memoir: spacing changed in new version

Question

I just updated from memoir 3.6g to 3.6j and it broke spacing in my documents. In 3.6g, I used:

\setlength{\parindent}{0em}
\setlength{\parskip}{0.6\baselineskip}

\setbeforesecskip{1.5ex}
\setaftersecskip{0.5ex}
\setbeforeparaskip{0.5ex}

In 3.6g, this gave me about a line's worth of spacing between \paragraph and between \section and \begin{itemize}. In 3.6j, the spacing between \section and \begin{itemize} is the same, but between \section and \paragraph or two \paragraphs is very small.

In order to restore the spacing between \section and \paragraph or \paragraphs in 3.6j, I changed it to:

\setbeforesecskip{3ex}
\setaftersecskip{2ex}
\setbeforeparaskip{2.5ex}

but now there's too much space (approximately 2 lines) between \section and \begin{itemize}. How can I put the spacing back the way it was?

Answer 1

(Based on the comments from daleif [Maintainer of the memoir package.])

The modified spacing is intentional, a non-zero \parskip makes spacing around sectional headings hard to control. However, the implementation is flawed: if two sectional macros follow each other they cancel out, so there is some work to be done for a future version.