ReleaseNotes1521

Memcached 1.5.21 Release Notes

Date: 2020-1-21

Download

https://www.memcached.org/files/memcached-1.5.21.tar.gz

Overview

Bugfixes and smaller changes. Thanks to all the external contributors!

Fixes

• Adding missing defaults to the --help output
• stats: Fix stats delimiter unit tests
• Allow compilation with ASAN
• restart: add error handling if mmap fails
• For text auth token mode, use alternative bcmp implementation
• memcached-tool: Fix up tabular output for the 'stats' command.
• linux_priv.c: add termios.h include to fix powerpc(64) builds
• Update the build documentation in BUILD file
• Update documentation for --max-item-size
• Fix build issue due to improper pthread_t comparison
• Ensure t/whitespace.t test is skipped when outside a memcached git checkout
• Allocating large chunk of slabs for FreeBSD.

New Features

• configuration option to disable watch commands (-W)

Contributors

The following people contributed to this release since 1.5.20.

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 1.5.20..1.5.21 or use a web view.

• Repo list: https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/DevelopmentRepos
• Web View: http://github.com/memcached/memcached/commits/1.5.21

     4	David Carlier
     4	Kanak Kshetri
     3	dormando
     2	Carl Myers
     2	Daniel Schemmel
     2	Iqram Mahmud
     1	David J. M. Karlsen
     1	Josh Kupershmidt
     1	Martin Tzvetanov Grigorov
     1	Sailesh Mukil
     1	Tharanga Gamaethige
     1	iqr4m
     1	q66