I am pleased to announce release 1.8.0 of BrightstarDB is now available from all the usual places:

This update fixes some bugs and addresses performance issues reported by the community. Thanks to all those who took the trouble to report and to provide patches / suggested workarounds.

Key new features in this release are:

EntityFramework now supports GUID properties.
EntityFramework now has an [Ignore] attribute which can be used to decorate interface properties that are not to be implemented by the generated EF class.
Added a constructor option to generated EF entity classes that allows property initialisation in the constructor.
Added some basic logging support for Android and iOS PCL builds.
It is now possible to iterate the distinct predicates of a data object using the GetPropertyTypes method.

Significant fixes in this release are:

Fix for Polaris crash when attempting to process a query containing a syntax error.
Fixed NuGet packaging to remove an obsolete reference to Windows Phone 8. WP8 (and 8.1) are still both supported but as PCL profiles.
Performance fix for full cache scenarios.

The store format remains compatible with previous releases. This is a recommended update for all BrighstarDB users.

Docker Image Now Available

With this release we are now also providing a Docker image to run a BrightstarDB server in a Docker container. This makes it really easy to get a BrightstarDB service up and running on a cloud VM infrastructure such as Azure or AWS. The docker image is available on Docker Hub. For more information please read our notes in the BrightstarDB/Docker repository on GitHub where you will also find the Dockerfile and configuration files used to build the image.

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BrightstarDB 1.8.0 Released

Docker Image Now Available