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Memcached 1.4.3 Release Notes

Date: 2009-11-07 Sat

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Download Link:

http://memcached.org/files/old/memcached-1.4.3.tar.gz

Overview

This is a maintenance release of memcached featuring mostly bug fixes and one new feature.

RC history

rc2 fixes a multiget bug that showed up in rc1. A bug was not filed, but it was found and patched at roughly the same time.

Fixes

Critical Fixes

  • Malicious input can crash server. bug102

Non-critical Fixes

  • Removed special case in slab sizing for factor 2. bug56
  • Provide better errors for deletion scenarios. bug3
  • Fix get stats accounting. bug104
  • Ignore stats prefix for keys without a delimiter. bug96
  • Work around rpm’s broken concept of versions more. bug98
  • Use slab class growth factor limit. bug57
  • Added LSB section to init script. bug54
  • Documentation fixes
  • Various build fixes

Itemized List of Bugs Closed

If a bug shows up in this list that wasn’t specifically mentioned above, it’s either too minor to mention specifically or the bug was closed by introducing a test that proves that the bug, as described, does not exist.

  • bug3
  • bug54
  • bug56
  • bug57
  • bug62
  • bug67
  • bug68
  • bug69
  • bug96
  • bug97
  • bug98
  • bug101
  • bug102
  • bug104

New Features

Support for SASL Authentication

Some installations of memcached are not in controlled environments where simple network filtering keeps bad guys out of your stuff. To help with those other environments, we’ve introduced SASL support. You can read more about it here:

https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/SASLHowto

New perl tool damemtop in scripts/

dormando’s awesome memcached top - a new commandline perl tool for monitoring small to large memcached clusters. Supports monitoring arbitrary statistics. See scripts/README.damemtop for more information.

This tool is intended to replace memcached-tool, but not yet.

Also Noteworthy, Slab Optimizations

Objects on the larger end of the limit should be generally more memory efficient now as more slabs are created (thus are more granular).

Contributors

The following people contributed to this release since 1.4.2.

Note that this is based on who contributed changes, not how they were done. In many cases, a code snippet on the mailing list or a bug report ended up as a commit with your name on it.

Note that this is just a summary of how many changes each person made which doesn’t necessarily reflect how significant each change was. For details on what led up into a branch, either grab the git repo and look at the output of git log 1.4.2..1.4.3 or use a web view.

    15  Dustin Sallings
    10  Trond Norbye
     5  dormando
     2  Colin Pitrat
     1  Monty Taylor
     1  Chang Song
     1  CaptTofu
     1  Tomash Brechko
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