# Aerospike Database 5.7.0.7 (September 27, 2021) **URL:** \ **Category:** Releases (Server, Client & Tools)\ **Created:** [September 27, 2021, 11:56am UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/aerospike-database-5-7-0-7-september-27-2021/8857 "2021-09-27T11:56:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mcoberly](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.aerospike.com/mcoberly/32/637_2.png) [@mcoberly](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/mcoberly)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2021, 11:56am UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/aerospike-database-5-7-0-7-september-27-2021/8857/1 "2021-09-27T11:56:19Z")
[Aerospike Database version 5.7.0.7](https://www.aerospike.com/download/server/notes.html#5.7.0.7)was released on September 27, 2021. This major release contains Improvements & an Update. - For upgrading, or the unlikely event of downgrading, please refer to [Special Upgrades](https://enterprise.aerospike.com/docs/operations/upgrade/aerospike/special_upgrades/index.html). - The Predicate Expression API is obsolete. The Aerospike Server and Client have scheduled removal with our next major Aerospike Server release, around November 2021. Please Use [Aerospike Filter Expressions](https://enterprise.aerospike.com/docs/guide/expressions/index.html) (added in version 5.2). - The [`jobs`](https://enterprise.aerospike.com/docs/reference/info/index.html?show-removed=1#jobs) info command is now officially deprecated and will continue to be supported through a deprecation period, after which it will be removed. [`jobs`](https://enterprise.aerospike.com/docs/reference/info/index.html?show-removed=1#jobs) are now redundant with the new secondary index building methods and the following new info commands: - [`scan-show`](https://enterprise.aerospike.com/docs/reference/info/index.html?show-removed=1#scan-show) replaces `scan-list` . - [`query-show`](https://enterprise.aerospike.com/docs/reference/info/index.html?show-removed=1#query-show) replaces `query-list` . - [`query-abort`](https://enterprise.aerospike.com/docs/reference/info/index.html?show-removed=1#query-abort) replaces `query-kill` . - The configuration parameter [`batch-without-digests`](https://enterprise.aerospike.com/docs/reference/configuration/index.html?show-removed=1#batch-without-digests), now defaults to true, is deprecated and will be removed in six months. Customers using clients older than a year (around the time of Server 4.9 which introduced [`batch-without-digests`](https://enterprise.aerospike.com/docs/reference/configuration/index.html?show-removed=1#batch-without-digests)) will now have to explicitly set the [`batch-without-digests`](https://enterprise.aerospike.com/docs/reference/configuration/index.html?show-removed=1#batch-without-digests)configuration item to false. - A number of [`Best Practices`](https://enterprise.aerospike.com/docs/operations/install/linux/bestpractices/index.html) will be checked at startup. The Best Practices can be enforced by enabling the new [`enforce-best-practices`](https://enterprise.aerospike.com/docs/reference/configuration/index.html?show-removed=1#enforce-best-practices) configuration item. - The security context configuration items [`enable-security`](https://enterprise.aerospike.com/docs/reference/configuration/index.html?show-removed=1#enable-security) and [`enable-ldap`](https://enterprise.aerospike.com/docs/reference/configuration/index.html?show-removed=1#enable-ldap) have been removed. The Server will not start if either [`enable-security`](https://enterprise.aerospike.com/docs/reference/configuration/index.html?show-removed=1#enable-security)or [`enable-ldap`](https://enterprise.aerospike.com/docs/reference/configuration/index.html?show-removed=1#enable-ldap) is present in the configuration file. - Security will now be enabled simply by the presence of the security { } section in the configuration file. Similarly, LDAP will now be enabled simply by the presence of the ldap { } section within the security { } section of the configuration file. - To use XDR with ACL [`auth-mode`](https://enterprise.aerospike.com/docs/reference/configuration/index.html?show-removed=1#auth-mode) must be explicitly configured. - For more information please refer to: [Securing with access control using PKI (versions 5.7+)](https://enterprise.aerospike.com/docs/operations/configure/cross-datacenter/xdr_security.html#securing-with-access-control-using-pki-versions-5-7-). - We build on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 instead of CentOS 8 when creating rpm packages. - For more information please refer to: [CentOS Linux EOL](https://www.centos.org/centos-linux-eol/). #### Improvements - Enterprise & Community - [AER-6429] - (BATCH) Changed default value of service context configuration item [`batch-without-digests`](https://enterprise.aerospike.com/docs/reference/configuration/index.html?show-removed=1#batch-without-digests) to true - the item is now deprecated. - [AER-6430] - (CLUSTERING) Reject the [`recluster`](https://enterprise.aerospike.com/docs/reference/info/index.html?show-removed=1#recluster) info command if already reclustering. - [AER-6461] - (DEPLOYMENT) Sanity-check various system settings and server configuration items at startup. - [AER-6432] - (FABRIC) Handle fabric node list with a more granular hash and an improved node id hash function. - [AER-6459] - (GEO) Changed namespace geo2dsphere-within context configuration item [`max-level`](https://enterprise.aerospike.com/docs/reference/configuration/index.html?show-removed=1#max-level) default from 30 to 20. - [AER-6455] - (INFO) Replaced `scan-list` and `query-list` with [`scan-show`](https://enterprise.aerospike.com/docs/reference/info/index.html?show-removed=1#scan-show) and [`query-show`](https://enterprise.aerospike.com/docs/reference/info/index.html?show-removed=1#query-show), renamed `query-kill` to [`query-abort`](https://enterprise.aerospike.com/docs/reference/info/index.html?show-removed=1#query-abort). - [AER-6433] - (KVS) Switch write transactions from write-commit-level ‘master’ to ‘all’ if fabric send queues are overwhelmed. - [AER-6441] - (KVS) Reject replica writes if they are overwhelming the write queue. - [AER-6447] - (KVS) By default, exclude group and ‘other’ permissions when creating files. - [AER-6452] - (KVS) Removed non-essential sprig element counters, saving three bytes of overhead per sprig. - [AER-6470] - (KVS) Replaced fabric idle connection queue and storage device open file descriptor queues with lockless pools. - [AER-6471] - (KVS) Upgraded JEMalloc submodule to ‘stable-4’ version, plus modifications for Valgrind. - [AER-6434] - (LOGGING) Do not truncate the log file when (re)opening it during log rotation. - [AER-6460] - (LOGGING) Improved logging around duplicate node-ids. - [AER-6428] - (MIGRATION) Pause immigrations if they are overwhelming the write queue. - [AER-6450] - (SCAN) Queue dynamic set-index population jobs, to serialize them and reduce CPU usage. - [AER-6464] - (SINDEX) Secondary indexes store primary index references instead of digests - reduces memory footprint and improves garbage collection. - [AER-6476] - (STATS) Added [`system_thp_mem_kbytes`](https://enterprise.aerospike.com/docs/reference/metrics/index.html?show-removed=1#system_thp_mem_kbytes) statistic. - [AER-6436] - (STORAGE) Added namespace context configuration item [`max-record-size`](https://enterprise.aerospike.com/docs/reference/configuration/index.html?show-removed=1#max-record-size). - [AER-6468] - (STORAGE) Allow value of 0 for storage context configuration item [`defrag-startup-minimum`](https://enterprise.aerospike.com/docs/reference/configuration/index.html?show-removed=1#defrag-startup-minimum), and made that the default. - Enterprise Only - [AER-6454] - (ACL) Moved configuration item [`session-ttl`](https://enterprise.aerospike.com/docs/reference/configuration/index.html?show-removed=1#session-ttl) from ‘ldap’ to ‘security’ context, and [`ldap-login-threads`](https://enterprise.aerospike.com/docs/reference/configuration/index.html?show-removed=1#ldap-login-threads) (renamed as [`login-threads`](https://enterprise.aerospike.com/docs/reference/configuration/index.html?show-removed=1#login-threads)) from ‘security’ to ‘ldap’ context. - [AER-6456] - (ACL) Removed security context configuration items [`enable-security`](https://enterprise.aerospike.com/docs/reference/configuration/index.html?show-removed=1#enable-security) and [`enable-ldap`](https://enterprise.aerospike.com/docs/reference/configuration/index.html?show-removed=1#enable-ldap). - [AER-6462] - (ACL) Added support for PKI authentication. - [AER-6453] - (AUDIT) Added separate ‘audit’ logging context so that auditing via a regular log sink will not include all ‘security’ context logs. - [AER-6431] - (STATS) Added [`unreplicated_records`](https://enterprise.aerospike.com/docs/reference/metrics/index.html?show-removed=1#unreplicated_records) statistic for [`strong-consistency`](https://enterprise.aerospike.com/docs/reference/configuration/index.html?show-removed=1#strong-consistency) namespaces. - [AER-6445] - (STORAGE) Added storage context configuration item [`encryption-old-key-file`](https://enterprise.aerospike.com/docs/reference/configuration/index.html?show-removed=1#encryption-old-key-file) to support rotation of encryption keys. - [AER-6449] - (STORAGE) Updated storage compression submodules. - [AER-6440] - (XDR) Disallow DC context configuration items [`auth-user`](https://enterprise.aerospike.com/docs/reference/configuration/index.html?show-removed=1#auth-user) and [`auth-password-file`](https://enterprise.aerospike.com/docs/reference/configuration/index.html?show-removed=1#auth-password-file) for connector DCs. - [AER-6443] - (XDR) An ‘xdr’ context in the configuration file is no longer required in order to configure DCs dynamically. #### Updates - **aerospike-tools** [6.1.0](https://enterprise.aerospike.com/download/tools/6.1.0/)