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We're happy to announce the immediate availability of MLDB version 2017.01.24.0.
This release contains 123 new commits and modified 1653 files. On top of many bug fixes and performance improvements, here are some of the highlights of this release:
- Big optimizations in query executing time by evaluating all const expressions at binding time instead of doing it for each row.
- Added the `blob_length(x)` function that returns the length (in bytes) of the blob `x`.
- Added the `parse_exif(blob)` function that takes a JPEG image blob and returns basic EXIF information from it.
- Added the `split_part(str, splitChars)` function that splits the string `str` and returns an embedding of all tokens as separated by the provided `splitChars` parameter.
- The `fetcher()` function now works with UTF-8 paths.
- Fixed wrong error code returned by the `fetcher()` function when it should return a 404.
- Fixed an issue with the `fetcher()` function that could make MLDB hang for a long time.
- The number of lines returned by the `/logs/mldb` endpoint has been increased from 1024 to 8192 lines.
- Improved the error message returned by the `columnPathElement()` function when using an out of bounds index.
- It is now possible to do a transpose of a `row_dataset`. It is also now possible to merge two `row_dataset` together.
- Fixed an issue where the `WHERE` clause would not be properly applied when used with a dataset of type `UNION`.
- When running MLDB in a Docker container, if the `mldb_runner` process exits with a non-zero exit code, the `docker run` command will also exit with a non-zero exit code.
- When [executing a query](https://docs.mldb.ai/doc/#builtin/sql/QueryAPI.md.html), the `atom` return format was added. It returns a single atomic value, without the row name or the column name. The query will fail if anything other than a single row / column is returned. This is available in when using the `/v1/query` endoint or `pymldb`.
- Logging improvements
- Improved the handling of CUDA launch failures when using Tensorflow by modifying the default behaviour from `assert()` to throw so that they are recoverable.
- Lower curl connect(2) timeout from 300s to 20s. This allows for ~3 SYN retransmits on a default linux config. The idea is to avoid being stuck in connect(2) for too long while still having a chance of success when going through flaky networks.
- Updated svdlibc to version 1.4 which includes bug fixes.
- Fixed an issue with Python plugins where POSTing to a route that returns no data and 200 code would be returned as a 404 by MLDB.
- Fixed an issue when running a `transform` procedure with no input.
