rethinkdb/rethinkdb v2.1.3

2.1.3 — Forbidden Planet

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Bug fix release

Compatibility

• RethinkDB 2.1.3 servers cannot be mixed with servers running RethinkDB 2.1.1 or earlier
  in the same cluster

Bug fixes

• Fixed a data corruption bug in the b-tree implementation (#4769)
• Fixed the ssl option in the JavaScript driver (#4786)
• Made the Ruby driver compatible with Ruby on Rails 3.2 (#4753)
• Added the backports.ssl_match_hostname library to the Python driver package (#4683)
• Changed the update check to use an encrypted https connection (#3988, #4643)
• Fixed access to https sources in r.http on OS X (#3112)
• Fixed an Unexpected exception error (#4758)
• Fixed a Guarantee failed: [pair.second] crash that could occur during resharding
  (#4774)
• Fixed a bug that caused some queries to not report an error when interrupted (#4762)
• Added a new "_debug_recommit" recovery option to emergency_repair (#4720)
• Made error reporting in the Python driver compatible with celery and nose (#4764)
• Changed the handling of outdated indexes from RethinkDB 1.13 during an import to no
  longer terminate the server (#4766)

Performance improvements

• Improved the latency when reading from a system table in r.db('rethinkdb') while the
  server is under load (#4773)
• Improved the parallelism of JSON encoding on the server to utilize multiple CPU cores
• Refactored JSON decoding in the Python driver to allow the use of custom JSON parsers
  and to speed up pseudo type conversion (#4585)
• Improved the prefetching logic in the Python driver to increase the throughput of
  cursors
• Changed the Python driver to use a more efficient data structure to store cursor
  results (#4782)

Contributors

Many thanks to external contributors from the RethinkDB community for helping
us ship RethinkDB 2.1.3. In no particular order:

• Adam Grandquist (@grandquista)
• ajose01 (@ajose01)
• Paulius Uza (@pauliusuza)