--- AnyEvent/Changes 2006/10/30 20:55:05 1.13 +++ AnyEvent/Changes 2008/07/27 07:34:07 1.181 @@ -1,6 +1,363 @@ Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent. -2.0 + - 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. + - 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 + the sockaddr structure, cater for those. also use sockaddr_family, + didn't know it was there, but comes in handy for the workaround. + - undo the import WIN32 hack. + +4.04 Mon May 26 08:03:31 CEST 2008 + - try to work around yet another windows bug: failed connects are reported + as if it were out-of-band data. windows users: you suck. Only + EV, Glib, Event and the pure perl backend can handle this condition. + - optimize write algorithm in AnyEvent::Handle. + - properly parse PERL_ANYEVENT_PROTOCOLS and use the info correctly. + - tcp_connect now properly iterates through all targets. + - check wether IPv6 sockets can actually be created, otherwise, disable ipv6 + support entirely. also hardcode some AF_INET6 constants for the + sake of perl 5.8. + - vastly improved nameserver/suffix detection algorithm for windows + (still a hack...) + - try to use a fallback dns server if no dns servers could be found. + - splatter around some local $SIG{__DIE__}'s to work around bad + die handlers. + +4.03 Sun May 25 05:05:57 CEST 2008 + - work around perl bugs on windows, where perl returns undocumented + error codes for sysread, syswrite etc. + - fix AnyEvent::Handle::unshift_read to really unshift and not push. + - AnyEvent::Handle could sometimes stumble over 0-byte writes. + - fix unpack_sockaddr, now works for AF_INET6 sockaddr's. + - updated documentation. + - lots of workarounds for perl 5.8 quirks. + - implement a more flexible type system for both reads and writes + in AnyEvent::Handle. + - support IPv6 in tcp_server. + - pass local hostname and port to the prepare callback in tcp_server. + - make types extendable in AnyEvent::Handle. + - croak, not die, in AnyEvent::Handle; + +4.0 Sat May 24 19:58:08 CEST 2008 + - added (experimental) AnyEvent::DNS module. + - added (experimental) AnyEvent::Socket module. + - added (experiemntal) support for TLS/SSL in AnyEvent::Handle. + - make condvar->end call ->send as documented. + - make condvar constructor support the documented cb => argument. + - overload condvars so you can use them instead of code references. + - support more of the POSIX forms instead of a pure dotted quad for + verbatim ip addresses. + - AnyEvent::Socket::inet_aton will use AnyEvent::DNS now and not fork anymore. + - try very hard not to freeze on broken windows perls. + - make on_eof optional in AnyEvent::Handle. + - support service names in tcp_connect and tcp_server. + - work around netbsd/openbsd bug causing unix sockets not to + become writable until empty. + - only make a dummy read for error detection when getpeername + returns ENOTCONN. + - defend AnyEvent::Util::inet_aton against Coro::LWP's brutal + override. + - new AnyEvent::Guard::cancel. + +3.5 Sat May 17 23:17:14 CEST 2008 + - gracefully deal with systems not defining CLOCK_MONOTONIC + (as opposed to not supporting the clock itself, which worked in 3.41). + - added AnyEvent::Util::tcp_connect and AnyEvent::Util::tcp_server + helpers, to replace the ill-designed AnyEvent::Socket class. + - added some examples (eg/connect, eg/handle). + - added AnyEvent::Util::guard. + - AnyEvent::Util now exports most of its functions. + - fixed a bug in *_read_chunk, where the callback was called with $self as + first and second argument. + - simplified and fixed regex handling in AnyEvent::Handle::*_read_line. + - fix manpage condvars examples to use new syntax. + - considerably improve inet_aton with EV::ADNS backend to support + cname chains (common dns configuration bug, e.g. with www.google.de) + and aaaa records if no a record could be found. + +3.41 Sun May 11 19:53:13 CEST 2008 + - 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 more useful + API (backward compatible functions exist but are undocumented). + - AnyEvent::Handle fully rewritten with a hopefully more powerful API + (still subject to change). + - take advantage of CLOCK_MONOTONIC, if available, in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl. + - provide AnyEvent::post_detect and @AnyEvent::post_detect, which + allows module authors to avoid forcing event loop detection. + (used by Coro::AIO, Coro::BDB, Coro::AnyEvent for example). + - remove coro backends: Coro now provides generic support for AnyEvent + via Coro::AnyEvent. + +3.3 Mon Apr 28 09:51:06 CEST 2008 + - added AnyEvent::Handle, AnyEvent::Socket and AnyEvent::Util modules. + - fix a bug in the pure perl backend that kept watchers alive + when multiple watchers were registered for the same fh/poll combo. + - add a benchmark section showing AnyEvent overhead and comparing + the different event loops with each other. + - prefer pure perl over tk when autoprobing, as it's about as fast, + but doesn't crash with many watchers. + - declare Qt support non-experimental. + - clarify the confusing section about the file descriptor being + kept alive. + - document the race between loading of an event module and + child processes exiting. + - support POE as "backend" (with some caveats, POE is not generic + enough, and darn slow). + - support Wx and Prima through POE. + - optimise perl backend to use 20% less memory and take advantage + of typical timeout behaviour. It can now compete with + select/poll-based C event loops in most cases (it is usually + faster than Event and Glib :). + - roughly cut EV memory use in half and increase its speed by 30%, + by removing undocumented functionality. Did something similar + to other event loops where possible. + +3.2 Thu Apr 24 10:10:40 CEST 2008 + - do not die when anyevent watchers are destroyed while running callbacks + in the pureperl backend (could only happen when two watchers are registered + for the same fh/poll combo). + - support autoloading for child watchers, was broken in all versions. + - implement PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL env variable. + - (experimental) implement interface to the (very crashy/buggy) Event::Lib module. + - (experimental) implement interface to the Qt module (cannot be autoprobed). + - this release is IO:AnyEvent-proof. + +3.12 Tue Apr 22 07:11:46 CEST 2008 + - reinstate AUTHOR section that got lost somehow. + - do not hang in the testsuite with badly broken perls (activestate, + strawberry...), but instead diagnose the problem and continue. + - use INT instead of CHLD in an attempt to support broken windows perls + better (this decreases the test quality, unfortunately). + - do not send the signal to the process group + (no problem for CHLD, bad for INT :). + +3.11 Sat Apr 19 06:57:31 CEST 2008 + - major documentation rework. + - document the fact that child watchers only watch for zombies. + - fix the child watcher example. + +3.1 Wed Apr 16 17:09:01 CEST 2008 + - work around recurring bugs in Tk by dup'ing filehandles, the + only method with good success chances on Tk (the bugs apparently + don't get fixed anytime soon). + - lift the restriction of only one watcher per fh direction + (as the Tk bug workaround also lifts it and only Tk imposed + such strong limits). + - changed probe order to prefer coro adaptors. + - explain why recursion into the event loop is not supported + unless the backend supports it (only Coro::EV does without + any restrictions...). + - add simple manpages for all backend modules. + +3.0 Mon Apr 7 21:30:23 CEST 2008 + - Coro::Signal changed semantics, roll our own, also cleaning + up the Coro implementation in general. + - rename Coro backend to CoroEvent. + - add some decision helping paragraph to the manpage that should + help people to decide whether AnyEvent is the right thing for them. + +2.9 Mon Jan 28 13:31:54 CET 2008 + - update for EV 3.0 API changes. + +2.8 Sun Nov 25 15:06:03 CET 2007 + - waitpid can validly return 0. accept this fact of life + instead of reporting it to any watchers. + +2.7 Fri Nov 23 11:41:14 CET 2007 + - force use of AnyEvent::Impl::Perl in testsuite, there is + too much breakage outside AnyEvent. + - deliver signals synchronously in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl + or any other event loop that relies on AnyEvents child + watcher emulation. *Could* help with hanging testsuite + (except when Event or EV are installed). + +2.6 Fri Nov 9 20:36:35 CET 2007 + - fix bug in testsuite. + - move EV adaptor modules to AnyEvent. + - add Coro+EV adaptor module. + +2.55 Tue Nov 6 17:41:32 CET 2007 + - add EV to the list of supported event models. + - do not auto-reset pid watchers, pass pid and status to them. + - allow a pid of zero to watch for all children in child watchers. + +2.54 Wed Jul 18 17:36:23 CEST 2007 + - work around a perl bug that results in + BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted without + any discernible reason or error message by once + again not use'ing strict. + +2.53 Sun Jul 8 10:51:53 CEST 2007 + - make Glib interface work again (spotted by elmex). + +2.52 Wed Mar 7 18:36:16 CET 2007 + - child watchers stopped working permanently when + all current child watchers were destroyed. + +2.51 Mon Dec 11 21:33:24 CET 2006 + - work around bugs in perl where eval "require Module" returns + true even if the module couldn't be loaded :/. + +2.5 Mon Dec 11 02:15:28 CET 2006 + - avoid $AUTOLOAD because many perls corrupt it. + - AnyEvent::detect forces autodetection. + - implement signal watchers (experimental) + (Tk does not support async signals (<= 804.027 at least), + so they might get delayed indefinitely on Tk). + - implement child watchers (experimental). + - moved default condvar implementation into base module, simplifying + most implementation modules. + +2.1 Fri Nov 24 15:50:48 CET 2006 + - better docs. + - simple testsuite. + - added AnyEvent->one_event method for special purposes. + +2.0 Wed Nov 1 02:21:30 CET 2006 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: poll can now either be "r" or "w" but not both. - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: io watcher callbacks have no arguments anymore. - EXPERIMENTAL: @@ -37,7 +394,7 @@ - vastly improved documentation with a long example. 0.2 Thu Dec 1 22:18:49 CET 2005 - - check wether a valid method was called, to avoid endless loops. + - check whether a valid method was called, to avoid endless loops. - move condvars into their own class (cleaner, safer). - don't die when some modules are not available. - Tk is too broken to allow for words. Will work once Tk works.