I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Magma 1.0 release "44" for both Squeak, 3.9, 3.10 and Pharo. Although I am looking into alternatives for future releases, for now I am still distributing Magma in my traditional ways:
- On SqueakMap - three one-click installable packages.
- In the "1.0r44" Monticello Configuration in the "Magma" project of squeaksource, there are three one-click installable configurations (client, server, tester).
- The "r44Final" Monticello Configuration in the "MagmaTester" project of squeaksource is the one-click installable MagmaTester package.
As has always been the case, ONLY ONE of the three packages needs to be installed, the full and proper configuration is loaded with one-click.
Compared to r43, this is mostly a maintenance release without any major new functionality, but with improved robustness in the HA and luxury querying as well as several other fixes. Here are the specific improvements over 43:
- Made several HA fixes and improvements, many identified by Bart Gaquie by testing with more than a two-server Magma Node. Many thanks Bart. - Updated MaQueryExecutor>>#fractionComplete to answer an unreduced Fraction instead of a reduced one. This convey's more information; since the denominator represents the total number of elements in the final result. Thanks again to Bart Gauqie. - Upgraded MagmaCollectionReader>>#release to allow give a well-behaved application much freer access to the "luxury" query features of MagmaCollections. It is essential for applications employing luxury query features of Magma for ad-hoc querying, to #release the Reader returned from the query so that resources on the server can be freed. - Now properly truncating the applied.images file, so it doesn't grow and grow.. - Now, when a repository is opened locally, if it's location has never been set (new repository) or was a different *local* location, then update it to the new aMagmaLocalLocation. If it was formerly a network-hosted server, do not update since we could be here simply just for re-opening that repository. So, to go from a remote repository to a local one, you have to manually update the node's primaryLocation. - Server no longer allows any clients to log in with the system name, since it is sometimes checked for special-purpose server housekeeping. - Updated MagmaSession's standard printing method, again! - Added MagmaCollectionReader>>#sortBy:makeDistinct:descending: and #sortBy:makeDistinct:descending:. - Made MaRepositoryDisconnectRequest asynchronous, it now returns considerably faster! - Fix for a recent MagmaCollection optimization. - Removed hard-reference to OSProcess. - Patch for #removeListener to avoid DependentsArray problem. - Fixed a ReadStrategy regression.