Tiledb

New features

Improvements

* Array metadata fetching is now lazy (fetch on use) to improve array open performance [1466](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB/pull/1466)
* libtiledb on Linux will no longer re-export symbols from statically linked dependencies [1461](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB/pull/1461)

Deprecations

Bug fixes

API additions

API removals

TileDB 1.7.2 contains bug fixes and several internal optimizations.

New features

Improvements

* Added support for getting/setting array metadata via REST. [1449](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB/pull/1449)

Deprecations

Bug fixes

* Fixed several REST query and deserialization bugs. [1433](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB/pull/1433), [#1437](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB/pull/1437), [#1440](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB/pull/1440), [#1444](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB/pull/1444)
* Fixed bug in setting certificate path on Linux for the REST client. [1452](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB/pull/1452)

API additions

API removals

TileDB 1.7.1 contains build system and bug fixes, and one non-breaking API update.

New features

Improvements

Deprecations

Bug fixes

* Fixed bug in dense consolidation when the array domain is not divisible by the tile extents. [1442](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB/pull/1442)

API additions

* Added C API function `tiledb_array_has_metadata_key` and C++ API function `Array::has_metadata_key` [1439](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB/pull/1439)
* Added support for indicating zero-value metadata by returning `value_num` == 1 from the `_get_metadatata` and `Array::get_metadata` APIs [1438](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB/pull/1438) (this is a non-breaking change, as the documented return of `value == nullptr` to indicate missing keys does not change)`

API removals

TileDB 1.7.0 contains the new feature of array metadata, and numerous bugfixes.

New features

* Added array metadata. [1377](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB/pull/1377)

Improvements

* Allow writes to older-versioned arrays. [1417](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB/pull/1417)
* Added overseen optimization to check the fragment non-empty domain before loading the fragment R-Tree. [1395](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB/pull/1395)
* Use `major.minor` for SOVERSION instead of full `major.minor.rev`. [1398](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB/pull/1398)

Bug fixes

* Numerous query serialization bugfixes and performance improvements.
* Numerous tweaks to build strategy for libcurl dependency.
* Fix crash in StorageManager destructor when GlobalState init fails. [1393](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB/pull/1393)
* Fix Windows destructor crash due to missing unlock (mutex/refcount). [1400](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB/pull/1400)
* Normalize attribute names in multi-range size estimation C API. [1408](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB/pull/1408)

API additions

* Added C API functions `tiledb_query_get_{fragment_num,fragment_uri,fragment_timestamp_range}`. [1396](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB/pull/1396)
* Added C++ API functions `Query::{fragment_num,fragment_uri,fragment_timestamp_range}`. [1396](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB/pull/1396)
* Added C API function `tiledb_ctx_set_tag` and C++ API `Context::set_tag()`. [1406](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB/pull/1406)
* Add config support for S3 ca_path, ca_file, and verify_ssl options. [1376](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB/pull/1376)

API removals

* Removed key-value functionality, `tiledb_kv_*` functions from the C API and Map and MapSchema from the C++ API. [1415](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB/pull/1415)

Additions

* Added config param `vfs.s3.logging_level`. [1236](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB/pull/1236)

Bug fixes

* Fixed FP slice point-query with small (eps) gap coordinates. [1384](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB/pull/1384)
* Fixed several unused variable warnings in unit tests. [1385](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB/pull/1385)
* Fixed missing include in `subarray.h`. [1374](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB/pull/1374)
* Fixed missing virtual destructor in C++ API `schema.h`. [1391](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB/pull/1391)
* Fixed C++ API build error with clang regarding deleted default constructors. [1394](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB/pull/1394)

Bug fixes

* Fix incorrect version number listed in `tiledb_version.h` header file and doc page.
* Fix issue with release notes from 1.6.0 release. [1359](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB/pull/1359)