rethinkdb/rethinkdb v1.7.0

1.7.0 -- Nights of Cabiria

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See the release announcement

This release introduces hot backup, atomic set and get operations, significant insert performance improvements, nested document syntax, and native binaries for CentOS / RHEL.

New Features

• ReQL
  • Added r.json for parsing JSON strings server-side (#887)
  • Added syntax to pluck to access nested documents (#889)
  • get_all now takes a variable number of arguments (#915)
  • Added atomic set and get operations (#976)
    • update, insert, delete and replace now take an optional return_vals argument that returns the values that have been atomically modified
  • Renamed getattr to get_field and make it polymorphic on arrays (#993)
  • Drivers now use faster protobuf libraries when possible (#1027, #1026, #1025)
  • Drivers now use r.json to improve the performance of inserts (#1085)
  • Improved the behaviour of pluck (#1095)
    • A field with a non-pluckable value is considered absent
• Web UI
  • It is now possible to resolve auth_key conflicts via the web UI (#1028)
  • The web UI now uses relative paths (#1053)
• Server
  • Flushes to disk less often to improve performance without affecting durability (#520)
• CLI
  • Import and export JSON and CSV files (#193)
    • Four new subcommands: rethinkdb import, rethinkdb export, rethinkdb dump and rethinkdb restore
  • rethinkdb admin no longer requires the --join option (#1052)
    • It now connects to localhost:29015 by default
• Documentation
  • Documented durability settings correctly (#1008)
  • Improved instructions for migration (#1013)
  • Documented the allowed character names for tables (#1039)
• Packaging
  • RPMs for CentOS (#268)

Fixed Bugs

• ReQL
  • Fixed the behaviour of between with null and secondary indexes (#1001)
• Web UI
  • Moved to using a patched Bootstrap, Handlebars.js 1.0.0 and LESS 1.4.0 (#954)
  • Fixed bug causing nested arrays to be shown as {...} in the Data Explorer (#1038)
  • Inline comments are now parsed correctly in the Data Explorer (#1060)
  • Properly remove event listeners from the dashboard view (#1044)
• Server
  • Fixed a crash caused by shutting down the server during secondary index creation (#1056)
  • Fixed a potential btree corruption bug (#986)
• Tests
  • ReQL tests no longer leave zombie processes (#1055)