Plans for upcoming twemproxy release lines

[TysonAndre]

(Having been added as a collaborator yesterday)

Release lines

0.4.x

The 0.4.x release line will contain bug fixes and new unit/integration tests (for bugs that already have proposed fixes that are expected to be correct).

I plan to discontinue this release line when 0.5.0 is published.

0.5.x

The 0.5.x releases will contain new features that are likely to not impact existing use cases, e.g. support for new redis and memcache commands, some config file and CLI options, etc.

I plan to discontinue this release line when 0.6.x has been released for a while and validated

See https://github.com/twitter/twemproxy/blob/master/ChangeLog

A release candidate can be found at https://github.com/twitter/twemproxy/releases/tag/v0.5.0-RC

• Various changes
• New redis commands
• Sync remaining bugfixes from fork (approximately https://github.com/ifwe/twemproxy/releases/tag/0.5.2-tmg19, minus heartbeat, failover, redis sentinel)
• Sync bugfix PRs, where they can be inferred to be correct and CLA is signed
• Add integration tests of new redis commands

0.6.x

I plan to include several new major features in the 0.6.x release line that refactor the way connections are made:

1. The heartbeat/failover pool patches for memcached/redis (failover is strongly recommended only for memcached, redis would have redis sentinel).
   (with additional patches)

   This was originally proposed at rebase heartbeat branch  #428

2. The redis sentinel patches, originally proposed at twemproxy work with redis-sentinel #324
   (with additional bug fixes and support for new redis server/sentinel versions)

These features can be previewed at the forked repository https://github.com/ifwe/twemproxy/releases/tag/0.5.2-tmg19 (changes on that fork correspond to what is planned for twitter/twemproxy's 0.6.0) but additional changes and fixes may be made by the time 0.6.0 is officially released.

• Documentation of heartbeat, failover, and sentinel support can be found at https://github.com/ifwe/twemproxy/blob/0.5.2-tmg19/notes