Scalaris 0.8.1 released

[Nico Kruber]

Well, our little woodpecker "Picoides scalaris" gets its first upgrade pretty
soon after it first saw the day. Scalaris 0.8.1 contains a few bug fixes
listed below and making gossip and replica repair a bit more stable..


As usually, packages for various linux distributions are available in the Open
Build Service.

The latest stable version is available in our main repository:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/scalaris/

Git snapshots are available in this repository:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/scalaris:/svn/

For more instructions on how to use the prebuild packages, see
http://scalaris.zib.de/faq.html#prebuild-packages


Scalaris' Java-API (in different versions) is also available in our maven
repository at: http://scalaris.zib.de/maven
For help setting up this repository, please refer to
http://scalaris.zib.de/faq.html#java-api


Scalaris 0.8.1 - July 12, 2015
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(partly supported by the EU project IES Cities http://iescities.eu/)

Business Logic:

- rrepair: allow specifying the minimum number of hash bits to use
to create non-approximate algorithms

Bugs:

- rrepair: fix a badarith if rr_recon_version_bits is set to 'variable'
- rrepair: fix a bug in the accuracy of the evaluation
- fix two crashes in gossip

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