2 1.808 22nd December 2003
4 * Added extra DBM Filter tests.
6 * Fixed a memory leak in ParseOpenInfo, which whould occur if the
7 opening of the database failed. Leak spotted by Adrian Enache.
9 1.807 1st November 2003
11 * Fixed minor typos on pod documetation - reported by Jeremy Mates &
14 * dbinfo updated to report when a database is encrypted.
16 1.806 22nd October 2002
18 * Fixed problem when trying to build with a multi-threaded perl.
20 * Tidied up the recursion detetion code.
22 * merged core patch 17844 - missing dTHX declarations.
24 * merged core patch 17838
26 1.805 1st September 2002
28 * Added support to allow DB_File to build with Berkeley DB 4.1.X
30 * Tightened up the test harness to test that calls to untie don't generate
31 the "untie attempted while %d inner references still exist" warning.
33 * added code to guard against calling the callbacks (compare,hash & prefix)
36 * pasing undef for the flags and/or mode when opening a database could cause
37 a "Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry" warning. Now silenced.
39 * DBM filter code beefed up to cope with read-only $_.
43 * Perl core patch 14939 added a new warning to "splice". This broke the
44 db-recno test harness. Fixed.
46 * merged core patches 16502 & 16540.
50 * Fixed a problem with db-btree.t where it complained about an "our"
51 variable redeclaation.
53 * FETCH, STORE & DELETE don't map the flags parameter into the
54 equivalent Berkeley DB function anymore.
56 1.802 6th January 2002
58 * The message about some test failing in db-recno.t had the wrong test
61 * merged core patch 13942.
63 1.801 26th November 2001
65 * Fixed typo in Makefile.PL
67 * Added "clean" attribute to Makefile.PL
69 1.800 23rd November 2001
71 * use pport.h for perl backward compatability code.
73 * use new ExtUtils::Constant module to generate XS constants.
75 * upgrade Makefile.PL upgrade/downgrade code to toggle "our" with
78 1.79 22nd October 2001
80 * Added a "local $SIG{__DIE__}" inside the eval that checks for
81 the presence of XSLoader s suggested by Andrew Hryckowin.
83 * merged core patch 12277.
85 * Changed NEXTKEY to not initialise the input key. It isn't used anyway.
87 1.79 22nd October 2001
89 * Fixed test harness for cygwin
93 * the test in Makefile.PL for AIX used -plthreads. Should have been
97 10372, 10335, 10372, 10534, 10549, 10643, 11051, 11194, 11432
99 * added documentation patch regarding duplicate keys from Andrew Johnson
104 * AIX is reported to need -lpthreads, so Makefile.PL now checks for
105 AIX and adds it to the link options.
107 * Minor documentation updates.
109 * Merged Core patch 9176
111 * Added a patch from Edward Avis that adds support for splice with
114 * Modified Makefile.PL to only enable the warnings pragma if using perl
117 1.76 15th January 2001
119 * Added instructions for using LD_PRELOAD to get Berkeley DB 2.x to work
120 with DB_File on Linux. Thanks to Norbert Bollow for sending details of
124 1.75 17th December 2000
126 * Fixed perl core patch 7703
128 * Added suppport to allow DB_File to be built with Berkeley DB 3.2 --
129 btree_compare, btree_prefix and hash_cb needed to be changed.
131 * Updated dbinfo to support Berkeley DB 3.2 file format changes.
134 1.74 10th December 2000
136 * A "close" call in DB_File.xs needed parenthesised to stop win32 from
137 thinking it was one of its macros.
139 * Updated dbinfo to support Berkeley DB 3.1 file format changes.
141 * DB_File.pm & the test hasness now use the warnings pragma (when
144 * Included Perl core patch 7703 -- size argument for hash_cb is different
147 * Included Perl core patch 7801 -- Give __getBerkeleyDBInfo the ANSI C
150 * @a = () produced the warning 'Argument "" isn't numeric in entersub'
151 This has been fixed. Thanks to Edward Avis for spotting this bug.
153 * Added note about building under Linux. Included patches.
155 * Included Perl core patch 8068 -- fix for bug 20001013.009
156 When run with warnings enabled "$hash{XX} = undef " produced an
157 "Uninitialized value" warning. This has been fixed.
161 * Added support in version.c for building with threaded Perl.
163 * Berkeley DB 3.1 has reenabled support for null keys. The test
164 harness has been updated to reflect this.
166 1.72 16th January 2000
170 * The module will now use XSLoader when it is available. When it
171 isn't it will use DynaLoader.
173 * The locking section in DB_File.pm has been discredited. Many thanks
174 to David Harris for spotting the underlying problem, contributing
175 the updates to the documentation and writing DB_File::Lock (available
178 1.71 7th September 1999
180 * Fixed a bug that prevented 1.70 from compiling under win32
182 * Updated to support Berkeley DB 3.x
184 * Updated dbinfo for Berkeley DB 3.x file formats.
188 * Initialise $DB_File::db_ver and $DB_File::db_version with
189 GV_ADD|GV_ADDMULT -- bug spotted by Nick Ing-Simmons.
191 * Added a BOOT check to test for equivalent versions of db.h &
196 * fixed a bug in push -- DB_APPEND wasn't working properly.
198 * Fixed the R_SETCURSOR bug introduced in 1.68
200 * Added a new Perl variable $DB_File::db_ver
204 * Merged changes from 5.005_58
206 * Fixed a bug in R_IBEFORE & R_IAFTER procesing in Berkeley DB
209 * Added some of the examples in the POD into the test harness.
213 * Added DBM Filter documentation to DB_File.pm
215 * Fixed DBM Filter code to work with 5.004
217 * A few instances of newSVpvn were used in 1.66. This isn't available in
218 Perl 5.004_04 or earlier. Replaced with newSVpv.
222 * Added DBM Filter code
226 * Fixed a bug in the recno PUSH logic.
227 * The BOOT version check now needs 2.3.4 when using Berkeley DB version 2
229 1.64 21st February 1999
231 * Tidied the 1.x to 2.x flag mapping code.
232 * Added a patch from Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl> to fix a flag
233 mapping problem with O_RDONLY on the Hurd
234 * Updated the message that db-recno.t prints when tests 51, 53 or 55 fail.
236 1.63 19th December 1998
238 * Fix to allow DB 2.6.x to build with DB_File
239 * Documentation updated to use push,pop etc in the RECNO example &
240 to include the find_dup & del_dup methods.
242 1.62 30th November 1998
244 Added hints/dynixptx.pl.
245 Fixed typemap -- 1.61 used PL_na instead of na
247 1.61 19th November 1998
249 Added a note to README about how to build Berkeley DB 2.x when
251 Minor modifications to get the module to build with DB 2.5.x
252 Fixed a typo in the definition of O_RDONLY, courtesy of Mark Kettenis.
255 Changed the test to check for full tied array support
258 Updated the license section.
260 Berkeley DB 2.4.10 disallows zero length keys. Tests 32 & 42 in
261 db-btree.t and test 27 in db-hash.t failed because of this change.
262 Those tests have been zapped.
264 Added dbinfo to the distribution.
267 Tied Array support was enhanced in Perl 5.004_57. DB_File now
268 supports PUSH,POP,SHIFT,UNSHIFT & STORESIZE.
270 Fixed a problem with the use of sv_setpvn. When the size is
271 specified as 0, it does a strlen on the data. This was ok for DB
272 1.x, but isn't for DB 2.x.
275 If Perl has been compiled with Threads support,the symbol op will be
276 defined. This clashes with a field name in db.h, so it needs to be
277 #undef'ed before db.h is included.
280 Documented the Solaris 2.5 mutex bug
287 Fixed a small bug in the test harness when run under win32
288 The emulation of fd when useing DB 2.x was busted.
292 Added DB_RENUMBER to flags for recno.
296 Patch from Nick Ing-Simmons now allows DB_File to build on NT.
301 Fixed the test harness so that it doesn't expect DB_File to have
302 been installed by the main Perl build.
305 Fixed a bug in mapping 1.x O_RDONLY flag to 2.x DB_RDONLY equivalent
309 DB_File can now build with either DB 1.x or 2.x, but not both at
314 A harmless looking tab was causing Makefile.PL to fail on AIX 3.2.5
316 Small fix for the AIX strict C compiler XLC which doesn't like
317 __attribute__ being defined via proto.h and redefined via db.h. Fix
318 courtesy of Jarkko Hietaniemi.
322 Patch from Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no> to suppress "use of undefined
323 value" warning with db_get and db_seq.
325 Patch from Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no> to make DB_File export only the
326 O_* constants from Fcntl.
328 Removed the DESTROY method from the DB_File::HASHINFO module.
330 Previously DB_File hard-wired the class name of any object that it
331 created to "DB_File". This makes sub-classing difficult. Now
332 DB_File creats objects in the namespace of the package it has been
338 Made it illegal to tie an associative array to a RECNO database and
339 an ordinary array to a HASH or BTREE database.
343 Minor changes to DB_FIle.xs and DB_File.pm
347 Documented the incompatibility with version 2 of Berkeley DB.
351 Documented the untie gotcha.
355 Fixed fd method so that it still returns -1 for in-memory files
356 when db 1.86 is used.
360 Minor bug fix in DB_File::HASHINFO, DB_File::RECNOINFO and
363 Changed default mode to 0666.
367 Documented operation of bval.
371 Fixed bug with RECNO, where bval wasn't defaulting to "\n".
375 Minor namespace cleanup: Localized PrintBtree.
379 Made all scripts in the documentation strict and -w clean.
381 Added logic to DB_File.xs to allow the module to be built after
386 Minor documentation changes.
388 Fixed a bug in hash_cb. Patches supplied by Dave Hammen,
389 <hammen@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.govt>.
391 Fixed a bug with the constructors for DB_File::HASHINFO,
392 DB_File::BTREEINFO and DB_File::RECNOINFO. Also tidied up the
393 constructors to make them -w clean.
395 Reworked part of the test harness to be more locale friendly.
399 Documentation update.
401 DB_File now imports the constants (O_RDWR, O_CREAT etc.) from Fcntl
404 The standard hash function exists is now supported.
406 Modified the behavior of get_dup. When it returns an associative
407 array, the value is the count of the number of matching BTREE
412 Merged OS/2 specific code into DB_File.xs
414 Removed some redundant code in DB_File.xs.
416 Documentation update.
418 Allow negative subscripts with RECNO interface.
420 Changed the default flags from O_RDWR to O_CREAT|O_RDWR.
422 The example code which showed how to lock a database needed a call
423 to sync added. Without it the resultant database file was empty.
425 Added get_dup method.
429 Fixed a core dump problem with SunOS.
431 The return value from TIEHASH wasn't set to NULL when dbopen
436 DB_File has been in use for over a year. To reflect that, the
437 version number has been incremented to 1.0.
439 Added complete support for multiple concurrent callbacks.
441 Using the push method on an empty list didn't work properly. This
446 Added prototype support for multiple btree compare callbacks.
450 When DB_File is opening a database file it no longer terminates the
451 process if dbopen returned an error. This allows file protection
452 errors to be caught at run time. Thanks to Judith Grass
453 <grass@cybercash.com> for spotting the bug.