1. GemStone/S 64 Bit 3.3.6 Release Notes
Overview
GemStone/S 64 Bit 3.3.6 is a new version of the GemStone/S 64 Bit object server. This release fixes a critical bug in logging information on crash.
These release notes describe changes between the previous version of GemStone/S 64 Bit, version 3.3.5, and version 3.3.6. If you are upgrading from a version prior to 3.3.5, review the release notes for each intermediate release to see the full set of changes.
There are no changes in supported platforms or image level changes from 3.3.5 in this release. For supported platforms, details about installing GemStone/S 64 Bit 3.3.6 or upgrading from earlier versions of GemStone/S 64 Bit, see the GemStone/S 64 Bit Installation Guide for v3.3.5 for your platform.
Changes in this release
Crashes may not generate stack traces
There was a change in v3.3.5 in how GemStone’s pstack utility scripts processed the command line, to avoid specific cases of premature exit. This inadvertently resulted in stack traces that would normally be generated during the handling of process crashes to be missed. Versions 3.3.4 and earlier are not affected.
Since this affects diagnosis of repository crashes, GemTalk considers this to be a serious issue. (#46921)