Release: malwatch 1.3.0

2 September 2025 Roscoe Skeens


features

  • feat: tweaked tph mimalloc lib for new memory allocator

build

  • build: integrate mimalloc with dockerfile
  • build: integrate mimalloc with goreleaser
  • build: integrate mimalloc with makefile
  • build: mimalloc dockerfile

docs

  • docs: bump download release

The switch to musl for extended compatibility predictably created a small performance decline. That can however be regained as well as unlock a meaningful reduction in memory usage by pairing mimalloc.

Results vary across systems - Ubuntu is ~15% faster with scan times but on other systems such as AlmaLinux 8 it is up to twice as fast. A consistent 20% memory reduction is also observed across all environments.

Further information is available at the GitHub release or project page.