diff --git a/stable/memcached/Chart.yaml b/stable/memcached/Chart.yaml
index 60162f955f..90e5ffc2e9 100644
--- a/stable/memcached/Chart.yaml
+++ b/stable/memcached/Chart.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name: memcached
-version: 2.4.0
+version: 2.5.0
 appVersion: 1.5.6
 description: Free & open source, high-performance, distributed memory object caching
   system.
diff --git a/stable/memcached/README.md b/stable/memcached/README.md
index 9807498bd8..7b9ec34688 100644
--- a/stable/memcached/README.md
+++ b/stable/memcached/README.md
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ The following table lists the configurable parameters of the Memcached chart and
 | `extraContainers`         | Container sidecar definition(s) as string | Un-set                                        |
 | `extraVolumes`            | Volume definitions to add as string | Un-set                                              |
 | `kind`                    | Install as StatefulSet or Deployment | StatefulSet                                        |
+| `podAnnotations`          | Map of annotations to add to the pod(s) | `{}`                                            |
 
 The above parameters map to `memcached` params. For more information please refer to the [Memcached documentation](https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/ConfiguringServer).
 
diff --git a/stable/memcached/templates/statefulset.yaml b/stable/memcached/templates/statefulset.yaml
index 7ab42003b5..007c71fb26 100644
--- a/stable/memcached/templates/statefulset.yaml
+++ b/stable/memcached/templates/statefulset.yaml
@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ spec:
         chart: "{{ .Chart.Name }}-{{ .Chart.Version }}"
         release: "{{ .Release.Name }}"
         heritage: "{{ .Release.Service }}"
+{{- with .Values.podAnnotations }}
+      annotations:
+{{ toYaml . | indent 8 }}
+{{- end }}
     spec:
       affinity:
         podAntiAffinity:
diff --git a/stable/memcached/values.yaml b/stable/memcached/values.yaml
index ea660c1113..a2c332679d 100644
--- a/stable/memcached/values.yaml
+++ b/stable/memcached/values.yaml
@@ -67,3 +67,6 @@ metrics:
 extraContainers: |
 
 extraVolumes: |
+
+# To be added to the server pod(s)
+podAnnotations: {}