gdbm-1.17 released [stable]

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Hello,

This is to announce the version 1.17 of GNU dbm. This is a maintenance
release; see the end of this message for the list of noteworthy changes.

Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]:
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdbm/gdbm-1.17.tar.gz/gdbm-1.17.tar.gz
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdbm/gdbm-1.17.tar.gz/gdbm-1.17.tar.gz.sig

Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
  https://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html

Here are the MD5 and SHA1 checksums:

f20ce117abc6f302ecf62c34d41c1ecf  gdbm-1.17.tar.gz
7037e32c7bdfd897a24190bf3c03f122e3370e9d  gdbm-1.17.tar.gz

[*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the
.sig suffix) is intact.  First, be sure to download both the .sig file
and the corresponding tarball.  Then, run a command like this:

  gpg --verify gdbm-1.17.tar.gz.sig

If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
then run this command to import it:

  gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 3602B07F55D0C732

and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.

This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
  Autoconf 2.69
  Automake 1.15
  Bison 2.7
  Flex 2.5.37
  Makeinfo 5.9.93

Changes in this release:

* int gdbm_close and gdbm_sync

Both functions now return 0 on success. On error, they return -1
and set gdbm_errno and errno to the appropriate error codes.

This fixes Puszcza bug 399 (https://puszcza.gnu.org.ua/bugs/?399).

Regards,
Sergey