--- AnyEvent/Changes 2009/01/02 22:09:12 1.212 +++ AnyEvent/Changes 2009/05/14 04:40:28 1.238 @@ -1,5 +1,61 @@ Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent. +4.41 Thu May 14 06:40:11 CEST 2009 + - work around issues in older perls (5.8.0?) when + a signal handler is deleted from the %SIG hash. + - use POSIX::_exit in child test, to avoid running + destructors. + - speed up CHLD handling by relying on SIGCHLD being + synchronously delivered, even when we roll our own + implementation. + - AnyEvent::DNS: add the "dname" resource record name + for cosmetic reasons. + +4.4 Sun Apr 26 20:12:33 CEST 2009 + - implemented idle watchers, where applicable. + - AnyEvent->time died when Event backend was in use. + - fix a memleak in the Tk backend. + - sped up Tk timer handling. + - clip negative "after" values to 0 in AnyEvent::Impl::Event + to avoid spamming out warning messages. + - fix Qt timers without interval. + - avoid Qt zero-timeout specialcase, in old libqt's. + +4.352 Mon Apr 20 16:31:11 CEST 2009 + - fix AnyEvent::Strict error messages for child watchers. + - fix/update Makefile.PL "recommends" versions. + - add AnyEvent->now_update. + +4.351 Sat Apr 11 07:56:14 CEST 2009 + - actually make the signal pipe work under win32. + - localise $! in signal handler to avoid changing $!, although + perl itself does not seem to save/restore errno either. + - set the cloexec flag on the signal pipe (normally set by perl too). + +4.35 Fri Mar 27 11:48:20 CET 2009 + - event models relying on AnyEvent's signal watcher emulation did + invoke the callback asynchronously, contradicting documentation + and causing signals to get lost (this includes AnyEvent's own + event loop). AnyEvent now uses the standard pipe trick to make + callback execution synchronous to the event loop. + - AnyEvent::Handle didn't free TLS context data on DESTROY + (patch by Pavel Shaydo). + - work around the ever-incompatibly-changing API of MakeMaker. + - document that changing global variables without restoring them + is a bad idea in Perl (noted by Adam Rosenstein). + - AnyEvent::Strict now barfs if ->io is passed a file. + +4.34 Thu Feb 12 18:32:45 CET 2009 + - 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