1. GemStone/S 64 Bit 3.5.6 Release Notes

Overview

Supported Platforms

Platforms for Version 3.5.6

GemBuilder for Smalltalk (GBS) Versions

VSD Version

Changes in this release

Updated library version

Support for Mac "Big Sur"

LdapDirectoryServer now supports TLS options

Added LdapDirectoryServer methods

Minor change in version.txt

Object >> initialize default implementation

Bugs Fixed

Incorrect incremental tranlogging of changes to kinds of IdentityBag from within nested transactions

Added configuration parameter STN_TRAN_INCREMENTAL_LOGGING

Hot standby issues

logsender may read incomplete tranlog records

logsender compression buffer too small

ProfMonitor did not automatically delete its file

Issues related to Symbol Garbage Collection

Cumulative algorithm changes in Symbol GC

Symbol GC may have collected referenced Symbols

Symbol GC slow with many dead symbols

GcGem logging issues

Reclaim log entries omitted

Warnings on range test incorrect

On startup, verbose logging was true

More information printed when reclaimVerboseLogging is true

Upgrade required DataCurator password to be manually reset

LDAP issues

LDAP did not work for processes in setuid mode

GemStone's LDAP library did not correctly set directory for ldap.conf

LDAP did not support reset of TLS credentials

GsHostProcess may run hot while waiting for a long-running command

Cross-version connection to 3.5.x.y versions failed

Memory leak in X509-secured NetLDI and HostAgent

GEM_ABORT_MAX_CRS impacts GBS traversals

Issues related to automatic startup of statmonitor

Stone did not auto-start statmonitor early enough when in recovery

GEM_STATMONITOR_ARGS did not start statmonitor

On Windows clients, the "RUNNING ON" platform displayed is incorrect