7 * Applied core patch 32299 - Re-apply change #30562
9 * Applied core patch 32208
11 * Applied core patch 32884 - use MM->parse_version() in Makefile.PL
13 * Applied core patch 32883 - Silence new warning grep in void context warning
15 * Applied core patch 32704 to remove use of PL_na in typemap
17 * Applied core patch 30562 to fix a build issue on OSF
21 * Clarified the warning about building with a different version of
22 Berkeley DB that is used at runtime.
24 * Also made the boot version check less strict.
29 * A few casting cleanups for building with C++ from Steve Peters.
31 * Fixed problem with recno which happened if you changed directory after
32 opening the database. Problem reported by Andrew Pam.
35 1.814 11 November 2005
37 * Fix from Dominic Dunlop to tidy up an OS-X specific warning in
40 * Silenced a warning about $DB_File::Error only being used once.
41 Issue spotted by Dominic Dunlop.
43 1.813 31st October 2005
45 * Updates for Berkeley DB 4.4
47 1.812 9th October 2005
49 * Added libscan to Makefile.PL
51 * Fixed test failing under windows
55 * Fixed DBM filter bug in seq
59 * Fixed db-hash.t for Cygwin
61 * Added substr tests to db-hast.t
63 * Documented AIX build problem in README.
67 * Merged core patch 22258
69 * Merged core patch 22741
71 * Fixed core bug 30237.
72 Using substr to pass parameters to the low-level Berkeley DB interface
73 causes problems with Perl 5.8.1 or better.
74 typemap fix supplied by Marcus Holland-Moritz.
76 1.808 22nd December 2003
78 * Added extra DBM Filter tests.
80 * Fixed a memory leak in ParseOpenInfo, which whould occur if the
81 opening of the database failed. Leak spotted by Adrian Enache.
83 1.807 1st November 2003
85 * Fixed minor typos on pod documetation - reported by Jeremy Mates &
88 * dbinfo updated to report when a database is encrypted.
90 1.806 22nd October 2002
92 * Fixed problem when trying to build with a multi-threaded perl.
94 * Tidied up the recursion detetion code.
96 * merged core patch 17844 - missing dTHX declarations.
98 * merged core patch 17838
100 1.805 1st September 2002
102 * Added support to allow DB_File to build with Berkeley DB 4.1.X
104 * Tightened up the test harness to test that calls to untie don't generate
105 the "untie attempted while %d inner references still exist" warning.
107 * added code to guard against calling the callbacks (compare,hash & prefix)
110 * pasing undef for the flags and/or mode when opening a database could cause
111 a "Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry" warning. Now silenced.
113 * DBM filter code beefed up to cope with read-only $_.
117 * Perl core patch 14939 added a new warning to "splice". This broke the
118 db-recno test harness. Fixed.
120 * merged core patches 16502 & 16540.
124 * Fixed a problem with db-btree.t where it complained about an "our"
125 variable redeclaation.
127 * FETCH, STORE & DELETE don't map the flags parameter into the
128 equivalent Berkeley DB function anymore.
130 1.802 6th January 2002
132 * The message about some test failing in db-recno.t had the wrong test
135 * merged core patch 13942.
137 1.801 26th November 2001
139 * Fixed typo in Makefile.PL
141 * Added "clean" attribute to Makefile.PL
143 1.800 23rd November 2001
145 * use pport.h for perl backward compatability code.
147 * use new ExtUtils::Constant module to generate XS constants.
149 * upgrade Makefile.PL upgrade/downgrade code to toggle "our" with
152 1.79 22nd October 2001
154 * Added a "local $SIG{__DIE__}" inside the eval that checks for
155 the presence of XSLoader s suggested by Andrew Hryckowin.
157 * merged core patch 12277.
159 * Changed NEXTKEY to not initialise the input key. It isn't used anyway.
161 1.79 22nd October 2001
163 * Fixed test harness for cygwin
167 * the test in Makefile.PL for AIX used -plthreads. Should have been
170 * merged Core patches
171 10372, 10335, 10372, 10534, 10549, 10643, 11051, 11194, 11432
173 * added documentation patch regarding duplicate keys from Andrew Johnson
178 * AIX is reported to need -lpthreads, so Makefile.PL now checks for
179 AIX and adds it to the link options.
181 * Minor documentation updates.
183 * Merged Core patch 9176
185 * Added a patch from Edward Avis that adds support for splice with
188 * Modified Makefile.PL to only enable the warnings pragma if using perl
191 1.76 15th January 2001
193 * Added instructions for using LD_PRELOAD to get Berkeley DB 2.x to work
194 with DB_File on Linux. Thanks to Norbert Bollow for sending details of
198 1.75 17th December 2000
200 * Fixed perl core patch 7703
202 * Added suppport to allow DB_File to be built with Berkeley DB 3.2 --
203 btree_compare, btree_prefix and hash_cb needed to be changed.
205 * Updated dbinfo to support Berkeley DB 3.2 file format changes.
208 1.74 10th December 2000
210 * A "close" call in DB_File.xs needed parenthesised to stop win32 from
211 thinking it was one of its macros.
213 * Updated dbinfo to support Berkeley DB 3.1 file format changes.
215 * DB_File.pm & the test hasness now use the warnings pragma (when
218 * Included Perl core patch 7703 -- size argument for hash_cb is different
221 * Included Perl core patch 7801 -- Give __getBerkeleyDBInfo the ANSI C
224 * @a = () produced the warning 'Argument "" isn't numeric in entersub'
225 This has been fixed. Thanks to Edward Avis for spotting this bug.
227 * Added note about building under Linux. Included patches.
229 * Included Perl core patch 8068 -- fix for bug 20001013.009
230 When run with warnings enabled "$hash{XX} = undef " produced an
231 "Uninitialized value" warning. This has been fixed.
235 * Added support in version.c for building with threaded Perl.
237 * Berkeley DB 3.1 has reenabled support for null keys. The test
238 harness has been updated to reflect this.
240 1.72 16th January 2000
244 * The module will now use XSLoader when it is available. When it
245 isn't it will use DynaLoader.
247 * The locking section in DB_File.pm has been discredited. Many thanks
248 to David Harris for spotting the underlying problem, contributing
249 the updates to the documentation and writing DB_File::Lock (available
252 1.71 7th September 1999
254 * Fixed a bug that prevented 1.70 from compiling under win32
256 * Updated to support Berkeley DB 3.x
258 * Updated dbinfo for Berkeley DB 3.x file formats.
262 * Initialise $DB_File::db_ver and $DB_File::db_version with
263 GV_ADD|GV_ADDMULT -- bug spotted by Nick Ing-Simmons.
265 * Added a BOOT check to test for equivalent versions of db.h &
270 * fixed a bug in push -- DB_APPEND wasn't working properly.
272 * Fixed the R_SETCURSOR bug introduced in 1.68
274 * Added a new Perl variable $DB_File::db_ver
278 * Merged changes from 5.005_58
280 * Fixed a bug in R_IBEFORE & R_IAFTER procesing in Berkeley DB
283 * Added some of the examples in the POD into the test harness.
287 * Added DBM Filter documentation to DB_File.pm
289 * Fixed DBM Filter code to work with 5.004
291 * A few instances of newSVpvn were used in 1.66. This isn't available in
292 Perl 5.004_04 or earlier. Replaced with newSVpv.
296 * Added DBM Filter code
300 * Fixed a bug in the recno PUSH logic.
301 * The BOOT version check now needs 2.3.4 when using Berkeley DB version 2
303 1.64 21st February 1999
305 * Tidied the 1.x to 2.x flag mapping code.
306 * Added a patch from Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl> to fix a flag
307 mapping problem with O_RDONLY on the Hurd
308 * Updated the message that db-recno.t prints when tests 51, 53 or 55 fail.
310 1.63 19th December 1998
312 * Fix to allow DB 2.6.x to build with DB_File
313 * Documentation updated to use push,pop etc in the RECNO example &
314 to include the find_dup & del_dup methods.
316 1.62 30th November 1998
318 Added hints/dynixptx.pl.
319 Fixed typemap -- 1.61 used PL_na instead of na
321 1.61 19th November 1998
323 Added a note to README about how to build Berkeley DB 2.x when
325 Minor modifications to get the module to build with DB 2.5.x
326 Fixed a typo in the definition of O_RDONLY, courtesy of Mark Kettenis.
329 Changed the test to check for full tied array support
332 Updated the license section.
334 Berkeley DB 2.4.10 disallows zero length keys. Tests 32 & 42 in
335 db-btree.t and test 27 in db-hash.t failed because of this change.
336 Those tests have been zapped.
338 Added dbinfo to the distribution.
341 Tied Array support was enhanced in Perl 5.004_57. DB_File now
342 supports PUSH,POP,SHIFT,UNSHIFT & STORESIZE.
344 Fixed a problem with the use of sv_setpvn. When the size is
345 specified as 0, it does a strlen on the data. This was ok for DB
346 1.x, but isn't for DB 2.x.
349 If Perl has been compiled with Threads support,the symbol op will be
350 defined. This clashes with a field name in db.h, so it needs to be
351 #undef'ed before db.h is included.
354 Documented the Solaris 2.5 mutex bug
361 Fixed a small bug in the test harness when run under win32
362 The emulation of fd when useing DB 2.x was busted.
366 Added DB_RENUMBER to flags for recno.
370 Patch from Nick Ing-Simmons now allows DB_File to build on NT.
375 Fixed the test harness so that it doesn't expect DB_File to have
376 been installed by the main Perl build.
379 Fixed a bug in mapping 1.x O_RDONLY flag to 2.x DB_RDONLY equivalent
383 DB_File can now build with either DB 1.x or 2.x, but not both at
388 A harmless looking tab was causing Makefile.PL to fail on AIX 3.2.5
390 Small fix for the AIX strict C compiler XLC which doesn't like
391 __attribute__ being defined via proto.h and redefined via db.h. Fix
392 courtesy of Jarkko Hietaniemi.
396 Patch from Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no> to suppress "use of undefined
397 value" warning with db_get and db_seq.
399 Patch from Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no> to make DB_File export only the
400 O_* constants from Fcntl.
402 Removed the DESTROY method from the DB_File::HASHINFO module.
404 Previously DB_File hard-wired the class name of any object that it
405 created to "DB_File". This makes sub-classing difficult. Now
406 DB_File creats objects in the namespace of the package it has been
412 Made it illegal to tie an associative array to a RECNO database and
413 an ordinary array to a HASH or BTREE database.
417 Minor changes to DB_FIle.xs and DB_File.pm
421 Documented the incompatibility with version 2 of Berkeley DB.
425 Documented the untie gotcha.
429 Fixed fd method so that it still returns -1 for in-memory files
430 when db 1.86 is used.
434 Minor bug fix in DB_File::HASHINFO, DB_File::RECNOINFO and
437 Changed default mode to 0666.
441 Documented operation of bval.
445 Fixed bug with RECNO, where bval wasn't defaulting to "\n".
449 Minor namespace cleanup: Localized PrintBtree.
453 Made all scripts in the documentation strict and -w clean.
455 Added logic to DB_File.xs to allow the module to be built after
460 Minor documentation changes.
462 Fixed a bug in hash_cb. Patches supplied by Dave Hammen,
463 <hammen@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.govt>.
465 Fixed a bug with the constructors for DB_File::HASHINFO,
466 DB_File::BTREEINFO and DB_File::RECNOINFO. Also tidied up the
467 constructors to make them -w clean.
469 Reworked part of the test harness to be more locale friendly.
473 Documentation update.
475 DB_File now imports the constants (O_RDWR, O_CREAT etc.) from Fcntl
478 The standard hash function exists is now supported.
480 Modified the behavior of get_dup. When it returns an associative
481 array, the value is the count of the number of matching BTREE
486 Merged OS/2 specific code into DB_File.xs
488 Removed some redundant code in DB_File.xs.
490 Documentation update.
492 Allow negative subscripts with RECNO interface.
494 Changed the default flags from O_RDWR to O_CREAT|O_RDWR.
496 The example code which showed how to lock a database needed a call
497 to sync added. Without it the resultant database file was empty.
499 Added get_dup method.
503 Fixed a core dump problem with SunOS.
505 The return value from TIEHASH wasn't set to NULL when dbopen
510 DB_File has been in use for over a year. To reflect that, the
511 version number has been incremented to 1.0.
513 Added complete support for multiple concurrent callbacks.
515 Using the push method on an empty list didn't work properly. This
520 Added prototype support for multiple btree compare callbacks.
524 When DB_File is opening a database file it no longer terminates the
525 process if dbopen returned an error. This allows file protection
526 errors to be caught at run time. Thanks to Judith Grass
527 <grass@cybercash.com> for spotting the bug.