2.4.3 - Night of the Living Dead

Windows release, FreeBSD 13 compilation, certificate chain support, no update checker complaint.

Brings some low-key compilation future-proofing.

Compatibility

No migration is required when upgrading from RethinkDB 2.4.x. Please read the RethinkDB 2.4.0 release notes if you're upgrading from an older version.

RethinkDB 2.4.x servers cannot be mixed with servers running RethinkDB 2.3.x or earlier in the same cluster.

API-breaking changes

None. Some console output is altered, though.

Changes

• Server
  • Fail correctly when failing to remove directory (#4647)
  • Improve --initial-password help text (#7064)
  • Add machine arch and uname to rethinkdb version output (#7060)
  • Improve general help formatting (#7095)
  • Update OpenSSL version (if fetched and statically linked) to 3.0.7 (#7099)
  • Make TLS configuration support certificate chains (#6969)
  • Regenerate the version correctly (eliminating update checker annoyance) (#7100)
• Compilation
  • Get the Windows build working (#7074, #7075, #7082, #7083)
    • Switch from QuickJS to QuickJSpp (our fork hosted at https://github.com/rethinkdb/quickjspp )
  • Include <time.h> in files using time function (#7091)
    • and add more explicit includes for future-proofing (#7098)
  • Get FreeBSD build working (#7088, #7098)
  • Avoid some uses of egrep (#7092)
• Web UI
  • Update jQuery to 3.6.1 (#6937)

Contributors

• Mariano Rodríguez (@MarianoRD)
• Hung-Te Lin (@hungte)
• Antoni Mróz (@MrBoombastic)
• unx (@unxcepted)
• Russel Beswick (@besworks)
• Sam Hughes (@srh)
• Gábor Boros (@gabor-boros)

Special thanks are due to Antoni Mróz and unx for getting the Windows release working.