Version 0.3.2 (Avocado Update 2)

What's new in version 0.3.2?

This is the second update for the Avocado release. All users are encouraged to upgrade client jars and server binaries.

• Added support for creating a cached connection pool that continues to establish new connections on demand, but will use previously created ones when possible.
• Deprecated the ConnectionPool#newConnectionPool factory methods in favour of more descriptive ones.
• Added a method to the Convert utility class to transform a raw string value to the appropriate java primitive.
• Added a method to the Convert utility class to transform a raw string value to a resolvable link specification that instructs the receiver to add a link in a record to all the records that map a certain key to that value.
• Made server-side client_port and shutdown_port parameters configurable in concourse.prefs.
• Added check on server startup to ensure that the buffer_directory and database_directory parameters are not identical.

Version 0.3.1 (Avocado Update 1)

What's new in version 0.3.1?

This is the first update for the Avocado release. All users are encouraged to upgrade client jars and server binaries.

• Added the ability to have multiple concurrent connections for a single user.
• Added support for connection pooling to the client API.
• Removed unused transaction_directory key from concourse.prefs.
• Fixed an issue that allowed the storage of blank string keys and values.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the client from properly processing compound #get operations that tried to retrieve data for a key in a record that did not contain any values.
• Improved the info logging for transactions by only using a unique id to refer to each transaction.
• Slighly increased full text indexing speed.
• Improved CaSH documentation.

Version 0.3.0 GA

Whats new in version 0.3.0?

• Changed install and upgrade distributions from zip file to self-extracting binary.
• Added logic to upgrade from previous versions.
• Added server-side atomic operation and transaction protocols.
• Added Transaction support to the API.
• Added new #verifyAndSwap() atomic operation to the API
• Changed #set(), #clear(), and #revert() API methods to to be atomic.
• Added password based authentication and access token based session handling to server.
• Added useradmin CLI to add/edit/delete user access.
• Added several compound operations to API.
• Fixed bug that prevented server from starting on non-OSX systems.
• Made historical #find() methods consistent with other historical operations by specifying the timestamp last.
• Added Timestamp wrapper class that is interoperable with Joda DateTime, but has microsecond precision.
• Added requirement for authentication when using management CLIs.
• Fixed bug that allowed access to private variables in CaSH.
• Improved CLI error messages.
• Added API method to get server release version.
• Improved background data indexing protocol.
• Made artifact versioning more consistent.
• Added server side range locking protocol for #find() queries.
• Bug fixes.
• Improved documentation.
• Improved error messages.
• Improved build infrastructure.