--- AnyEvent/Changes 2011/08/20 01:03:08 1.480 +++ AnyEvent/Changes 2012/03/27 16:21:11 1.530 @@ -1,13 +1,82 @@ Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent. TODO: document TCP_*** constants +TODO: add debug/trace logging to some modules +TODO: AnyEvent::IO -TODO: AnyEvent::Log -TODO: check for #TODO -TODO: new context -TODO: consume-- -TODO: ae::log examples -6.01 + - documented Rocco fabricating statements about AnyEvent and me. + - the default logging level was not properly documented in a variety of + places, this has hopefully been rectified. + - updated uts46data.pl for unicode 6.1.0. + - made log messages genearted by AnyEvent submodules not + include the package name anymore, as it will be logged + by default already. + - upgrade to the trick used by common-sense 3.5 to work + around extra warning torture/breakage under perl 5.15.x. + +6.14 Tue Jan 31 20:00:24 CET 2012 + - AnyEvent::Impl::Tk was broken due to a mysterious "die" inside, + probably an editing mistake (reported by Darin McBride). + +6.13 Thu Jan 12 07:27:01 CET 2012 + - AnyEvent::Util::fork_call checked for POSIX availability in the wrong way, + causing it to fail if POSIX wasn't loaded already (analysed by Rock Power). + - AnyEvent::Handle::push_read (line => did pass $1 directly, so + regex-matching inside the callback would change the parameter, despite + $1 being dynamically scoped per-block. this perl bug is now being + worked around (testcase by Cindy Wang). + +6.12 Mon Dec 12 13:21:10 CET 2011 + - $! was clobbered by subsequent calls in tcp_connect, due to + the postpone not saving/restoring it (analyzed by Richard Garnish). + +6.11 Tue Nov 22 10:36:05 CET 2011 + - Tk cannot create windows when tainted unless you set a title, so + set a dummy title for AnyEvent's dummy mainwindow. How dummy. + - escape any nonprintable/nonascii characters when stringifying + backtraces. + - log the reason loading an interface module fails to load at level debug. + +6.1 Tue Oct 4 19:44:30 CEST 2011 + - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: the default log level is now "4" (error + and above), and some messages inside AnyEvent have been elevated + to higher log levels to print by default. + - AnyEvent::log, unlike AnyEvent::Log::log, did not always exit on fatal. + - work around yet another signal race bug, newly introduced by POE. My + how that module sucks. + - add google public ipv6 dns as fallback servers, so AE::DNS can finally + support ipv6-only operation even with defaults (also use ::1 instead + of 127.0.0.1). + - give better guidelines on how to chose a logging level. + - AnyEvent::Log can now cap (limit) log message priority by context. + - AE::log will now save and restore $! and $@, so callers don't have to. + - AE::Strict now checks that registered fds are still valid at regular + intervals. + - skip frequently called 'require' calls if the module appears loaded. + - increase signal latency test timer considerably for poor little osx, + which can't be bothered with basic posix functionality such as signal + delivery. + - mention some debugging aids in the tutorial. + - new env variable PERL_ANYEVENT_MAX_SIGNAL_LATENCY. + - private (%namespace) log contexts in PERL_ANYEVENT_LOG now have the name + of the context as title. + - AnyEvent::Strict would not restore read-write access to $_ when a callback + died - this is a user bug, but since AE::Strict exists to help dbeugging... + - detect the extremely evil IO::Async::Loop::AnyEvent module and refuse + to work with it - the author is well aware of the issues but refuses + to fix them. This extreme step has been taken because the module actively + attacks the goals of AnyEvent and makes it harder for module authors to use + AnyEvent. + +6.02 Fri Aug 26 20:08:31 CEST 2011 + - log_to_syslog now accepts facility strings. + - log_to_syslog would not allow facilities - "$facility|$level" + *literally* means that string. sheesh. + - the CPAN parser got confused and thought we provide Sys::Syslog, try + to work around. + - renamed AnyEvent::Impl::FLTK2 to FLTK. + +6.01 Fri Aug 26 07:04:11 CEST 2011 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: AnyEvent::DNS resource records now include the TTL as fourth element - this affects ->resolve, ->request and ->dns_unpack indirectly. Convenience functions such as @@ -31,10 +100,17 @@ - make AnyEvent::Util more robust against EINTR (analyzed by Andrew Suffield). - new functions: AnyEvent::postpone, AnyEvent::log. - new module: AnyEvent::Log, for simple logging needs. + - new env variable, PERL_ANYEVENT_LOG, for fine-grained logging config. - new env variable, PERL_ANYEVENT_DEBUG_SHELL, to automatically start a debug shell. - new env variable, PERL_ANYEVENT_DEBUG_WRAP, to automatically enable watcher instrumentation/wrapping (see AnyEvent::Debug::wrap). + - new env variable, PERL_ANYEVENT_HOSTS, to override the place where + /etc/hosts can be found. + - an empty PERL_ANYEVENT_RESOLV_CONF now selects the default + configuration. + - env variables can now be specified using AE_xyz instead of + PERL_ANYEVENT_xyz, subject to some rules. - lots of new AnyEvent::Debug functionality. - AnyEvent::Strict now checks for modifications $_ by the callback (by setting it to readonly while executing the callback, if possible). @@ -45,6 +121,8 @@ - some read types (regex, netstring, json, storable) could errornously keep an AE::Handle object alive on their own (reported by Mohammad Toossi). + - AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr and all functions using it now + supports /etc/hosts overrides. - add more workarounds around child watcher bugs in IO::Async and (newly introduced) in POE. - use glib child watchers and try to work around its limitations, @@ -65,6 +143,10 @@ - do not run event loop detection multiple times when programs call their cached copies of AnyEvent::detect. - parse_hostport now accepts absolute paths als unix domain sockets. + - suppress the idiotic warning inside POE by patching the POE::Kernel + run flags instead of asking the user to jump through contortions. + - add Task::Weaken as dependency (as recommends only at this time). + - replace PF_UNSPEC by 0, for good old minix. 6.0 (not officially released, but was on CPAN for about 15 minutes :/)