--- AnyEvent/Changes 2009/07/03 08:51:48 1.259 +++ AnyEvent/Changes 2009/07/17 23:12:20 1.288 @@ -1,17 +1,82 @@ Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent. -ZERO_RETURN - stoptls? +TODO: _AVOID_, _VERBOSE_ + - improve perl 5.6 compatibility of the core event loop. + - nail the signal race problem in perl once and for all + (see $AnyEvent::MAX_SIGNAL_LATENCY). + - take advantage of Async::Interrupt if it is available. + - load Time::HiRes and Guard modules on demand only. + - add optional/recommended modules section to AnyEvent + documentation. + - reduce memory usage considerably (and reduce startup penalty) + by not using "strict", "warnings" and "overload" modules. + - work around buggy windows perls and provide EBADMSG and EPROTO + ourselves. + +4.83 Fri Jul 17 16:56:26 CEST 2009 + - implement AnyEvent::Socket::getprotobyname. + - AnyEvent::CondVar's will now detect recursive blocking + waits and will croak, as too many people fall into + this trap. + - AnyEvent::Handle will now call ->destroy on itself after + executing the on_error callback, instead of doing some + half-baked internal shutdown, for fatal errors. + - clarify on_eof behaviour w.r.t. the read queue and + on_read callbacks. + - ignore some possible spurious wake-ups in tcp_connect. + +4.82 Sat Jul 11 00:34:55 CEST 2009 + - POE and Event backends didn't accept some callable objects as + callbacks. + - use Config module instead of POSIX module to detect signal names + in AnyEvent::Strict and AnyEvent::Impl::EventLib, as the POSIX + module doesn't even have all POSIX signals :/. + - use more workarounds around the many refcnt/corruption bugs in + Event::Lib. + - work around a race condition in perl's select, causing t/03_child.t + to rarely fail. + +4.81 Thu Jul 9 10:30:30 CEST 2009 + - AnyEvent::Handle didn't properly diagnose write errors + (it expected -1 from syswrite, how lame... :). + - support file descriptors in addition to file handles + in AnyEvent->io. + - new env variables: PERL_ANYEVENT_RESOLV_CONF, + PERL_ANYEVENT_MAX_OUTSTANDING_DNS, PERL_ANYEVENT_CA_FILE + and PERL_ANYEVENT_CA_PATH. + - provide a sensible synopsis section for AnyEvent::TLS. + - add a "supported backends" section to the manpage. + - added simple io watcher test to testsuite, using a + portable_socketpair. + - tried to improve the stability of the Event::Lib backend, + YMMV. + +4.8 Mon Jul 6 23:45:16 CEST 2009 + - AnyEvent::DNS did not properly follow CNAME records with + uppercase targets. + - AnyEvent::DNS would errornously return AAAA records + with v4 mapped addresses (a faulty record) as ipv4 addresses, + causing AnyEvent::Socket to throw an exception. + - added new module AnyEvent::TLS for easier SSL/TLS context + creation, with many options including hostname verification, + secure default configuration, lots of documentation and, + predefined diffie-hellman keys for perfect forward security + and much more. get it while it's still fresh! + - use AnyEvent::TLS in AnyEvent::Handle for context management. - load AnyEvent::Handle only on demand in AnyEvent::DNS, so AnyEvent::Socket users have smaller memory footprint in the common case. - add AnyEvent::Handle->push_shutdown method. - add an additional error message parameter to AnyEvent::Handle's on_error callback (for TLS, $! is still available). + - add AnyEvent::Handle on_starttls/on_stoptls callbacks. - make AnyEvent::Handle more robust against early conenction failures (during new), and return C in that case from the constructor. - AnyEvent::Handle will now try to load only JSON::XS first, then fall back to JSON. + - format_ipv4/format_ipv6 are now exported by default, for symmetry, + and because it was documented that way. 4.451 Fri Jul 3 00:28:58 CEST 2009 - do not clear rbuf when shutting down an AnyEvent::Handle