News

Date: 2025-3-19

http://www.memcached.org/files/memcached-1.6.38.tar.gz

Significant bug fixes in this release. Most notably:

• A few kilobytes of memory was leaked every time extstore evicted a disk page.
• Extstore may evict memory when very small objects (a few hundred bytes) are being written to disk. This should no longer happen.
• Proxy configurations with chained route handlers may hang if all of their children errored via a wait timeout.

A number of other "Fixes" were made to docs or code, but none that affect users. The fixes pertain more to code correctness and only address impossible or useless conditions.

• Release memory in function restart_get_kv
• Release memory in function _evict_page
• assoc.c: fix leak in assoc_get_iterator
• Free subopts_orig in function main
• Free temp_portnumber_filename before exits
• proxy: flag error res objects properly
• proxy: fix wait_cond with subrctx errors
• docs: move build instructions to README.md
• proxy: rctx:best_result fix for missed responses
• extstore: multiple tunings for small values
• slabs: wait before adjusting memory watermark

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The following people contributed to this release since 1.6.37.

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 1.6.37..1.6.38 or use a web view.

• Repo list: https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/DevelopmentRepos
• Web View: http://github.com/memcached/memcached/commits/1.6.38

    10	dormando
     2	jinyaoguo
     2	mugitya03
     1	Kanak Kshetri