rethinkdb/rethinkdb v1.5.0

RethinkDB 1.5.0 (The Graduate)

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This release introduces secondary indexes, stability and performance enhancements and many bug fixes.

New Features

• Server
  • #69: Bad JavaScript snippets can no longer hang the server
    • r.js now takes an optional timeout argument
  • #88: Added secondary and compound indexes
  • #165: Backtraces on OS X
  • #207: Added soft durability option
  • #311: Added daemon mode (via --daemon)
  • #423: Allow logging to a specific file (via --log-file)
  • #457: Significant performance improvement for batched inserts
  • #496: Links against libc++ on OS X
  • #672: Replaced environment checkpoints with shared pointers in the ReQL layer, reducing the memory footprint
  • #715: Adds support for noreply writes
• CLI
  • #566: In the admin CLI, ls tables --long now includes a durability column
• Web UI
  • #331: Improved data explorer indentation and brace pairing
  • #355: Checks for new versions of RethinkDB from the admin UI
  • #395: Auto-completes databases and tables names in the data explorer
  • #514: Rewrote and improved the documentation generator
  • #569: Added toggle for Data Explorer brace pairing
  • #572: Changed button styles in the Data Explorer
  • #707: Two step confirmation added to the delete database button
• ReQL
  • #469: Added an info command that provides information on any ReQL value (useful for retreiving the primary key)
  • #604: Allow iterating over result arrays as if they were cursors in the JavaScript client
  • #670: Added a soft durability option to table_create
• Testing
  • #480: Run tests on Travis-CI
  • #517: Improved the integration tests
  • #587: Validate API documentation examples
  • #669: Added color to make test output

Fixed bugs

• Server
  • Fix #403: Serialization of perfmon_result_t is no longer 32-bit/64-bit dependent
  • Fix #505: Reduced memory consumption to avoid failure on read query "tcmalloc: allocation failed"
  • Fix #510: Make bind to 0.0.0.0 be equivalent to all
  • Fix #639: Fixed bug where 100% cpu utilization was reported on OSX
  • Fix #645: Fixed server crash when updating replicas / acks
  • Fix #665: Fixed queries across shards that would trigger Assertion failed: [!br.point_replaces.empty()] in src/rdb_protocol/protocol.cc
  • Fix #750: Resolved intermittent RPCSemilatticeTest.MetadataExchange failure
  • Fix #757: Fixed a crashing bug in the environment checkpointing code
  • Fix #796: Crash when running batched writes to a sharded table in debug mode
• Documentation
  • Fix #387: Documented the command line option --web-static-directory (custom location for web assets)
  • Fix #503: Updated outdated useOutdated documentation
  • Fix #563: Fixed documentation for typeof()
  • Fix #610: Documented optional arguments for table_create: datacenter and cache_size
  • Fix #631: Fixed missing parameters in documentation for reduce
  • Fix #651: Updated comments in protobuf file to reflect current spec
  • Fix #679: Fixed incorrect examples in protobuf spec
  • Fix #691: Fixed faulty example for zip in API documentation
• Web UI
  • Fix #529: Suggestion arrow no longer goes out of bounds
  • Fix #583: Improved Data Explorer suggestions for table
  • Fix #584: Improved Data Explorer suggestion style and content
  • Fix #623: Improved margins on modals
  • Fix #629: Updated buttons and button styles on the Tables View (and throughout the UI)
  • Fix #662: Command key no longer deletes text selection in Data Explorer
  • Fix #725: Improved documentation in the Data Explorer
  • Fix #790: False values in a document no longer show up as blank in the tree view
• ReQL
  • Fix #46: Added top-level tableCreate, tableDrop and tableList to drivers
  • Fix #125: Grouped reductions now return a stream, not an array
  • Fix #370: map after dbList and tableList no longer errors
  • Fix #421: Return values from mutation operations now include all attributes, even if zero (inserted,deleted,skipped,replaced,unchanged,errors)
  • Fix #525: Improved error for groupBy
  • Fix #527: Numbers that can be represented as integers are returned as native integers
  • Fix #603: Check the number of arguments correctly in the JavaScript client
  • Fix #632: Keys of objects are no longer magically converted to strings in the drivers
  • Fix #640: Clients handle system interrupts better
  • Fix #642: Ruby client no longer has a bad error message when queries are run on a closed connection
  • Fix #650: Python driver successfully sends STOP query when the connection is closed
  • Fix #663: Undefined values are handled correctly in JavaScript objects
  • Fix #678: limit no longer automatically converts streams to arrays
  • Fix #689: Python driver no longer hardcodes the default database
  • Fix #704: typeOf is no longer broken in JavaScript driver
  • Fix #730: Ruby driver no longer accepts spurious methods
  • Fix #733: groupBy can now handle both a MAKE_OBJ protobuf and a literal R_OBJECT datum protobuf
  • Fix #767: Server now detects NaN in all cases
  • Fix #777: Ruby driver no longer occasionally truncates messages
  • Fix #779: Server now rejects strings that contain a null byte
  • Fix #789: Style improvements in Ruby driver
  • Fix #799: Python driver handles use_outdated when specified as a global option argument
• Testing
  • Fix #653: make test now works on OS X
• Build
  • Fix #475: Added a workaround to avoid make -j2 segfaulting when building on older versions of make
  • Fix #541: make clean is more aggressive
  • Fix #630: Removed cruft from the RethinkDB source tree
  • Fix #635: Building fails quickly with troublesome versions of coffee-script
  • Fix #694: Improved warnings when building with clang and ccache
  • Fix #717: Fixed ./configure --fetch-protobuf
• Migration
  • Fix #782: Improved speed in migration script

Other

• #508: Removed the JavaScript mock server
• All closed issues between 1.4.5 and 1.5.0