Date released: 2016-09-26

1.6.9 is a maintenance release in the 1.6.x series.

This release is the last one in the 1.6.9 series. For new deployments, please consider using Tarantool 1.7.3.

Release tag is 1.6.9-4-gcc9ddd7.

Functionality added or changed

• Tab-based autocompletion in the interactive console
  #86
• LUA_PATH and LUA_CPATH environment variables taken into account, like in PUC-RIO Lua
  #1428
• Search for .dylib as well as for .so libraries in OS X
  #810
• A new box.cfg { read_only = true } option to emulate master-slave behavior
  #246
• if_not_exists = true option added to box.schema.user.grant
  #1683
• clock_realtime()/monotonic() functions added to the public C API
  #1455;
• space:count(key, opts) introduced as an alias for space.index.primary:count(key, opts)
  #1391
• Upgrade script for 1.6.4 -> 1.6.8 -> 1.6.9
  #1281
• Support for OpenSSL 1.1
  #1722

Bugs fixed

• Segfault on xpcall + box.rollback()
  #1688
• iproto buffers grows infinetly
  #846
  #1347
• iproto buffers are never rotated in some conditions
  #1642
• Segfault on xlogs completely fill disk
  #1344
• SIGPIPE on master if replica closes socket during SUBSCRIBE
  #1627
• Crash on SIGUSR1 in console process
  #1624
• BITSET index with inappropriate types crashes in debug build
  #1549
• strange behavior of csv module
  #1509
• Iterator types are not validated in request
  #1467
• Wrong syslog identity
  #1436
• box.cfg log message loop
  #1420
• SIGSEGV in eio_finish
  #1411
• Fio.open creates files with 000 UNIX mode bug
  #1211
• Interactive tarantool ignores SIGINT(+) if linked with system readline on osx
  #1127
• tarantoolctl eval stops execution after box.cfg{}
  #1394
• tarantoolctl connect doesn't report errors in case of wrong URI
  #1586
• tarantoolctl won't open control socket
  #1469
• tarantool doesn't start listening on existing socket file
  #1395
• Remove unix socket file at exit
  #1434
• clock_gettime() detected but unavailable in macos
  #1777
• Debian: tarantool package must depend on tarantool-common
  #1524

A full list of fixed bugs is available at
https://github.com/tarantool/tarantool/issues?q=milestone%3A1.6.9+is%3Aclosed

New rocks and packages

• curl - Non-blocking bindings for libcurl
• prometheus - Prometheus metric collector for Tarantool
• gis - A full-featured geospatial extension for Tarantool
• mqtt - An MQTT protocol client for Tarantool
• luaossl - The most comprehensive OpenSSL module in the Lua universe

Incompatible changes and possible caveats

• Support for SHA-0 (digest.sha()) was removed due to OpenSSL upgrade
• Tarantool binary now dynamically links with libssl.so during compile time instead of loading it at the run time
• Fedora 22 packages were deprecated (EOL)