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12010-10-11
2	* ChangeLog is no longer being updated.
3	See http://code.google.com/p/memcached/wiki/ReleaseNotes
4
52009-04-10
6
7	* *critical bugfix*. In 1.2.7 under multithreaded mode, memcached
8	  would never restart accepting connections after hitting the
9	  maximum connection limit.
10
112009-04-02
12
13	* Fix: Rewrote stat buffer handling (Trond)
14
152009-03-31
16
17	* Feature:  -b option for configuring backlog
18
19	* Feature:  stats settings
20
21	* Fix: binary stat alignment bug (bug26)
22
23	* Fix: buffer overflow in stats (bug27)
24
25	* Fix: recycle memory more aggressively (bug14)
26
27	* Fix: incr validation (bug31)
28
29	* Fix: 64-bit incr/decr delta problem (bug21)
30
31	* Fix: Ascii UDP set (bug36)
32
33	* Fix: stats slabs' used chunks (bug29)
34
35	* Fix: stats reset resetting more (bug22)
36
37	* Misc: More tests, documentation, cleanliness (godliness)
38
39	* Stable merge (stats, debuggability, listen bugs)
40
412009-03-11
42
43	* Protocol:  Binary complete (Dustin, Trond, Toru, etc...)
44
45	* Performance:  improvements from facebook (Dormando)
46
47	* Performance:  per-thread stats (Trond)
48
49	* Performance:  Hash expansion in its own thread (Trond)
50
51	* Stats:  Lots of new stats (Dustin)
52
53	* Bug fixes (various)
54
55	See the 1.3.2 release notes or revision control for more detail.
56
572008-09-06
58       * Display error status on listen failures (Dormando)
59
60       * Remove managed instance code. Incomplete/etc. (Dormando)
61
62          * Handle broken IPV6 stacks better (Brian Aker)
63
64          * Generate warnings on setsockopt() failures (Brian Aker)
65
66          * Fix some indentation issues (Brian Aker)
67
68          * UDP/TCP can be disabled by setting their port to zero (Brian Aker)
69
70          * Zero out libevent thread structures before use (Ricky Zhou)
71
72          * New stat: Last accessed time for last evicted item per slab class.
73            (Dormando)
74
75          * Use a dedicated socket accept thread (Facebook)
76
77          * Add -R option. Limit the number of requests processed by a connection
78            at once. Prevents starving other threads if bulk loading. (Facebook)
79
802008-07-29 [Version 1.2.6 released]
81
822008-07-24 [Version 1.2.6-rc1 released]
83
84       * Add support for newer automake (Facebook)
85
86       * DTrace support for Solaris/etc (Trond Norbye)
87
88       * LRU tests (Steve Yen)
89
90       * Handle negative length items properly (Dormando)
91
92       * Don't leave stale data after failed set attempts (Dormando)
93
94       * Fix refcount leaks, which would result in OOM's on all sets
95	       (Dormando)
96
97       * Fix buffer overruns (Dustin Sallings, Tomash Brechko)
98
99       * Fix memory corruption with CAS (Dustin Sallings)
100
1012008-06-11
102
103       * Fix -k to work with -d. (reported by Gary Zhu)
104
1052008-03-02 [Version 1.2.5-rc1 released]
106
107       * Add per-item-class tracking of evictions and OOM errors (dormando)
108
109       * Optimize item_alloc() a little (dormando)
110
111       * Give 'SERVER_ERROR out of memory' errors more context (dormando)
112
113       * Enable usage of large memory pages under solaris
114         ([email protected])
115
116       * Enable UDP by default, clean up server socket code
117         ([email protected])
118
119       * 'noreply' support (Tomash Brechko)
120
121       * IPv6 support, and IPv6 multi-interface support ([email protected])
122
123       * Add compiler options for Sun Studio compilers with --enable-threads
124	     ([email protected])
125
126       * Add --enable-64bit for mulitarget platforms ([email protected])
127
128       * Use gettimeofday(2) instead of time(2).
129
130       * Make -k option work (Tomash Brechko)
131
132	   * Fix chunk slab alignment ([email protected])
133
1342007-12-06 [Version 1.2.4 released]
135
1362007-12-05
137
138       * Fix compilation on panther (JS and Dormando)
139
140	   * More CAS tests (Chris Goffinet)
141
142	   * Final fixes for all 1.2.4 features are in, -rc2 sent out.
143
1442007-11-19 [Version 1.2.4-rc1 released]
145
1462007-11-19  Dormando <[email protected]>
147
148       * Patch series from Tomash Brechko <[email protected]>:
149         Minor fixes and optimisations.
150
151       * Patches from Chris, Dustin, and Dormando to fix CAS.
152
153       * Prepping for 1.2.4 release.
154
1552007-11-13  Dormando <[email protected]>
156
157	* Adjusted patch from js <[email protected]>: Compile on OS X Panther
158	  and earlier.
159
1602007-11-12  Steven Grimm  <[email protected]>
161
162	* Patch from Tomash Brechko <[email protected]>: Always send
163	  "SERVER_ERROR out of memory" when memory exhausted.
164
1652007-10-15  Paul Lindner  <[email protected]>
166
167	* Patch from David Bremner <[email protected]> that implements
168	  a new option "-a" which takes an octal permission mask
169	  (like chmod) sets the permissions on the unix domain socket
170	  (specified by "-s").
171
1722007-10-03 Paul Lindner <[email protected]>
173	* Incorporate "cas" operation developed by Dustin
174	  Sallings <[email protected]> This change allows you
175	  to do atomic changes to an existing key.
176
177	* Fix for stats.evictions not incrementing
178	  when exptime == 0 items are kicked off the cache.
179	  from Jean-Francois BUSTARRET <[email protected]>.
180
181	* Fix for do_item_cachedump() which was returning
182	  an incorrect timestamp.
183
184	* Switch to unsigned 64-bit increment/decrement counters
185	  from Evan Miller and Dustin Sallings.
186
187	* Add append command support written by Filipe Laborde.
188	  Thread safe version plus prepend command from Maxim Dounin
189	  <[email protected]>
190
191	* The memcached-tool script can now display stats.  Patch
192	  provided by Dan Christian <[email protected]>
193
194	* Fix for Unix Domain sockets on FreeBSD
195	  FreeBSD's sendmsg() requires msg_name in msghdr structure
196	  to be NULL if not used, setting msg_namelen to 0 isn't enough.
197	  Patch from Maxim Dounin <[email protected]>
198
1992007-08-21 Paul Lindner <[email protected]>
200	* Incorporate incrememnt patch from Evan Miller
201	  <[email protected]> to define increment overflow
202	  behavior.
203
2042007-08-07 Leon Brocard <[email protected]>
205	* Bring the memcached.1 manpage up to date
206
2072007-08-06 Paul Lindner <[email protected]>
208	* Fix crash when using -P and -d flags on x86_64
209	  with latest libevent release.
210
2112007-07-08  Steven Grimm  <[email protected]>
212
213	* Item stats commands weren't thread-safe; wrap them with locks
214	  when compiled in multithreaded mode.
215	* The "stats items" command now works again; it broke with the
216	  introduction of the powers-of-N chunk size change.
217
2182007-07-06 [Version 1.2.3 released]
219
2202007-06-19  Paul Lindner  <[email protected]>
221
222	* Solaris portability fixes from Trond Norbye
223
2242007-05-29  Paul Lindner  <[email protected]>
225
226	* Properly document evictions statistic value
227
2282007-05-10  Paul Lindner  <[email protected]>
229
230	* Flesh out tests for unix domain sockets and binary data.
231	* Update rpm spec file to run tests
232
2332007-05-07  Paul Lindner  <[email protected]>
234
235	* Fix compilation bug on freebsd 6.x (and maybe others)
236	* Update RPM spec file per redhat bugzilla #238994
237	* Move unistd.h to memcached.h to get rid of warnings
238	* Add string.h to thread.c to get correctly prototyped strerror()
239
2402007-05-04  Paul Lindner  <[email protected]>
241
242	* Add fedora/redhat style init script and RPM spec file
243
2442007-05-12 [Version 1.2.2 released]
245
2462007-04-16  Steven Grimm  <[email protected]>
247
248	* Command tokenizer performance and cleanliness improvement.
249	  Patch contributed by Paolo Borelli <[email protected]>.
250
2512007-04-16  Paul Lindner  <[email protected]>
252
253	* Add notes to README about MacOS, libevent and kqueue.
254
255	* Windows Patch integration -- part 1, warnings elimination.
256
2572007-04-12  Paul Lindner  <[email protected]>
258
259	* Allow changes to the verbosity level of the server with a new
260	  "verbosity" command and some compiler cleanups.
261          Patch contributed by Paolo Borelli <[email protected]>.
262
2632007-04-08  Paul Lindner  <[email protected]>
264
265	* Add cleanup patch from "Tim Yardley" <[email protected]> to
266	  clean up source spacing issues, fix -Wall warnings, add some
267	  null checks, adds asserts at the top of each function for any
268	  use of conn *c without checking to see if c is NULL first.
269
270        * Also adjust clean-whitespace.pl to clean *.ac files.  Add
271          script to test-suite to test for tabs.
272
2732007-04-04  Paul Lindner  <[email protected]>
274
275	* Add clarification of flush_all in the protocol docs
276	  from Elizabeth Mattijsen <[email protected]>
277
2782007-03-31  Paul Lindner  <[email protected]>
279
280	* Add patch from Eli Bingham <[email protected]> to
281	  re-enable the -n switch to memcached.
282
2832007-03-20  Paul Lindner  <[email protected]>
284	* Add patch to collect eviction statistics from
285          Jean-Francois BUSTARRET <[email protected]>.
286
287        * Updated docs, added new test cases for t/stats.t
288
2892007-03-18  Paul Lindner  <[email protected]>
290
291	* Add more test cases using larger buffer sizes up to and greater
292	  than 1MB.
293
294	* Remove unused parameter to item_size_ok()
295
296	* Use a single printf() in usage()
297
298	* Add a failing test for conforming with maximum connections.
299
3002007-03-17
301	* crash fix from Thomas van Gulick <[email protected]> in
302	  conn_shrink(), passing &ptr, instead of ptr to realloc().
303
3042007-03-05  Paul Lindner  <[email protected]>
305	* Fix a number of places where (s)printf calls were using unsigned
306	  or signed formats that did not match their arguments.
307
308	* Add support for stdbool.h and stdint.h to use the bool and
309	  uint8_t types.
310
311	* Major refactoring - move API calls for assoc/items/slabs to
312	  their own individual header files.  Add appropriate const and
313	  static declarations as appropriate.
314
315	* Avoid type-punning.  Do a more efficient realloc inside the
316	  conn_shrink routine.
317
318        * Fix overflow bug where uninitialized access to slabclass caused
319	  size-0 mallocs during slab preallocation.
320
321	* Use EXIT_SUCCESS/EXIT_FAILURE constants.
322
323	* Convert some sprintf calls to snprintf to protect against
324	  buffer overflows.
325
326	* Explicitly compare against NULL or zero in many places.
327
3282007-03-05
329	* Steven Grimm <[email protected]>: Per-object-type stats collection
330	  support. Specify the object type delimiter with the -D command line
331	  option. Turn stats gathering on and off with "stats detail on" and
332	  "stats detail off". Dump the per-object-type details with
333	  "stats detail dump".
334
3352007-03-01
336	* Steven Grimm <[email protected]>: Fix an off-by-one error in the
337	  multithreaded version's message passing code.
338
3392006-12-23
340	* fix expirations of items set with absolute expiration times in
341	  the past, before the server's start time.  bug was introduced in
342	  1.2.0 with rel_time_t.  Thanks to Adam Dixon
343	  <[email protected]> for the bug report and test case!
344
3452006-11-26
346	* Steven Grimm <[email protected]>: Performance improvements:
347
348	  Dynamic sizing of hashtable to reduce collisions on very large
349	  caches and conserve memory on small caches.
350
351	  Only reposition items in the LRU queue once a minute, to reduce
352	  overhead of accessing extremely frequently-used items.
353
354	  Stop listening for new connections until an existing one closes
355	  if we run out of available file descriptors.
356
357	  Command parser refactoring: Add a single-pass tokenizer to cut
358	  down on string scanning.  Split the command processing into
359	  separate functions for easier profiling and better readability.
360	  Pass key lengths along with the keys in all API functions that
361	  need keys, to avoid needing to call strlen() repeatedly.
362
3632006-11-25
364	* Steve Peters <[email protected]>: OpenBSD has a malloc.h,
365	but warns to use stdlib.h instead
366
3672006-11-22
368	* Steven Grimm <[email protected]>: Add support for multithreaded
369	  execution. Run configure with "--enable-threads" to enable. See
370	  doc/threads.txt for details.
371
3722006-11-13
373	* Iain Wade <[email protected]>: Fix for UDP responses on non-"get"
374	 commands.
375
3762006-10-15
377	* Steven Grimm <[email protected]>: Dynamic sizing of hashtable to
378	  reduce collisions on very large caches and conserve memory on
379	  small caches.
380
3812006-10-13
382	* Steven Grimm <[email protected]>: New faster hash function.
383
3842006-09-20
385
386	* don't listen on UDP by default; more clear message when UDP port in use
387
3882006-09-09
389	* release 1.2.0 (along with 1.1.13, which is the more tested branch)
390
391	nobody has run 1.2.0 in production, to my knowledge.  facebook has run
392	their pre-merge-with-trunk version, but bugs were discovered (and fixed)
393	after the merge.  there might be more.  you've been warned.  :)
394
3952006-09-04
396	* improved autoconf libevent detection, from the Tor project.
397
3982006-09-03
399	* test suite and lot of expiration, delete, flush_all, etc corner
400	  case bugs fixed (Brad Fitzpatrick)
401
4022006-09-02
403	* Nathan Neulinger <[email protected]>: fix breakage in expiration code
404	  causing expiration times to not be processed correctly.
405
4062006-08-21
407	* Nathan Neulinger <[email protected]>: fix incompatibilities with
408	  unix domain socket support and the UDP code and clean up stale
409	  sockets
410
4112006-08-20
412	* Nathan Neulinger <[email protected]>: unix domain socket support
413
4142006-05-03
415	* Steven Grimm <[email protected]>:  big bunch of changes:
416	  big CPU reduction work, UDP-based interface, increased memory
417	  efficiency.  (intertwined patch, committed all together)
418	  <http://lists.danga.com/pipermail/memcached/2006-May/002164.html>
419	  or see svn commit logs
420
4212006-04-30
422	* River Tarnell:  autoconf work for Solaris 10.  Brad:
423	merge and verify it works on Nexenta.
424
4252006-03-04
426	* avva: bucket/generation patch (old, but Brad's just finally
427	committing it)
428
4292006-01-01
430	* Brad Fitzpatrick <[email protected]>:  allocate 1 slab per class
431	on start-up, to avoid confusing users with out-of-memory errors
432	later.  this is 18 MB of allocation on start, unless max memory
433	allowed with -m is lower, in which case only the smaller slab
434	classes are allocated.
435
4362005-08-09
437	* Elizabeth Mattijsen <[email protected]>: needed a way to flush all
438	memcached backend servers, but not at exactly the same time (to
439	reduce load peaks), I've added some simple functionality to the
440	memcached protocol in the "flush_all" command that allows you to
441	specify a time at which the flush will actually occur (instead of
442	always at the moment the "flush_all" command is received).
443
4442005-05-25
445	* patch from Peter van Dijk <[email protected]> to make
446	  stderr unbuffered, for running under daemontools
447
4482005-04-04
449	* patch from Don MacAskill <[email protected]> 'flush_all' doesn't
450	seem to work properly.  Basically, if you try to add a key which
451	is present, but expired, the store fails but the old key is no
452	longer expired.
453
454	* release 1.1.12
455
4562005-01-14
457	* Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 15:25:59 -0600
458	  From: David Phillips <[email protected]>
459	Here is a patch to configure.ac and Makefile.am to put the man page in
460	the correct location.  Trying to install the man page from a
461	subdirectory results in the subdirectory being used in the install
462	path (it tries to install to doc/memcached.1).  This is the correct
463	thing to  do:
464
465	- create a Makefile.am in the doc directory that installs the man page
466	  with man_MANS
467	- modify Makefile.am in the base directory to reference the doc
468  	  directory using SUBDIRS
469	- modify the AC_CONFIG_FILES macro in configure.ac to output the
470	  Makefile in doc
471
472
4732005-01-14
474	* pidfile saving support from Lisa Seelye <[email protected]>, sent
475	  Jan 13, 2005
476
4772005-01-14
478	* don't delete libevent events that haven't been added (the deltimer)
479	  patch from Ted Schundler <[email protected]>
480
4812004-12-10
482	* document -M and -r in manpage (Doug Porter <[email protected]>)
483
4842004-07-22
485	* fix buffer overflow in items.c with 250 byte keys along with
486	  other info on the same line going into a 256 byte char[].
487	  thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin <[email protected]>
488
4892004-06-15
490	* immediate deletes weren't being unlinked a few seconds,
491	  preventing "add" commands to the same key in that time period.
492	  thanks to Michael Alan Dorman <[email protected]> for the
493	  bug report and demo script.
494
4952004-04-30
496	* released 1.1.11
497
4982004-04-24
499	* Avva: Add a new command line option: -r , to maximize core file
500	limit.
501
5022004-03-31
503	* Avva: Use getrlimit and setrlimit to set limits for number of
504	simultaneously open file descriptors. Get the current limits and
505	try to raise them if they're not enough for the specified (or the
506	default) setting of max connections.
507
5082004-02-24
509	* Adds a '-M' flag to turn off tossing items from the cache.
510	  (Jason Titus <[email protected]>)
511
5122004-02-19 (Evan)
513	* Install manpage on "make install", etc.
514
5152003-12-30 (Brad)
516	* remove static build stuff.  interferes with PAM setuid stuff
517	  and was only included as a possible fix with the old memory
518	  allocator.  really shouldn't make a difference.
519	* add Jay Bonci's Debian scripts and manpage
520	* release version 1.1.10
521
5222003-12-01 (Avva)
523	* New command: flush_all, causes all existing items to
524	  be invalidated immediately (without deleting them from
525	  memory, merely causing memcached to no longer return them).
5262003-10-23
527	* Shift init code around to fix daemon mode on FreeBSD,
528	* and drop root only after creating the server socket (to
529	* allow the use of privileged ports)
530	* version 1.1.10pre
531
5322003-10-09
533	* BSD compile fixes from Ryan T. Dean
534	* version 1.1.9
535
5362003-09-29
537	* ignore SIGPIPE at start instead of crashing in rare cases it
538	  comes up.  no other code had to be modified, since everything
539	  else is already dead-connection-aware.  (avva)
540
5412003-09-09 (Avva, Lisa Marie Seelye <[email protected]>)
542	* setuid support
543
5442003-09-05 (Avva)
545	* accept all new connections in the same event (so we work with ET epoll)
546	* mark all items as clsid=0 after slab page reassignment to please future
547	  asserts (on the road to making slab page reassignment work fully)
548
5492003-08-12 (Brad Fitzpatrick)
550	* use TCP_CORK on Linux or TCP_PUSH on BSD
551	* only use TCP_NODELAY when we don't have alternatives
552
5532003-08-10
554	* disable Nagel's Algorithm (TCP_NODELAY) for better performance (avva)
555
5562003-08-10
557	* support multiple levels of verbosity (-vv)
558
5592003-08-10  (Evan Martin)
560	* Makefile.am: debug, optimization, and static flags are controlled
561	  by the configure script.
562	* configure.ac:
563	  - allow specifying libevent directory with --with-libevent=DIR
564	  - check for malloc.h (unavailable on BSDs)
565	  - check for socklen_t (unavailable on OSX)
566	* assoc.c, items.c, slabs.c:  Remove some unused headers.
567	* memcached.c:  allow for nonexistence of malloc.h; #define a POSIX
568	  macro to import mlockall flags.
569
5702003-07-29
571	* version 1.1.7
572	* big bug fix: item exptime 0 meant expire immediately, not never
573	* version 1.1.8
574
5752003-07-22
576	* make 'delete' take second arg, of time to refuse new add/replace
577	* set/add/replace/delete can all take abs or delta time (delta can't
578	  be larger than a month)
579
5802003-07-21
581	* added doc/protocol.txt
582
5832003-07-01
584	* report CPU usage in stats
585
5862003-06-30
587	* version 1.1.6
588	* fix a number of obscure bugs
589	* more stats reporting
590
5912003-06-10
592	* removing use of Judy; use a hash.  (judy caused memory fragmentation)
593	* shrink some structures
594	* security improvements
595	* version 1.1.0
596
5972003-06-18
598	* changing maxsize back to an unsigned int
599
6002003-06-16
601	* adding PHP support
602	* added CONTRIBUTORS file
603	* version 1.0.4
604
6052003-06-15
606	* forgot to distribute website/api (still learning auto*)
607	* version 1.0.3
608
6092003-06-15
610	* update to version 1.0.2
611	* autoconf/automake fixes for older versions
612	* make stats report version number
613	* change license from GPL to BSD
614
615Fri, 13 Jun 2003 10:05:51 -0700  Evan Martin  <[email protected]>
616
617	* configure.ac, autogen.sh, Makefile.am:  Use autotools.
618	* items.c, memcached.c:  #include <time.h> for time(),
619	  printf time_t as %lu (is this correct?),
620	  minor warnings fixes.
621
622