gdbm-1.20

[Douglas R. Reno]

New minor version

[Bruce Dubbs]

GNU dbm NEWS -- 2021-06-17 Version 1.20

• New bucket cache

The bucket cache support has been rewritten from scratch. The new bucket cache code provides for significant speed up of search operations.

• Change mmap prereading strategy

Pre-reading of the memory mapper regions, introduced in version 1.19 can be advantageous only when doing intensive look-ups on a read-only database. It degrades performance otherwise, especially if doing multiple inserts. Therefore, this version introduces a new flag to gdbm_open: GDBM_PREREAD. When given, it enables pre-reading of memory mapped regions.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commit 5809826800d8005976be14888ac1f4df21174bbf

Package updates.
    Update to bash-5.1.8.
    Update to dejagnu-1.6.3.
    Update to gdbm-1.20.
    Update to libcap-2.51.
    Update to man-pages-5.1.