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The NCBI SRA Software Development Kit
Contact: sra-tools@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov


NCBI External Developer Release: NCBI VDB 2.7.0
July 12, 2016

  blast, kfg, ncbi-vdb, sra-tools, vfs: restored possibility to disable local caching
  doc, ncbi-vdb: created a Wiki page illustrating how to use the API to set up logging
  kdb, kfs, kns: Added blob validation for data being fetched remotely
  kfg: When loading configuration files on Windows USERPROFILE environment variable is used before HOME
  kfg: modified auxiliary remote access configuration to use load-balanced servers
  kns: Fixed a bug when KHttpRequestPOST generated an incorrect Content-Length after retry
  ngs, search, sra-search: sra-search was modified to support multiple threads.
  ngs-engine, ngs-tools, sra-tools, vfs: The "auxiliary" nodes in configuration are now ignored
  ngs-engine: Added support for blob-by-blob access to SEQUENCE table
  ngs-engine: removed a potential memory leak in NGS_CursorMake()
  search: now supports multi-threaded search
  vdb: fixed a bug in VCursorFindNextRowIdDirect where it returned a wrong rowId
  vdb: fixed a bug in the code used to iterate over blobs where rowmap expansion cache would reset iteration to initial row instead of respecting sequence
  vfs: environment variable VDB_PWFILE is no longer used


NCBI External Developer Release: NCBI VDB 2.6.3
May 25, 2016

  vdb: Fixed a bound on memory cache that would never flush under certain access modes


NCBI External Developer Release: NCBI VDB 2.6.2
April 20, 2016

  kdb: Fixed VTableDropColumn, so that it can drop static columns
  kfs, kns: Fixed thread safety issues for both cache and http files
  kproc: Fixed KQueue to wake waiters when sealed, fixed KSemaphore to wake waiters when canceled
