2008-03-04: Version 1.2.5 released. Minor bugfixes, build support for opensolaris, ipv6 support, "noreply" mode for many commands, largepage support for solaris. Made out of memory errors more clear and added eviction/OOM tracking per slab class.
2007-12-06: Version 1.2.4 released. Many bug and platform fixes since 1.2.2. New threading support for stat queries. New commands 'append', 'prepend', 'gets', and 'cas'.
2007-05-02: Version 1.2.2 released. Memcached can be configured to support multithreading. Big code cleanup with performance improvements. Memcached now collects eviction and per-object-type statistics.
2006-12-05: Version 1.2.1 released. Various perfomance improvements. OpenBSD portability fixes. New faster hash function. Memcached no longer listens for UDP requests by default.
2006-09-09: Version 1.2.0 released. Improved memory efficiency of up to 40%. Better support for large memory systems. CPU consuption is reduced 25-30%. New UDP interface.
2006-09-09: Version 1.1.13 released. Building is easier, libevent detection is improved, better Solaris support. Fixed some 64-bit issues, fixed a number of off-by-one bugs. Fix for confusing out of memory errors. New feature that allows you to execute a flush_all at a specific time. Make stderr unbuffered.
2005-04-04: Version 1.1.12 released. Fixes for flush_all, immediate deletes and a buffer overflow. The man page now installs correctly. Memcached now saves a .pid file. More documentation added for the -M and -r flags.
2004-04-30: Version 1.1.11 released. New option (off by default) to not act as a cache, but hold items forever until deleted (or until machine goes down, rather). This release also installs the manual page, and raises the per-process file descriptor limit to match the specified max connections.
2003-12-30: Version 1.1.10 released. Now includes a command to wipe the entire cache.
2003-10-09: Version 1.1.9 released, now with better network performance, better portability, setuid support, and a fix for a rare crash (SIGPIPE) if a client dies.
2003-08-08: We now have Python support.
2003-07-29: Version 1.1.8 released. The client APIs are now distributed separately.
2003-06-30: Version 1.1.6 released. Many great changes.
2003-06-16: PHP support now included.
2003-06-15: Autoconf support added in 1.0.2 release. Website text updated a bit.
2003-06-10: Website not so bad now. Files licensed. Perl API separated and documented. 1.0 release.
2003-05-30: Server's stable. Perl API's still LJ-specific (just need to just change the package name, basically). Other APIs should be easy to bang out. This website needs work.