Aerospike Server CE 3.5.12 (May 28, 2015)

Aerospike Server Community Edition 3.5.12 is out! It’s available for download here.

The highlights of the release are as follows:

  • Better protection against unexpected protocol messages.
  • Improved Cloud Environment Support for using network devices and adapting firewall rules.
  • LDT backup support.

It provides the following enhancements:

  • (KVS) Issue-46 - Add option for sending of keep-alive packets on all inter-node sockets, for deployments with firewall rules which actively reap idle connections.
  • (KVS) [AER-3557] - Add device shadowing functionality, for persistence on network devices in addition to ephemeral storage.
  • (SCAN) [AER-1801] - Add scan-abort-all.
  • (LDT) [AER-3609] - Add support for LDT backup.
  • (AQL) Add EDIGEST and DIGEST as option of performing operation based on encoded and non-encoded digest string.

In addition, this release fixes a plethora of issues:

  • (KVS) [AER-3633]/[AER-3616]/[AER-3688]/[AER-3538] - Improve unexpected as_msg - compressed as_msg; namespace too long, extra data than specified.
  • (KVS) [AER-3662] - Improve unexpected as_info - protect against info command with ‘:’ and not terminated with ‘\n’.
  • (KVS) [AER-3683] - Fail on configuration with replication-factor 0.
  • (KVS) [AER-3598] - Enforce maximum device size for both files and raw devices (2TB). Minor SSD clean up.
  • (KVS) [AER-3615] - Logging fix - Fix cf_*_binary() to be safe against > 1kb. Refactor rw_cleanup(). Refactor as_transaction_error().
  • (SINDEX) [AER-3437] - Fix potential duplicate results returned on query by range due to entries not garbage collectable.
  • (SINDEX) [AER-3573] - Fix query failure when clients send setname=NULL (instead of no setname).
  • (SCAN) [AER-3609] - Support LDT elements. Improve message buffer growing scheme.
  • (SCAN) - Set the client socket file descriptor to blocking during a scan, to avoid CPU-intensive retry loops.
  • (UDF) - Do not send replica message on UDF failures on not-found files.
  • (LDT) [AER-3594] - Fix failed element delete caused by double-split leaf no longer connected.
  • (LDT) - Add some more parameter check for the llist functions. Print parent record on open failure.
  • (LDT) - Return proper error code if empty string is sent and binName or the key Type mismatch across multiple operations. Fix error code conversion.
  • (AQL) [AER-3620] - Fix for authentication fail error message logging during cluster connect for security enabled server.

Click here to view the release notes with the full list of fixes.

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