rethinkdb/rethinkdb v1.11.0

1.11.0 -- Breakfast at Tiffany's

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This release introduces a new query profiler, an overhauled streaming infrastructure,
and many enhancements that improve ease and robustness of operation.

New Features

• Server
  • Removed anaphoric macros (#806)
  • Changed the array size limit to 100,000 (#971)
  • The server now reads blobs off of disk simultaneously (#1296)
  • Improved the batch replace logic (#1468)
  • Added IPv6 support (#1469)
  • Reduced random disk seeks during write transactions (#1470)
  • Merged writebacks on the serializer level (#1471)
  • Streaming improvements: smarter batch sizes are sent to clients (#1543)
  • Reduced the impact of index creation on realtime performance (#1556)
  • Optimized insert performance (#1559)
  • Added support for sending data back as JSON, improving driver performance (#1571)
  • Backtraces now span coroutine boundaries (#1602)
• Command line
  • Added a progress bar to rethinkdb import and rethinkdb export (#1415)
• ReQL
  • Added query profiling, enabled by passing profile=True to run (#175)
  • Added a sync command that flushes soft writes made on a table (#1046)
  • Made it possible to wait for no-reply writes to complete (#1388)
    • Added a wait command
    • Added an optional argument to close and reconnect
  • Added index_status and index_wait commands (#1562)
• Python driver
  • Added documentation strings (#808)
  • Added streaming and performance improvements (#1371)
  • Changed the installation procedure for using the C++ protobuf implementation (#1394)
  • Improved the streaming logic (#1364)
• JavaScript driver
  • Changed the installation procedure for using the C++ protobuf implementation (#1172)
  • Improved the streaming logic (#1364)
• Packaging
  • Made the version more explicit in the OS X package (#1413)

Fixed Bugs

• Server
  • No longer access perfmon_collection_t after destruction (#1497)
  • Fixed a bug that caused nodes to become unresponsize and added a coroutine profiler (#1516)
  • Made database files compatible between 32-bit and 64-bit versions (#1535)
  • No longer use four times more cache space (#1538)
  • Fix handling of errors in continue queries (#1619)
  • Fixed heartbeat timeout when deleting many tables at once (#1624)
  • Improved signal handling (#1630)
  • Reduced the load caused by using the Web UI on a large cluster (#1660)
• Command line
  • Made rethinkdb export more resilient to low-memory conditions (#1546)
  • Fixed a race condition in rethinkdb import (#1597)
• ReQL
  • Non-indexed order_by queries now return arrays (#1566)
  • Type system now includes selections on both arrays and streams (#1566)
  • Fixed wrong inserted result (#1547)
  • Fixed crash caused by using unusual strings in r.js (#1638)
  • Redefined batched stream semantics (includes a specific fix for the JavaScipt driver as well) (#1544)
  • r.js now works with time values (#1513)
• Python driver
  • Handle interrupted system calls (#1362)
  • Improved the error message when inserting dates with no timezone (#1509)
  • Made RqlTzInfo copyable (#1588)
• JavaScript driver
  • Fixed argument handling (#1555, #1577)
  • Fixed ArrayResult (#1578, #1584)
  • Fixed pretty-printing of limit (#1617)
• Web UI
  • Made it obvious when errors are JavaScript errors or database errors (#1293)
  • Improved the message displayed when there are more than 40 documents (#1307)
  • Fixed date formatting (#1596)
  • Fixed typo (#1668)
• Build
  • Fixed item counts in make (#1443)
  • Bump the fetched version of gperftools (#1594)
  • Fixed how termcap is handled by ./configure (#1622)
  • Generate a better version number when compiling from a shallow clone (#1636)