Changes in 3.2¶

Below is a summary of changes from V3.1. Commercially-licensed users may obtain the detailed change list / release notes from downloads.kx.com

Production release date¶

2014.08.22

allow views to use their previous value as part of their recalc.
views, in addition to vars, are now also returned by default HTTP handler.
removed limit on number of concurrent vectors which can have `g attr.
\c – Console width, height now defaults to 100 1000, previously was 25 80; LINES, COLUMNS environment vars override it.
allow some messaging threads other than main.
retain `p attr if both args to catenate have `p attr, and parted info conforms
map single splayed files.
appending a sorted vector to a sorted vector on disk now just appends to the file if the sort can be retained.
exec by a,b or select by a,b now sets sort/part attr for those cols. Enhancement to that released on 2014.02.07, now multiple cols
Support automatic WebSockets compression according to (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-hybi-permessage-compression-17)
added dsave to make it easy to .Q.en`p#sym and save; expects sym as first col.
rload changed to map all singleton splayed tables; eliminates all the open, map, unmap, close overhead.
expanded mlim (number of mapped nested files) from 251 to 32767.
Added WebSocket client functionality. .z.ws must be defined before opening a WebSocket
allow single escape \ for \/ in char vector (to support JSON)
JSON [de]serialization is now part of q.k
uses two file descriptors per compressed file. This is a result of the change in design to accommodate decompressing a file from multiple threads

views cannot be triggered for recalc from socket threads – signals 'threadview.
view loop detection is no longer performed during view creation; now is during the view recalc.
var, dev, cov, cor and enlist are now reserved words.
`g attr can be set on a vector in main thread only.