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1 root 1.1 Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent.
2    
3 root 1.410 TODO: document TCP_*** constants
4 root 1.423 TODO: catch AE::xxx for anyevent strict and anyevent debug
5 root 1.413 TODO: anyevent::trace? or debug tracing all watchers?
6 root 1.417 TODO: anyevent strict checking for $_ changes?
7 root 1.413
8 root 1.456 TODO: redesign Impl
9 root 1.458 TODO: make ae::run mroe robust against eintr, find out which env still causes these issues Andrew Suffield
10 root 1.448 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: AnyEvent::DNS resource records now include
11     the TTL as fourth element - this affects ->resolve directly,
12     and ->request and ->dns_unpack indirectly. Convenience functions
13     such as AnyEvent::DNS::{a,txt,mx,srv} are not affected.
14 root 1.454 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: backend authors now should not implement
15 root 1.455 one_event or loop, but instead the AnyEvent::CondVar::_wait and _poll
16     methods.
17     - DEPRECIATION: please change
18     "use AnyEvent::Impl::Perl" to "use AnyEvent::Loop" and
19     "AnyEvent::Impl::Perl::loop" to "AnyEvent::Loop::run"
20     in your programs, for future compatibility.
21 root 1.458 - querying too long domain names would barf deep inside AnyEvent::DNS - since
22     this is hard to avoid for applications, AnyEvent:.DNS::request now checks for
23     for too long domain names explicitly and passes an undef to the callback
24     instead (reported by James Bromberger).
25 root 1.456 - new function: AnyEvent::postpone.
26 root 1.455 - split the pure perl backend into a loop module and an impl
27     module (AnyEvent::Loop and AnyEvent::Impl::Perl).
28 root 1.450 - some read types (regex, netstring, json, storable) could
29     errornously keep an AE::Handle object alive on their own
30     (reported by Mohammad Toossi).
31 root 1.453 - add more workarounds around child watcher bugs in IO::Async
32     and (newly introduced) in POE.
33     - use glib child watchers and try to work around its limitations,
34     if possible (based on a patch by Kevin Ryde).
35 root 1.446 - add support for (currently third-party) AnyEvent::Impl::FLTK.
36 root 1.447 - many read types in AnyEvent::Handle would malfunction during
37     transitions to TLS because of a "delete $self->{rbuf}".
38     (reported by Gerald Galster).
39 root 1.451 - resolve AnyEvent::Util::guard at first-use-time, not at load time,
40     for further speed and memory savings when not used.
41 root 1.452 - improve condvar blocking wait performance (probably only noticable
42     with faster backends), also make it easier for event loops that
43 root 1.453 do not support blocking waits.
44 root 1.446
45     5.34 Thu May 12 09:59:41 CEST 2011
46 root 1.445 - AE::TLS didn't support both cert_file and key at the same time,
47     due to some copy&paste bug (reported and analyzed by vti).
48 root 1.444 - improve AE::Handle timeout documentation slightly.
49    
50     5.33 Mon Feb 7 21:51:41 CET 2011
51 root 1.446 - never appeared on CPAN, for unknown reasons.
52 root 1.443 - AnyEvent::Handle on_connect_error - do not try to destroy a handle
53     object when it's already gone (analyzed by Ryan Bullock).
54 root 1.441 - update idna algorithm(s) to UTS#46 version 6.0.0.
55     - preserve trailing dot in idn_to_ascii - testsuite says to preserve,
56     uts46 says it's an error, and testsuite makes more sense.
57 root 1.442 - remove leading dots in idn_to_ascii - testsuite says to remove,
58     uts46 says it's an error, and testsuite makes more sense.
59 root 1.441 - fixed a bug in idn ignored character processing.
60 root 1.442 - passes the uts46 6.0.0 testsuite except for three cases which
61     apparently are bugs in the testsuite itself.
62     - passes the uts46 6.0.1 testsuite except for eleven cases which
63     apparently are bugs in the testsuite itself.
64 root 1.441
65 root 1.439 5.31 Sun Jan 23 11:49:19 CET 2011
66 root 1.437 - work around a POE bug where POE would first poll for new events and
67     invoke handlers BEFORE handling the message queue.
68 root 1.436 - fix parsing of "domain" statement in resolv.conf (Johannes Plunien).
69 root 1.435 - stop_read now does just that in TLS mode. see its
70     documentation for caveats.
71 root 1.440 - update to common::sense 3.4 warning set (some warnings in perl impose
72     an arbitrary 32kb limit on regex matches, which affects
73     AnyEvent::Handle).
74 root 1.438 - AE::Handle had a broken rbuf_max method and missing wbuf_max method.
75 root 1.439 - new experimental AE::Handle::resettls method.
76 root 1.434
77 root 1.432 5.3 Fri Dec 31 05:48:13 CET 2010
78 root 1.427 - major IOAsync patch by Paul Evans - 0.33 is required, as the major
79     issues with IO::Async have been solved in that version, including
80     the availabilty of a default loop!
81 root 1.429 - implement new wbuf_max parameter for AnyEvent::Handle.
82 root 1.430 - added Cocoa::EventLoop backend by Daisuke Murase.
83 root 1.427 - the default testsuite now honors PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL (Paul Evans).
84 root 1.431 - clarify handle on_prepare documentation.
85 root 1.425 - set CLOEXEC flag on parent-side fd's in AnyEvent::Util::run_cmd,
86     to avoid leaking them to any child processes.
87 root 1.426 - try to force files into the arch-dependend lib directory, for the
88     half-"turly obsessive compulsive person"(s) that depend on it.
89 root 1.425
90 root 1.423 5.29 Sun Dec 5 10:49:21 CET 2010
91     - convert EV backend to EV 4.00 API (so better upgrade EV too).
92 root 1.415 - AE::Handle: implement dynamic read_size adjustment, add
93     max_read_size parameter, reduce default read_size to 2048.
94 root 1.423 - add some FAQ entries for servers and/or on_eof vs. on_error.
95 root 1.414 - work around OS bugs (cygwin again) when lingering in AE::Handle.
96 root 1.418 - reduce memory usage slightly when connect was used in AE::Handle.
97 root 1.423 - wrok around more segfaults in Tk.
98 root 1.419 - document tls_ctx => undef as valid.
99 root 1.423 - detect WNOHANG value at compiletime.
100 root 1.420 - include some probably linux-only support for building AnyEvent
101     as part of the perl core.
102 root 1.421 - improve compatibility of t/08_idna.t to perl 5.8.
103 root 1.422 - make AnyEvent::Strict truly optional (in case somebody builds a
104     minimal perl...).
105 root 1.414
106 root 1.413 5.28 Wed Oct 13 04:14:23 CEST 2010
107 root 1.408 - due to a glitch, AnyEvent's internal getprotobyname wasn't
108     actually used in tcp_server.
109 root 1.410 - implement AnyEvent::CondVar->new method, which was documented but
110     missing.
111 root 1.409 - support autoloading of read types in unshift_read.
112 root 1.408 - AnyEvent::Strict: do the test for invalid fh arguments differently,
113     resulting in more informative error messages.
114 root 1.411 - new AnyEvent::FAQ manpage.
115 root 1.404 - clarify that you can actually call push_read etc. in on_read.
116 root 1.413 - put keys and certs in /tmp, not into the current directory,
117     and document this in the SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS sections
118     of AnyEvent::TLS.
119 root 1.409 - support ";" as resolv.conf comment character in AnyEvent::DNS, as
120     requested by Ron Isaacson.
121     - document $AnyEvent::DNS::RESOLVER variable.
122 root 1.405 - incorporated major typo patches by Abhijit Menon-Sen.
123 root 1.412 - AnyEvent::Handle now croaks when negative timeouts are passed.
124 root 1.409 - add a shitload of TCP_xxx sockopt name constants to AnyEvent::Util,
125     undocumented, but who knows when they might come in handy.
126 root 1.404
127 root 1.402 5.271 Tue Jun 8 12:05:46 CEST 2010
128 root 1.401 - backport to perl 5.8.x.
129    
130 root 1.400 5.27 Sun Jun 6 12:12:05 CEST 2010
131 root 1.398 - postpone differently in AnyEvent::Socket now, as
132     when not, canceling the connection attempt might fail
133     (found by Felix Antonius Wilhelm Ostmann).
134 root 1.397 - explicitly check for non-stream sockets in AE::Handle, too many
135     clueless people fell into the trap of this somehow working.
136 root 1.395 - simplified and reworked the "OTHER MODULES" section.
137 root 1.399 - better/more condvar examples.
138 root 1.395
139 root 1.394 5.261 Wed Apr 28 16:13:36 CEST 2010
140 root 1.393 - AF_INET6 was not properly used from Socket6 during configuration
141     time (found by Andy Grundman).
142    
143 root 1.392 5.26 Mon Apr 12 04:49:35 CEST 2010
144 root 1.389 - don't generate spurious readyness notifications when select
145     returns EINTR in the pure perl backend (analysed and testcase
146     by Bas Denissen).
147 root 1.391 - give same examples in SYNOPSIS sections of AnyEvent and AE.
148 root 1.390 - provider faster implementations for AE::time/now/now_update for
149     EV and Perl backends.
150     - provide faster AE::cv and AE::time implementations for all
151     backends.
152     - no longer support lower/mixed-case signal names (this was
153     never documented nor universally supported).
154     - some more memory µ-optimisations, and somewhat less messy
155     code to cope with both AnyEvent and AE APIs.
156 root 1.389
157 root 1.386 5.251 Sat Mar 13 00:58:21 CET 2010
158 root 1.387 - make test failed if it was run before make install on perl <=
159     5.8.8, and older versions of perl make our live very difficult,
160     so write constants.pl during Makefile.PL time.
161 root 1.386
162 root 1.384 5.25 Sat Mar 13 00:23:14 CET 2010
163 root 1.383 - fix a race condition in AnyEvent::Handle that would cause
164     a "bio_read: unsupported method" error (in _another_
165     ssl connection) after user code threw an exception.
166 root 1.385 - added AnyEvent::Handle->destroyed method.
167 root 1.376 - speed up AnyEvent::Socket::format_address and ::format_ipv6.
168 root 1.378 - the AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking function worked only
169     by lucky accident on win32.
170 root 1.377 - smaller and faster AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking.
171 root 1.379 - when the (required!) Time::HiRes module is missing, AnyEvent
172     did not fall back to built-in time properly.
173 root 1.381 - do not load Fcntl at runtime, saving memory and loading time.
174     - precompile a number of constants and use them instead of runtime
175     detection and eval.
176     - free detection code after detection and similar memory optimisations.
177 root 1.382 - Perl backend timer interval best effort drift has been improved
178 root 1.388 (same algorithm as EV).
179 root 1.385 - update unicode idna mapping table.
180 root 1.376
181 root 1.375 5.24 Tue Jan 5 11:39:43 CET 2010
182     - cygwin never reports errors from failed connects. 1.5 just gives
183     you continous readyness and EAGAIN, 1.7 is even more broken and
184     just hangs. work around both issues in a cygwin-specific hack.
185 root 1.374 - improve idle watcher documentation slightly.
186    
187 root 1.373 5.23 Sun Dec 20 23:48:00 CET 2009
188 root 1.372 - support IDNs in resolve_sockaddr, and therefore in tcp_connect.
189 root 1.373 - implement punycode_encode/decode, idn_nameprep,
190     idn_to_ascii and idn_to_unicode operations in AnyEvent::Util.
191 root 1.366 - provide $AE::VERSION.
192 root 1.367 - removed traces of "no strict 'refs'".
193 root 1.366
194 root 1.365 5.22 Sat Dec 5 03:51:13 CET 2009
195 root 1.358 - downgrade-or-fail in AnyEvent::Handle::push_write, to
196     diagnose encoding failures earlier and more succinctly.
197 root 1.359 (this works around bugs in perl, throwing away encoding info
198     when passing scalar data to extensions).
199 root 1.360 - add more examples to AnyEvent::Socket manpage.
200 root 1.361 - upgrade internal warning set to the same as common::sense 2.03.
201 root 1.362 - use pack "n/a*" for pre-5.8.9 perl compatibility in AnyEvent::DNS
202     (John Beppu).
203 root 1.364 - AnyEvent::Socket::inet_aton now properly supports ipv6, as documented.
204 root 1.363 - add google public dns servers to fallback server set and make sure
205     we load-balance properly between the three sets. also add all
206     fallback dns servers, not just a random one, to each dns config.
207 root 1.358
208 root 1.357 5.21 Thu Nov 19 02:48:47 CET 2009
209 root 1.356 - fix a problem where socket constants were called with parameters
210 root 1.355 (spotted by David Friedland).
211 root 1.356 - fork_call never use'd POSIX (reported by Daisuke Maki).
212 root 1.355 - improve perl 5.6 compatibility further (but it still won't work
213     unless you rip out everything but the core).
214 root 1.357 - prefer Net::DNS::Resolver over ipconfig, if installed, on win32.
215     uses 10MB of RAM, but doesn't open a console window. *sigh*.
216 root 1.355
217 root 1.354 5.202 Wed Oct 14 22:35:44 CEST 2009
218     - AnyEvent::DNS would unexpectedly clobber $_ under windows
219     (analysed by Matthias Waldorf).
220 root 1.353 - AnyEvent::Handle::run_cmd can now pass the PID of the
221     newly-created process, which is much less useful than it might
222     sound (based on patch by Yann Kerherve).
223    
224 root 1.352 5.201 Tue Sep 29 12:09:25 CEST 2009
225 root 1.350 - AnyEvent:Handle::on_starttls/on_stoptls methods were broken
226     (reported by Torsten Foertsch).
227 root 1.351 - common::sense 2.0 could cause tcp_server to throw an exception
228     (analysed by elmex).
229 root 1.350
230 root 1.349 5.2 Mon Sep 14 07:04:49 CEST 2009
231 root 1.347 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: do no longer support register_read_type
232     and register_write_type in AnyEvent::Handle, instead support
233     package names (the facility was mostly abused).
234 root 1.349 - implement "packagename-as-read/write type" support in
235     AnyEvent::Handle.
236 root 1.345 - AnyEvent::Handle: new options "keepalive" and "oobinline".
237 root 1.346 - oobinline set by default to avoid security issues.
238 root 1.349 - the pure-perl event loop backend wrongly detected times() fallback
239     support (spotted by Pavel Boldin).
240 root 1.345
241 root 1.344 5.12 Tue Sep 1 20:26:50 CEST 2009
242 root 1.343 - be more lenient when parsing resolv.conf files, as some people
243     use hashmarks as comment indicator inside directives (reported
244     by Michael S. Fischer).
245     - use same set of warnings as common::sense 2.0.
246 root 1.342 - fix a potential 32 bit overflow issue due to perl having problems
247     with large hex constants in the Perl backend.
248     - do not use the slower 5.6 version fo the enc_name code in AnyEvent::DNS
249     by default.
250 root 1.343 - fix some prototypes.
251 root 1.344 - (optionally) require Async::Interrupt 1.02.
252 root 1.343 - replace opendns fallbacks by verizon/level3 public dns servers.
253 root 1.342
254 root 1.339 5.112 Fri Aug 21 13:59:04 CEST 2009
255 root 1.338 - AnyEvent::Handle could cause hard crashes in Net::SSLeay when
256     using starttls with an illegal/uncreatable tls context.
257 root 1.339 - port to broken win32 perls.
258 root 1.338
259 root 1.337 5.111 Sun Aug 16 18:44:36 CEST 2009
260     - perl errornously requires sockaddr_un structures returned by the
261     kernel to have a specific length. work around this bug by padding
262     sockaddr_un structures (found to fail on OS X, as perl only uses
263     the correct code for GNU/Linux, but likely to fail on other
264     OSes as well).
265    
266 root 1.336 5.11 Wed Aug 12 17:49:37 CEST 2009
267 elmex 1.335 - fixed a bug in run_cmd with input from filename.
268 root 1.336 - create a json coder object when none is given in write direction
269     to reduce dependency on JSON.
270 elmex 1.335
271 root 1.334 5.1 Tue Aug 11 03:17:32 CEST 2009
272 root 1.333 - tcp_connect now reports the correct error in $!, not an unrelated
273     one (was broken since 4.91).
274     - AE::Handle did not properly clear rtimeout/wtimeout watchers
275     when retrying a tcp_connect.
276     - new functions: AnyEvent::Util::run_cmd and close_all_fds_except.
277 elmex 1.332 - fixed wrong documentation in AE::Socket.
278    
279 root 1.330 5.01 Mon Aug 10 03:16:32 CEST 2009
280     - last release broke EV child watchers :/.
281    
282 root 1.329 5.0 Sun Aug 9 17:32:09 CEST 2009
283     - officially introduce and document the AE API.
284 root 1.323 - lowering the timeout at runtime did not have immediate effect
285     in AnyEvent::Handle.
286 root 1.324 - AE::Handle now has separate and independent read and write timeout
287     settings.
288 root 1.326 - probe for Guard module when AnyEvent::Util is loaded, not at
289     runtime (Event doesn't like eval "use" from callbacks, and it avoids
290     exporting the probe function).
291 root 1.328 - Impl::IOAsync's io watchers did not use the filehandle emulation
292     code to work around it's watcher limits.
293     - work around IO::Async's problems with overloaded objects.
294     - try to disable wearnings inside IO::Async, it's just too buggy.
295 root 1.327 - do no longer use Event by default, only EV or Perl, Event is too buggy.
296 root 1.329 - hackishly provide fast AE:: interface when EV or Perl is the backend.
297 root 1.325 - inherit VERSION from AnyEvent::VERSION in most modules.
298 root 1.322
299 root 1.321 4.91 Thu Aug 6 15:42:45 CEST 2009
300 root 1.319 - AE::Handle::starttls could get out of sync when the read buffer
301     already contains some TLS handshake.
302 root 1.318 - AE::Handle did not properly free the TLS session, causing bigger
303     memory leaks in Net::SSLeay than expected (reported by toaster).
304 root 1.320 - AE::Socket::tcp_connect will now artificially delay invoking
305     the callback to avoid returning after invoking the callback.
306 root 1.321 - convert many internal watcher uses to AE API.
307 root 1.317
308 root 1.316 4.9 Sat Aug 1 11:07:01 CEST 2009
309 root 1.308 - Glib silently fails when registering a timeout with
310     a negative value, so avoid that.
311 root 1.315 - call condvar callback immediately when it is set
312     after the condition is already signalled.
313 root 1.314 - check rbuf_max condition only after trying to consume
314     data.
315 root 1.305 - normalise signal numbers to names when using the ae's
316     signal handling, but do not document this (yet).
317 root 1.308 - pure perl signal emulation did not properly set nonblocking
318     mode on the signal pipe on win32 (this is unlikely to have caused
319     any issues).
320 root 1.310 - new module: AnyEvent::Debug.
321 root 1.309 - AnyEvent::Strict now checks that a signal was specified
322     by name (not name or number).
323     - reduce memory footprint in typical cases by ~50kb by
324 root 1.308 only compiling signal code when necessary.
325 root 1.313 - add AnyEvent::Handle->rbuf_max.
326 root 1.311 - grab the AE namespace for future new API, implement stubs for
327     said future/alternative API.
328 root 1.315 - new function: AnyEvent::Socket::format_hostport.
329 root 1.305
330 root 1.303 4.881 Tue Jul 28 12:51:53 CEST 2009
331     - work around a bug in local in pre-5.10 perls, causing
332 root 1.304 AnyEvent::Handle to recurse when it should not
333 root 1.351 (analysed by elmex).
334 root 1.303
335 root 1.302 4.88 Tue Jul 28 04:04:37 CEST 2009
336 root 1.301 - re-bless the handle into a dummy package after calling
337     AnyEvent::Handle::destroy, so the user does not need to check
338     for errors after every push_write etc.
339 root 1.302 - do not attempt to run t/02_signals.t on obviously broken
340     platforms.
341 root 1.301
342 root 1.300 4.87 Sun Jul 26 02:06:16 CEST 2009
343 root 1.295 - do not attempt to linger when there is no longer a valid fh.
344 root 1.296 - enforce tls mode to be either accept or connect, do not simply
345     segfault in Net::SSLeay.
346 root 1.298 - AnyEvent::Handle can now call tcp_connect itself (new parameters
347 root 1.299 connect, on_prepare, on_connect and on_connect_error). Updated
348     tutorial accordingly.
349 root 1.297 - add AnyEvent::Impl::Irssi backend.
350 root 1.295
351 root 1.294 4.86 Mon Jul 20 23:52:29 CEST 2009
352     - since the verbose warning is not enough, explicitly document
353     that versions before 1.33 of Net::SSLeay are not secure.
354 root 1.292 - work around signal handling races in Event and (...) Event::Lib.
355 root 1.293 - try to align signal-race timer to full-second boundaries.
356     - work around Tk not liking negative timeouts.
357 root 1.292 - don't complain of different grades of environmental unfriendlyness
358 root 1.302 in IO::Async.
359 root 1.292
360 root 1.290 4.85 Sat Jul 18 06:16:14 CEST 2009
361 root 1.287 - nail the signal race problem in perl once and for all
362     (see $AnyEvent::MAX_SIGNAL_LATENCY).
363     - take advantage of Async::Interrupt if it is available.
364     - load Time::HiRes and Guard modules on demand only.
365     - add optional/recommended modules section to AnyEvent
366     documentation.
367 root 1.288 - reduce memory usage considerably (and reduce startup penalty)
368     by not using "strict", "warnings" and "overload" modules.
369 root 1.289 - work around buggy windows/openbsd perls and provide EBADMSG
370     and EPROTO ourselves when missing.
371     - improve perl 5.6 compatibility of the core event loop.
372     - made Net::SSLeay version 1.33 a soft requirement.
373 root 1.286
374 root 1.285 4.83 Fri Jul 17 16:56:26 CEST 2009
375 root 1.284 - implement AnyEvent::Socket::getprotobyname.
376 root 1.283 - AnyEvent::CondVar's will now detect recursive blocking
377 root 1.284 waits and will croak, as too many people fall into
378     this trap.
379 root 1.281 - AnyEvent::Handle will now call ->destroy on itself after
380     executing the on_error callback, instead of doing some
381     half-baked internal shutdown, for fatal errors.
382 root 1.282 - clarify on_eof behaviour w.r.t. the read queue and
383     on_read callbacks.
384 root 1.281 - ignore some possible spurious wake-ups in tcp_connect.
385 root 1.279
386 root 1.278 4.82 Sat Jul 11 00:34:55 CEST 2009
387 root 1.277 - POE and Event backends didn't accept some callable objects as
388     callbacks.
389 root 1.275 - use Config module instead of POSIX module to detect signal names
390     in AnyEvent::Strict and AnyEvent::Impl::EventLib, as the POSIX
391     module doesn't even have all POSIX signals :/.
392 root 1.276 - use more workarounds around the many refcnt/corruption bugs in
393     Event::Lib.
394     - work around a race condition in perl's select, causing t/03_child.t
395     to rarely fail.
396 root 1.275
397 root 1.274 4.81 Thu Jul 9 10:30:30 CEST 2009
398 root 1.272 - AnyEvent::Handle didn't properly diagnose write errors
399     (it expected -1 from syswrite, how lame... :).
400 root 1.268 - support file descriptors in addition to file handles
401     in AnyEvent->io.
402 root 1.265 - new env variables: PERL_ANYEVENT_RESOLV_CONF,
403 root 1.266 PERL_ANYEVENT_MAX_OUTSTANDING_DNS, PERL_ANYEVENT_CA_FILE
404     and PERL_ANYEVENT_CA_PATH.
405 root 1.267 - provide a sensible synopsis section for AnyEvent::TLS.
406 root 1.273 - add a "supported backends" section to the manpage.
407 root 1.270 - added simple io watcher test to testsuite, using a
408     portable_socketpair.
409 root 1.271 - tried to improve the stability of the Event::Lib backend,
410     YMMV.
411 root 1.265
412 root 1.264 4.8 Mon Jul 6 23:45:16 CEST 2009
413 root 1.261 - AnyEvent::DNS did not properly follow CNAME records with
414     uppercase targets.
415 root 1.262 - AnyEvent::DNS would errornously return AAAA records
416     with v4 mapped addresses (a faulty record) as ipv4 addresses,
417     causing AnyEvent::Socket to throw an exception.
418 root 1.260 - added new module AnyEvent::TLS for easier SSL/TLS context
419     creation, with many options including hostname verification,
420     secure default configuration, lots of documentation and,
421     predefined diffie-hellman keys for perfect forward security
422     and much more. get it while it's still fresh!
423     - use AnyEvent::TLS in AnyEvent::Handle for context management.
424 root 1.256 - load AnyEvent::Handle only on demand in AnyEvent::DNS,
425     so AnyEvent::Socket users have smaller memory footprint
426     in the common case.
427 root 1.258 - add AnyEvent::Handle->push_shutdown method.
428     - add an additional error message parameter to AnyEvent::Handle's
429     on_error callback (for TLS, $! is still available).
430 root 1.263 - add AnyEvent::Handle on_starttls/on_stoptls callbacks.
431 root 1.257 - make AnyEvent::Handle more robust against early conenction
432     failures (during new), and return C<undef> in that case
433     from the constructor.
434 root 1.259 - AnyEvent::Handle will now try to load only JSON::XS first,
435     then fall back to JSON.
436 root 1.262 - format_ipv4/format_ipv6 are now exported by default, for symmetry,
437     and because it was documented that way.
438 root 1.256
439 root 1.258 4.451 Fri Jul 3 00:28:58 CEST 2009
440     - do not clear rbuf when shutting down an AnyEvent::Handle
441     object - doing so breaks AnyEvent::HTTP.
442    
443 root 1.255 4.45 Mon Jun 29 22:59:26 CEST 2009
444     - a write error could cause AnyEvent::Handle to create
445     an I/O watcher with an undefined $fh.
446 root 1.251 - special-case mapped ipv4 addresses in both
447     AnyEvent::Socket::format_address and parse_address,
448     to treat them just like ipv4 addresses.
449 root 1.254 - updated and overhauled the AnyEvent::Intro doc.
450 root 1.252 - implement AnyEvent::Socket::format_ipv4/ipv6.
451     - slightly speed up portable_pipe/socketpair.
452 root 1.255 - expand condvar begin/end documentation.
453 root 1.250
454 root 1.249 4.42 Fri Jun 26 08:32:18 CEST 2009
455 root 1.248 - preliminary and neccesarily incomplete support for IO::Async.
456 root 1.247 - reset SIGCHLD to DEFAULT when AnyEvent is loaded, in
457     case it was set to IGNORE, to ensure we can catch child statuses
458     even when the calling env acts stupidly.
459 root 1.248 - updated benchmarks with IO::Async, which performs very well.
460 root 1.247
461 root 1.245 4.412 Wed Jun 24 01:35:57 CEST 2009
462 root 1.242 - support an "untaint" attribute for AnyEvent::DNS
463     and set it on the default resolver.
464 root 1.241 - implement and document AnyEvent::Impl::Perl::loop.
465 root 1.242 - remove all anyevent-env variables from %ENV
466     when running in tainted mode.
467 root 1.244 - mention and extend the IO::Lambda benchmark.
468 root 1.241
469 root 1.240 4.411 Sun Jun 7 18:48:02 CEST 2009
470 root 1.239 - do not try to use F_SETFD on windows.
471    
472 root 1.238 4.41 Thu May 14 06:40:11 CEST 2009
473 root 1.236 - work around issues in older perls (5.8.0?) when
474     a signal handler is deleted from the %SIG hash.
475 root 1.237 - use POSIX::_exit in child test, to avoid running
476     destructors.
477     - speed up CHLD handling by relying on SIGCHLD being
478     synchronously delivered, even when we roll our own
479     implementation.
480 root 1.238 - AnyEvent::DNS: add the "dname" resource record name
481     for cosmetic reasons.
482 root 1.235
483 root 1.234 4.4 Sun Apr 26 20:12:33 CEST 2009
484     - implemented idle watchers, where applicable.
485 root 1.232 - AnyEvent->time died when Event backend was in use.
486     - fix a memleak in the Tk backend.
487     - sped up Tk timer handling.
488 root 1.233 - clip negative "after" values to 0 in AnyEvent::Impl::Event
489     to avoid spamming out warning messages.
490 root 1.232 - fix Qt timers without interval.
491 root 1.242 - avoid Qt zero-timeout special case, in old libqt's.
492 root 1.232
493 root 1.231 4.352 Mon Apr 20 16:31:11 CEST 2009
494 root 1.229 - fix AnyEvent::Strict error messages for child watchers.
495 root 1.230 - fix/update Makefile.PL "recommends" versions.
496     - add AnyEvent->now_update.
497 root 1.229
498 root 1.228 4.351 Sat Apr 11 07:56:14 CEST 2009
499 root 1.225 - actually make the signal pipe work under win32.
500 root 1.227 - localise $! in signal handler to avoid changing $!, although
501     perl itself does not seem to save/restore errno either.
502 root 1.226 - set the cloexec flag on the signal pipe (normally set by perl too).
503 root 1.225
504 root 1.224 4.35 Fri Mar 27 11:48:20 CET 2009
505 root 1.220 - event models relying on AnyEvent's signal watcher emulation did
506     invoke the callback asynchronously, contradicting documentation
507     and causing signals to get lost (this includes AnyEvent's own
508     event loop). AnyEvent now uses the standard pipe trick to make
509     callback execution synchronous to the event loop.
510 root 1.224 - AnyEvent::Handle didn't free TLS context data on DESTROY
511 root 1.223 (patch by Pavel Shaydo).
512 root 1.220 - work around the ever-incompatibly-changing API of MakeMaker.
513 root 1.221 - document that changing global variables without restoring them
514     is a bad idea in Perl (noted by Adam Rosenstein).
515 root 1.224 - AnyEvent::Strict now barfs if ->io is passed a file.
516 root 1.220
517 root 1.219 4.34 Thu Feb 12 18:32:45 CET 2009
518 root 1.218 - separately buffer TLS read data, as otherwise the read queue could
519     deadlock as receiving data is not expected while draining the
520     read queue (which cna only happen with TLS).
521 root 1.214 - raise EBADMSG error on JSON decoding errors.
522 root 1.215 - fix some minor manpage bugs (reported by Maximilian Gaß).
523     - speed up select bitmask parsing quite a bit in the pure perl
524     backend.
525 root 1.216 - use CORE::select instead of just select in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
526 root 1.214
527 root 1.213 4.331 Tue Jan 6 21:07:25 CET 2009
528 root 1.212 - socketpair fails on many vista machines because vista has
529     completely broken accept/getpeername and getsockname functions,
530     so we provide our own socketpair emulation that kind of works
531     (AnyEvent::Util::portable_pipe).
532     - new function: AnyEvent::Util::portable_socketpair.
533 root 1.211 - take advantage of the Guard module if it exists.
534    
535 root 1.210 4.33 Fri Nov 21 02:35:40 CET 2008
536     - AnyEvent::Strict did errornously flag a fileno of 0 as
537     illegal.
538 root 1.206 - reduce memory usage and slightly speed up the pure perl backend
539     by only storing the file descriptor, not the file handle.
540 root 1.207 - add missing autocork method to AnyEvent::Handle (reported
541     by Adam Rosenstein).
542 root 1.209 - AnyEvent::DNS->resolve errornously documented an $rcode result
543 root 1.208 argument, but there isn't (spotted by Henrik Krohns).
544 root 1.209 - the naked truth about Tk - it's basically unmaintained.
545 root 1.206
546 root 1.205 4.32 Mon Nov 3 22:46:32 CET 2008
547 root 1.204 - fix AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr to properly support
548     unix sockets again and choose a proper default for
549     the socket type.
550     - fix call to resolve_sockaddr in tcp_connect.
551    
552 root 1.203 4.31 Thu Oct 30 04:41:48 CET 2008
553 root 1.200 - implemented AnyEvent::Handle->destroy method.
554 root 1.203 - hint about unexpected effects in TLS mode.
555 root 1.200 - speed up AnyEvent::Impl::Perl by using more arrays
556     instead of hashes without the slightest loss of readability :)
557 root 1.201 - work around a perl argument refcounting bug.
558 root 1.202 - with some perl patches applied, AnyEvent now seems leak-free.
559 root 1.198
560 root 1.197 4.3 Fri Oct 3 09:18:43 CEST 2008
561 root 1.196 - AnyEvent will now install a no-op signal handler for SIGPIPE,
562     unless one has been installed already.
563 root 1.197 - warn about not loaidng AnyEvent::Impl::POE early enough
564     (patch by Adam Rosenstein).
565 root 1.390 - fixed a great number of bugs and corner cases in AnyEvent::Handle.
566 root 1.193 - fix a bug in where in SSL connect mode, the
567 root 1.191 client would first wait for some data by the server and
568 root 1.351 otherwise hang. (reported and analysed in an absolutely
569 root 1.191 exemplary manner by Adam Rosenstein).
570 root 1.193 - fix a bug in where SSL EOF would not be treated
571 root 1.191 as stream EOF, putting the connection into a hung state.
572 root 1.351 (reported and analysed in an absolutely exemplary manner by Adam
573 root 1.191 Rosenstein).
574 root 1.193 - fix a potential segfault when the TLS context
575 root 1.191 would go missing in a read callback (e.g. due to stoptls) -
576     Net::SSLeay of course makes no type checking whatsoever.
577 root 1.192 - AnyEvent::Handle will not stop the read watcher in TLS mode.
578     - AnyEvent::Handle->stoptls will send a TLS close notify
579     instead of simply destroying the stream now.
580 root 1.195 - fix a bug where large blocks of data written in TLS mode
581     would not be sent unless triggered by receives.
582 root 1.193 - on_drain will now take the tls write buffer into account.
583     - SSL operations have been streamlined a bit and should be faster
584     now, more to come, though.
585 root 1.194 - added a FAQ section, will document nontrivial issues in there.
586 root 1.191
587 root 1.190 4.234 Mon Sep 29 04:08:13 CEST 2008
588 root 1.189 - fix child watcher documentation: only child exits will be reported,
589     no trace events.
590 root 1.190 - mention SIGPIPE in AnyEvent::Handle.
591     - perl backend will now use POSIX::times as monotonic clock
592 root 1.188 when available and the monotonic clock option is not.
593 root 1.187 - run even without Time::HiRes in some cases now, but do not
594 root 1.190 provide sub-second accuracy (all *supported* perl versions have
595 root 1.187 Time::HiRes).
596    
597 root 1.186 4.233 Fri Aug 22 01:48:05 CEST 2008
598     - fix a bug in the testsuite, causing a hang.
599     - clarified lots of AnyEvent::Handle constructor arguments.
600    
601 root 1.185 4.232 Thu Aug 21 20:44:25 CEST 2008
602     - fix a bug in AnyEvent::Handle that could cause two fatal error
603     callbacks on EOF, which caused AnyEvent::HTTP to signal success twice
604     (testcase by Leon Brocard).
605     - clarified on_eof/on_error documentation a bit.
606    
607 root 1.184 4.231 Tue Jul 29 13:12:15 CEST 2008
608     - remove some debugging code left in AnyEvent::Util::fork_call
609     (and no, it's impossible to implement with the broken windows
610     perls without resource leaks or worse).
611    
612 root 1.183 4.23 Tue Jul 29 12:19:59 CEST 2008
613 root 1.177 - document the first parameter passed to condvar callbacks to be
614     the callback.
615 root 1.178 - add AnyEvent::Socket::{ntoa,aton} aliases.
616 root 1.180 - optimize the AE::Handle->push_read (line) for the default
617 root 1.179 eol marker.
618 root 1.180 - optimize push_read (packstring|storable) for small packets.
619 root 1.182 - invoke on_error callback when no on_eof callback is set.
620 root 1.180 - fix a bug in push_read (storable) of unknown impact.
621 root 1.177
622 root 1.176 4.22 Sun Jul 20 16:34:13 CEST 2008
623 root 1.174 - new function AnyEvent::Socket::parse_hostport.
624 root 1.175 - as the bulkheads at microsoft can't even get getprotobyname reliably
625     working on their shitty fucking broken os we need to hardcode
626     some common protocol numbers in AnyEvent::Socket. How can
627     people even bother with such a pile of shit as windows.
628 root 1.174
629 root 1.173 4.21 Thu Jul 17 14:40:05 CEST 2008
630 root 1.171 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: AnyEvent::Util::fork_call now has a prototype
631     which is incompatible to previous invocation syntax.
632 root 1.172 - work around more windows perl bugs in fork_call. I cannot imagine
633     why anybody would bother implementing fork in such an obviously
634     unusable way.
635     - avoid calling $do_retry if the request has already finished in
636     AnyEvent::DNS, thus avoiding an exception (reported by Anatoly
637     K. Sharifulin).
638 root 1.170
639 root 1.169 4.2 Sat Jul 12 22:42:11 CEST 2008
640 root 1.165 - support an "interval" argument for repeating timers.
641 root 1.164 - fix a bug in the pure perl event loop that caused timers to
642     be delayed under some circumstances.
643 root 1.167 - implement optional argument checking via PERL_ANYEVENT_STRICT.
644 root 1.169 - not importing anything from Event causes it to malfunction
645     and not use Time::HiRes, work around this bug.
646     - more bug workarounds against the endlessly broken Tk module,
647 root 1.168 seems to work now on 32 bit machines, but less so on 64 bit.
648 root 1.164 - minor optimisations applied to most backends.
649    
650 root 1.163 4.161 Fri Jul 4 14:24:48 CEST 2008
651 elmex 1.162 - fixed the t/handle/02_write.t, it read after write, with the
652 root 1.163 assumption that all data could be written before read
653     (reported by Jim Razmus).
654 elmex 1.162
655 root 1.161 4.160 Thu Jul 3 04:02:21 CEST 2008
656 root 1.160 - re-registering signal watchers after unregistering one did
657     not work if a backend falls back on AnyEvent's default
658     implementation (also affected child watchers).
659 root 1.159 - new AnyEvent::Handle options: autocork and no_delay.
660    
661 root 1.158 4.152 Sun Jun 22 14:15:44 CEST 2008
662 root 1.159 - allow for 32-bit perls that implement shifts differently
663     on different architectures in parse_ipv4 (reported and
664 root 1.158 analysed by Keiichi DAIBA).
665    
666 root 1.157 4.151 Fri Jun 6 17:34:24 CEST 2008
667     - make sure specifying _only_ on_read and never pushing reads
668     works.
669    
670 root 1.155 4.15 Fri Jun 6 13:00:46 CEST 2008
671 root 1.154 - the pure perl backend would keep some watchers alive when more than
672     one watcher was registered for the same fd.
673 root 1.155 - new "packstring" and "storable" read and write types
674     for AnyEvent::Handle.
675 root 1.156 - allow on_eof handler to be called after on_error with EPIPE returns.
676 root 1.153 - do not immediately call on_read callback in handle constructor.
677    
678 root 1.152 4.14 Thu Jun 5 20:29:31 CEST 2008
679 elmex 1.149 - Fixed a bug in DNS SRV priority sorting.
680 root 1.150 - AnyEvent::Util::guard now reports runtime errors while
681     executing the guard block as warnings.
682 root 1.152 - handle 0-byte-reads just before EOF correctly in AnyEvent::Handle.
683 elmex 1.149
684 root 1.148 4.13 Thu Jun 5 00:47:59 CEST 2008
685 root 1.146 - AnyEvent::DNS only followed cname chains with length 2,
686     contrary to documentation. bumped it up to 10, thanks to
687     microsoft, the current broken-dns-config-king.
688 root 1.147 - AnyEvent::DNS didn't check for socket return status
689     but instead relied on perl not creating filehandles in that
690     case - too bad it gives you a bogus file handle (reported
691     and analysed by Vladimir Timofeev).
692 root 1.145 - fix queue management logic in AnyEvent::Handle:
693     when on_read was registered, the queue was empty
694     and no progress could be made AnyEvent::Handle would
695     enter an endless loop.
696     - correctly start reading again when the handle became
697     busy again after idling.
698 root 1.146 - correctly treat tls shut-downs as EOF condition
699     (for the time being, would be nice to have a callback for that).
700 root 1.145 - correctly call eof callback under all conditions
701     (hopefully).
702 root 1.146 - the timeout callback did not expect that $self can go
703     away any time.
704 root 1.145
705 root 1.144 4.12 Tue Jun 3 10:58:04 CEST 2008
706     - include AnyEvent::Intro, a tutorial for anyevent,
707     anyevent::socket and anyevent::handle.
708 root 1.143 - allow more options in on_error.
709 root 1.142
710 root 1.141 4.11 Fri May 30 23:42:25 CEST 2008
711 root 1.135 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace ptr by real PTR lookup, provide
712     reverse_lookup and reverse_verify to replace it, support
713     v4mapped and v4compat addresses.
714 root 1.129 - provide more documentation for the resolver class.
715 root 1.130 - really replace longest run of :0: by :: in format_address,
716     also properly convert :: and ::1 again.
717 root 1.134 - support NAPTR record name and decode it.
718 root 1.133 - implement random weight sampling for SRV records, as per
719     rfc 2782.
720 root 1.137 - correctly abort on srv-record targets of ".".
721     - added AnyEvent::DNS::wait_for_slot.
722 root 1.138 - in the unlikely event of a virtual circuit connection
723     being invalidated by a delayed udp reply, AnyEvent::DNS
724     could die. this has been fixed.
725     - plug a probable memleak in the DNS vc code.
726     - use configured timeout also for VC request phase.
727 root 1.139 - implement timeout and max_outstanding methods
728     for resolver class.
729 root 1.140 - update version numbers in all modules.
730 root 1.129
731 root 1.128 4.1 Thu May 29 05:45:40 CEST 2008
732 root 1.123 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: renamed xxx_ip functions to xxx_address
733     which mirrors their purpose better (old names still available
734     for a while). Also moved AnyEvent::DNS::addr to
735     AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr.
736 root 1.127 - implement AnyEvent->time and AnyEvent->now.
737 root 1.124 - fix IPv6 support in pack_sockaddr.
738 root 1.123 - officially un-experimentalise all newly introduced code.
739     - support unix domain sockets everywhere by specifying
740     a host of "unix/" and the pathname as service.
741 root 1.126 - implement an activity timeout in AnyEvent::Handle.
742 root 1.122 - added a regex read type to AnyEvent::Handle.
743     - added a json read/write type to AnyEvent::Handle.
744 root 1.118 - always croak in on_error in AnyEvent::Handle.
745     - document how to subclass AnyEvent::Handle.
746 root 1.120 - implement AnyEvent::Util::fork_call.
747 root 1.127 - add support for IPv6 nameservers and nameserver statements.
748 root 1.121 - work around _yet_ _another_ windows perl bug in where empty
749     select masks cause errors in the pure perl backend (this
750     workaround cannot be implemented for the other event loops,
751     but EV also works around this).
752 root 1.123 - supply AnyEvent::Socket::address_type and make good use of it.
753 root 1.122 - clarify and fix the Handle documentation w.r.t $self vs. $handle
754     vs. callback arguments.
755 root 1.127 - add some recommends to the META.yml.
756 root 1.117
757 root 1.116 4.05 Mon May 26 19:44:06 CEST 2008
758     - some platforms ignore the rfc and prepend an extra sa_len member to
759     the sockaddr structure, cater for those. also use sockaddr_family,
760     didn't know it was there, but comes in handy for the workaround.
761 root 1.114 - undo the import WIN32 hack.
762    
763 root 1.113 4.04 Mon May 26 08:03:31 CEST 2008
764 root 1.109 - try to work around yet another windows bug: failed connects are reported
765 root 1.110 as if it were out-of-band data. windows users: you suck. Only
766     EV, Glib, Event and the pure perl backend can handle this condition.
767 root 1.111 - optimize write algorithm in AnyEvent::Handle.
768 root 1.106 - properly parse PERL_ANYEVENT_PROTOCOLS and use the info correctly.
769 root 1.112 - tcp_connect now properly iterates through all targets.
770 root 1.104 - check wether IPv6 sockets can actually be created, otherwise, disable ipv6
771 root 1.114 support entirely. also hardcode some AF_INET6 constants for the
772 root 1.107 sake of perl 5.8.
773 root 1.106 - vastly improved nameserver/suffix detection algorithm for windows
774     (still a hack...)
775     - try to use a fallback dns server if no dns servers could be found.
776 root 1.108 - splatter around some local $SIG{__DIE__}'s to work around bad
777     die handlers.
778 root 1.104
779 root 1.102 4.03 Sun May 25 05:05:57 CEST 2008
780 root 1.100 - work around perl bugs on windows, where perl returns undocumented
781     error codes for sysread, syswrite etc.
782 root 1.96 - fix AnyEvent::Handle::unshift_read to really unshift and not push.
783 root 1.97 - AnyEvent::Handle could sometimes stumble over 0-byte writes.
784 root 1.101 - fix unpack_sockaddr, now works for AF_INET6 sockaddr's.
785 root 1.100 - updated documentation.
786 root 1.103 - lots of workarounds for perl 5.8 quirks.
787 root 1.98 - implement a more flexible type system for both reads and writes
788     in AnyEvent::Handle.
789 root 1.101 - support IPv6 in tcp_server.
790     - pass local hostname and port to the prepare callback in tcp_server.
791 root 1.99 - make types extendable in AnyEvent::Handle.
792 root 1.100 - croak, not die, in AnyEvent::Handle;
793 root 1.96
794 root 1.95 4.0 Sat May 24 19:58:08 CEST 2008
795 root 1.88 - added (experimental) AnyEvent::DNS module.
796     - added (experimental) AnyEvent::Socket module.
797 root 1.93 - added (experiemntal) support for TLS/SSL in AnyEvent::Handle.
798 root 1.90 - make condvar->end call ->send as documented.
799     - make condvar constructor support the documented cb => argument.
800 root 1.94 - overload condvars so you can use them instead of code references.
801 root 1.93 - support more of the POSIX forms instead of a pure dotted quad for
802 root 1.89 verbatim ip addresses.
803 root 1.88 - AnyEvent::Socket::inet_aton will use AnyEvent::DNS now and not fork anymore.
804 root 1.87 - try very hard not to freeze on broken windows perls.
805 root 1.86 - make on_eof optional in AnyEvent::Handle.
806 root 1.83 - support service names in tcp_connect and tcp_server.
807 root 1.84 - work around netbsd/openbsd bug causing unix sockets not to
808 root 1.121 become writable until empty.
809 root 1.81 - only make a dummy read for error detection when getpeername
810     returns ENOTCONN.
811 root 1.181 - defend AnyEvent::Util::inet_aton against Coro::LWP's brutal
812 root 1.82 override.
813 root 1.91 - new AnyEvent::Guard::cancel.
814 root 1.81
815 root 1.80 3.5 Sat May 17 23:17:14 CEST 2008
816 root 1.79 - gracefully deal with systems not defining CLOCK_MONOTONIC
817     (as opposed to not supporting the clock itself, which worked in 3.41).
818 root 1.77 - added AnyEvent::Util::tcp_connect and AnyEvent::Util::tcp_server
819     helpers, to replace the ill-designed AnyEvent::Socket class.
820     - added some examples (eg/connect, eg/handle).
821     - added AnyEvent::Util::guard.
822     - AnyEvent::Util now exports most of its functions.
823 elmex 1.74 - fixed a bug in *_read_chunk, where the callback was called with $self as
824     first and second argument.
825 root 1.77 - simplified and fixed regex handling in AnyEvent::Handle::*_read_line.
826 root 1.72 - fix manpage condvars examples to use new syntax.
827 root 1.78 - considerably improve inet_aton with EV::ADNS backend to support
828     cname chains (common dns configuration bug, e.g. with www.google.de)
829     and aaaa records if no a record could be found.
830 root 1.72
831 root 1.71 3.41 Sun May 11 19:53:13 CEST 2008
832     - work around a bug in perl 5.8.8's local. Reported by Yi Ma Mao.
833    
834 root 1.70 3.4 Sun May 11 00:29:25 CEST 2008
835 root 1.181 - complete re-implementation of condvars with a hopefully much more useful
836 root 1.70 API (backward compatible functions exist but are undocumented).
837 root 1.69 - AnyEvent::Handle fully rewritten with a hopefully more powerful API
838     (still subject to change).
839 root 1.63 - take advantage of CLOCK_MONOTONIC, if available, in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
840 root 1.68 - provide AnyEvent::post_detect and @AnyEvent::post_detect, which
841 root 1.67 allows module authors to avoid forcing event loop detection.
842     (used by Coro::AIO, Coro::BDB, Coro::AnyEvent for example).
843 root 1.66 - remove coro backends: Coro now provides generic support for AnyEvent
844     via Coro::AnyEvent.
845 root 1.63
846 root 1.62 3.3 Mon Apr 28 09:51:06 CEST 2008
847     - added AnyEvent::Handle, AnyEvent::Socket and AnyEvent::Util modules.
848 root 1.55 - fix a bug in the pure perl backend that kept watchers alive
849     when multiple watchers were registered for the same fh/poll combo.
850 root 1.54 - add a benchmark section showing AnyEvent overhead and comparing
851     the different event loops with each other.
852 root 1.56 - prefer pure perl over tk when autoprobing, as it's about as fast,
853     but doesn't crash with many watchers.
854 root 1.62 - declare Qt support non-experimental.
855 root 1.56 - clarify the confusing section about the file descriptor being
856     kept alive.
857     - document the race between loading of an event module and
858     child processes exiting.
859 root 1.53 - support POE as "backend" (with some caveats, POE is not generic
860 root 1.54 enough, and darn slow).
861 root 1.53 - support Wx and Prima through POE.
862 root 1.60 - optimise perl backend to use 20% less memory and take advantage
863 root 1.62 of typical timeout behaviour. It can now compete with
864 root 1.60 select/poll-based C event loops in most cases (it is usually
865     faster than Event and Glib :).
866 root 1.59 - roughly cut EV memory use in half and increase its speed by 30%,
867 root 1.62 by removing undocumented functionality. Did something similar
868     to other event loops where possible.
869 root 1.53
870 root 1.50 3.2 Thu Apr 24 10:10:40 CEST 2008
871 root 1.51 - do not die when anyevent watchers are destroyed while running callbacks
872     in the pureperl backend (could only happen when two watchers are registered
873     for the same fh/poll combo).
874     - support autoloading for child watchers, was broken in all versions.
875 root 1.47 - implement PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL env variable.
876 root 1.49 - (experimental) implement interface to the (very crashy/buggy) Event::Lib module.
877     - (experimental) implement interface to the Qt module (cannot be autoprobed).
878 root 1.52 - this release is IO:AnyEvent-proof.
879 root 1.47
880 root 1.46 3.12 Tue Apr 22 07:11:46 CEST 2008
881     - reinstate AUTHOR section that got lost somehow.
882     - do not hang in the testsuite with badly broken perls (activestate,
883     strawberry...), but instead diagnose the problem and continue.
884     - use INT instead of CHLD in an attempt to support broken windows perls
885     better (this decreases the test quality, unfortunately).
886     - do not send the signal to the process group
887     (no problem for CHLD, bad for INT :).
888    
889 root 1.45 3.11 Sat Apr 19 06:57:31 CEST 2008
890     - major documentation rework.
891     - document the fact that child watchers only watch for zombies.
892     - fix the child watcher example.
893    
894 root 1.43 3.1 Wed Apr 16 17:09:01 CEST 2008
895 root 1.40 - work around recurring bugs in Tk by dup'ing filehandles, the
896 root 1.43 only method with good success chances on Tk (the bugs apparently
897     don't get fixed anytime soon).
898 root 1.42 - lift the restriction of only one watcher per fh direction
899     (as the Tk bug workaround also lifts it and only Tk imposed
900     such strong limits).
901 root 1.41 - changed probe order to prefer coro adaptors.
902     - explain why recursion into the event loop is not supported
903     unless the backend supports it (only Coro::EV does without
904     any restrictions...).
905     - add simple manpages for all backend modules.
906 root 1.40
907 root 1.39 3.0 Mon Apr 7 21:30:23 CEST 2008
908 root 1.38 - Coro::Signal changed semantics, roll our own, also cleaning
909     up the Coro implementation in general.
910     - rename Coro backend to CoroEvent.
911     - add some decision helping paragraph to the manpage that should
912 root 1.44 help people to decide whether AnyEvent is the right thing for them.
913 root 1.38
914 root 1.37 2.9 Mon Jan 28 13:31:54 CET 2008
915     - update for EV 3.0 API changes.
916    
917 root 1.36 2.8 Sun Nov 25 15:06:03 CET 2007
918     - waitpid can validly return 0. accept this fact of life
919     instead of reporting it to any watchers.
920    
921 root 1.35 2.7 Fri Nov 23 11:41:14 CET 2007
922 root 1.34 - force use of AnyEvent::Impl::Perl in testsuite, there is
923     too much breakage outside AnyEvent.
924 root 1.35 - deliver signals synchronously in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl
925     or any other event loop that relies on AnyEvents child
926     watcher emulation. *Could* help with hanging testsuite
927     (except when Event or EV are installed).
928 root 1.34
929 root 1.33 2.6 Fri Nov 9 20:36:35 CET 2007
930 root 1.32 - fix bug in testsuite.
931     - move EV adaptor modules to AnyEvent.
932     - add Coro+EV adaptor module.
933 root 1.26
934 root 1.31 2.55 Tue Nov 6 17:41:32 CET 2007
935 root 1.27 - add EV to the list of supported event models.
936 root 1.30 - do not auto-reset pid watchers, pass pid and status to them.
937 root 1.29 - allow a pid of zero to watch for all children in child watchers.
938 root 1.27
939 root 1.25 2.54 Wed Jul 18 17:36:23 CEST 2007
940     - work around a perl bug that results in
941     BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted without
942     any discernible reason or error message by once
943     again not use'ing strict.
944    
945 root 1.24 2.53 Sun Jul 8 10:51:53 CEST 2007
946     - make Glib interface work again (spotted by elmex).
947    
948 root 1.22 2.52 Wed Mar 7 18:36:16 CET 2007
949     - child watchers stopped working permanently when
950 root 1.23 all current child watchers were destroyed.
951 root 1.22
952 root 1.21 2.51 Mon Dec 11 21:33:24 CET 2006
953     - work around bugs in perl where eval "require Module" returns
954     true even if the module couldn't be loaded :/.
955    
956 root 1.20 2.5 Mon Dec 11 02:15:28 CET 2006
957 root 1.19 - avoid $AUTOLOAD because many perls corrupt it.
958 root 1.20 - AnyEvent::detect forces autodetection.
959     - implement signal watchers (experimental)
960     (Tk does not support async signals (<= 804.027 at least),
961     so they might get delayed indefinitely on Tk).
962     - implement child watchers (experimental).
963     - moved default condvar implementation into base module, simplifying
964     most implementation modules.
965 root 1.14
966 root 1.18 2.1 Fri Nov 24 15:50:48 CET 2006
967 root 1.16 - better docs.
968     - simple testsuite.
969 root 1.17 - added AnyEvent->one_event method for special purposes.
970 root 1.16
971 root 1.15 2.0 Wed Nov 1 02:21:30 CET 2006
972 root 1.13 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: poll can now either be "r" or "w" but not both.
973     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: io watcher callbacks have no arguments anymore.
974     - EXPERIMENTAL:
975     new pure-perl model added, AnyEvent now always finds a suitable
976     event model.
977 root 1.12 - improved documentation.
978     - reduced cpu overhead.
979    
980 root 1.11 1.02 Fri Jan 13 14:15:40 CET 2006
981     - add COPYING to clarify license.
982    
983 root 1.10 1.01 Sun Jan 8 05:48:09 CET 2006
984     - correctly cancel Event timers, avoid memory leaks.
985    
986 root 1.9 1.0 Sun Jan 8 05:40:58 CET 2006
987 root 1.8 - allow third-party interfaces to be added at runtime.
988     - fix version number.
989    
990 root 1.7 0.9 Fri Dec 30 02:25:41 CET 2005
991 root 1.6 - fixed errors in the documentation.
992 root 1.7 - going back to using $VERSION as "load check",
993     as suggested by Jörn Reder. Let's see why I stopped using
994     this method.
995     - add 'hup' to the list of events to receive for glib
996     and generate 'rw' events for it, as some versions of
997     glib seem to require this, while this breaks other
998     (older) versions of glib.
999     - implemented PERL_ANYEVENT_VERBOSE env variable.
1000 root 1.6
1001 root 1.5 0.3 Sun Dec 4 10:43:33 CET 2005
1002     - no changes to the code.
1003     - fixed documentation.
1004     - clarified some corner cases.
1005     - vastly improved documentation with a long example.
1006    
1007 root 1.3 0.2 Thu Dec 1 22:18:49 CET 2005
1008 root 1.44 - check whether a valid method was called, to avoid endless loops.
1009 root 1.4 - move condvars into their own class (cleaner, safer).
1010     - don't die when some modules are not available.
1011     - Tk is too broken to allow for words. Will work once Tk works.
1012 root 1.3
1013 root 1.2 0.1 Thu Dec 1 19:44:57 CET 2005
1014     - spiced up and cleaned up for release.
1015    
1016 root 1.1 0.01 Tue Sep 21 18:12:09 CEST 2004
1017     - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
1018