SQLite version 3.8.7.4 is now available on the SQLite website: http://www.sqlite.org/ http://www.sqlite.org/download.html
Version 3.8.7.4 is an emergency patch release that adds a mutex that was inadvertently omitted from the minimal patch of version 3.8.7.3. The absence of this one mutex did not cause any problems for the extensive SQLite internal tests, but it did cause problems for Mozilla when stress-tesing Firefox. Hence we have this patch on a patch. Most applications are unaffected by the problem in the previous release. The trouble only comes about when running SQLite in shared-cache mode and opening and closing many shared-cache database connections on the same database file in multiple threads at the same time. Applications that stress SQLite in this way should update. To be on the safe side, update if your application is using multiple thread and shared cache mode. If you are not using shared-cache mode or if you are single-threaded, then you will be fine using prior versions. We have, of course, augmented the SQLite test suite to stress the mutexes in this scenario so as to prevent a recurrence of the problem. The new test cases would have found the problem if only those test cases had existed prior to the 3.8.7.3 release. -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org _______________________________________________ sqlite-announce mailing list sqlite-announce@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-announce