3 1.813 31st October 2005
5 * Updates for Berkeley DB 4.4
9 * Added libscan to Makefile.PL
11 * Fixed test failing under windows
15 * Fixed DBM filter bug in seq
19 * Fixed db-hash.t for Cygwin
21 * Added substr tests to db-hast.t
23 * Documented AIX build problem in README.
27 * Merged core patch 22258
29 * Merged core patch 22741
31 * Fixed core bug 30237.
32 Using substr to pass parameters to the low-level Berkeley DB interface
33 causes problems with Perl 5.8.1 or better.
34 typemap fix supplied by Marcus Holland-Moritz.
36 1.808 22nd December 2003
38 * Added extra DBM Filter tests.
40 * Fixed a memory leak in ParseOpenInfo, which whould occur if the
41 opening of the database failed. Leak spotted by Adrian Enache.
43 1.807 1st November 2003
45 * Fixed minor typos on pod documetation - reported by Jeremy Mates &
48 * dbinfo updated to report when a database is encrypted.
50 1.806 22nd October 2002
52 * Fixed problem when trying to build with a multi-threaded perl.
54 * Tidied up the recursion detetion code.
56 * merged core patch 17844 - missing dTHX declarations.
58 * merged core patch 17838
60 1.805 1st September 2002
62 * Added support to allow DB_File to build with Berkeley DB 4.1.X
64 * Tightened up the test harness to test that calls to untie don't generate
65 the "untie attempted while %d inner references still exist" warning.
67 * added code to guard against calling the callbacks (compare,hash & prefix)
70 * pasing undef for the flags and/or mode when opening a database could cause
71 a "Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry" warning. Now silenced.
73 * DBM filter code beefed up to cope with read-only $_.
77 * Perl core patch 14939 added a new warning to "splice". This broke the
78 db-recno test harness. Fixed.
80 * merged core patches 16502 & 16540.
84 * Fixed a problem with db-btree.t where it complained about an "our"
85 variable redeclaation.
87 * FETCH, STORE & DELETE don't map the flags parameter into the
88 equivalent Berkeley DB function anymore.
90 1.802 6th January 2002
92 * The message about some test failing in db-recno.t had the wrong test
95 * merged core patch 13942.
97 1.801 26th November 2001
99 * Fixed typo in Makefile.PL
101 * Added "clean" attribute to Makefile.PL
103 1.800 23rd November 2001
105 * use pport.h for perl backward compatability code.
107 * use new ExtUtils::Constant module to generate XS constants.
109 * upgrade Makefile.PL upgrade/downgrade code to toggle "our" with
112 1.79 22nd October 2001
114 * Added a "local $SIG{__DIE__}" inside the eval that checks for
115 the presence of XSLoader s suggested by Andrew Hryckowin.
117 * merged core patch 12277.
119 * Changed NEXTKEY to not initialise the input key. It isn't used anyway.
121 1.79 22nd October 2001
123 * Fixed test harness for cygwin
127 * the test in Makefile.PL for AIX used -plthreads. Should have been
130 * merged Core patches
131 10372, 10335, 10372, 10534, 10549, 10643, 11051, 11194, 11432
133 * added documentation patch regarding duplicate keys from Andrew Johnson
138 * AIX is reported to need -lpthreads, so Makefile.PL now checks for
139 AIX and adds it to the link options.
141 * Minor documentation updates.
143 * Merged Core patch 9176
145 * Added a patch from Edward Avis that adds support for splice with
148 * Modified Makefile.PL to only enable the warnings pragma if using perl
151 1.76 15th January 2001
153 * Added instructions for using LD_PRELOAD to get Berkeley DB 2.x to work
154 with DB_File on Linux. Thanks to Norbert Bollow for sending details of
158 1.75 17th December 2000
160 * Fixed perl core patch 7703
162 * Added suppport to allow DB_File to be built with Berkeley DB 3.2 --
163 btree_compare, btree_prefix and hash_cb needed to be changed.
165 * Updated dbinfo to support Berkeley DB 3.2 file format changes.
168 1.74 10th December 2000
170 * A "close" call in DB_File.xs needed parenthesised to stop win32 from
171 thinking it was one of its macros.
173 * Updated dbinfo to support Berkeley DB 3.1 file format changes.
175 * DB_File.pm & the test hasness now use the warnings pragma (when
178 * Included Perl core patch 7703 -- size argument for hash_cb is different
181 * Included Perl core patch 7801 -- Give __getBerkeleyDBInfo the ANSI C
184 * @a = () produced the warning 'Argument "" isn't numeric in entersub'
185 This has been fixed. Thanks to Edward Avis for spotting this bug.
187 * Added note about building under Linux. Included patches.
189 * Included Perl core patch 8068 -- fix for bug 20001013.009
190 When run with warnings enabled "$hash{XX} = undef " produced an
191 "Uninitialized value" warning. This has been fixed.
195 * Added support in version.c for building with threaded Perl.
197 * Berkeley DB 3.1 has reenabled support for null keys. The test
198 harness has been updated to reflect this.
200 1.72 16th January 2000
204 * The module will now use XSLoader when it is available. When it
205 isn't it will use DynaLoader.
207 * The locking section in DB_File.pm has been discredited. Many thanks
208 to David Harris for spotting the underlying problem, contributing
209 the updates to the documentation and writing DB_File::Lock (available
212 1.71 7th September 1999
214 * Fixed a bug that prevented 1.70 from compiling under win32
216 * Updated to support Berkeley DB 3.x
218 * Updated dbinfo for Berkeley DB 3.x file formats.
222 * Initialise $DB_File::db_ver and $DB_File::db_version with
223 GV_ADD|GV_ADDMULT -- bug spotted by Nick Ing-Simmons.
225 * Added a BOOT check to test for equivalent versions of db.h &
230 * fixed a bug in push -- DB_APPEND wasn't working properly.
232 * Fixed the R_SETCURSOR bug introduced in 1.68
234 * Added a new Perl variable $DB_File::db_ver
238 * Merged changes from 5.005_58
240 * Fixed a bug in R_IBEFORE & R_IAFTER procesing in Berkeley DB
243 * Added some of the examples in the POD into the test harness.
247 * Added DBM Filter documentation to DB_File.pm
249 * Fixed DBM Filter code to work with 5.004
251 * A few instances of newSVpvn were used in 1.66. This isn't available in
252 Perl 5.004_04 or earlier. Replaced with newSVpv.
256 * Added DBM Filter code
260 * Fixed a bug in the recno PUSH logic.
261 * The BOOT version check now needs 2.3.4 when using Berkeley DB version 2
263 1.64 21st February 1999
265 * Tidied the 1.x to 2.x flag mapping code.
266 * Added a patch from Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl> to fix a flag
267 mapping problem with O_RDONLY on the Hurd
268 * Updated the message that db-recno.t prints when tests 51, 53 or 55 fail.
270 1.63 19th December 1998
272 * Fix to allow DB 2.6.x to build with DB_File
273 * Documentation updated to use push,pop etc in the RECNO example &
274 to include the find_dup & del_dup methods.
276 1.62 30th November 1998
278 Added hints/dynixptx.pl.
279 Fixed typemap -- 1.61 used PL_na instead of na
281 1.61 19th November 1998
283 Added a note to README about how to build Berkeley DB 2.x when
285 Minor modifications to get the module to build with DB 2.5.x
286 Fixed a typo in the definition of O_RDONLY, courtesy of Mark Kettenis.
289 Changed the test to check for full tied array support
292 Updated the license section.
294 Berkeley DB 2.4.10 disallows zero length keys. Tests 32 & 42 in
295 db-btree.t and test 27 in db-hash.t failed because of this change.
296 Those tests have been zapped.
298 Added dbinfo to the distribution.
301 Tied Array support was enhanced in Perl 5.004_57. DB_File now
302 supports PUSH,POP,SHIFT,UNSHIFT & STORESIZE.
304 Fixed a problem with the use of sv_setpvn. When the size is
305 specified as 0, it does a strlen on the data. This was ok for DB
306 1.x, but isn't for DB 2.x.
309 If Perl has been compiled with Threads support,the symbol op will be
310 defined. This clashes with a field name in db.h, so it needs to be
311 #undef'ed before db.h is included.
314 Documented the Solaris 2.5 mutex bug
321 Fixed a small bug in the test harness when run under win32
322 The emulation of fd when useing DB 2.x was busted.
326 Added DB_RENUMBER to flags for recno.
330 Patch from Nick Ing-Simmons now allows DB_File to build on NT.
335 Fixed the test harness so that it doesn't expect DB_File to have
336 been installed by the main Perl build.
339 Fixed a bug in mapping 1.x O_RDONLY flag to 2.x DB_RDONLY equivalent
343 DB_File can now build with either DB 1.x or 2.x, but not both at
348 A harmless looking tab was causing Makefile.PL to fail on AIX 3.2.5
350 Small fix for the AIX strict C compiler XLC which doesn't like
351 __attribute__ being defined via proto.h and redefined via db.h. Fix
352 courtesy of Jarkko Hietaniemi.
356 Patch from Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no> to suppress "use of undefined
357 value" warning with db_get and db_seq.
359 Patch from Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no> to make DB_File export only the
360 O_* constants from Fcntl.
362 Removed the DESTROY method from the DB_File::HASHINFO module.
364 Previously DB_File hard-wired the class name of any object that it
365 created to "DB_File". This makes sub-classing difficult. Now
366 DB_File creats objects in the namespace of the package it has been
372 Made it illegal to tie an associative array to a RECNO database and
373 an ordinary array to a HASH or BTREE database.
377 Minor changes to DB_FIle.xs and DB_File.pm
381 Documented the incompatibility with version 2 of Berkeley DB.
385 Documented the untie gotcha.
389 Fixed fd method so that it still returns -1 for in-memory files
390 when db 1.86 is used.
394 Minor bug fix in DB_File::HASHINFO, DB_File::RECNOINFO and
397 Changed default mode to 0666.
401 Documented operation of bval.
405 Fixed bug with RECNO, where bval wasn't defaulting to "\n".
409 Minor namespace cleanup: Localized PrintBtree.
413 Made all scripts in the documentation strict and -w clean.
415 Added logic to DB_File.xs to allow the module to be built after
420 Minor documentation changes.
422 Fixed a bug in hash_cb. Patches supplied by Dave Hammen,
423 <hammen@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.govt>.
425 Fixed a bug with the constructors for DB_File::HASHINFO,
426 DB_File::BTREEINFO and DB_File::RECNOINFO. Also tidied up the
427 constructors to make them -w clean.
429 Reworked part of the test harness to be more locale friendly.
433 Documentation update.
435 DB_File now imports the constants (O_RDWR, O_CREAT etc.) from Fcntl
438 The standard hash function exists is now supported.
440 Modified the behavior of get_dup. When it returns an associative
441 array, the value is the count of the number of matching BTREE
446 Merged OS/2 specific code into DB_File.xs
448 Removed some redundant code in DB_File.xs.
450 Documentation update.
452 Allow negative subscripts with RECNO interface.
454 Changed the default flags from O_RDWR to O_CREAT|O_RDWR.
456 The example code which showed how to lock a database needed a call
457 to sync added. Without it the resultant database file was empty.
459 Added get_dup method.
463 Fixed a core dump problem with SunOS.
465 The return value from TIEHASH wasn't set to NULL when dbopen
470 DB_File has been in use for over a year. To reflect that, the
471 version number has been incremented to 1.0.
473 Added complete support for multiple concurrent callbacks.
475 Using the push method on an empty list didn't work properly. This
480 Added prototype support for multiple btree compare callbacks.
484 When DB_File is opening a database file it no longer terminates the
485 process if dbopen returned an error. This allows file protection
486 errors to be caught at run time. Thanks to Judith Grass
487 <grass@cybercash.com> for spotting the bug.