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Memcached 1.4.26 Release Notes

Date: 2016-6-17

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https://www.memcached.org/files/memcached-1.4.26.tar.gz

Overview

The usual routine of small fixes comes with the first pass of a big new feature: on-demand live logging! If you've ever reached for stats cachedump, you'll be much better served by this feature. See below for details.

Fixes

  • bump some global stats to 64bit uints (total_connections)
  • sanity check for maximum connections setting
  • get_expired stats
  • make cachedump print 0exp for noexpire items
  • compilation fixes for GNU/Hurd
  • fix building of binary documentation files.
  • document negative expiration values
  • fix build with musl libc

New Features

  • There is now a -o modern option which combines all of the new recommended features.

In the previous release, it was recommended that memcached be started with:

-o slab_reassign,slab_automove,lru_crawler,lru_maintainer,maxconns_fast,hash_algorithm=murmur3

... to get the benefit of new features. These will become the default soon. In the meantime a shorthand of -o modern can be used which will act like the above line, and include new recommended defaults ahead of them becoming actual defaults. Memcached has always been treated extremely conservatively so this tries to be as safe as possible.

Logging!

$ telnet localhost 11211
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
watch fetchers
OK

Connect again:

$ telnet localhost 11211
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
get foo
END

First connection will output:

ts=1466120156.99667 gid=1 type=item_get key=foo status=not_found

watch evictions can show details about evicted items:

ts=1466120156.304163 gid=57180 type=eviction key=n%2Cfoo1539 fetch=no ttl=-1
la=0

(ttl: time remaining before expiration. la: last access time. fetch: whether or not it was ever read)

In this release fetchers mutations and evictions are supported. You can mix and match on a connection:

watch fetchers mutations evictions

Logs will continue to emit until the watcher disconnects. If the watcher gets behind on reading data, log lines will be dropped (and a notice appended when it resumes).

  • Logs are collected asynchronously. A background thread renders and writes to clients. This should reduce the latency and max CPU overhead of using the logs. If no watchers are active, logs aren't generated at all.

  • Logs are potentially received out of order. Re-order by the gid= option if this is important.

  • Keys are represented by "URI Encoding". Most ASCII keys are unaffected, but some characters will be replaced by %NN equivalents.

  • The initial fetchers/mutations code are monitoring internal key fetches and stores. This means a "set" command runs first a get and then a store, showing two log lines. A multiget will emit one log line per key.

  • Further code cleanups and more logging endpoints are scheduled for future releases. There's also a potential for modular log formats. Let us know what's important for you!

See the pull request for full detail.

Contributors

The following people contributed to this release since 1.4.25.

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 1.4.25..1.4.26 or use a web view.

    23	dormando
     4	Guillaume Delacour
     3	sergiocarlos
     2	祁冰
     1	Caleb Shay
     1	Matt Fowles Kulukundis
     1	Natanael Copa
     1	hiracy
     1	meteorgan
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