--- AnyEvent/Changes 2008/05/27 04:59:51 1.121 +++ AnyEvent/Changes 2009/02/10 14:07:43 1.218 @@ -1,14 +1,243 @@ Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent. - - add some recommends to the META.yml. - - added a a regex read type to AnyEvent::Handle. + - separately buffer TLS read data, as otherwise the read queue could + deadlock as receiving data is not expected while draining the + read queue (which cna only happen with TLS). + - raise EBADMSG error on JSON decoding errors. + - fix some minor manpage bugs (reported by Maximilian Gaß). + - speed up select bitmask parsing quite a bit in the pure perl + backend. + - use CORE::select instead of just select in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl. + +4.331 Tue Jan 6 21:07:25 CET 2009 + - socketpair fails on many vista machines because vista has + completely broken accept/getpeername and getsockname functions, + so we provide our own socketpair emulation that kind of works + (AnyEvent::Util::portable_pipe). + - new function: AnyEvent::Util::portable_socketpair. + - take advantage of the Guard module if it exists. + +4.33 Fri Nov 21 02:35:40 CET 2008 + - AnyEvent::Strict did errornously flag a fileno of 0 as + illegal. + - reduce memory usage and slightly speed up the pure perl backend + by only storing the file descriptor, not the file handle. + - add missing autocork method to AnyEvent::Handle (reported + by Adam Rosenstein). + - AnyEvent::DNS->resolve errornously documented an $rcode result + argument, but there isn't (spotted by Henrik Krohns). + - the naked truth about Tk - it's basically unmaintained. + +4.32 Mon Nov 3 22:46:32 CET 2008 + - fix AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr to properly support + unix sockets again and choose a proper default for + the socket type. + - fix call to resolve_sockaddr in tcp_connect. + +4.31 Thu Oct 30 04:41:48 CET 2008 + - implemented AnyEvent::Handle->destroy method. + - hint about unexpected effects in TLS mode. + - speed up AnyEvent::Impl::Perl by using more arrays + instead of hashes without the slightest loss of readability :) + - work around a perl argument refcounting bug. + - with some perl patches applied, AnyEvent now seems leak-free. + +4.3 Fri Oct 3 09:18:43 CEST 2008 + - AnyEvent will now install a no-op signal handler for SIGPIPE, + unless one has been installed already. + - warn about not loaidng AnyEvent::Impl::POE early enough + (patch by Adam Rosenstein). + - fixed a great number of bugs and corner cases in AnyEvent::Handle: + - fix a bug in where in SSL connect mode, the + client would first wait for some data by the server and + otherwise hang. (reported and analyzed in an absolutely + exemplary manner by Adam Rosenstein). + - fix a bug in where SSL EOF would not be treated + as stream EOF, putting the connection into a hung state. + (reported and analyzed in an absolutely exemplary manner by Adam + Rosenstein). + - fix a potential segfault when the TLS context + would go missing in a read callback (e.g. due to stoptls) - + Net::SSLeay of course makes no type checking whatsoever. + - AnyEvent::Handle will not stop the read watcher in TLS mode. + - AnyEvent::Handle->stoptls will send a TLS close notify + instead of simply destroying the stream now. + - fix a bug where large blocks of data written in TLS mode + would not be sent unless triggered by receives. + - on_drain will now take the tls write buffer into account. + - SSL operations have been streamlined a bit and should be faster + now, more to come, though. + - added a FAQ section, will document nontrivial issues in there. + +4.234 Mon Sep 29 04:08:13 CEST 2008 + - fix child watcher documentation: only child exits will be reported, + no trace events. + - mention SIGPIPE in AnyEvent::Handle. + - perl backend will now use POSIX::times as monotonic clock + when available and the monotonic clock option is not. + - run even without Time::HiRes in some cases now, but do not + provide sub-second accuracy (all *supported* perl versions have + Time::HiRes). + +4.233 Fri Aug 22 01:48:05 CEST 2008 + - fix a bug in the testsuite, causing a hang. + - clarified lots of AnyEvent::Handle constructor arguments. + +4.232 Thu Aug 21 20:44:25 CEST 2008 + - fix a bug in AnyEvent::Handle that could cause two fatal error + callbacks on EOF, which caused AnyEvent::HTTP to signal success twice + (testcase by Leon Brocard). + - clarified on_eof/on_error documentation a bit. + +4.231 Tue Jul 29 13:12:15 CEST 2008 + - remove some debugging code left in AnyEvent::Util::fork_call + (and no, it's impossible to implement with the broken windows + perls without resource leaks or worse). + +4.23 Tue Jul 29 12:19:59 CEST 2008 + - document the first parameter passed to condvar callbacks to be + the callback. + - add AnyEvent::Socket::{ntoa,aton} aliases. + - optimize the AE::Handle->push_read (line) for the default + eol marker. + - optimize push_read (packstring|storable) for small packets. + - invoke on_error callback when no on_eof callback is set. + - fix a bug in push_read (storable) of unknown impact. + +4.22 Sun Jul 20 16:34:13 CEST 2008 + - new function AnyEvent::Socket::parse_hostport. + - as the bulkheads at microsoft can't even get getprotobyname reliably + working on their shitty fucking broken os we need to hardcode + some common protocol numbers in AnyEvent::Socket. How can + people even bother with such a pile of shit as windows. + +4.21 Thu Jul 17 14:40:05 CEST 2008 + - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: AnyEvent::Util::fork_call now has a prototype + which is incompatible to previous invocation syntax. + - work around more windows perl bugs in fork_call. I cannot imagine + why anybody would bother implementing fork in such an obviously + unusable way. + - avoid calling $do_retry if the request has already finished in + AnyEvent::DNS, thus avoiding an exception (reported by Anatoly + K. Sharifulin). + +4.2 Sat Jul 12 22:42:11 CEST 2008 + - support an "interval" argument for repeating timers. + - fix a bug in the pure perl event loop that caused timers to + be delayed under some circumstances. + - implement optional argument checking via PERL_ANYEVENT_STRICT. + - not importing anything from Event causes it to malfunction + and not use Time::HiRes, work around this bug. + - more bug workarounds against the endlessly broken Tk module, + seems to work now on 32 bit machines, but less so on 64 bit. + - minor optimisations applied to most backends. + +4.161 Fri Jul 4 14:24:48 CEST 2008 + - fixed the t/handle/02_write.t, it read after write, with the + assumption that all data could be written before read + (reported by Jim Razmus). + +4.160 Thu Jul 3 04:02:21 CEST 2008 + - re-registering signal watchers after unregistering one did + not work if a backend falls back on AnyEvent's default + implementation (also affected child watchers). + - new AnyEvent::Handle options: autocork and no_delay. + +4.152 Sun Jun 22 14:15:44 CEST 2008 + - allow for 32-bit perls that implement shifts differently + on different architectures in parse_ipv4 (reported and + analysed by Keiichi DAIBA). + +4.151 Fri Jun 6 17:34:24 CEST 2008 + - make sure specifying _only_ on_read and never pushing reads + works. + +4.15 Fri Jun 6 13:00:46 CEST 2008 + - the pure perl backend would keep some watchers alive when more than + one watcher was registered for the same fd. + - new "packstring" and "storable" read and write types + for AnyEvent::Handle. + - allow on_eof handler to be called after on_error with EPIPE returns. + - do not immediately call on_read callback in handle constructor. + +4.14 Thu Jun 5 20:29:31 CEST 2008 + - Fixed a bug in DNS SRV priority sorting. + - AnyEvent::Util::guard now reports runtime errors while + executing the guard block as warnings. + - handle 0-byte-reads just before EOF correctly in AnyEvent::Handle. + +4.13 Thu Jun 5 00:47:59 CEST 2008 + - AnyEvent::DNS only followed cname chains with length 2, + contrary to documentation. bumped it up to 10, thanks to + microsoft, the current broken-dns-config-king. + - AnyEvent::DNS didn't check for socket return status + but instead relied on perl not creating filehandles in that + case - too bad it gives you a bogus file handle (reported + and analysed by Vladimir Timofeev). + - fix queue management logic in AnyEvent::Handle: + when on_read was registered, the queue was empty + and no progress could be made AnyEvent::Handle would + enter an endless loop. + - correctly start reading again when the handle became + busy again after idling. + - correctly treat tls shut-downs as EOF condition + (for the time being, would be nice to have a callback for that). + - correctly call eof callback under all conditions + (hopefully). + - the timeout callback did not expect that $self can go + away any time. + +4.12 Tue Jun 3 10:58:04 CEST 2008 + - include AnyEvent::Intro, a tutorial for anyevent, + anyevent::socket and anyevent::handle. + - allow more options in on_error. + +4.11 Fri May 30 23:42:25 CEST 2008 + - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace ptr by real PTR lookup, provide + reverse_lookup and reverse_verify to replace it, support + v4mapped and v4compat addresses. + - provide more documentation for the resolver class. + - really replace longest run of :0: by :: in format_address, + also properly convert :: and ::1 again. + - support NAPTR record name and decode it. + - implement random weight sampling for SRV records, as per + rfc 2782. + - correctly abort on srv-record targets of ".". + - added AnyEvent::DNS::wait_for_slot. + - in the unlikely event of a virtual circuit connection + being invalidated by a delayed udp reply, AnyEvent::DNS + could die. this has been fixed. + - plug a probable memleak in the DNS vc code. + - use configured timeout also for VC request phase. + - implement timeout and max_outstanding methods + for resolver class. + - update version numbers in all modules. + +4.1 Thu May 29 05:45:40 CEST 2008 + - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: renamed xxx_ip functions to xxx_address + which mirrors their purpose better (old names still available + for a while). Also moved AnyEvent::DNS::addr to + AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr. + - implement AnyEvent->time and AnyEvent->now. + - fix IPv6 support in pack_sockaddr. + - officially un-experimentalise all newly introduced code. + - support unix domain sockets everywhere by specifying + a host of "unix/" and the pathname as service. + - implement an activity timeout in AnyEvent::Handle. + - added a regex read type to AnyEvent::Handle. + - added a json read/write type to AnyEvent::Handle. - always croak in on_error in AnyEvent::Handle. - document how to subclass AnyEvent::Handle. - implement AnyEvent::Util::fork_call. + - add support for IPv6 nameservers and nameserver statements. - work around _yet_ _another_ windows perl bug in where empty select masks cause errors in the pure perl backend (this workaround cannot be implemented for the other event loops, but EV also works around this). + - supply AnyEvent::Socket::address_type and make good use of it. + - clarify and fix the Handle documentation w.r.t $self vs. $handle + vs. callback arguments. + - add some recommends to the META.yml. 4.05 Mon May 26 19:44:06 CEST 2008 - some platforms ignore the rfc and prepend an extra sa_len member to @@ -64,7 +293,7 @@ become writable until empty. - only make a dummy read for error detection when getpeername returns ENOTCONN. - - defend AnyEvent::Util::inet_aton against Coro::LWP brutal + - defend AnyEvent::Util::inet_aton against Coro::LWP's brutal override. - new AnyEvent::Guard::cancel. @@ -88,7 +317,7 @@ - work around a bug in perl 5.8.8's local. Reported by Yi Ma Mao. 3.4 Sun May 11 00:29:25 CEST 2008 - - complete re-implementation of condvars with a hopefully much mroe useful + - complete re-implementation of condvars with a hopefully much more useful API (backward compatible functions exist but are undocumented). - AnyEvent::Handle fully rewritten with a hopefully more powerful API (still subject to change).