Release candidate 1.4.1
After weeks of hard work we are happy to announce the availability of the "Release Candidate" of exist-db release 1.4.1 "Eindhoven"
The revision (15097) contains a number of fixes and code ports from the 1.5/trunk codebase. The highlights:
| Revision | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| 14967 | Update of betterFORM to latest version | |
| 14975 | Major stability improvement: changed how checkpoints are processed internally. | |
| 14977 | Added utilwait() function needed for testing. | |
| 14980 | Added fallback/workaround to avoid "Unsupported execution mode" error. | |
| 14981 | Variable declarations in recursively imported modules not correctly analyzed by XQuery engine. Fixes the "Unsupported execution mode ..." errors. | |
| 14986 | Fixed deadlock condition in XQueryURLRewrite: locks on urlCache and BrokerPool always need to be acquired in same order. | |
| 14991 | Disabled legacy FullText index (*) | |
| 14995 | prevent login html admin client if 1st time username is mistyped | |
| 14999 | Fixed match highlighting (port) | |
| 15012 | Ported improved XQuery URL rewrite from trunk. | |
| 15015 | Fixed file system backups. | |
| 15040 | Mail extension: Timezone less that UTC was formatted incorrectly | |
| 15048 | Updated unix scripts | |
| 15082 | XQueryURLRewrite: default user not correctly initialized |
A detailed changelog is available.
Notes:
- The legacy Full-Text index has been disabled by default, for stability reasons. A clear error message (exception) will be shown if an xquery depends on the deprecate feature. This index will be removed completely in future versions, while a better alternative (lucene) is available.
- We expect that revision 1.4.1 will be the last version of the 1.4.x family, unless there are strong reasons for a 1.4.2 version.
- The 1.4.1 version will be released soon, please provide us feedback on issues you found.
The release candidate can be downloaded from sourceforge using the following links:
Additional notes:
- Build with
build.sh clean clean-all installer-exe dist-war - Do not use the latest iZpack installer, this version contains a bug which makes the command line installer fail to work. Use version 4.3.3 instead.
- Re-uploaded rev15097 (with script fixes) since 15091 was built using Java6
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Pre-release 1.4.1 rev14877
The final 1.4.1 release is getting closer with this late pre-release. The following items are included:
- 14877 - both war and installer have now betterFORM enabled by default
- 14835 - update betterFORM to current RC2
- 14818 - declare option existtimeout "-1" should set query timeout to infinite.
The application can be downloaded as an installer jar, exe and as a war file.
Please share your experiences (bug reports, general feedback, thoughts) on the exist-open mailinglist so we can release a final version soon!
Pre-release 1.4.1 rev14769
Today the development team released another pre-release version of eXist-db, rev14769. It contains a number of backports of "trunk". Highlights:
- bugfix: NPE when serialization options param was zero length string. Port of rev 14690
- performance: Faster sequence constructors in XQuery: old code parsed (1, 2, 3) into (1, (2, 3)). Processing this recursively eventually caused a stack overflow and was slow. Port of rev 13874, rev 13875
- bugfix: Local XMLDB API set permissions on the wrong collection - looks like this is an old bug. Port of rev 14735
The revision can be downloaded as an installer jar, exe and as a war file. Please share your experiences (bug reports, general feedback) on the exist-open mailinglist so we can release a final version soon!
Pre-release 1.4.1 rev14669
The development team is happy to announce the availability of a new pre-release version of eXist-db release 1.4.1. This version contains a number of important stability bugfixes since rev14490. The revision contains the following (selected) items:
- (14469) Fixed concurrency issue: db could deadlock under very high load.
- (14566) Update replace with a document node causes corruption.
- (14561) REST interface can disallow collection browsing and evaluation of special parameters like _query.
A detailed changelog is available. The pre-release can be downloaded from sourceforge using the following links:
Please help us by testing the software! By proving your feedback (via mailinglist) we'll be able to release the final version soon.
