5 * Fix from Dominic Dunlop to tidy up an OS-X specific warning in
8 * Silenced a warning about $DB_File::Error only being used once.
9 Issue spotted by Dominic Dunlop.
11 1.813 31st October 2005
13 * Updates for Berkeley DB 4.4
15 1.812 9th October 2005
17 * Added libscan to Makefile.PL
19 * Fixed test failing under windows
23 * Fixed DBM filter bug in seq
27 * Fixed db-hash.t for Cygwin
29 * Added substr tests to db-hast.t
31 * Documented AIX build problem in README.
35 * Merged core patch 22258
37 * Merged core patch 22741
39 * Fixed core bug 30237.
40 Using substr to pass parameters to the low-level Berkeley DB interface
41 causes problems with Perl 5.8.1 or better.
42 typemap fix supplied by Marcus Holland-Moritz.
44 1.808 22nd December 2003
46 * Added extra DBM Filter tests.
48 * Fixed a memory leak in ParseOpenInfo, which whould occur if the
49 opening of the database failed. Leak spotted by Adrian Enache.
51 1.807 1st November 2003
53 * Fixed minor typos on pod documetation - reported by Jeremy Mates &
56 * dbinfo updated to report when a database is encrypted.
58 1.806 22nd October 2002
60 * Fixed problem when trying to build with a multi-threaded perl.
62 * Tidied up the recursion detetion code.
64 * merged core patch 17844 - missing dTHX declarations.
66 * merged core patch 17838
68 1.805 1st September 2002
70 * Added support to allow DB_File to build with Berkeley DB 4.1.X
72 * Tightened up the test harness to test that calls to untie don't generate
73 the "untie attempted while %d inner references still exist" warning.
75 * added code to guard against calling the callbacks (compare,hash & prefix)
78 * pasing undef for the flags and/or mode when opening a database could cause
79 a "Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry" warning. Now silenced.
81 * DBM filter code beefed up to cope with read-only $_.
85 * Perl core patch 14939 added a new warning to "splice". This broke the
86 db-recno test harness. Fixed.
88 * merged core patches 16502 & 16540.
92 * Fixed a problem with db-btree.t where it complained about an "our"
93 variable redeclaation.
95 * FETCH, STORE & DELETE don't map the flags parameter into the
96 equivalent Berkeley DB function anymore.
98 1.802 6th January 2002
100 * The message about some test failing in db-recno.t had the wrong test
103 * merged core patch 13942.
105 1.801 26th November 2001
107 * Fixed typo in Makefile.PL
109 * Added "clean" attribute to Makefile.PL
111 1.800 23rd November 2001
113 * use pport.h for perl backward compatability code.
115 * use new ExtUtils::Constant module to generate XS constants.
117 * upgrade Makefile.PL upgrade/downgrade code to toggle "our" with
120 1.79 22nd October 2001
122 * Added a "local $SIG{__DIE__}" inside the eval that checks for
123 the presence of XSLoader s suggested by Andrew Hryckowin.
125 * merged core patch 12277.
127 * Changed NEXTKEY to not initialise the input key. It isn't used anyway.
129 1.79 22nd October 2001
131 * Fixed test harness for cygwin
135 * the test in Makefile.PL for AIX used -plthreads. Should have been
138 * merged Core patches
139 10372, 10335, 10372, 10534, 10549, 10643, 11051, 11194, 11432
141 * added documentation patch regarding duplicate keys from Andrew Johnson
146 * AIX is reported to need -lpthreads, so Makefile.PL now checks for
147 AIX and adds it to the link options.
149 * Minor documentation updates.
151 * Merged Core patch 9176
153 * Added a patch from Edward Avis that adds support for splice with
156 * Modified Makefile.PL to only enable the warnings pragma if using perl
159 1.76 15th January 2001
161 * Added instructions for using LD_PRELOAD to get Berkeley DB 2.x to work
162 with DB_File on Linux. Thanks to Norbert Bollow for sending details of
166 1.75 17th December 2000
168 * Fixed perl core patch 7703
170 * Added suppport to allow DB_File to be built with Berkeley DB 3.2 --
171 btree_compare, btree_prefix and hash_cb needed to be changed.
173 * Updated dbinfo to support Berkeley DB 3.2 file format changes.
176 1.74 10th December 2000
178 * A "close" call in DB_File.xs needed parenthesised to stop win32 from
179 thinking it was one of its macros.
181 * Updated dbinfo to support Berkeley DB 3.1 file format changes.
183 * DB_File.pm & the test hasness now use the warnings pragma (when
186 * Included Perl core patch 7703 -- size argument for hash_cb is different
189 * Included Perl core patch 7801 -- Give __getBerkeleyDBInfo the ANSI C
192 * @a = () produced the warning 'Argument "" isn't numeric in entersub'
193 This has been fixed. Thanks to Edward Avis for spotting this bug.
195 * Added note about building under Linux. Included patches.
197 * Included Perl core patch 8068 -- fix for bug 20001013.009
198 When run with warnings enabled "$hash{XX} = undef " produced an
199 "Uninitialized value" warning. This has been fixed.
203 * Added support in version.c for building with threaded Perl.
205 * Berkeley DB 3.1 has reenabled support for null keys. The test
206 harness has been updated to reflect this.
208 1.72 16th January 2000
212 * The module will now use XSLoader when it is available. When it
213 isn't it will use DynaLoader.
215 * The locking section in DB_File.pm has been discredited. Many thanks
216 to David Harris for spotting the underlying problem, contributing
217 the updates to the documentation and writing DB_File::Lock (available
220 1.71 7th September 1999
222 * Fixed a bug that prevented 1.70 from compiling under win32
224 * Updated to support Berkeley DB 3.x
226 * Updated dbinfo for Berkeley DB 3.x file formats.
230 * Initialise $DB_File::db_ver and $DB_File::db_version with
231 GV_ADD|GV_ADDMULT -- bug spotted by Nick Ing-Simmons.
233 * Added a BOOT check to test for equivalent versions of db.h &
238 * fixed a bug in push -- DB_APPEND wasn't working properly.
240 * Fixed the R_SETCURSOR bug introduced in 1.68
242 * Added a new Perl variable $DB_File::db_ver
246 * Merged changes from 5.005_58
248 * Fixed a bug in R_IBEFORE & R_IAFTER procesing in Berkeley DB
251 * Added some of the examples in the POD into the test harness.
255 * Added DBM Filter documentation to DB_File.pm
257 * Fixed DBM Filter code to work with 5.004
259 * A few instances of newSVpvn were used in 1.66. This isn't available in
260 Perl 5.004_04 or earlier. Replaced with newSVpv.
264 * Added DBM Filter code
268 * Fixed a bug in the recno PUSH logic.
269 * The BOOT version check now needs 2.3.4 when using Berkeley DB version 2
271 1.64 21st February 1999
273 * Tidied the 1.x to 2.x flag mapping code.
274 * Added a patch from Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl> to fix a flag
275 mapping problem with O_RDONLY on the Hurd
276 * Updated the message that db-recno.t prints when tests 51, 53 or 55 fail.
278 1.63 19th December 1998
280 * Fix to allow DB 2.6.x to build with DB_File
281 * Documentation updated to use push,pop etc in the RECNO example &
282 to include the find_dup & del_dup methods.
284 1.62 30th November 1998
286 Added hints/dynixptx.pl.
287 Fixed typemap -- 1.61 used PL_na instead of na
289 1.61 19th November 1998
291 Added a note to README about how to build Berkeley DB 2.x when
293 Minor modifications to get the module to build with DB 2.5.x
294 Fixed a typo in the definition of O_RDONLY, courtesy of Mark Kettenis.
297 Changed the test to check for full tied array support
300 Updated the license section.
302 Berkeley DB 2.4.10 disallows zero length keys. Tests 32 & 42 in
303 db-btree.t and test 27 in db-hash.t failed because of this change.
304 Those tests have been zapped.
306 Added dbinfo to the distribution.
309 Tied Array support was enhanced in Perl 5.004_57. DB_File now
310 supports PUSH,POP,SHIFT,UNSHIFT & STORESIZE.
312 Fixed a problem with the use of sv_setpvn. When the size is
313 specified as 0, it does a strlen on the data. This was ok for DB
314 1.x, but isn't for DB 2.x.
317 If Perl has been compiled with Threads support,the symbol op will be
318 defined. This clashes with a field name in db.h, so it needs to be
319 #undef'ed before db.h is included.
322 Documented the Solaris 2.5 mutex bug
329 Fixed a small bug in the test harness when run under win32
330 The emulation of fd when useing DB 2.x was busted.
334 Added DB_RENUMBER to flags for recno.
338 Patch from Nick Ing-Simmons now allows DB_File to build on NT.
343 Fixed the test harness so that it doesn't expect DB_File to have
344 been installed by the main Perl build.
347 Fixed a bug in mapping 1.x O_RDONLY flag to 2.x DB_RDONLY equivalent
351 DB_File can now build with either DB 1.x or 2.x, but not both at
356 A harmless looking tab was causing Makefile.PL to fail on AIX 3.2.5
358 Small fix for the AIX strict C compiler XLC which doesn't like
359 __attribute__ being defined via proto.h and redefined via db.h. Fix
360 courtesy of Jarkko Hietaniemi.
364 Patch from Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no> to suppress "use of undefined
365 value" warning with db_get and db_seq.
367 Patch from Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no> to make DB_File export only the
368 O_* constants from Fcntl.
370 Removed the DESTROY method from the DB_File::HASHINFO module.
372 Previously DB_File hard-wired the class name of any object that it
373 created to "DB_File". This makes sub-classing difficult. Now
374 DB_File creats objects in the namespace of the package it has been
380 Made it illegal to tie an associative array to a RECNO database and
381 an ordinary array to a HASH or BTREE database.
385 Minor changes to DB_FIle.xs and DB_File.pm
389 Documented the incompatibility with version 2 of Berkeley DB.
393 Documented the untie gotcha.
397 Fixed fd method so that it still returns -1 for in-memory files
398 when db 1.86 is used.
402 Minor bug fix in DB_File::HASHINFO, DB_File::RECNOINFO and
405 Changed default mode to 0666.
409 Documented operation of bval.
413 Fixed bug with RECNO, where bval wasn't defaulting to "\n".
417 Minor namespace cleanup: Localized PrintBtree.
421 Made all scripts in the documentation strict and -w clean.
423 Added logic to DB_File.xs to allow the module to be built after
428 Minor documentation changes.
430 Fixed a bug in hash_cb. Patches supplied by Dave Hammen,
431 <hammen@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.govt>.
433 Fixed a bug with the constructors for DB_File::HASHINFO,
434 DB_File::BTREEINFO and DB_File::RECNOINFO. Also tidied up the
435 constructors to make them -w clean.
437 Reworked part of the test harness to be more locale friendly.
441 Documentation update.
443 DB_File now imports the constants (O_RDWR, O_CREAT etc.) from Fcntl
446 The standard hash function exists is now supported.
448 Modified the behavior of get_dup. When it returns an associative
449 array, the value is the count of the number of matching BTREE
454 Merged OS/2 specific code into DB_File.xs
456 Removed some redundant code in DB_File.xs.
458 Documentation update.
460 Allow negative subscripts with RECNO interface.
462 Changed the default flags from O_RDWR to O_CREAT|O_RDWR.
464 The example code which showed how to lock a database needed a call
465 to sync added. Without it the resultant database file was empty.
467 Added get_dup method.
471 Fixed a core dump problem with SunOS.
473 The return value from TIEHASH wasn't set to NULL when dbopen
478 DB_File has been in use for over a year. To reflect that, the
479 version number has been incremented to 1.0.
481 Added complete support for multiple concurrent callbacks.
483 Using the push method on an empty list didn't work properly. This
488 Added prototype support for multiple btree compare callbacks.
492 When DB_File is opening a database file it no longer terminates the
493 process if dbopen returned an error. This allows file protection
494 errors to be caught at run time. Thanks to Judith Grass
495 <grass@cybercash.com> for spotting the bug.