This release adds new control over Raft snapshotting, a key part of the Raft consensus protocol. When the WAL file reaches a certain size (4MB by default, which equals the SQLite default), rqlite will trigger a Raft snapshot. In its default setting this change may reduce disk usage, but may also result in more frequent Raft snapshotting. Most users can ignore this change and carry on as before after upgrading to this release.
This release adds new control over Raft snapshotting, a key part of the Raft consensus protocol. When the WAL file reaches a certain size (4MB by default, which equals the SQLite default), rqlite will trigger a Raft snapshot. In its default setting this change may reduce disk usage, but may also result in more frequent Raft snapshotting. Most users can ignore this change and carry on as before after upgrading to this release.
### New features
### New features
- [PR #1530](https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite/pull/1530), [PR #1533](https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite/pull/1533): Support automatically snapshotting when WAL reaches the SQLite default of 4MB.
- [PR #1530](https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite/pull/1530), [PR #1533](https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite/pull/1533): Support automatically snapshotting when WAL reaches the SQLite default of 4MB.
Philip O'Toole
9 months ago