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-GNU dbm NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2016-07-09
+GNU dbm NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2016-07-12
Copyright (C) 1990-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end of file for copying conditions.
Please send gdbm bug reports to <bug-gdbm@gnu.org>.
Version 1.12.90 (Git)
* gdbm_fetch, gdbm_firstkey, and gdbm_nextkey behavior
If the requested key was not found, these functions return datum with
dptr pointing to NULL and set gdbm_errno to GDBM_ITEM_NOT_FOUND (in
prior releases, gdbm_errno was set to GDBM_NO_ERROR),
@@ -22,24 +22,29 @@ The gdbm_fetch function no longer aborts on memory allocation errors.
Instead it sets gdbm_errno to GDBM_MALLOC_ERROR and returns NULL datum.
* Per-database error codes
* New functions
** gdbm_last_errno
** gdbm_clear_error
** gdbm_needs_recovery
+* Line editing in gdbmtool
+
+The gdbmtool utility now offers the usual line-editing facilities (if
+the package has been compiled with GNU Readline.
+
Version 1.12, 2016-05-16
* New configuration variable COMPATINCLUDEDIR
When used with --enable-libgdbm-compat, this variable points to the
directory where the headers file dbm.h and ndbm.h will be installed.
Use this variable to avoid conflicts with already installed headers.
E.g.:
./configure --enable-libgdbm-compat COMPATINCLUDEDIR=/usr/include/gdbm

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