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Revision: 1.113
Committed: Mon May 26 06:04:38 2008 UTC (15 years, 11 months ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: rel-4_04
Changes since 1.112: +1 -0 lines
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4.04

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# Content
1 Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent.
2
3 4.04 Mon May 26 08:03:31 CEST 2008
4 - try to work around yet another windows bug: failed connects are reported
5 as if it were out-of-band data. windows users: you suck. Only
6 EV, Glib, Event and the pure perl backend can handle this condition.
7 - optimize write algorithm in AnyEvent::Handle.
8 - properly parse PERL_ANYEVENT_PROTOCOLS and use the info correctly.
9 - tcp_connect now properly iterates through all targets.
10 - check wether IPv6 sockets can actually be created, otherwise, disable ipv6
11 support entirely. also hardcode some AF_INEt6 constants for the
12 sake of perl 5.8.
13 - vastly improved nameserver/suffix detection algorithm for windows
14 (still a hack...)
15 - try to use a fallback dns server if no dns servers could be found.
16 - splatter around some local $SIG{__DIE__}'s to work around bad
17 die handlers.
18
19 4.03 Sun May 25 05:05:57 CEST 2008
20 - work around perl bugs on windows, where perl returns undocumented
21 error codes for sysread, syswrite etc.
22 - fix AnyEvent::Handle::unshift_read to really unshift and not push.
23 - AnyEvent::Handle could sometimes stumble over 0-byte writes.
24 - fix unpack_sockaddr, now works for AF_INET6 sockaddr's.
25 - updated documentation.
26 - lots of workarounds for perl 5.8 quirks.
27 - implement a more flexible type system for both reads and writes
28 in AnyEvent::Handle.
29 - support IPv6 in tcp_server.
30 - pass local hostname and port to the prepare callback in tcp_server.
31 - make types extendable in AnyEvent::Handle.
32 - croak, not die, in AnyEvent::Handle;
33
34 4.0 Sat May 24 19:58:08 CEST 2008
35 - added (experimental) AnyEvent::DNS module.
36 - added (experimental) AnyEvent::Socket module.
37 - added (experiemntal) support for TLS/SSL in AnyEvent::Handle.
38 - make condvar->end call ->send as documented.
39 - make condvar constructor support the documented cb => argument.
40 - overload condvars so you can use them instead of code references.
41 - support more of the POSIX forms instead of a pure dotted quad for
42 verbatim ip addresses.
43 - AnyEvent::Socket::inet_aton will use AnyEvent::DNS now and not fork anymore.
44 - try very hard not to freeze on broken windows perls.
45 - make on_eof optional in AnyEvent::Handle.
46 - support service names in tcp_connect and tcp_server.
47 - work around netbsd/openbsd bug causing unix sockets not to
48 become writable untill empty.
49 - only make a dummy read for error detection when getpeername
50 returns ENOTCONN.
51 - defend AnyEvent::Util::inet_aton against Coro::LWP brutal
52 override.
53 - new AnyEvent::Guard::cancel.
54
55 3.5 Sat May 17 23:17:14 CEST 2008
56 - gracefully deal with systems not defining CLOCK_MONOTONIC
57 (as opposed to not supporting the clock itself, which worked in 3.41).
58 - added AnyEvent::Util::tcp_connect and AnyEvent::Util::tcp_server
59 helpers, to replace the ill-designed AnyEvent::Socket class.
60 - added some examples (eg/connect, eg/handle).
61 - added AnyEvent::Util::guard.
62 - AnyEvent::Util now exports most of its functions.
63 - fixed a bug in *_read_chunk, where the callback was called with $self as
64 first and second argument.
65 - simplified and fixed regex handling in AnyEvent::Handle::*_read_line.
66 - fix manpage condvars examples to use new syntax.
67 - considerably improve inet_aton with EV::ADNS backend to support
68 cname chains (common dns configuration bug, e.g. with www.google.de)
69 and aaaa records if no a record could be found.
70
71 3.41 Sun May 11 19:53:13 CEST 2008
72 - work around a bug in perl 5.8.8's local. Reported by Yi Ma Mao.
73
74 3.4 Sun May 11 00:29:25 CEST 2008
75 - complete re-implementation of condvars with a hopefully much mroe useful
76 API (backward compatible functions exist but are undocumented).
77 - AnyEvent::Handle fully rewritten with a hopefully more powerful API
78 (still subject to change).
79 - take advantage of CLOCK_MONOTONIC, if available, in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
80 - provide AnyEvent::post_detect and @AnyEvent::post_detect, which
81 allows module authors to avoid forcing event loop detection.
82 (used by Coro::AIO, Coro::BDB, Coro::AnyEvent for example).
83 - remove coro backends: Coro now provides generic support for AnyEvent
84 via Coro::AnyEvent.
85
86 3.3 Mon Apr 28 09:51:06 CEST 2008
87 - added AnyEvent::Handle, AnyEvent::Socket and AnyEvent::Util modules.
88 - fix a bug in the pure perl backend that kept watchers alive
89 when multiple watchers were registered for the same fh/poll combo.
90 - add a benchmark section showing AnyEvent overhead and comparing
91 the different event loops with each other.
92 - prefer pure perl over tk when autoprobing, as it's about as fast,
93 but doesn't crash with many watchers.
94 - declare Qt support non-experimental.
95 - clarify the confusing section about the file descriptor being
96 kept alive.
97 - document the race between loading of an event module and
98 child processes exiting.
99 - support POE as "backend" (with some caveats, POE is not generic
100 enough, and darn slow).
101 - support Wx and Prima through POE.
102 - optimise perl backend to use 20% less memory and take advantage
103 of typical timeout behaviour. It can now compete with
104 select/poll-based C event loops in most cases (it is usually
105 faster than Event and Glib :).
106 - roughly cut EV memory use in half and increase its speed by 30%,
107 by removing undocumented functionality. Did something similar
108 to other event loops where possible.
109
110 3.2 Thu Apr 24 10:10:40 CEST 2008
111 - do not die when anyevent watchers are destroyed while running callbacks
112 in the pureperl backend (could only happen when two watchers are registered
113 for the same fh/poll combo).
114 - support autoloading for child watchers, was broken in all versions.
115 - implement PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL env variable.
116 - (experimental) implement interface to the (very crashy/buggy) Event::Lib module.
117 - (experimental) implement interface to the Qt module (cannot be autoprobed).
118 - this release is IO:AnyEvent-proof.
119
120 3.12 Tue Apr 22 07:11:46 CEST 2008
121 - reinstate AUTHOR section that got lost somehow.
122 - do not hang in the testsuite with badly broken perls (activestate,
123 strawberry...), but instead diagnose the problem and continue.
124 - use INT instead of CHLD in an attempt to support broken windows perls
125 better (this decreases the test quality, unfortunately).
126 - do not send the signal to the process group
127 (no problem for CHLD, bad for INT :).
128
129 3.11 Sat Apr 19 06:57:31 CEST 2008
130 - major documentation rework.
131 - document the fact that child watchers only watch for zombies.
132 - fix the child watcher example.
133
134 3.1 Wed Apr 16 17:09:01 CEST 2008
135 - work around recurring bugs in Tk by dup'ing filehandles, the
136 only method with good success chances on Tk (the bugs apparently
137 don't get fixed anytime soon).
138 - lift the restriction of only one watcher per fh direction
139 (as the Tk bug workaround also lifts it and only Tk imposed
140 such strong limits).
141 - changed probe order to prefer coro adaptors.
142 - explain why recursion into the event loop is not supported
143 unless the backend supports it (only Coro::EV does without
144 any restrictions...).
145 - add simple manpages for all backend modules.
146
147 3.0 Mon Apr 7 21:30:23 CEST 2008
148 - Coro::Signal changed semantics, roll our own, also cleaning
149 up the Coro implementation in general.
150 - rename Coro backend to CoroEvent.
151 - add some decision helping paragraph to the manpage that should
152 help people to decide whether AnyEvent is the right thing for them.
153
154 2.9 Mon Jan 28 13:31:54 CET 2008
155 - update for EV 3.0 API changes.
156
157 2.8 Sun Nov 25 15:06:03 CET 2007
158 - waitpid can validly return 0. accept this fact of life
159 instead of reporting it to any watchers.
160
161 2.7 Fri Nov 23 11:41:14 CET 2007
162 - force use of AnyEvent::Impl::Perl in testsuite, there is
163 too much breakage outside AnyEvent.
164 - deliver signals synchronously in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl
165 or any other event loop that relies on AnyEvents child
166 watcher emulation. *Could* help with hanging testsuite
167 (except when Event or EV are installed).
168
169 2.6 Fri Nov 9 20:36:35 CET 2007
170 - fix bug in testsuite.
171 - move EV adaptor modules to AnyEvent.
172 - add Coro+EV adaptor module.
173
174 2.55 Tue Nov 6 17:41:32 CET 2007
175 - add EV to the list of supported event models.
176 - do not auto-reset pid watchers, pass pid and status to them.
177 - allow a pid of zero to watch for all children in child watchers.
178
179 2.54 Wed Jul 18 17:36:23 CEST 2007
180 - work around a perl bug that results in
181 BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted without
182 any discernible reason or error message by once
183 again not use'ing strict.
184
185 2.53 Sun Jul 8 10:51:53 CEST 2007
186 - make Glib interface work again (spotted by elmex).
187
188 2.52 Wed Mar 7 18:36:16 CET 2007
189 - child watchers stopped working permanently when
190 all current child watchers were destroyed.
191
192 2.51 Mon Dec 11 21:33:24 CET 2006
193 - work around bugs in perl where eval "require Module" returns
194 true even if the module couldn't be loaded :/.
195
196 2.5 Mon Dec 11 02:15:28 CET 2006
197 - avoid $AUTOLOAD because many perls corrupt it.
198 - AnyEvent::detect forces autodetection.
199 - implement signal watchers (experimental)
200 (Tk does not support async signals (<= 804.027 at least),
201 so they might get delayed indefinitely on Tk).
202 - implement child watchers (experimental).
203 - moved default condvar implementation into base module, simplifying
204 most implementation modules.
205
206 2.1 Fri Nov 24 15:50:48 CET 2006
207 - better docs.
208 - simple testsuite.
209 - added AnyEvent->one_event method for special purposes.
210
211 2.0 Wed Nov 1 02:21:30 CET 2006
212 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: poll can now either be "r" or "w" but not both.
213 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: io watcher callbacks have no arguments anymore.
214 - EXPERIMENTAL:
215 new pure-perl model added, AnyEvent now always finds a suitable
216 event model.
217 - improved documentation.
218 - reduced cpu overhead.
219
220 1.02 Fri Jan 13 14:15:40 CET 2006
221 - add COPYING to clarify license.
222
223 1.01 Sun Jan 8 05:48:09 CET 2006
224 - correctly cancel Event timers, avoid memory leaks.
225
226 1.0 Sun Jan 8 05:40:58 CET 2006
227 - allow third-party interfaces to be added at runtime.
228 - fix version number.
229
230 0.9 Fri Dec 30 02:25:41 CET 2005
231 - fixed errors in the documentation.
232 - going back to using $VERSION as "load check",
233 as suggested by Jörn Reder. Let's see why I stopped using
234 this method.
235 - add 'hup' to the list of events to receive for glib
236 and generate 'rw' events for it, as some versions of
237 glib seem to require this, while this breaks other
238 (older) versions of glib.
239 - implemented PERL_ANYEVENT_VERBOSE env variable.
240
241 0.3 Sun Dec 4 10:43:33 CET 2005
242 - no changes to the code.
243 - fixed documentation.
244 - clarified some corner cases.
245 - vastly improved documentation with a long example.
246
247 0.2 Thu Dec 1 22:18:49 CET 2005
248 - check whether a valid method was called, to avoid endless loops.
249 - move condvars into their own class (cleaner, safer).
250 - don't die when some modules are not available.
251 - Tk is too broken to allow for words. Will work once Tk works.
252
253 0.1 Thu Dec 1 19:44:57 CET 2005
254 - spiced up and cleaned up for release.
255
256 0.01 Tue Sep 21 18:12:09 CEST 2004
257 - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
258