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+ SlonyI 2.1.0.b2 available
+ http://www.slony.info/downloads/2.1/source/slony1-2.1.0.b2.tar.bz2
+ 2011-05-27
+ 
+ The second beta release of 2.1.0 is now available.
+ Changes from the first beta include
+ <ul>
+ <li>Bug #204 -  Upgrade from 2.0.x fails under PostgreSQL 8.3</li>
+ <li>Bug 205  - Upgrade fails from 2.0.0, return type from cloneNode changes</li>
+ <li>Bug 206  - Do not perform an accidental rollback in a try block </li>
+ <li> Bug 208  - Fixing issues with bulk adding of tables. </li>
+ <li> Bug 209  - Default table ID problem</li>
+ <li>Bug 210  - merge set should wait for both sets to be subscribed
+              before submitting the merge event. </li>
+ <li> Bug 211  - Modify the altperl tools so they don't enclose statements
+              that wait for events inside of a 'try' block. </li>
+ </ul>
+ 
+ ---
+ SlonyI 2.1.0.b1 available
+ http://www.slony.info/downloads/2.1/source/slony1-2.1.0.b1.tar.bz2
+ 2011-05-06
+ 
+ 
+ <div id="outline-container-1_1" class="outline-3">
+ <h3 id="sec-1_1"><span class="section-number-3">1.1</span> Some items without bug numbers: </h3>
+ <div class="outline-text-3" id="text-1_1">
+ 
+ <ul>
+ <li>Introduced tests using the clustertest framework, consisting of two
+     sets of tests:
+ <ul>
+ <li>clustertest/regression - port of the old tests in the tests directory
+ </li>
+ <li>clustertest/disorder - new simulated order entry system with a fair bit of concurrency
+ 
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>Configure and Makefile cleanups and improvements, including
+ <ul>
+ <li>Configure looks in common locations for some of the DocBook
+       tooling, so it is less likely to require manual intervention on
+       some common distributions
+ </li>
+ <li>Pick up Groff automagically
+ </li>
+ <li>Script to do virtually all the work documented in the <a href="http://slony.info/documentation/2.0/releasechecklist.html">Release Checklist</a>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>Documentation updates
+ <ul>
+ <li>Reorganized sections
+ </li>
+ <li>Trend towards having version-specific documentation, rather than
+       trying to have it document all versions at once
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>Git changes
+ <ul>
+ <li>Numerous .gitignore files set up to ignore generated files
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>Add a resetSession function that will reset the session state
+     cached in the C stored functions.
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+ 
+ </div>
+ 
+ </div>
+ 
+ <div id="outline-container-1_3" class="outline-3">
+ <h3 id="sec-1_3"><span class="section-number-3">1.3</span> Items tracked from Bugzilla </h3>
+ <div class="outline-text-3" id="text-1_3">
+ 
+ <ul>
+ <li>Bug #79 - &ndash;prefix and &ndash;exec-prefix options don't function as expected
+ 
+ </li>
+ <li>Bug #90 -  Builds On Solaris with Sun C Studio fail. This also addresses
+              issues building with Microsoft Visual Studio.
+ 
+ </li>
+ <li>Bug #126 - TCP KEEP alives can now be used from slon to postgresql(on by default)
+ 
+ </li>
+ <li>Bug #134 - TRUNCATE trigger usage
+ 
+ </li>
+ <li>Bug #142 - better document minimal security profile
+ 
+ </li>
+ <li>Bug #146 - Removed option to use DELETE to trim sl<sub>log</sub><sub>*</sub> tables - only support TRUNCATE
+ 
+ </li>
+ <li>Bug #152 - eliminate debugging statements from DDL processing
+ 
+ </li>
+ <li>Bug #156 - add health check at slon startup time
+ 
+ </li>
+ <li>Bug #163 - change Slony-I tables to use TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE rather than WITHOUT TIME ZONE
+ 
+ </li>
+ <li>Bug #167 - change queries against sl<sub>log</sub><sub>*</sub> tables to avert slowdown when large backlog
+ 
+ </li>
+ <li>Bug #170 - remove SNMP support
+ 
+ </li>
+ <li>Bug #172 - add support for application<sub>name</sub> GUC (in recent PG such as 9.0)
+ 
+ </li>
+ <li>Bug #175 - add monitoring thread which stows activity information in sl<sub>components</sub>
+ 
+ </li>
+ <li>Bug #179 - Implicit/Automatic wait for. Slonik will now often perform an automatic
+              'wait for event' when required to avoid race conditions.
+ 
+ </li>
+ <li>Bug #180 - Created a slonik DATE command
+ 
+ </li>
+ <li>Bug #181 - Support for bulk adding of tables and sequences and automatically finding
+   the next available table or sequence id.
+ 
+ </li>
+ <li>Bug #185 - change functions to use named parameters
+ 
+ </li>
+ <li>Bug #187 - add newline to slon PID files
+ 
+ </li>
+ <li>Bug #188 - test harness query had subquery returning multiple tuples
+ 
+ </li>
+ <li>Bug #189 - add slonik EXIT check for exit values 0..255, as that's all that Unix accepts
+ 
+ </li>
+ <li>Bug #193 - add back reset of vac<sub>count</sub> so vacuums only done every few cleanup thread iterations
+ 
+ </li>
+ <li>Bug #195 - change slon<sub>quote</sub><sub>*</sub> functions to IMMUTABLE
+ 
+ </li>
+ <li>Bug #196 - add guard lock on sl<sub>event</sub><sub>lock</sub> to protect against events with XID going backwards
+ 
+ </li>
+ <li>Bug #198 - subscribeset() should verify that provider node exists
+ 
+ </li>
+ <li>Bug #201 - Allow command-line options to be configured from slon<sub>tools</sub>.conf
+ 
+ </li>
+ <li>Bug #204 - Fix issue with FAILOVER to a non-direct subscriber introduced in 2.0.5
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ 
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ 
+ </div>
+ 
+ ---
  SlonyI 2.0.6 available
  http://www.slony.info/downloads/2.0/source/slony1-2.0.6.tar.bz2