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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 1.517 TODO: add debug/trace logging to some modules
5 root 1.537 TODO: use the eval-with-cb-call trick also to speed up JSON?
6 root 1.553 TODO: FAQ: common pitfalls? invoke-before-return
7     TODO: FAQ: scope-ids? hosts file order?
8 root 1.551 TODO: AnyEvent::Handle with AnyEvent::IO?
9 root 1.571 TODO: invalid. and localhost. specialcasing inside AEDNS and not AESocket (rfc6761)
10 root 1.576 TODO: maybe implement env variable to give hosts precedence
11 root 1.598 TODO: hosts always read? that's not expected
12 root 1.601 TODO: more formats for parse_ipv6 (single ipv6 address without port, ...p80, ...#80)
13 root 1.554
14 root 1.602 - new function AnyEvent::Socket::tcp_bind.
15 root 1.600 - aligned ipv6 address formatting with RFC 5952 (by not shortening
16     a single :0: to ::).
17 root 1.602 - added stability canary support.
18 root 1.600
19 root 1.599 7.09 Sat May 2 16:38:53 CEST 2015
20 root 1.597 - AnyEvent::Debug called an internal function (AnyEvent::Log::ft)
21     that was renamed to AnyEvent::Log:format_time. uinder its old name
22     (analyzed by Michael Stovenour).
23 root 1.598 - update AnyEvent::DNS fallback resolver addresses:
24     seems google effectively killed most other free dns resolvers,
25     so remove them, but add cable and wireless (ecrc) since it was
26     stable for 20 years or so, official or not, and there should be
27     an alternative to google.
28     - perl5porters broke windows error codes in 5.20, and mapped
29     WSAEWOULDBLOCK on the (different) EWOULDBLOCK error code, and
30     WSAEINPROGRESS into the incompatible ERINPROGRESS code, probably
31     because they were so cool. They probably broke other error codes
32     for no reason, too, but I didn't care for checking, it's too
33     depressing. This version only works around the WSAEWOULDBLOCK
34     issue, because I don't have a nice way to work around the
35     WSAEINPROGRESS bug.
36 root 1.597
37 root 1.596 7.08 Wed Dec 10 05:27:17 CET 2014
38 root 1.588 - work around a newly introduced bug in Socket 2.011 (an
39     errornous sun_length check) (analyzed by Maxime Soulé).
40 root 1.589 - AnyEvent::TLS didn't load (but refer to) AnyEvent::Socket
41     (analyzed by Ben Magistro).
42 root 1.590 - AnyEvent::Strict will now confess, not croak. This is in line with
43     it being a development/debugging tool.
44 root 1.591 - work around a number of libglib bugs (debug builds of libglib enforce
45     certain undocumented behaviour patterns such as not being able to
46     remove a child watch source after it has fired, which we will try
47     to emulate to avoid "criticals". what where they thinking...).
48 root 1.594 - mention json security issues in AnyEvent::Handle, now that Douglas
49     Crockford has foolishly and incompatibly changed JSON.
50 root 1.590 - changed default dns resolver "max_outstanding" value from 1 to 10,
51     the latter beinfg the intended value all along
52     (reported by Ilya Chesnokov).
53 root 1.592 - added new "AnyEvent::Impl::UV" interface module to the UV event lib
54     (written by Mike Lowell).
55 root 1.588
56 root 1.586 7.07 Tue Dec 17 17:45:02 CET 2013
57 root 1.583 - the documentation for custom tls verify schemes was wrong. make it agree
58     with the code (reported by Maxime Soulé).
59 root 1.582 - added cbor read and write types to AnyEvent::Handle (using CBOR::XS).
60 root 1.584 - work around an API change in openssl that could cause wrong tls connection
61     aborts, likely on windows only (analyzed by sten).
62 root 1.579 - calling AnyEvent->now_update with AnyEvent::Impl::Perl caused an
63 root 1.578 endless loop (reported by Dietrich Rebmann).
64 root 1.579 - add tlsv1_1 and tlsv1_2 protocols to AnyEvent::TLS
65     (patch by Maxime Soulé).
66 root 1.583 - document AnyEvent::Impl::IOAsync::set_loop and
67     $AnyEvent::Impl::IOAsync::LOOP. Though only documented now, this
68     functionality has _always_ been available.
69 root 1.577 - force a toplevel domain name in t/81_hosts.t (analyzed by
70     David Jack Wange Olrik).
71 root 1.580 - document that AnyEvent::Log uses AnyEvent::IO.
72 root 1.585 - warn about AnyEvent::Filesys::Notify performance.
73     - praise the joys of AnyEvent::Fork::*.
74 root 1.582 - time for an =encoding directive.
75 root 1.585 - do no longer use JSON to create a default json coder, use
76     JSON::XS or JSON::PP directly.
77 root 1.577
78 root 1.576 7.05 Wed Aug 21 10:38:08 CEST 2013
79 root 1.568 - uts46data.pl couldn't be found due to wrong naming of the file
80     (reported by Fulko Hew).
81 root 1.576 - handle lone \015's properly in AE::Handle's default line read
82     (reported by various people).
83     - untaint ip addresses found in /etc/hosts (patch by José Micó).
84     - the memleak fix in 7.03 caused resolving via /etc/hosts to always
85     fail on first use (reported and testcase by Andrew Whatson).
86 root 1.573 - expose AnyEvent::Log::format_time, and allow users to redefine it.
87     - expose AnyEvent::Log::default_format, and allow redefinition.
88     - expose AnyEvent::Log::fatal_exit, to allow redefinition.
89 root 1.571 - AnyEvent::Debug shell can now run coro shell commands, if available.
90 root 1.563 - t/63* tests were wrongly in MANIFEST.
91 root 1.571 - kernel.org's finger server went MIA, switch to freebsd.org and
92     icculus.org.
93 root 1.576 - clarify that IO::AIO and AnyEvent::AIO are needed for AnyEvent::IO
94     to function asynchronously (reported by Daniel Carosone).
95 root 1.571 - hard-disable $^W in most tests, it generates too much garbage output.
96     - use a (hopefully) more future-proof method to emulate common::sense.
97 root 1.572 - upgrade to UTS-46:6.2.0.
98 root 1.576 - switch to INSTLIB from INSTLIBDIR, as INSTLIBDIR was wrongly
99     documented. should not affect anything.
100 root 1.563
101 root 1.562 7.04 Thu Nov 15 02:23:58 CET 2012
102     - debugging code left in.
103    
104 root 1.561 7.03 Thu Nov 15 02:16:11 CET 2012
105 root 1.556 - AnyEvent::Socket::inet_aton did not work when dns resolution was
106     used to find the addresses (analyzed and patch by Maxime Soulé).
107 root 1.560 - fix a memory leak in the /etc/hosts lookup code when hosts don't
108     resolve and are not in hosts (analyzed by sten).
109 root 1.555
110 root 1.554 7.02 Tue Aug 14 04:27:58 CEST 2012
111     - AnyEvent::Util::run_cmd could block indefinitely (analyzed and test
112     program by Yorhel).
113 root 1.553 - verified that AnyEvent::Socket follows RFC5952.
114     - try to parse "ADDR#PORT" in addition to "ADDR PORT".
115 root 1.467
116 root 1.552 7.01 Sun May 13 01:03:17 CEST 2012
117 root 1.551 - fail with EPROTO in AnyEvent::Handle wqhen TLS is requested but
118     not available, instead of throwing an exception.
119 root 1.550 - use File::Spec to get the tmpdir in t/*, to avoid needless
120     failures on (most, not mine :) windows boxes.
121 root 1.552 - new handle read types: tls_detect and tls_autostart.
122 root 1.550
123 root 1.547 7.0 Fri Apr 13 06:33:30 CEST 2012
124 root 1.539 - child watchers are broken in POE 1.352 (also many earlier
125 root 1.544 versions) and there seems to be no way to work around it, as POE
126     itself is inherently racy. Document this regression and add a delay
127     in t/68_poe_03_child.t for the time being.
128 root 1.533 - new module AnyEvent::IO, that is a frontend to either a pure-perl
129     synchronous I/O implementation (AnyEvent::IO::Perl), or to the
130     asynchronous I/O extension IO::AIO (AnyEvent::IO::IOAIO).
131 root 1.544 - load /etc/hosts only when DNS has no answer.
132 root 1.535 - stat /etc/hosts on every access and reload it if it changed.
133     - load /etc/hosts via AnyEvent::IO - potentially asynchronous.
134 root 1.548 - fix a buggy croak in the dh parameter reading in AnyEvent::TLS.
135 root 1.539 - AnyEvent::Log log_to_file and log_to_path now use AnyEvent::IO. As
136     a side effect, they now use true appending as opposed to libc
137     appending, and the file might not have been opened when the function
138     returns.
139 root 1.529 - the default logging level was not properly documented in a variety of
140     places, this has hopefully been rectified.
141 root 1.526 - updated uts46data.pl for unicode 6.1.0.
142 root 1.548 - made log messages generated by AnyEvent submodules not
143 root 1.528 include the package name anymore, as it will be logged
144     by default already.
145 root 1.530 - upgrade to the trick used by common-sense 3.5 to work
146     around extra warning torture/breakage under perl 5.15.x.
147 root 1.531 - log messages by anyevent are now ucfirst, are usually full
148     sentences and do no longer include the package name.
149 root 1.537 - the storable read type would sometimes throw an exception instead
150     of causing EBADMSG (analyzed by Maxime Soulé).
151 root 1.543 - work around a bug in openssl 1.0.1 which enforces a minimum rsa
152     keysize (reported by Paul Howarth).
153 root 1.537 - documented Rocco fabricating statements about AnyEvent and me.
154 root 1.525
155 root 1.524 6.14 Tue Jan 31 20:00:24 CET 2012
156     - AnyEvent::Impl::Tk was broken due to a mysterious "die" inside,
157     probably an editing mistake (reported by Darin McBride).
158    
159 root 1.523 6.13 Thu Jan 12 07:27:01 CET 2012
160     - AnyEvent::Util::fork_call checked for POSIX availability in the wrong way,
161     causing it to fail if POSIX wasn't loaded already (analysed by Rock Power).
162 root 1.522 - AnyEvent::Handle::push_read (line => did pass $1 directly, so
163     regex-matching inside the callback would change the parameter, despite
164     $1 being dynamically scoped per-block. this perl bug is now being
165     worked around (testcase by Cindy Wang).
166    
167 root 1.521 6.12 Mon Dec 12 13:21:10 CET 2011
168     - $! was clobbered by subsequent calls in tcp_connect, due to
169     the postpone not saving/restoring it (analyzed by Richard Garnish).
170    
171 root 1.520 6.11 Tue Nov 22 10:36:05 CET 2011
172 root 1.519 - Tk cannot create windows when tainted unless you set a title, so
173     set a dummy title for AnyEvent's dummy mainwindow. How dummy.
174 root 1.518 - escape any nonprintable/nonascii characters when stringifying
175     backtraces.
176 root 1.519 - log the reason loading an interface module fails to load at level debug.
177 root 1.518
178 root 1.517 6.1 Tue Oct 4 19:44:30 CEST 2011
179 root 1.507 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: the default log level is now "4" (error
180     and above), and some messages inside AnyEvent have been elevated
181     to higher log levels to print by default.
182 root 1.508 - AnyEvent::log, unlike AnyEvent::Log::log, did not always exit on fatal.
183 root 1.511 - work around yet another signal race bug, newly introduced by POE. My
184     how that module sucks.
185 root 1.507 - add google public ipv6 dns as fallback servers, so AE::DNS can finally
186 root 1.504 support ipv6-only operation even with defaults (also use ::1 instead
187     of 127.0.0.1).
188 root 1.507 - give better guidelines on how to chose a logging level.
189 root 1.513 - AnyEvent::Log can now cap (limit) log message priority by context.
190 root 1.514 - AE::log will now save and restore $! and $@, so callers don't have to.
191 root 1.505 - AE::Strict now checks that registered fds are still valid at regular
192     intervals.
193 root 1.507 - skip frequently called 'require' calls if the module appears loaded.
194 root 1.512 - increase signal latency test timer considerably for poor little osx,
195     which can't be bothered with basic posix functionality such as signal
196     delivery.
197 root 1.503 - mention some debugging aids in the tutorial.
198 root 1.511 - new env variable PERL_ANYEVENT_MAX_SIGNAL_LATENCY.
199 root 1.513 - private (%namespace) log contexts in PERL_ANYEVENT_LOG now have the name
200     of the context as title.
201 root 1.516 - AnyEvent::Strict would not restore read-write access to $_ when a callback
202     died - this is a user bug, but since AE::Strict exists to help dbeugging...
203 root 1.509 - detect the extremely evil IO::Async::Loop::AnyEvent module and refuse
204     to work with it - the author is well aware of the issues but refuses
205     to fix them. This extreme step has been taken because the module actively
206     attacks the goals of AnyEvent and makes it harder for module authors to use
207     AnyEvent.
208 root 1.500
209 root 1.499 6.02 Fri Aug 26 20:08:31 CEST 2011
210 root 1.497 - log_to_syslog now accepts facility strings.
211     - log_to_syslog would not allow facilities - "$facility|$level"
212     *literally* means that string. sheesh.
213     - the CPAN parser got confused and thought we provide Sys::Syslog, try
214     to work around.
215 root 1.498 - renamed AnyEvent::Impl::FLTK2 to FLTK.
216 root 1.497
217 root 1.496 6.01 Fri Aug 26 07:04:11 CEST 2011
218 root 1.477 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: AnyEvent::DNS resource records now include
219     the TTL as fourth element - this affects ->resolve, ->request
220     and ->dns_unpack indirectly. Convenience functions such as
221     AnyEvent::DNS::{a,txt,mx,srv} are not affected, neither is
222     AnyEvent::Socket.
223 root 1.454 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: backend authors now should not implement
224 root 1.455 one_event or loop, but instead the AnyEvent::CondVar::_wait and _poll
225     methods.
226 root 1.475 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: verbosity levels have been redefined, see
227     AnyEvent (PERL_ANYEVENT_VERBOSE) and AnyEvent::Log for details.
228 root 1.455 - DEPRECIATION: please change
229     "use AnyEvent::Impl::Perl" to "use AnyEvent::Loop" and
230     "AnyEvent::Impl::Perl::loop" to "AnyEvent::Loop::run"
231     in your programs, for future compatibility.
232 root 1.460 - *blush* idle watcher emulation was borked.
233 root 1.461 - AnyEvent::Strict now checks the AE::xxx functions as well.
234 root 1.458 - querying too long domain names would barf deep inside AnyEvent::DNS - since
235     this is hard to avoid for applications, AnyEvent:.DNS::request now checks for
236     for too long domain names explicitly and passes an undef to the callback
237     instead (reported by James Bromberger).
238 root 1.464 - make AnyEvent::Util more robust against EINTR (analyzed by Andrew Suffield).
239 root 1.475 - new functions: AnyEvent::postpone, AnyEvent::log.
240     - new module: AnyEvent::Log, for simple logging needs.
241 root 1.487 - new env variable, PERL_ANYEVENT_LOG, for fine-grained logging config.
242 root 1.463 - new env variable, PERL_ANYEVENT_DEBUG_SHELL, to automatically start
243     a debug shell.
244     - new env variable, PERL_ANYEVENT_DEBUG_WRAP, to automatically enable
245 root 1.464 watcher instrumentation/wrapping (see AnyEvent::Debug::wrap).
246 root 1.488 - new env variable, PERL_ANYEVENT_HOSTS, to override the place where
247 root 1.508 /etc/hosts can be found.
248 root 1.486 - an empty PERL_ANYEVENT_RESOLV_CONF now selects the default
249     configuration.
250     - env variables can now be specified using AE_xyz instead of
251     PERL_ANYEVENT_xyz, subject to some rules.
252 root 1.473 - lots of new AnyEvent::Debug functionality.
253 root 1.534 - AnyEvent::Strict now checks for modifications of $_ by the callback
254 root 1.479 (by setting it to readonly while executing the callback, if possible).
255 root 1.459 - IO::Async sometimes cancels the wrong timer when you call cancel_timer.
256     Invest extra overhead to work around this peculiar behaviour.
257 root 1.455 - split the pure perl backend into a loop module and an impl
258     module (AnyEvent::Loop and AnyEvent::Impl::Perl).
259 root 1.450 - some read types (regex, netstring, json, storable) could
260     errornously keep an AE::Handle object alive on their own
261     (reported by Mohammad Toossi).
262 root 1.488 - AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr and all functions using it now
263     supports /etc/hosts overrides.
264 root 1.453 - add more workarounds around child watcher bugs in IO::Async
265     and (newly introduced) in POE.
266     - use glib child watchers and try to work around its limitations,
267     if possible (based on a patch by Kevin Ryde).
268 root 1.460 - add support for FLTK (fltk2), via AnyEvent::Impl::FLTK2.
269 root 1.447 - many read types in AnyEvent::Handle would malfunction during
270     transitions to TLS because of a "delete $self->{rbuf}".
271     (reported by Gerald Galster).
272 root 1.452 - improve condvar blocking wait performance (probably only noticable
273     with faster backends), also make it easier for event loops that
274 root 1.453 do not support blocking waits.
275 root 1.459 - PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL now also allows full module names, although
276     the usefulness of this feature is not yet clear.
277 root 1.460 - add tests for all supported event loops, conditional on PERL_ANYEVENT_LOOP_TESTS.
278     - add t/80_ssltext.t.
279 root 1.461 - no longer use AUTOLOAD for the initial loading (for no very good reason).
280 root 1.465 - tcp_server now tries to unlink unix domain sockets when it gets destroyed.
281 root 1.470 - do not run event loop detection multiple times when programs call their cached
282     copies of AnyEvent::detect.
283 root 1.472 - parse_hostport now accepts absolute paths als unix domain sockets.
284 root 1.495 - suppress the idiotic warning inside POE by patching the POE::Kernel
285     run flags instead of asking the user to jump through contortions.
286 root 1.484 - add Task::Weaken as dependency (as recommends only at this time).
287 root 1.494 - replace PF_UNSPEC by 0, for good old minix.
288 root 1.446
289 root 1.476 6.0 (not officially released, but was on CPAN for about 15 minutes :/)
290    
291 root 1.446 5.34 Thu May 12 09:59:41 CEST 2011
292 root 1.445 - AE::TLS didn't support both cert_file and key at the same time,
293     due to some copy&paste bug (reported and analyzed by vti).
294 root 1.444 - improve AE::Handle timeout documentation slightly.
295    
296     5.33 Mon Feb 7 21:51:41 CET 2011
297 root 1.446 - never appeared on CPAN, for unknown reasons.
298 root 1.443 - AnyEvent::Handle on_connect_error - do not try to destroy a handle
299     object when it's already gone (analyzed by Ryan Bullock).
300 root 1.441 - update idna algorithm(s) to UTS#46 version 6.0.0.
301     - preserve trailing dot in idn_to_ascii - testsuite says to preserve,
302     uts46 says it's an error, and testsuite makes more sense.
303 root 1.442 - remove leading dots in idn_to_ascii - testsuite says to remove,
304     uts46 says it's an error, and testsuite makes more sense.
305 root 1.441 - fixed a bug in idn ignored character processing.
306 root 1.442 - passes the uts46 6.0.0 testsuite except for three cases which
307     apparently are bugs in the testsuite itself.
308     - passes the uts46 6.0.1 testsuite except for eleven cases which
309     apparently are bugs in the testsuite itself.
310 root 1.441
311 root 1.439 5.31 Sun Jan 23 11:49:19 CET 2011
312 root 1.437 - work around a POE bug where POE would first poll for new events and
313     invoke handlers BEFORE handling the message queue.
314 root 1.436 - fix parsing of "domain" statement in resolv.conf (Johannes Plunien).
315 root 1.435 - stop_read now does just that in TLS mode. see its
316     documentation for caveats.
317 root 1.440 - update to common::sense 3.4 warning set (some warnings in perl impose
318     an arbitrary 32kb limit on regex matches, which affects
319     AnyEvent::Handle).
320 root 1.438 - AE::Handle had a broken rbuf_max method and missing wbuf_max method.
321 root 1.439 - new experimental AE::Handle::resettls method.
322 root 1.434
323 root 1.432 5.3 Fri Dec 31 05:48:13 CET 2010
324 root 1.427 - major IOAsync patch by Paul Evans - 0.33 is required, as the major
325     issues with IO::Async have been solved in that version, including
326     the availabilty of a default loop!
327 root 1.429 - implement new wbuf_max parameter for AnyEvent::Handle.
328 root 1.430 - added Cocoa::EventLoop backend by Daisuke Murase.
329 root 1.427 - the default testsuite now honors PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL (Paul Evans).
330 root 1.431 - clarify handle on_prepare documentation.
331 root 1.425 - set CLOEXEC flag on parent-side fd's in AnyEvent::Util::run_cmd,
332     to avoid leaking them to any child processes.
333 root 1.426 - try to force files into the arch-dependend lib directory, for the
334     half-"turly obsessive compulsive person"(s) that depend on it.
335 root 1.425
336 root 1.423 5.29 Sun Dec 5 10:49:21 CET 2010
337     - convert EV backend to EV 4.00 API (so better upgrade EV too).
338 root 1.415 - AE::Handle: implement dynamic read_size adjustment, add
339     max_read_size parameter, reduce default read_size to 2048.
340 root 1.423 - add some FAQ entries for servers and/or on_eof vs. on_error.
341 root 1.414 - work around OS bugs (cygwin again) when lingering in AE::Handle.
342 root 1.418 - reduce memory usage slightly when connect was used in AE::Handle.
343 root 1.423 - wrok around more segfaults in Tk.
344 root 1.419 - document tls_ctx => undef as valid.
345 root 1.423 - detect WNOHANG value at compiletime.
346 root 1.420 - include some probably linux-only support for building AnyEvent
347     as part of the perl core.
348 root 1.421 - improve compatibility of t/08_idna.t to perl 5.8.
349 root 1.422 - make AnyEvent::Strict truly optional (in case somebody builds a
350     minimal perl...).
351 root 1.414
352 root 1.413 5.28 Wed Oct 13 04:14:23 CEST 2010
353 root 1.408 - due to a glitch, AnyEvent's internal getprotobyname wasn't
354     actually used in tcp_server.
355 root 1.410 - implement AnyEvent::CondVar->new method, which was documented but
356     missing.
357 root 1.409 - support autoloading of read types in unshift_read.
358 root 1.408 - AnyEvent::Strict: do the test for invalid fh arguments differently,
359     resulting in more informative error messages.
360 root 1.411 - new AnyEvent::FAQ manpage.
361 root 1.404 - clarify that you can actually call push_read etc. in on_read.
362 root 1.413 - put keys and certs in /tmp, not into the current directory,
363     and document this in the SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS sections
364     of AnyEvent::TLS.
365 root 1.409 - support ";" as resolv.conf comment character in AnyEvent::DNS, as
366     requested by Ron Isaacson.
367     - document $AnyEvent::DNS::RESOLVER variable.
368 root 1.405 - incorporated major typo patches by Abhijit Menon-Sen.
369 root 1.412 - AnyEvent::Handle now croaks when negative timeouts are passed.
370 root 1.409 - add a shitload of TCP_xxx sockopt name constants to AnyEvent::Util,
371     undocumented, but who knows when they might come in handy.
372 root 1.404
373 root 1.402 5.271 Tue Jun 8 12:05:46 CEST 2010
374 root 1.401 - backport to perl 5.8.x.
375    
376 root 1.400 5.27 Sun Jun 6 12:12:05 CEST 2010
377 root 1.398 - postpone differently in AnyEvent::Socket now, as
378     when not, canceling the connection attempt might fail
379     (found by Felix Antonius Wilhelm Ostmann).
380 root 1.397 - explicitly check for non-stream sockets in AE::Handle, too many
381     clueless people fell into the trap of this somehow working.
382 root 1.395 - simplified and reworked the "OTHER MODULES" section.
383 root 1.399 - better/more condvar examples.
384 root 1.395
385 root 1.394 5.261 Wed Apr 28 16:13:36 CEST 2010
386 root 1.393 - AF_INET6 was not properly used from Socket6 during configuration
387     time (found by Andy Grundman).
388    
389 root 1.392 5.26 Mon Apr 12 04:49:35 CEST 2010
390 root 1.389 - don't generate spurious readyness notifications when select
391     returns EINTR in the pure perl backend (analysed and testcase
392     by Bas Denissen).
393 root 1.391 - give same examples in SYNOPSIS sections of AnyEvent and AE.
394 root 1.390 - provider faster implementations for AE::time/now/now_update for
395     EV and Perl backends.
396     - provide faster AE::cv and AE::time implementations for all
397     backends.
398     - no longer support lower/mixed-case signal names (this was
399     never documented nor universally supported).
400     - some more memory µ-optimisations, and somewhat less messy
401     code to cope with both AnyEvent and AE APIs.
402 root 1.389
403 root 1.386 5.251 Sat Mar 13 00:58:21 CET 2010
404 root 1.387 - make test failed if it was run before make install on perl <=
405     5.8.8, and older versions of perl make our live very difficult,
406     so write constants.pl during Makefile.PL time.
407 root 1.386
408 root 1.384 5.25 Sat Mar 13 00:23:14 CET 2010
409 root 1.383 - fix a race condition in AnyEvent::Handle that would cause
410     a "bio_read: unsupported method" error (in _another_
411     ssl connection) after user code threw an exception.
412 root 1.385 - added AnyEvent::Handle->destroyed method.
413 root 1.376 - speed up AnyEvent::Socket::format_address and ::format_ipv6.
414 root 1.378 - the AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking function worked only
415     by lucky accident on win32.
416 root 1.377 - smaller and faster AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking.
417 root 1.379 - when the (required!) Time::HiRes module is missing, AnyEvent
418     did not fall back to built-in time properly.
419 root 1.381 - do not load Fcntl at runtime, saving memory and loading time.
420     - precompile a number of constants and use them instead of runtime
421     detection and eval.
422     - free detection code after detection and similar memory optimisations.
423 root 1.382 - Perl backend timer interval best effort drift has been improved
424 root 1.388 (same algorithm as EV).
425 root 1.385 - update unicode idna mapping table.
426 root 1.376
427 root 1.375 5.24 Tue Jan 5 11:39:43 CET 2010
428     - cygwin never reports errors from failed connects. 1.5 just gives
429     you continous readyness and EAGAIN, 1.7 is even more broken and
430     just hangs. work around both issues in a cygwin-specific hack.
431 root 1.374 - improve idle watcher documentation slightly.
432    
433 root 1.373 5.23 Sun Dec 20 23:48:00 CET 2009
434 root 1.372 - support IDNs in resolve_sockaddr, and therefore in tcp_connect.
435 root 1.373 - implement punycode_encode/decode, idn_nameprep,
436     idn_to_ascii and idn_to_unicode operations in AnyEvent::Util.
437 root 1.366 - provide $AE::VERSION.
438 root 1.367 - removed traces of "no strict 'refs'".
439 root 1.366
440 root 1.365 5.22 Sat Dec 5 03:51:13 CET 2009
441 root 1.358 - downgrade-or-fail in AnyEvent::Handle::push_write, to
442     diagnose encoding failures earlier and more succinctly.
443 root 1.359 (this works around bugs in perl, throwing away encoding info
444     when passing scalar data to extensions).
445 root 1.360 - add more examples to AnyEvent::Socket manpage.
446 root 1.361 - upgrade internal warning set to the same as common::sense 2.03.
447 root 1.362 - use pack "n/a*" for pre-5.8.9 perl compatibility in AnyEvent::DNS
448     (John Beppu).
449 root 1.364 - AnyEvent::Socket::inet_aton now properly supports ipv6, as documented.
450 root 1.363 - add google public dns servers to fallback server set and make sure
451     we load-balance properly between the three sets. also add all
452     fallback dns servers, not just a random one, to each dns config.
453 root 1.358
454 root 1.357 5.21 Thu Nov 19 02:48:47 CET 2009
455 root 1.356 - fix a problem where socket constants were called with parameters
456 root 1.355 (spotted by David Friedland).
457 root 1.356 - fork_call never use'd POSIX (reported by Daisuke Maki).
458 root 1.355 - improve perl 5.6 compatibility further (but it still won't work
459     unless you rip out everything but the core).
460 root 1.357 - prefer Net::DNS::Resolver over ipconfig, if installed, on win32.
461     uses 10MB of RAM, but doesn't open a console window. *sigh*.
462 root 1.355
463 root 1.354 5.202 Wed Oct 14 22:35:44 CEST 2009
464     - AnyEvent::DNS would unexpectedly clobber $_ under windows
465     (analysed by Matthias Waldorf).
466 root 1.353 - AnyEvent::Handle::run_cmd can now pass the PID of the
467     newly-created process, which is much less useful than it might
468     sound (based on patch by Yann Kerherve).
469    
470 root 1.352 5.201 Tue Sep 29 12:09:25 CEST 2009
471 root 1.350 - AnyEvent:Handle::on_starttls/on_stoptls methods were broken
472     (reported by Torsten Foertsch).
473 root 1.351 - common::sense 2.0 could cause tcp_server to throw an exception
474     (analysed by elmex).
475 root 1.350
476 root 1.349 5.2 Mon Sep 14 07:04:49 CEST 2009
477 root 1.347 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: do no longer support register_read_type
478     and register_write_type in AnyEvent::Handle, instead support
479     package names (the facility was mostly abused).
480 root 1.349 - implement "packagename-as-read/write type" support in
481     AnyEvent::Handle.
482 root 1.345 - AnyEvent::Handle: new options "keepalive" and "oobinline".
483 root 1.346 - oobinline set by default to avoid security issues.
484 root 1.349 - the pure-perl event loop backend wrongly detected times() fallback
485     support (spotted by Pavel Boldin).
486 root 1.345
487 root 1.344 5.12 Tue Sep 1 20:26:50 CEST 2009
488 root 1.343 - be more lenient when parsing resolv.conf files, as some people
489     use hashmarks as comment indicator inside directives (reported
490     by Michael S. Fischer).
491     - use same set of warnings as common::sense 2.0.
492 root 1.342 - fix a potential 32 bit overflow issue due to perl having problems
493     with large hex constants in the Perl backend.
494     - do not use the slower 5.6 version fo the enc_name code in AnyEvent::DNS
495     by default.
496 root 1.343 - fix some prototypes.
497 root 1.344 - (optionally) require Async::Interrupt 1.02.
498 root 1.343 - replace opendns fallbacks by verizon/level3 public dns servers.
499 root 1.342
500 root 1.339 5.112 Fri Aug 21 13:59:04 CEST 2009
501 root 1.338 - AnyEvent::Handle could cause hard crashes in Net::SSLeay when
502     using starttls with an illegal/uncreatable tls context.
503 root 1.339 - port to broken win32 perls.
504 root 1.338
505 root 1.337 5.111 Sun Aug 16 18:44:36 CEST 2009
506     - perl errornously requires sockaddr_un structures returned by the
507     kernel to have a specific length. work around this bug by padding
508     sockaddr_un structures (found to fail on OS X, as perl only uses
509     the correct code for GNU/Linux, but likely to fail on other
510     OSes as well).
511    
512 root 1.336 5.11 Wed Aug 12 17:49:37 CEST 2009
513 elmex 1.335 - fixed a bug in run_cmd with input from filename.
514 root 1.336 - create a json coder object when none is given in write direction
515     to reduce dependency on JSON.
516 elmex 1.335
517 root 1.334 5.1 Tue Aug 11 03:17:32 CEST 2009
518 root 1.333 - tcp_connect now reports the correct error in $!, not an unrelated
519     one (was broken since 4.91).
520     - AE::Handle did not properly clear rtimeout/wtimeout watchers
521     when retrying a tcp_connect.
522     - new functions: AnyEvent::Util::run_cmd and close_all_fds_except.
523 elmex 1.332 - fixed wrong documentation in AE::Socket.
524    
525 root 1.330 5.01 Mon Aug 10 03:16:32 CEST 2009
526     - last release broke EV child watchers :/.
527    
528 root 1.329 5.0 Sun Aug 9 17:32:09 CEST 2009
529     - officially introduce and document the AE API.
530 root 1.323 - lowering the timeout at runtime did not have immediate effect
531     in AnyEvent::Handle.
532 root 1.324 - AE::Handle now has separate and independent read and write timeout
533     settings.
534 root 1.326 - probe for Guard module when AnyEvent::Util is loaded, not at
535     runtime (Event doesn't like eval "use" from callbacks, and it avoids
536     exporting the probe function).
537 root 1.328 - Impl::IOAsync's io watchers did not use the filehandle emulation
538     code to work around it's watcher limits.
539     - work around IO::Async's problems with overloaded objects.
540     - try to disable wearnings inside IO::Async, it's just too buggy.
541 root 1.327 - do no longer use Event by default, only EV or Perl, Event is too buggy.
542 root 1.329 - hackishly provide fast AE:: interface when EV or Perl is the backend.
543 root 1.325 - inherit VERSION from AnyEvent::VERSION in most modules.
544 root 1.322
545 root 1.321 4.91 Thu Aug 6 15:42:45 CEST 2009
546 root 1.319 - AE::Handle::starttls could get out of sync when the read buffer
547     already contains some TLS handshake.
548 root 1.318 - AE::Handle did not properly free the TLS session, causing bigger
549     memory leaks in Net::SSLeay than expected (reported by toaster).
550 root 1.320 - AE::Socket::tcp_connect will now artificially delay invoking
551     the callback to avoid returning after invoking the callback.
552 root 1.321 - convert many internal watcher uses to AE API.
553 root 1.317
554 root 1.316 4.9 Sat Aug 1 11:07:01 CEST 2009
555 root 1.308 - Glib silently fails when registering a timeout with
556     a negative value, so avoid that.
557 root 1.315 - call condvar callback immediately when it is set
558     after the condition is already signalled.
559 root 1.314 - check rbuf_max condition only after trying to consume
560     data.
561 root 1.305 - normalise signal numbers to names when using the ae's
562     signal handling, but do not document this (yet).
563 root 1.308 - pure perl signal emulation did not properly set nonblocking
564     mode on the signal pipe on win32 (this is unlikely to have caused
565     any issues).
566 root 1.310 - new module: AnyEvent::Debug.
567 root 1.309 - AnyEvent::Strict now checks that a signal was specified
568     by name (not name or number).
569     - reduce memory footprint in typical cases by ~50kb by
570 root 1.308 only compiling signal code when necessary.
571 root 1.313 - add AnyEvent::Handle->rbuf_max.
572 root 1.311 - grab the AE namespace for future new API, implement stubs for
573     said future/alternative API.
574 root 1.315 - new function: AnyEvent::Socket::format_hostport.
575 root 1.305
576 root 1.303 4.881 Tue Jul 28 12:51:53 CEST 2009
577     - work around a bug in local in pre-5.10 perls, causing
578 root 1.304 AnyEvent::Handle to recurse when it should not
579 root 1.351 (analysed by elmex).
580 root 1.303
581 root 1.302 4.88 Tue Jul 28 04:04:37 CEST 2009
582 root 1.301 - re-bless the handle into a dummy package after calling
583     AnyEvent::Handle::destroy, so the user does not need to check
584     for errors after every push_write etc.
585 root 1.302 - do not attempt to run t/02_signals.t on obviously broken
586     platforms.
587 root 1.301
588 root 1.300 4.87 Sun Jul 26 02:06:16 CEST 2009
589 root 1.295 - do not attempt to linger when there is no longer a valid fh.
590 root 1.296 - enforce tls mode to be either accept or connect, do not simply
591     segfault in Net::SSLeay.
592 root 1.298 - AnyEvent::Handle can now call tcp_connect itself (new parameters
593 root 1.299 connect, on_prepare, on_connect and on_connect_error). Updated
594     tutorial accordingly.
595 root 1.297 - add AnyEvent::Impl::Irssi backend.
596 root 1.295
597 root 1.294 4.86 Mon Jul 20 23:52:29 CEST 2009
598     - since the verbose warning is not enough, explicitly document
599     that versions before 1.33 of Net::SSLeay are not secure.
600 root 1.292 - work around signal handling races in Event and (...) Event::Lib.
601 root 1.293 - try to align signal-race timer to full-second boundaries.
602     - work around Tk not liking negative timeouts.
603 root 1.292 - don't complain of different grades of environmental unfriendlyness
604 root 1.302 in IO::Async.
605 root 1.292
606 root 1.290 4.85 Sat Jul 18 06:16:14 CEST 2009
607 root 1.287 - nail the signal race problem in perl once and for all
608     (see $AnyEvent::MAX_SIGNAL_LATENCY).
609     - take advantage of Async::Interrupt if it is available.
610     - load Time::HiRes and Guard modules on demand only.
611     - add optional/recommended modules section to AnyEvent
612     documentation.
613 root 1.288 - reduce memory usage considerably (and reduce startup penalty)
614     by not using "strict", "warnings" and "overload" modules.
615 root 1.289 - work around buggy windows/openbsd perls and provide EBADMSG
616     and EPROTO ourselves when missing.
617     - improve perl 5.6 compatibility of the core event loop.
618     - made Net::SSLeay version 1.33 a soft requirement.
619 root 1.286
620 root 1.285 4.83 Fri Jul 17 16:56:26 CEST 2009
621 root 1.284 - implement AnyEvent::Socket::getprotobyname.
622 root 1.283 - AnyEvent::CondVar's will now detect recursive blocking
623 root 1.284 waits and will croak, as too many people fall into
624     this trap.
625 root 1.281 - AnyEvent::Handle will now call ->destroy on itself after
626     executing the on_error callback, instead of doing some
627     half-baked internal shutdown, for fatal errors.
628 root 1.282 - clarify on_eof behaviour w.r.t. the read queue and
629     on_read callbacks.
630 root 1.281 - ignore some possible spurious wake-ups in tcp_connect.
631 root 1.279
632 root 1.278 4.82 Sat Jul 11 00:34:55 CEST 2009
633 root 1.277 - POE and Event backends didn't accept some callable objects as
634     callbacks.
635 root 1.275 - use Config module instead of POSIX module to detect signal names
636     in AnyEvent::Strict and AnyEvent::Impl::EventLib, as the POSIX
637     module doesn't even have all POSIX signals :/.
638 root 1.276 - use more workarounds around the many refcnt/corruption bugs in
639     Event::Lib.
640     - work around a race condition in perl's select, causing t/03_child.t
641     to rarely fail.
642 root 1.275
643 root 1.274 4.81 Thu Jul 9 10:30:30 CEST 2009
644 root 1.272 - AnyEvent::Handle didn't properly diagnose write errors
645     (it expected -1 from syswrite, how lame... :).
646 root 1.268 - support file descriptors in addition to file handles
647     in AnyEvent->io.
648 root 1.265 - new env variables: PERL_ANYEVENT_RESOLV_CONF,
649 root 1.266 PERL_ANYEVENT_MAX_OUTSTANDING_DNS, PERL_ANYEVENT_CA_FILE
650     and PERL_ANYEVENT_CA_PATH.
651 root 1.267 - provide a sensible synopsis section for AnyEvent::TLS.
652 root 1.273 - add a "supported backends" section to the manpage.
653 root 1.270 - added simple io watcher test to testsuite, using a
654     portable_socketpair.
655 root 1.271 - tried to improve the stability of the Event::Lib backend,
656     YMMV.
657 root 1.265
658 root 1.264 4.8 Mon Jul 6 23:45:16 CEST 2009
659 root 1.261 - AnyEvent::DNS did not properly follow CNAME records with
660     uppercase targets.
661 root 1.262 - AnyEvent::DNS would errornously return AAAA records
662     with v4 mapped addresses (a faulty record) as ipv4 addresses,
663     causing AnyEvent::Socket to throw an exception.
664 root 1.260 - added new module AnyEvent::TLS for easier SSL/TLS context
665     creation, with many options including hostname verification,
666     secure default configuration, lots of documentation and,
667     predefined diffie-hellman keys for perfect forward security
668     and much more. get it while it's still fresh!
669     - use AnyEvent::TLS in AnyEvent::Handle for context management.
670 root 1.256 - load AnyEvent::Handle only on demand in AnyEvent::DNS,
671     so AnyEvent::Socket users have smaller memory footprint
672     in the common case.
673 root 1.258 - add AnyEvent::Handle->push_shutdown method.
674     - add an additional error message parameter to AnyEvent::Handle's
675     on_error callback (for TLS, $! is still available).
676 root 1.263 - add AnyEvent::Handle on_starttls/on_stoptls callbacks.
677 root 1.596 - make AnyEvent::Handle more robust against early connection
678 root 1.257 failures (during new), and return C<undef> in that case
679     from the constructor.
680 root 1.259 - AnyEvent::Handle will now try to load only JSON::XS first,
681     then fall back to JSON.
682 root 1.262 - format_ipv4/format_ipv6 are now exported by default, for symmetry,
683     and because it was documented that way.
684 root 1.256
685 root 1.258 4.451 Fri Jul 3 00:28:58 CEST 2009
686     - do not clear rbuf when shutting down an AnyEvent::Handle
687     object - doing so breaks AnyEvent::HTTP.
688    
689 root 1.255 4.45 Mon Jun 29 22:59:26 CEST 2009
690     - a write error could cause AnyEvent::Handle to create
691     an I/O watcher with an undefined $fh.
692 root 1.251 - special-case mapped ipv4 addresses in both
693     AnyEvent::Socket::format_address and parse_address,
694     to treat them just like ipv4 addresses.
695 root 1.254 - updated and overhauled the AnyEvent::Intro doc.
696 root 1.252 - implement AnyEvent::Socket::format_ipv4/ipv6.
697     - slightly speed up portable_pipe/socketpair.
698 root 1.255 - expand condvar begin/end documentation.
699 root 1.250
700 root 1.249 4.42 Fri Jun 26 08:32:18 CEST 2009
701 root 1.248 - preliminary and neccesarily incomplete support for IO::Async.
702 root 1.247 - reset SIGCHLD to DEFAULT when AnyEvent is loaded, in
703     case it was set to IGNORE, to ensure we can catch child statuses
704     even when the calling env acts stupidly.
705 root 1.248 - updated benchmarks with IO::Async, which performs very well.
706 root 1.247
707 root 1.245 4.412 Wed Jun 24 01:35:57 CEST 2009
708 root 1.242 - support an "untaint" attribute for AnyEvent::DNS
709     and set it on the default resolver.
710 root 1.241 - implement and document AnyEvent::Impl::Perl::loop.
711 root 1.242 - remove all anyevent-env variables from %ENV
712     when running in tainted mode.
713 root 1.244 - mention and extend the IO::Lambda benchmark.
714 root 1.241
715 root 1.240 4.411 Sun Jun 7 18:48:02 CEST 2009
716 root 1.239 - do not try to use F_SETFD on windows.
717    
718 root 1.238 4.41 Thu May 14 06:40:11 CEST 2009
719 root 1.236 - work around issues in older perls (5.8.0?) when
720     a signal handler is deleted from the %SIG hash.
721 root 1.237 - use POSIX::_exit in child test, to avoid running
722     destructors.
723     - speed up CHLD handling by relying on SIGCHLD being
724     synchronously delivered, even when we roll our own
725     implementation.
726 root 1.238 - AnyEvent::DNS: add the "dname" resource record name
727     for cosmetic reasons.
728 root 1.235
729 root 1.234 4.4 Sun Apr 26 20:12:33 CEST 2009
730     - implemented idle watchers, where applicable.
731 root 1.232 - AnyEvent->time died when Event backend was in use.
732     - fix a memleak in the Tk backend.
733     - sped up Tk timer handling.
734 root 1.233 - clip negative "after" values to 0 in AnyEvent::Impl::Event
735     to avoid spamming out warning messages.
736 root 1.232 - fix Qt timers without interval.
737 root 1.242 - avoid Qt zero-timeout special case, in old libqt's.
738 root 1.232
739 root 1.231 4.352 Mon Apr 20 16:31:11 CEST 2009
740 root 1.229 - fix AnyEvent::Strict error messages for child watchers.
741 root 1.230 - fix/update Makefile.PL "recommends" versions.
742     - add AnyEvent->now_update.
743 root 1.229
744 root 1.228 4.351 Sat Apr 11 07:56:14 CEST 2009
745 root 1.225 - actually make the signal pipe work under win32.
746 root 1.227 - localise $! in signal handler to avoid changing $!, although
747     perl itself does not seem to save/restore errno either.
748 root 1.226 - set the cloexec flag on the signal pipe (normally set by perl too).
749 root 1.225
750 root 1.224 4.35 Fri Mar 27 11:48:20 CET 2009
751 root 1.220 - event models relying on AnyEvent's signal watcher emulation did
752     invoke the callback asynchronously, contradicting documentation
753     and causing signals to get lost (this includes AnyEvent's own
754     event loop). AnyEvent now uses the standard pipe trick to make
755     callback execution synchronous to the event loop.
756 root 1.224 - AnyEvent::Handle didn't free TLS context data on DESTROY
757 root 1.223 (patch by Pavel Shaydo).
758 root 1.220 - work around the ever-incompatibly-changing API of MakeMaker.
759 root 1.221 - document that changing global variables without restoring them
760     is a bad idea in Perl (noted by Adam Rosenstein).
761 root 1.224 - AnyEvent::Strict now barfs if ->io is passed a file.
762 root 1.220
763 root 1.219 4.34 Thu Feb 12 18:32:45 CET 2009
764 root 1.218 - separately buffer TLS read data, as otherwise the read queue could
765     deadlock as receiving data is not expected while draining the
766     read queue (which cna only happen with TLS).
767 root 1.214 - raise EBADMSG error on JSON decoding errors.
768 root 1.215 - fix some minor manpage bugs (reported by Maximilian Gaß).
769     - speed up select bitmask parsing quite a bit in the pure perl
770     backend.
771 root 1.216 - use CORE::select instead of just select in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
772 root 1.214
773 root 1.213 4.331 Tue Jan 6 21:07:25 CET 2009
774 root 1.212 - socketpair fails on many vista machines because vista has
775     completely broken accept/getpeername and getsockname functions,
776     so we provide our own socketpair emulation that kind of works
777     (AnyEvent::Util::portable_pipe).
778     - new function: AnyEvent::Util::portable_socketpair.
779 root 1.211 - take advantage of the Guard module if it exists.
780    
781 root 1.210 4.33 Fri Nov 21 02:35:40 CET 2008
782     - AnyEvent::Strict did errornously flag a fileno of 0 as
783     illegal.
784 root 1.206 - reduce memory usage and slightly speed up the pure perl backend
785     by only storing the file descriptor, not the file handle.
786 root 1.207 - add missing autocork method to AnyEvent::Handle (reported
787     by Adam Rosenstein).
788 root 1.209 - AnyEvent::DNS->resolve errornously documented an $rcode result
789 root 1.208 argument, but there isn't (spotted by Henrik Krohns).
790 root 1.209 - the naked truth about Tk - it's basically unmaintained.
791 root 1.206
792 root 1.205 4.32 Mon Nov 3 22:46:32 CET 2008
793 root 1.204 - fix AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr to properly support
794     unix sockets again and choose a proper default for
795     the socket type.
796     - fix call to resolve_sockaddr in tcp_connect.
797    
798 root 1.203 4.31 Thu Oct 30 04:41:48 CET 2008
799 root 1.200 - implemented AnyEvent::Handle->destroy method.
800 root 1.203 - hint about unexpected effects in TLS mode.
801 root 1.200 - speed up AnyEvent::Impl::Perl by using more arrays
802     instead of hashes without the slightest loss of readability :)
803 root 1.201 - work around a perl argument refcounting bug.
804 root 1.202 - with some perl patches applied, AnyEvent now seems leak-free.
805 root 1.198
806 root 1.197 4.3 Fri Oct 3 09:18:43 CEST 2008
807 root 1.196 - AnyEvent will now install a no-op signal handler for SIGPIPE,
808     unless one has been installed already.
809 root 1.197 - warn about not loaidng AnyEvent::Impl::POE early enough
810     (patch by Adam Rosenstein).
811 root 1.390 - fixed a great number of bugs and corner cases in AnyEvent::Handle.
812 root 1.193 - fix a bug in where in SSL connect mode, the
813 root 1.191 client would first wait for some data by the server and
814 root 1.351 otherwise hang. (reported and analysed in an absolutely
815 root 1.191 exemplary manner by Adam Rosenstein).
816 root 1.193 - fix a bug in where SSL EOF would not be treated
817 root 1.191 as stream EOF, putting the connection into a hung state.
818 root 1.351 (reported and analysed in an absolutely exemplary manner by Adam
819 root 1.191 Rosenstein).
820 root 1.193 - fix a potential segfault when the TLS context
821 root 1.191 would go missing in a read callback (e.g. due to stoptls) -
822     Net::SSLeay of course makes no type checking whatsoever.
823 root 1.192 - AnyEvent::Handle will not stop the read watcher in TLS mode.
824     - AnyEvent::Handle->stoptls will send a TLS close notify
825     instead of simply destroying the stream now.
826 root 1.195 - fix a bug where large blocks of data written in TLS mode
827     would not be sent unless triggered by receives.
828 root 1.193 - on_drain will now take the tls write buffer into account.
829     - SSL operations have been streamlined a bit and should be faster
830     now, more to come, though.
831 root 1.194 - added a FAQ section, will document nontrivial issues in there.
832 root 1.191
833 root 1.190 4.234 Mon Sep 29 04:08:13 CEST 2008
834 root 1.189 - fix child watcher documentation: only child exits will be reported,
835     no trace events.
836 root 1.190 - mention SIGPIPE in AnyEvent::Handle.
837     - perl backend will now use POSIX::times as monotonic clock
838 root 1.188 when available and the monotonic clock option is not.
839 root 1.187 - run even without Time::HiRes in some cases now, but do not
840 root 1.190 provide sub-second accuracy (all *supported* perl versions have
841 root 1.187 Time::HiRes).
842    
843 root 1.186 4.233 Fri Aug 22 01:48:05 CEST 2008
844     - fix a bug in the testsuite, causing a hang.
845     - clarified lots of AnyEvent::Handle constructor arguments.
846    
847 root 1.185 4.232 Thu Aug 21 20:44:25 CEST 2008
848     - fix a bug in AnyEvent::Handle that could cause two fatal error
849     callbacks on EOF, which caused AnyEvent::HTTP to signal success twice
850     (testcase by Leon Brocard).
851     - clarified on_eof/on_error documentation a bit.
852    
853 root 1.184 4.231 Tue Jul 29 13:12:15 CEST 2008
854     - remove some debugging code left in AnyEvent::Util::fork_call
855     (and no, it's impossible to implement with the broken windows
856     perls without resource leaks or worse).
857    
858 root 1.183 4.23 Tue Jul 29 12:19:59 CEST 2008
859 root 1.177 - document the first parameter passed to condvar callbacks to be
860     the callback.
861 root 1.178 - add AnyEvent::Socket::{ntoa,aton} aliases.
862 root 1.180 - optimize the AE::Handle->push_read (line) for the default
863 root 1.179 eol marker.
864 root 1.180 - optimize push_read (packstring|storable) for small packets.
865 root 1.182 - invoke on_error callback when no on_eof callback is set.
866 root 1.180 - fix a bug in push_read (storable) of unknown impact.
867 root 1.177
868 root 1.176 4.22 Sun Jul 20 16:34:13 CEST 2008
869 root 1.174 - new function AnyEvent::Socket::parse_hostport.
870 root 1.175 - as the bulkheads at microsoft can't even get getprotobyname reliably
871     working on their shitty fucking broken os we need to hardcode
872     some common protocol numbers in AnyEvent::Socket. How can
873     people even bother with such a pile of shit as windows.
874 root 1.174
875 root 1.173 4.21 Thu Jul 17 14:40:05 CEST 2008
876 root 1.171 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: AnyEvent::Util::fork_call now has a prototype
877     which is incompatible to previous invocation syntax.
878 root 1.172 - work around more windows perl bugs in fork_call. I cannot imagine
879     why anybody would bother implementing fork in such an obviously
880     unusable way.
881     - avoid calling $do_retry if the request has already finished in
882     AnyEvent::DNS, thus avoiding an exception (reported by Anatoly
883     K. Sharifulin).
884 root 1.170
885 root 1.169 4.2 Sat Jul 12 22:42:11 CEST 2008
886 root 1.165 - support an "interval" argument for repeating timers.
887 root 1.164 - fix a bug in the pure perl event loop that caused timers to
888     be delayed under some circumstances.
889 root 1.167 - implement optional argument checking via PERL_ANYEVENT_STRICT.
890 root 1.169 - not importing anything from Event causes it to malfunction
891     and not use Time::HiRes, work around this bug.
892     - more bug workarounds against the endlessly broken Tk module,
893 root 1.168 seems to work now on 32 bit machines, but less so on 64 bit.
894 root 1.164 - minor optimisations applied to most backends.
895    
896 root 1.163 4.161 Fri Jul 4 14:24:48 CEST 2008
897 elmex 1.162 - fixed the t/handle/02_write.t, it read after write, with the
898 root 1.163 assumption that all data could be written before read
899     (reported by Jim Razmus).
900 elmex 1.162
901 root 1.161 4.160 Thu Jul 3 04:02:21 CEST 2008
902 root 1.160 - re-registering signal watchers after unregistering one did
903     not work if a backend falls back on AnyEvent's default
904     implementation (also affected child watchers).
905 root 1.159 - new AnyEvent::Handle options: autocork and no_delay.
906    
907 root 1.158 4.152 Sun Jun 22 14:15:44 CEST 2008
908 root 1.159 - allow for 32-bit perls that implement shifts differently
909     on different architectures in parse_ipv4 (reported and
910 root 1.158 analysed by Keiichi DAIBA).
911    
912 root 1.157 4.151 Fri Jun 6 17:34:24 CEST 2008
913     - make sure specifying _only_ on_read and never pushing reads
914     works.
915    
916 root 1.155 4.15 Fri Jun 6 13:00:46 CEST 2008
917 root 1.154 - the pure perl backend would keep some watchers alive when more than
918     one watcher was registered for the same fd.
919 root 1.155 - new "packstring" and "storable" read and write types
920     for AnyEvent::Handle.
921 root 1.156 - allow on_eof handler to be called after on_error with EPIPE returns.
922 root 1.153 - do not immediately call on_read callback in handle constructor.
923    
924 root 1.152 4.14 Thu Jun 5 20:29:31 CEST 2008
925 elmex 1.149 - Fixed a bug in DNS SRV priority sorting.
926 root 1.150 - AnyEvent::Util::guard now reports runtime errors while
927     executing the guard block as warnings.
928 root 1.152 - handle 0-byte-reads just before EOF correctly in AnyEvent::Handle.
929 elmex 1.149
930 root 1.148 4.13 Thu Jun 5 00:47:59 CEST 2008
931 root 1.146 - AnyEvent::DNS only followed cname chains with length 2,
932     contrary to documentation. bumped it up to 10, thanks to
933     microsoft, the current broken-dns-config-king.
934 root 1.147 - AnyEvent::DNS didn't check for socket return status
935     but instead relied on perl not creating filehandles in that
936     case - too bad it gives you a bogus file handle (reported
937     and analysed by Vladimir Timofeev).
938 root 1.145 - fix queue management logic in AnyEvent::Handle:
939     when on_read was registered, the queue was empty
940     and no progress could be made AnyEvent::Handle would
941     enter an endless loop.
942     - correctly start reading again when the handle became
943     busy again after idling.
944 root 1.146 - correctly treat tls shut-downs as EOF condition
945     (for the time being, would be nice to have a callback for that).
946 root 1.145 - correctly call eof callback under all conditions
947     (hopefully).
948 root 1.146 - the timeout callback did not expect that $self can go
949     away any time.
950 root 1.145
951 root 1.144 4.12 Tue Jun 3 10:58:04 CEST 2008
952     - include AnyEvent::Intro, a tutorial for anyevent,
953     anyevent::socket and anyevent::handle.
954 root 1.143 - allow more options in on_error.
955 root 1.142
956 root 1.141 4.11 Fri May 30 23:42:25 CEST 2008
957 root 1.135 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace ptr by real PTR lookup, provide
958     reverse_lookup and reverse_verify to replace it, support
959     v4mapped and v4compat addresses.
960 root 1.129 - provide more documentation for the resolver class.
961 root 1.130 - really replace longest run of :0: by :: in format_address,
962     also properly convert :: and ::1 again.
963 root 1.134 - support NAPTR record name and decode it.
964 root 1.133 - implement random weight sampling for SRV records, as per
965     rfc 2782.
966 root 1.137 - correctly abort on srv-record targets of ".".
967     - added AnyEvent::DNS::wait_for_slot.
968 root 1.138 - in the unlikely event of a virtual circuit connection
969     being invalidated by a delayed udp reply, AnyEvent::DNS
970     could die. this has been fixed.
971     - plug a probable memleak in the DNS vc code.
972     - use configured timeout also for VC request phase.
973 root 1.139 - implement timeout and max_outstanding methods
974     for resolver class.
975 root 1.140 - update version numbers in all modules.
976 root 1.129
977 root 1.128 4.1 Thu May 29 05:45:40 CEST 2008
978 root 1.123 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: renamed xxx_ip functions to xxx_address
979     which mirrors their purpose better (old names still available
980     for a while). Also moved AnyEvent::DNS::addr to
981     AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr.
982 root 1.127 - implement AnyEvent->time and AnyEvent->now.
983 root 1.124 - fix IPv6 support in pack_sockaddr.
984 root 1.123 - officially un-experimentalise all newly introduced code.
985     - support unix domain sockets everywhere by specifying
986     a host of "unix/" and the pathname as service.
987 root 1.126 - implement an activity timeout in AnyEvent::Handle.
988 root 1.122 - added a regex read type to AnyEvent::Handle.
989     - added a json read/write type to AnyEvent::Handle.
990 root 1.118 - always croak in on_error in AnyEvent::Handle.
991     - document how to subclass AnyEvent::Handle.
992 root 1.120 - implement AnyEvent::Util::fork_call.
993 root 1.127 - add support for IPv6 nameservers and nameserver statements.
994 root 1.121 - work around _yet_ _another_ windows perl bug in where empty
995     select masks cause errors in the pure perl backend (this
996     workaround cannot be implemented for the other event loops,
997     but EV also works around this).
998 root 1.123 - supply AnyEvent::Socket::address_type and make good use of it.
999 root 1.122 - clarify and fix the Handle documentation w.r.t $self vs. $handle
1000     vs. callback arguments.
1001 root 1.127 - add some recommends to the META.yml.
1002 root 1.117
1003 root 1.116 4.05 Mon May 26 19:44:06 CEST 2008
1004     - some platforms ignore the rfc and prepend an extra sa_len member to
1005     the sockaddr structure, cater for those. also use sockaddr_family,
1006     didn't know it was there, but comes in handy for the workaround.
1007 root 1.114 - undo the import WIN32 hack.
1008    
1009 root 1.113 4.04 Mon May 26 08:03:31 CEST 2008
1010 root 1.109 - try to work around yet another windows bug: failed connects are reported
1011 root 1.110 as if it were out-of-band data. windows users: you suck. Only
1012     EV, Glib, Event and the pure perl backend can handle this condition.
1013 root 1.111 - optimize write algorithm in AnyEvent::Handle.
1014 root 1.106 - properly parse PERL_ANYEVENT_PROTOCOLS and use the info correctly.
1015 root 1.112 - tcp_connect now properly iterates through all targets.
1016 root 1.104 - check wether IPv6 sockets can actually be created, otherwise, disable ipv6
1017 root 1.114 support entirely. also hardcode some AF_INET6 constants for the
1018 root 1.107 sake of perl 5.8.
1019 root 1.106 - vastly improved nameserver/suffix detection algorithm for windows
1020     (still a hack...)
1021     - try to use a fallback dns server if no dns servers could be found.
1022 root 1.108 - splatter around some local $SIG{__DIE__}'s to work around bad
1023     die handlers.
1024 root 1.104
1025 root 1.102 4.03 Sun May 25 05:05:57 CEST 2008
1026 root 1.100 - work around perl bugs on windows, where perl returns undocumented
1027     error codes for sysread, syswrite etc.
1028 root 1.96 - fix AnyEvent::Handle::unshift_read to really unshift and not push.
1029 root 1.97 - AnyEvent::Handle could sometimes stumble over 0-byte writes.
1030 root 1.101 - fix unpack_sockaddr, now works for AF_INET6 sockaddr's.
1031 root 1.100 - updated documentation.
1032 root 1.103 - lots of workarounds for perl 5.8 quirks.
1033 root 1.98 - implement a more flexible type system for both reads and writes
1034     in AnyEvent::Handle.
1035 root 1.101 - support IPv6 in tcp_server.
1036     - pass local hostname and port to the prepare callback in tcp_server.
1037 root 1.99 - make types extendable in AnyEvent::Handle.
1038 root 1.100 - croak, not die, in AnyEvent::Handle;
1039 root 1.96
1040 root 1.95 4.0 Sat May 24 19:58:08 CEST 2008
1041 root 1.88 - added (experimental) AnyEvent::DNS module.
1042     - added (experimental) AnyEvent::Socket module.
1043 root 1.93 - added (experiemntal) support for TLS/SSL in AnyEvent::Handle.
1044 root 1.90 - make condvar->end call ->send as documented.
1045     - make condvar constructor support the documented cb => argument.
1046 root 1.94 - overload condvars so you can use them instead of code references.
1047 root 1.93 - support more of the POSIX forms instead of a pure dotted quad for
1048 root 1.89 verbatim ip addresses.
1049 root 1.88 - AnyEvent::Socket::inet_aton will use AnyEvent::DNS now and not fork anymore.
1050 root 1.87 - try very hard not to freeze on broken windows perls.
1051 root 1.86 - make on_eof optional in AnyEvent::Handle.
1052 root 1.83 - support service names in tcp_connect and tcp_server.
1053 root 1.84 - work around netbsd/openbsd bug causing unix sockets not to
1054 root 1.121 become writable until empty.
1055 root 1.81 - only make a dummy read for error detection when getpeername
1056     returns ENOTCONN.
1057 root 1.181 - defend AnyEvent::Util::inet_aton against Coro::LWP's brutal
1058 root 1.82 override.
1059 root 1.91 - new AnyEvent::Guard::cancel.
1060 root 1.81
1061 root 1.80 3.5 Sat May 17 23:17:14 CEST 2008
1062 root 1.79 - gracefully deal with systems not defining CLOCK_MONOTONIC
1063     (as opposed to not supporting the clock itself, which worked in 3.41).
1064 root 1.77 - added AnyEvent::Util::tcp_connect and AnyEvent::Util::tcp_server
1065     helpers, to replace the ill-designed AnyEvent::Socket class.
1066     - added some examples (eg/connect, eg/handle).
1067     - added AnyEvent::Util::guard.
1068     - AnyEvent::Util now exports most of its functions.
1069 elmex 1.74 - fixed a bug in *_read_chunk, where the callback was called with $self as
1070     first and second argument.
1071 root 1.77 - simplified and fixed regex handling in AnyEvent::Handle::*_read_line.
1072 root 1.72 - fix manpage condvars examples to use new syntax.
1073 root 1.78 - considerably improve inet_aton with EV::ADNS backend to support
1074     cname chains (common dns configuration bug, e.g. with www.google.de)
1075     and aaaa records if no a record could be found.
1076 root 1.72
1077 root 1.71 3.41 Sun May 11 19:53:13 CEST 2008
1078     - work around a bug in perl 5.8.8's local. Reported by Yi Ma Mao.
1079    
1080 root 1.70 3.4 Sun May 11 00:29:25 CEST 2008
1081 root 1.181 - complete re-implementation of condvars with a hopefully much more useful
1082 root 1.70 API (backward compatible functions exist but are undocumented).
1083 root 1.69 - AnyEvent::Handle fully rewritten with a hopefully more powerful API
1084     (still subject to change).
1085 root 1.63 - take advantage of CLOCK_MONOTONIC, if available, in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
1086 root 1.68 - provide AnyEvent::post_detect and @AnyEvent::post_detect, which
1087 root 1.67 allows module authors to avoid forcing event loop detection.
1088     (used by Coro::AIO, Coro::BDB, Coro::AnyEvent for example).
1089 root 1.66 - remove coro backends: Coro now provides generic support for AnyEvent
1090     via Coro::AnyEvent.
1091 root 1.63
1092 root 1.62 3.3 Mon Apr 28 09:51:06 CEST 2008
1093     - added AnyEvent::Handle, AnyEvent::Socket and AnyEvent::Util modules.
1094 root 1.55 - fix a bug in the pure perl backend that kept watchers alive
1095     when multiple watchers were registered for the same fh/poll combo.
1096 root 1.54 - add a benchmark section showing AnyEvent overhead and comparing
1097     the different event loops with each other.
1098 root 1.56 - prefer pure perl over tk when autoprobing, as it's about as fast,
1099     but doesn't crash with many watchers.
1100 root 1.62 - declare Qt support non-experimental.
1101 root 1.56 - clarify the confusing section about the file descriptor being
1102     kept alive.
1103     - document the race between loading of an event module and
1104     child processes exiting.
1105 root 1.53 - support POE as "backend" (with some caveats, POE is not generic
1106 root 1.54 enough, and darn slow).
1107 root 1.53 - support Wx and Prima through POE.
1108 root 1.60 - optimise perl backend to use 20% less memory and take advantage
1109 root 1.62 of typical timeout behaviour. It can now compete with
1110 root 1.60 select/poll-based C event loops in most cases (it is usually
1111     faster than Event and Glib :).
1112 root 1.59 - roughly cut EV memory use in half and increase its speed by 30%,
1113 root 1.62 by removing undocumented functionality. Did something similar
1114     to other event loops where possible.
1115 root 1.53
1116 root 1.50 3.2 Thu Apr 24 10:10:40 CEST 2008
1117 root 1.51 - do not die when anyevent watchers are destroyed while running callbacks
1118     in the pureperl backend (could only happen when two watchers are registered
1119     for the same fh/poll combo).
1120     - support autoloading for child watchers, was broken in all versions.
1121 root 1.47 - implement PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL env variable.
1122 root 1.49 - (experimental) implement interface to the (very crashy/buggy) Event::Lib module.
1123     - (experimental) implement interface to the Qt module (cannot be autoprobed).
1124 root 1.52 - this release is IO:AnyEvent-proof.
1125 root 1.47
1126 root 1.46 3.12 Tue Apr 22 07:11:46 CEST 2008
1127     - reinstate AUTHOR section that got lost somehow.
1128     - do not hang in the testsuite with badly broken perls (activestate,
1129     strawberry...), but instead diagnose the problem and continue.
1130     - use INT instead of CHLD in an attempt to support broken windows perls
1131     better (this decreases the test quality, unfortunately).
1132     - do not send the signal to the process group
1133     (no problem for CHLD, bad for INT :).
1134    
1135 root 1.45 3.11 Sat Apr 19 06:57:31 CEST 2008
1136     - major documentation rework.
1137     - document the fact that child watchers only watch for zombies.
1138     - fix the child watcher example.
1139    
1140 root 1.43 3.1 Wed Apr 16 17:09:01 CEST 2008
1141 root 1.40 - work around recurring bugs in Tk by dup'ing filehandles, the
1142 root 1.43 only method with good success chances on Tk (the bugs apparently
1143     don't get fixed anytime soon).
1144 root 1.42 - lift the restriction of only one watcher per fh direction
1145     (as the Tk bug workaround also lifts it and only Tk imposed
1146     such strong limits).
1147 root 1.41 - changed probe order to prefer coro adaptors.
1148     - explain why recursion into the event loop is not supported
1149     unless the backend supports it (only Coro::EV does without
1150     any restrictions...).
1151     - add simple manpages for all backend modules.
1152 root 1.40
1153 root 1.39 3.0 Mon Apr 7 21:30:23 CEST 2008
1154 root 1.38 - Coro::Signal changed semantics, roll our own, also cleaning
1155     up the Coro implementation in general.
1156     - rename Coro backend to CoroEvent.
1157     - add some decision helping paragraph to the manpage that should
1158 root 1.44 help people to decide whether AnyEvent is the right thing for them.
1159 root 1.38
1160 root 1.37 2.9 Mon Jan 28 13:31:54 CET 2008
1161     - update for EV 3.0 API changes.
1162    
1163 root 1.36 2.8 Sun Nov 25 15:06:03 CET 2007
1164     - waitpid can validly return 0. accept this fact of life
1165     instead of reporting it to any watchers.
1166    
1167 root 1.35 2.7 Fri Nov 23 11:41:14 CET 2007
1168 root 1.34 - force use of AnyEvent::Impl::Perl in testsuite, there is
1169     too much breakage outside AnyEvent.
1170 root 1.35 - deliver signals synchronously in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl
1171     or any other event loop that relies on AnyEvents child
1172     watcher emulation. *Could* help with hanging testsuite
1173     (except when Event or EV are installed).
1174 root 1.34
1175 root 1.33 2.6 Fri Nov 9 20:36:35 CET 2007
1176 root 1.32 - fix bug in testsuite.
1177     - move EV adaptor modules to AnyEvent.
1178     - add Coro+EV adaptor module.
1179 root 1.26
1180 root 1.31 2.55 Tue Nov 6 17:41:32 CET 2007
1181 root 1.27 - add EV to the list of supported event models.
1182 root 1.30 - do not auto-reset pid watchers, pass pid and status to them.
1183 root 1.29 - allow a pid of zero to watch for all children in child watchers.
1184 root 1.27
1185 root 1.25 2.54 Wed Jul 18 17:36:23 CEST 2007
1186     - work around a perl bug that results in
1187     BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted without
1188     any discernible reason or error message by once
1189     again not use'ing strict.
1190    
1191 root 1.24 2.53 Sun Jul 8 10:51:53 CEST 2007
1192     - make Glib interface work again (spotted by elmex).
1193    
1194 root 1.22 2.52 Wed Mar 7 18:36:16 CET 2007
1195     - child watchers stopped working permanently when
1196 root 1.23 all current child watchers were destroyed.
1197 root 1.22
1198 root 1.21 2.51 Mon Dec 11 21:33:24 CET 2006
1199     - work around bugs in perl where eval "require Module" returns
1200     true even if the module couldn't be loaded :/.
1201    
1202 root 1.20 2.5 Mon Dec 11 02:15:28 CET 2006
1203 root 1.19 - avoid $AUTOLOAD because many perls corrupt it.
1204 root 1.20 - AnyEvent::detect forces autodetection.
1205     - implement signal watchers (experimental)
1206     (Tk does not support async signals (<= 804.027 at least),
1207     so they might get delayed indefinitely on Tk).
1208     - implement child watchers (experimental).
1209     - moved default condvar implementation into base module, simplifying
1210     most implementation modules.
1211 root 1.14
1212 root 1.18 2.1 Fri Nov 24 15:50:48 CET 2006
1213 root 1.16 - better docs.
1214     - simple testsuite.
1215 root 1.17 - added AnyEvent->one_event method for special purposes.
1216 root 1.16
1217 root 1.15 2.0 Wed Nov 1 02:21:30 CET 2006
1218 root 1.13 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: poll can now either be "r" or "w" but not both.
1219     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: io watcher callbacks have no arguments anymore.
1220     - EXPERIMENTAL:
1221     new pure-perl model added, AnyEvent now always finds a suitable
1222     event model.
1223 root 1.12 - improved documentation.
1224     - reduced cpu overhead.
1225    
1226 root 1.11 1.02 Fri Jan 13 14:15:40 CET 2006
1227     - add COPYING to clarify license.
1228    
1229 root 1.10 1.01 Sun Jan 8 05:48:09 CET 2006
1230     - correctly cancel Event timers, avoid memory leaks.
1231    
1232 root 1.9 1.0 Sun Jan 8 05:40:58 CET 2006
1233 root 1.8 - allow third-party interfaces to be added at runtime.
1234     - fix version number.
1235    
1236 root 1.7 0.9 Fri Dec 30 02:25:41 CET 2005
1237 root 1.6 - fixed errors in the documentation.
1238 root 1.7 - going back to using $VERSION as "load check",
1239     as suggested by Jörn Reder. Let's see why I stopped using
1240     this method.
1241     - add 'hup' to the list of events to receive for glib
1242     and generate 'rw' events for it, as some versions of
1243     glib seem to require this, while this breaks other
1244     (older) versions of glib.
1245     - implemented PERL_ANYEVENT_VERBOSE env variable.
1246 root 1.6
1247 root 1.5 0.3 Sun Dec 4 10:43:33 CET 2005
1248     - no changes to the code.
1249     - fixed documentation.
1250     - clarified some corner cases.
1251     - vastly improved documentation with a long example.
1252    
1253 root 1.3 0.2 Thu Dec 1 22:18:49 CET 2005
1254 root 1.44 - check whether a valid method was called, to avoid endless loops.
1255 root 1.4 - move condvars into their own class (cleaner, safer).
1256     - don't die when some modules are not available.
1257     - Tk is too broken to allow for words. Will work once Tk works.
1258 root 1.3
1259 root 1.2 0.1 Thu Dec 1 19:44:57 CET 2005
1260     - spiced up and cleaned up for release.
1261    
1262 root 1.1 0.01 Tue Sep 21 18:12:09 CEST 2004
1263     - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
1264