Merge in all changes related to being able to read configuration files.
[m6w6/libmemcached] / ChangeLog
1 0.49
2 * Fix calls to auto methods so that if value is not passed in nothing bad happens.
3 * New parser calls for generating memcached_st objects.
4 * New error system.
5
6 0.48 Tue Mar 15 23:05:18 PDT 2011
7 * Fix memory leak in server parse.
8 * Move test framework out to be its own library (easier to work with Gearman).
9
10
11 0.47 Wed Feb 23 18:46:48 PST 2011
12 * Additional fixes for OpenBSD.
13 * Bug fix 677609, 456080.
14 * SIGPIPE fix for Linux send().
15 * memcapable can now test ascii or binary based on flags.
16 * Additional build fixes for SASL.
17
18
19 0.46 Mon Feb 14 10:28:01 PST 2011
20 * Fixes a number of corner case bugs.
21 * Fixes related to OpenBSD.
22 * Better testing for protocol version.
23 * Removes special case infinite wait on blocking setup.
24
25 0.45 Tue Feb 8 16:02:06 PST 2011
26 * Add support for systemtap
27
28 0.44 Wed Sep 22 21:57:57 PDT 2010
29 * Windows bug fixes.
30 * Hudson port support in test harness.
31 * Improved portability of test hanrness.
32 * SASL fixes.
33
34 0.43 Wed Jul 28 16:29:47 PDT 2010
35 * Added --args to memstat so that a greater range of values can be returned.
36 * Prelimanary support for Windows.
37 * memcached_stat_execute() merged.
38
39 0.42 Tue Jul 6 12:29:50 PDT 2010
40 * Mistake in libtool caused issue with library version
41
42 0.41 Wed Jun 30 13:15:19 PDT 2010
43 * Added --file for memcat.
44 * Added limemcached_ping() to libmemcached_util
45 * Bugfix for some cases where connect would have issues with timeout.
46 * Wrong value for errno given as error on an IO failure inside of poll.
47 * Bug fix for issue where multiple interfaces with bad DNS were not being caught.
48
49 0.40 Thu Apr 22 19:01:25 PDT 2010
50 * Placed retry logic in for busted resolvers
51 * Add an ignore for SIGPIPE to solve OSX issues.
52 * A couple of fixed for memcached_light server.
53 * Updated to debug mode to track io_wait
54
55 0.39 Tue Apr 6 12:35:13 PDT 2010
56 * Add support for prefix keys to binary protocol.
57 * Remove the undocumented call memcached_server_remove().
58 * The undocumented call memcached_server_by_key() now returns const.
59 * memcached_server_error_reset() has been deprecated.
60 * memcached_server_list() has been deprecated. Use memcached_server_cursor() to walk the servers found in a memcached_st() structure.
61 * memcached_verbosity() can now be run concurrently with other operations.
62 * SASL support.
63 * Fixes memory leak found in EJECT HOSTS.
64
65 0.38 Wed Feb 10 09:40:33 PST 2010
66 * C++ interface for libhashkit.
67 * Modified memcached_set_memory_allocators() so that it requires a context pointer.
68 * memcached_clone() now runs 5 times faster.
69 * Functions used for callbacks are now given const memcached_st.
70 * Added MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_CORK.
71 * memslap now creates a configuration file at ~/.memslap.cnf
72 * memcached_purge() now calls any callbacks registered during get execution.
73 * Many fixes to memslap.
74 * Updates for memcapable.
75 * Compile fixes for OpenBSD.
76 * Fix for possible recursive decent on IO failure.
77
78 0.37 Mon Jan 11 16:29:57 PST 2010
79 * Fixed build for libhashkit.
80 * Fixed install path regression.
81 * Modified RPM to strict check install.
82 * Added documentation for memcached_server_cursor();
83 * Added memcached_servers_reset().
84 * Modified memcached_st to remove dead cursor_server member.
85
86 0.36 Wed Jan 6 18:23:50 PST 2010
87 * Merged in new memslap utility.
88 * All of constants.h has been updated to match style (all old identifiers continue to work).
89 * Added first pass for libhashkit.
90 * Updated test Framework/extended tests.
91 * Random read support during replication added.
92 * Modified use_sort so that the option can be applied to any distribution type.
93 * We removed the MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_KETAMA_COMPAT_MODE added in 0.35. Instead use memcached_behavior_set_distribution().
94
95 0.35 Mon Nov 9 11:18:33 PST 2009
96 * Added support for by_key operations for inc/dec methods.
97 * Added mget test to memslap.
98 * Support for compatible ketama for SpyMemcached
99 * Update C++ interface.
100 * Fix for memcp
101
102 0.34 Tue Oct 13 08:39:51 PDT 2009
103 * Added support for setting behavior flags on a connection pool.
104 * Don't increment server_failure_counter on normal disconnects.
105 * Added prototype for a callback based protocol parser (server side) with examples so that you could let your own application speak the memcached protocol
106 * Updated memcapable to test ASCII protocol.
107 * Changed behavior so that server can be removed at first sign of failure.
108 * Added memcached_server_get_last_disconnect() call
109
110 0.33 Wed Sep 23 10:11:58 PDT 2009
111 * Added memcapable to test servers for binary compatibility.
112 * 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).
113 * Several bug fixes for binary protocol support.
114 * Fixed crashing issue with dumping from memcachd server (server internals were changed without documenting change).
115
116 0.32 Tue Sep 15 15:49:09 PDT 2009
117 * Change of behavior where linger is only modified for no-block and then it is set to zero.
118 * Added Twitter's memcached_server_error() functions.
119 * Fix for OSX compiles in development builds.
120 * Updated C++ interface.
121 * 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.
122
123 0.31 Fri Jul 10 09:02:50 PDT 2009
124 * Added support or HA via replication.
125 * malloc() removed for server key usage.
126 * Update build system.
127 * Added support for memcached_set_memory_allocators().
128 * Fixed bug in configure.ac for have_htoll.
129
130 0.30 Sun May 31 17:31:52 PDT 2009
131 * Added memcachd_dump command (and framework for memdump tool).
132 * Realigned all structures to remove padding (and line up important bits for 64bit caches.
133 * Remove some of sprintf() in storage calls().
134 * Removed printf() in stat call for unknown stat member.
135 * memcached_generate_hash() function added.
136 * Added tests to make sure all hash functions are stable.
137
138 0.29 Tue May 19 08:26:48 PDT 2009
139 * Fixed malloc usage to calloc for spots where we need zero filled memory.
140 * All code warnings now treated as errors.
141 * Fixes for debian packaging.
142 * Added new pooling mechanism.
143 * MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_NO_BLOCK no longer also sets MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_BUFFER_REQUESTS.
144 * Updated generic rpm.
145
146 0.28 Tue Apr 14 18:56:28 PDT 2009
147 * Fixed bug in init sructure (reapplied)
148 * Fixed bug in get/set by key (nikkhils@gmail.com)
149
150 0.27 Sun Mar 29 22:33:01 PDT 2009
151 * Added new UDP fire-forget mode.
152 * Reworked performance for mget() to better make use of async protocol
153 * Cleaned up execution of fetch (just one set of code now)
154 * Fixed Jenkin's for big endian hosts.
155 * Updates for memstat to determine network latency.
156 * Updates for binary protocol.
157 * Many updates to documentation.
158
159 0.26 Thu Jan 29 13:05:50 PST 2009
160 * Fix for decrement on hash key
161 * Fixed assert that was catching bad memset() call in host_reset()
162 * Fix purge issue for blocked IO which has been stacked.
163
164 0.25 Fri Nov 28 09:59:35 PST 2008
165 * Jenkins HASH added.
166 * Update of Murmur hash code
167 * Support explicit weights (Robey Pointer, Evan Weaver)
168 * Bugfix for ketama continuum (Robey Pointer)
169 * New behavior MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_HASH_WITH_PREFIX_KEY (Robey Pointer)
170 * Don't ever call stats for weighting servers, because it is unstable.
171
172 0.24 Tue Sep 16 02:59:03 PDT 2008 (never released)
173 * Cleanup compile warnings.
174 * Fix issues in partitioning by keys.
175 * Fixed "fail case" to make sure when calling memcached_clone() no memcached_st is over written.
176 * New memcached_server_by_key() method for finding a server from a key.
177 * memcached_server_free() was added for freeing server structures.
178
179
180 0.23 Sun Sep 7 08:13:59 PDT 2008
181 * Added strings.h header for Solaris 9
182 * Solaris 64bit fix.
183 * Support for weighted Ketama from Yin Chen.
184 * Fix for Chinese
185 * Fix for 0 length key to trigger bad key.
186 * Added behaviors MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_SND_TIMEOUT, MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_RCV_TIMEOUT
187 * Support for Binary Protocol added
188
189 0.22 Mon Jul 14 09:24:11 PDT 2008
190 * Fix where master key was no being checked for "bad key"
191 * Fixed bugs in stats output (thread output was wrong)
192 * Clarified MEMCACHED_BAD_KEY_PROVIDED is return for bad prefix key.
193 * Found a bug in Flags return (Jacek Ostrowski)
194 * Fixed issue with compiling on Visual Studio
195
196 0.21 Fri May 23 18:34:09 PDT 2008
197 * Change of char * to const char * for all key based functions.
198 * New MEMCACHED_CALLBACK_PREFIX_KEY added. You can now create domains for values.
199 * Fixed bug introducd in last version on memcp
200 * Fix for death of file io to call shutdown()
201
202 0.20 Mon May 5 08:34:26 PDT 2008
203 * New consistent distribution tests.
204 * Found a memory leak when a server constantly fails.
205 * Fix in watchpoint macro
206 * Changed default timeout to 1 second for poll timeouts
207 * Wheel uses less memory/dynamic allocation for size (no longer limited to 512 hosts by default.
208 * memslap memory leak fix
209 * Added Ketama distribution
210 * Fix assert.h compile problem on CentOS
211
212 0.19 Wed Apr 9 09:30:53 PDT 2008
213 * Documentation fix in libmemcached.
214 * Fixed bug where sort was always occuring on hosts
215 * Logic fix in branch prediction (thanks Jay!)
216 * Read through cached support.
217 * Fixed for cas by key operation.
218 * Fix for memcached_server_st list structures to have correct count.
219 * Added callback MEMCACHED_CALLBACK_DELETE_TRIGGER
220 * Removed function call in favor of macro (aka cut out some instructions)
221
222
223 0.18 Sun Mar 16 21:57:55 PDT 2008
224 * Fix plus tests for non-zero value objects and flags.
225 * MEMCACHED_HASH_MURMUR added for murmur algorithm provided.
226 * MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_RETRY_TIMEOUT added to keep connecting from looping on timeout.
227 * gcc branch prediction optimizations
228 * Refactored entire tree to make include files cleaner
229 * Fixed leaked socket.
230
231 0.17 Wed Feb 27 03:33:29 PST 2008
232 * MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_CONNECT_TIMEOUT added for connect timeout in non-block mode.
233 * Incompatible change in memcached_behavior_set() api. We now use a uint64_t, instead of a pointer.
234 * Fix for storage of values for zero.
235 * memcached_server_cursor() function added to API for cycling through servers.
236
237 0.16 Mon Feb 18 00:30:25 PST 2008
238 * Work on the UDP protocol
239 * Added get_by_key, set_by_key tests for C++ API
240 * Fix for limit_maxbytes to be 64bit in stats
241 * Added Atom Smasher test (scale baby, scale!)
242 * 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.
243 * Added MEMCACHED_BAD_KEY_PROVIDED error for auto, set, and get operations. MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_VERIFY_KEY was added to enable this feature.
244 * More error messages on command line tools.
245 * Fixed bugs in memcached_cas() operator.
246 * Fix to loop through interfaces
247
248 0.15 Tue Jan 29 14:55:44 PST 2008
249 * More work on the C++ API.
250 * Bug fixes around block corner cases.
251 * Slight performance increase in both read() and write().
252
253 0.14 Tue Jan 22 06:21:49 PST 2008
254 * For for bug found by Evan Weaver where increment() was not returning propper error of value was not found.
255 * Fix for bad null pointer on flag by Toru Maesaka.
256 * Refactor of all IO to just pass in the active server
257 * Problem configuring (PKG_CHECK_MODULES) fixed by removal of "rpath" in support/libmemcached.pc.in (Thanks to Ross McFarland).
258 * Added memcached_callback_get()/set()
259 * First prototype of C++ interface
260 * Updated docs for uint16_t changes in previous release
261
262 0.13 Sun Jan 13 06:51:50 PST 2008
263 * MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_USER_DATA added to store user pointer.
264 * Fix for failure to connect to invalidate socket.
265 * Patch from Marc Rossi to add --hash option for memcp, memrm, and memcat.
266 * Kevin's patch for fixing EOF issues during a read.
267 * Toru Maesaka patch for stats mismatch
268 * Fix for when CRC return 0
269 * Fixed uint16_t issues around flags. Turns out the documentation on the protocol was wrong.
270 * Lingering socket fixes for FreeBSD.
271 * Patches from Kevin Dalley for FreeBSD 4.0
272 * Added multi delete functions.
273 * All get key returns have C style null termination
274 * If memcached_server_list_append is passed NULLs instead of pointers it returns NULL.
275 * Added memcached_fetch_execute() method
276 * Found a bug where memcached_fetch() was not null terminating the result value.
277 * memcached_behavior() now has the ability to set "buffering" so that data is not automatically flushed.
278 * Behavior change, buffered commands now return MEMCACHED_BUFFERED
279
280 0.12 Tue Dec 11 15:20:55 PST 2007
281 * Updates for consistent hashing
282 * IPV6 support
283 * Static allocation for hostname (performance)
284 * Fixed bug where in non-block mode all data might not have been sent on close().
285 * Refactor of memcached_get() to use common code.
286 * Change in value fetch, MEMCACHED_END is now returned when keys are no longer in the pipe.
287 * Fixed bug where key could be out of range of characters
288 * Added _by_key() methods to allow partitioning of values to particular servers.
289 * MEMCACHED_DEFAILT_TIMEOUT is now set to a non -1 value.
290 * Performance improvements in get operations.
291
292 0.11 Mon Nov 26 01:05:52 PST 2007
293 * Added option to memcache_behavior_set() so that poll() can be timed out.
294 * Fixed memory leak in case of using memcached_fetch_result() where no value was returned.
295 * Bug fixed in memcached_connect() which would cause servers that did not need to be enabled to be enabled (performance issue).
296 * Rewrote bounds checking code for get calls.
297 * "make test" now starts its own memcached servers.
298 * Added Hseih hash (MEMCACHED_HASH_HSIEH), which is showing about 7% performance over standard hash.
299
300 0.10 Tue Nov 20 23:22:31 PST 2007
301 * Added append binary test.
302 * Added MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_CACHE_LOOKUPS behavior so that you can save on multiple DNS lookups.
303 * Added CAS support, though this is optional and must be enabled during runtime.
304 * Added the utility memerror to create human readable error strings from memcached errors (aka convert ints to strings)
305 * Fixed type in MEMCACHED_HOST_LOOKUP_FAILURE
306 * Fixed bug where hostname might not be null terminated
307 * Moved to using gethostbyname_r() on Linux to solve thread safety issue
308 * Added -rpath support for pkg-config
309 * Documentation fix for hash setting using memcached_behavior_set()
310
311 0.9 Thu Nov 15 07:44:00 PST 2007
312 * fix for when no servers are definied.
313 * different buffers are now kept for different connections to speed up async efforts
314 * Modified increment/decrement functions to return uint64_t values
315 * Fixed bug in cases where zero length keys were provided
316 * Thread cleanup issue in memslap
317 * No hostname lookup on reconnect
318 * Fix for flag settings (was doing hex by accident!)
319 * Support for 1.2.4 server additions "prepend" and "append" added.
320 * Added memcached_version()... not sure if I will make this public or not.
321
322 0.8 Mon Nov 5 10:40:41 PST 2007
323 * Adding support for CRC hash method
324 * Adding support for UNIX sockets
325 * Added additional HASHing methods of FNV1_64,FNV1A_64, FNV1_32, FNV1A_32
326 * Added pkgconfig support (PKG_CHECK_MODULES)
327 * Fixed conflict with defined type in MySQL
328 * Added memcached_result_st structure and functions to manipulate it.
329
330 0.7 Tue Oct 30 09:24:05 PDT 2007
331 * Poved to poll() from select()
332 * Fixes in internal string class for allocation of large numbers of strings.
333 * memcached_mget() function now sends keys as it parses them instead of building strings as it goes.
334 * Propper flush now for making sure we get all IO sent even when in non-block mode.
335 * Added --enable-debug rule for configure
336 * All asserts() removed (hey this is going into production!)
337
338
339 0.6 Wed Oct 17 08:41:35 PDT 2007
340 * get value returns are now null terminated (request by Cal Heldenbrand)
341 * Fixed connections for more hosts then two.
342 * Rewrite of the read/write IO systems to handle different sorts of host failures.
343 * Added man pages for all functions and tools
344 * Raised buffer size for readinng/writing to 16K
345 * You can now optionally set the socket size for recv/send via memached_behavior_set/get.
346
347 0.5 Tue Oct 9 00:22:25 PDT 2007
348 * Ruby maintainer mentioned TCP_NODELAY patch he had added. Added this to C
349 library as well. (Eric Hodel drbrain@segment7.net)
350 * Added support script for set_benchmark
351 * Updated memslap to allow testing of TCP_NODELAY
352 * Updated memslap to support --flush (aka dump memcache servers before testing)
353 * Fixed bug in multiple hosts not being activated
354 * Added environmental variable MEMCACHED_SERVERS which can be used to set the servers list.
355 * fixed memcached_stat method (and now memstat works)
356 * server connect now happens on demand.
357 * Help for all command line applications
358
359 0.4 Wed Oct 3 10:28:50 PDT 2007
360 * Added buffered IO to write calls for keys
361 * Added buffered IO for reads
362 * memstat was broken (bad if/else on connect)
363 * New non-blocking IO (not default yet). Mucho faster
364 * Refactor of test system.
365 * memslap crash solved
366
367 0.3 Mon Oct 1 06:37:52 PDT 2007
368 * Jeff Fisher <guppy@techmonkeys.org> provided a spec file
369 * Added "make rpm" around dist file
370 * Added support for Solaris
371 * Added support for DTrace
372 * Fixed read to be recv and write to be send
373 * Bug fix where memstat would core if no server was found
374 * Added memslap tool (load generator)
375 * Numerous bug fixes in library
376 * Added calls to library for creating host lists (see text cases to understand how to use this).
377
378 0.2 Thu Sep 27 03:46:57 PDT 2007
379 * First public version
380