This release contains several new features as well as lots of smaller improvements and fixes:

- add support of UNIX domain sockets
- add support of Solaris/illumos
- add the "reserve-job" command
- add draining status to the "stats" command
- make fsync turned on by default when binlog is used: it's synced every 50ms instead of never
- replace vendored systemd files with libsystemd
- systemd usage can be controlled with USE_SYSTEMD=yes/no
- specify C99 as required compiler

Full list of changes (includes authorship information):
<http://github.com/beanstalkd/beanstalkd/compare/v1.11...v1.12>

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