Since the user authentication stores a SHA2-512 hash of the password on
disk, caching the hash results in memory speeds up the authentication
process significantly. Storing the password on disk in plain-text form
would also speed it up but this would be quite insecure.
So as to allow the change date to be update at each maintenance
release, we need to have a separate license for each minor release.
In each minor branch there will then be a LICENCE.TXT symbolic link
that points to the actual file.
Generated the new MaxCtrl documentation with the new help output. The help
output now doesn't auto-wrap which causes lines to be longer but it
prevents broken Markdown formatting. It also makes it more readable on
wider terminals.
The number of sessions wasn't always incremented but it was always
decremented. This happened primarily when authentication failed. By making
the management of the counters a part of the object lifecycle, this
problem goes away.
Requiring contiguous buffers removes the need to use mxs::Buffer which
also removes the need to check for buffer boundaries.
Converted all the functions used by get_canonical into `static inline` so
that the compiler knows it can inline them. A few of them weren't `static`
which made the calls to the functions unnecessarily expensive.
The backslash was added instead of assigned. Since the value stored at
that position is always a null byte, assignment and addition would result
in the same outcome.
The help output of all the list and show commands now explains what each
field in the output table means. The generated table will be added at the
end of the help output.
The descriptions table looks like this:
Field Description
----- -----------
Version MaxScale version
Commit MaxScale commit ID
Started At Time when MaxScale was started
Activated At Time when MaxScale left passive mode
Uptime Time MaxScale has been running
Parameters Global MaxScale parameters
The fields are now defined separately and no longer use the object keys as
the names of the values. This makes it clearer as to what the field
definition actually is. Following commits will add a description key into
each object that makes it possible to easily build help output.
Cherry-picked 12e6ada259c38d535003c068a49bc525c33830d8 into 2.3.
Since the maxctrl build process uses add_custom_command, we must
explicitly list the sources that it depends on. With this change, maxctrl
is rebuild whenever the sources change.
Since most of the time users run MaxScale as the maxscale user, we can
change the ownership of the file when it is being created. This prevents
the need to manually set the permissions after the file is created.
If the user creating the file is root, the ownership change will work but
on the other hand if the user simply has write permission into MaxScale's
files, the ownership change will likely cause an error. This will still be
an improvement as the user will know the file ownership needs to be
changed.
Generated the new MaxCtrl documentation with the new help output. The help
output now doesn't auto-wrap which causes lines to be longer but it
prevents broken Markdown formatting. It also makes it more readable on
wider terminals.
The number of sessions wasn't always incremented but it was always
decremented. This happened primarily when authentication failed. By making
the management of the counters a part of the object lifecycle, this
problem goes away.
Requiring contiguous buffers removes the need to use mxs::Buffer which
also removes the need to check for buffer boundaries.
Converted all the functions used by get_canonical into `static inline` so
that the compiler knows it can inline them. A few of them weren't `static`
which made the calls to the functions unnecessarily expensive.
The backslash was added instead of assigned. Since the value stored at
that position is always a null byte, assignment and addition would result
in the same outcome.
The help output of all the list and show commands now explains what each
field in the output table means. The generated table will be added at the
end of the help output.
The descriptions table looks like this:
Field Description
----- -----------
Version MaxScale version
Commit MaxScale commit ID
Started At Time when MaxScale was started
Activated At Time when MaxScale left passive mode
Uptime Time MaxScale has been running
Parameters Global MaxScale parameters
The fields are now defined separately and no longer use the object keys as
the names of the values. This makes it clearer as to what the field
definition actually is. Following commits will add a description key into
each object that makes it possible to easily build help output.
Cherry-picked 12e6ada259c38d535003c068a49bc525c33830d8 into 2.3.
Since the maxctrl build process uses add_custom_command, we must
explicitly list the sources that it depends on. With this change, maxctrl
is rebuild whenever the sources change.
So as to allow the change date to be update at each maintenance
release, we need to have a separate license for each minor release.
In each minor branch there will then be a LICENCE.TXT symbolic link
that points to the actual file.
