--- AnyEvent/Changes 2011/11/12 03:35:38 1.518 +++ AnyEvent/Changes 2015/06/28 09:30:37 1.604 @@ -2,9 +2,181 @@ TODO: document TCP_*** constants TODO: add debug/trace logging to some modules - +TODO: use the eval-with-cb-call trick also to speed up JSON? +TODO: FAQ: common pitfalls? invoke-before-return +TODO: FAQ: scope-ids? hosts file order? +TODO: AnyEvent::Handle with AnyEvent::IO? +TODO: invalid. and localhost. specialcasing inside AEDNS and not AESocket (rfc6761) +TODO: maybe implement env variable to give hosts precedence +TODO: hosts always read? that's not expected +TODO: more formats for parse_ipv6 (single ipv6 address without port, ...p80, ...#80) + + - add a more explicit warning to AnyEvent::Handle that it doesn't + work on files, people keep getting confused. + - new function AnyEvent::Socket::tcp_bind. + - new functions AnyEvent::fh_block and AnyEvent::fh_unblock. + - aligned ipv6 address formatting with RFC 5952 (by not shortening + a single :0: to ::). + - added stability canary support. + +7.09 Sat May 2 16:38:53 CEST 2015 + - AnyEvent::Debug called an internal function (AnyEvent::Log::ft) + that was renamed to AnyEvent::Log:format_time. uinder its old name + (analyzed by Michael Stovenour). + - update AnyEvent::DNS fallback resolver addresses: + seems google effectively killed most other free dns resolvers, + so remove them, but add cable and wireless (ecrc) since it was + stable for 20 years or so, official or not, and there should be + an alternative to google. + - perl5porters broke windows error codes in 5.20, and mapped + WSAEWOULDBLOCK on the (different) EWOULDBLOCK error code, and + WSAEINPROGRESS into the incompatible ERINPROGRESS code, probably + because they were so cool. They probably broke other error codes + for no reason, too, but I didn't care for checking, it's too + depressing. This version only works around the WSAEWOULDBLOCK + issue, because I don't have a nice way to work around the + WSAEINPROGRESS bug. + +7.08 Wed Dec 10 05:27:17 CET 2014 + - work around a newly introduced bug in Socket 2.011 (an + errornous sun_length check) (analyzed by Maxime Soulé). + - AnyEvent::TLS didn't load (but refer to) AnyEvent::Socket + (analyzed by Ben Magistro). + - AnyEvent::Strict will now confess, not croak. This is in line with + it being a development/debugging tool. + - work around a number of libglib bugs (debug builds of libglib enforce + certain undocumented behaviour patterns such as not being able to + remove a child watch source after it has fired, which we will try + to emulate to avoid "criticals". what where they thinking...). + - mention json security issues in AnyEvent::Handle, now that Douglas + Crockford has foolishly and incompatibly changed JSON. + - changed default dns resolver "max_outstanding" value from 1 to 10, + the latter beinfg the intended value all along + (reported by Ilya Chesnokov). + - added new "AnyEvent::Impl::UV" interface module to the UV event lib + (written by Mike Lowell). + +7.07 Tue Dec 17 17:45:02 CET 2013 + - the documentation for custom tls verify schemes was wrong. make it agree + with the code (reported by Maxime Soulé). + - added cbor read and write types to AnyEvent::Handle (using CBOR::XS). + - work around an API change in openssl that could cause wrong tls connection + aborts, likely on windows only (analyzed by sten). + - calling AnyEvent->now_update with AnyEvent::Impl::Perl caused an + endless loop (reported by Dietrich Rebmann). + - add tlsv1_1 and tlsv1_2 protocols to AnyEvent::TLS + (patch by Maxime Soulé). + - document AnyEvent::Impl::IOAsync::set_loop and + $AnyEvent::Impl::IOAsync::LOOP. Though only documented now, this + functionality has _always_ been available. + - force a toplevel domain name in t/81_hosts.t (analyzed by + David Jack Wange Olrik). + - document that AnyEvent::Log uses AnyEvent::IO. + - warn about AnyEvent::Filesys::Notify performance. + - praise the joys of AnyEvent::Fork::*. + - time for an =encoding directive. + - do no longer use JSON to create a default json coder, use + JSON::XS or JSON::PP directly. + +7.05 Wed Aug 21 10:38:08 CEST 2013 + - uts46data.pl couldn't be found due to wrong naming of the file + (reported by Fulko Hew). + - handle lone \015's properly in AE::Handle's default line read + (reported by various people). + - untaint ip addresses found in /etc/hosts (patch by José Micó). + - the memleak fix in 7.03 caused resolving via /etc/hosts to always + fail on first use (reported and testcase by Andrew Whatson). + - expose AnyEvent::Log::format_time, and allow users to redefine it. + - expose AnyEvent::Log::default_format, and allow redefinition. + - expose AnyEvent::Log::fatal_exit, to allow redefinition. + - AnyEvent::Debug shell can now run coro shell commands, if available. + - t/63* tests were wrongly in MANIFEST. + - kernel.org's finger server went MIA, switch to freebsd.org and + icculus.org. + - clarify that IO::AIO and AnyEvent::AIO are needed for AnyEvent::IO + to function asynchronously (reported by Daniel Carosone). + - hard-disable $^W in most tests, it generates too much garbage output. + - use a (hopefully) more future-proof method to emulate common::sense. + - upgrade to UTS-46:6.2.0. + - switch to INSTLIB from INSTLIBDIR, as INSTLIBDIR was wrongly + documented. should not affect anything. + +7.04 Thu Nov 15 02:23:58 CET 2012 + - debugging code left in. + +7.03 Thu Nov 15 02:16:11 CET 2012 + - AnyEvent::Socket::inet_aton did not work when dns resolution was + used to find the addresses (analyzed and patch by Maxime Soulé). + - fix a memory leak in the /etc/hosts lookup code when hosts don't + resolve and are not in hosts (analyzed by sten). + +7.02 Tue Aug 14 04:27:58 CEST 2012 + - AnyEvent::Util::run_cmd could block indefinitely (analyzed and test + program by Yorhel). + - verified that AnyEvent::Socket follows RFC5952. + - try to parse "ADDR#PORT" in addition to "ADDR PORT". + +7.01 Sun May 13 01:03:17 CEST 2012 + - fail with EPROTO in AnyEvent::Handle wqhen TLS is requested but + not available, instead of throwing an exception. + - use File::Spec to get the tmpdir in t/*, to avoid needless + failures on (most, not mine :) windows boxes. + - new handle read types: tls_detect and tls_autostart. + +7.0 Fri Apr 13 06:33:30 CEST 2012 + - child watchers are broken in POE 1.352 (also many earlier + versions) and there seems to be no way to work around it, as POE + itself is inherently racy. Document this regression and add a delay + in t/68_poe_03_child.t for the time being. + - new module AnyEvent::IO, that is a frontend to either a pure-perl + synchronous I/O implementation (AnyEvent::IO::Perl), or to the + asynchronous I/O extension IO::AIO (AnyEvent::IO::IOAIO). + - load /etc/hosts only when DNS has no answer. + - stat /etc/hosts on every access and reload it if it changed. + - load /etc/hosts via AnyEvent::IO - potentially asynchronous. + - fix a buggy croak in the dh parameter reading in AnyEvent::TLS. + - AnyEvent::Log log_to_file and log_to_path now use AnyEvent::IO. As + a side effect, they now use true appending as opposed to libc + appending, and the file might not have been opened when the function + returns. + - the default logging level was not properly documented in a variety of + places, this has hopefully been rectified. + - updated uts46data.pl for unicode 6.1.0. + - made log messages generated by AnyEvent submodules not + include the package name anymore, as it will be logged + by default already. + - upgrade to the trick used by common-sense 3.5 to work + around extra warning torture/breakage under perl 5.15.x. + - log messages by anyevent are now ucfirst, are usually full + sentences and do no longer include the package name. + - the storable read type would sometimes throw an exception instead + of causing EBADMSG (analyzed by Maxime Soulé). + - work around a bug in openssl 1.0.1 which enforces a minimum rsa + keysize (reported by Paul Howarth). + - documented Rocco fabricating statements about AnyEvent and me. + +6.14 Tue Jan 31 20:00:24 CET 2012 + - AnyEvent::Impl::Tk was broken due to a mysterious "die" inside, + probably an editing mistake (reported by Darin McBride). + +6.13 Thu Jan 12 07:27:01 CET 2012 + - AnyEvent::Util::fork_call checked for POSIX availability in the wrong way, + causing it to fail if POSIX wasn't loaded already (analysed by Rock Power). + - AnyEvent::Handle::push_read (line => did pass $1 directly, so + regex-matching inside the callback would change the parameter, despite + $1 being dynamically scoped per-block. this perl bug is now being + worked around (testcase by Cindy Wang). + +6.12 Mon Dec 12 13:21:10 CET 2011 + - $! was clobbered by subsequent calls in tcp_connect, due to + the postpone not saving/restoring it (analyzed by Richard Garnish). + +6.11 Tue Nov 22 10:36:05 CET 2011 + - Tk cannot create windows when tainted unless you set a title, so + set a dummy title for AnyEvent's dummy mainwindow. How dummy. - escape any nonprintable/nonascii characters when stringifying backtraces. + - log the reason loading an interface module fails to load at level debug. 6.1 Tue Oct 4 19:44:30 CEST 2011 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: the default log level is now "4" (error @@ -81,7 +253,7 @@ - env variables can now be specified using AE_xyz instead of PERL_ANYEVENT_xyz, subject to some rules. - lots of new AnyEvent::Debug functionality. - - AnyEvent::Strict now checks for modifications $_ by the callback + - AnyEvent::Strict now checks for modifications of $_ by the callback (by setting it to readonly while executing the callback, if possible). - IO::Async sometimes cancels the wrong timer when you call cancel_timer. Invest extra overhead to work around this peculiar behaviour. @@ -505,7 +677,7 @@ - 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 + - make AnyEvent::Handle more robust against early connection failures (during new), and return C in that case from the constructor. - AnyEvent::Handle will now try to load only JSON::XS first,