5 * Fixed db-hash.t for Cygwin
7 * Added substr tests to db-hast.t
11 * Merged core patch 22258
13 * Merged core patch 22741
15 * Fixed core bug 30237.
16 Using substr to pass parameters to the low-level Berkeley DB interface
17 causes problems with Perl 5.8.1 or better.
18 typemap fix supplied by Marcus Holland-Moritz.
20 1.808 22nd December 2003
22 * Added extra DBM Filter tests.
24 * Fixed a memory leak in ParseOpenInfo, which whould occur if the
25 opening of the database failed. Leak spotted by Adrian Enache.
27 1.807 1st November 2003
29 * Fixed minor typos on pod documetation - reported by Jeremy Mates &
32 * dbinfo updated to report when a database is encrypted.
34 1.806 22nd October 2002
36 * Fixed problem when trying to build with a multi-threaded perl.
38 * Tidied up the recursion detetion code.
40 * merged core patch 17844 - missing dTHX declarations.
42 * merged core patch 17838
44 1.805 1st September 2002
46 * Added support to allow DB_File to build with Berkeley DB 4.1.X
48 * Tightened up the test harness to test that calls to untie don't generate
49 the "untie attempted while %d inner references still exist" warning.
51 * added code to guard against calling the callbacks (compare,hash & prefix)
54 * pasing undef for the flags and/or mode when opening a database could cause
55 a "Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry" warning. Now silenced.
57 * DBM filter code beefed up to cope with read-only $_.
61 * Perl core patch 14939 added a new warning to "splice". This broke the
62 db-recno test harness. Fixed.
64 * merged core patches 16502 & 16540.
68 * Fixed a problem with db-btree.t where it complained about an "our"
69 variable redeclaation.
71 * FETCH, STORE & DELETE don't map the flags parameter into the
72 equivalent Berkeley DB function anymore.
74 1.802 6th January 2002
76 * The message about some test failing in db-recno.t had the wrong test
79 * merged core patch 13942.
81 1.801 26th November 2001
83 * Fixed typo in Makefile.PL
85 * Added "clean" attribute to Makefile.PL
87 1.800 23rd November 2001
89 * use pport.h for perl backward compatability code.
91 * use new ExtUtils::Constant module to generate XS constants.
93 * upgrade Makefile.PL upgrade/downgrade code to toggle "our" with
96 1.79 22nd October 2001
98 * Added a "local $SIG{__DIE__}" inside the eval that checks for
99 the presence of XSLoader s suggested by Andrew Hryckowin.
101 * merged core patch 12277.
103 * Changed NEXTKEY to not initialise the input key. It isn't used anyway.
105 1.79 22nd October 2001
107 * Fixed test harness for cygwin
111 * the test in Makefile.PL for AIX used -plthreads. Should have been
114 * merged Core patches
115 10372, 10335, 10372, 10534, 10549, 10643, 11051, 11194, 11432
117 * added documentation patch regarding duplicate keys from Andrew Johnson
122 * AIX is reported to need -lpthreads, so Makefile.PL now checks for
123 AIX and adds it to the link options.
125 * Minor documentation updates.
127 * Merged Core patch 9176
129 * Added a patch from Edward Avis that adds support for splice with
132 * Modified Makefile.PL to only enable the warnings pragma if using perl
135 1.76 15th January 2001
137 * Added instructions for using LD_PRELOAD to get Berkeley DB 2.x to work
138 with DB_File on Linux. Thanks to Norbert Bollow for sending details of
142 1.75 17th December 2000
144 * Fixed perl core patch 7703
146 * Added suppport to allow DB_File to be built with Berkeley DB 3.2 --
147 btree_compare, btree_prefix and hash_cb needed to be changed.
149 * Updated dbinfo to support Berkeley DB 3.2 file format changes.
152 1.74 10th December 2000
154 * A "close" call in DB_File.xs needed parenthesised to stop win32 from
155 thinking it was one of its macros.
157 * Updated dbinfo to support Berkeley DB 3.1 file format changes.
159 * DB_File.pm & the test hasness now use the warnings pragma (when
162 * Included Perl core patch 7703 -- size argument for hash_cb is different
165 * Included Perl core patch 7801 -- Give __getBerkeleyDBInfo the ANSI C
168 * @a = () produced the warning 'Argument "" isn't numeric in entersub'
169 This has been fixed. Thanks to Edward Avis for spotting this bug.
171 * Added note about building under Linux. Included patches.
173 * Included Perl core patch 8068 -- fix for bug 20001013.009
174 When run with warnings enabled "$hash{XX} = undef " produced an
175 "Uninitialized value" warning. This has been fixed.
179 * Added support in version.c for building with threaded Perl.
181 * Berkeley DB 3.1 has reenabled support for null keys. The test
182 harness has been updated to reflect this.
184 1.72 16th January 2000
188 * The module will now use XSLoader when it is available. When it
189 isn't it will use DynaLoader.
191 * The locking section in DB_File.pm has been discredited. Many thanks
192 to David Harris for spotting the underlying problem, contributing
193 the updates to the documentation and writing DB_File::Lock (available
196 1.71 7th September 1999
198 * Fixed a bug that prevented 1.70 from compiling under win32
200 * Updated to support Berkeley DB 3.x
202 * Updated dbinfo for Berkeley DB 3.x file formats.
206 * Initialise $DB_File::db_ver and $DB_File::db_version with
207 GV_ADD|GV_ADDMULT -- bug spotted by Nick Ing-Simmons.
209 * Added a BOOT check to test for equivalent versions of db.h &
214 * fixed a bug in push -- DB_APPEND wasn't working properly.
216 * Fixed the R_SETCURSOR bug introduced in 1.68
218 * Added a new Perl variable $DB_File::db_ver
222 * Merged changes from 5.005_58
224 * Fixed a bug in R_IBEFORE & R_IAFTER procesing in Berkeley DB
227 * Added some of the examples in the POD into the test harness.
231 * Added DBM Filter documentation to DB_File.pm
233 * Fixed DBM Filter code to work with 5.004
235 * A few instances of newSVpvn were used in 1.66. This isn't available in
236 Perl 5.004_04 or earlier. Replaced with newSVpv.
240 * Added DBM Filter code
244 * Fixed a bug in the recno PUSH logic.
245 * The BOOT version check now needs 2.3.4 when using Berkeley DB version 2
247 1.64 21st February 1999
249 * Tidied the 1.x to 2.x flag mapping code.
250 * Added a patch from Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl> to fix a flag
251 mapping problem with O_RDONLY on the Hurd
252 * Updated the message that db-recno.t prints when tests 51, 53 or 55 fail.
254 1.63 19th December 1998
256 * Fix to allow DB 2.6.x to build with DB_File
257 * Documentation updated to use push,pop etc in the RECNO example &
258 to include the find_dup & del_dup methods.
260 1.62 30th November 1998
262 Added hints/dynixptx.pl.
263 Fixed typemap -- 1.61 used PL_na instead of na
265 1.61 19th November 1998
267 Added a note to README about how to build Berkeley DB 2.x when
269 Minor modifications to get the module to build with DB 2.5.x
270 Fixed a typo in the definition of O_RDONLY, courtesy of Mark Kettenis.
273 Changed the test to check for full tied array support
276 Updated the license section.
278 Berkeley DB 2.4.10 disallows zero length keys. Tests 32 & 42 in
279 db-btree.t and test 27 in db-hash.t failed because of this change.
280 Those tests have been zapped.
282 Added dbinfo to the distribution.
285 Tied Array support was enhanced in Perl 5.004_57. DB_File now
286 supports PUSH,POP,SHIFT,UNSHIFT & STORESIZE.
288 Fixed a problem with the use of sv_setpvn. When the size is
289 specified as 0, it does a strlen on the data. This was ok for DB
290 1.x, but isn't for DB 2.x.
293 If Perl has been compiled with Threads support,the symbol op will be
294 defined. This clashes with a field name in db.h, so it needs to be
295 #undef'ed before db.h is included.
298 Documented the Solaris 2.5 mutex bug
305 Fixed a small bug in the test harness when run under win32
306 The emulation of fd when useing DB 2.x was busted.
310 Added DB_RENUMBER to flags for recno.
314 Patch from Nick Ing-Simmons now allows DB_File to build on NT.
319 Fixed the test harness so that it doesn't expect DB_File to have
320 been installed by the main Perl build.
323 Fixed a bug in mapping 1.x O_RDONLY flag to 2.x DB_RDONLY equivalent
327 DB_File can now build with either DB 1.x or 2.x, but not both at
332 A harmless looking tab was causing Makefile.PL to fail on AIX 3.2.5
334 Small fix for the AIX strict C compiler XLC which doesn't like
335 __attribute__ being defined via proto.h and redefined via db.h. Fix
336 courtesy of Jarkko Hietaniemi.
340 Patch from Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no> to suppress "use of undefined
341 value" warning with db_get and db_seq.
343 Patch from Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no> to make DB_File export only the
344 O_* constants from Fcntl.
346 Removed the DESTROY method from the DB_File::HASHINFO module.
348 Previously DB_File hard-wired the class name of any object that it
349 created to "DB_File". This makes sub-classing difficult. Now
350 DB_File creats objects in the namespace of the package it has been
356 Made it illegal to tie an associative array to a RECNO database and
357 an ordinary array to a HASH or BTREE database.
361 Minor changes to DB_FIle.xs and DB_File.pm
365 Documented the incompatibility with version 2 of Berkeley DB.
369 Documented the untie gotcha.
373 Fixed fd method so that it still returns -1 for in-memory files
374 when db 1.86 is used.
378 Minor bug fix in DB_File::HASHINFO, DB_File::RECNOINFO and
381 Changed default mode to 0666.
385 Documented operation of bval.
389 Fixed bug with RECNO, where bval wasn't defaulting to "\n".
393 Minor namespace cleanup: Localized PrintBtree.
397 Made all scripts in the documentation strict and -w clean.
399 Added logic to DB_File.xs to allow the module to be built after
404 Minor documentation changes.
406 Fixed a bug in hash_cb. Patches supplied by Dave Hammen,
407 <hammen@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.govt>.
409 Fixed a bug with the constructors for DB_File::HASHINFO,
410 DB_File::BTREEINFO and DB_File::RECNOINFO. Also tidied up the
411 constructors to make them -w clean.
413 Reworked part of the test harness to be more locale friendly.
417 Documentation update.
419 DB_File now imports the constants (O_RDWR, O_CREAT etc.) from Fcntl
422 The standard hash function exists is now supported.
424 Modified the behavior of get_dup. When it returns an associative
425 array, the value is the count of the number of matching BTREE
430 Merged OS/2 specific code into DB_File.xs
432 Removed some redundant code in DB_File.xs.
434 Documentation update.
436 Allow negative subscripts with RECNO interface.
438 Changed the default flags from O_RDWR to O_CREAT|O_RDWR.
440 The example code which showed how to lock a database needed a call
441 to sync added. Without it the resultant database file was empty.
443 Added get_dup method.
447 Fixed a core dump problem with SunOS.
449 The return value from TIEHASH wasn't set to NULL when dbopen
454 DB_File has been in use for over a year. To reflect that, the
455 version number has been incremented to 1.0.
457 Added complete support for multiple concurrent callbacks.
459 Using the push method on an empty list didn't work properly. This
464 Added prototype support for multiple btree compare callbacks.
468 When DB_File is opening a database file it no longer terminates the
469 process if dbopen returned an error. This allows file protection
470 errors to be caught at run time. Thanks to Judith Grass
471 <grass@cybercash.com> for spotting the bug.