Libmc

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Though no major feature overhauls have taken place, this release is partially
incompatible with 1.5.0. This stems from the fact that python-memcached is now
using a flag that pylibmc has been using for some years. python-memcached uses
it for a different purpose, and an incompatible one. We deemed that it would be
better to support this interoperability. The change also means that Unicode
strings are now stored as UTF-8 rather than pickled, which may or may not
result in a slight performance improvement for this type of data.

We have also introduced a `pickle_protocol` behavior to enable seamless
interoperability between Python 2.x and 3.x. Also, this release introduces a
ManyLinux wheel, making installation a breeze on ManyLinux systems (which I
suppose is many linuxes.)

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This release fixes critical memory leaks in common code paths introduced in
1.4.2. Also fixes a critical bug in a corner of the zlib inflation code, where
prior memory errors would trigger a double free. Thank you to everybody
involved in the making of this release, and especially `Eau de Web`__, without
their contributions, this release and the bug fixes it contains wouldn't have
been so expedient.

__ http://www.eaudeweb.ro/

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Brace yourself, Python 3.x support has come!

Thanks to everybody involved in this project; this release involves less
authors but **a lot** more work per person. Thanks especially to Harvey Falcic
for the work he put in, without which there wouldn't be any Python 3.x support.
Also thanks to Sergey Pashinin for the initial stab at the problem.

Other than that, we had miscellaneous bug fixes, testing improvements, and
documentation updates.

Last but not least I would like to ask for your support in this project, either
by helping out with development, testing, documentation or anything at all; or
simply by donating some `magic internet money`__ to the project's Bitcoin
address `12dveKhqiJWCY8zXT4kaHdHELXPeGAUo9h`__

__ http://static.adzerk.net/Advertisers/5af77cf0094d4303bb308b955dd05992.jpg
__ bitcoin:12dveKhqiJWCY8zXT4kaHdHELXPeGAUo9h

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Because there ain't nothing better than releasing software in the spring time.

Lots of improvements have come about in just about every corner of the library,
thanks to *eighteen different authors* over almost *20 pull requests*. Amazing.

- Added touch support
- Added compress_level
- Added weighted distribution
- Added automated benchmarking utility
- Added Travis CI and build status
- Added behavior dead_timeout
- Added behaviors tcp_keepalive
- Added behavior callback_prefix_key
- Lots of bug tuning, fixes, tests, and documentation

Lastly, thanks in particular to the authors of this release: Abramowitz,
Baklanov, Bergström, Borisov, Branson, Brown, Ericson, Hansche, Hlodversson,
King, Kowalak, McFague, Moura, Noguchi, Shurter, Williams and Wong.

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This release is for the people behind `reddit.com`__, for helping push
development forward. Keep doing your thing.

__ http://code.reddit.com/

- `semver.org`__ versioning scheme
- Fixed GIL issues
- Added CAS support (ketralnis)
- Added SASL authentication (Remoun)
- Added more detail to errors (spladug)
- Added mapping-like behavior for clients
- Fixed build errors on Mac OS X
- Moved to nose__ for testing
- Added ``auto_eject`` behavior
- Added ``num_replicas`` behavior
- Added ``remove_failed`` behavior
- Removed ``cache_lookups`` behavior
- Improved repr of clients (noah256)
- Improved IPv6 support (JshWright)
- Improved pooling behavior so it doesn't cause lock-ups
- Improved tests and testing foundation
- Improved documentation and structure
- Internalized Sphinx documentation
- Bunch of other stuff

__ http://semver.org/
__ http://somethingaboutorange.com/mrl/projects/nose/

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- Removed deprecated space-based behavior names.
- Acquire and release the GIL properly, thanks ketralnis__
- Add support for ``libmemcached 0.40``
- Included a more useful command-line interface
- Fixed handling of NUL-byte keys in ``get_multi`` in binary protocol
- Fixed some valgrind-reported memory warnings
- Fixed bogus usage of time argument for delete.
- 1.1.1: Fixed tests under Python 2.5

__ http://www.ketralnis.com/