rethinkdb/rethinkdb v2.3.1

2.3.1 — Fantasia

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Bug fix release

Compatibility

RethinkDB 2.3.1 servers can be mixed with RethinkDB 2.3.0 servers in the same cluster.
We recommend that you run a mixed-version cluster only temporarily for upgrading
purposes.

No migration is required when upgrading from RethinkDB 2.3.0. Please read the
RethinkDB 2.3.0 release notes if you're upgrading from an
older version.

Supported systems

We now provide packages for Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus).

The r.http command no longer supports fetching data from encrypted https resources on
OS X 10.7 and 10.8 (#5681). Newer releases of OS X are not affected.

Bug fixes

• Server
  • Fixed a segmentation fault triggered by performing a batched insert with multiple
    occurrences of the same primary key (#5683)
  • Fixed an uncaught exception bug in the hostname_to_ips function that could be
    triggered by connecting a server with an unresolvable address (#5629)
  • Fixed a query failure when opening a changefeed with the squash: true option on a
    system table (#5644)
  • Fixed a crash that was triggered when joining servers with identical server names
    (#5643)
  • Fixed an issue with the random number generator that stopped initial server names from
    getting randomized correctly (#5655)
  • Fixed a bug that caused memory to not be released properly after dropping a table or
    removing its replicas from a server (#5666)
  • Fixed a bug causing eqJoin to freeze the server when chained after a changes
    command (#5696)
  • Fixed an issue that caused the returnChanges: "always" option of the insert
    command to miss certain types of errors in the changes result (#5366)
  • Fixed a crash on OS X 10.7 when using the .dmg uninstaller (#5671)
  • The OS X .dmg uninstaller is now signed (#5615)
  • Fixed an edge case in the error handling for auto-generated primary keys when
    inserting into a system table (#5691)
  • RethinkDB can now be compiled with GCC 5.3 (#5635)
• JavaScript driver
  • Renamed the username option of the r.connect command to user. The username
    option is still supported for backwards-compatibility with existing code (#5659)
  • Improved the error message shown when connecting with the 2.3 driver to an older
    server (#5667)
• Python driver
  • Improved the error message that is emitted when trying to connect to a server with a
    wrong password (#5624)
  • Fixed the "global name 'options' is not defined" bug in the rethinkdb import script
    (#5637)
  • Fixed a Python 3 incompatibility in the rethinkdb restore script (#5647)
• Java driver
  • Implemented the timeout option for getNext (#5603)
  • Losing the server connection while having a changefeed open now correctly results in
    an error (#5660)
  • The driver now caches authentication nonces in order to speed up connection setup
    (#5614)

Contributors

Many thanks to external contributors from the RethinkDB community for helping
us ship RethinkDB 2.3.1. In no particular order:

• Brian Chavez (@bchavez)
• Neil Hanlon (@NeilHanlon)
• Jason Soares (@JasonSoares)
• Magnus Lundgren (@iorlas1)