Datomic Cloud 668-8927

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05/14/2020 - 668-8927 - Compute Update

  • New feature: qseq
  • New feature: index-pull
  • New feature: xform
  • Enhancement: Improve index efficiency.
  • Enhancement: Improve performance of pull in queries.
  • Enhancement: Improve internal record keeping of active databases that could lead to spurious error messages.
  • Enhancement: Base AMI is now sourced from Amazon Linux 2, and includes recent security updates

Upgrade: As recommended by AWS, we have upgraded our base AMI to Amazon Linux 2 [Update on Amazon Linux AMI end-of-life | AWS News Blog]. This new AMI includes a breaking change to the linux netcat utility that Ions use to deploy new code to a cluster. We encourage all users of Ions to upgrade to version 0.9.265 or later of ion-dev prior to upgrading to this release.