New in version 1.6.0
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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