Fixed a bug causing rethinkdb import to crash on single files
• Added options to rethinkdb import for custom CSV separators and no headers (#1112)

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Release 1.7.0 (Nights of Cabiria)

Released on 2013-07-03

This release introduces hot backup, atomic set and get operations, significant insert performance improvements, nested document syntax, and native binaries for CentOS / RHEL.

Read the release blog post for more details.

New Features

• ReQL
  • Added r.json for parsing JSON strings server-side (#887)
  • Added syntax to pluck to access nested documents (#889)
  • get_all now takes a variable number of arguments (#915)
  • Added atomic set and get operations (#976)
    • update, insert, delete and replace now take an optional return_vals argument that returns the values that have been atomically modified
  • Renamed getattr to get_field and make it polymorphic on arrays (#993)
  • Drivers now use faster protobuf libraries when possible (#1027, #1026, #1025)
  • Drivers now use r.json to improve the performance of inserts (#1085)
  • Improved the behaviour of pluck (#1095)
    • A field with a non-pluckable value is considered absent
• Web UI
  • It is now possible to resolve auth_key conflicts via the web UI (#1028)
  • The web UI now uses relative paths (#1053)
• Server
  • Flushes to disk less often to improve performance without affecting durability (#520)
• CLI
  • Import and export JSON and CSV files (#193)
    • Four new subcommands: rethinkdb import, rethinkdb export, rethinkdb dump and rethinkdb restore
  • rethinkdb admin no longer requires the --join option (#1052)
    • It now connects to localhost:29015 by default
• Documentation
  • Documented durability settings correctly (#1008)
  • Improved instructions for migration (#1013)
  • Documented the allowed character names for tables (#1039)
• Packaging
  • RPMs for CentOS (#268)

Fixed Bugs

• ReQL
  • Fixed the behaviour of between with null and secondary indexes (#1001)
• Web UI
  • Moved to using a patched Bootstrap, Handlebars.js 1.0.0 and LESS 1.4.0 (#954)
  • Fixed bug causing nested arrays to be shown as {...} in the Data Explorer (#1038)
  • Inline comments are now parsed correctly in the Data Explorer (#1060)
  • Properly remove event listeners from the dashboard view (#1044)
• Server
  • Fixed a crash caused by shutting down the server during secondary index creation (#1056)
  • Fixed a potential btree corruption bug (#986)
• Tests
  • ReQL tests no longer leave zombie processes (#1055)

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Release 1.6.1 (Fargo)

Released on 2013-06-19

Critical Security Fixes

• Fixed a buffer overflow in the networking code
• Fixed a possible timing attack on the API key

Other Changes

• In python, r.table_list() no longer throws an error (#1005)
• Fixed compilation failures with clang 3.2 (#1006)
• Fixed compilation failures with gcc 4.4 (#1011)
• Fixed problems with resolving a conflicted auth_key (#1024)

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Release 1.6.0 (Fargo)

Released on 2013-06-13

This release introduces basic access control, regular expression matching, new array operations, random sampling, better error handling, and many bug fixes.

Read the release blog post for more details.

New Features

• ReQL
  • Added access control with a single, common API key (#266)
  • Improved handshake to the client driver protocol (#978)
  • Added sample command for random sampling of sequences (#861, #182)
  • Secondary indexes can be queried with boolean values (#854)
  • Added onFinished callback to each in JavaScript to improve cursors (#443)
  • Added per-command durability settings (#890)
    • Changed hard_durability=True to durability = 'soft' | 'hard'
    • Added a durability option to run
  • Added with_fields command, and pluck no longer throws on missing attributes (#886)
  • Renamed contains to has_fields (#885)
    • has_fields runs on tables, objects, and arrays, and doesn't throw on missing attributes
    • contains now checks if an element is in an array
  • Added default command: replaces missing fields with a default value (#884)
  • Added new array operations (#868, #198, #341)
    • prepend: prepends an element to an array
    • append: appends an element to an array
    • insert_at: inserts an element at the specified index
    • splice_at: splices a list into another list at the specified index
    • delete_at: deletes the element at the specified index
    • change_at: changes the element at the specified index to the specified value
    • + operator: adds two arrays -- returns the ordered union
    • * operator: repeats an array n times
    • difference: removes all instances of specified elements from an array
    • count: returns the number of elements in an array
    • indexes_of: returns positions of elements that match the specified value in an array
    • is_empty: check if an array or table is empty
    • set_insert: adds an element to a set
    • set_intersection: finds the intersection of two sets
    • set_union: returns the union of two sets
    • set_difference: returns the difference of two sets
  • Added match command for regular expression matching (#867)
  • Added keys command that returns the fields of an object (#181)
• Web UI
  • Document fields are now sorted in alphabetical order in the table view (#832)
• CLI
  • Added -v flag as an alias for --version (#839)
  • Added --io-threads flag to allow limiting the amount of concurrent I/O operations (#928)
• Build system
  • Allow building the documentation with Python 3 (#826, #815)
  • Have make build the Ruby and Python drivers (#923)

Fixed Bugs

• Server
  • Fixed a crash caused by resharding during secondary index creation (#852)
  • Fixed style problems: code hygiene (#805)
  • Server code cleanup (#920, #924)
  • Properly check permissions for writing the pid file (#916)
• ReQL
  • Use the correct function name in backtraces (#995)
  • Fixed callback issues in the JavaScript driver (#846)
  • In JavaScript, call the callback when the connection is closed (#758)
  • In JavaScript, GETATTR now checks the argument count (#992)
  • Tweaked the CoffeeScript source to work with older versions of coffee and node (#963)
  • Fixed a typo in the error handling of the JavaScript driver (#961)
  • Fixed performance regression for pluck and without (#947)
  • Make sure callbacks get cleared in the Javascript driver (#942)
  • Improved errors when return is omitted in Javascript (#914)
• Web UI
  • Correctly distinguish case sensitive table names (#822)
  • No longer display some results as { ... } in the table view (#937)
  • Ensured tables are available before listing their indexes (#926)
  • Fixed the autocompletion for opening square brackets (#917)
• Tests
  • Modified the polyglot test framework to catch more possible errors (#724)
  • Polyglot tests can now run in debug mode (#614)
• Build
  • Look for libprotobuf in the correct path (#860, #853)
  • Always fetch and use the same version of Handlebars.js (#821, #819, #958)
  • Check for versions of LESS that are known to work (#956)
  • Removed bitrotted MOCK_CACHE_CHECK option (#804)

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Release 1.5.2 (Le Gras de Ouate)

Released on 2013-05-24

Bug fix update.

Changes

• Fix #844: Compilation error when using ./configure --fetch protobuf resolved
• Fix #840: Using .run in the data explorer gives a more helpful error message
• Fix #817: Fix a crash caused by adding a secondary index while under load
• Fix #831: Some invalid queries no longer cause a crash

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Release 1.5.1 (The Grad You Ate)

Released on 2013-05-16

Bug fix update.

Changes

• Fix a build error
• Fix #816: Table view in the data explorer is no longer broken

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Release 1.5.0 (The Graduate)

Released on 2013-05-16

This release introduces secondary indexes, stability and performance enhancements and many bug fixes.

Read the release blog post for more details.

New Features

• Server
  • #69: Bad JavaScript snippets can no longer hang the server
    • r.js now takes an optional timeout argument
  • #88: Added secondary and compound indexes
  • #165: Backtraces on OS X
  • #207: Added soft durability option
  • #311: Added daemon mode (via --daemon)
  • #423: Allow logging to a specific file (via --log-file)
  • #457: Significant performance improvement for batched inserts
  • #496: Links against libc++ on OS X
  • #672: Replaced environment checkpoints with shared pointers in the ReQL layer, reducing the memory footprint
  • #715: Adds support for noreply writes
• CLI
  • #566: In the admin CLI, ls tables --long now includes a durability column
• Web UI
  • #331: Improved data explorer indentation and brace pairing
  • #355: Checks for new versions of RethinkDB from the admin UI
  • #395: Auto-completes databases and tables names in the data explorer
  • #514: Rewrote and improved the documentation generator
  • #569: Added toggle for Data Explorer brace pairing
  • #572: Changed button styles in the Data Explorer
  • #707: Two step confirmation added to the delete database button
• ReQL
  • #469: Added an info command that provides information on any ReQL value (useful for retreiving the primary key)
  • #604: Allow iterating over result arrays as if they were cursors in the JavaScript client
  • #670: Added a soft durability option to table_create
• Testing
  • #480: Run tests on Travis-CI
  • #517: Improved the integration tests
  • #587: Validate API documentation examples
  • #669: Added color to make test output

Fixed bugs

• Server
  • Fix #403: Serialization of perfmon_result_t is no longer 32-bit/64-bit dependent
  • Fix #505: Reduced memory consumption to avoid failure on read query "tcmalloc: allocation failed"
  • Fix #510: Make bind to 0.0.0.0 be equivalent to all
  • Fix #639: Fixed bug where 100% cpu utilization was reported on OSX
  • Fix #645: Fixed server crash when updating replicas / acks
  • Fix #665: Fixed queries across shards that would trigger Assertion failed: [!br.point_replaces.empty()] in src/rdb_protocol/protocol.cc
  • Fix #750: Resolved intermittent RPCSemilatticeTest.MetadataExchange failure
  • Fix #757: Fixed a crashing bug in the environment checkpointing code
  • Fix #796: Crash when running batched writes to a sharded table in debug mode
• Documentation
  • Fix #387: Documented the command line option --web-static-directory (custom location for web assets)
  • Fix #503: Updated outdated useOutdated documentation
  • Fix #563: Fixed documentation for typeof()
  • Fix #610: Documented optional arguments for table_create: datacenter and cache_size
  • Fix #631: Fixed missing parameters in documentation for reduce
  • Fix #651: Updated comments in protobuf file to reflect current spec
  • Fix #679: Fixed incorrect examples in protobuf spec
  • Fix #691: Fixed faulty example for zip in API documentation
• Web UI
  • Fix #529: Suggestion arrow no longer goes out of bounds
  • Fix #583: Improved Data Explorer suggestions for table
  • Fix #584: Improved Data Explorer suggestion style and content
  • Fix #623: Improved margins on modals
  • Fix #629: Updated buttons and button styles on the Tables View (and throughout the UI)
  • Fix #662: Command key no longer deletes text selection in Data Explorer
  • Fix #725: Improved documentation in the Data Explorer
  • Fix #790: False values in a document no longer show up as blank in the tree view
• ReQL
  • Fix #46: Added top-level tableCreate, tableDrop and tableList to drivers
  • Fix #125: Grouped reductions now return a stream, not an array
  • Fix #370: map after dbList and tableList no longer errors
  • Fix #421: Return values from mutation operations now include all attributes, even if zero (inserted,deleted,skipped,replaced,unchanged,errors)
  • Fix #525: Improved error for groupBy
  • Fix #527: Numbers that can be represented as integers are returned as native integers
  • Fix #603: Check the number of arguments correctly in the JavaScript client
  • Fix #632: Keys of objects are no longer magically converted to strings in the drivers
  • Fix #640: Clients handle system interrupts better
  • Fix #642: Ruby client no longer has a bad error message when queries are run on a closed connection
  • Fix #650: Python driver successfully sends STOP query when the connection is closed
  • Fix #663: Undefined values are handled correctly in JavaScript objects
  • Fix #678: limit no longer automatically converts streams to arrays
  • Fix #689: Python driver no longer hardcodes the default database
  • Fix #704: typeOf is no longer broken in JavaScript driver
  • Fix #730: Ruby driver no longer accepts spurious methods
  • Fix #733: groupBy can now handle both a MAKE_OBJ protobuf and a literal R_OBJECT datum protobuf
  • Fix #767: Server now detects NaN in all cases
  • Fix #777: Ruby driver no longer occasionally truncates messages
  • Fix #779: Server now rejects strings that contain a null byte
  • Fix #789: Style improvements in Ruby driver
  • Fix #799: Python driver handles use_outdated when specified as a global option argument
• Testing
  • Fix #653: make test now works on OS X
• Build
  • Fix #475: Added a workaround to avoid make -j2 segfaulting when building on older versions of make
  • Fix #541: make clean is more aggressive
  • Fix #630: Removed cruft from the RethinkDB source tree
  • Fix #635: Building fails quickly with troublesome versions of coffee-script
  • Fix #694: Improved warnings when building with clang and ccache
  • Fix #717: Fixed ./configure --fetch-protobuf
• Migration
  • Fix #782: Improved speed in migration script

Other

• #508: Removed the JavaScript mock server
• All closed issues between 1.4.5 and 1.5.0

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Release 1.4.5 (Some Like It Hot)

Released on 2013-05-03.

Changes

Bug fix update:

• Increase the TCP accept backlog (#369).

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Release 1.4.4 (Some Like It Hot)

Released on 2013-04-19.

Changes

Bug fix update:

• Improved the documentation
  • Made the output of rethinkdb help and --help consistent (#643)
  • Clarify details about the client protocol (#649)
• Cap the size of data returned from rgets not just the number of values (#597)
  • The limit changed from 4000 rows to 1MiB
• Partial bug fix: Rethinkdb server crashing (#621)
• Fixed bug: Can't insert objects that use 'self' as a key with Python driver (#619)
• Fixed bug: [Web UI] Statistics graphs are not plotted correctly in background tabs (#373)
• Fixed bug: [Web UI] Large JSON Causes Data Explorer to Hang (#536)
• Fixed bug: Import command doesn't import last row if doesn't have end-of-line (#637)
• Fixed bug: [Web UI] Cubism doesn't unbind some listeners (#622)
• Fixed crash: Made global optargs actually propagate to the shards properly (#683)

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Release 1.4.3 (Some Like It Hot)

Released on 2013-04-10.

Changes

Bug fix update:

• Improve the networking code in the Python driver
• Fix a crash triggered by a type error when using concatMap (#568)
• Fix a crash when running rethinkdb proxy --help (#565)
• Fix a bug in the Python driver that caused it to occasionally return None (#564)

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Release 1.4.2 (Some Like It Hot)

Released on 2013-03-30.

Changes

Bug fix update:

• Replace ~ with About in the web UI (#485)
• Add framing documentation to the protobuf spec (#500)
• Fix crashes triggered by .orderBy().skip() and .reduce(r.js()) (#522, #545)
• Replace MB with GB in an error message (#526)
• Remove some semicolons from the protobuf spec (#530)
• Fix the rethinkdb import command (#535)
• Improve handling of very large queries in the data explorer (#536)
• Fix variable shadowing in the javascript driver (#546)

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Release 1.4.1 (Some Like It Hot)

Released on 2013-03-22.

Changes

Bug fix update:

• Python driver fix for TCP streams (#495)
• Web UI fix that reduces the number of AJAX requests (#481)
• JS driver: added useOutdated to r.table() (#502)
• RDB protocol performance fix in release mode.
• Performance fix when using filter with object shortcut syntax.
• Do not abort when the runuser or rungroup options are present (#512)

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Release 1.4.0 (Some Like It Hot)

Relased on 2013-03-18.

Changes

• Improved ReQL wire protocol and client drivers
• New build system
• Data explorer query history

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Release 1.3.2 (Metropolis)

Released on 2013-01-15.

Changes

• Fixed security bug in http server.

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Release 1.3.1 (Metropolis)

Released on 2012-12-20.

Changes

• Fixed OS X crash on ReQL exceptions.

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Release 1.3.0 (Metropolis)

Released on 2012-12-20.

Changes

• Native OS X support.
• 32-bit support.
• Support for legacy systems (e.g. Ubuntu 10.04)

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Release 1.2.8 (Rashomon)

Released on 2012-12-15.

Changes

• Updating data explorer suggestions to account for recent r.row changes.

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Release 1.2.7 (Rashomon)

Released on 2012-12-14.

Changes

• Lots and lots of bug fixes

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Release 1.2.6 (Rashomon)

Released on 2012-11-13.

Changes

• Fixed the version string
• Fixed 'crashing after crashed'
• Fixed json docs

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Release 1.2.5 (Rashomon)

Released on 2012-11-11.

Changes

• Checking for a null ifaattrs

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Release 1.2.4 (Rashomon)

Released on 2012-11-11.

Changes

• Local interface lookup is now more robust.

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Release 1.2.3 (Rashomon)

Released on 2012-11-09.

Changes

• Fixes a bug in the query engine that causes large range queries to return incorrect results.

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Release 1.2.0 (Rashomon)

Released on 2012-11-09.

Changes

This is the first release of the product. It includes:

• JSON data model and immediate consistency support
• Distributed joins, subqueries, aggregation, atomic updates
• Hadoop-style map/reduce
• Friendly web and command-line administration tools
• Takes care of machine failures and network interrupts
• Multi-datacenter replication and failover
• Sharding and replication to multiple nodes
• Queries are automatically parallelized and distributed
• Lock-free operation via MVCC concurrency

Limitations

There are a number of technical limitations that aren't baked into the architecture, but were not resolved in this release due to time pressure. They will be resolved in subsequent releases.

• Write requests have minimal batching in memory and are flushed to disk on every write. This significantly limits write performance, expecially on rotational disks.
• Range commands currently don't use an index.
• The clustering system has a bottleneck in cluster metadata propagation. Cluster management slows down significantly when more than sixteen shards are used.