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Revision: 1.259
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1 root 1.1 Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent.
2    
3 root 1.259 ZERO_RETURN - stoptls?
4 root 1.256 - load AnyEvent::Handle only on demand in AnyEvent::DNS,
5     so AnyEvent::Socket users have smaller memory footprint
6     in the common case.
7 root 1.258 - add AnyEvent::Handle->push_shutdown method.
8     - add an additional error message parameter to AnyEvent::Handle's
9     on_error callback (for TLS, $! is still available).
10 root 1.257 - make AnyEvent::Handle more robust against early conenction
11     failures (during new), and return C<undef> in that case
12     from the constructor.
13 root 1.259 - AnyEvent::Handle will now try to load only JSON::XS first,
14     then fall back to JSON.
15 root 1.256
16 root 1.258 4.451 Fri Jul 3 00:28:58 CEST 2009
17     - do not clear rbuf when shutting down an AnyEvent::Handle
18     object - doing so breaks AnyEvent::HTTP.
19    
20 root 1.255 4.45 Mon Jun 29 22:59:26 CEST 2009
21     - a write error could cause AnyEvent::Handle to create
22     an I/O watcher with an undefined $fh.
23 root 1.251 - special-case mapped ipv4 addresses in both
24     AnyEvent::Socket::format_address and parse_address,
25     to treat them just like ipv4 addresses.
26 root 1.254 - updated and overhauled the AnyEvent::Intro doc.
27 root 1.252 - implement AnyEvent::Socket::format_ipv4/ipv6.
28     - slightly speed up portable_pipe/socketpair.
29 root 1.255 - expand condvar begin/end documentation.
30 root 1.250
31 root 1.249 4.42 Fri Jun 26 08:32:18 CEST 2009
32 root 1.248 - preliminary and neccesarily incomplete support for IO::Async.
33 root 1.247 - reset SIGCHLD to DEFAULT when AnyEvent is loaded, in
34     case it was set to IGNORE, to ensure we can catch child statuses
35     even when the calling env acts stupidly.
36 root 1.248 - updated benchmarks with IO::Async, which performs very well.
37 root 1.247
38 root 1.245 4.412 Wed Jun 24 01:35:57 CEST 2009
39 root 1.242 - support an "untaint" attribute for AnyEvent::DNS
40     and set it on the default resolver.
41 root 1.241 - implement and document AnyEvent::Impl::Perl::loop.
42 root 1.242 - remove all anyevent-env variables from %ENV
43     when running in tainted mode.
44 root 1.244 - mention and extend the IO::Lambda benchmark.
45 root 1.241
46 root 1.240 4.411 Sun Jun 7 18:48:02 CEST 2009
47 root 1.239 - do not try to use F_SETFD on windows.
48    
49 root 1.238 4.41 Thu May 14 06:40:11 CEST 2009
50 root 1.236 - work around issues in older perls (5.8.0?) when
51     a signal handler is deleted from the %SIG hash.
52 root 1.237 - use POSIX::_exit in child test, to avoid running
53     destructors.
54     - speed up CHLD handling by relying on SIGCHLD being
55     synchronously delivered, even when we roll our own
56     implementation.
57 root 1.238 - AnyEvent::DNS: add the "dname" resource record name
58     for cosmetic reasons.
59 root 1.235
60 root 1.234 4.4 Sun Apr 26 20:12:33 CEST 2009
61     - implemented idle watchers, where applicable.
62 root 1.232 - AnyEvent->time died when Event backend was in use.
63     - fix a memleak in the Tk backend.
64     - sped up Tk timer handling.
65 root 1.233 - clip negative "after" values to 0 in AnyEvent::Impl::Event
66     to avoid spamming out warning messages.
67 root 1.232 - fix Qt timers without interval.
68 root 1.242 - avoid Qt zero-timeout special case, in old libqt's.
69 root 1.232
70 root 1.231 4.352 Mon Apr 20 16:31:11 CEST 2009
71 root 1.229 - fix AnyEvent::Strict error messages for child watchers.
72 root 1.230 - fix/update Makefile.PL "recommends" versions.
73     - add AnyEvent->now_update.
74 root 1.229
75 root 1.228 4.351 Sat Apr 11 07:56:14 CEST 2009
76 root 1.225 - actually make the signal pipe work under win32.
77 root 1.227 - localise $! in signal handler to avoid changing $!, although
78     perl itself does not seem to save/restore errno either.
79 root 1.226 - set the cloexec flag on the signal pipe (normally set by perl too).
80 root 1.225
81 root 1.224 4.35 Fri Mar 27 11:48:20 CET 2009
82 root 1.220 - event models relying on AnyEvent's signal watcher emulation did
83     invoke the callback asynchronously, contradicting documentation
84     and causing signals to get lost (this includes AnyEvent's own
85     event loop). AnyEvent now uses the standard pipe trick to make
86     callback execution synchronous to the event loop.
87 root 1.224 - AnyEvent::Handle didn't free TLS context data on DESTROY
88 root 1.223 (patch by Pavel Shaydo).
89 root 1.220 - work around the ever-incompatibly-changing API of MakeMaker.
90 root 1.221 - document that changing global variables without restoring them
91     is a bad idea in Perl (noted by Adam Rosenstein).
92 root 1.224 - AnyEvent::Strict now barfs if ->io is passed a file.
93 root 1.220
94 root 1.219 4.34 Thu Feb 12 18:32:45 CET 2009
95 root 1.218 - separately buffer TLS read data, as otherwise the read queue could
96     deadlock as receiving data is not expected while draining the
97     read queue (which cna only happen with TLS).
98 root 1.214 - raise EBADMSG error on JSON decoding errors.
99 root 1.215 - fix some minor manpage bugs (reported by Maximilian Gaß).
100     - speed up select bitmask parsing quite a bit in the pure perl
101     backend.
102 root 1.216 - use CORE::select instead of just select in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
103 root 1.214
104 root 1.213 4.331 Tue Jan 6 21:07:25 CET 2009
105 root 1.212 - socketpair fails on many vista machines because vista has
106     completely broken accept/getpeername and getsockname functions,
107     so we provide our own socketpair emulation that kind of works
108     (AnyEvent::Util::portable_pipe).
109     - new function: AnyEvent::Util::portable_socketpair.
110 root 1.211 - take advantage of the Guard module if it exists.
111    
112 root 1.210 4.33 Fri Nov 21 02:35:40 CET 2008
113     - AnyEvent::Strict did errornously flag a fileno of 0 as
114     illegal.
115 root 1.206 - reduce memory usage and slightly speed up the pure perl backend
116     by only storing the file descriptor, not the file handle.
117 root 1.207 - add missing autocork method to AnyEvent::Handle (reported
118     by Adam Rosenstein).
119 root 1.209 - AnyEvent::DNS->resolve errornously documented an $rcode result
120 root 1.208 argument, but there isn't (spotted by Henrik Krohns).
121 root 1.209 - the naked truth about Tk - it's basically unmaintained.
122 root 1.206
123 root 1.205 4.32 Mon Nov 3 22:46:32 CET 2008
124 root 1.204 - fix AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr to properly support
125     unix sockets again and choose a proper default for
126     the socket type.
127     - fix call to resolve_sockaddr in tcp_connect.
128    
129 root 1.203 4.31 Thu Oct 30 04:41:48 CET 2008
130 root 1.200 - implemented AnyEvent::Handle->destroy method.
131 root 1.203 - hint about unexpected effects in TLS mode.
132 root 1.200 - speed up AnyEvent::Impl::Perl by using more arrays
133     instead of hashes without the slightest loss of readability :)
134 root 1.201 - work around a perl argument refcounting bug.
135 root 1.202 - with some perl patches applied, AnyEvent now seems leak-free.
136 root 1.198
137 root 1.197 4.3 Fri Oct 3 09:18:43 CEST 2008
138 root 1.196 - AnyEvent will now install a no-op signal handler for SIGPIPE,
139     unless one has been installed already.
140 root 1.197 - warn about not loaidng AnyEvent::Impl::POE early enough
141     (patch by Adam Rosenstein).
142 root 1.193 - fixed a great number of bugs and corner cases in AnyEvent::Handle:
143     - fix a bug in where in SSL connect mode, the
144 root 1.191 client would first wait for some data by the server and
145 root 1.197 otherwise hang. (reported and analyzed in an absolutely
146 root 1.191 exemplary manner by Adam Rosenstein).
147 root 1.193 - fix a bug in where SSL EOF would not be treated
148 root 1.191 as stream EOF, putting the connection into a hung state.
149 root 1.197 (reported and analyzed in an absolutely exemplary manner by Adam
150 root 1.191 Rosenstein).
151 root 1.193 - fix a potential segfault when the TLS context
152 root 1.191 would go missing in a read callback (e.g. due to stoptls) -
153     Net::SSLeay of course makes no type checking whatsoever.
154 root 1.192 - AnyEvent::Handle will not stop the read watcher in TLS mode.
155     - AnyEvent::Handle->stoptls will send a TLS close notify
156     instead of simply destroying the stream now.
157 root 1.195 - fix a bug where large blocks of data written in TLS mode
158     would not be sent unless triggered by receives.
159 root 1.193 - on_drain will now take the tls write buffer into account.
160     - SSL operations have been streamlined a bit and should be faster
161     now, more to come, though.
162 root 1.194 - added a FAQ section, will document nontrivial issues in there.
163 root 1.191
164 root 1.190 4.234 Mon Sep 29 04:08:13 CEST 2008
165 root 1.189 - fix child watcher documentation: only child exits will be reported,
166     no trace events.
167 root 1.190 - mention SIGPIPE in AnyEvent::Handle.
168     - perl backend will now use POSIX::times as monotonic clock
169 root 1.188 when available and the monotonic clock option is not.
170 root 1.187 - run even without Time::HiRes in some cases now, but do not
171 root 1.190 provide sub-second accuracy (all *supported* perl versions have
172 root 1.187 Time::HiRes).
173    
174 root 1.186 4.233 Fri Aug 22 01:48:05 CEST 2008
175     - fix a bug in the testsuite, causing a hang.
176     - clarified lots of AnyEvent::Handle constructor arguments.
177    
178 root 1.185 4.232 Thu Aug 21 20:44:25 CEST 2008
179     - fix a bug in AnyEvent::Handle that could cause two fatal error
180     callbacks on EOF, which caused AnyEvent::HTTP to signal success twice
181     (testcase by Leon Brocard).
182     - clarified on_eof/on_error documentation a bit.
183    
184 root 1.184 4.231 Tue Jul 29 13:12:15 CEST 2008
185     - remove some debugging code left in AnyEvent::Util::fork_call
186     (and no, it's impossible to implement with the broken windows
187     perls without resource leaks or worse).
188    
189 root 1.183 4.23 Tue Jul 29 12:19:59 CEST 2008
190 root 1.177 - document the first parameter passed to condvar callbacks to be
191     the callback.
192 root 1.178 - add AnyEvent::Socket::{ntoa,aton} aliases.
193 root 1.180 - optimize the AE::Handle->push_read (line) for the default
194 root 1.179 eol marker.
195 root 1.180 - optimize push_read (packstring|storable) for small packets.
196 root 1.182 - invoke on_error callback when no on_eof callback is set.
197 root 1.180 - fix a bug in push_read (storable) of unknown impact.
198 root 1.177
199 root 1.176 4.22 Sun Jul 20 16:34:13 CEST 2008
200 root 1.174 - new function AnyEvent::Socket::parse_hostport.
201 root 1.175 - as the bulkheads at microsoft can't even get getprotobyname reliably
202     working on their shitty fucking broken os we need to hardcode
203     some common protocol numbers in AnyEvent::Socket. How can
204     people even bother with such a pile of shit as windows.
205 root 1.174
206 root 1.173 4.21 Thu Jul 17 14:40:05 CEST 2008
207 root 1.171 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: AnyEvent::Util::fork_call now has a prototype
208     which is incompatible to previous invocation syntax.
209 root 1.172 - work around more windows perl bugs in fork_call. I cannot imagine
210     why anybody would bother implementing fork in such an obviously
211     unusable way.
212     - avoid calling $do_retry if the request has already finished in
213     AnyEvent::DNS, thus avoiding an exception (reported by Anatoly
214     K. Sharifulin).
215 root 1.170
216 root 1.169 4.2 Sat Jul 12 22:42:11 CEST 2008
217 root 1.165 - support an "interval" argument for repeating timers.
218 root 1.164 - fix a bug in the pure perl event loop that caused timers to
219     be delayed under some circumstances.
220 root 1.167 - implement optional argument checking via PERL_ANYEVENT_STRICT.
221 root 1.169 - not importing anything from Event causes it to malfunction
222     and not use Time::HiRes, work around this bug.
223     - more bug workarounds against the endlessly broken Tk module,
224 root 1.168 seems to work now on 32 bit machines, but less so on 64 bit.
225 root 1.164 - minor optimisations applied to most backends.
226    
227 root 1.163 4.161 Fri Jul 4 14:24:48 CEST 2008
228 elmex 1.162 - fixed the t/handle/02_write.t, it read after write, with the
229 root 1.163 assumption that all data could be written before read
230     (reported by Jim Razmus).
231 elmex 1.162
232 root 1.161 4.160 Thu Jul 3 04:02:21 CEST 2008
233 root 1.160 - re-registering signal watchers after unregistering one did
234     not work if a backend falls back on AnyEvent's default
235     implementation (also affected child watchers).
236 root 1.159 - new AnyEvent::Handle options: autocork and no_delay.
237    
238 root 1.158 4.152 Sun Jun 22 14:15:44 CEST 2008
239 root 1.159 - allow for 32-bit perls that implement shifts differently
240     on different architectures in parse_ipv4 (reported and
241 root 1.158 analysed by Keiichi DAIBA).
242    
243 root 1.157 4.151 Fri Jun 6 17:34:24 CEST 2008
244     - make sure specifying _only_ on_read and never pushing reads
245     works.
246    
247 root 1.155 4.15 Fri Jun 6 13:00:46 CEST 2008
248 root 1.154 - the pure perl backend would keep some watchers alive when more than
249     one watcher was registered for the same fd.
250 root 1.155 - new "packstring" and "storable" read and write types
251     for AnyEvent::Handle.
252 root 1.156 - allow on_eof handler to be called after on_error with EPIPE returns.
253 root 1.153 - do not immediately call on_read callback in handle constructor.
254    
255 root 1.152 4.14 Thu Jun 5 20:29:31 CEST 2008
256 elmex 1.149 - Fixed a bug in DNS SRV priority sorting.
257 root 1.150 - AnyEvent::Util::guard now reports runtime errors while
258     executing the guard block as warnings.
259 root 1.152 - handle 0-byte-reads just before EOF correctly in AnyEvent::Handle.
260 elmex 1.149
261 root 1.148 4.13 Thu Jun 5 00:47:59 CEST 2008
262 root 1.146 - AnyEvent::DNS only followed cname chains with length 2,
263     contrary to documentation. bumped it up to 10, thanks to
264     microsoft, the current broken-dns-config-king.
265 root 1.147 - AnyEvent::DNS didn't check for socket return status
266     but instead relied on perl not creating filehandles in that
267     case - too bad it gives you a bogus file handle (reported
268     and analysed by Vladimir Timofeev).
269 root 1.145 - fix queue management logic in AnyEvent::Handle:
270     when on_read was registered, the queue was empty
271     and no progress could be made AnyEvent::Handle would
272     enter an endless loop.
273     - correctly start reading again when the handle became
274     busy again after idling.
275 root 1.146 - correctly treat tls shut-downs as EOF condition
276     (for the time being, would be nice to have a callback for that).
277 root 1.145 - correctly call eof callback under all conditions
278     (hopefully).
279 root 1.146 - the timeout callback did not expect that $self can go
280     away any time.
281 root 1.145
282 root 1.144 4.12 Tue Jun 3 10:58:04 CEST 2008
283     - include AnyEvent::Intro, a tutorial for anyevent,
284     anyevent::socket and anyevent::handle.
285 root 1.143 - allow more options in on_error.
286 root 1.142
287 root 1.141 4.11 Fri May 30 23:42:25 CEST 2008
288 root 1.135 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace ptr by real PTR lookup, provide
289     reverse_lookup and reverse_verify to replace it, support
290     v4mapped and v4compat addresses.
291 root 1.129 - provide more documentation for the resolver class.
292 root 1.130 - really replace longest run of :0: by :: in format_address,
293     also properly convert :: and ::1 again.
294 root 1.134 - support NAPTR record name and decode it.
295 root 1.133 - implement random weight sampling for SRV records, as per
296     rfc 2782.
297 root 1.137 - correctly abort on srv-record targets of ".".
298     - added AnyEvent::DNS::wait_for_slot.
299 root 1.138 - in the unlikely event of a virtual circuit connection
300     being invalidated by a delayed udp reply, AnyEvent::DNS
301     could die. this has been fixed.
302     - plug a probable memleak in the DNS vc code.
303     - use configured timeout also for VC request phase.
304 root 1.139 - implement timeout and max_outstanding methods
305     for resolver class.
306 root 1.140 - update version numbers in all modules.
307 root 1.129
308 root 1.128 4.1 Thu May 29 05:45:40 CEST 2008
309 root 1.123 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: renamed xxx_ip functions to xxx_address
310     which mirrors their purpose better (old names still available
311     for a while). Also moved AnyEvent::DNS::addr to
312     AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr.
313 root 1.127 - implement AnyEvent->time and AnyEvent->now.
314 root 1.124 - fix IPv6 support in pack_sockaddr.
315 root 1.123 - officially un-experimentalise all newly introduced code.
316     - support unix domain sockets everywhere by specifying
317     a host of "unix/" and the pathname as service.
318 root 1.126 - implement an activity timeout in AnyEvent::Handle.
319 root 1.122 - added a regex read type to AnyEvent::Handle.
320     - added a json read/write type to AnyEvent::Handle.
321 root 1.118 - always croak in on_error in AnyEvent::Handle.
322     - document how to subclass AnyEvent::Handle.
323 root 1.120 - implement AnyEvent::Util::fork_call.
324 root 1.127 - add support for IPv6 nameservers and nameserver statements.
325 root 1.121 - work around _yet_ _another_ windows perl bug in where empty
326     select masks cause errors in the pure perl backend (this
327     workaround cannot be implemented for the other event loops,
328     but EV also works around this).
329 root 1.123 - supply AnyEvent::Socket::address_type and make good use of it.
330 root 1.122 - clarify and fix the Handle documentation w.r.t $self vs. $handle
331     vs. callback arguments.
332 root 1.127 - add some recommends to the META.yml.
333 root 1.117
334 root 1.116 4.05 Mon May 26 19:44:06 CEST 2008
335     - some platforms ignore the rfc and prepend an extra sa_len member to
336     the sockaddr structure, cater for those. also use sockaddr_family,
337     didn't know it was there, but comes in handy for the workaround.
338 root 1.114 - undo the import WIN32 hack.
339    
340 root 1.113 4.04 Mon May 26 08:03:31 CEST 2008
341 root 1.109 - try to work around yet another windows bug: failed connects are reported
342 root 1.110 as if it were out-of-band data. windows users: you suck. Only
343     EV, Glib, Event and the pure perl backend can handle this condition.
344 root 1.111 - optimize write algorithm in AnyEvent::Handle.
345 root 1.106 - properly parse PERL_ANYEVENT_PROTOCOLS and use the info correctly.
346 root 1.112 - tcp_connect now properly iterates through all targets.
347 root 1.104 - check wether IPv6 sockets can actually be created, otherwise, disable ipv6
348 root 1.114 support entirely. also hardcode some AF_INET6 constants for the
349 root 1.107 sake of perl 5.8.
350 root 1.106 - vastly improved nameserver/suffix detection algorithm for windows
351     (still a hack...)
352     - try to use a fallback dns server if no dns servers could be found.
353 root 1.108 - splatter around some local $SIG{__DIE__}'s to work around bad
354     die handlers.
355 root 1.104
356 root 1.102 4.03 Sun May 25 05:05:57 CEST 2008
357 root 1.100 - work around perl bugs on windows, where perl returns undocumented
358     error codes for sysread, syswrite etc.
359 root 1.96 - fix AnyEvent::Handle::unshift_read to really unshift and not push.
360 root 1.97 - AnyEvent::Handle could sometimes stumble over 0-byte writes.
361 root 1.101 - fix unpack_sockaddr, now works for AF_INET6 sockaddr's.
362 root 1.100 - updated documentation.
363 root 1.103 - lots of workarounds for perl 5.8 quirks.
364 root 1.98 - implement a more flexible type system for both reads and writes
365     in AnyEvent::Handle.
366 root 1.101 - support IPv6 in tcp_server.
367     - pass local hostname and port to the prepare callback in tcp_server.
368 root 1.99 - make types extendable in AnyEvent::Handle.
369 root 1.100 - croak, not die, in AnyEvent::Handle;
370 root 1.96
371 root 1.95 4.0 Sat May 24 19:58:08 CEST 2008
372 root 1.88 - added (experimental) AnyEvent::DNS module.
373     - added (experimental) AnyEvent::Socket module.
374 root 1.93 - added (experiemntal) support for TLS/SSL in AnyEvent::Handle.
375 root 1.90 - make condvar->end call ->send as documented.
376     - make condvar constructor support the documented cb => argument.
377 root 1.94 - overload condvars so you can use them instead of code references.
378 root 1.93 - support more of the POSIX forms instead of a pure dotted quad for
379 root 1.89 verbatim ip addresses.
380 root 1.88 - AnyEvent::Socket::inet_aton will use AnyEvent::DNS now and not fork anymore.
381 root 1.87 - try very hard not to freeze on broken windows perls.
382 root 1.86 - make on_eof optional in AnyEvent::Handle.
383 root 1.83 - support service names in tcp_connect and tcp_server.
384 root 1.84 - work around netbsd/openbsd bug causing unix sockets not to
385 root 1.121 become writable until empty.
386 root 1.81 - only make a dummy read for error detection when getpeername
387     returns ENOTCONN.
388 root 1.181 - defend AnyEvent::Util::inet_aton against Coro::LWP's brutal
389 root 1.82 override.
390 root 1.91 - new AnyEvent::Guard::cancel.
391 root 1.81
392 root 1.80 3.5 Sat May 17 23:17:14 CEST 2008
393 root 1.79 - gracefully deal with systems not defining CLOCK_MONOTONIC
394     (as opposed to not supporting the clock itself, which worked in 3.41).
395 root 1.77 - added AnyEvent::Util::tcp_connect and AnyEvent::Util::tcp_server
396     helpers, to replace the ill-designed AnyEvent::Socket class.
397     - added some examples (eg/connect, eg/handle).
398     - added AnyEvent::Util::guard.
399     - AnyEvent::Util now exports most of its functions.
400 elmex 1.74 - fixed a bug in *_read_chunk, where the callback was called with $self as
401     first and second argument.
402 root 1.77 - simplified and fixed regex handling in AnyEvent::Handle::*_read_line.
403 root 1.72 - fix manpage condvars examples to use new syntax.
404 root 1.78 - considerably improve inet_aton with EV::ADNS backend to support
405     cname chains (common dns configuration bug, e.g. with www.google.de)
406     and aaaa records if no a record could be found.
407 root 1.72
408 root 1.71 3.41 Sun May 11 19:53:13 CEST 2008
409     - work around a bug in perl 5.8.8's local. Reported by Yi Ma Mao.
410    
411 root 1.70 3.4 Sun May 11 00:29:25 CEST 2008
412 root 1.181 - complete re-implementation of condvars with a hopefully much more useful
413 root 1.70 API (backward compatible functions exist but are undocumented).
414 root 1.69 - AnyEvent::Handle fully rewritten with a hopefully more powerful API
415     (still subject to change).
416 root 1.63 - take advantage of CLOCK_MONOTONIC, if available, in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
417 root 1.68 - provide AnyEvent::post_detect and @AnyEvent::post_detect, which
418 root 1.67 allows module authors to avoid forcing event loop detection.
419     (used by Coro::AIO, Coro::BDB, Coro::AnyEvent for example).
420 root 1.66 - remove coro backends: Coro now provides generic support for AnyEvent
421     via Coro::AnyEvent.
422 root 1.63
423 root 1.62 3.3 Mon Apr 28 09:51:06 CEST 2008
424     - added AnyEvent::Handle, AnyEvent::Socket and AnyEvent::Util modules.
425 root 1.55 - fix a bug in the pure perl backend that kept watchers alive
426     when multiple watchers were registered for the same fh/poll combo.
427 root 1.54 - add a benchmark section showing AnyEvent overhead and comparing
428     the different event loops with each other.
429 root 1.56 - prefer pure perl over tk when autoprobing, as it's about as fast,
430     but doesn't crash with many watchers.
431 root 1.62 - declare Qt support non-experimental.
432 root 1.56 - clarify the confusing section about the file descriptor being
433     kept alive.
434     - document the race between loading of an event module and
435     child processes exiting.
436 root 1.53 - support POE as "backend" (with some caveats, POE is not generic
437 root 1.54 enough, and darn slow).
438 root 1.53 - support Wx and Prima through POE.
439 root 1.60 - optimise perl backend to use 20% less memory and take advantage
440 root 1.62 of typical timeout behaviour. It can now compete with
441 root 1.60 select/poll-based C event loops in most cases (it is usually
442     faster than Event and Glib :).
443 root 1.59 - roughly cut EV memory use in half and increase its speed by 30%,
444 root 1.62 by removing undocumented functionality. Did something similar
445     to other event loops where possible.
446 root 1.53
447 root 1.50 3.2 Thu Apr 24 10:10:40 CEST 2008
448 root 1.51 - do not die when anyevent watchers are destroyed while running callbacks
449     in the pureperl backend (could only happen when two watchers are registered
450     for the same fh/poll combo).
451     - support autoloading for child watchers, was broken in all versions.
452 root 1.47 - implement PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL env variable.
453 root 1.49 - (experimental) implement interface to the (very crashy/buggy) Event::Lib module.
454     - (experimental) implement interface to the Qt module (cannot be autoprobed).
455 root 1.52 - this release is IO:AnyEvent-proof.
456 root 1.47
457 root 1.46 3.12 Tue Apr 22 07:11:46 CEST 2008
458     - reinstate AUTHOR section that got lost somehow.
459     - do not hang in the testsuite with badly broken perls (activestate,
460     strawberry...), but instead diagnose the problem and continue.
461     - use INT instead of CHLD in an attempt to support broken windows perls
462     better (this decreases the test quality, unfortunately).
463     - do not send the signal to the process group
464     (no problem for CHLD, bad for INT :).
465    
466 root 1.45 3.11 Sat Apr 19 06:57:31 CEST 2008
467     - major documentation rework.
468     - document the fact that child watchers only watch for zombies.
469     - fix the child watcher example.
470    
471 root 1.43 3.1 Wed Apr 16 17:09:01 CEST 2008
472 root 1.40 - work around recurring bugs in Tk by dup'ing filehandles, the
473 root 1.43 only method with good success chances on Tk (the bugs apparently
474     don't get fixed anytime soon).
475 root 1.42 - lift the restriction of only one watcher per fh direction
476     (as the Tk bug workaround also lifts it and only Tk imposed
477     such strong limits).
478 root 1.41 - changed probe order to prefer coro adaptors.
479     - explain why recursion into the event loop is not supported
480     unless the backend supports it (only Coro::EV does without
481     any restrictions...).
482     - add simple manpages for all backend modules.
483 root 1.40
484 root 1.39 3.0 Mon Apr 7 21:30:23 CEST 2008
485 root 1.38 - Coro::Signal changed semantics, roll our own, also cleaning
486     up the Coro implementation in general.
487     - rename Coro backend to CoroEvent.
488     - add some decision helping paragraph to the manpage that should
489 root 1.44 help people to decide whether AnyEvent is the right thing for them.
490 root 1.38
491 root 1.37 2.9 Mon Jan 28 13:31:54 CET 2008
492     - update for EV 3.0 API changes.
493    
494 root 1.36 2.8 Sun Nov 25 15:06:03 CET 2007
495     - waitpid can validly return 0. accept this fact of life
496     instead of reporting it to any watchers.
497    
498 root 1.35 2.7 Fri Nov 23 11:41:14 CET 2007
499 root 1.34 - force use of AnyEvent::Impl::Perl in testsuite, there is
500     too much breakage outside AnyEvent.
501 root 1.35 - deliver signals synchronously in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl
502     or any other event loop that relies on AnyEvents child
503     watcher emulation. *Could* help with hanging testsuite
504     (except when Event or EV are installed).
505 root 1.34
506 root 1.33 2.6 Fri Nov 9 20:36:35 CET 2007
507 root 1.32 - fix bug in testsuite.
508     - move EV adaptor modules to AnyEvent.
509     - add Coro+EV adaptor module.
510 root 1.26
511 root 1.31 2.55 Tue Nov 6 17:41:32 CET 2007
512 root 1.27 - add EV to the list of supported event models.
513 root 1.30 - do not auto-reset pid watchers, pass pid and status to them.
514 root 1.29 - allow a pid of zero to watch for all children in child watchers.
515 root 1.27
516 root 1.25 2.54 Wed Jul 18 17:36:23 CEST 2007
517     - work around a perl bug that results in
518     BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted without
519     any discernible reason or error message by once
520     again not use'ing strict.
521    
522 root 1.24 2.53 Sun Jul 8 10:51:53 CEST 2007
523     - make Glib interface work again (spotted by elmex).
524    
525 root 1.22 2.52 Wed Mar 7 18:36:16 CET 2007
526     - child watchers stopped working permanently when
527 root 1.23 all current child watchers were destroyed.
528 root 1.22
529 root 1.21 2.51 Mon Dec 11 21:33:24 CET 2006
530     - work around bugs in perl where eval "require Module" returns
531     true even if the module couldn't be loaded :/.
532    
533 root 1.20 2.5 Mon Dec 11 02:15:28 CET 2006
534 root 1.19 - avoid $AUTOLOAD because many perls corrupt it.
535 root 1.20 - AnyEvent::detect forces autodetection.
536     - implement signal watchers (experimental)
537     (Tk does not support async signals (<= 804.027 at least),
538     so they might get delayed indefinitely on Tk).
539     - implement child watchers (experimental).
540     - moved default condvar implementation into base module, simplifying
541     most implementation modules.
542 root 1.14
543 root 1.18 2.1 Fri Nov 24 15:50:48 CET 2006
544 root 1.16 - better docs.
545     - simple testsuite.
546 root 1.17 - added AnyEvent->one_event method for special purposes.
547 root 1.16
548 root 1.15 2.0 Wed Nov 1 02:21:30 CET 2006
549 root 1.13 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: poll can now either be "r" or "w" but not both.
550     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: io watcher callbacks have no arguments anymore.
551     - EXPERIMENTAL:
552     new pure-perl model added, AnyEvent now always finds a suitable
553     event model.
554 root 1.12 - improved documentation.
555     - reduced cpu overhead.
556    
557 root 1.11 1.02 Fri Jan 13 14:15:40 CET 2006
558     - add COPYING to clarify license.
559    
560 root 1.10 1.01 Sun Jan 8 05:48:09 CET 2006
561     - correctly cancel Event timers, avoid memory leaks.
562    
563 root 1.9 1.0 Sun Jan 8 05:40:58 CET 2006
564 root 1.8 - allow third-party interfaces to be added at runtime.
565     - fix version number.
566    
567 root 1.7 0.9 Fri Dec 30 02:25:41 CET 2005
568 root 1.6 - fixed errors in the documentation.
569 root 1.7 - going back to using $VERSION as "load check",
570     as suggested by Jörn Reder. Let's see why I stopped using
571     this method.
572     - add 'hup' to the list of events to receive for glib
573     and generate 'rw' events for it, as some versions of
574     glib seem to require this, while this breaks other
575     (older) versions of glib.
576     - implemented PERL_ANYEVENT_VERBOSE env variable.
577 root 1.6
578 root 1.5 0.3 Sun Dec 4 10:43:33 CET 2005
579     - no changes to the code.
580     - fixed documentation.
581     - clarified some corner cases.
582     - vastly improved documentation with a long example.
583    
584 root 1.3 0.2 Thu Dec 1 22:18:49 CET 2005
585 root 1.44 - check whether a valid method was called, to avoid endless loops.
586 root 1.4 - move condvars into their own class (cleaner, safer).
587     - don't die when some modules are not available.
588     - Tk is too broken to allow for words. Will work once Tk works.
589 root 1.3
590 root 1.2 0.1 Thu Dec 1 19:44:57 CET 2005
591     - spiced up and cleaned up for release.
592    
593 root 1.1 0.01 Tue Sep 21 18:12:09 CEST 2004
594     - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
595