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@@ -1,20 +1,49 @@ -GNU dbm NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2018-05-19 +GNU dbm NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2018-05-24 Copyright (C) 1990-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end of file for copying conditions. Please send gdbm bug reports to <bug-gdbm@gnu.org>. Version 1.14.90 +FIXME: BUMP VI_MAJOR + * Implement database consistency checks * Improved error checking * Removed gdbm-1.8.3 compatibility layer +* Commands can be given to gdbmtool in the command line + +The syntax is: + + gdbmtool DBNAME COMMAND [ARGS...] + +Multiple commands are separated by semicolon (take care to escape it), +e.g.: + + gdbmtool t.db count\; avail + +* Fixed data conversion bugs in storing structured keys or content + +* New member in the gdbm_recovery structure: duplicate_keys. + +Upon return from gdbm_recover, this member holds the number of keys +that were not recovered, because the same key has already been stored +in the database. The actual number of stored keys is thus +recovered_keys - duplicate_keys. + +* New error codes. + + GDBM_BAD_BUCKET "Malformed bucket header" + GDBM_BAD_HEADER "Malformed database file header" + GDBM_BAD_AVAIL "Malformed avail_block" + GDBM_BAD_HASH_TABLE "Malformed hash table" + Version 1.14.1 - 2018-01-03 * Increment soname current version number. |