--- AnyEvent/Changes 2009/07/28 02:07:18 1.302 +++ AnyEvent/Changes 2010/06/05 09:08:14 1.397 @@ -1,5 +1,207 @@ Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent. +TODO: docs signal for condvar + + - explicitly check for non-stream sockets in AE::Handle, too many + clueless people fell into the trap of this somehow working. + - simplified and reworked the "OTHER MODULES" section. + +5.261 Wed Apr 28 16:13:36 CEST 2010 + - AF_INET6 was not properly used from Socket6 during configuration + time (found by Andy Grundman). + +5.26 Mon Apr 12 04:49:35 CEST 2010 + - 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. + - port to broken win32 perls. + +5.111 Sun Aug 16 18:44:36 CEST 2009 + - perl errornously requires sockaddr_un structures returned by the + kernel to have a specific length. work around this bug by padding + sockaddr_un structures (found to fail on OS X, as perl only uses + the correct code for GNU/Linux, but likely to fail on other + OSes as well). + +5.11 Wed Aug 12 17:49:37 CEST 2009 + - fixed a bug in run_cmd with input from filename. + - create a json coder object when none is given in write direction + to reduce dependency on JSON. + +5.1 Tue Aug 11 03:17:32 CEST 2009 + - tcp_connect now reports the correct error in $!, not an unrelated + one (was broken since 4.91). + - AE::Handle did not properly clear rtimeout/wtimeout watchers + when retrying a tcp_connect. + - new functions: AnyEvent::Util::run_cmd and close_all_fds_except. + - fixed wrong documentation in AE::Socket. + +5.01 Mon Aug 10 03:16:32 CEST 2009 + - last release broke EV child watchers :/. + +5.0 Sun Aug 9 17:32:09 CEST 2009 + - officially introduce and document the AE API. + - lowering the timeout at runtime did not have immediate effect + in AnyEvent::Handle. + - AE::Handle now has separate and independent read and write timeout + settings. + - probe for Guard module when AnyEvent::Util is loaded, not at + runtime (Event doesn't like eval "use" from callbacks, and it avoids + exporting the probe function). + - Impl::IOAsync's io watchers did not use the filehandle emulation + code to work around it's watcher limits. + - work around IO::Async's problems with overloaded objects. + - try to disable wearnings inside IO::Async, it's just too buggy. + - do no longer use Event by default, only EV or Perl, Event is too buggy. + - hackishly provide fast AE:: interface when EV or Perl is the backend. + - inherit VERSION from AnyEvent::VERSION in most modules. + +4.91 Thu Aug 6 15:42:45 CEST 2009 + - AE::Handle::starttls could get out of sync when the read buffer + already contains some TLS handshake. + - AE::Handle did not properly free the TLS session, causing bigger + memory leaks in Net::SSLeay than expected (reported by toaster). + - AE::Socket::tcp_connect will now artificially delay invoking + the callback to avoid returning after invoking the callback. + - convert many internal watcher uses to AE API. + +4.9 Sat Aug 1 11:07:01 CEST 2009 + - 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 + (analysed 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 @@ -230,14 +432,14 @@ 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) -