GemStone/S 64 Bit Release Notes

Overview

• New keyfiles required

Supported Platforms

• Platforms for Version 3.5

• GemBuilder for Smalltalk (GBS) Versions

• VSD Version

• Upgrade

  • Upgrading from GLASS/GsDevKit/Seaside

• Documentation Changes

1.1 Library and Distribution changes

• Updated library versions

• Updated ZoneInfo (TimeZone database)

• Raspberry Pi

• 32-bit openSSL client now included

• Change in how shared libraries are packed

• File documenting special selectors

• shrpcmonitor shell removed

• Open Source Library versions

• Temporary files on Linux now created in /tmp, not /usr/tmp

• Banner printing changes

• DbfHistory now includes build as well as version

1.2 Optimizations

• Reduced round-trips from Gem to Stone

• SSL-encrypted Network Connections

• Loading a specific OpenSSL library version

• Improved support for additional execution environments

• Expansion in file and path names

• Automatic Asynchronous Aborts

• Spin locks reduced

• Array with: now implemented as primitive

• Cache line size

• OOB signal

1.3 Support for X509-Secured GemStone

• New HostAgent process

• New login parameter set

• All connections require certificates

• Remote and mid-level shared page caches

• Object Filtering

2.1 Changes in Users and ObjectSecurityPolicies

• Added system users

• Changes in GsObjectSecurityPolicy

• UserProfile instance variable renamed

• New authentication scheme for X509-Secured GemStone

2.2 Changes in Garbage Collection

• Repository reclaimAll with wait added

• Setting persistent GcGem parameters

2.3 Changes in Backup

• Compressed backups using lz4 have improved compression

• Repository >> fullBackupTo: can accept an array

• restoreFromBackup: accepts filename without compression suffix

2.4 GemStone access without a Stone / Solo sessions

• Scripting with topaz solo using she-bang

2.5 Other Changes related to administrative operations

• Local host reported as localhost

• Printing of socket addresses changed

• GEMSTONE_NRS_ALL and handling of NetLDI child process logs

• Changes in System class >> descriptionOfSession:

• performOnServer: using alternate shells

• Disconnecting from one mid-level cache and connecting to another

• Determining what mid-level cache a session is connected to

• C stack traces on Windows for fatal errors

• Handling cygwin file names on windows

2.6 Changes in Errors

• New Error Classes

• Added Error Numbers associated with existing error classes

• Changes in Error message arguments

2.7 Changes in Utilities

• startnetldi

• copydbf changes

• pageaudit additional statistics

• gemnetobject arguments and documentation

• startlogsender/startlogreceiver

• New utility largememorypages

• gslist no longer distributed on Windows

• startstone and startnetldi return codes

2.8 Topaz changes

• New command line argument -S for scripting

• Improvements for support for additional compilation environments

• X509-Secure GemStone login arguments

• BREAK accepts new method specification syntax

• topaz objectSpec parsing numbers

• List classes allows subset filtering

• Omitting deprecated methods from method lists

• Added topaz commands

  • POLLFORSIGNAL

  • TMETHOD to support code management

• Subcommands added to topaz SET

  • ENABLEREMOVEALL

  • INPUTPAUSEONERROR

  • SOLOLOGIN

  • ENVVAR

• Subcommands added to OMIT and DISPLAY

  • VERSIONEDCLASSNAMES

• Subcommand added to topaz STACK

  • TERMINATE

2.9 Configuration Parameter Changes

• Parsing and Error handling for configuration files

• Determining which Configuration files are in use

• Removed Configuration Parameters

• Changes in existing configuration parameters

  • STN_COMMITS_ASYNC disabled

  • STN_TRAN_LOG_DIRECTORIES limited to 100

  • SHR_PAGE_CACHE_SIZE_KB rounded to up next MB increment

  • SHR_PAGE_CACHE_NUM_PROCS provides additional count

  • DBF_ALLOCATION_MODE

  • GEM_PGSVR_COMPRESS_PAGE_TRANSFERS, GEM_PGSVR_UPDATE_CACHE_ON_READ, STN_PAGE_MGR_COMPRESSION_ENABLED

  • GEM_TEMPOBJ_MESPACE_SIZE and GEM_TEMPOBJ_POMGEN_SIZE

  • STN_LOG_IO_FLAGS

  • GEM_TEMPOBJ_POMGEN_SIZE scaling

• Added Configuration Parameters

  • GEM_SOLO_EXTENT

  • STN_ANONYMOUS_SSL

• Added runtime-only configuration parameters

  • DelayAutoServiceSigAbort

  • GemAutoServiceSigAbort

  • GemCommitConflictDetails

  • GemConfigFileNames

  • StnConfigFileNames

• Added X509-only Configuration Parameters

2.10 Changes in Statmonitor and Cache Statistics

• Statmonitor automatic delete of older data files

• Removed statistics

• Changed statistics

• Added statistics

• Mac System and Host Stats added

  • Statmonitor now collecting host stats on Mac

  • Added Per-Process System Statistics

  • Added Mac OS Host Statistics

3.1 Changes in Classes, compilation, and code management

• Code Management

  • Added private methods for Tonel support

  • Cypress* classes no longer in Globals

• Compiling methods with reserved selectors

• Added Behavior compile method

• Added class creation options

• Multi-byte byte-format classes

• Changes in handling some class options

• Changes in handling Dynamic Instance Variables

  • GBS 8.4 Inspector display

  • Handling during migration

• Class information when there are multiple versions of a class

• Source code with control characters

• Pragmas have been made environment aware

• Behavior methods for other environments

3.2 Transaction conflicts and object locks

• Detailed information on transaction conflicts

• Other added methods on transaction conflicts

• Object locking changes

3.3 ClassOrganizer

• Filtering deprecated methods

• Include method oops in reports

• referencesToLiteral: shortcomings

3.4 Parsing JSON

3.5 Image level filein/GsFileIn added

3.6 Changes in Numerics

• Linux change affecting floating point #inexactResult exceptions

3.7 Other Changes and Enhancements

• Session Signals have additional argument

• PetiteParser updated

• GsFile nextPutAsUtf8: replaced by nextPutAllUtf8:

• GsBitmap hiddenSetSpecifiers no longer include named Customer sets

• Added Socket methods

• Added System Class methods

• Added methods for GsExternalSession

• Added methods for Squeak support

• Changes to Strings and ByteArrays

  • Converting from ByteArray containing UTF-8 to decoded string

  • Support for Base64 encoding

  • Support for Hex String decoding

  • Bitwise access to ByteArrays

  • ByteArray >> byteAt: and byteAt:put:

• Other Added methods

3.8 Deprecations and removed methods

• Obsolete classes moved to ObsoleteClasses

• Cypress Classes moved to CodeLibrarian’s UserGlobals

• Deprecated method

• Removed private methods

3.9 Encryption Changes

• Support for SHA-3

• Support for HMAC (Hash-based message authentication codes)

• Support for Symmetric-Key Encryption

3.10 GsTlsCredentials

• Creating a GsTlsCredentials

• Fetch public key from private key or certificate

• Verifying public/private key pairs

• Querying a GsTlsCredential for its algorithm

3.11 Support for Digital Signatures

3.12 Support for Digital Envelopes

4.1 GCI changes

• Added GCI methods

  • GciClassRemoveAllMethods_

  • GciX509Login

• Linker symbols now weak on Linux

4.2 Foreign Function Interface (FFI) related changes

• Pre-parsing of C header files

  • C Preprocessor must be available

  • Comment style requirements change

  • Comments no longer included in output

• GciLibrary instance methods no longer include comments

• CHeader specification of a library search path

• Subclassing FFI classes

• Other added and removed methods

4.3 GCI and FFI Bugs Fixed

• SIGTERM handler not chained to installed handler in linked GCI

• Reported bytes sent/received incorrect

• GciErrSType class >> new incorrect malloc size

• Problems with GciTsFetchUtf8Bytes/GciTsFetchUtf8

• CHeader macros do ## concatenation before argument substitution

4.4 Updated Compile and Link Information

• Linux Compile and Link Information

• Solaris on x86 Compile and Link Information

• AIX Compile and Link Information

• DARWIN Compile and Link Information

• Windows Compile and Link Information

Symbol Garbage Collection not working reliably

Statmonitor issues

• Statmonitor automatic start failed with -X

• Automatic start of statmonitor did not occur during pageaudit

Missing localhost entry in /etc/hosts file not handled

Host Memory Banner incorrect on the Mac

GsExternalSession Issues

• Infinite recursion in GsExternalSession from GciError >> stack

• GsExternalSession failed with gemNRS: string argument

• Logout problems in certain configurations

Hot Standby issues

• Logreceiver race condition could cause tranlog read failure

• Logsender added padding to tranlog records when compressing

NonTranloggedGlobals can cause tranlog restore to fail

GsSysLog writeErrorMessage fails with ArgumentError

Incorrect error from before: and after: on out of range

PositionableStreamPortable>>match: incorrect with legacy streams

instVarAt:put: did not work for a class instance variables

Issues related to Upgrade

• After upgrade, GcGems not running

• Upgrade failed with "Attempt to modify invariant object"

• Upgrade’s removeallmethods incorrectly removed special-case methods

• Upgrade logging for PositionableStream handling

NRS with gemnetobject did not handle spaces in pathnames

enableUnixAuthenticationWithAlias: failed in Unicode Mode

Current user SymbolList used instead of session SymbolList

Unnecessary warnings about log birth time

GsPackagePolicy test for session methods incomplete

Optimized code inconsistently handled step points and senders

Spurious errors on inter-gem signalling with Gem terminating