--- AnyEvent/Changes 2008/10/29 14:32:02 1.202 +++ AnyEvent/Changes 2009/07/05 01:38:43 1.262 @@ -1,7 +1,147 @@ Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent. +ZERO_RETURN - stoptls? + - 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). + - 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. + - 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.