--- AnyEvent/Changes 2009/10/01 17:23:14 1.353 +++ AnyEvent/Changes 2010/10/11 03:41:39 1.409 @@ -1,5 +1,124 @@ Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent. +FAQ: my program exits beforee doing anything +FAQ: tcp_connect never calls my callback (context) +FAQ: high cpu usage with AE::cv->recv + +TODO: condvar->new method is documented and should be there. +TODO: check for -w? somehow? +TODO: _start might call on_error with ETIMEDOUT?? +cubic reno lp bic highspeed htcp hybla illinois scalable vegas veno westwood yeah +TODO: document constants +TODO: test tcp_nodelay/tcp_congestion + +AnyEvent::Handle uncaught error: Connection timed out at + /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/AnyEvent/HTTP.pm line 473 + - due to a glitch, AnyEvent's internal getprotobyname wasn't + actually used in tcp_server. + - support autoloading of read types in unshift_read. + - AnyEvent::Strict: do the test for invalid fh arguments differently, + resulting in more informative error messages. + - clarify that you can actually call push_read etc. in on_read. + - support ";" as resolv.conf comment character in AnyEvent::DNS, as + requested by Ron Isaacson. + - document $AnyEvent::DNS::RESOLVER variable. + - incorporated major typo patches by Abhijit Menon-Sen. + - add a shitload of TCP_xxx sockopt name constants to AnyEvent::Util, + undocumented, but who knows when they might come in handy. + +5.271 Tue Jun 8 12:05:46 CEST 2010 + - backport to perl 5.8.x. + +5.27 Sun Jun 6 12:12:05 CEST 2010 + - postpone differently in AnyEvent::Socket now, as + when not, canceling the connection attempt might fail + (found by Felix Antonius Wilhelm Ostmann). + - explicitly check for non-stream sockets in AE::Handle, too many + clueless people fell into the trap of this somehow working. + - simplified and reworked the "OTHER MODULES" section. + - better/more condvar examples. + +5.261 Wed Apr 28 16:13:36 CEST 2010 + - AF_INET6 was not properly used from Socket6 during configuration + time (found by Andy Grundman). + +5.26 Mon Apr 12 04:49:35 CEST 2010 + - don't generate spurious readyness notifications when select + returns EINTR in the pure perl backend (analysed and testcase + by Bas Denissen). + - give same examples in SYNOPSIS sections of AnyEvent and AE. + - provider faster implementations for AE::time/now/now_update for + EV and Perl backends. + - provide faster AE::cv and AE::time implementations for all + backends. + - no longer support lower/mixed-case signal names (this was + never documented nor universally supported). + - some more memory ยต-optimisations, and somewhat less messy + code to cope with both AnyEvent and AE APIs. + +5.251 Sat Mar 13 00:58:21 CET 2010 + - make test failed if it was run before make install on perl <= + 5.8.8, and older versions of perl make our live very difficult, + so write constants.pl during Makefile.PL time. + +5.25 Sat Mar 13 00:23:14 CET 2010 + - fix a race condition in AnyEvent::Handle that would cause + a "bio_read: unsupported method" error (in _another_ + ssl connection) after user code threw an exception. + - added AnyEvent::Handle->destroyed method. + - speed up AnyEvent::Socket::format_address and ::format_ipv6. + - the AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking function worked only + by lucky accident on win32. + - smaller and faster AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking. + - when the (required!) Time::HiRes module is missing, AnyEvent + did not fall back to built-in time properly. + - do not load Fcntl at runtime, saving memory and loading time. + - precompile a number of constants and use them instead of runtime + detection and eval. + - free detection code after detection and similar memory optimisations. + - Perl backend timer interval best effort drift has been improved + (same algorithm as EV). + - update unicode idna mapping table. + +5.24 Tue Jan 5 11:39:43 CET 2010 + - cygwin never reports errors from failed connects. 1.5 just gives + you continous readyness and EAGAIN, 1.7 is even more broken and + just hangs. work around both issues in a cygwin-specific hack. + - improve idle watcher documentation slightly. + +5.23 Sun Dec 20 23:48:00 CET 2009 + - support IDNs in resolve_sockaddr, and therefore in tcp_connect. + - implement punycode_encode/decode, idn_nameprep, + idn_to_ascii and idn_to_unicode operations in AnyEvent::Util. + - provide $AE::VERSION. + - removed traces of "no strict 'refs'". + +5.22 Sat Dec 5 03:51:13 CET 2009 + - downgrade-or-fail in AnyEvent::Handle::push_write, to + diagnose encoding failures earlier and more succinctly. + (this works around bugs in perl, throwing away encoding info + when passing scalar data to extensions). + - add more examples to AnyEvent::Socket manpage. + - upgrade internal warning set to the same as common::sense 2.03. + - use pack "n/a*" for pre-5.8.9 perl compatibility in AnyEvent::DNS + (John Beppu). + - AnyEvent::Socket::inet_aton now properly supports ipv6, as documented. + - add google public dns servers to fallback server set and make sure + we load-balance properly between the three sets. also add all + fallback dns servers, not just a random one, to each dns config. + +5.21 Thu Nov 19 02:48:47 CET 2009 + - fix a problem where socket constants were called with parameters + (spotted by David Friedland). + - fork_call never use'd POSIX (reported by Daisuke Maki). + - improve perl 5.6 compatibility further (but it still won't work + unless you rip out everything but the core). + - prefer Net::DNS::Resolver over ipconfig, if installed, on win32. + uses 10MB of RAM, but doesn't open a console window. *sigh*. + +5.202 Wed Oct 14 22:35:44 CEST 2009 + - AnyEvent::DNS would unexpectedly clobber $_ under windows + (analysed by Matthias Waldorf). - AnyEvent::Handle::run_cmd can now pass the PID of the newly-created process, which is much less useful than it might sound (based on patch by Yann Kerherve). @@ -345,7 +464,7 @@ 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: + - 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. 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