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- CHANGES from 1.7.2 to 1.7.3
- 1. Fixed a couple of last minute problems. (Namely, no autoconf.h in
- version.c, and no GDBM_FASTMODE in gdbm.h!)
- 2. Fixed some documentation bugs.
-
- CHANGES from 1.7.1 to 1.7.2
- 1. Enhanced portability and compile/installation changes.
- 2. Additional, "fast mode" related gdbm_setopt() option.
- 3. Growth problems bug fix.
-
- CHANGES from 1.7 to 1.7.1
- 1. Enhanced portabilty and compile/installation bug fixes.
- 2. Switched over to using an auto config header.
- 2. Slight documentation upgrade.
-
- CHANGES from 1.6 to 1.7
- 1. A new dynamic, delayed initialization, bucket cache.
- 2. New gdbm_setopt(), gdbm_exists(), and gdbm_strerror() routines.
- 3. Slightly improved dbm/ndbm compatibility.
- 4. Greatly improved portability to 64 or 16 bit machines.
- 5. Various bug fixes.
-
- CHANGES from 1.5 to 1.6
- 1. New documentation in both man and texinfo formats.
- 2. Bug fixes.
- 3. A New "writers" mode that does not fsync the database.
- 4. Uses Autoconf now.
-
- CHANGES from 1.4 to 1.5:
- 1. Minor bug fixes. See the ChangeLog.
- 2. Added gdbmconst.h to allow users to change the size of the
- bucket cache in the systems.h file.
-
- CHANGES from 1.0 to 1.4:
- 1. Mainly bug fixes.
- 2. A define for "dbmclose()" was added to dbm.h for those few
- implementaions that need that call.
- 3. For details, see the ChangeLog.
-
- CHANGES from 0.9 to 1.0:
- 1. Makefiles were combined into one and a few new things added to it.
- 2. Several minor bugs were fixed including a cache bug.
- 3. Two new calls (dbm_pagfno, dbm_dirfno) were added to the NDBM interface.
- 3. A conversion program from dbm files to gdbm files was added.
- 4. Reorganize was changed to allow complex file names. (dir/file form)
- 5. testgdbm, testndbm, and testdbm were modified to return key and data
- pairs where needed and to take an optional file name as an argument.
- testgdbm had some command characters changed.
- 6. The DBM and NDBM interfaces were separated.
- 7. An include file for dbm users was added. (dbm.h)
- 8. The include file for ndbm users was renamed ndbm.h. (It was gndbm.h.)
-
- CHANGES from 0.8 to 0.9:
- 1. The hash function changed.
- 2. The file format changed.
- 3. There was a complete rewrite of falloc.c.
- 4. There were added compatiblity routines for ndbm.
- 5. The file names for dbm compatibility routines were made to
- look like dbm.
- 6. Test programs changed.
- 7. Support for System V.
- 8. Various other small changes.
- 9. The need for recovery and associated code was removed.
-