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      Description — Couchbase Lite on Swift
      Abstract — This content describes the key features and changes implemented by release 2.8 of Couchbase Lite on Swift
      Related Content — What’s New | Compatibility | Supported OS

      2.8.4 — March 2021

      Version 2.8.4 of Couchbase Lite for Swift delivers a number of enhancements and bug fixes.

      Enhancements

      Enhancement highlights include the ability to vary the replicator heartbeat, which keeps continuous replication connections alive when idle — see: Remote Sync Gateway — Set heartbeat

      Couchbase Lite for Swift will now support Apple Silicon (M1) and Mac Catalyst .

      2.8.1 — November 2020

      Version 2.8.1 of Couchbase Lite for Swift comprises a number of fixes. It supersedes version 2.8.0 released earlier this year.

      If you have already upgraded to 2.8.0 we strongly recommend that you upgrade to version 2.8.1 at the earliest opportunity.

      Issues and Resolutions

      Known Issues

      • CBL-216 — Ordering null values inconsistent with N1QL expectations

      • CBL-95 — Pending conflicts could be resolved by a wrong replicator

      • CBL-49 — Need a way to distinguish boolean types

      Fixed Issues

      • CBL-1423 — Fixes Carthage build failure [ENTERPRISE EDITION]

      • CBL-1403 — Compiling an app archive for distribution with the Rebuild from Bitcode option enabled will result in compiler errors.

      2.8.0 — October 2020

      New Features

      Peer-to-Peer Synchronization

      Using Couchbase Lite’s Peer-to-Peer Synchronization solution, you can build offline-first applications on edge devices that directly collaborate in secure bi-directional database synchronization without depending on centralized cloud-based control.

      The solution provides an out-of-the-box implementation of a websocket based listener for use in peer-to-peer applications communicating over in IP-based networks.

      Read More . . . Landing P2Psync

      Improvements

      Feature Changes

      None specified in this release

      Other Enhancements

      • CBL-991 — Add Maintenance API.

      • CBL-954 — Return 403 for forbidden listener requests

      API Changes

      The API has been enhanced with the following changes:

      • The Database.close() method now automatically handles stopping open replicators, closing peer-to-peer websocket listener and removing observers for live queries.

      • The Database.delete() method now automatically handles stopping open replicators, closing peer-to-peer websocket listener and removing observers for live queries.

      • The Replicator.isDocumentPending() method checks whether or not the document with the given ID has any pending revisions to push

      • The Replicator.pendingDocumentIds() method gets the Ids of all documents currently pending push

      • Meta.revisionID property is now available as a metadata property, which can be accessed directly in queries

      Issues and Resolutions

      Known Issues

      • CBL-1403 — Compiling an app archive for distribution with the Rebuild from Bitcode option enabled will result in compiler errors. Disable bitcode to allow your compilation to proceed

      • CBL-1362 — Harmless unused property in ReplicatorConfiguration

      • CBL-216 — Ordering null values inconsistent with N1QL expectations

      • CBL-95 — Pending conflicts could be resolved by a wrong replicator

      • CBL-49 — Need a way to distinguish boolean types

      Fixed Issues

      • CBL-1141 — Android cannot use unlinked files

      • CBL-1107 — Properties beginning with dollar sign not handled correctly

      • CBL-1045 — Data race in log rollover

      • CBL-978 — Math errors with float → int implicit fleece conversion

      • CBL-977 — Full text search with Left Outer Join causes fields to be null

      • CBL-859 — ChangeEncryptionKey() and save document after creating a brand new Database throws CouchbaseLiteException (SQLiteDomain / 21): bad parameter or other API misuse.

      • CBL-789 — Crash when accessing connection→name()

      • CBL-745 — Save fails when NSDate inserted with [CBLMutableDocument setData]

      • CBL-707 — Compaction is ineffective (auto_vacuum not enabled)

      • CBL-624 — Revision flags get cleared while saving resolved document in iOS

      • CBL-614 — Closing a read only database causes errors

      • CBL-609 — Fleece thinks a boolean is a Long

      • CBL-594 — Local to Local replication duplicates remote ID

      • CBL-590 — Investigate handling of BLIP 500 errors

      • CBL-578 — Receive rev#1 after rev#2 is saved to DB

      • CBL-565 — Crashes apparently caused by attempting to log after failure

      • CBL-564 — Property alias not working under certain cases

      • CBL-530 — Certain keys in a query can cause segmentation faults

      • CBL-529 — Cannot create an offset query without limit

      • CBL-384 — Platform WebSocket code should manage HTTP cookies

      • CBL-358 — xsockets doesn’t account for POSIX variations

      Support Notices

      This section documents any support-related notes, constraints and changes

      Deprecation Notices

      Items (features and-or functionality) are marked as deprecated when a more current, and usually enhanced, alternative is available.

      Whilst the deprecated item will remain usable, it is no longer supported, and will be removed in a future release. You should plan to move to an alternative, supported, solution as soon as practical.

      This Release
      Ongoing

      Support for iOS 9.0 is deprecated in version 2.6.

      Support for macOS 10.9 and 10.10 is deprecated in version 2.5.

      Other Notices

      New

      None specified in this release

      Ongoing

      Apple’s macOS is supported ONLY for testing and development purposes.