--- AnyEvent/Changes 2008/04/27 17:29:20 1.60 +++ AnyEvent/Changes 2008/07/02 12:27:42 1.160 @@ -1,12 +1,205 @@ Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent. +4.160 + - 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. + - make condvar->end call ->send as documented. + - make condvar constructor support the documented cb => argument. + - overload condvars so you can use them instead of code references. + - support more of the POSIX forms instead of a pure dotted quad for + verbatim ip addresses. + - AnyEvent::Socket::inet_aton will use AnyEvent::DNS now and not fork anymore. + - try very hard not to freeze on broken windows perls. + - 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 until empty. + - only make a dummy read for error detection when getpeername + returns ENOTCONN. + - defend AnyEvent::Util::inet_aton against Coro::LWP brutal + override. + - new AnyEvent::Guard::cancel. + +3.5 Sat May 17 23:17:14 CEST 2008 + - gracefully deal with systems not defining CLOCK_MONOTONIC + (as opposed to not supporting the clock itself, which worked in 3.41). + - added AnyEvent::Util::tcp_connect and AnyEvent::Util::tcp_server + helpers, to replace the ill-designed AnyEvent::Socket class. + - added some examples (eg/connect, eg/handle). + - added AnyEvent::Util::guard. + - AnyEvent::Util now exports most of its functions. + - fixed a bug in *_read_chunk, where the callback was called with $self as + first and second argument. + - simplified and fixed regex handling in AnyEvent::Handle::*_read_line. + - fix manpage condvars examples to use new syntax. + - considerably improve inet_aton with EV::ADNS backend to support + cname chains (common dns configuration bug, e.g. with www.google.de) + and aaaa records if no a record could be found. + +3.41 Sun May 11 19:53:13 CEST 2008 + - 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 + API (backward compatible functions exist but are undocumented). + - AnyEvent::Handle fully rewritten with a hopefully more powerful API + (still subject to change). + - take advantage of CLOCK_MONOTONIC, if available, in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl. + - provide AnyEvent::post_detect and @AnyEvent::post_detect, which + allows module authors to avoid forcing event loop detection. + (used by Coro::AIO, Coro::BDB, Coro::AnyEvent for example). + - remove coro backends: Coro now provides generic support for AnyEvent + via Coro::AnyEvent. + +3.3 Mon Apr 28 09:51:06 CEST 2008 + - added AnyEvent::Handle, AnyEvent::Socket and AnyEvent::Util modules. - fix a bug in the pure perl backend that kept watchers alive when multiple watchers were registered for the same fh/poll combo. - add a benchmark section showing AnyEvent overhead and comparing the different event loops with each other. - prefer pure perl over tk when autoprobing, as it's about as fast, but doesn't crash with many watchers. - - make Qt support non-experimental. + - declare Qt support non-experimental. - clarify the confusing section about the file descriptor being kept alive. - document the race between loading of an event module and @@ -15,11 +208,12 @@ enough, and darn slow). - support Wx and Prima through POE. - optimise perl backend to use 20% less memory and take advantage - of typical timeout behaviour. It can now compete with + of typical timeout behaviour. It can now compete with select/poll-based C event loops in most cases (it is usually faster than Event and Glib :). - roughly cut EV memory use in half and increase its speed by 30%, - by removing undocumented functionality. + by removing undocumented functionality. Did something similar + to other event loops where possible. 3.2 Thu Apr 24 10:10:40 CEST 2008 - do not die when anyevent watchers are destroyed while running callbacks