--- AnyEvent/Changes 2008/07/08 19:50:25 1.166 +++ AnyEvent/Changes 2009/01/21 05:36:45 1.214 @@ -1,11 +1,128 @@ Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent. -4.2 + - raise EBADMSG error on JSON decoding errors. + +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 analyzed 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 analyzed 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. - - not importing anything from Event causes it to malfunction - and not use Time::HiRes, work around this bug. - 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 @@ -169,7 +286,7 @@ 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. @@ -193,7 +310,7 @@ - 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).