GemStone/S 64 Bit Release Notes

Overview

Supported Platforms

• Platforms for Version 3.7.2

• GemBuilder for Smalltalk (GBS) Versions

• VSD Version

• Rowan

• GemBuilder for Java

• GemConnect

Installation and Upgrade

• New script to support OS configuration

• New script to setup a simple repository using data-conf

• Installation Guide

• Upgrade

• Improvements/fixes to RPM installation process

• TimeZone installation now supported from the image

• Change in behavior in 3.7.2 that may affect existing application code

Changes in this Release

• Updated library versions

• 32-bit Linux no longer supported

• Removing GemStone system locks on reboot

• Gem log header includes additional NRS information

• Multithreaded scan operations now have a thread limit of 128

• Multithreaded-related query methods no longer require SystemControl

• Improved reclaim behavior with low free space

1. Collection and String changes

• SequenceableCollection + removed

• fillFrom:resizeTo:with: no longer usable

• Double and QuadByteStrings disallow 16rD800..16rDFFF

• Improvements to reduced-conflict collections

  • Improved handling for heavy reduced-conflict processing

  • RcKeyValueNoRebuildDictionary added class

  • Results of RcIdentityBag >> maxSessionId changed

  • RcIdentityBag added methods

• Non-identity-dictionary >> keys now returns appropriate class of result

• Optimizations and bug fixes in TreeDictionary/TreeSet

  • TreeSet audit returned false following an includesIdentical:

  • TreeSet detect: and detect:ifNone: failed

2. SSH and Socket Changes and Bug fixes

• Support for OpenSSH keys and conversion between key types

  • GsSshPrivateKey

  • GsSshPublicKey

  • Conversion between types

  • Added Testing methods

  • Examples

• Validating an SNI name against the target host name

  • GsSecureSocket added methods

• Other added methods for managing certificates

• GsSftpSockets may not be nonblocking

• GsSecureSocket examples

  • Now working on Darwin

  • Added Non-blocking examples

• New debugging environment variable

• GsSecureSocket secureAccept may fail with SSL error

3. Other image changes

• GsHostProcess with Arguments

  • Example

• Support for warming AllSymbols

• Changes in commit conflict reports

  • Changes in conflict types

  • Additional information in commit conflict reports

• AllSymbols audit

• System class

  • Optimization to System use of HiddenSets

  • Added methods for configuration information

  • Other added methods

  • Other Changes

• External Session changes

  • Now supporting automatic conversion of Unicode7 return values

  • Recommendation to encode returned strings

  • GsExternalSession automatic conversion of Utf8 to Strings

  • Appropriate class for decoded Utf8 results

  • forkAndDetachBlock:/String: no longer terminates with apparant error

  • Added methods

  • Issues in GsNetworkResourceString defaultGemNRSFromCurrent handling of NetLDI

• Other Added methods

  • UserProfile added method

  • SessionTemps added method

  • SymbolList added method

• GsTestCase logging changes

• JsonParser parsing of exponential notation

• Changes in Number>>kind for some classes

• Logging to GCI server rather than client

• Newly deprecated methods

  • Array >> fillFrom:resizeTo:with:

  • System class >> cancelWaitForDebug

• Removed methods

  • Repository >> listInstances:toDirectory:numThreads:objMaxSize:

  • SequenceableCollection >> +

  • Removed private, internal, and refactored methods

4. Split Tranlogs Feature

• startlogsender

• startlogreceiver

• Tranlog chunks

• Image support

• Example

• Copydbf

• File-based concatenation

• Restore from Tranlogs

• Other access

5. Changes in Configuration Parameters

• Added configuration parameter

  • GEM_TEMPOBJ_CODE_SIZE

• GemCommitConflictDetails now accepts 0...3

• Cache warming for X509-secured GemStone

6. Utility changes

• stopstone changes

• startnetldi further checking for consistent port and numeric name

• Utility failures have additional [ERROR] result

• stoned command requires -l argument

• startstone, startnetldi only print full usage if -h is specified

• Topaz Changes

  • NETLDI: command now usable for standard logins

  • Trait support functions added

  • Added DISPLAY, OMIT subcommand ORIGIN

  • Change in LIST, LIST METHOD:

  • Change in TFILE

Pharo-style traits in GemStone

• Terminology

• Creating and Using traits

  • Added Classes

  • Precedence

  • Example

Image support for traits

• Fileout support for traits

• GsFileIn support for traits

• ClassOrganizer support for traits

• Information on Compiled Methods from Traits

• Distinguishing Traits

• Trait management in Class

Topaz support for traits

• Added functions for trait support

Added GCI functions

• GciCheckNetldiName

• GciExecuteStr__

• GciFetchDateTime_

• GciFetchGbjInfo

• GciNewStringFromUtf16

• GCI_OOP_TO_CHAR_

• GciOopToFlt_

• GciPerform__

• GciPerformFetchOops

• GciSetSessionId_

• Changed Functions

  • GciHostInstallFaultHandler

Added Thread-safe GCI functions

• GciTsDirtyExportedObjs

• GciTsFetchGbjInfo

• GciTsKeepAliveCount

• GciTsKeyfilePermissions

• GciTsNewStringFromUtf16

• GciTsPerformFetchOops

Other GCI changes

• GciRtlLoad, GciRtlLoadA, GciTsLoad ignored path arg

• Linked GCI application now also looks for gem.conf

• Int16Array, Int32Array, Int64Array at:put: did not have correct range checking

FFI Changes

• Incorrect error from CByteArray >> encodeUTF8From:into:allowCodePointZero:

Gem out-of-memory issues

• Incorrect handling of code_gen space in Gem memory

• Computed size of code_gen too small

• Abort failed to clear references from modified committed objects to in-memory objects

• Memory issues from fillFrom:resizeTo:with:

• AlmostOutOfMemory handlers not effective if needed while in primitive

Issues in Native code generation

• Results of ifTrue/ifFalse blocks

• Incorrect handling of AlmostOutOfStack after process switch

Conflict handling in Reduced-conflict collections

• Failure to detect write conflict after reduced-conflict replay

• RcIdentityBag conflicts with unexpected larger sessionIds

• RcKeyValueDictionary rebuildTable likely to cause commit conflicts

Issues related to reclaim

• ReclaimGem parameter #reclaimMinFreeSpaceMb not respected

• After commitRestore, ReclaimGem may not be restarted

Signal handler chaining may cause SEGV in linked session

Improved performance of restoreFromTranlogs

Insufficient information on extent write errors that succeed on retry

Risk of stuck spin lock on LostOt

Issues related to repository scan operations

• Possible missing results from findReferencesToInstancesOfClasses, etc.

• GsObjectInventory overstated String bytes used, especially for large strings

• Listing instances in memory did not observe limit argument

• Repository >> objectsInMemoryLargerThan: not working

• Class >> instancesInMemory may incorrectly return an empty Array

Numerics issues

• Values of different classes of numeric values that are close but not equal may compare as equal

• Non-numeric arguments to comparison operators

• Incorrect results from -1 bitShift: with arguments greater than 60

• Some kinds of Number did not understand #isZero

• OffsetError from ScaledDecimal >> kind

Issues with GsUuidV4 comparison operators with unexpected argument types

DateTime newWithDate:time: truncated Time to seconds

In solo mode, transactionMode: could cause abort

Stone continued running if ShrPcMon SEGV or other death

NetLDI in root mode reported owner as regular user

File descriptor leak in GsHostProcess

Cache Statistics Issues

• SEGV on programmatic cache statistics access by name for ProcessName

• Memory corruption from hostEasyStatistics*

• System cacheStatsForGemWithName: some stats incorrectly 0

• Cache stats of -1 may be returned as 4294967295 by stoneCacheStatistics

In hot standby, currentSessionNames may intermittently show an internal session

Repository >> addTransactionLog:size: did not correctly handle size argument

LostOT may result in errors described as PageLocate error

Issues affected X509-Secure GemStone

• Working-set cache warming was not supported for X509-Secured caches

• GemStoneX509Parameters >> extraGemArgs: were ignored

• Multithreaded scan operations could hang in a remote session

• System currentUserSessionCount included hostagent

SEGV handler now includes raw Smalltalk stack details

Darwin error "attempt to create a CByteArray or CPointer that would reference VM memory"

Object >> _primitiveAt:put: could incorrectly grow non-indexable objects