rethinkdb/rethinkdb v1.6.0

RethinkDB 1.6.0 (Fargo)

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Released on 2013-06-13

This release introduces basic access control, regular expression matching, new array operations, random sampling, better error handling, and many bug fixes.

New Features

• ReQL
  • Added access control with a single, common API key (#266)
  • Improved handshake to the client driver protocol (#978)
  • Added sample command for random sampling of sequences (#861, #182)
  • Secondary indexes can be queried with boolean values (#854)
  • Added onFinished callback to each in JavaScript to improve cursors (#443)
  • Added per-command durability settings (#890)
    • Changed hard_durability=True to durability = 'soft' | 'hard'
    • Added a durability option to run
  • Added with_fields command, and pluck no longer throws on missing attributes (#886)
  • Renamed contains to has_fields (#885)
    • has_fields runs on tables, objects, and arrays, and doesn't throw on missing attributes
    • contains now checks if an element is in an array
  • Added default command: replaces missing fields with a default value (#884)
  • Added new array operations (#868, #198, #341)
    • prepend: prepends an element to an array
    • append: appends an element to an array
    • insert_at: inserts an element at the specified index
    • splice_at: splices a list into another list at the specified index
    • delete_at: deletes the element at the specified index
    • change_at: changes the element at the specified index to the specified value
    • + operator: adds two arrays -- returns the ordered union
    • * operator: repeats an array n times
    • difference: removes all instances of specified elements from an array
    • count: returns the number of elements in an array
    • indexes_of: returns positions of elements that match the specified value in an array
    • is_empty: check if an array or table is empty
    • set_insert: adds an element to a set
    • set_intersection: finds the intersection of two sets
    • set_union: returns the union of two sets
    • set_difference: returns the difference of two sets
  • Added match command for regular expression matching (#867)
  • Added keys command that returns the fields of an object (#181)
• Web UI
  • Document fields are now sorted in alphabetical order in the table view (#832)
• CLI
  • Added -v flag as an alias for --version (#839)
  • Added --io-threads flag to allow limiting the amount of concurrent I/O operations (#928)
• Build system
  • Allow building the documentation with Python 3 (#826, #815)
  • Have make build the Ruby and Python drivers (#923)

Fixed Bugs

• Server
  • Fixed a crash caused by resharding during secondary index creation (#852)
  • Fixed style problems: code hygiene (#805)
  • Server code cleanup (#920, #924)
  • Properly check permissions for writing the pid file (#916)
• ReQL
  • Use the correct function name in backtraces (#995)
  • Fixed callback issues in the JavaScript driver (#846)
  • In JavaScript, call the callback when the connection is closed (#758)
  • In JavaScript, GETATTR now checks the argument count (#992)
  • Tweaked the CoffeeScript source to work with older versions of coffee and node (#963)
  • Fixed a typo in the error handling of the JavaScript driver (#961)
  • Fixed performance regression for pluck and without (#947)
  • Make sure callbacks get cleared in the Javascript driver (#942)
  • Improved errors when return is omitted in Javascript (#914)
• Web UI
  • Correctly distinguish case sensitive table names (#822)
  • No longer display some results as { ... } in the table view (#937)
  • Ensured tables are available before listing their indexes (#926)
  • Fixed the autocompletion for opening square brackets (#917)
• Tests
  • Modified the polyglot test framework to catch more possible errors (#724)
  • Polyglot tests can now run in debug mode (#614)
• Build
  • Look for libprotobuf in the correct path (#860, #853)
  • Always fetch and use the same version of Handlebars.js (#821, #819, #958)
  • Check for versions of LESS that are known to work (#956)
  • Removed bitrotted MOCK_CACHE_CHECK option (#804)