Change history

Aug 20 2014 (Beta 1)

Major changes and improvements.

New Features:
- Added client.Query()
- Added client.ScanNode()/All()
- Added client.Operate()
- Added client.CreateIndex()
- Added client.DropIndex()
- Added client.RegisterUDF()
- Added client.RegisterUDFFromFile()
- Added client.Execute()
- Added client.ExecuteUDF()
- Added client.BatchGet()
- Added client.BatchGetHeader()
- Added client.BatchExists()
- Added LDT implementation
- Added Node and Key references to the Record
Changes:
- Many minor and major bug fixes
- Potentially breaking change: Reduced Undocumented API surface
- Fixed a few places where error results were not checked
- Breaking Change: Convert Key.namespace & Key.setName from pointer to string; affects Key API
- Renamed all this receivers to appropriate names
- Major performance improvements (~2X improvements in speed and memory consumption):
  - better memory management for commands; won't allocate if capacity is big enough
  - better hash management in key; avoids two redundant memory allocs
  - use a buffer pool to reduce GC load
  - fine-grained, customizable and deterministic buffer pool implementation for command
- Optimizations for Key & Digest
  - changed digest implementation, removed an allocation
  - Added RIPEMD160 hash files from crypto to lib
  - pool hash objects
- Various Benchmark tool improvements
  - now profileable using localhost:6060
  - minor bug fixes