libmemcached is a C client library to the memcached server. It has been designed to be light on memory usage, thread safe, and provide full access to server side methods.

libmemcached library also implements several command line tools:

· memcat - Copy the value of a key to standard output
· memflush - Flush the contents of your servers.
· memrm - Remove a key(s) from the serrver.
· memstat - Dump the stats of your servers to standard output
· memslap - Generate testing loads on a memcached cluster

What's New in This Release:

· This is the first public release beyond the memcached mailing list.
· Support for Solaris has been added (including Dtrace).
· RPMs are now built.
· The memslap application has been added for doing load testing and benchmarking.
· Support for new server structures was added.
· A number of protocol cleanups have been done.
· The full protocol API is supported.