Revision history for Nebulous

0.13 Wed Jul  9 16:36:27 HST 2008
    - create a Nebulous::Keys object to represent a parsed neb key and
      impliment other changes to abstract out the handling of keys in order to
      support "soft" volume requests and the "any" volume
    - change find_objects_with_unavailable_instances query to only count
      volumes marked as 'available'
    - fix nebdiskd so it doesn't removed volumes as being successful stat()'d
      even when the stat() failed under --debug
    - add "smart" storage volume selection when ->replicate_object() is invoked without a target volume name
    - add volume.host field
    - add --host option to neb-initdb
    - add --host option to neb-addvol
    - add --host option to neb-admin
    - add --host option to nebdiskd
    - decalare default SQL character set

0.12 Wed May 28 11:03:06 HST 2008
    - remove the use of LAST_INSERT_ID() from the new_object_instance query
    - add neb-admin util
    - fix Nebulous::Server::setxattr_object() so that creating a new xattr with
      the "replace" flag works

0.11 Tue May 20 10:54:50 HST 2008
    - add support for the magical ':any' volume to
      Nebulous::Server:find_instances()
    - call sync on newly created files from
      Nebulous::Server::_create_empty_file()
    - improved error strings in Nebulous::Server::find_instances()

0.10 Wed May 14 17:26:48 HST 2008
    - cleanup error handling in Nebulous::Server::stat_object()/find_objects()
    - update Nebulous::Server::lock_object()/unlock_object() fault strings
    - cleanup database error handling: make sure queries are ->finished before
      showing an expect, remove DBI->rollback from the error paths of methods
      that don't insert data
    - improve getxattr_object() error handling
    - document xattr methods
    - change Nebulous::Server::stat() to not die when passed a non-existant key
    - change listxattr_object() to return an arrayref
    - change default log level to 'WARN'
    - fix _is_valid_object_key() to handle nebulous keys

0.09 Tue May  6 12:12:02 HST 2008
    - allow volume name arguments to be undef

0.08 Thu Apr 17 16:08:16 HST 2008
    - set permissions on storage instance directories

0.07
    - add Nebulous::Server::mounts()
    - server/client split into Nebulous::Server and Nebulous::Client packages
    - add support for storing instances in multi-tier 'hashed' directories 
    - pickup test DB settings from the env.
    - add neb-ls -l|-1 option
    - add neb-fsck
    - add neb-stat
    - add additional fkey constrains to the instance table
    - fix installation of neb-replicate & neb-cull
    - redo database schema with foreign keys
    - add Nebulous::Keys pod

0.06 Fri Jan 25 10:55:59 HST 2008
    - define Nebulous::Client::find_objects() as returning [] when NO keys are
      found
    - change neb-touch to use Nebulous::Client::find_objects() instead of
      ::find()
    - add Nebulous::Sever:: neb key/uri support
    - add Nebulous::Util::parse_neb_key()
    - change bin/* scripts to conistently use --volume instead of --node,
      etc.
    - pod cleanups
    - add neb-replicate & neb-cull

0.05 2007-05-04 16:59:31(???)
    - make filesystem xattr support optional & disabled by default
    - generate instance filenames that leave the "key" at the end so as to not
      break a pplications that expect a certain "extension" on the filename
    - set an xattr on all created files of "user.nebulous_key"
    - add neb-locate
    - change all Nebulous::Client public methods to behave in list context
    - rework the getmountedvol() stored procedure to attempt to work around
      what appears to be some nasty transacational isolation leak throught that
      was causing getmountedvol() to randomly hang when nebdiskd changed the
      mount table.
    - fix a nasty logic bug in Nebulous::Client->replicate()
    - break 1:1 relationship between key names and on disk file names
    - overhaul Nebulous::Client->cull()
    - add the number of instances to ->stat_object()
    - SQL cleanup
    - better paramter checking
    - overhaul instance table
    - add ->_is_valid_object_key() method
    - change ->find_instances() to check it's params and only return instances
      on mounted & available volumes
    - add volume.available field and logic to use it
    - add volume.allocate field and logic to use it
    - add instance.vol_id field
    - remove $class_id & $comment params from Nebulous::Server->create() and
      Nebulous::Client->create*() and all supporting functions and tests
    - add Nebulous::Server->{setxattr_object, listxattr_object,
      getxattr_object, removexattr_object}()
    - add neb-cat
    - add neb-mv
    - change Nebulous::Client->move() to use ->rename_object()
    - add Nebulous::Server->rename_object()
    - add neb-rm
    - add neb-cp
    - add neb-ls
    - add Nebulous::Client->find_objects()
    - add Nebulous::Server->find_objects()
    - add neb-touch
    - add neb-df
    - change neb-addvol to properly mangle URIs into paths

0.04 Mon Apr 23 13:33:16 HST 2007
    - include autogen.sh in the tarball
    - add nebdiskd
    - [nebclient] VERSION to '0.0.3'
    - change API to generally return true URIs instead of file paths
    - add support for some what intelligent volume allocations
    - minor code & build fixes, ws changes

0.03 Mon Dec 11 14:19:45 HST 2006
    - change Nebulous::Server instantiate objects (init -> new) instead of
      working with class data
    - add a DESTROY method to Nebulous::Server to tear down the database
      connection
    - add a Nebulous::Server->config() accessor
    - make Nebulous::Server->db() Apache::DBI aware
    - make SQL syntax MySQL 5 compatible
    - update SOAP, DBI & DBD, and Apache::* deps
    - change Nebulous::Server::SOAP to be mod_perl aware
    - change Nebulous::Server::SOAP install stub methods to bypass AUTOLOAD on
      successive calls to the same method
    - make Nebulous::Server::Log mod_perl aware
    - change Nebulous::Server::Log to accept a Nebulous::Server::Config object
      as a parameter instead of fetching it as a singleton
    - make Nebulous::Server::Config no longer a singleton

0.02 Fri Dec  2 17:36:59 HST 2005
    - recommend Test::Distribution 1.22
    - add t/00_distribution.t
    - rename test files
    - [nebclient] VERSION to '0.0.2'
    - Nebulous::Client, Nebulous::Server, & Nebulous::Server::SQL
        VERSION to '0.02'
    - add Nebulous::Client->open_create()
    - change Nebulous::Client->create() to return just a filename
    - [nebclient] add nebOpenCreate()
    - [nebclient] change nebCreate() to return just a filename

0.01 Fri Sep  3 10:23:31 2004
    - first working version
	- original version; created by ExtUtils::ModuleMaker 0.32
