Crashing Bug beanstalkd 1.3 - Should we upgrade to 1.4.2?

[Lyn Headley]

Hello,

We are running beanstalkd 1.3 and are getting a crash of some kind
that halts the daemon. We haven't upgraded to 1.4.x because it seems
pretty different and because of a library compatibility issue with
libevent. I notice, however, that 1.4.2 is a recommended bug fix
upgrade release. Does this recommendation apply to users of 1.3 or
only to users of 1.4.x? On a related note, if a bug is discovered in
1.3, will it be fixed as 1.3.x or will users be requested to upgrade
to 1.4.x?

Thanks.

Lyn Headley

[Keith Rarick]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Lyn Headley <lahe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We are running beanstalkd 1.3 and are getting a crash of some kind
> that halts the daemon.

Can you provide more information about the crash? Output or a core
file or a reproducible test case?

>  We haven't upgraded to 1.4.x because it seems
> pretty different

There is a bunch of new code for the binlog feature, but it's pretty
well isolated. If you don't use persistence, 1.4 is similar to 1.3,
with bug fixes.

> and because of a library compatibility issue with
> libevent.

Which version of libevent do you prefer?

>  I notice, however, that 1.4.2 is a recommended bug fix
> upgrade release.  Does this recommendation apply to users of 1.3 or
> only to users of 1.4.x?

1.4.2 fixes a bug in the binlog code and only applies to users of 1.4 or 1.4.1.

However, 1.4 itself contains bug fixes.

>  On a related note, if a bug is discovered in
> 1.3, will it be fixed as 1.3.x or will users be requested to upgrade
> to 1.4.x?

I doubt there will ever be a 1.3.x release, since there is so little
risk in upgrading to 1.4.

kr