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== Release 7.6.4 (December 2024)
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Couchbase Server 7.6.4 was released in October 2024. This maintenance release contains new features and fixes several known issues.
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Couchbase Server 7.6.4 was released in December 2024. This maintenance release contains new features and fixes several known issues.
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For detailed information on new features and enhancements, please see xref:introduction:whats-new.adoc[].
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| Issue resolved.
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| https://jira.issues.couchbase.com/browse/MB-62413[MB-62413]
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| When a username is extracted from a client certificate, no check was made for its existence on the server.
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| The username extracted from the client certificate is checked for its existence in couchbase-server.
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| When a username is extracted from a client certificate, the candidate username is checked for its existance in couchbase-server. If such user doesn't exist, algorithm now doesn't stop, but tries to extract another candidate username.
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|Issue resolved.
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| https://jira.issues.couchbase.com/browse/MB-63981[MB-63871]
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| The /prometheus_sd_config endpoint provides a new option `clusterLabels` which species the cluster name and cluster UUID be returned. Prometheus will use them as labels in time series data.
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| This provides a method to guarantee uniqueness for stats with the same name gathered from multiple clusters.
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| XDCR connection pre-check now supports alternate addresses, DNS SRV, and works identically to XDCR remote cluster references.
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| https://jira.issues.couchbase.com/browse/MB-63738[MB-63738]
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| XDCR dashboard on Source cluster now shows a UI alert when a pipeline is stuck due to EACCESS errors while writing to Target cluster.
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| The XDCR dashboard on Source cluster now shows a UI alert when a pipeline is stuck due to EACCESS errors while writing to Target cluster.
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| From version `7.6.4+`, a statement containing text such as: `… 1AND …`
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Correct such instances by inserting a space between the numeric constant and the following token, e.g. `… 1 AND …`.
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| https://jira.issues.couchbase.com/browse/MB-63518[MB-63518]
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|An API issue has been resolved where attempting to set the completed-stream-size to zero when it was already zero via the administrative REST API would:
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* Block access to the system:vitals keyspace or vitals end-point.
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* Require a full Query process restart on affected nodes as the only previous workaround.
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| https://jira.issues.couchbase.com/browse/MB-63420[MB-63420]
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a| A server panic was resolved when processing an aggregate function with a less-common reference structure, such as MAX([d.date, d][1]). The more standard form MAX([d.date, d])[1] was not impacted. The fix ensures stable query processing for this edge case.
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| In earlier versions of Couchbase, when an eventing function is under deployment or being resumed,
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then, if the function has any destination bucket bindings whose LCB instances are to be bootstrapped,
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and there were ongoing KV service issues, (e.g., a network partition, firewall on the KV port, etc.),
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`Eventing` used to leave these LCB instances in an unhealthy state and skip past them to continue with deployment. +
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This resulted in any subsequent operations scheduled on this LCB instance to fail and not return control.
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From the customer's perspective, the eventing function was stuck.
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| In earlier versions of Couchbase, during eventing function deployment or resumption, KV service disruptions (like network partitions) could leave LCB instances in an unrecoverable, unhealthy state. This caused the eventing function to become permanently stuck, with subsequent operations failing to return control, rendering the function non-functional.
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Eventing can ensure that the customer's JavaScript code does not get stuck and times out the mutation's processing instead.
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| This issue has been resolved. Couchbase Eventing now actively monitors LCB instance statuses and implements a "lazy" retry mechanism for bootstrapping unhealthy instances. The retry process continues until the operation times out, which is dynamically determined by the script timeout. This ensures that JavaScript code remains responsive, with mutations timing out gracefully if bootstrap attempts fail, instead of causing a complete function lockup.
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| After enabling GSI shard-based rebalance from the Web UI and saving the settings, it is not possible to disable the same setting by unticking the box. The box is greyed out and cannot be interacted with.
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| After enabling GSI shard-based rebalance from the Web UI and saving the settings, it was not possible to disable the same setting by unticking the box. The box is greyed out and cannot be interacted with.
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| An issue in the rebalancer caused several partitions to miss streaming mutations when partitioned indexes were moved during file-based rebalances. This issue resulted in corrupt indexes as not all data was processed. +
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| The absence of `segmentVersion` within `params.store` of index definitions in `6.x` leads to a situation of `v11` and `v16` segments being mixed,
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| In index definitions from version 6.x, the `segmentVersion` parameter is absent, with it previously defaulting to v11. With 7.6 we’ve updated the default to v16. So when the `segmentVersion` is absent, the v16 code will be going into effect.
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An issue in the v16 code while interpreting data with no vector fields caused an alignment panic. This panic is fixed with 7.6.4 allowing 6.x index definitions to work ok in 7.6.4.
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* This problem occurs only for index definitions that survive an upgrade from 6.x to 7.x and then 7.6.x without being “re-built” meaning they’d still be using the v11 file format.
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| In summary, version 7.6.4 now supports upgrades of 6.x index definitions. However, Couchbase recommends upgrading indexes to 15+ segment version format for improvements in indexing footprint and performance.
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