[Berkeley DB Announce] Berkeley DB 4.6.21.1 - Patch Announcement

[bdb at oss.oracle.com]

A patch for Berkeley DB release 4.6.21 that fixes a race condition between
checkpoint and DB->close() which can result in the checkpoint thread
self-deadlocking (SR [#15692]) is now available.  We recommend all users of
Berkeley DB apply this patch so as to avoid this issue in production.

An web page with all patches (currently only one) for Berkeley DB 4.6.21.
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/berkeley-db/xml/update/4.6.21/patc
h.4.6.21.html

A text file with the patch:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/berkeley-db/xml/update/4.6.21/patc
h.4.6.21.1


regards, the Berkeley DB Team,

-greg

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Gregory Burd                                     greg.burd at oracle.com
Product Manager, Berkeley DB/JE/XML              Oracle Corporation