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 sagar0:
   full_name: Sagar Vemuri
   fbid: 2419111
+
+lightmark:
+  full_name: Aaron Gao
+  fbid: 1351549072
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+---
+title: RocksDB 5.5.1 Released!
+layout: post
+author: lightmark
+category: blog
+---
+
+### New Features
+* FIFO compaction to support Intra L0 compaction too with CompactionOptionsFIFO.allow_compaction=true.
+* Statistics::Reset() to reset user stats.
+* ldb add option --try_load_options, which will open DB with its own option file.
+* Introduce WriteBatch::PopSavePoint to pop the most recent save point explicitly.
+* Support dynamically change `max_open_files` option via SetDBOptions()
+* Added DB::CreateColumnFamilie() and DB::DropColumnFamilies() to bulk create/drop column families.
+* Add debugging function `GetAllKeyVersions` to see internal versions of a range of keys.
+* Support file ingestion with universal compaction style
+* Support file ingestion behind with option `allow_ingest_behind`
+* New option enable_pipelined_write which may improve write throughput in case writing from multiple threads and WAL enabled.
+
+### Bug Fixes
+* Fix the bug that Direct I/O uses direct reads for non-SST file
+* Fix the bug that flush doesn't respond to fsync result