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 Added support for applications to assign master/client role explicitly at any time. Replication Manager can now be configured not to initiate elections. [#17484]
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 Enhanced the DB-&gt;compact method so that it can reassign metadata and root pages from subdatabases to lower numbered pages while compacting a database file that contains multiple databases. This feature helps to free the higher