[ZODB-Dev] several critical bug fixes for ZODB 3.1 / ZEO 2.0

[Jeremy Hylton]

On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 19:21, Jeremy Hylton wrote:
> Those of you watching the checkins list probably noticed that Tim and I
> have been checking in a lot of bug fixes over the last 10 days.  One of
> our customers had been experiencing problems with corrupted BTrees.  We
> fixed several different bugs as a result of our investigation of the
> problem.  Each of these bugs can cause inconsistent data to be written
> to the database.  At least one of them can cause data loss, too.  Most
> of the bugs were in ZEO.
> 
> The bugs are fixed in CVS on the ZODB3-3_1-branch and we'll do a release
> first thing tomorrow morning.  Anyone using ZEO ought to upgrade to ZODB
> 3.1.2 ASAP.  The release will be a beta release, but has seen more
> extensive internal testing than the typical beta.  I hope the final
> release will follow shortly, although the Zope 2.6.2 release schedule
> may have an impact.

We found a couple more corner cases this morning that weren't fixed
properly yesterday.  We have a much improved set of changes in CVS
tonight and expect to do the ZODB 3.1.2b2 release tomorrow morning.

Jeremy