News for beanstalkd

Beanstalkd 1.10 Release Notes

2014-08-04T00:00:00+00:00

This is beanstalkd version 1.10, containing bug fixes.

As always, there will be no incompatible protocol changes until version 2.0. A client written for version 1.10 will work unmodified with any later 1.x release of beanstalkd.

News

fix crash on suspend or other EINTR (#220)
document touch command’s TTR reset (#188)
add some basic benchmark tests
add DESTDIR support to Makefile

Full list of changes (includes authorship information):
http://github.com/kr/beanstalkd/compare/v1.9...v1.10

Our Urls

Download the 1.10 tarball directly:
https://github.com/kr/beanstalkd/archive/v1.10.tar.gz

Learn all about beanstalk:
http://kr.github.com/beanstalkd/

Talk about beanstalk development or use at:
http://groups.google.com/group/beanstalk-talk

Bugs

Please report any bugs to:
http://github.com/kr/beanstalkd/issues

Beanstalkd 1.9 Release Notes

2013-04-14T00:00:00+00:00

This is beanstalkd version 1.9.

As always, there will be no incompatible protocol changes until version 2.0. A client written for version 1.9 will work unmodified with any later 1.x release of beanstalkd.

News

compile with debugging symbols by default
fix case where a job would not time out properly (#174)
fix build on hurd (#177)
document the delayed->ready transition via ‘kick’ (#176)
fix crash from Conn use after free and double-free (#159)
fix high CPU use during heavy system load (#169)
add a unique id and hostname to stats output (#156)

Full list of changes (includes authorship information):
http://github.com/kr/beanstalkd/compare/v1.8...v1.9

Our Urls

Download the 1.9 tarball directly:
https://github.com/kr/beanstalkd/archive/v1.9.tar.gz

Learn all about beanstalk:
http://kr.github.com/beanstalkd/

Talk about beanstalk development or use at:
http://groups.google.com/group/beanstalk-talk

Bugs

Please report any bugs to:
http://github.com/kr/beanstalkd/issues

Beanstalkd 1.8 Release Notes

2012-11-03T00:00:00+00:00

This is beanstalkd version 1.8.

As always, there will be no incompatible protocol changes until version 2.0. A client written for version 1.8 will work unmodified with any later 1.x release of beanstalkd.

News

correctly log command names in verbose mode
correctly check for hangup during reserve; fixes #144
add protocol.md
fix tests on freebsd
stricter format checking; fix format call errors
Tolerate compilation without a Git repository.
New command: kick-job.
document missing tube stats fields; fixes #127

Full list of changes (includes authorship information):
http://github.com/kr/beanstalkd/compare/v1.7...v1.8

Our Urls

Download the 1.8 tarball directly:
https://github.com/downloads/kr/beanstalkd/beanstalkd-1.8.tar.gz

Learn all about beanstalk:
http://kr.github.com/beanstalkd/

Talk about beanstalk development or use at:
http://groups.google.com/group/beanstalk-talk

Bugs

Please report any bugs to: http://github.com/kr/beanstalkd/issues

Beanstalkd 1.7 Release Notes

2012-09-11T00:00:00+00:00

This is beanstalkd version 1.7, a bugfix release.

As always, there will be no incompatible protocol changes until version 2.0. A client written for version 1.7 will work unmodified with any later 1.x release of beanstalkd.

News

fix tests on big-endian machines
fix several issues identified by Coverity Scan
always read pending data; fixes #129
fix crash when closing connections
count puts like any other command

Full list of changes (includes authorship information):
http://github.com/kr/beanstalkd/compare/v1.6...v1.7

Our Urls

Download the 1.7 tarball directly:
https://github.com/downloads/kr/beanstalkd/beanstalkd-1.7.tar.gz

Learn all about beanstalk:
http://kr.github.com/beanstalkd/

Talk about beanstalk development or use at:
http://groups.google.com/group/beanstalk-talk

Bugs

Please report any bugs to: http://github.com/kr/beanstalkd/issues

Beanstalkd 1.6 Release Notes

2012-05-09T00:00:00+00:00

This is beanstalkd version 1.6, a bugfix release.

As always, there will be no incompatible protocol changes until version 2.0. A client written for version 1.6 will work unmodified with any later 1.x release of beanstalkd.

News

line-buffered stdout, even when not on a tty; closes #116
remove obsolete startup method; closes #100
wake up waiting clients when unpausing a tube; fixes #113
fix build on FreeBSD 9; closes #111
fix build and tests on clang; closes #110
better flag parsing (with tests)
binlog: better warning message when open fails
support for better tar compatibility; closes #93
fix cpu use on freebsd and darwin; closes #96
fix compile error on linux with kernel 2.6.18
update outdated usage text

Full list of changes in this release (includes authorship information):
http://github.com/kr/beanstalkd/compare/v1.5...v1.6

Our Urls

Download the 1.6 tarball directly:
https://github.com/downloads/kr/beanstalkd/beanstalkd-1.6.tar.gz

Learn all about beanstalk:
http://kr.github.com/beanstalkd/

Talk about beanstalk development or use at:
http://groups.google.com/group/beanstalk-talk

Bugs

Please report any bugs to:
http://github.com/kr/beanstalkd/issues

Beanstalkd 1.5 Release Notes

2012-01-27T00:00:00+00:00

This is beanstalkd version 1.5. A lot of changes went into this release, including some big improvements.

Updated: please note that the format of log files produced by flag -b (the “binlog”) has changed. Beanstalkd 1.5 can read older files, but earlier versions can’t read files produced by beanstalkd 1.5 or later, so use caution when migrating.

As always, there will be no incompatible protocol changes until version 2.0. A client written for version 1.5 will work unmodified with any later 1.x release of beanstalkd.

Highlights

removed dependency on libevent
no more autotools; to build beanstalkd, just type “make”
incremental binlog compaction; fixes #43
removed flag -d; alternatives are in the “adm” directory

More News

switch to MIT license
remove DEBUG compile flag
more interesting make examples in README
change default CFLAGS
verbose mode; closes #52
properly timeout reserve-with-timeout; fixes #78
document that EPOLLRDHUP was introduced in Linux 2.6.17.
read beanstalkd 1.4.6’s log format for compatibility
report size of attempted read for WAL read errors
accurately report position of WAL file errors
add file index to job stats
clarify behavior of cumulative stats; closes #81
adding support for counting deletes on a tube
delete command now deletes delayed jobs
fix segfault; closes #71
bsd build fix; PATH_MAX is defined in limits.h
bsd build fix; echo -n is not portable
do not read in STATE_WAIT; fixes #22
document the new binlog stats
redo the WAL code, improving style
more careful binlog read checking
in log recovery, recompute delay with current time; fixes #62
provide and document more system admin tools
support systemd socket activation

Full list of changes in this release (includes authorship information):
http://github.com/kr/beanstalkd/compare/v1.4.6...v1.5

Our Urls

Download the 1.5 tarball directly:
https://github.com/downloads/kr/beanstalkd/beanstalkd-1.5.tar.gz

Learn all about beanstalk:
http://kr.github.com/beanstalkd/

Talk about beanstalk development or use at:
http://groups.google.com/group/beanstalk-talk

Bugs

Please report any bugs to:
http://github.com/kr/beanstalkd/issues

Beanstalkd 1.4.6 Security Release Notes

2010-05-23T00:00:00+00:00

This is a security fix and bugfix release.

As always, there will be no incompatible protocol changes until version 2.0. A client written for version 1.4.6 will work unmodified with any later 1.x release of beanstalkd.

What’s New

The put command now discards the entire job body before returning JOB_TOO_BIG. Previously, it interpreted the job body as commands. This was a potential security hole, where malicious users could craft job payload data to inject commands without cooperation from the beanstalk client application.
Fix issue #40 by requiring an absolute path when -b is used with -d.

Full list of changes in this release (includes authorship information):
http://github.com/kr/beanstalkd/compare/v1.4.5...v1.4.6

Our Urls

Download the 1.4.6 tarball directly:
https://github.com/downloads/kr/beanstalkd/beanstalkd-1.4.6.tar.gz

Learn all about beanstalk:
http://kr.github.com/beanstalkd/

Talk about beanstalk development or use at:
http://groups.google.com/group/beanstalk-talk

Bugs

Please report any bugs to:
http://github.com/kr/beanstalkd/issues

Beanstalkd 1.4.5 Release Notes

2010-05-22T00:00:00+00:00

This is a mostly bugfix release.

As always, there will be no incompatible protocol changes until version 2.0. A client written for version 1.4.5 will work unmodified with any later 1.x release of beanstalkd.

What’s New

Fix issue #32, add support for IPv6.
Fix issue #38, which caused the binlog to stop being updated in unusual situations.

Full list of changes in this release (includes authorship information):
http://github.com/kr/beanstalkd/compare/v1.4.4...v1.4.5

Our Urls

Download the 1.4.5 tarball directly:
https://github.com/downloads/kr/beanstalkd/beanstalkd-1.4.5.tar.gz

Learn all about beanstalk:
http://kr.github.com/beanstalkd/

Talk about beanstalk development or use at:
http://groups.google.com/group/beanstalk-talk

Bugs

Please report any bugs to:
http://github.com/kr/beanstalkd/issues

Beanstalkd 1.4.4 Release Notes

2010-03-09T00:00:00+00:00

This is a bugfix release.

As always, there will be no incompatible protocol changes until version 2.0. A client written for version 1.4.4 will work unmodified with any later 1.x release of beanstalkd.

What’s New

Added missing YAML document separator to stats-job output.
More reliable unit tests.
Fixed a memory leak in the list-tubes and list-tubes-watched commands.
Allow underscore in tube names.
Run network unit tests only if the loopback interface is configured.
Clean up temporary files (fiu fifos) from unit tests.
Fixed issue #34, which caused beanstalkd to terminate unexpectedly on Snow Leopard.

Full list of changes in this release (includes authorship information):
http://github.com/kr/beanstalkd/compare/v1.4.3...v1.4.4

Our Urls

Download the 1.4.4 tarball directly:
https://github.com/downloads/kr/beanstalkd/beanstalkd-1.4.4.tar.gz

Learn all about beanstalk:
http://kr.github.com/beanstalkd/

Talk about beanstalk development or use at:
http://groups.google.com/group/beanstalk-talk

Bugs

Please report any bugs to:
http://github.com/kr/beanstalkd/issues

Beanstalkd 1.4.3 Release Notes

2009-11-30T00:00:00+00:00

This is a bugfix release.

As always, there will be no incompatible protocol changes until version 2.0. A client written for version 1.4.3 will work unmodified with any later 1.x release of beanstalkd.

What’s New

Omit time-left when it has no meaning. (Keith Rarick)
Avoid overflow when calculating delay. (Keith Rarick)
Add pause-tube command and associated stats. (Graham Barr)
Fix problem with delayed events being delayed forever. (Graham Barr)
Avoid EOF warnings when reading binlogs. (Graham Barr)
Fix two memory leaks. (Keith Rarick)

Our Urls

Download the 1.4.3 tarball directly:
https://github.com/downloads/kr/beanstalkd/beanstalkd-1.4.3.tar.gz

Learn all about beanstalk:
http://xph.us/software/beanstalkd/

Talk about beanstalk development or use at:
http://groups.google.com/group/beanstalk-talk

Bugs

Please report any bugs to:
http://github.com/kr/beanstalkd/issues

Beanstalkd 1.4.2 Release Notes

2009-10-17T00:00:00+00:00

Here is beanstalkd 1.4.2.

This is an important bugfix release. All users are encouraged to upgrade.

As always, there will be no incompatible protocol changes until version 2.0. A client written for version 1.4.2 will work unmodified with any later 1.x release of beanstalkd.

What’s New

Fix a bug causing a binlog containing delayed jobs to be read incorrectly, resulting in a segfault on startup or incorrect data. (Phil Ross, Graham Barr)

Our Urls

Download the 1.4.2 tarball directly:
https://github.com/downloads/kr/beanstalkd/beanstalkd-1.4.2.tar.gz

Learn all about beanstalk:
http://kr.github.com/beanstalkd/

Talk about beanstalk development or use at:
http://groups.google.com/group/beanstalk-talk

Bugs

Please report any bugs to:
http://github.com/kr/beanstalkd/issues

Beanstalkd 1.4.1 Release Notes

2009-10-14T00:00:00+00:00

Here is beanstalkd 1.4.1.

This is a (mostly) bugfix release.

As always, there will be no incompatible protocol changes until version 2.0. A client written for version 1.4.1 will work unmodified with any later 1.x release of beanstalkd.

What’s New

Added quit command (Ludvig Ericson)
Build fix on amd64 (goosmurf)
Build fix on Mac OS X (Jeremy Hinegardner)
Packaging fixes for RPM (Jeremy Hinegardner)
Build fix on FreeBSD (Peter Kieltyka)
Documentation updates (Paul Annesley, Keith Rarick)

Our Urls

Download the 1.4.1 tarball directly:
https://github.com/downloads/kr/beanstalkd/beanstalkd-1.4.1.tar.gz

Learn all about beanstalk:
http://xph.us/software/beanstalkd/

Talk about beanstalk development or use at:
http://groups.google.com/group/beanstalk-talk

Bugs

Please report any bugs to:
http://github.com/kr/beanstalkd/issues

Beanstalkd 1.4 Release Notes

2009-10-03T00:00:00+00:00

Okay, beanstalkd 1.4 is ready.

To everyone who has contributed to this release and in the past, I can’t thank you enough. This release contains a lot of fixes, a huge new feature, and is our most portable beanstalkd so far. Thanks for sticking with me!

There will be no incompatible protocol changes until version 2.0. A client written for version 1.4 will work unmodified with any later 1.x release of beanstalkd.

What’s New

Persistence (Graham Barr, Keith Rarick)
Properly initialize network address struct (Jeethu Rao)
Fix daemonization on BSD systems, including Mac OS X (Alex MacCaw and Yun Huang Yong)
Now includes RPM spec file and init scripts (Ask Bjørn Hansen)
Fixed build and unit tests on Solaris and Mac (Keith Rarick)
Added “reserves” counter for each job (goosmurf)
Fix a memory leak from the peek and stats commands (goosmurf)
Handle SIGTERM just like SIGINT (Florian Noeding)
Use high-resolution timers, fixing some timeout-related bugs (Keith Rarick)

Our Urls

Download the 1.4 tarball directly:
https://github.com/downloads/kr/beanstalkd/beanstalkd-1.4.tar.gz

Learn all about beanstalk:
http://xph.us/software/beanstalkd/

Talk about beanstalk development or use at:
http://groups.google.com/group/beanstalk-talk

Bugs

Please report any bugs to:
http://github.com/kr/beanstalkd/issues

Beanstalkd 1.3 Release Notes

2009-03-23T00:00:00+00:00

Here’s beanstalkd 1.3.

This is a bugfix release.

There will be no incompatible protocol changes until version 2.0. A client written for version 1.3 will work unmodified with any later 1.x release of beanstalkd.

What’s New

Fix a crash when processing jobs with a 1-second TTR. (Keith Rarick)
Timeout jobs only after TTR expires, not up to one second early. (Michael Firsikov)

Our Urls

Download the 1.3 tarball directly:
https://github.com/downloads/kr/beanstalkd/beanstalkd-1.3.tar.gz

Learn all about beanstalk:
http://xph.us/software/beanstalkd/

Talk about beanstalk development or use at:
http://groups.google.com/group/beanstalk-talk

Bugs

Please report any bugs to:
http://groups.google.com/group/beanstalk-talk

Beanstalkd 1.2 Release Notes

2009-01-17T00:00:00+00:00

Here’s beanstalkd 1.2.

There will be no incompatible protocol changes until version 2.0. A client written for version 1.2 will work unmodified with any later 1.x release of beanstalkd.

What’s New

Touch command (Dustin Sallings).
Build and test system improvements (various).
Fix a large memory leak (Graham Barr).
Add man page (Jeremy Hinegardner).
Fix delay/pri overflow bug (Kristján Pétursson).
Fix bug comparing large priorities (Kristján Pétursson).
Minor command line improvements (Keith Rarick).
Can now delete ready jobs (Keith Rarick).
Fix bug returning the wrong job from multiple tubes (Keith Rarick).

Our Urls

Download the 1.2 tarball directly:
http://xph.us/software/beanstalkd/rel/beanstalkd-1.2.tar.gz

Learn all about beanstalk:
http://xph.us/software/beanstalkd/

Talk about beanstalk development or use at:
http://groups.google.com/group/beanstalk-talk

Bugs

Please report any bugs to:
http://groups.google.com/group/beanstalk-talk

Beanstalkd 1.1 Release Notes

2008-11-05T00:00:00+00:00

Here’s beanstalkd 1.1.

There will be no incompatible protocol changes until version 2.0. A client written for version 1.1 will work unmodified with any later 1.x release of beanstalkd.

What’s New

New command: reserve-with-timeout (Dustin Sallings).
Fix a race condition in the stats command (Dustin Sallings).
Huge performance improvements for large datasets (Dustin Sallings).
Constant time job lookup.
Autotools-based build system (Antony Dovgal).

Our Urls

Download the 1.1 tarball directly:
http://xph.us/software/beanstalkd/rel/beanstalkd-1.1.tar.gz

Learn all about beanstalk:
http://xph.us/software/beanstalkd/

Talk about beanstalk development or use at:
http://groups.google.com/group/beanstalk-talk

Bugs

Please report any bugs to:
http://groups.google.com/group/beanstalk-talk

PHP Client Library

2008-08-21T00:00:00+00:00

Link to PHP client library added to clients page.

Beanstalkd 1.0 Release Notes

2008-05-28T00:00:00+00:00

Here’s beanstalkd 1.0.

There will be no incompatible protocol changes until version 2.0.

I’ll make compatible protocol changes on a case-by-case basis. The rule is this: a client written for version 1.0 will work unmodified with any later 1.x release of beanstalkd.

This version of the protocol is compatible with 0.10 and 0.11.

What’s New

Fix documentation of max job size.
Fix a crash in the kick command.
Fix a crash in the put command when out of memory.
Some 64-bit debug build fixes.

Our Urls

Download the 1.0 tarball directly:
http://xph.us/software/beanstalkd/rel/beanstalkd-1.0.tar.gz

Learn all about beanstalk:
http://xph.us/software/beanstalkd/

Talk about beanstalk development or use at:
http://groups.google.com/group/beanstalk-talk

Bugs

Please report any bugs to http://groups.google.com/group/beanstalk-talk

Erlang Client Library

2008-04-28T00:00:00+00:00

Link to Erlang client library added to clients page.

Beanstalkd 0.11 Release Notes

2008-04-16T00:00:00+00:00

Here’s beanstalkd 0.11.

This is the second release candidate for beanstalkd 1.0. Please let me know if you find any bugs, especially in the protocol. I’m not planning any incompatible protocol changes before beanstalkd 2.0.

This version of the protocol is compatible with 0.10.

What’s New

Update command line help text to document the recent -z option.
Fix a memory management bug that caused a crash.
Fix a bug that caused the server to hang up if the client sent a command line that was too long.
Split stats for the peek commands into four counters – one for each command.
Unit tests are easier to run.

Our Urls

Download the 0.11 tarball directly:
http://xph.us/software/beanstalkd/rel/beanstalkd-0.11.tar.gz

Learn all about beanstalk:
http://xph.us/software/beanstalkd/

Talk about beanstalk development or use at:
http://groups.google.com/group/beanstalk-talk

Bugs

Please report any bugs to http://groups.google.com/group/beanstalk-talk

Beanstalkd 0.10 Release Notes

2008-04-09T00:00:00+00:00

Here’s beanstalkd 0.10.

This is a release candidate for beanstalkd 1.0. Please let me know if you find any bugs, especially in the protocol. I’m not planning any incompatible protocol changes before beanstalkd 2.0.

This version of the protocol is compatible with 0.9, except for the peek commands.

What’s New

Fixed bug causing the server to send spurious UNKNOWN_COMMAND messages in draining mode.
Each tube now has its own delay queue.
Big performance fix for clients (such as async_observer) that issue stats-job frequently on reserved jobs.
New command-line option to set the max job size.
Various build and portability fixes.
Automatically timeout reserve commands if a client has other jobs with looming deadlines.
More comprehensive stats.

Our Urls

Download the 0.10 tarball directly:
http://xph.us/software/beanstalkd/rel/beanstalkd-0.10.tar.gz

Learn all about beanstalk:
http://xph.us/software/beanstalkd/

Talk about beanstalk development or use at:
http://groups.google.com/group/beanstalk-talk

Bugs

Sending a line of exactly MAX_LINE_LENGTH chars (not including the trailing “\r\n”) will cause the server to hang up.
Please report any other bugs to http://groups.google.com/group/beanstalk-talk

Beanstalkd 0.9 Release Notes

2008-02-27T00:00:00+00:00

Here’s beanstalkd 0.9.

This is a brown paper bag release. Version 0.8 had a few simple bugs, including places where the documentation was wrong.

What’s New Since 0.8

Fixed errors in doc/protocol.txt
Fixed bug causing the server to reject valid commands longer than 54 bytes.
Changed the kick command to use the current tube.
Add a list-tube-used command.
Added missing counters for use, watch, and ignore commands.

What’s New Since 0.7

Build fix on OpenSolaris prior to snv_72.
Dynamically sized priority queues.
The minimum ttr is now one second.
Major new feature: Tubes.
Job priority is no longer part of the reservation response line. It has been moved to the job stats.
Job stats has been moved into its own command: stats-job.

Our Urls

Download the 0.9 tarball directly:
http://xph.us/software/beanstalkd/rel/beanstalkd-0.9.tar.gz

Learn all about beanstalk:
http://xph.us/software/beanstalkd/

Talk about beanstalk development or use at:
http://groups.google.com/group/beanstalk-talk

Bugs

Sending a line of exactly MAX_LINE_LENGTH chars (not including the trailing “\r\n”) will cause the server to hang up.
Please report any other bugs to http://groups.google.com/group/beanstalk-talk

Beanstalkd 0.8 Release Notes

2008-02-26T00:00:00+00:00

I’m proud to announce beanstalkd 0.8.

This release has several significant protocol changes. This server won’t work with a client designed for any earlier beanstalkd.

What’s New

Build fix on OpenSolaris prior to snv_72.
Dynamically sized priority queues.
The minimum ttr is now one second.
Major new feature: Tubes.
Job priority is no longer part of the reservation response line. It has been moved to the job stats.
Job stats has been moved into its own command: stats-job.

Our Urls

Download the 0.8 tarball directly:
http://xph.us/software/beanstalkd/rel/beanstalkd-0.8.tar.gz

Learn all about beanstalk:
http://xph.us/software/beanstalkd/

Talk about beanstalk development or use at:
http://groups.google.com/group/beanstalk-talk

Bugs

Sending a line of exactly MAX_LINE_LENGTH chars (not including the trailing “\r\n”) will cause the server to hang up.
Please report any other bugs to http://groups.google.com/group/beanstalk-talk

Beanstalkd 0.7 Release Notes

2008-02-01T00:00:00+00:00

I’m happy to announce beanstalkd 0.7.

This is a small release with one protocol change. This server won’t work with a client designed for any earlier beanstalkd.

What’s New

Added “-u” option to switch user and drop privileges.
Return buried job id during a put command.
Build fix on Ubuntu (and probably others).

Our Urls

Download the 0.7 tarball directly:
http://xph.us/software/beanstalkd/rel/beanstalkd-0.7.tar.gz

Learn all about beanstalk:
http://xph.us/software/beanstalkd/

Talk about beanstalk development or use at:
http://groups.google.com/group/beanstalk-talk

Known Bugs

The min heap data structure is not dynamically-sized. This means a fixed hard limit on the number of ready jobs (by default set to around 16 million).

Beanstalkd 0.6 Release Notes

2008-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

I’m happy to announce beanstalkd 0.6.

This release has several protocol changes and other updates. This server won’t work with a client designed for any earlier beanstalkd.

What’s New

Server returns the newly-inserted job id.
The time-to-run (aka timeout) is now given for every job.
Build fixes on Mac OS X.
Minor speed improvements.
The server is more strict about trailing garbage on command lines.
Better error reporting – the server won’t just close the connection.

Our Urls

Download the 0.6 tarball directly:
http://xph.us/software/beanstalkd/rel/beanstalkd-0.6.tar.gz

Learn all about beanstalk:
http://xph.us/software/beanstalkd/

Talk about beanstalk development or use at:
http://groups.google.com/group/beanstalk-talk

Known Bugs

The min heap data structure is not dynamically-sized. This means a fixed hard limit on the number of ready jobs (by default set to around 16 million).

Python Client Library

2007-12-30T00:00:00+00:00

Link to Python client library added to clients page.

Perl Client Library

2007-12-12T00:00:00+00:00

Link to Perl client library added to clients page.

First Public Release; Version 0.5

2007-12-11T00:00:00+00:00

Client library is just for Ruby for now. Other languages should be easy to add.