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1 0.40 Thu Apr 22 19:01:25 PDT 2010
2 * Placed retry logic in for busted resolvers
3 * Add an ignore for SIGPIPE to solve OSX issues.
4 * A couple of fixed for memcached_light server.
5 * Updated to debug mode to track io_wait
6
7 0.39 Tue Apr 6 12:35:13 PDT 2010
8 * Add support for prefix keys to binary protocol.
9 * Remove the undocumented call memcached_server_remove().
10 * The undocumented call memcached_server_by_key() now returns const.
11 * memcached_server_error_reset() has been deprecated.
12 * memcached_server_list() has been deprecated. Use memcached_server_cursor() to walk the servers found in a memcached_st() structure.
13 * memcached_verbosity() can now be run concurrently with other operations.
14 * SASL support.
15 * Fixes memory leak found in EJECT HOSTS.
16
17 0.38 Wed Feb 10 09:40:33 PST 2010
18 * C++ interface for libhashkit.
19 * Modified memcached_set_memory_allocators() so that it requires a context pointer.
20 * memcached_clone() now runs 5 times faster.
21 * Functions used for callbacks are now given const memcached_st.
22 * Added MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_CORK.
23 * memslap now creates a configuration file at ~/.memslap.cnf
24 * memcached_purge() now calls any callbacks registered during get execution.
25 * Many fixes to memslap.
26 * Updates for memcapable.
27 * Compile fixes for OpenBSD.
28 * Fix for possible recursive decent on IO failure.
29
30 0.37 Mon Jan 11 16:29:57 PST 2010
31 * Fixed build for libhashkit.
32 * Fixed install path regression.
33 * Modified RPM to strict check install.
34 * Added documentation for memcached_server_cursor();
35 * Added memcached_servers_reset().
36 * Modified memcached_st to remove dead cursor_server member.
37
38 0.36 Wed Jan 6 18:23:50 PST 2010
39 * Merged in new memslap utility.
40 * All of constants.h has been updated to match style (all old identifiers continue to work).
41 * Added first pass for libhashkit.
42 * Updated test Framework/extended tests.
43 * Random read support during replication added.
44 * Modified use_sort so that the option can be applied to any distribution type.
45 * We removed the MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_KETAMA_COMPAT_MODE added in 0.35. Instead use memcached_behavior_set_distribution().
46
47 0.35 Mon Nov 9 11:18:33 PST 2009
48 * Added support for by_key operations for inc/dec methods.
49 * Added mget test to memslap.
50 * Support for compatible ketama for SpyMemcached
51 * Update C++ interface.
52 * Fix for memcp
53
54 0.34 Tue Oct 13 08:39:51 PDT 2009
55 * Added support for setting behavior flags on a connection pool.
56 * Don't increment server_failure_counter on normal disconnects.
57 * Added prototype for a callback based protocol parser (server side) with examples so that you could let your own application speak the memcached protocol
58 * Updated memcapable to test ASCII protocol.
59 * Changed behavior so that server can be removed at first sign of failure.
60 * Added memcached_server_get_last_disconnect() call
61
62 0.33 Wed Sep 23 10:11:58 PDT 2009
63 * Added memcapable to test servers for binary compatibility.
64 * Updated C++ interface. Added basic support for C++ exceptions. Added multiple constructors the memcached client object. The C++ interface now takes parameters which are C++ types (such as std::string).
65 * Several bug fixes for binary protocol support.
66 * Fixed crashing issue with dumping from memcachd server (server internals were changed without documenting change).
67
68 0.32 Tue Sep 15 15:49:09 PDT 2009
69 * Change of behavior where linger is only modified for no-block and then it is set to zero.
70 * Added Twitter's memcached_server_error() functions.
71 * Fix for OSX compiles in development builds.
72 * Updated C++ interface.
73 * Updated memcached_mget and memcached_mget_by_key to take a size_t as a parameter instead of an unsigned int for number_of_keys.
74
75 0.31 Fri Jul 10 09:02:50 PDT 2009
76 * Added support or HA via replication.
77 * malloc() removed for server key usage.
78 * Update build system.
79 * Added support for memcached_set_memory_allocators().
80 * Fixed bug in configure.ac for have_htoll.
81
82 0.30 Sun May 31 17:31:52 PDT 2009
83 * Added memcachd_dump command (and framework for memdump tool).
84 * Realigned all structures to remove padding (and line up important bits for 64bit caches.
85 * Remove some of sprintf() in storage calls().
86 * Removed printf() in stat call for unknown stat member.
87 * memcached_generate_hash() function added.
88 * Added tests to make sure all hash functions are stable.
89
90 0.29 Tue May 19 08:26:48 PDT 2009
91 * Fixed malloc usage to calloc for spots where we need zero filled memory.
92 * All code warnings now treated as errors.
93 * Fixes for debian packaging.
94 * Added new pooling mechanism.
95 * MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_NO_BLOCK no longer also sets MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_BUFFER_REQUESTS.
96 * Updated generic rpm.
97
98 0.28 Tue Apr 14 18:56:28 PDT 2009
99 * Fixed bug in init sructure (reapplied)
100 * Fixed bug in get/set by key (nikkhils@gmail.com)
101
102 0.27 Sun Mar 29 22:33:01 PDT 2009
103 * Added new UDP fire-forget mode.
104 * Reworked performance for mget() to better make use of async protocol
105 * Cleaned up execution of fetch (just one set of code now)
106 * Fixed Jenkin's for big endian hosts.
107 * Updates for memstat to determine network latency.
108 * Updates for binary protocol.
109 * Many updates to documentation.
110
111 0.26 Thu Jan 29 13:05:50 PST 2009
112 * Fix for decrement on hash key
113 * Fixed assert that was catching bad memset() call in host_reset()
114 * Fix purge issue for blocked IO which has been stacked.
115
116 0.25 Fri Nov 28 09:59:35 PST 2008
117 * Jenkins HASH added.
118 * Update of Murmur hash code
119 * Support explicit weights (Robey Pointer, Evan Weaver)
120 * Bugfix for ketama continuum (Robey Pointer)
121 * New behavior MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_HASH_WITH_PREFIX_KEY (Robey Pointer)
122 * Don't ever call stats for weighting servers, because it is unstable.
123
124 0.24 Tue Sep 16 02:59:03 PDT 2008 (never released)
125 * Cleanup compile warnings.
126 * Fix issues in partitioning by keys.
127 * Fixed "fail case" to make sure when calling memcached_clone() no memcached_st is over written.
128 * New memcached_server_by_key() method for finding a server from a key.
129 * memcached_server_free() was added for freeing server structures.
130
131
132 0.23 Sun Sep 7 08:13:59 PDT 2008
133 * Added strings.h header for Solaris 9
134 * Solaris 64bit fix.
135 * Support for weighted Ketama from Yin Chen.
136 * Fix for Chinese
137 * Fix for 0 length key to trigger bad key.
138 * Added behaviors MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_SND_TIMEOUT, MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_RCV_TIMEOUT
139 * Support for Binary Protocol added
140
141 0.22 Mon Jul 14 09:24:11 PDT 2008
142 * Fix where master key was no being checked for "bad key"
143 * Fixed bugs in stats output (thread output was wrong)
144 * Clarified MEMCACHED_BAD_KEY_PROVIDED is return for bad prefix key.
145 * Found a bug in Flags return (Jacek Ostrowski)
146 * Fixed issue with compiling on Visual Studio
147
148 0.21 Fri May 23 18:34:09 PDT 2008
149 * Change of char * to const char * for all key based functions.
150 * New MEMCACHED_CALLBACK_PREFIX_KEY added. You can now create domains for values.
151 * Fixed bug introducd in last version on memcp
152 * Fix for death of file io to call shutdown()
153
154 0.20 Mon May 5 08:34:26 PDT 2008
155 * New consistent distribution tests.
156 * Found a memory leak when a server constantly fails.
157 * Fix in watchpoint macro
158 * Changed default timeout to 1 second for poll timeouts
159 * Wheel uses less memory/dynamic allocation for size (no longer limited to 512 hosts by default.
160 * memslap memory leak fix
161 * Added Ketama distribution
162 * Fix assert.h compile problem on CentOS
163
164 0.19 Wed Apr 9 09:30:53 PDT 2008
165 * Documentation fix in libmemcached.
166 * Fixed bug where sort was always occuring on hosts
167 * Logic fix in branch prediction (thanks Jay!)
168 * Read through cached support.
169 * Fixed for cas by key operation.
170 * Fix for memcached_server_st list structures to have correct count.
171 * Added callback MEMCACHED_CALLBACK_DELETE_TRIGGER
172 * Removed function call in favor of macro (aka cut out some instructions)
173
174
175 0.18 Sun Mar 16 21:57:55 PDT 2008
176 * Fix plus tests for non-zero value objects and flags.
177 * MEMCACHED_HASH_MURMUR added for murmur algorithm provided.
178 * MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_RETRY_TIMEOUT added to keep connecting from looping on timeout.
179 * gcc branch prediction optimizations
180 * Refactored entire tree to make include files cleaner
181 * Fixed leaked socket.
182
183 0.17 Wed Feb 27 03:33:29 PST 2008
184 * MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_CONNECT_TIMEOUT added for connect timeout in non-block mode.
185 * Incompatible change in memcached_behavior_set() api. We now use a uint64_t, instead of a pointer.
186 * Fix for storage of values for zero.
187 * memcached_server_cursor() function added to API for cycling through servers.
188
189 0.16 Mon Feb 18 00:30:25 PST 2008
190 * Work on the UDP protocol
191 * Added get_by_key, set_by_key tests for C++ API
192 * Fix for limit_maxbytes to be 64bit in stats
193 * Added Atom Smasher test (scale baby, scale!)
194 * Servers are now sorted, meaning that servers are now ordered so that clients with the same lists, will have same distribution. (Idea from Ross McFarland). MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_SORT_HOSTS was added to enable this support.
195 * Added MEMCACHED_BAD_KEY_PROVIDED error for auto, set, and get operations. MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_VERIFY_KEY was added to enable this feature.
196 * More error messages on command line tools.
197 * Fixed bugs in memcached_cas() operator.
198 * Fix to loop through interfaces
199
200 0.15 Tue Jan 29 14:55:44 PST 2008
201 * More work on the C++ API.
202 * Bug fixes around block corner cases.
203 * Slight performance increase in both read() and write().
204
205 0.14 Tue Jan 22 06:21:49 PST 2008
206 * For for bug found by Evan Weaver where increment() was not returning propper error of value was not found.
207 * Fix for bad null pointer on flag by Toru Maesaka.
208 * Refactor of all IO to just pass in the active server
209 * Problem configuring (PKG_CHECK_MODULES) fixed by removal of "rpath" in support/libmemcached.pc.in (Thanks to Ross McFarland).
210 * Added memcached_callback_get()/set()
211 * First prototype of C++ interface
212 * Updated docs for uint16_t changes in previous release
213
214 0.13 Sun Jan 13 06:51:50 PST 2008
215 * MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_USER_DATA added to store user pointer.
216 * Fix for failure to connect to invalidate socket.
217 * Patch from Marc Rossi to add --hash option for memcp, memrm, and memcat.
218 * Kevin's patch for fixing EOF issues during a read.
219 * Toru Maesaka patch for stats mismatch
220 * Fix for when CRC return 0
221 * Fixed uint16_t issues around flags. Turns out the documentation on the protocol was wrong.
222 * Lingering socket fixes for FreeBSD.
223 * Patches from Kevin Dalley for FreeBSD 4.0
224 * Added multi delete functions.
225 * All get key returns have C style null termination
226 * If memcached_server_list_append is passed NULLs instead of pointers it returns NULL.
227 * Added memcached_fetch_execute() method
228 * Found a bug where memcached_fetch() was not null terminating the result value.
229 * memcached_behavior() now has the ability to set "buffering" so that data is not automatically flushed.
230 * Behavior change, buffered commands now return MEMCACHED_BUFFERED
231
232 0.12 Tue Dec 11 15:20:55 PST 2007
233 * Updates for consistent hashing
234 * IPV6 support
235 * Static allocation for hostname (performance)
236 * Fixed bug where in non-block mode all data might not have been sent on close().
237 * Refactor of memcached_get() to use common code.
238 * Change in value fetch, MEMCACHED_END is now returned when keys are no longer in the pipe.
239 * Fixed bug where key could be out of range of characters
240 * Added _by_key() methods to allow partitioning of values to particular servers.
241 * MEMCACHED_DEFAILT_TIMEOUT is now set to a non -1 value.
242 * Performance improvements in get operations.
243
244 0.11 Mon Nov 26 01:05:52 PST 2007
245 * Added option to memcache_behavior_set() so that poll() can be timed out.
246 * Fixed memory leak in case of using memcached_fetch_result() where no value was returned.
247 * Bug fixed in memcached_connect() which would cause servers that did not need to be enabled to be enabled (performance issue).
248 * Rewrote bounds checking code for get calls.
249 * "make test" now starts its own memcached servers.
250 * Added Hseih hash (MEMCACHED_HASH_HSIEH), which is showing about 7% performance over standard hash.
251
252 0.10 Tue Nov 20 23:22:31 PST 2007
253 * Added append binary test.
254 * Added MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_CACHE_LOOKUPS behavior so that you can save on multiple DNS lookups.
255 * Added CAS support, though this is optional and must be enabled during runtime.
256 * Added the utility memerror to create human readable error strings from memcached errors (aka convert ints to strings)
257 * Fixed type in MEMCACHED_HOST_LOOKUP_FAILURE
258 * Fixed bug where hostname might not be null terminated
259 * Moved to using gethostbyname_r() on Linux to solve thread safety issue
260 * Added -rpath support for pkg-config
261 * Documentation fix for hash setting using memcached_behavior_set()
262
263 0.9 Thu Nov 15 07:44:00 PST 2007
264 * fix for when no servers are definied.
265 * different buffers are now kept for different connections to speed up async efforts
266 * Modified increment/decrement functions to return uint64_t values
267 * Fixed bug in cases where zero length keys were provided
268 * Thread cleanup issue in memslap
269 * No hostname lookup on reconnect
270 * Fix for flag settings (was doing hex by accident!)
271 * Support for 1.2.4 server additions "prepend" and "append" added.
272 * Added memcached_version()... not sure if I will make this public or not.
273
274 0.8 Mon Nov 5 10:40:41 PST 2007
275 * Adding support for CRC hash method
276 * Adding support for UNIX sockets
277 * Added additional HASHing methods of FNV1_64,FNV1A_64, FNV1_32, FNV1A_32
278 * Added pkgconfig support (PKG_CHECK_MODULES)
279 * Fixed conflict with defined type in MySQL
280 * Added memcached_result_st structure and functions to manipulate it.
281
282 0.7 Tue Oct 30 09:24:05 PDT 2007
283 * Poved to poll() from select()
284 * Fixes in internal string class for allocation of large numbers of strings.
285 * memcached_mget() function now sends keys as it parses them instead of building strings as it goes.
286 * Propper flush now for making sure we get all IO sent even when in non-block mode.
287 * Added --enable-debug rule for configure
288 * All asserts() removed (hey this is going into production!)
289
290
291 0.6 Wed Oct 17 08:41:35 PDT 2007
292 * get value returns are now null terminated (request by Cal Heldenbrand)
293 * Fixed connections for more hosts then two.
294 * Rewrite of the read/write IO systems to handle different sorts of host failures.
295 * Added man pages for all functions and tools
296 * Raised buffer size for readinng/writing to 16K
297 * You can now optionally set the socket size for recv/send via memached_behavior_set/get.
298
299 0.5 Tue Oct 9 00:22:25 PDT 2007
300 * Ruby maintainer mentioned TCP_NODELAY patch he had added. Added this to C
301 library as well. (Eric Hodel drbrain@segment7.net)
302 * Added support script for set_benchmark
303 * Updated memslap to allow testing of TCP_NODELAY
304 * Updated memslap to support --flush (aka dump memcache servers before testing)
305 * Fixed bug in multiple hosts not being activated
306 * Added environmental variable MEMCACHED_SERVERS which can be used to set the servers list.
307 * fixed memcached_stat method (and now memstat works)
308 * server connect now happens on demand.
309 * Help for all command line applications
310
311 0.4 Wed Oct 3 10:28:50 PDT 2007
312 * Added buffered IO to write calls for keys
313 * Added buffered IO for reads
314 * memstat was broken (bad if/else on connect)
315 * New non-blocking IO (not default yet). Mucho faster
316 * Refactor of test system.
317 * memslap crash solved
318
319 0.3 Mon Oct 1 06:37:52 PDT 2007
320 * Jeff Fisher <guppy@techmonkeys.org> provided a spec file
321 * Added "make rpm" around dist file
322 * Added support for Solaris
323 * Added support for DTrace
324 * Fixed read to be recv and write to be send
325 * Bug fix where memstat would core if no server was found
326 * Added memslap tool (load generator)
327 * Numerous bug fixes in library
328 * Added calls to library for creating host lists (see text cases to understand how to use this).
329
330 0.2 Thu Sep 27 03:46:57 PDT 2007
331 * First public version
332