--- AnyEvent/Changes 2008/05/27 04:59:51 1.121 +++ AnyEvent/Changes 2010/04/12 02:50:31 1.392 @@ -1,14 +1,620 @@ Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent. - - add some recommends to the META.yml. - - added a a regex read type to AnyEvent::Handle. +TODO: docs signal for condvar + +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 µ-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). + +5.201 Tue Sep 29 12:09:25 CEST 2009 + - AnyEvent:Handle::on_starttls/on_stoptls methods were broken + (reported by Torsten Foertsch). + - common::sense 2.0 could cause tcp_server to throw an exception + (analysed by elmex). + +5.2 Mon Sep 14 07:04:49 CEST 2009 + - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: do no longer support register_read_type + and register_write_type in AnyEvent::Handle, instead support + package names (the facility was mostly abused). + - implement "packagename-as-read/write type" support in + AnyEvent::Handle. + - AnyEvent::Handle: new options "keepalive" and "oobinline". + - oobinline set by default to avoid security issues. + - the pure-perl event loop backend wrongly detected times() fallback + support (spotted by Pavel Boldin). + +5.12 Tue Sep 1 20:26:50 CEST 2009 + - be more lenient when parsing resolv.conf files, as some people + use hashmarks as comment indicator inside directives (reported + by Michael S. Fischer). + - use same set of warnings as common::sense 2.0. + - fix a potential 32 bit overflow issue due to perl having problems + with large hex constants in the Perl backend. + - do not use the slower 5.6 version fo the enc_name code in AnyEvent::DNS + by default. + - fix some prototypes. + - (optionally) require Async::Interrupt 1.02. + - replace opendns fallbacks by verizon/level3 public dns servers. + +5.112 Fri Aug 21 13:59:04 CEST 2009 + - AnyEvent::Handle could cause hard crashes in Net::SSLeay when + using starttls with an illegal/uncreatable tls context. + - port to broken win32 perls. + +5.111 Sun Aug 16 18:44:36 CEST 2009 + - perl errornously requires sockaddr_un structures returned by the + kernel to have a specific length. work around this bug by padding + sockaddr_un structures (found to fail on OS X, as perl only uses + the correct code for GNU/Linux, but likely to fail on other + OSes as well). + +5.11 Wed Aug 12 17:49:37 CEST 2009 + - fixed a bug in run_cmd with input from filename. + - create a json coder object when none is given in write direction + to reduce dependency on JSON. + +5.1 Tue Aug 11 03:17:32 CEST 2009 + - tcp_connect now reports the correct error in $!, not an unrelated + one (was broken since 4.91). + - AE::Handle did not properly clear rtimeout/wtimeout watchers + when retrying a tcp_connect. + - new functions: AnyEvent::Util::run_cmd and close_all_fds_except. + - fixed wrong documentation in AE::Socket. + +5.01 Mon Aug 10 03:16:32 CEST 2009 + - last release broke EV child watchers :/. + +5.0 Sun Aug 9 17:32:09 CEST 2009 + - officially introduce and document the AE API. + - lowering the timeout at runtime did not have immediate effect + in AnyEvent::Handle. + - AE::Handle now has separate and independent read and write timeout + settings. + - probe for Guard module when AnyEvent::Util is loaded, not at + runtime (Event doesn't like eval "use" from callbacks, and it avoids + exporting the probe function). + - Impl::IOAsync's io watchers did not use the filehandle emulation + code to work around it's watcher limits. + - work around IO::Async's problems with overloaded objects. + - try to disable wearnings inside IO::Async, it's just too buggy. + - do no longer use Event by default, only EV or Perl, Event is too buggy. + - hackishly provide fast AE:: interface when EV or Perl is the backend. + - inherit VERSION from AnyEvent::VERSION in most modules. + +4.91 Thu Aug 6 15:42:45 CEST 2009 + - AE::Handle::starttls could get out of sync when the read buffer + already contains some TLS handshake. + - AE::Handle did not properly free the TLS session, causing bigger + memory leaks in Net::SSLeay than expected (reported by toaster). + - AE::Socket::tcp_connect will now artificially delay invoking + the callback to avoid returning after invoking the callback. + - convert many internal watcher uses to AE API. + +4.9 Sat Aug 1 11:07:01 CEST 2009 + - Glib silently fails when registering a timeout with + a negative value, so avoid that. + - call condvar callback immediately when it is set + after the condition is already signalled. + - check rbuf_max condition only after trying to consume + data. + - normalise signal numbers to names when using the ae's + signal handling, but do not document this (yet). + - pure perl signal emulation did not properly set nonblocking + mode on the signal pipe on win32 (this is unlikely to have caused + any issues). + - new module: AnyEvent::Debug. + - AnyEvent::Strict now checks that a signal was specified + by name (not name or number). + - reduce memory footprint in typical cases by ~50kb by + only compiling signal code when necessary. + - add AnyEvent::Handle->rbuf_max. + - grab the AE namespace for future new API, implement stubs for + said future/alternative API. + - new function: AnyEvent::Socket::format_hostport. + +4.881 Tue Jul 28 12:51:53 CEST 2009 + - work around a bug in local in pre-5.10 perls, causing + AnyEvent::Handle to recurse when it should not + (analysed by elmex). + +4.88 Tue Jul 28 04:04:37 CEST 2009 + - re-bless the handle into a dummy package after calling + AnyEvent::Handle::destroy, so the user does not need to check + for errors after every push_write etc. + - do not attempt to run t/02_signals.t on obviously broken + platforms. + +4.87 Sun Jul 26 02:06:16 CEST 2009 + - do not attempt to linger when there is no longer a valid fh. + - enforce tls mode to be either accept or connect, do not simply + segfault in Net::SSLeay. + - AnyEvent::Handle can now call tcp_connect itself (new parameters + connect, on_prepare, on_connect and on_connect_error). Updated + tutorial accordingly. + - add AnyEvent::Impl::Irssi backend. + +4.86 Mon Jul 20 23:52:29 CEST 2009 + - since the verbose warning is not enough, explicitly document + that versions before 1.33 of Net::SSLeay are not secure. + - work around signal handling races in Event and (...) Event::Lib. + - try to align signal-race timer to full-second boundaries. + - work around Tk not liking negative timeouts. + - don't complain of different grades of environmental unfriendlyness + in IO::Async. + +4.85 Sat Jul 18 06:16:14 CEST 2009 + - 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/openbsd perls and provide EBADMSG + and EPROTO ourselves when missing. + - improve perl 5.6 compatibility of the core event loop. + - made Net::SSLeay version 1.33 a soft requirement. + +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 + object - doing so breaks AnyEvent::HTTP. + +4.45 Mon Jun 29 22:59:26 CEST 2009 + - a write error could cause AnyEvent::Handle to create + an I/O watcher with an undefined $fh. + - special-case mapped ipv4 addresses in both + AnyEvent::Socket::format_address and parse_address, + to treat them just like ipv4 addresses. + - updated and overhauled the AnyEvent::Intro doc. + - implement AnyEvent::Socket::format_ipv4/ipv6. + - slightly speed up portable_pipe/socketpair. + - expand condvar begin/end documentation. + +4.42 Fri Jun 26 08:32:18 CEST 2009 + - preliminary and neccesarily incomplete support for IO::Async. + - reset SIGCHLD to DEFAULT when AnyEvent is loaded, in + case it was set to IGNORE, to ensure we can catch child statuses + even when the calling env acts stupidly. + - updated benchmarks with IO::Async, which performs very well. + +4.412 Wed Jun 24 01:35:57 CEST 2009 + - support an "untaint" attribute for AnyEvent::DNS + and set it on the default resolver. + - implement and document AnyEvent::Impl::Perl::loop. + - remove all anyevent-env variables from %ENV + when running in tainted mode. + - mention and extend the IO::Lambda benchmark. + +4.411 Sun Jun 7 18:48:02 CEST 2009 + - do not try to use F_SETFD on windows. + +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 special case, 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 + (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 analysed 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 analysed 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 +670,7 @@ 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 +694,7 @@ - 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).