Fedora 8 Update: db4-4.6.21-3.fc8

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-11808
2008-12-24 11:10:52
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Name        : db4
Product     : Fedora 8
Version     : 4.6.21
Release     : 3.fc8
URL         : http://www.oracle.com/database/berkeley-db/
Summary     : The Berkeley DB database library (version 4) for C
Description :
The Berkeley Database (Berkeley DB) is a programmatic toolkit that
provides embedded database support for both traditional and
client/server applications. The Berkeley DB includes B+tree, Extended
Linear Hashing, Fixed and Variable-length record access methods,
transactions, locking, logging, shared memory caching, and database
recovery. The Berkeley DB supports C, C++, Java, and Perl APIs. It is
used by many applications, including Python and Perl, so this should
be installed on all systems.

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ChangeLog:

* Tue Dec 23 2008 Jindrich Novy <jnovy at redhat.com> 4.6.21-7
- replication clients should be able to open a sequence (upstream bz#16406)
- package all documentation in db4-devel
* Wed Jun 25 2008 Jindrich Novy <jnovy at redhat.com> 4.6.21-2
- add upstream patch to fix potentially wrong number of mutexes
  to be allocated
- add upstream patch to fix a race condition between checkpoint
  and DB->close which can result in the checkpoint thread self-deadlocking
- don't list headers twice in filelist (#436701)
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