5 * Clarified the warning about building with a different version of
6 Berkeley DB that is used at runtime.
7 * Also made the boot version check less strict.
12 * A few casting cleanups for building with C++ from Steve Peters.
14 * Fixed problem with recno which happened if you changed directory after
15 opening the database. Problem reported by Andrew Pam.
18 1.814 11 November 2005
20 * Fix from Dominic Dunlop to tidy up an OS-X specific warning in
23 * Silenced a warning about $DB_File::Error only being used once.
24 Issue spotted by Dominic Dunlop.
26 1.813 31st October 2005
28 * Updates for Berkeley DB 4.4
30 1.812 9th October 2005
32 * Added libscan to Makefile.PL
34 * Fixed test failing under windows
38 * Fixed DBM filter bug in seq
42 * Fixed db-hash.t for Cygwin
44 * Added substr tests to db-hast.t
46 * Documented AIX build problem in README.
50 * Merged core patch 22258
52 * Merged core patch 22741
54 * Fixed core bug 30237.
55 Using substr to pass parameters to the low-level Berkeley DB interface
56 causes problems with Perl 5.8.1 or better.
57 typemap fix supplied by Marcus Holland-Moritz.
59 1.808 22nd December 2003
61 * Added extra DBM Filter tests.
63 * Fixed a memory leak in ParseOpenInfo, which whould occur if the
64 opening of the database failed. Leak spotted by Adrian Enache.
66 1.807 1st November 2003
68 * Fixed minor typos on pod documetation - reported by Jeremy Mates &
71 * dbinfo updated to report when a database is encrypted.
73 1.806 22nd October 2002
75 * Fixed problem when trying to build with a multi-threaded perl.
77 * Tidied up the recursion detetion code.
79 * merged core patch 17844 - missing dTHX declarations.
81 * merged core patch 17838
83 1.805 1st September 2002
85 * Added support to allow DB_File to build with Berkeley DB 4.1.X
87 * Tightened up the test harness to test that calls to untie don't generate
88 the "untie attempted while %d inner references still exist" warning.
90 * added code to guard against calling the callbacks (compare,hash & prefix)
93 * pasing undef for the flags and/or mode when opening a database could cause
94 a "Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry" warning. Now silenced.
96 * DBM filter code beefed up to cope with read-only $_.
100 * Perl core patch 14939 added a new warning to "splice". This broke the
101 db-recno test harness. Fixed.
103 * merged core patches 16502 & 16540.
107 * Fixed a problem with db-btree.t where it complained about an "our"
108 variable redeclaation.
110 * FETCH, STORE & DELETE don't map the flags parameter into the
111 equivalent Berkeley DB function anymore.
113 1.802 6th January 2002
115 * The message about some test failing in db-recno.t had the wrong test
118 * merged core patch 13942.
120 1.801 26th November 2001
122 * Fixed typo in Makefile.PL
124 * Added "clean" attribute to Makefile.PL
126 1.800 23rd November 2001
128 * use pport.h for perl backward compatability code.
130 * use new ExtUtils::Constant module to generate XS constants.
132 * upgrade Makefile.PL upgrade/downgrade code to toggle "our" with
135 1.79 22nd October 2001
137 * Added a "local $SIG{__DIE__}" inside the eval that checks for
138 the presence of XSLoader s suggested by Andrew Hryckowin.
140 * merged core patch 12277.
142 * Changed NEXTKEY to not initialise the input key. It isn't used anyway.
144 1.79 22nd October 2001
146 * Fixed test harness for cygwin
150 * the test in Makefile.PL for AIX used -plthreads. Should have been
153 * merged Core patches
154 10372, 10335, 10372, 10534, 10549, 10643, 11051, 11194, 11432
156 * added documentation patch regarding duplicate keys from Andrew Johnson
161 * AIX is reported to need -lpthreads, so Makefile.PL now checks for
162 AIX and adds it to the link options.
164 * Minor documentation updates.
166 * Merged Core patch 9176
168 * Added a patch from Edward Avis that adds support for splice with
171 * Modified Makefile.PL to only enable the warnings pragma if using perl
174 1.76 15th January 2001
176 * Added instructions for using LD_PRELOAD to get Berkeley DB 2.x to work
177 with DB_File on Linux. Thanks to Norbert Bollow for sending details of
181 1.75 17th December 2000
183 * Fixed perl core patch 7703
185 * Added suppport to allow DB_File to be built with Berkeley DB 3.2 --
186 btree_compare, btree_prefix and hash_cb needed to be changed.
188 * Updated dbinfo to support Berkeley DB 3.2 file format changes.
191 1.74 10th December 2000
193 * A "close" call in DB_File.xs needed parenthesised to stop win32 from
194 thinking it was one of its macros.
196 * Updated dbinfo to support Berkeley DB 3.1 file format changes.
198 * DB_File.pm & the test hasness now use the warnings pragma (when
201 * Included Perl core patch 7703 -- size argument for hash_cb is different
204 * Included Perl core patch 7801 -- Give __getBerkeleyDBInfo the ANSI C
207 * @a = () produced the warning 'Argument "" isn't numeric in entersub'
208 This has been fixed. Thanks to Edward Avis for spotting this bug.
210 * Added note about building under Linux. Included patches.
212 * Included Perl core patch 8068 -- fix for bug 20001013.009
213 When run with warnings enabled "$hash{XX} = undef " produced an
214 "Uninitialized value" warning. This has been fixed.
218 * Added support in version.c for building with threaded Perl.
220 * Berkeley DB 3.1 has reenabled support for null keys. The test
221 harness has been updated to reflect this.
223 1.72 16th January 2000
227 * The module will now use XSLoader when it is available. When it
228 isn't it will use DynaLoader.
230 * The locking section in DB_File.pm has been discredited. Many thanks
231 to David Harris for spotting the underlying problem, contributing
232 the updates to the documentation and writing DB_File::Lock (available
235 1.71 7th September 1999
237 * Fixed a bug that prevented 1.70 from compiling under win32
239 * Updated to support Berkeley DB 3.x
241 * Updated dbinfo for Berkeley DB 3.x file formats.
245 * Initialise $DB_File::db_ver and $DB_File::db_version with
246 GV_ADD|GV_ADDMULT -- bug spotted by Nick Ing-Simmons.
248 * Added a BOOT check to test for equivalent versions of db.h &
253 * fixed a bug in push -- DB_APPEND wasn't working properly.
255 * Fixed the R_SETCURSOR bug introduced in 1.68
257 * Added a new Perl variable $DB_File::db_ver
261 * Merged changes from 5.005_58
263 * Fixed a bug in R_IBEFORE & R_IAFTER procesing in Berkeley DB
266 * Added some of the examples in the POD into the test harness.
270 * Added DBM Filter documentation to DB_File.pm
272 * Fixed DBM Filter code to work with 5.004
274 * A few instances of newSVpvn were used in 1.66. This isn't available in
275 Perl 5.004_04 or earlier. Replaced with newSVpv.
279 * Added DBM Filter code
283 * Fixed a bug in the recno PUSH logic.
284 * The BOOT version check now needs 2.3.4 when using Berkeley DB version 2
286 1.64 21st February 1999
288 * Tidied the 1.x to 2.x flag mapping code.
289 * Added a patch from Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl> to fix a flag
290 mapping problem with O_RDONLY on the Hurd
291 * Updated the message that db-recno.t prints when tests 51, 53 or 55 fail.
293 1.63 19th December 1998
295 * Fix to allow DB 2.6.x to build with DB_File
296 * Documentation updated to use push,pop etc in the RECNO example &
297 to include the find_dup & del_dup methods.
299 1.62 30th November 1998
301 Added hints/dynixptx.pl.
302 Fixed typemap -- 1.61 used PL_na instead of na
304 1.61 19th November 1998
306 Added a note to README about how to build Berkeley DB 2.x when
308 Minor modifications to get the module to build with DB 2.5.x
309 Fixed a typo in the definition of O_RDONLY, courtesy of Mark Kettenis.
312 Changed the test to check for full tied array support
315 Updated the license section.
317 Berkeley DB 2.4.10 disallows zero length keys. Tests 32 & 42 in
318 db-btree.t and test 27 in db-hash.t failed because of this change.
319 Those tests have been zapped.
321 Added dbinfo to the distribution.
324 Tied Array support was enhanced in Perl 5.004_57. DB_File now
325 supports PUSH,POP,SHIFT,UNSHIFT & STORESIZE.
327 Fixed a problem with the use of sv_setpvn. When the size is
328 specified as 0, it does a strlen on the data. This was ok for DB
329 1.x, but isn't for DB 2.x.
332 If Perl has been compiled with Threads support,the symbol op will be
333 defined. This clashes with a field name in db.h, so it needs to be
334 #undef'ed before db.h is included.
337 Documented the Solaris 2.5 mutex bug
344 Fixed a small bug in the test harness when run under win32
345 The emulation of fd when useing DB 2.x was busted.
349 Added DB_RENUMBER to flags for recno.
353 Patch from Nick Ing-Simmons now allows DB_File to build on NT.
358 Fixed the test harness so that it doesn't expect DB_File to have
359 been installed by the main Perl build.
362 Fixed a bug in mapping 1.x O_RDONLY flag to 2.x DB_RDONLY equivalent
366 DB_File can now build with either DB 1.x or 2.x, but not both at
371 A harmless looking tab was causing Makefile.PL to fail on AIX 3.2.5
373 Small fix for the AIX strict C compiler XLC which doesn't like
374 __attribute__ being defined via proto.h and redefined via db.h. Fix
375 courtesy of Jarkko Hietaniemi.
379 Patch from Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no> to suppress "use of undefined
380 value" warning with db_get and db_seq.
382 Patch from Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no> to make DB_File export only the
383 O_* constants from Fcntl.
385 Removed the DESTROY method from the DB_File::HASHINFO module.
387 Previously DB_File hard-wired the class name of any object that it
388 created to "DB_File". This makes sub-classing difficult. Now
389 DB_File creats objects in the namespace of the package it has been
395 Made it illegal to tie an associative array to a RECNO database and
396 an ordinary array to a HASH or BTREE database.
400 Minor changes to DB_FIle.xs and DB_File.pm
404 Documented the incompatibility with version 2 of Berkeley DB.
408 Documented the untie gotcha.
412 Fixed fd method so that it still returns -1 for in-memory files
413 when db 1.86 is used.
417 Minor bug fix in DB_File::HASHINFO, DB_File::RECNOINFO and
420 Changed default mode to 0666.
424 Documented operation of bval.
428 Fixed bug with RECNO, where bval wasn't defaulting to "\n".
432 Minor namespace cleanup: Localized PrintBtree.
436 Made all scripts in the documentation strict and -w clean.
438 Added logic to DB_File.xs to allow the module to be built after
443 Minor documentation changes.
445 Fixed a bug in hash_cb. Patches supplied by Dave Hammen,
446 <hammen@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.govt>.
448 Fixed a bug with the constructors for DB_File::HASHINFO,
449 DB_File::BTREEINFO and DB_File::RECNOINFO. Also tidied up the
450 constructors to make them -w clean.
452 Reworked part of the test harness to be more locale friendly.
456 Documentation update.
458 DB_File now imports the constants (O_RDWR, O_CREAT etc.) from Fcntl
461 The standard hash function exists is now supported.
463 Modified the behavior of get_dup. When it returns an associative
464 array, the value is the count of the number of matching BTREE
469 Merged OS/2 specific code into DB_File.xs
471 Removed some redundant code in DB_File.xs.
473 Documentation update.
475 Allow negative subscripts with RECNO interface.
477 Changed the default flags from O_RDWR to O_CREAT|O_RDWR.
479 The example code which showed how to lock a database needed a call
480 to sync added. Without it the resultant database file was empty.
482 Added get_dup method.
486 Fixed a core dump problem with SunOS.
488 The return value from TIEHASH wasn't set to NULL when dbopen
493 DB_File has been in use for over a year. To reflect that, the
494 version number has been incremented to 1.0.
496 Added complete support for multiple concurrent callbacks.
498 Using the push method on an empty list didn't work properly. This
503 Added prototype support for multiple btree compare callbacks.
507 When DB_File is opening a database file it no longer terminates the
508 process if dbopen returned an error. This allows file protection
509 errors to be caught at run time. Thanks to Judith Grass
510 <grass@cybercash.com> for spotting the bug.