In our latest patch, v2.0.2, the focus remained on fortifying our 2.0 release. In this short development cycle there were nearly 100 feature improvements and fixes. I’ll call out a few of them here, but leave it to you to go download this latest release and see for yourself.
For starters, I should note that 2.0.2 continued with the optimization of our deployment for geo-distributed environments. A significant mention here is the progress made on defense, adding greater resilience to both network errors and high-latency network links.
Also of note, our SQL team has added new syntax to ALTER SEQUENCE, introducing a lower bound for a sequence [DB-493]. There’s also new support for ALTER TABLE … CHANGE COLUMN, as used in the ActiveObjects framework [DB-2752].
.Net users received a New Year’s gift too. We’ve made it so that stored procedures can now be called from the .Net Entity Framework [DB-3729]. We’ve also added an upper limit on our connection pool.
Our Admin Tier team has been very busy, making adjustments in and around the Automation Console and related tools. Here’s a list of just a few of their notable updates:
DB-4797, DB-4863: Auto Console now distinguishes a database being “In/Active”, and the state(s) of its distributed processes, as well as details on requirements not being met.
DB-4862, DB-4730: Auto Console shows Agent’s advertised address instead of just hostname.
DB-4906, DB-4901: Host info now includes region. Domain summary groups by region, sorts by host address which considers alt-address settings.
DB-4669: Auto Console client side UI improves re-connecting and loading.
DB-4184, DB-4920: Enforcer of managed databases now handles Engine start issues better to report failures back to the client UI.
DB-4484: Admin database can be bootstrapped using any template; see default.properties.
DB-4961: Agent/Broker java options have been updated for OSX and Windows to set the Out-of-Memory handler to create a dump file. Linux users can update the jvm-options file to enable it.
DB-4807: Agent/Broker logging has been adjusted to use ISO 8601 timestamps and remove the line-feed in the log context.
DB-4663, DB-5113: Auto Console correctly displays CPU usage percentages, mirroring how Unix process monitoring facilities work.
DB-4795: Auto Console “hosts” now shows TPS as “average”
As always, we encourage your sharing of ideas, feedback, and experiences with NuoDB in our Community Forum.
Happy New Year!
