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1 Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent.
2
3 4.341
4 - event models relying on AnyEvent's signal watcher emulation did
5 invoke the callback asynchronously, contradicting documentation
6 and causing signals to get lost (this includes AnyEvent's own
7 event loop). AnyEvent now uses the standard pipe trick to make
8 callback execution synchronous to the event loop.
9 - work around the ever-incompatibly-changing API of MakeMaker.
10 - document that changing global variables without restoring them
11 is a bad idea in Perl (noted by Adam Rosenstein).
12
13 4.34 Thu Feb 12 18:32:45 CET 2009
14 - separately buffer TLS read data, as otherwise the read queue could
15 deadlock as receiving data is not expected while draining the
16 read queue (which cna only happen with TLS).
17 - raise EBADMSG error on JSON decoding errors.
18 - fix some minor manpage bugs (reported by Maximilian Gaß).
19 - speed up select bitmask parsing quite a bit in the pure perl
20 backend.
21 - use CORE::select instead of just select in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
22
23 4.331 Tue Jan 6 21:07:25 CET 2009
24 - socketpair fails on many vista machines because vista has
25 completely broken accept/getpeername and getsockname functions,
26 so we provide our own socketpair emulation that kind of works
27 (AnyEvent::Util::portable_pipe).
28 - new function: AnyEvent::Util::portable_socketpair.
29 - take advantage of the Guard module if it exists.
30
31 4.33 Fri Nov 21 02:35:40 CET 2008
32 - AnyEvent::Strict did errornously flag a fileno of 0 as
33 illegal.
34 - reduce memory usage and slightly speed up the pure perl backend
35 by only storing the file descriptor, not the file handle.
36 - add missing autocork method to AnyEvent::Handle (reported
37 by Adam Rosenstein).
38 - AnyEvent::DNS->resolve errornously documented an $rcode result
39 argument, but there isn't (spotted by Henrik Krohns).
40 - the naked truth about Tk - it's basically unmaintained.
41
42 4.32 Mon Nov 3 22:46:32 CET 2008
43 - fix AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr to properly support
44 unix sockets again and choose a proper default for
45 the socket type.
46 - fix call to resolve_sockaddr in tcp_connect.
47
48 4.31 Thu Oct 30 04:41:48 CET 2008
49 - implemented AnyEvent::Handle->destroy method.
50 - hint about unexpected effects in TLS mode.
51 - speed up AnyEvent::Impl::Perl by using more arrays
52 instead of hashes without the slightest loss of readability :)
53 - work around a perl argument refcounting bug.
54 - with some perl patches applied, AnyEvent now seems leak-free.
55
56 4.3 Fri Oct 3 09:18:43 CEST 2008
57 - AnyEvent will now install a no-op signal handler for SIGPIPE,
58 unless one has been installed already.
59 - warn about not loaidng AnyEvent::Impl::POE early enough
60 (patch by Adam Rosenstein).
61 - fixed a great number of bugs and corner cases in AnyEvent::Handle:
62 - fix a bug in where in SSL connect mode, the
63 client would first wait for some data by the server and
64 otherwise hang. (reported and analyzed in an absolutely
65 exemplary manner by Adam Rosenstein).
66 - fix a bug in where SSL EOF would not be treated
67 as stream EOF, putting the connection into a hung state.
68 (reported and analyzed in an absolutely exemplary manner by Adam
69 Rosenstein).
70 - fix a potential segfault when the TLS context
71 would go missing in a read callback (e.g. due to stoptls) -
72 Net::SSLeay of course makes no type checking whatsoever.
73 - AnyEvent::Handle will not stop the read watcher in TLS mode.
74 - AnyEvent::Handle->stoptls will send a TLS close notify
75 instead of simply destroying the stream now.
76 - fix a bug where large blocks of data written in TLS mode
77 would not be sent unless triggered by receives.
78 - on_drain will now take the tls write buffer into account.
79 - SSL operations have been streamlined a bit and should be faster
80 now, more to come, though.
81 - added a FAQ section, will document nontrivial issues in there.
82
83 4.234 Mon Sep 29 04:08:13 CEST 2008
84 - fix child watcher documentation: only child exits will be reported,
85 no trace events.
86 - mention SIGPIPE in AnyEvent::Handle.
87 - perl backend will now use POSIX::times as monotonic clock
88 when available and the monotonic clock option is not.
89 - run even without Time::HiRes in some cases now, but do not
90 provide sub-second accuracy (all *supported* perl versions have
91 Time::HiRes).
92
93 4.233 Fri Aug 22 01:48:05 CEST 2008
94 - fix a bug in the testsuite, causing a hang.
95 - clarified lots of AnyEvent::Handle constructor arguments.
96
97 4.232 Thu Aug 21 20:44:25 CEST 2008
98 - fix a bug in AnyEvent::Handle that could cause two fatal error
99 callbacks on EOF, which caused AnyEvent::HTTP to signal success twice
100 (testcase by Leon Brocard).
101 - clarified on_eof/on_error documentation a bit.
102
103 4.231 Tue Jul 29 13:12:15 CEST 2008
104 - remove some debugging code left in AnyEvent::Util::fork_call
105 (and no, it's impossible to implement with the broken windows
106 perls without resource leaks or worse).
107
108 4.23 Tue Jul 29 12:19:59 CEST 2008
109 - document the first parameter passed to condvar callbacks to be
110 the callback.
111 - add AnyEvent::Socket::{ntoa,aton} aliases.
112 - optimize the AE::Handle->push_read (line) for the default
113 eol marker.
114 - optimize push_read (packstring|storable) for small packets.
115 - invoke on_error callback when no on_eof callback is set.
116 - fix a bug in push_read (storable) of unknown impact.
117
118 4.22 Sun Jul 20 16:34:13 CEST 2008
119 - new function AnyEvent::Socket::parse_hostport.
120 - as the bulkheads at microsoft can't even get getprotobyname reliably
121 working on their shitty fucking broken os we need to hardcode
122 some common protocol numbers in AnyEvent::Socket. How can
123 people even bother with such a pile of shit as windows.
124
125 4.21 Thu Jul 17 14:40:05 CEST 2008
126 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: AnyEvent::Util::fork_call now has a prototype
127 which is incompatible to previous invocation syntax.
128 - work around more windows perl bugs in fork_call. I cannot imagine
129 why anybody would bother implementing fork in such an obviously
130 unusable way.
131 - avoid calling $do_retry if the request has already finished in
132 AnyEvent::DNS, thus avoiding an exception (reported by Anatoly
133 K. Sharifulin).
134
135 4.2 Sat Jul 12 22:42:11 CEST 2008
136 - support an "interval" argument for repeating timers.
137 - fix a bug in the pure perl event loop that caused timers to
138 be delayed under some circumstances.
139 - implement optional argument checking via PERL_ANYEVENT_STRICT.
140 - not importing anything from Event causes it to malfunction
141 and not use Time::HiRes, work around this bug.
142 - more bug workarounds against the endlessly broken Tk module,
143 seems to work now on 32 bit machines, but less so on 64 bit.
144 - minor optimisations applied to most backends.
145
146 4.161 Fri Jul 4 14:24:48 CEST 2008
147 - fixed the t/handle/02_write.t, it read after write, with the
148 assumption that all data could be written before read
149 (reported by Jim Razmus).
150
151 4.160 Thu Jul 3 04:02:21 CEST 2008
152 - re-registering signal watchers after unregistering one did
153 not work if a backend falls back on AnyEvent's default
154 implementation (also affected child watchers).
155 - new AnyEvent::Handle options: autocork and no_delay.
156
157 4.152 Sun Jun 22 14:15:44 CEST 2008
158 - allow for 32-bit perls that implement shifts differently
159 on different architectures in parse_ipv4 (reported and
160 analysed by Keiichi DAIBA).
161
162 4.151 Fri Jun 6 17:34:24 CEST 2008
163 - make sure specifying _only_ on_read and never pushing reads
164 works.
165
166 4.15 Fri Jun 6 13:00:46 CEST 2008
167 - the pure perl backend would keep some watchers alive when more than
168 one watcher was registered for the same fd.
169 - new "packstring" and "storable" read and write types
170 for AnyEvent::Handle.
171 - allow on_eof handler to be called after on_error with EPIPE returns.
172 - do not immediately call on_read callback in handle constructor.
173
174 4.14 Thu Jun 5 20:29:31 CEST 2008
175 - Fixed a bug in DNS SRV priority sorting.
176 - AnyEvent::Util::guard now reports runtime errors while
177 executing the guard block as warnings.
178 - handle 0-byte-reads just before EOF correctly in AnyEvent::Handle.
179
180 4.13 Thu Jun 5 00:47:59 CEST 2008
181 - AnyEvent::DNS only followed cname chains with length 2,
182 contrary to documentation. bumped it up to 10, thanks to
183 microsoft, the current broken-dns-config-king.
184 - AnyEvent::DNS didn't check for socket return status
185 but instead relied on perl not creating filehandles in that
186 case - too bad it gives you a bogus file handle (reported
187 and analysed by Vladimir Timofeev).
188 - fix queue management logic in AnyEvent::Handle:
189 when on_read was registered, the queue was empty
190 and no progress could be made AnyEvent::Handle would
191 enter an endless loop.
192 - correctly start reading again when the handle became
193 busy again after idling.
194 - correctly treat tls shut-downs as EOF condition
195 (for the time being, would be nice to have a callback for that).
196 - correctly call eof callback under all conditions
197 (hopefully).
198 - the timeout callback did not expect that $self can go
199 away any time.
200
201 4.12 Tue Jun 3 10:58:04 CEST 2008
202 - include AnyEvent::Intro, a tutorial for anyevent,
203 anyevent::socket and anyevent::handle.
204 - allow more options in on_error.
205
206 4.11 Fri May 30 23:42:25 CEST 2008
207 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace ptr by real PTR lookup, provide
208 reverse_lookup and reverse_verify to replace it, support
209 v4mapped and v4compat addresses.
210 - provide more documentation for the resolver class.
211 - really replace longest run of :0: by :: in format_address,
212 also properly convert :: and ::1 again.
213 - support NAPTR record name and decode it.
214 - implement random weight sampling for SRV records, as per
215 rfc 2782.
216 - correctly abort on srv-record targets of ".".
217 - added AnyEvent::DNS::wait_for_slot.
218 - in the unlikely event of a virtual circuit connection
219 being invalidated by a delayed udp reply, AnyEvent::DNS
220 could die. this has been fixed.
221 - plug a probable memleak in the DNS vc code.
222 - use configured timeout also for VC request phase.
223 - implement timeout and max_outstanding methods
224 for resolver class.
225 - update version numbers in all modules.
226
227 4.1 Thu May 29 05:45:40 CEST 2008
228 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: renamed xxx_ip functions to xxx_address
229 which mirrors their purpose better (old names still available
230 for a while). Also moved AnyEvent::DNS::addr to
231 AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr.
232 - implement AnyEvent->time and AnyEvent->now.
233 - fix IPv6 support in pack_sockaddr.
234 - officially un-experimentalise all newly introduced code.
235 - support unix domain sockets everywhere by specifying
236 a host of "unix/" and the pathname as service.
237 - implement an activity timeout in AnyEvent::Handle.
238 - added a regex read type to AnyEvent::Handle.
239 - added a json read/write type to AnyEvent::Handle.
240 - always croak in on_error in AnyEvent::Handle.
241 - document how to subclass AnyEvent::Handle.
242 - implement AnyEvent::Util::fork_call.
243 - add support for IPv6 nameservers and nameserver statements.
244 - work around _yet_ _another_ windows perl bug in where empty
245 select masks cause errors in the pure perl backend (this
246 workaround cannot be implemented for the other event loops,
247 but EV also works around this).
248 - supply AnyEvent::Socket::address_type and make good use of it.
249 - clarify and fix the Handle documentation w.r.t $self vs. $handle
250 vs. callback arguments.
251 - add some recommends to the META.yml.
252
253 4.05 Mon May 26 19:44:06 CEST 2008
254 - some platforms ignore the rfc and prepend an extra sa_len member to
255 the sockaddr structure, cater for those. also use sockaddr_family,
256 didn't know it was there, but comes in handy for the workaround.
257 - undo the import WIN32 hack.
258
259 4.04 Mon May 26 08:03:31 CEST 2008
260 - try to work around yet another windows bug: failed connects are reported
261 as if it were out-of-band data. windows users: you suck. Only
262 EV, Glib, Event and the pure perl backend can handle this condition.
263 - optimize write algorithm in AnyEvent::Handle.
264 - properly parse PERL_ANYEVENT_PROTOCOLS and use the info correctly.
265 - tcp_connect now properly iterates through all targets.
266 - check wether IPv6 sockets can actually be created, otherwise, disable ipv6
267 support entirely. also hardcode some AF_INET6 constants for the
268 sake of perl 5.8.
269 - vastly improved nameserver/suffix detection algorithm for windows
270 (still a hack...)
271 - try to use a fallback dns server if no dns servers could be found.
272 - splatter around some local $SIG{__DIE__}'s to work around bad
273 die handlers.
274
275 4.03 Sun May 25 05:05:57 CEST 2008
276 - work around perl bugs on windows, where perl returns undocumented
277 error codes for sysread, syswrite etc.
278 - fix AnyEvent::Handle::unshift_read to really unshift and not push.
279 - AnyEvent::Handle could sometimes stumble over 0-byte writes.
280 - fix unpack_sockaddr, now works for AF_INET6 sockaddr's.
281 - updated documentation.
282 - lots of workarounds for perl 5.8 quirks.
283 - implement a more flexible type system for both reads and writes
284 in AnyEvent::Handle.
285 - support IPv6 in tcp_server.
286 - pass local hostname and port to the prepare callback in tcp_server.
287 - make types extendable in AnyEvent::Handle.
288 - croak, not die, in AnyEvent::Handle;
289
290 4.0 Sat May 24 19:58:08 CEST 2008
291 - added (experimental) AnyEvent::DNS module.
292 - added (experimental) AnyEvent::Socket module.
293 - added (experiemntal) support for TLS/SSL in AnyEvent::Handle.
294 - make condvar->end call ->send as documented.
295 - make condvar constructor support the documented cb => argument.
296 - overload condvars so you can use them instead of code references.
297 - support more of the POSIX forms instead of a pure dotted quad for
298 verbatim ip addresses.
299 - AnyEvent::Socket::inet_aton will use AnyEvent::DNS now and not fork anymore.
300 - try very hard not to freeze on broken windows perls.
301 - make on_eof optional in AnyEvent::Handle.
302 - support service names in tcp_connect and tcp_server.
303 - work around netbsd/openbsd bug causing unix sockets not to
304 become writable until empty.
305 - only make a dummy read for error detection when getpeername
306 returns ENOTCONN.
307 - defend AnyEvent::Util::inet_aton against Coro::LWP's brutal
308 override.
309 - new AnyEvent::Guard::cancel.
310
311 3.5 Sat May 17 23:17:14 CEST 2008
312 - gracefully deal with systems not defining CLOCK_MONOTONIC
313 (as opposed to not supporting the clock itself, which worked in 3.41).
314 - added AnyEvent::Util::tcp_connect and AnyEvent::Util::tcp_server
315 helpers, to replace the ill-designed AnyEvent::Socket class.
316 - added some examples (eg/connect, eg/handle).
317 - added AnyEvent::Util::guard.
318 - AnyEvent::Util now exports most of its functions.
319 - fixed a bug in *_read_chunk, where the callback was called with $self as
320 first and second argument.
321 - simplified and fixed regex handling in AnyEvent::Handle::*_read_line.
322 - fix manpage condvars examples to use new syntax.
323 - considerably improve inet_aton with EV::ADNS backend to support
324 cname chains (common dns configuration bug, e.g. with www.google.de)
325 and aaaa records if no a record could be found.
326
327 3.41 Sun May 11 19:53:13 CEST 2008
328 - work around a bug in perl 5.8.8's local. Reported by Yi Ma Mao.
329
330 3.4 Sun May 11 00:29:25 CEST 2008
331 - complete re-implementation of condvars with a hopefully much more useful
332 API (backward compatible functions exist but are undocumented).
333 - AnyEvent::Handle fully rewritten with a hopefully more powerful API
334 (still subject to change).
335 - take advantage of CLOCK_MONOTONIC, if available, in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
336 - provide AnyEvent::post_detect and @AnyEvent::post_detect, which
337 allows module authors to avoid forcing event loop detection.
338 (used by Coro::AIO, Coro::BDB, Coro::AnyEvent for example).
339 - remove coro backends: Coro now provides generic support for AnyEvent
340 via Coro::AnyEvent.
341
342 3.3 Mon Apr 28 09:51:06 CEST 2008
343 - added AnyEvent::Handle, AnyEvent::Socket and AnyEvent::Util modules.
344 - fix a bug in the pure perl backend that kept watchers alive
345 when multiple watchers were registered for the same fh/poll combo.
346 - add a benchmark section showing AnyEvent overhead and comparing
347 the different event loops with each other.
348 - prefer pure perl over tk when autoprobing, as it's about as fast,
349 but doesn't crash with many watchers.
350 - declare Qt support non-experimental.
351 - clarify the confusing section about the file descriptor being
352 kept alive.
353 - document the race between loading of an event module and
354 child processes exiting.
355 - support POE as "backend" (with some caveats, POE is not generic
356 enough, and darn slow).
357 - support Wx and Prima through POE.
358 - optimise perl backend to use 20% less memory and take advantage
359 of typical timeout behaviour. It can now compete with
360 select/poll-based C event loops in most cases (it is usually
361 faster than Event and Glib :).
362 - roughly cut EV memory use in half and increase its speed by 30%,
363 by removing undocumented functionality. Did something similar
364 to other event loops where possible.
365
366 3.2 Thu Apr 24 10:10:40 CEST 2008
367 - do not die when anyevent watchers are destroyed while running callbacks
368 in the pureperl backend (could only happen when two watchers are registered
369 for the same fh/poll combo).
370 - support autoloading for child watchers, was broken in all versions.
371 - implement PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL env variable.
372 - (experimental) implement interface to the (very crashy/buggy) Event::Lib module.
373 - (experimental) implement interface to the Qt module (cannot be autoprobed).
374 - this release is IO:AnyEvent-proof.
375
376 3.12 Tue Apr 22 07:11:46 CEST 2008
377 - reinstate AUTHOR section that got lost somehow.
378 - do not hang in the testsuite with badly broken perls (activestate,
379 strawberry...), but instead diagnose the problem and continue.
380 - use INT instead of CHLD in an attempt to support broken windows perls
381 better (this decreases the test quality, unfortunately).
382 - do not send the signal to the process group
383 (no problem for CHLD, bad for INT :).
384
385 3.11 Sat Apr 19 06:57:31 CEST 2008
386 - major documentation rework.
387 - document the fact that child watchers only watch for zombies.
388 - fix the child watcher example.
389
390 3.1 Wed Apr 16 17:09:01 CEST 2008
391 - work around recurring bugs in Tk by dup'ing filehandles, the
392 only method with good success chances on Tk (the bugs apparently
393 don't get fixed anytime soon).
394 - lift the restriction of only one watcher per fh direction
395 (as the Tk bug workaround also lifts it and only Tk imposed
396 such strong limits).
397 - changed probe order to prefer coro adaptors.
398 - explain why recursion into the event loop is not supported
399 unless the backend supports it (only Coro::EV does without
400 any restrictions...).
401 - add simple manpages for all backend modules.
402
403 3.0 Mon Apr 7 21:30:23 CEST 2008
404 - Coro::Signal changed semantics, roll our own, also cleaning
405 up the Coro implementation in general.
406 - rename Coro backend to CoroEvent.
407 - add some decision helping paragraph to the manpage that should
408 help people to decide whether AnyEvent is the right thing for them.
409
410 2.9 Mon Jan 28 13:31:54 CET 2008
411 - update for EV 3.0 API changes.
412
413 2.8 Sun Nov 25 15:06:03 CET 2007
414 - waitpid can validly return 0. accept this fact of life
415 instead of reporting it to any watchers.
416
417 2.7 Fri Nov 23 11:41:14 CET 2007
418 - force use of AnyEvent::Impl::Perl in testsuite, there is
419 too much breakage outside AnyEvent.
420 - deliver signals synchronously in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl
421 or any other event loop that relies on AnyEvents child
422 watcher emulation. *Could* help with hanging testsuite
423 (except when Event or EV are installed).
424
425 2.6 Fri Nov 9 20:36:35 CET 2007
426 - fix bug in testsuite.
427 - move EV adaptor modules to AnyEvent.
428 - add Coro+EV adaptor module.
429
430 2.55 Tue Nov 6 17:41:32 CET 2007
431 - add EV to the list of supported event models.
432 - do not auto-reset pid watchers, pass pid and status to them.
433 - allow a pid of zero to watch for all children in child watchers.
434
435 2.54 Wed Jul 18 17:36:23 CEST 2007
436 - work around a perl bug that results in
437 BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted without
438 any discernible reason or error message by once
439 again not use'ing strict.
440
441 2.53 Sun Jul 8 10:51:53 CEST 2007
442 - make Glib interface work again (spotted by elmex).
443
444 2.52 Wed Mar 7 18:36:16 CET 2007
445 - child watchers stopped working permanently when
446 all current child watchers were destroyed.
447
448 2.51 Mon Dec 11 21:33:24 CET 2006
449 - work around bugs in perl where eval "require Module" returns
450 true even if the module couldn't be loaded :/.
451
452 2.5 Mon Dec 11 02:15:28 CET 2006
453 - avoid $AUTOLOAD because many perls corrupt it.
454 - AnyEvent::detect forces autodetection.
455 - implement signal watchers (experimental)
456 (Tk does not support async signals (<= 804.027 at least),
457 so they might get delayed indefinitely on Tk).
458 - implement child watchers (experimental).
459 - moved default condvar implementation into base module, simplifying
460 most implementation modules.
461
462 2.1 Fri Nov 24 15:50:48 CET 2006
463 - better docs.
464 - simple testsuite.
465 - added AnyEvent->one_event method for special purposes.
466
467 2.0 Wed Nov 1 02:21:30 CET 2006
468 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: poll can now either be "r" or "w" but not both.
469 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: io watcher callbacks have no arguments anymore.
470 - EXPERIMENTAL:
471 new pure-perl model added, AnyEvent now always finds a suitable
472 event model.
473 - improved documentation.
474 - reduced cpu overhead.
475
476 1.02 Fri Jan 13 14:15:40 CET 2006
477 - add COPYING to clarify license.
478
479 1.01 Sun Jan 8 05:48:09 CET 2006
480 - correctly cancel Event timers, avoid memory leaks.
481
482 1.0 Sun Jan 8 05:40:58 CET 2006
483 - allow third-party interfaces to be added at runtime.
484 - fix version number.
485
486 0.9 Fri Dec 30 02:25:41 CET 2005
487 - fixed errors in the documentation.
488 - going back to using $VERSION as "load check",
489 as suggested by Jörn Reder. Let's see why I stopped using
490 this method.
491 - add 'hup' to the list of events to receive for glib
492 and generate 'rw' events for it, as some versions of
493 glib seem to require this, while this breaks other
494 (older) versions of glib.
495 - implemented PERL_ANYEVENT_VERBOSE env variable.
496
497 0.3 Sun Dec 4 10:43:33 CET 2005
498 - no changes to the code.
499 - fixed documentation.
500 - clarified some corner cases.
501 - vastly improved documentation with a long example.
502
503 0.2 Thu Dec 1 22:18:49 CET 2005
504 - check whether a valid method was called, to avoid endless loops.
505 - move condvars into their own class (cleaner, safer).
506 - don't die when some modules are not available.
507 - Tk is too broken to allow for words. Will work once Tk works.
508
509 0.1 Thu Dec 1 19:44:57 CET 2005
510 - spiced up and cleaned up for release.
511
512 0.01 Tue Sep 21 18:12:09 CEST 2004
513 - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
514