1.9.0 -- Kagemusha

See the release announcement

This release is focused on performance and includes enhancements that improve performance of many queries by orders of magnitude.

• Server
  • Fixed a potential crash caused by a coroutine switch in exception handlers (#153)
  • No longer duplicate documents in the secondary indexes (#752)
  • Removed unnecessary conversions between datum_t and cJSON (#1041)
  • No longer load documents from disk for count queries (#1295)
  • Changed extproc code to use datum_t instead of cJSON_t (#1326)
• ReQL
  • Use Buffer instead of ArrayBuffer in the JavaScript driver (#1244)
  • orderBy on an index no longer destroys the preceding between (#1333)
  • Fixed error in the python driver caused by multiple threads using lambdas (#1377)
  • Fixed Unicode handling in the Python driver (#1378)
• Web UI
  • No longer truncate server names (#1313)
• CLI
  • rethinkdb import now works with Python 2.6 (#1349)

1.8.1 -- High Noon

Bug fix update.

• The shard suggester now works with times (#1335)
• The Python backup scripts no longer rely on pip show (#1331)
• rethinkdb help no longer uses a pager (#1315, #1308)
• The web UI now correctly positions SVGRectElement (#1314)
• Fixed a bug that caused a crash when using filter with a non-deterministic value (#1299)

1.8.0 -- High Noon

See the release announcement

This release introduces date and time support, a new syntax for querying nested objects and 8x improvement in disk usage.

New Features

• ReQL
  • order_by now accepts a function as an argument and can efficiently sort by index (#159, #1120, #1258)
  • slice and between are now half-open by default (#869)
    • The behaviour can be changed by setting the new optional right_bound argument to closed
      or by setting left_bound to open
  • contains can now be passed a predicate (#870)
  • merge is now deep by default (#872)
    • Introduced literal to merge flat values
  • coerce_to can now convert strings to numbers (#877)
  • Added support for times (#977)
    • +, -, <, <=, >, >=, == and !=: arithmetic and comparison
    • during: match a time with an interval
    • in_timezone: change the timezone offset
    • date, time_of_day, timezone, year, month, day, weekday, hour, minute and second: accessors
    • time, epoch_time and iso8601: constructors
    • monday to sunday and january to december: constants
    • now: current time
    • to_iso8601, to_epoch_time: conversion
  • Add the nested document syntax to functions other than pluck (#1094)
    • without, group_by, with_fields and has_fields
  • Remove Google Closure from the JavaScript driver (#1194)
    • It now depends on the protobufjs and node-protobuf libraries
• Server
  • Added a --canonical-address HOST[:PORT] command line option for connecting RethinkDB nodes across different networks (#486)
    • Two instances behind proxies can now be configured to connect to each other
  • Optimize space efficiency by allowing smaller block sizes (#939)
  • Added a --no-direct-io startup flag that turns off direct IO (#1051)
  • Rewrote the extproc code, making r.js interuptible and fixing many crashes (#1097, #1106)
  • Added support for V8 >= 3.19 (#1195)
  • Clear blobs when they are unused (#1286)
• Web UI
  • Use relative paths (#1053)
• Build
  • Add support for Emacs' flymake-mode (#1161)

Fixed Bugs

• ReQL
  • Check the type of the callback passed to next and each in the JavaScript driver (#656)
  • Fixed how some backtraces are printed in the JavaScript driver (#973)
  • Coerce the port argument to a number in the Python driver (#1017)
  • Functions that are polymorphic on objects and sequences now only recurse one level deep (#1045)
    • Affects pluck, has_fields, with_fields, etc
  • In the JavaScript driver, no longer fail when requiring the module twice (#1047)
  • r.union now returns a stream when given two streams (#1081)
  • r.db can now be chained with do in the JavaScript driver (#1082)
  • Improve the error message when combining for_each and return_vals (#1104)
  • Fixed a bug causing the JavaScript driver to overflow the stack when given an object with circular references (#1133)
  • Don't leak internal functions in the JavaScript driver (#1164)
  • Fix the qurey printing in the Python driver (#1178)
  • Correctly depend on node >= 0.10 in the JavaScript driver (#1197)
• Server
  • Improved the error message when there is a version mismatch in data files (#521)
  • The --no-http-admin option now disables the check for the web assets folder (#1092)
  • No longer compile JavaScript expressions once per row (#1105)
  • Fixed a crash in the 32-bit version caused by not using 64-bit file offsets (#1129)
  • Fixed a crash caused by malformed json documents (#1132)
  • Fixed a crash caused by moving func_t betweek threads (#1157)
  • Improved the scheduling the coroutines that sometimes caused heartbeat timeouts (#1169)
  • Fixed conflict_resolving_diskmgr_t to suport files over 1TB (#1170)
  • Fixed a crash caused by disconnecting too fast (#1182)
  • Fixed the error message when js_runner_t::call times out (#1218)
  • Fixed a crash caused by serializing unintitialised values (#1219)
  • Fixed a bug that caused an assertion failure in protob_server_t (#1220)
  • Fixed a bug causing too many file descriptors to be open (#1225)
  • Fixed memory leaks reported by valgrind (#1233)
  • Fixed a crash triggered by the BTreeSindex test (#1237)
  • Fixed some problems with import performance, interruption, parsing, and error reporting (#1252)
  • RethinkDB proxy no longer crashes when interacting with the Web UI (#1276)
• Tests
  • Fixed the connectivity tests for OS X (#613)
  • Fix the python connection tests (#1110)
• Web UI
  • Provide a less scary error message when a request times out (#1074)
  • Provide proper suggestions in the presence of comments in the Data Explorer (#1214)
  • The More data link in the data explorer now works consistently (#1222)
• Documentation
  • Improved the documentaiton for update and pluck (#1141)
• Build
  • Fixed bugs that caused make to not rebuild certain files or build files it should not (#1162, #1215, #1216, #1229, #1230, #1272)

1.7.3 -- Nights of Cabiria

Bug fix update.

• RethinkDB no longer fails to create the data directory when using --daemon (#1191)

1.7.2 -- Nights of Cabiria

Bug fix update.

• Fixed wire_func_t serialization that caused inserts to fail (#1155)
• Fixed a bug in the JavaScript driver that caused asynchronous connections to fail (#1150)
• Removed nice_crash and nice_guarantee to improve error messages and logging (#1144)
• rethinkdb import now warns when unexpected files are found (#1143)
• rethinkdb import now correctly imports nested objects (#1142)
• Fixed the connection timeout in the JavaScript driver (#1140)
• Fixed r.without (#1139)
• Add a warning to rethinkdb dump about indexes and cluster config (#1137)
• Fixed the debian/rules makefile to properly build the rethinkdb-dbg package (#1130)
• Allow multiple instances with different port offsets in the init script (#1126)
• Fixed make install to not use /dev/stdin (#1125)
• Added missing files to the OS X uninstall script (#1123)
• Fixed the documentation for insert with the returnVals flag in JavaScript (#1122)
• No longer cache index.html in the web UI (#1117)
• The init script now waits for rethinkdb to stop before restarting (#1115)
• rethinkdb porcelain now removes the new directory if it fails (#1070)
• Added cooperative locking to the rethinkdb data directory to detect conflicts earlier (#1109)
• Improved the comments in the sample configuration file (#1078)
• Config file parsing now allows options that apply to other modes of rethinkdb (#1077)
• The init script now creates folders with the correct permissions (#1069)
• Client drivers now time out if the connection handshake takes too long (#1033)

1.7.1 -- Nights of Cabiria

Bug fix update.

• Fixed a bug causing rethinkdb import to crash on single files
• Added options to rethinkdb import for custom CSV separators and no headers (#1112)

1.7.0 -- Nights of Cabiria

See the release announcement

This release introduces hot backup, atomic set and get operations, significant insert performance improvements, nested document syntax, and native binaries for CentOS / RHEL.

New Features

• ReQL
  • Added r.json for parsing JSON strings server-side (#887)
  • Added syntax to pluck to access nested documents (#889)
  • get_all now takes a variable number of arguments (#915)
  • Added atomic set and get operations (#976)
    • update, insert, delete and replace now take an optional return_vals argument that returns the values that have been atomically modified
  • Renamed getattr to get_field and make it polymorphic on arrays (#993)
  • Drivers now use faster protobuf libraries when possible (#1027, #1026, #1025)
  • Drivers now use r.json to improve the performance of inserts (#1085)
  • Improved the behaviour of pluck (#1095)
    • A field with a non-pluckable value is considered absent
• Web UI
  • It is now possible to resolve auth_key conflicts via the web UI (#1028)
  • The web UI now uses relative paths (#1053)
• Server
  • Flushes to disk less often to improve performance without affecting durability (#520)
• CLI
  • Import and export JSON and CSV files (#193)
    • Four new subcommands: rethinkdb import, rethinkdb export, rethinkdb dump and rethinkdb restore
  • rethinkdb admin no longer requires the --join option (#1052)
    • It now connects to localhost:29015 by default
• Documentation
  • Documented durability settings correctly (#1008)
  • Improved instructions for migration (#1013)
  • Documented the allowed character names for tables (#1039)
• Packaging
  • RPMs for CentOS (#268)

Fixed Bugs

• ReQL
  • Fixed the behaviour of between with null and secondary indexes (#1001)
• Web UI
  • Moved to using a patched Bootstrap, Handlebars.js 1.0.0 and LESS 1.4.0 (#954)
  • Fixed bug causing nested arrays to be shown as {...} in the Data Explorer (#1038)
  • Inline comments are now parsed correctly in the Data Explorer (#1060)
  • Properly remove event listeners from the dashboard view (#1044)
• Server
  • Fixed a crash caused by shutting down the server during secondary index creation (#1056)
  • Fixed a potential btree corruption bug (#986)
• Tests
  • ReQL tests no longer leave zombie processes (#1055)

RethinkDB 1.6.1 (Fargo)

Released on 2013-06-19

Critical Security Fixes

• Fixed a buffer overflow in the networking code
• Fixed a possible timing attack on the API key

Other Changes

• In python, r.table_list() no longer throws an error (#1005)
• Fixed compilation failures with clang 3.2 (#1006)
• Fixed compilation failures with gcc 4.4 (#1011)
• Fixed problems with resolving a conflicted auth_key (#1024)

RethinkDB 1.6.0 (Fargo)

Released on 2013-06-13

This release introduces basic access control, regular expression matching, new array operations, random sampling, better error handling, and many bug fixes.

New Features

• ReQL
  • Added access control with a single, common API key (#266)
  • Improved handshake to the client driver protocol (#978)
  • Added sample command for random sampling of sequences (#861, #182)
  • Secondary indexes can be queried with boolean values (#854)
  • Added onFinished callback to each in JavaScript to improve cursors (#443)
  • Added per-command durability settings (#890)
    • Changed hard_durability=True to durability = 'soft' | 'hard'
    • Added a durability option to run
  • Added with_fields command, and pluck no longer throws on missing attributes (#886)
  • Renamed contains to has_fields (#885)
    • has_fields runs on tables, objects, and arrays, and doesn't throw on missing attributes
    • contains now checks if an element is in an array
  • Added default command: replaces missing fields with a default value (#884)
  • Added new array operations (#868, #198, #341)
    • prepend: prepends an element to an array
    • append: appends an element to an array
    • insert_at: inserts an element at the specified index
    • splice_at: splices a list into another list at the specified index
    • delete_at: deletes the element at the specified index
    • change_at: changes the element at the specified index to the specified value
    • + operator: adds two arrays -- returns the ordered union
    • * operator: repeats an array n times
    • difference: removes all instances of specified elements from an array
    • count: returns the number of elements in an array
    • indexes_of: returns positions of elements that match the specified value in an array
    • is_empty: check if an array or table is empty
    • set_insert: adds an element to a set
    • set_intersection: finds the intersection of two sets
    • set_union: returns the union of two sets
    • set_difference: returns the difference of two sets
  • Added match command for regular expression matching (#867)
  • Added keys command that returns the fields of an object (#181)
• Web UI
  • Document fields are now sorted in alphabetical order in the table view (#832)
• CLI
  • Added -v flag as an alias for --version (#839)
  • Added --io-threads flag to allow limiting the amount of concurrent I/O operations (#928)
• Build system
  • Allow building the documentation with Python 3 (#826, #815)
  • Have make build the Ruby and Python drivers (#923)

Fixed Bugs

• Server
  • Fixed a crash caused by resharding during secondary index creation (#852)
  • Fixed style problems: code hygiene (#805)
  • Server code cleanup (#920, #924)
  • Properly check permissions for writing the pid file (#916)
• ReQL
  • Use the correct function name in backtraces (#995)
  • Fixed callback issues in the JavaScript driver (#846)
  • In JavaScript, call the callback when the connection is closed (#758)
  • In JavaScript, GETATTR now checks the argument count (#992)
  • Tweaked the CoffeeScript source to work with older versions of coffee and node (#963)
  • Fixed a typo in the error handling of the JavaScript driver (#961)
  • Fixed performance regression for pluck and without (#947)
  • Make sure callbacks get cleared in the Javascript driver (#942)
  • Improved errors when return is omitted in Javascript (#914)
• Web UI
  • Correctly distinguish case sensitive table names (#822)
  • No longer display some results as { ... } in the table view (#937)
  • Ensured tables are available before listing their indexes (#926)
  • Fixed the autocompletion for opening square brackets (#917)
• Tests
  • Modified the polyglot test framework to catch more possible errors (#724)
  • Polyglot tests can now run in debug mode (#614)
• Build
  • Look for libprotobuf in the correct path (#860, #853)
  • Always fetch and use the same version of Handlebars.js (#821, #819, #958)
  • Check for versions of LESS that are known to work (#956)
  • Removed bitrotted MOCK_CACHE_CHECK option (#804)

RethinkDB 1.5.2 (The Graduate)

Bug fix update.

Changes

• Fix #844: Compilation error when using ./configure --fetch protobuf resolved
• Fix #840: Using .run in the data explorer gives a more helpful error message
• Fix #817: Fix a crash caused by adding a secondary index while under load
• Fix #831: Some invalid queries no longer cause a crash