GemStone/S 64 Bit Release Notes

1. GemStone/S 64 Bit 3.3.9 Release Notes

Overview

Supported Platforms

Platforms for Version 3.3.9

GemBuilder for Smalltalk (GBS) Versions

VSD version

Changes in this release

Distribution changes

32-bit VSD no longer included in the distribution

copydbf reports version for backup file generated by any other version

Added GCI functions

GciNextUtf8Character

GciUtf8To8bit

Windows client-side GsFile operations fail with non-ASCII filenames

New class Utf16

Added methods

GsFile contents*OfDirectory:

Traditional string comparison mode

Unicode comparison mode

Errors on bitmap filenames that are not String or Unicode7

reclaim configuration parameters revert to speed-optimized values

Gem crash with very large GEM_MAX_SMALLTALK_STACK_DEPTH on Linux or Solaris/x86

WriteSet issues with nested transactions

Stone checkpoint state not updated quickly when checkpoint work done

Problems with copydbf -i on files on NFS-mounted disks

Integer printing broken on Windows client 64-bit topaz

Upgrade created new version of TimeZone class

GemStone internal UndefinedObjects not handled correctly by display

Class definition issues

Setting class category to nil does not work correctly

Subclass creation using byteSubclass:* did not tolerate nil SymbolDictionary

Error on versioning a class that with a nil inDictionary: argument

Indexing Issues

Incorrect results for BtreePlus indexed range query

Performance improvement in creating equality index

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