--- AnyEvent/Changes 2011/07/24 13:10:43 1.450 +++ AnyEvent/Changes 2011/08/13 22:44:05 1.467 @@ -5,19 +5,60 @@ TODO: anyevent::trace? or debug tracing all watchers? TODO: anyevent strict checking for $_ changes? -TODO: Kevin Ryde (3.8K) 1 inbox Glib child processes -TODO: keeps alive, self-reference, storabel et al. +TODO: IO::Async sometimes cancels the wrong timer when you call cancel_timer -wait for IO::Async release. +TODO: wrap +TODO: parse_unix??? +TODO: logging? + +6.0 (not officially released) - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: AnyEvent::DNS resource records now include the TTL as fourth element - this affects ->resolve directly, and ->request and ->dns_unpack indirectly. Convenience functions - such as AnyEvent::DNS::{a,txt,mx,srv} are not affected. + such as AnyEvent::DNS::{a,txt,mx,srv} are not affected, neither + is AnyEvent::Socket. + - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: backend authors now should not implement + one_event or loop, but instead the AnyEvent::CondVar::_wait and _poll + methods. + - DEPRECIATION: please change + "use AnyEvent::Impl::Perl" to "use AnyEvent::Loop" and + "AnyEvent::Impl::Perl::loop" to "AnyEvent::Loop::run" + in your programs, for future compatibility. + - *blush* idle watcher emulation was borked. + - AnyEvent::Strict now checks the AE::xxx functions as well. + - querying too long domain names would barf deep inside AnyEvent::DNS - since + this is hard to avoid for applications, AnyEvent:.DNS::request now checks for + for too long domain names explicitly and passes an undef to the callback + instead (reported by James Bromberger). + - make AnyEvent::Util more robust against EINTR (analyzed by Andrew Suffield). + - new function: AnyEvent::postpone. + - new env variable, PERL_ANYEVENT_DEBUG_SHELL, to automatically start + a debug shell. + - new env variable, PERL_ANYEVENT_DEBUG_WRAP, to automatically enable + watcher instrumentation/wrapping (see AnyEvent::Debug::wrap). + - IO::Async sometimes cancels the wrong timer when you call cancel_timer. + Invest extra overhead to work around this peculiar behaviour. + - split the pure perl backend into a loop module and an impl + module (AnyEvent::Loop and AnyEvent::Impl::Perl). - some read types (regex, netstring, json, storable) could errornously keep an AE::Handle object alive on their own (reported by Mohammad Toossi). - - add support for (currently third-party) AnyEvent::Impl::FLTK. + - add more workarounds around child watcher bugs in IO::Async + and (newly introduced) in POE. + - use glib child watchers and try to work around its limitations, + if possible (based on a patch by Kevin Ryde). + - add support for FLTK (fltk2), via AnyEvent::Impl::FLTK2. - many read types in AnyEvent::Handle would malfunction during transitions to TLS because of a "delete $self->{rbuf}". (reported by Gerald Galster). + - improve condvar blocking wait performance (probably only noticable + with faster backends), also make it easier for event loops that + do not support blocking waits. + - PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL now also allows full module names, although + the usefulness of this feature is not yet clear. + - add tests for all supported event loops, conditional on PERL_ANYEVENT_LOOP_TESTS. + - add t/80_ssltext.t. + - no longer use AUTOLOAD for the initial loading (for no very good reason). + - tcp_server now tries to unlink unix domain sockets when it gets destroyed. 5.34 Thu May 12 09:59:41 CEST 2011 - AE::TLS didn't support both cert_file and key at the same time,