[ANN] Magma 1.0r40

Ramiro Diaz Trepat ramirodt at gmail.com
Sun Sep 23 03:05:15 UTC 2007


Congratulations Chris, I am glad to see this new stable Magma release,
I will give it a try soon.
Are all these new features, like the warm backup, explained on the
wiki? where can we see tutorials / examples of them?
Bye bye




On 9/22/07, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am pleased to announce release 40 of the Magma object database for
> Squeak, offering a significant boost in robustness from the previous
> version:
>
>         - No longer constrained by Squeaks 2GB file-addressability, Magma can
> now support unlimited file sizes (configured out of the box for up to
> 281 Terabyte sized files).
>         - Full backups are now truly "live", with no pause in service.
>         - There is now support for a "warm backup," for rapid failover capability..
>         - ..and server load distribution for clients that can tolerate a
> slightly-behind, read-only repository (i.e., for reporting, archive
> retrieval, etc.).
>         - The MagmaCollectionIndex hierarchy is no longer required on the server.
>         - The server correctly ignores garbage bytes sent by hackers to its
> listening port.
>         - Other enhancements and some important bug fixes.
>
> Nearly every feature and fix has originated at the request of members
> of the Squeak community.  This is your database.  I plan to continue
> supporting, improving, and ensuring you have a good experience using
> Magma.  Please tell me what you need on the Magma mailing list.
>
> This one single code-base has been installed and tested successfully
> in the 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, Tweak, Croquet 1.0SDK and sq3.9-7067dev07.07.1
> images.  Other images may work, I just haven't tested them, you can
> use the "Magma tester" to find out.  In images without
> MethodProperties (3.7 and 3.8), Monticello will provide a friendly
> pink warning that a few extension methods will not load.  This is ok,
> just press Proceed.  It's better than maintaining different code bases
> for each version of Squeak.
>
> Since its earliest days, Magma has been a "one-click" install and this
> version is no different.  There are three configurations available on
> SqueakMap and SqueakSource; "client", "server" and "tester".  The
> former simply exclude certain packages that are not needed for that
> function.
>
>  - Chris
>
>



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