memcached 1.4.1 release notes

                    Memcached 1.4.1-rc1 Release Notes
                    =============================

Date: 2009-08-26 Wed


Table of Contents
=================
1 Download
2 Overview
3 Fixes
    3.1 Criticial Fixes
    3.2 Non-critical Fixes
4 New Features
5 Contributors


1 Download
~~~~~~~~~~~

Download Link:

[http://memcached.googlecode.com/files/memcached-1.4.1-rc1.tar.gz]

2 Overview
~~~~~~~~~~~

This is a maintenance release consisting primarily of bug fixes.

3 Fixes
~~~~~~~~

3.1 Criticial Fixes
====================

  * Boundary condition during pipelined decoding caused crash (bug72)
  * Bad initialization during buffer realloc (bug77)
  * Buffer overrun in stats_prefix_find (bug79)
  * Memory corruption from negative and invalid item lengths (bug70)

3.2 Non-critical Fixes
=======================

  * Update flush stats for binary flushes (bug71)
  * Build fixes for OpenBSD
  * Build fixes for Solaris/gcc
  * Cleanup warnings brought to us by OpenBSD (sprintf, etc...)
  * Lots of fixes with the test tools
  * Various documentation cleanups

4 New Features
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  * stats slabs returns the number of requested bytes as mem_requested
  * memcached can bind to ephemeral ports (used for testing)

5 Contributors
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The following people contributed to this release since 1.4.0.

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 1.4.0..1.4.1-rc1` or use a web view.

  * Repo list:  [http://code.google.com/p/memcached/wiki/DevelopmentRepos]
  * Web View: [http://github.com/memcached/memcached/commits/1.4.1-rc1]

    16  Dustin Sallings
     8  Trond Norbye
     2  dormando
     1  Mat Hostetter
     1  Matt Ingenthron
     1  Monty Taylor
     1  Steve Yen
     1  Adam Thomason
     1  Cosimo Streppone