yipee! -Doug Tangren http://lessis.me
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Bryan Fink <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, Riak users. We are excited to announce the release of Riak > version 0.10. There's a great writeup about the new features on the > Basho Blog: > http://blog.basho.com/2010/04/23/riak-0.10-is-full-of-great-stuff/ > > Pre-built installations and source tarballs are available at: > http://downloads.basho.com/ > > Release notes are at (also copied below): > http://downloads.basho.com/riak/riak-0.10/riak-0.10.txt > > IMPORTANT: If you are upgrading an existing Riak cluster, please read > the transition document at > http://bitbucket.org/basho/riak/src/45f284c5e5c0/TRANSITION > > Cheers, > The Basho Riak Team > > > ----------------------- > Riak 0.10 Release Notes > ----------------------- > > IMPORTANT: If you are upgrading an earlier version of Riak, please read > the TRANSITION file in the directory above this > (http://bitbucket.org/basho/riak/src/55a7f83c2ae2/TRANSITION) > > Riak 0.10 brings many new features and improvements. > > In addition to the existing HTTP interface, Riak 0.10 exposes a > protocol buffers interface. This interface allows for basic put/get > operations, and has client libraries in Python and Erlang. Support > for map/reduce operations, and additional language libraries will be > added soon. Read more about the interface on the wiki: > https://wiki.basho.com/display/RIAK/PBC+API > > Riak 0.10 exposes the ability to tie into an object's update > lifecycle, via pre-commit and post-commit hooks. Hook functions can > be implemented in Erlang or Javascript. More detail on the wiki: > https://wiki.basho.com/display/RIAK/Pre-+and+Post-Commit+Hooks > > Listing the keys stored in a bucket is faster an more reliable in 0.10. > > The "eventer" subsystem has been removed from Riak. It was found to > be a bottleneck, as well as the main source of non-modularity in the > code. This should not affect client code, unless it was explicitly > calling 'riak_eventer:add_handler' function. > > Chunks of Riak have been rearranged for cleanliness and modularity. > If you are upgrading an existing cluster to 0.10, please carefully > read and follow the instructions in the TRANSITION file, referenced at > the top of these release notes. Some filenames and app.config > settings have changed, which you will want to account for in your > installation. > > Erlang applications that Riak depends on (webmachine, erlang_js, etc.) > have been moved out of the Riak repository, and into their own > repositories. If you install a prebuilt Riak, this change will not > affect you. If you build Riak from the source tarball, this change > will not affect you. If you build Riak by cloning from the Bitbucket > repository, your first "make" will download the additional source > needed from Bitbucket. > > Client libraries have been moved into their own repositories. Instead > of finding them under the client_lib subdirectory, please visit the > appropriate repo: > - http://bitbucket.org/basho/riak-javascript-client > - http://bitbucket.org/basho/riak-python-client > - http://bitbucket.org/basho/riak-ruby-client > (same as) http://github.com/seancribbs/ripple/ > - http://bitbucket.org/basho/riak-java-client > - http://bitbucket.org/basho/riak-php-client > - http://bitbucket.org/basho/riak-erlang-client > (using protocol buffers instead of distributed Erlang) > > Riak 0.10 also includes a number of minor improvements and bug fixes: > - multipart/mixed responses from the HTTP interface now use proper > line termination (\r\n, instead of just \n) > - fixed the "fold" functionality (used during handoff) for the > multi-backend. > - improvements to gossip corner cases > - improvements to shell scripts for cross-platform compatibility > - improvements for running map/reduce jobs on a degraded cluster > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com >
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