Hello,

This is the release announcement for libloc 0.9.15. It comes with the following changes:

* Major refactoring of the code that maps the database into memory has been undertaken. This is to support any architectures that do not have a page size of four kilobytes. Instead mapping individual parts of the database, the entire file is being mmapped into memory which removes the earlier restriction.

* The library is telling the kernel that it intends to randomly read data from the file, which results in a minor performance improvement on slower storage devices.

* The testsuite has been extended and we now check for better return codes in case the database could not be opened.

* The library compiles on Mac OS X again - but support is not yet ready for production.

* The configure script now understands the —with-database-path switch which can be used to set an alternative path for the database.

* The location Python module has a new function called “open” which called without an argument tries to open the default database, and if called with a path argument will open the database at the given path.

Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this release.

You can find the source here:

https://git.ipfire.org/?p=location/libloc.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/tags/0.9.15
https://source.ipfire.org/releases/libloc/libloc-0.9.15.tar.gz

Best,
-Michael