--- AnyEvent/Changes 2009/08/21 11:59:24 1.339 +++ AnyEvent/Changes 2010/03/24 23:28:06 1.391 @@ -1,5 +1,115 @@ Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent. + - don't generate spurious readyness notifications when select + returns EINTR in the pure perl backend (analysed and testcase + by Bas Denissen). + - give same examples in SYNOPSIS sections of AnyEvent and AE. + - provider faster implementations for AE::time/now/now_update for + EV and Perl backends. + - provide faster AE::cv and AE::time implementations for all + backends. + - no longer support lower/mixed-case signal names (this was + never documented nor universally supported). + - some more memory ยต-optimisations, and somewhat less messy + code to cope with both AnyEvent and AE APIs. + +5.251 Sat Mar 13 00:58:21 CET 2010 + - make test failed if it was run before make install on perl <= + 5.8.8, and older versions of perl make our live very difficult, + so write constants.pl during Makefile.PL time. + +5.25 Sat Mar 13 00:23:14 CET 2010 + - fix a race condition in AnyEvent::Handle that would cause + a "bio_read: unsupported method" error (in _another_ + ssl connection) after user code threw an exception. + - added AnyEvent::Handle->destroyed method. + - speed up AnyEvent::Socket::format_address and ::format_ipv6. + - the AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking function worked only + by lucky accident on win32. + - smaller and faster AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking. + - when the (required!) Time::HiRes module is missing, AnyEvent + did not fall back to built-in time properly. + - do not load Fcntl at runtime, saving memory and loading time. + - precompile a number of constants and use them instead of runtime + detection and eval. + - free detection code after detection and similar memory optimisations. + - Perl backend timer interval best effort drift has been improved + (same algorithm as EV). + - update unicode idna mapping table. + +5.24 Tue Jan 5 11:39:43 CET 2010 + - cygwin never reports errors from failed connects. 1.5 just gives + you continous readyness and EAGAIN, 1.7 is even more broken and + just hangs. work around both issues in a cygwin-specific hack. + - improve idle watcher documentation slightly. + +5.23 Sun Dec 20 23:48:00 CET 2009 + - support IDNs in resolve_sockaddr, and therefore in tcp_connect. + - implement punycode_encode/decode, idn_nameprep, + idn_to_ascii and idn_to_unicode operations in AnyEvent::Util. + - provide $AE::VERSION. + - removed traces of "no strict 'refs'". + +5.22 Sat Dec 5 03:51:13 CET 2009 + - downgrade-or-fail in AnyEvent::Handle::push_write, to + diagnose encoding failures earlier and more succinctly. + (this works around bugs in perl, throwing away encoding info + when passing scalar data to extensions). + - add more examples to AnyEvent::Socket manpage. + - upgrade internal warning set to the same as common::sense 2.03. + - use pack "n/a*" for pre-5.8.9 perl compatibility in AnyEvent::DNS + (John Beppu). + - AnyEvent::Socket::inet_aton now properly supports ipv6, as documented. + - add google public dns servers to fallback server set and make sure + we load-balance properly between the three sets. also add all + fallback dns servers, not just a random one, to each dns config. + +5.21 Thu Nov 19 02:48:47 CET 2009 + - fix a problem where socket constants were called with parameters + (spotted by David Friedland). + - fork_call never use'd POSIX (reported by Daisuke Maki). + - improve perl 5.6 compatibility further (but it still won't work + unless you rip out everything but the core). + - prefer Net::DNS::Resolver over ipconfig, if installed, on win32. + uses 10MB of RAM, but doesn't open a console window. *sigh*. + +5.202 Wed Oct 14 22:35:44 CEST 2009 + - AnyEvent::DNS would unexpectedly clobber $_ under windows + (analysed by Matthias Waldorf). + - AnyEvent::Handle::run_cmd can now pass the PID of the + newly-created process, which is much less useful than it might + sound (based on patch by Yann Kerherve). + +5.201 Tue Sep 29 12:09:25 CEST 2009 + - AnyEvent:Handle::on_starttls/on_stoptls methods were broken + (reported by Torsten Foertsch). + - common::sense 2.0 could cause tcp_server to throw an exception + (analysed by elmex). + +5.2 Mon Sep 14 07:04:49 CEST 2009 + - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: do no longer support register_read_type + and register_write_type in AnyEvent::Handle, instead support + package names (the facility was mostly abused). + - implement "packagename-as-read/write type" support in + AnyEvent::Handle. + - AnyEvent::Handle: new options "keepalive" and "oobinline". + - oobinline set by default to avoid security issues. + - the pure-perl event loop backend wrongly detected times() fallback + support (spotted by Pavel Boldin). + +5.12 Tue Sep 1 20:26:50 CEST 2009 + - be more lenient when parsing resolv.conf files, as some people + use hashmarks as comment indicator inside directives (reported + by Michael S. Fischer). + - use same set of warnings as common::sense 2.0. + - fix a potential 32 bit overflow issue due to perl having problems + with large hex constants in the Perl backend. + - do not use the slower 5.6 version fo the enc_name code in AnyEvent::DNS + by default. + - fix some prototypes. + - (optionally) require Async::Interrupt 1.02. + - replace opendns fallbacks by verizon/level3 public dns servers. + 5.112 Fri Aug 21 13:59:04 CEST 2009 - AnyEvent::Handle could cause hard crashes in Net::SSLeay when using starttls with an illegal/uncreatable tls context. @@ -79,7 +189,7 @@ 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). + (analysed by elmex). 4.88 Tue Jul 28 04:04:37 CEST 2009 - re-bless the handle into a dummy package after calling @@ -311,14 +421,14 @@ 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: + - 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 + otherwise hang. (reported and analysed 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 + (reported and analysed 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) -