rethinkdb/rethinkdb v1.8.0

1.8.0 -- High Noon

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See the release announcement

This release introduces date and time support, a new syntax for querying nested objects and 8x improvement in disk usage.

New Features

• ReQL
  • order_by now accepts a function as an argument and can efficiently sort by index (#159, #1120, #1258)
  • slice and between are now half-open by default (#869)
    • The behaviour can be changed by setting the new optional right_bound argument to closed
      or by setting left_bound to open
  • contains can now be passed a predicate (#870)
  • merge is now deep by default (#872)
    • Introduced literal to merge flat values
  • coerce_to can now convert strings to numbers (#877)
  • Added support for times (#977)
    • +, -, <, <=, >, >=, == and !=: arithmetic and comparison
    • during: match a time with an interval
    • in_timezone: change the timezone offset
    • date, time_of_day, timezone, year, month, day, weekday, hour, minute and second: accessors
    • time, epoch_time and iso8601: constructors
    • monday to sunday and january to december: constants
    • now: current time
    • to_iso8601, to_epoch_time: conversion
  • Add the nested document syntax to functions other than pluck (#1094)
    • without, group_by, with_fields and has_fields
  • Remove Google Closure from the JavaScript driver (#1194)
    • It now depends on the protobufjs and node-protobuf libraries
• Server
  • Added a --canonical-address HOST[:PORT] command line option for connecting RethinkDB nodes across different networks (#486)
    • Two instances behind proxies can now be configured to connect to each other
  • Optimize space efficiency by allowing smaller block sizes (#939)
  • Added a --no-direct-io startup flag that turns off direct IO (#1051)
  • Rewrote the extproc code, making r.js interuptible and fixing many crashes (#1097, #1106)
  • Added support for V8 >= 3.19 (#1195)
  • Clear blobs when they are unused (#1286)
• Web UI
  • Use relative paths (#1053)
• Build
  • Add support for Emacs' flymake-mode (#1161)

Fixed Bugs

• ReQL
  • Check the type of the callback passed to next and each in the JavaScript driver (#656)
  • Fixed how some backtraces are printed in the JavaScript driver (#973)
  • Coerce the port argument to a number in the Python driver (#1017)
  • Functions that are polymorphic on objects and sequences now only recurse one level deep (#1045)
    • Affects pluck, has_fields, with_fields, etc
  • In the JavaScript driver, no longer fail when requiring the module twice (#1047)
  • r.union now returns a stream when given two streams (#1081)
  • r.db can now be chained with do in the JavaScript driver (#1082)
  • Improve the error message when combining for_each and return_vals (#1104)
  • Fixed a bug causing the JavaScript driver to overflow the stack when given an object with circular references (#1133)
  • Don't leak internal functions in the JavaScript driver (#1164)
  • Fix the qurey printing in the Python driver (#1178)
  • Correctly depend on node >= 0.10 in the JavaScript driver (#1197)
• Server
  • Improved the error message when there is a version mismatch in data files (#521)
  • The --no-http-admin option now disables the check for the web assets folder (#1092)
  • No longer compile JavaScript expressions once per row (#1105)
  • Fixed a crash in the 32-bit version caused by not using 64-bit file offsets (#1129)
  • Fixed a crash caused by malformed json documents (#1132)
  • Fixed a crash caused by moving func_t betweek threads (#1157)
  • Improved the scheduling the coroutines that sometimes caused heartbeat timeouts (#1169)
  • Fixed conflict_resolving_diskmgr_t to suport files over 1TB (#1170)
  • Fixed a crash caused by disconnecting too fast (#1182)
  • Fixed the error message when js_runner_t::call times out (#1218)
  • Fixed a crash caused by serializing unintitialised values (#1219)
  • Fixed a bug that caused an assertion failure in protob_server_t (#1220)
  • Fixed a bug causing too many file descriptors to be open (#1225)
  • Fixed memory leaks reported by valgrind (#1233)
  • Fixed a crash triggered by the BTreeSindex test (#1237)
  • Fixed some problems with import performance, interruption, parsing, and error reporting (#1252)
  • RethinkDB proxy no longer crashes when interacting with the Web UI (#1276)
• Tests
  • Fixed the connectivity tests for OS X (#613)
  • Fix the python connection tests (#1110)
• Web UI
  • Provide a less scary error message when a request times out (#1074)
  • Provide proper suggestions in the presence of comments in the Data Explorer (#1214)
  • The More data link in the data explorer now works consistently (#1222)
• Documentation
  • Improved the documentaiton for update and pluck (#1141)
• Build
  • Fixed bugs that caused make to not rebuild certain files or build files it should not (#1162, #1215, #1216, #1229, #1230, #1272)