Memcached 1.4.4 Release Notes

Date: 2009-11-26 Sat

Download

Download Link:

http://memcached.googlecode.com/files/memcached-1.4.4.tar.gz

Overview

This is a maintenance release of memcached with a workaround for common client issue as well as a few new stats.

Fixes

Add partial backwards compatibility for delete with timeout 0

Before version 1.4.0, there was an optional argument to delete that would allow a client to specify that a deleted object should exist in the cache after the deletion occurred such that add operations would fail even though objects did not appear in the cache.

This feature was removed completely in 1.4.0, but a parser bug caused it to slip through. The bug was fixed in 1.4.3. If anyone was attempting to use it legitimately in the 1.4 series, it would simply not work as expected.

The 1.4.4 backwards compatibility change allows specifically the value of 0 (i.e. non-lingering delete), while continuing to reject others. This will satisfy clients that always wish to send a value even when they do not wish the item to linger.

New Features

New Stats

auth_enabled_sasl

This is a general stat that indicates whether SASL authentication is enabled or not.

auth_cmds

Indicates the total number of authentication attempts.

auth_errors

Indicates the number of failed authentication attempts.

Contributors

The following people contributed to this release since 1.4.3.

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 1.4.3..1.4.4 or use a web view.

Repo list: http://code.google.com/p/memcached/wiki/DevelopmentRepos
Web View: http://github.com/memcached/memcached/commits/1.4.4

     2  Dustin Sallings
     2  Matt Ingenthron
     1  dormando