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 # ChangeLog file for GDK
 # This file is updated with Maddlog
 
+* Thu Jul 28 2022 Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd@acm.org>
+- Fixed an off-by-one error in the logger which caused older log files
+  to stick around longer in the write-ahead log than necessary.
+- When an empty BAT is committed, skip writing (and synchronizing to
+  disk) the heap (tail and theap) files and write 0 for their sizes to
+  the BBP.dir file.  When reading the BBP.dir file, if an empty BAT is
+  encountered, set the sizes of those files to 0.  This fixes potential
+  issues during startup of the server (BBPcheckbats reporting errors).
+
 * Wed Jun 22 2022 Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd@acm.org>
 - Make sure heap files of transient bats get deleted when the bat is
   destroyed.  If the bat was a partial view (sharing the vheap but not