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1 1.0.12 Tue Oct 9 03:30:20 EDT 2012
2 * Added memcached_result_take_value().
3 * Added ax_libmemcached.m4
4
5 1.0.11 Sun Sep 16 20:32:13 EDT 2012
6 * Removed custom version of memcached.
7 * Updated hardening rules.
8 * Fixed a case where the return error from a socket connection differred from that of a TCP/IP socket.
9
10 1.0.10 Sun Jul 29 21:50:15 PDT 2012
11 * --disable-assert has been removed from configure, and --enable-assert has been added in its place.
12 * Compiling fixes for Clang on OSX Mountain Lion.
13
14 1.0.9 Wed Jul 4 22:46:19 EDT 2012
15 * Faster close on socket.
16 * Instance allocation is now seperated from server interface. This should allow for a better preservation of ABI compliance from now on.
17 * Fix close on exec bug.
18 * Numerous other bug fixes.
19
20 1.0.8 Tue May 22 15:06:04 EDT 2012
21 * Added support for setting options via ENV variable LIBMEMCACHED
22 * Fix corner case on last used result.
23
24 1.0.7 Sat Apr 28 00:48:29 PDT 2012
25 * Add API call for exist calls.
26 * Update all license files to be BSD.
27
28 1.0.6 Sat Apr 7 18:26:49 PDT 2012
29 * Fixes for gcc 4.7, lp:961812
30 * Fix for restart issue that happens under testing.
31 * Fix for lp:962815.
32 * Support for transparent AES encryption.
33
34 1.0.5 Tue Mar 13 22:56:47 PDT 2012
35 * Fixes for OSX.
36 * Version is now parsed directly in the parser, which makes buffered operations now work with it..
37 * memstat has been extended so that it can be used to find the version of the server.
38 * Update documentation.
39 * Fixes for compile issues on Debian and Ubuntu
40
41 1.0.4 Thu Jan 26 22:33:54 PST 2012
42 * Fix for memcached_dump().
43 * Additional testing for memcached_stat_execute().
44
45 1.0.3 Sun Jan 8 18:11:36 PST 2012
46 * Increased size of sort buffer used during Ketama.
47 * Added support for new behavior to handle dead servers.
48 * Overall haul of UDP IO.
49 * Fixed C compile issue with memcached_exist()
50 * Numerous bug fixes.
51 * Clang support for OSX.
52 * All commands now using vector send support.
53
54 1.0.2 Mon Oct 24 08:00:48 PDT 2011
55 * Dropped libmemcached/memcached_util.h (undocumented header file)
56 * Added memcached_touch() and memcached_touch_by_key()
57 * UDP support restructured to toggle on a complete memcached_st structure.
58
59 0.53 Mon Sep 26 20:50:33 PDT 2011
60 * Fix for FreeBSD/OpenBSD and -lm
61 * Added memcached_exist()
62 * Fix for memory when using config test.
63 * CLI gained --quiet
64
65 0.52 Sun Sep 11 22:16:08 PDT 2011
66 * Build fixes for Ubuntu/Suse.
67 * Fixes for OSX Lion.
68 * Bug fix for looping back through dns lookups under certain failures.
69 * Fixes related to dead server failures.
70
71 0.51 Thu Jul 21 11:08:58 PDT 2011
72 * memcached_callback_set() now takes its data argument as const
73 * Update to tests.
74 * Fix in parser for port number.
75
76 0.50 Mon Jun 20 10:36:57 PDT 2011
77 * Updates to C++ interface
78 * Custom free allocators need to now check for value before calling free.
79 * memcached_fetch_result() now uses the internal result when available (about 25 to 50% faster).
80 * Fix for stats structure.
81 * Updates to documentation.
82 * memcached_fetch_result() now uses the internal result when available (about 25 to 50% faster).
83
84 0.49 Thu Apr 14 08:43:37 PDT 2011
85 * Fix calls to auto methods so that if value is not passed in nothing bad happens.
86 * New parser calls for generating memcached_st objects.
87 * New error system.
88 * New flow control for messages means faster get/set calls.
89 * Added new documentation system.
90 * A behavior change has been now made that if you specify a weight for any server, we enable the weight flag and do weight balancing.
91 * Added MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_REMOVE_FAILED_SERVERS to simplify the setting of AUTO REJECT for servers.
92
93 0.48 Tue Mar 15 23:05:18 PDT 2011
94 * Fix memory leak in server parse.
95 * Move test framework out to be its own library (easier to work with Gearman).
96
97
98 0.47 Wed Feb 23 18:46:48 PST 2011
99 * Additional fixes for OpenBSD.
100 * Bug fix 677609, 456080.
101 * SIGPIPE fix for Linux send().
102 * memcapable can now test ascii or binary based on flags.
103 * Additional build fixes for SASL.
104
105
106 0.46 Mon Feb 14 10:28:01 PST 2011
107 * Fixes a number of corner case bugs.
108 * Fixes related to OpenBSD.
109 * Better testing for protocol version.
110 * Removes special case infinite wait on blocking setup.
111
112 0.45 Tue Feb 8 16:02:06 PST 2011
113 * Add support for systemtap
114
115 0.44 Wed Sep 22 21:57:57 PDT 2010
116 * Windows bug fixes.
117 * Hudson port support in test harness.
118 * Improved portability of test hanrness.
119 * SASL fixes.
120
121 0.43 Wed Jul 28 16:29:47 PDT 2010
122 * Added --args to memstat so that a greater range of values can be returned.
123 * Prelimanary support for Windows.
124 * memcached_stat_execute() merged.
125
126 0.42 Tue Jul 6 12:29:50 PDT 2010
127 * Mistake in libtool caused issue with library version
128
129 0.41 Wed Jun 30 13:15:19 PDT 2010
130 * Added --file for memcat.
131 * Added limemcached_ping() to libmemcached_util
132 * Bugfix for some cases where connect would have issues with timeout.
133 * Wrong value for errno given as error on an IO failure inside of poll.
134 * Bug fix for issue where multiple interfaces with bad DNS were not being caught.
135
136 0.40 Thu Apr 22 19:01:25 PDT 2010
137 * Placed retry logic in for busted resolvers
138 * Add an ignore for SIGPIPE to solve OSX issues.
139 * A couple of fixed for memcached_light server.
140 * Updated to debug mode to track io_wait
141
142 0.39 Tue Apr 6 12:35:13 PDT 2010
143 * Add support for prefix keys to binary protocol.
144 * Remove the undocumented call memcached_server_remove().
145 * The undocumented call memcached_server_by_key() now returns const.
146 * memcached_server_error_reset() has been deprecated.
147 * memcached_server_list() has been deprecated. Use memcached_server_cursor() to walk the servers found in a memcached_st() structure.
148 * memcached_verbosity() can now be run concurrently with other operations.
149 * SASL support.
150 * Fixes memory leak found in EJECT HOSTS.
151
152 0.38 Wed Feb 10 09:40:33 PST 2010
153 * C++ interface for libhashkit.
154 * Modified memcached_set_memory_allocators() so that it requires a context pointer.
155 * memcached_clone() now runs 5 times faster.
156 * Functions used for callbacks are now given const memcached_st.
157 * Added MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_CORK.
158 * memslap now creates a configuration file at ~/.memslap.cnf
159 * memcached_purge() now calls any callbacks registered during get execution.
160 * Many fixes to memslap.
161 * Updates for memcapable.
162 * Compile fixes for OpenBSD.
163 * Fix for possible recursive decent on IO failure.
164
165 0.37 Mon Jan 11 16:29:57 PST 2010
166 * Fixed build for libhashkit.
167 * Fixed install path regression.
168 * Modified RPM to strict check install.
169 * Added documentation for memcached_server_cursor();
170 * Added memcached_servers_reset().
171 * Modified memcached_st to remove dead cursor_server member.
172
173 0.36 Wed Jan 6 18:23:50 PST 2010
174 * Merged in new memslap utility.
175 * All of constants.h has been updated to match style (all old identifiers continue to work).
176 * Added first pass for libhashkit.
177 * Updated test Framework/extended tests.
178 * Random read support during replication added.
179 * Modified use_sort so that the option can be applied to any distribution type.
180 * We removed the MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_KETAMA_COMPAT_MODE added in 0.35. Instead use memcached_behavior_set_distribution().
181
182 0.35 Mon Nov 9 11:18:33 PST 2009
183 * Added support for by_key operations for inc/dec methods.
184 * Added mget test to memslap.
185 * Support for compatible ketama for SpyMemcached
186 * Update C++ interface.
187 * Fix for memcp
188
189 0.34 Tue Oct 13 08:39:51 PDT 2009
190 * Added support for setting behavior flags on a connection pool.
191 * Don't increment server_failure_counter on normal disconnects.
192 * Added prototype for a callback based protocol parser (server side) with examples so that you could let your own application speak the memcached protocol
193 * Updated memcapable to test ASCII protocol.
194 * Changed behavior so that server can be removed at first sign of failure.
195 * Added memcached_server_get_last_disconnect() call
196
197 0.33 Wed Sep 23 10:11:58 PDT 2009
198 * Added memcapable to test servers for binary compatibility.
199 * 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).
200 * Several bug fixes for binary protocol support.
201 * Fixed crashing issue with dumping from memcachd server (server internals were changed without documenting change).
202
203 0.32 Tue Sep 15 15:49:09 PDT 2009
204 * Change of behavior where linger is only modified for no-block and then it is set to zero.
205 * Added Twitter's memcached_server_error() functions.
206 * Fix for OSX compiles in development builds.
207 * Updated C++ interface.
208 * 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.
209
210 0.31 Fri Jul 10 09:02:50 PDT 2009
211 * Added support or HA via replication.
212 * malloc() removed for server key usage.
213 * Update build system.
214 * Added support for memcached_set_memory_allocators().
215 * Fixed bug in configure.ac for have_htoll.
216
217 0.30 Sun May 31 17:31:52 PDT 2009
218 * Added memcachd_dump command (and framework for memdump tool).
219 * Realigned all structures to remove padding (and line up important bits for 64bit caches.
220 * Remove some of sprintf() in storage calls().
221 * Removed printf() in stat call for unknown stat member.
222 * memcached_generate_hash() function added.
223 * Added tests to make sure all hash functions are stable.
224
225 0.29 Tue May 19 08:26:48 PDT 2009
226 * Fixed malloc usage to calloc for spots where we need zero filled memory.
227 * All code warnings now treated as errors.
228 * Fixes for debian packaging.
229 * Added new pooling mechanism.
230 * MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_NO_BLOCK no longer also sets MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_BUFFER_REQUESTS.
231 * Updated generic rpm.
232
233 0.28 Tue Apr 14 18:56:28 PDT 2009
234 * Fixed bug in init sructure (reapplied)
235 * Fixed bug in get/set by key (nikkhils@gmail.com)
236
237 0.27 Sun Mar 29 22:33:01 PDT 2009
238 * Added new UDP fire-forget mode.
239 * Reworked performance for mget() to better make use of async protocol
240 * Cleaned up execution of fetch (just one set of code now)
241 * Fixed Jenkin's for big endian hosts.
242 * Updates for memstat to determine network latency.
243 * Updates for binary protocol.
244 * Many updates to documentation.
245
246 0.26 Thu Jan 29 13:05:50 PST 2009
247 * Fix for decrement on hash key
248 * Fixed assert that was catching bad memset() call in host_reset()
249 * Fix purge issue for blocked IO which has been stacked.
250
251 0.25 Fri Nov 28 09:59:35 PST 2008
252 * Jenkins HASH added.
253 * Update of Murmur hash code
254 * Support explicit weights (Robey Pointer, Evan Weaver)
255 * Bugfix for ketama continuum (Robey Pointer)
256 * New behavior MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_HASH_WITH_PREFIX_KEY (Robey Pointer)
257 * Don't ever call stats for weighting servers, because it is unstable.
258
259 0.24 Tue Sep 16 02:59:03 PDT 2008 (never released)
260 * Cleanup compile warnings.
261 * Fix issues in partitioning by keys.
262 * Fixed "fail case" to make sure when calling memcached_clone() no memcached_st is over written.
263 * New memcached_server_by_key() method for finding a server from a key.
264 * memcached_server_free() was added for freeing server structures.
265
266
267 0.23 Sun Sep 7 08:13:59 PDT 2008
268 * Added strings.h header for Solaris 9
269 * Solaris 64bit fix.
270 * Support for weighted Ketama from Yin Chen.
271 * Fix for Chinese
272 * Fix for 0 length key to trigger bad key.
273 * Added behaviors MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_SND_TIMEOUT, MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_RCV_TIMEOUT
274 * Support for Binary Protocol added
275
276 0.22 Mon Jul 14 09:24:11 PDT 2008
277 * Fix where master key was no being checked for "bad key"
278 * Fixed bugs in stats output (thread output was wrong)
279 * Clarified MEMCACHED_BAD_KEY_PROVIDED is return for bad prefix key.
280 * Found a bug in Flags return (Jacek Ostrowski)
281 * Fixed issue with compiling on Visual Studio
282
283 0.21 Fri May 23 18:34:09 PDT 2008
284 * Change of char * to const char * for all key based functions.
285 * New MEMCACHED_CALLBACK_PREFIX_KEY added. You can now create domains for values.
286 * Fixed bug introducd in last version on memcp
287 * Fix for death of file io to call shutdown()
288
289 0.20 Mon May 5 08:34:26 PDT 2008
290 * New consistent distribution tests.
291 * Found a memory leak when a server constantly fails.
292 * Fix in watchpoint macro
293 * Changed default timeout to 1 second for poll timeouts
294 * Wheel uses less memory/dynamic allocation for size (no longer limited to 512 hosts by default.
295 * memslap memory leak fix
296 * Added Ketama distribution
297 * Fix assert.h compile problem on CentOS
298
299 0.19 Wed Apr 9 09:30:53 PDT 2008
300 * Documentation fix in libmemcached.
301 * Fixed bug where sort was always occuring on hosts
302 * Logic fix in branch prediction (thanks Jay!)
303 * Read through cached support.
304 * Fixed for cas by key operation.
305 * Fix for memcached_server_st list structures to have correct count.
306 * Added callback MEMCACHED_CALLBACK_DELETE_TRIGGER
307 * Removed function call in favor of macro (aka cut out some instructions)
308
309
310 0.18 Sun Mar 16 21:57:55 PDT 2008
311 * Fix plus tests for non-zero value objects and flags.
312 * MEMCACHED_HASH_MURMUR added for murmur algorithm provided.
313 * MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_RETRY_TIMEOUT added to keep connecting from looping on timeout.
314 * gcc branch prediction optimizations
315 * Refactored entire tree to make include files cleaner
316 * Fixed leaked socket.
317
318 0.17 Wed Feb 27 03:33:29 PST 2008
319 * MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_CONNECT_TIMEOUT added for connect timeout in non-block mode.
320 * Incompatible change in memcached_behavior_set() api. We now use a uint64_t, instead of a pointer.
321 * Fix for storage of values for zero.
322 * memcached_server_cursor() function added to API for cycling through servers.
323
324 0.16 Mon Feb 18 00:30:25 PST 2008
325 * Work on the UDP protocol
326 * Added get_by_key, set_by_key tests for C++ API
327 * Fix for limit_maxbytes to be 64bit in stats
328 * Added Atom Smasher test (scale baby, scale!)
329 * 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.
330 * Added MEMCACHED_BAD_KEY_PROVIDED error for auto, set, and get operations. MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_VERIFY_KEY was added to enable this feature.
331 * More error messages on command line tools.
332 * Fixed bugs in memcached_cas() operator.
333 * Fix to loop through interfaces
334
335 0.15 Tue Jan 29 14:55:44 PST 2008
336 * More work on the C++ API.
337 * Bug fixes around block corner cases.
338 * Slight performance increase in both read() and write().
339
340 0.14 Tue Jan 22 06:21:49 PST 2008
341 * For for bug found by Evan Weaver where increment() was not returning propper error of value was not found.
342 * Fix for bad null pointer on flag by Toru Maesaka.
343 * Refactor of all IO to just pass in the active server
344 * Problem configuring (PKG_CHECK_MODULES) fixed by removal of "rpath" in support/libmemcached.pc.in (Thanks to Ross McFarland).
345 * Added memcached_callback_get()/set()
346 * First prototype of C++ interface
347 * Updated docs for uint16_t changes in previous release
348
349 0.13 Sun Jan 13 06:51:50 PST 2008
350 * MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_USER_DATA added to store user pointer.
351 * Fix for failure to connect to invalidate socket.
352 * Patch from Marc Rossi to add --hash option for memcp, memrm, and memcat.
353 * Kevin's patch for fixing EOF issues during a read.
354 * Toru Maesaka patch for stats mismatch
355 * Fix for when CRC return 0
356 * Fixed uint16_t issues around flags. Turns out the documentation on the protocol was wrong.
357 * Lingering socket fixes for FreeBSD.
358 * Patches from Kevin Dalley for FreeBSD 4.0
359 * Added multi delete functions.
360 * All get key returns have C style null termination
361 * If memcached_server_list_append is passed NULLs instead of pointers it returns NULL.
362 * Added memcached_fetch_execute() method
363 * Found a bug where memcached_fetch() was not null terminating the result value.
364 * memcached_behavior() now has the ability to set "buffering" so that data is not automatically flushed.
365 * Behavior change, buffered commands now return MEMCACHED_BUFFERED
366
367 0.12 Tue Dec 11 15:20:55 PST 2007
368 * Updates for consistent hashing
369 * IPV6 support
370 * Static allocation for hostname (performance)
371 * Fixed bug where in non-block mode all data might not have been sent on close().
372 * Refactor of memcached_get() to use common code.
373 * Change in value fetch, MEMCACHED_END is now returned when keys are no longer in the pipe.
374 * Fixed bug where key could be out of range of characters
375 * Added _by_key() methods to allow partitioning of values to particular servers.
376 * MEMCACHED_DEFAILT_TIMEOUT is now set to a non -1 value.
377 * Performance improvements in get operations.
378
379 0.11 Mon Nov 26 01:05:52 PST 2007
380 * Added option to memcache_behavior_set() so that poll() can be timed out.
381 * Fixed memory leak in case of using memcached_fetch_result() where no value was returned.
382 * Bug fixed in memcached_connect() which would cause servers that did not need to be enabled to be enabled (performance issue).
383 * Rewrote bounds checking code for get calls.
384 * "make test" now starts its own memcached servers.
385 * Added Hseih hash (MEMCACHED_HASH_HSIEH), which is showing about 7% performance over standard hash.
386
387 0.10 Tue Nov 20 23:22:31 PST 2007
388 * Added append binary test.
389 * Added MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_CACHE_LOOKUPS behavior so that you can save on multiple DNS lookups.
390 * Added CAS support, though this is optional and must be enabled during runtime.
391 * Added the utility memerror to create human readable error strings from memcached errors (aka convert ints to strings)
392 * Fixed type in MEMCACHED_HOST_LOOKUP_FAILURE
393 * Fixed bug where hostname might not be null terminated
394 * Moved to using gethostbyname_r() on Linux to solve thread safety issue
395 * Added -rpath support for pkg-config
396 * Documentation fix for hash setting using memcached_behavior_set()
397
398 0.9 Thu Nov 15 07:44:00 PST 2007
399 * fix for when no servers are definied.
400 * different buffers are now kept for different connections to speed up async efforts
401 * Modified increment/decrement functions to return uint64_t values
402 * Fixed bug in cases where zero length keys were provided
403 * Thread cleanup issue in memslap
404 * No hostname lookup on reconnect
405 * Fix for flag settings (was doing hex by accident!)
406 * Support for 1.2.4 server additions "prepend" and "append" added.
407 * Added memcached_version()... not sure if I will make this public or not.
408
409 0.8 Mon Nov 5 10:40:41 PST 2007
410 * Adding support for CRC hash method
411 * Adding support for UNIX sockets
412 * Added additional HASHing methods of FNV1_64,FNV1A_64, FNV1_32, FNV1A_32
413 * Added pkgconfig support (PKG_CHECK_MODULES)
414 * Fixed conflict with defined type in MySQL
415 * Added memcached_result_st structure and functions to manipulate it.
416
417 0.7 Tue Oct 30 09:24:05 PDT 2007
418 * Poved to poll() from select()
419 * Fixes in internal string class for allocation of large numbers of strings.
420 * memcached_mget() function now sends keys as it parses them instead of building strings as it goes.
421 * Propper flush now for making sure we get all IO sent even when in non-block mode.
422 * Added --enable-debug rule for configure
423 * All asserts() removed (hey this is going into production!)
424
425
426 0.6 Wed Oct 17 08:41:35 PDT 2007
427 * get value returns are now null terminated (request by Cal Heldenbrand)
428 * Fixed connections for more hosts then two.
429 * Rewrite of the read/write IO systems to handle different sorts of host failures.
430 * Added man pages for all functions and tools
431 * Raised buffer size for readinng/writing to 16K
432 * You can now optionally set the socket size for recv/send via memached_behavior_set/get.
433
434 0.5 Tue Oct 9 00:22:25 PDT 2007
435 * Ruby maintainer mentioned TCP_NODELAY patch he had added. Added this to C
436 library as well. (Eric Hodel drbrain@segment7.net)
437 * Added support script for set_benchmark
438 * Updated memslap to allow testing of TCP_NODELAY
439 * Updated memslap to support --flush (aka dump memcache servers before testing)
440 * Fixed bug in multiple hosts not being activated
441 * Added environmental variable MEMCACHED_SERVERS which can be used to set the servers list.
442 * fixed memcached_stat method (and now memstat works)
443 * server connect now happens on demand.
444 * Help for all command line applications
445
446 0.4 Wed Oct 3 10:28:50 PDT 2007
447 * Added buffered IO to write calls for keys
448 * Added buffered IO for reads
449 * memstat was broken (bad if/else on connect)
450 * New non-blocking IO (not default yet). Mucho faster
451 * Refactor of test system.
452 * memslap crash solved
453
454 0.3 Mon Oct 1 06:37:52 PDT 2007
455 * Jeff Fisher <guppy@techmonkeys.org> provided a spec file
456 * Added "make rpm" around dist file
457 * Added support for Solaris
458 * Added support for DTrace
459 * Fixed read to be recv and write to be send
460 * Bug fix where memstat would core if no server was found
461 * Added memslap tool (load generator)
462 * Numerous bug fixes in library
463 * Added calls to library for creating host lists (see text cases to understand how to use this).
464
465 0.2 Thu Sep 27 03:46:57 PDT 2007
466 * First public version
467