--- AnyEvent/Changes 2008/05/24 17:48:38 1.94 +++ AnyEvent/Changes 2008/12/13 20:20:31 1.211 @@ -1,6 +1,267 @@ Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent. -4.0 + - 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. + - 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. @@ -14,10 +275,10 @@ - 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 untill empty. + 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. @@ -41,7 +302,7 @@ - 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).