CartoDB-SQL-API/NEWS.md

1.9.0 - 2014-MM-DD

New features:

• Add optional support for rollbar (#137)
• Add '/version' endpoint (#138)

Enhancements:

• Allow configuring log_format (#131)
• Use log4js for logging (#136)
• Include version in startup log
• Allow passing environment configuration name via NODE_ENV to app.js
• Print environment configuration name on app start

1.8.3 - 2014-02-10

Bug fixes:

• Honour the 'node_socket_timeout' configuration directive (#128)

Enhancements:

• Add support for error handling in assert.request
• Stop using ANSI colors in the logs (#130)

1.8.2 - 2014-01-20

Bug fixes:

• Restore compatibility with 1.6.x configuration
• Use db_port in ogr2ogr

1.8.1 - 2014-01-10

Bug fixes:

• Fix use of "SELECT .. INTO" with windowing params (#127)

1.8.0 - 2013-12-18

New features:

• Add 'user_from_host' directive to generalize username extraction (#124)

Improvements:

• Enhance error message on unknown cartodb username (#126)

1.7.1 - 2013-12-02

• Fix documentation for CSV export format: geoms are in hexewkb, not ewkt.
• Fix field types names lookup after PSQL model refactoring NOTE: fixes missing .prj in shapefile export regression (#122)

1.7.0 - 2013-11-19

New features:

• Optionally read user-specific database_host and database_password from redis, as per CartoDB-2.5.0 model (#120, #121)
• Add warnings and notices to JSON response (#104)

Other changes:

• CartoDB redis interaction delegated to "cartodb-redis" module

1.6.3 - 2013-11-10

• JSON format: correctly recognize "numeric" type columns (#119)

1.6.2 - 2013-11-07

• JSON format: correctly recognize "date" type columns (#117)
• Allow access to tables whose name contains (but does not start with) the "pg_" substring (#118)

1.6.1 - 2013-11-05

• Still set a meaningful X-Cache-Channel with cache_policy=persist (#105)
• Fix wrong projection in KML exports for manually altered tables (#116)
• Set KML folder name to the requested filename (#115)
• Make public PostgreSQL user name a configuration parameter (#56)

1.6.0 - 2013-10-02

• Fix shapefile export for non-linestring results starting with NULLs (#111)
• Fix missing .prj in shapefile export (#110)
• Improve recognition of non-standard field types names by db lookup (#112)
• Upgrade node-pg dependency to 2.6.2
• Drop support for cluster

1.5.4 - 2013-10-01

• Honour skipfields in JSON schema response (#109)

1.5.3

• Set Last-Modified header with cache_policy=persist
• Raise max-age to one year for all cacheable queries
• Set max-age to 0 for uncacheable (mutating) queries
• Add REINDEX to the list of uncacheable queries
• Support all parameters with POST as well as GET
• Ensure testsuite passes with both GDAL-0.9 and GDAL-0.10
• JSON output: report boolean types as boolean, not string (#106)

1.5.2

• Keep numbers as such in JSON output (#100)
• Revert max-age=0 in Cache-Control when using no-cache

1.5.1

• Improve cacheability of queries selecting "updated_at" fields (#99)

1.5.0

• Add "fields" member in JSON return (#97)
• Add --skipfields switch to cdbsql
• Fix windowing with CTE
• Retain UTC offset in JSON date output
• Set max-age=0 in Cache-Control when using no-cache

1.4.1

• Fix windowing support for non-uppercased SELECT queries
• Fix oAuth testcase

1.4.0

• Add arraybuffer format
• Fix filesystem access conflict among clustered processes
• Fix discard of queued export requests on error
• Really fix problem identifying OAuth requests

1.3.10

• Fixed problem identifying OAuth request protocol
• Make base url configurable
• Update underscore dependency
• Add munin plugin
• Make PostgreSQL client pooling settings configurable (#47)
• Do not execute queries on OPTIONS (#94)
• Survive postgresql connection losses (#95)

1.3.9

• Do not choke on multiple skipfields parameter
• Do not request caching of TRUNCATE queries

1.3.8

• Make using SET or querying system catalogues harder
• Allow sql queries to end with a semicolon (#90)
• Testsuite fixes, jenkins ready :)

1.3.7

• Fix parsing of numeric arrays (#88)
• node-pool upgraded to 2.0.3
• Reduce memory use on KML export
• Fix concurrent request for KML and Shapefile exports
• Send an empty-like KML when exporting zero-rows queries
• Make temporary dir a configuration setting
• Use OGR for CSV output, reducing memory requirement

1.3.6 (DD/MM/YY)

• Do not confuse warnings with errors on shapefile output (#87)

1.3.5 (19/02/13)

• Fix skipfields use with SHP output format (#81)
• Fix Content-Disposition for error responses (#82)
• Add pid to /cachestatus (#83)
• Check CDB_QueryTable response before saving into cache (#83)
• Use an expiring LRU cache for query tables (#83)
• Fix X-Cache-Channel computation with paging parameters (#85)

1.3.4 (21/01/13)

• Improve mixed-geometry export error message (#78)
• Remove NULL the_geom features from topojson output (#80)
• Fix crash when issuing SQL "COPY" command
• Return an error when "the_geom" is in skipfield for SVG output (#73)

1.3.3 (11/01/13)

• Fix Date format in CSV output (#77)
• Add TopoJSON output format (#79)

1.3.2 (30/11/12)

• Fix KML export truncation (#70)
• Fix UTF8 in shapefile export (#66)

1.3.1 (DD/MM/YY)

• Support 'format' and 'filename' params in POST
• Fix oAuth bug introduced by 'skipfields' param in 1.3.0 (#69)

1.3.0 (DD/MM/YY)

• Support for specifying a filename for exports (#64)
• Support for specifying a list of fields to skip from output (#63)
• Add 'cache_policy' parameter (#62)

1.2.1 (DD/MM/YY)

• Added timeout default to 600 miliseconds in cluster.js

1.2.0 (DD/MM/YY)

• New output formats:
  • ESRI Shapefile (format=shp)
  • SVG (format=svg)
  • KML (format=kml)
• Advertise header presence in CSV Content-Type
• Fix CSV output with no rows (#60)
• Use "attachment" Content-Disposition for all output formats (#61)
• Only use last format parameter when multiple are requested
• Return a 400 response on unsupported format request
• Added X-Prototype-Version, X-CSRF-Token to Access-Control-Allow-Headers

1.1.0 (30/10/12)

• Fixed problem in cluster2 with pidfile name
• SVG output format
• Enhancement to the cdbsql tool:
  • New switches: --format, --key, --dp
  • Interactive mode
• API documentation
• ./configure script
• Restrict listening to a node host

1.0.0 (03/10/12)

• Migrated to node 0.8 version

0.9.0 (18/09/12)

• Fix INSERT and UPDATE with RETURNING clause