Hello, I am pleased to announce the release of GNU DBM Version 1.11. See below for a list of changes and new features in this release.
Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdbm/gdbm-1.11.tar.gz http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdbm/gdbm-1.11.tar.gz.sig Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth: http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gdbm/gdbm-1.11.tar.gz http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gdbm/gdbm-1.11.tar.gz.sig Here are the MD5 and SHA1 checksums: 72c832680cf0999caedbe5b265c8c1bd gdbm-1.11.tar.gz ce433d0f192c21d41089458ca5c8294efe9806b4 gdbm-1.11.tar.gz [*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this: gpg --verify gdbm-1.11.tar.gz.sig If that command fails because you don't have the required public key, then run this command to import it: gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 55D0C732 and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command. This release was bootstrapped with the following tools: Automake 1.14 Autoconf 2.69 Bison 2.5.1 Lex 2.5.35 Makeinfo 4.13 Noteworthy changes in this release: * Improved dump format. A new dump format is implemented, which encodes all data in base64 and stores not only key/data pairs, but also the original database file metadata, such as file name, mode and ownership. Files in this format can be sent without additional encapsulation over transmission channels that normally allow only ASCII data. Dumps in this format allow for restoring an exact copy of the database, including file ownership and privileges. * New function: gdbm_count int gdbm_count (GDBM_FILE *file, gdbm_count *count); Counts records in `file' and stores the result in the memory location pointed to by `count'. * New utilities: gdbm_dump and gdbm_load. Gdbm_dump creates a plaintext dump of the GDBM database. This dump can be used to create an exact copy of the database afterward. The gdbm_load performs the reverse: given the dump file, it creates a GDBM database. Apart from native GDBM dump formats, it also understands the format generated by Berkeley DB db_dump utility. Thus, an easy way to convert a Berkeley DB database to GDBM is: db_dump input.db | gdbm_load output.db * gdbmtool The gdbmtool utility allows you to examine, modify or create GDBM databases. It provides an easy-to-use interactive shell and can be used for scripting. One of the unique features of gdbmtool is that it allows to define datum structures for key and content parts, similarly to the C "struct" declarations, and to input and display such structured data. Regards, Sergey _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list <info-gnu@gnu.org> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu