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Revision: 1.103
Committed: Sun May 25 03:11:38 2008 UTC (15 years, 11 months ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: rel-4_03
Changes since 1.102: +1 -0 lines
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1 Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent.
2
3 4.03 Sun May 25 05:05:57 CEST 2008
4 - work around perl bugs on windows, where perl returns undocumented
5 error codes for sysread, syswrite etc.
6 - fix AnyEvent::Handle::unshift_read to really unshift and not push.
7 - AnyEvent::Handle could sometimes stumble over 0-byte writes.
8 - fix unpack_sockaddr, now works for AF_INET6 sockaddr's.
9 - updated documentation.
10 - lots of workarounds for perl 5.8 quirks.
11 - implement a more flexible type system for both reads and writes
12 in AnyEvent::Handle.
13 - support IPv6 in tcp_server.
14 - pass local hostname and port to the prepare callback in tcp_server.
15 - make types extendable in AnyEvent::Handle.
16 - croak, not die, in AnyEvent::Handle;
17
18 4.0 Sat May 24 19:58:08 CEST 2008
19 - added (experimental) AnyEvent::DNS module.
20 - added (experimental) AnyEvent::Socket module.
21 - added (experiemntal) support for TLS/SSL in AnyEvent::Handle.
22 - make condvar->end call ->send as documented.
23 - make condvar constructor support the documented cb => argument.
24 - overload condvars so you can use them instead of code references.
25 - support more of the POSIX forms instead of a pure dotted quad for
26 verbatim ip addresses.
27 - AnyEvent::Socket::inet_aton will use AnyEvent::DNS now and not fork anymore.
28 - try very hard not to freeze on broken windows perls.
29 - make on_eof optional in AnyEvent::Handle.
30 - support service names in tcp_connect and tcp_server.
31 - work around netbsd/openbsd bug causing unix sockets not to
32 become writable untill empty.
33 - only make a dummy read for error detection when getpeername
34 returns ENOTCONN.
35 - defend AnyEvent::Util::inet_aton against Coro::LWP brutal
36 override.
37 - new AnyEvent::Guard::cancel.
38
39 3.5 Sat May 17 23:17:14 CEST 2008
40 - gracefully deal with systems not defining CLOCK_MONOTONIC
41 (as opposed to not supporting the clock itself, which worked in 3.41).
42 - added AnyEvent::Util::tcp_connect and AnyEvent::Util::tcp_server
43 helpers, to replace the ill-designed AnyEvent::Socket class.
44 - added some examples (eg/connect, eg/handle).
45 - added AnyEvent::Util::guard.
46 - AnyEvent::Util now exports most of its functions.
47 - fixed a bug in *_read_chunk, where the callback was called with $self as
48 first and second argument.
49 - simplified and fixed regex handling in AnyEvent::Handle::*_read_line.
50 - fix manpage condvars examples to use new syntax.
51 - considerably improve inet_aton with EV::ADNS backend to support
52 cname chains (common dns configuration bug, e.g. with www.google.de)
53 and aaaa records if no a record could be found.
54
55 3.41 Sun May 11 19:53:13 CEST 2008
56 - work around a bug in perl 5.8.8's local. Reported by Yi Ma Mao.
57
58 3.4 Sun May 11 00:29:25 CEST 2008
59 - complete re-implementation of condvars with a hopefully much mroe useful
60 API (backward compatible functions exist but are undocumented).
61 - AnyEvent::Handle fully rewritten with a hopefully more powerful API
62 (still subject to change).
63 - take advantage of CLOCK_MONOTONIC, if available, in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
64 - provide AnyEvent::post_detect and @AnyEvent::post_detect, which
65 allows module authors to avoid forcing event loop detection.
66 (used by Coro::AIO, Coro::BDB, Coro::AnyEvent for example).
67 - remove coro backends: Coro now provides generic support for AnyEvent
68 via Coro::AnyEvent.
69
70 3.3 Mon Apr 28 09:51:06 CEST 2008
71 - added AnyEvent::Handle, AnyEvent::Socket and AnyEvent::Util modules.
72 - fix a bug in the pure perl backend that kept watchers alive
73 when multiple watchers were registered for the same fh/poll combo.
74 - add a benchmark section showing AnyEvent overhead and comparing
75 the different event loops with each other.
76 - prefer pure perl over tk when autoprobing, as it's about as fast,
77 but doesn't crash with many watchers.
78 - declare Qt support non-experimental.
79 - clarify the confusing section about the file descriptor being
80 kept alive.
81 - document the race between loading of an event module and
82 child processes exiting.
83 - support POE as "backend" (with some caveats, POE is not generic
84 enough, and darn slow).
85 - support Wx and Prima through POE.
86 - optimise perl backend to use 20% less memory and take advantage
87 of typical timeout behaviour. It can now compete with
88 select/poll-based C event loops in most cases (it is usually
89 faster than Event and Glib :).
90 - roughly cut EV memory use in half and increase its speed by 30%,
91 by removing undocumented functionality. Did something similar
92 to other event loops where possible.
93
94 3.2 Thu Apr 24 10:10:40 CEST 2008
95 - do not die when anyevent watchers are destroyed while running callbacks
96 in the pureperl backend (could only happen when two watchers are registered
97 for the same fh/poll combo).
98 - support autoloading for child watchers, was broken in all versions.
99 - implement PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL env variable.
100 - (experimental) implement interface to the (very crashy/buggy) Event::Lib module.
101 - (experimental) implement interface to the Qt module (cannot be autoprobed).
102 - this release is IO:AnyEvent-proof.
103
104 3.12 Tue Apr 22 07:11:46 CEST 2008
105 - reinstate AUTHOR section that got lost somehow.
106 - do not hang in the testsuite with badly broken perls (activestate,
107 strawberry...), but instead diagnose the problem and continue.
108 - use INT instead of CHLD in an attempt to support broken windows perls
109 better (this decreases the test quality, unfortunately).
110 - do not send the signal to the process group
111 (no problem for CHLD, bad for INT :).
112
113 3.11 Sat Apr 19 06:57:31 CEST 2008
114 - major documentation rework.
115 - document the fact that child watchers only watch for zombies.
116 - fix the child watcher example.
117
118 3.1 Wed Apr 16 17:09:01 CEST 2008
119 - work around recurring bugs in Tk by dup'ing filehandles, the
120 only method with good success chances on Tk (the bugs apparently
121 don't get fixed anytime soon).
122 - lift the restriction of only one watcher per fh direction
123 (as the Tk bug workaround also lifts it and only Tk imposed
124 such strong limits).
125 - changed probe order to prefer coro adaptors.
126 - explain why recursion into the event loop is not supported
127 unless the backend supports it (only Coro::EV does without
128 any restrictions...).
129 - add simple manpages for all backend modules.
130
131 3.0 Mon Apr 7 21:30:23 CEST 2008
132 - Coro::Signal changed semantics, roll our own, also cleaning
133 up the Coro implementation in general.
134 - rename Coro backend to CoroEvent.
135 - add some decision helping paragraph to the manpage that should
136 help people to decide whether AnyEvent is the right thing for them.
137
138 2.9 Mon Jan 28 13:31:54 CET 2008
139 - update for EV 3.0 API changes.
140
141 2.8 Sun Nov 25 15:06:03 CET 2007
142 - waitpid can validly return 0. accept this fact of life
143 instead of reporting it to any watchers.
144
145 2.7 Fri Nov 23 11:41:14 CET 2007
146 - force use of AnyEvent::Impl::Perl in testsuite, there is
147 too much breakage outside AnyEvent.
148 - deliver signals synchronously in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl
149 or any other event loop that relies on AnyEvents child
150 watcher emulation. *Could* help with hanging testsuite
151 (except when Event or EV are installed).
152
153 2.6 Fri Nov 9 20:36:35 CET 2007
154 - fix bug in testsuite.
155 - move EV adaptor modules to AnyEvent.
156 - add Coro+EV adaptor module.
157
158 2.55 Tue Nov 6 17:41:32 CET 2007
159 - add EV to the list of supported event models.
160 - do not auto-reset pid watchers, pass pid and status to them.
161 - allow a pid of zero to watch for all children in child watchers.
162
163 2.54 Wed Jul 18 17:36:23 CEST 2007
164 - work around a perl bug that results in
165 BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted without
166 any discernible reason or error message by once
167 again not use'ing strict.
168
169 2.53 Sun Jul 8 10:51:53 CEST 2007
170 - make Glib interface work again (spotted by elmex).
171
172 2.52 Wed Mar 7 18:36:16 CET 2007
173 - child watchers stopped working permanently when
174 all current child watchers were destroyed.
175
176 2.51 Mon Dec 11 21:33:24 CET 2006
177 - work around bugs in perl where eval "require Module" returns
178 true even if the module couldn't be loaded :/.
179
180 2.5 Mon Dec 11 02:15:28 CET 2006
181 - avoid $AUTOLOAD because many perls corrupt it.
182 - AnyEvent::detect forces autodetection.
183 - implement signal watchers (experimental)
184 (Tk does not support async signals (<= 804.027 at least),
185 so they might get delayed indefinitely on Tk).
186 - implement child watchers (experimental).
187 - moved default condvar implementation into base module, simplifying
188 most implementation modules.
189
190 2.1 Fri Nov 24 15:50:48 CET 2006
191 - better docs.
192 - simple testsuite.
193 - added AnyEvent->one_event method for special purposes.
194
195 2.0 Wed Nov 1 02:21:30 CET 2006
196 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: poll can now either be "r" or "w" but not both.
197 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: io watcher callbacks have no arguments anymore.
198 - EXPERIMENTAL:
199 new pure-perl model added, AnyEvent now always finds a suitable
200 event model.
201 - improved documentation.
202 - reduced cpu overhead.
203
204 1.02 Fri Jan 13 14:15:40 CET 2006
205 - add COPYING to clarify license.
206
207 1.01 Sun Jan 8 05:48:09 CET 2006
208 - correctly cancel Event timers, avoid memory leaks.
209
210 1.0 Sun Jan 8 05:40:58 CET 2006
211 - allow third-party interfaces to be added at runtime.
212 - fix version number.
213
214 0.9 Fri Dec 30 02:25:41 CET 2005
215 - fixed errors in the documentation.
216 - going back to using $VERSION as "load check",
217 as suggested by Jörn Reder. Let's see why I stopped using
218 this method.
219 - add 'hup' to the list of events to receive for glib
220 and generate 'rw' events for it, as some versions of
221 glib seem to require this, while this breaks other
222 (older) versions of glib.
223 - implemented PERL_ANYEVENT_VERBOSE env variable.
224
225 0.3 Sun Dec 4 10:43:33 CET 2005
226 - no changes to the code.
227 - fixed documentation.
228 - clarified some corner cases.
229 - vastly improved documentation with a long example.
230
231 0.2 Thu Dec 1 22:18:49 CET 2005
232 - check whether a valid method was called, to avoid endless loops.
233 - move condvars into their own class (cleaner, safer).
234 - don't die when some modules are not available.
235 - Tk is too broken to allow for words. Will work once Tk works.
236
237 0.1 Thu Dec 1 19:44:57 CET 2005
238 - spiced up and cleaned up for release.
239
240 0.01 Tue Sep 21 18:12:09 CEST 2004
241 - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
242