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What's New in beta-20160929 |
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Additions and changes in CockroachDB version beta-20160929. |
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- The
--advertise-hostflag can now be used to override the address to advertise to other CockroachDB nodes. #9503 - The
--http-hostflag sets the address to bind to for HTTP requests. Together with--http-port, it will replace--http-addrin a future release. #9573 - More metrics are now exported about the internal garbage collection of deleted values. #9571
- More metrics are now exported about file descriptor usage. #9582
- The system now uses OpenTracing's new key-value style logging APIs. #9578
- Fixed an inconsistency that could occur when transactions race with garbage collection. #9377
- Retried
BeginTransactionoperations no longer leak internal errors to the client. #9305 - Brief service interruptions are now avoided after shard splits. #9550
- The UI no longer crashes when a tab is reopened after being in the background for a long time. #9042
- Ranges which are not receiving traffic now stop sending raft heartbeats. #9383
- Raft snapshots are now sent as a stream instead of one large message. #9292
- The rebalancer is now better about noticing under-full stores. #9415
- Raft messages are now sent in batches. #9485
- Nodes are now quicker to fail over to other replicas when one is unresponsive. #9239
- Dropping a table or index is now faster. #9419
- Re-enabled consensus-level optimizations for network i/o. #9606
- Improved the SQL docs for granting privileges on databases and tables:
GRANT. #687 - Completed the SQL docs for:
- Getting user privileges on databases and tables:
SHOW GRANTS. #687 - Setting and getting the default database for a session:
SET DATABASEandSHOW DATABASE. #671, #683 - Setting and getting the default time zone for a session:
SET TIME ZONEandSHOW TIME ZONE. #680 - Changing the name of a table column or index:
RENAME COLUMNandRENAME INDEX. #678, #679
- Getting user privileges on databases and tables:
- Updated high-level overviews of primary CockroachDB features and added related links. #699
This release includes 78 merged PRs by 19 authors. We would like to thank the following contributors from the CockroachDB community, especially first-time contributor Haines Chan:
- Haines Chan
- Jingguo Yao