The documentation is now built with open source tools (xsltproc and fop) that exists on most platforms. One visible change is that the frames are removed.

Own Id: OTP-8250

Fixed duplicate results with mnesia:index_read() on ordered_set tables. Reported by Sam Bobroff.

Fixed locking in mnesia:index_read() which now grabs a read table lock to ensure correctness, this may slow down the operation or block other processes trying to reach the same table.

Calling mnesia:dump_log() could crash mnesia, Reported by Igor Ribeiro Sucupira.

Own Id: OTP-8074

Mnesia crashed if a qlc query was running inside a transaction when mnesia stopped at another node. Thanks Teemu Antti-Poika.

Own Id: OTP-7968

Mnesia could crash when loading local_content tables.

Own Id: OTP-8002 Aux Id: seq11277

Minor (smp) optimizations.

Own Id: OTP-7928

mnesia:clear_table/1 crashed instead of returning {aborted,..} if it was called inside a transaction.

Own Id: OTP-7911

With bad timing several api functions could return or exit with a bad error message when mnesia was shutting down.

Own Id: OTP-7753 Aux Id: seq11179

mnesia:clear_table/1 cleared all nodes table content even if the table was local_content only type.

Own Id: OTP-7835

Disallowed match patterns ('_', and '$n') as argument to mnesia:delete_object/1 and friends.

Own Id: OTP-7524

Introduced a few new functions in Mnesia: mnesia:read/2, mnesia:first/3, mnesia:last/3, mnesia:prev/4, mnesia:next/4, mnesia_frag:first/1, mnesia_frag:last/1, mnesia_frag:prev/2, mnesia_frag:next/2.

Own Id: OTP-7625

mnesia:restore/2 aborted if a EXIT message appeared in the client message queue.

Own Id: OTP-7585 Aux Id: seq11046

mnesia:clear_table/1 does not require that all replicas of the table are available anymore.

Own Id: OTP-7466 Aux Id: seq11015

Mnesia did not garbage collect transaction decisions on disk based nodes if no transactions where made on the local node.

Own Id: OTP-7419

Table referred to by foreign key did not have node_pool properly cleaned up when a node was removed from the schema. Thanks Paul Mineiro.

Own Id: OTP-7340

Mnesia crashed and generated a core dump if a schema_transaction was running when mnesia stopped.

Own Id: OTP-7378 Aux Id: seq10964

It is now possible to delete a db node even when other disk resident nodes are down. Thanks Paul Mineiro.

Own Id: OTP-7383

Sticky locks could lead to hanging transactions.

Own Id: OTP-7205 Aux Id: seq10793

mnesia:snmp_get_next_index/2 didn't work with partial index keys. Argument checking is now done according to documentation, in functions mnesia:snmp_get_row/2, mnesia:snmp_get_mnesia_key/2 and mnesia:snmp_get_next_index/2. These functions now require that RowIndex is a list.

*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

Own Id: OTP-7208

Snmp index tables was not initialized correctly in mnesia-4.4.

Own Id: OTP-7170 Aux Id: seq10870

Rearranging fragmented tables is an O(N^2) operation.

Own Id: OTP-6300

Mnesia ignored the module argument to mnesia:restore/2. Thanks Paul Minerio.

Own Id: OTP-6981

Mnesia's snmp operations snmp_get_row/2, snmp_get_next_index/2 and snmp_get_mnesia_key/2 have been made context aware, i.e. inside a transaction they will compensate for table updates made in earlier in the same transaction. This might cause a performance drop if a lot of updates have been made before the invocation of these functions.

*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

Own Id: OTP-6856 Aux Id: seq10671

Introduced erlang:phash/2 as new default for fragmented tables. Already existing tables will continue to use whatever hash function they where using.

Own Id: OTP-6923

Introduced mnesia:is_transaction/0.

Own Id: OTP-6995 Aux Id: seq10812

Rearranging fragmented tables is an O(N^2) operation.

Own Id: OTP-6300