Comment by anonymoushn

The big recent change is that jemalloc no longer has any of its previous long-term maintainers. But it is receiving more attention from Facebook than it has in a long time, and I am somewhat optimistic that after some recent drama where some of that attention was aimed in a counterproductive direction that the company can aim the rest of it in directions that Qi and Jason would agree with, and that are well aligned with the needs of external users.