--- AnyEvent/Changes 2008/11/05 02:21:27 1.206 +++ AnyEvent/Changes 2009/07/31 20:16:29 1.315 @@ -1,7 +1,242 @@ Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent. +4.9 + - 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 + (analyzed 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