--- AnyEvent/Changes 2009/07/06 20:24:47 1.263 +++ AnyEvent/Changes 2009/07/30 03:24:56 1.310 @@ -1,6 +1,102 @@ Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent. -ZERO_RETURN - stoptls? +TODO: release a:i 1.0 + - Glib silently fails when registering a timeout with + a negative value, so avoid that. + - 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. + +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