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Revision: 1.287
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1 Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent.
2
3 - improve perl 5.6 compatibility of the core event loop.
4 - nail the signal race problem in perl once and for all
5 (see $AnyEvent::MAX_SIGNAL_LATENCY).
6 - take advantage of Async::Interrupt if it is available.
7 - load Time::HiRes and Guard modules on demand only.
8 - add optional/recommended modules section to AnyEvent
9 documentation.
10
11 4.83 Fri Jul 17 16:56:26 CEST 2009
12 - implement AnyEvent::Socket::getprotobyname.
13 - AnyEvent::CondVar's will now detect recursive blocking
14 waits and will croak, as too many people fall into
15 this trap.
16 - AnyEvent::Handle will now call ->destroy on itself after
17 executing the on_error callback, instead of doing some
18 half-baked internal shutdown, for fatal errors.
19 - clarify on_eof behaviour w.r.t. the read queue and
20 on_read callbacks.
21 - ignore some possible spurious wake-ups in tcp_connect.
22
23 4.82 Sat Jul 11 00:34:55 CEST 2009
24 - POE and Event backends didn't accept some callable objects as
25 callbacks.
26 - use Config module instead of POSIX module to detect signal names
27 in AnyEvent::Strict and AnyEvent::Impl::EventLib, as the POSIX
28 module doesn't even have all POSIX signals :/.
29 - use more workarounds around the many refcnt/corruption bugs in
30 Event::Lib.
31 - work around a race condition in perl's select, causing t/03_child.t
32 to rarely fail.
33
34 4.81 Thu Jul 9 10:30:30 CEST 2009
35 - AnyEvent::Handle didn't properly diagnose write errors
36 (it expected -1 from syswrite, how lame... :).
37 - support file descriptors in addition to file handles
38 in AnyEvent->io.
39 - new env variables: PERL_ANYEVENT_RESOLV_CONF,
40 PERL_ANYEVENT_MAX_OUTSTANDING_DNS, PERL_ANYEVENT_CA_FILE
41 and PERL_ANYEVENT_CA_PATH.
42 - provide a sensible synopsis section for AnyEvent::TLS.
43 - add a "supported backends" section to the manpage.
44 - added simple io watcher test to testsuite, using a
45 portable_socketpair.
46 - tried to improve the stability of the Event::Lib backend,
47 YMMV.
48
49 4.8 Mon Jul 6 23:45:16 CEST 2009
50 - AnyEvent::DNS did not properly follow CNAME records with
51 uppercase targets.
52 - AnyEvent::DNS would errornously return AAAA records
53 with v4 mapped addresses (a faulty record) as ipv4 addresses,
54 causing AnyEvent::Socket to throw an exception.
55 - added new module AnyEvent::TLS for easier SSL/TLS context
56 creation, with many options including hostname verification,
57 secure default configuration, lots of documentation and,
58 predefined diffie-hellman keys for perfect forward security
59 and much more. get it while it's still fresh!
60 - use AnyEvent::TLS in AnyEvent::Handle for context management.
61 - load AnyEvent::Handle only on demand in AnyEvent::DNS,
62 so AnyEvent::Socket users have smaller memory footprint
63 in the common case.
64 - add AnyEvent::Handle->push_shutdown method.
65 - add an additional error message parameter to AnyEvent::Handle's
66 on_error callback (for TLS, $! is still available).
67 - add AnyEvent::Handle on_starttls/on_stoptls callbacks.
68 - make AnyEvent::Handle more robust against early conenction
69 failures (during new), and return C<undef> in that case
70 from the constructor.
71 - AnyEvent::Handle will now try to load only JSON::XS first,
72 then fall back to JSON.
73 - format_ipv4/format_ipv6 are now exported by default, for symmetry,
74 and because it was documented that way.
75
76 4.451 Fri Jul 3 00:28:58 CEST 2009
77 - do not clear rbuf when shutting down an AnyEvent::Handle
78 object - doing so breaks AnyEvent::HTTP.
79
80 4.45 Mon Jun 29 22:59:26 CEST 2009
81 - a write error could cause AnyEvent::Handle to create
82 an I/O watcher with an undefined $fh.
83 - special-case mapped ipv4 addresses in both
84 AnyEvent::Socket::format_address and parse_address,
85 to treat them just like ipv4 addresses.
86 - updated and overhauled the AnyEvent::Intro doc.
87 - implement AnyEvent::Socket::format_ipv4/ipv6.
88 - slightly speed up portable_pipe/socketpair.
89 - expand condvar begin/end documentation.
90
91 4.42 Fri Jun 26 08:32:18 CEST 2009
92 - preliminary and neccesarily incomplete support for IO::Async.
93 - reset SIGCHLD to DEFAULT when AnyEvent is loaded, in
94 case it was set to IGNORE, to ensure we can catch child statuses
95 even when the calling env acts stupidly.
96 - updated benchmarks with IO::Async, which performs very well.
97
98 4.412 Wed Jun 24 01:35:57 CEST 2009
99 - support an "untaint" attribute for AnyEvent::DNS
100 and set it on the default resolver.
101 - implement and document AnyEvent::Impl::Perl::loop.
102 - remove all anyevent-env variables from %ENV
103 when running in tainted mode.
104 - mention and extend the IO::Lambda benchmark.
105
106 4.411 Sun Jun 7 18:48:02 CEST 2009
107 - do not try to use F_SETFD on windows.
108
109 4.41 Thu May 14 06:40:11 CEST 2009
110 - work around issues in older perls (5.8.0?) when
111 a signal handler is deleted from the %SIG hash.
112 - use POSIX::_exit in child test, to avoid running
113 destructors.
114 - speed up CHLD handling by relying on SIGCHLD being
115 synchronously delivered, even when we roll our own
116 implementation.
117 - AnyEvent::DNS: add the "dname" resource record name
118 for cosmetic reasons.
119
120 4.4 Sun Apr 26 20:12:33 CEST 2009
121 - implemented idle watchers, where applicable.
122 - AnyEvent->time died when Event backend was in use.
123 - fix a memleak in the Tk backend.
124 - sped up Tk timer handling.
125 - clip negative "after" values to 0 in AnyEvent::Impl::Event
126 to avoid spamming out warning messages.
127 - fix Qt timers without interval.
128 - avoid Qt zero-timeout special case, in old libqt's.
129
130 4.352 Mon Apr 20 16:31:11 CEST 2009
131 - fix AnyEvent::Strict error messages for child watchers.
132 - fix/update Makefile.PL "recommends" versions.
133 - add AnyEvent->now_update.
134
135 4.351 Sat Apr 11 07:56:14 CEST 2009
136 - actually make the signal pipe work under win32.
137 - localise $! in signal handler to avoid changing $!, although
138 perl itself does not seem to save/restore errno either.
139 - set the cloexec flag on the signal pipe (normally set by perl too).
140
141 4.35 Fri Mar 27 11:48:20 CET 2009
142 - event models relying on AnyEvent's signal watcher emulation did
143 invoke the callback asynchronously, contradicting documentation
144 and causing signals to get lost (this includes AnyEvent's own
145 event loop). AnyEvent now uses the standard pipe trick to make
146 callback execution synchronous to the event loop.
147 - AnyEvent::Handle didn't free TLS context data on DESTROY
148 (patch by Pavel Shaydo).
149 - work around the ever-incompatibly-changing API of MakeMaker.
150 - document that changing global variables without restoring them
151 is a bad idea in Perl (noted by Adam Rosenstein).
152 - AnyEvent::Strict now barfs if ->io is passed a file.
153
154 4.34 Thu Feb 12 18:32:45 CET 2009
155 - separately buffer TLS read data, as otherwise the read queue could
156 deadlock as receiving data is not expected while draining the
157 read queue (which cna only happen with TLS).
158 - raise EBADMSG error on JSON decoding errors.
159 - fix some minor manpage bugs (reported by Maximilian Gaß).
160 - speed up select bitmask parsing quite a bit in the pure perl
161 backend.
162 - use CORE::select instead of just select in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
163
164 4.331 Tue Jan 6 21:07:25 CET 2009
165 - socketpair fails on many vista machines because vista has
166 completely broken accept/getpeername and getsockname functions,
167 so we provide our own socketpair emulation that kind of works
168 (AnyEvent::Util::portable_pipe).
169 - new function: AnyEvent::Util::portable_socketpair.
170 - take advantage of the Guard module if it exists.
171
172 4.33 Fri Nov 21 02:35:40 CET 2008
173 - AnyEvent::Strict did errornously flag a fileno of 0 as
174 illegal.
175 - reduce memory usage and slightly speed up the pure perl backend
176 by only storing the file descriptor, not the file handle.
177 - add missing autocork method to AnyEvent::Handle (reported
178 by Adam Rosenstein).
179 - AnyEvent::DNS->resolve errornously documented an $rcode result
180 argument, but there isn't (spotted by Henrik Krohns).
181 - the naked truth about Tk - it's basically unmaintained.
182
183 4.32 Mon Nov 3 22:46:32 CET 2008
184 - fix AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr to properly support
185 unix sockets again and choose a proper default for
186 the socket type.
187 - fix call to resolve_sockaddr in tcp_connect.
188
189 4.31 Thu Oct 30 04:41:48 CET 2008
190 - implemented AnyEvent::Handle->destroy method.
191 - hint about unexpected effects in TLS mode.
192 - speed up AnyEvent::Impl::Perl by using more arrays
193 instead of hashes without the slightest loss of readability :)
194 - work around a perl argument refcounting bug.
195 - with some perl patches applied, AnyEvent now seems leak-free.
196
197 4.3 Fri Oct 3 09:18:43 CEST 2008
198 - AnyEvent will now install a no-op signal handler for SIGPIPE,
199 unless one has been installed already.
200 - warn about not loaidng AnyEvent::Impl::POE early enough
201 (patch by Adam Rosenstein).
202 - fixed a great number of bugs and corner cases in AnyEvent::Handle:
203 - fix a bug in where in SSL connect mode, the
204 client would first wait for some data by the server and
205 otherwise hang. (reported and analyzed in an absolutely
206 exemplary manner by Adam Rosenstein).
207 - fix a bug in where SSL EOF would not be treated
208 as stream EOF, putting the connection into a hung state.
209 (reported and analyzed in an absolutely exemplary manner by Adam
210 Rosenstein).
211 - fix a potential segfault when the TLS context
212 would go missing in a read callback (e.g. due to stoptls) -
213 Net::SSLeay of course makes no type checking whatsoever.
214 - AnyEvent::Handle will not stop the read watcher in TLS mode.
215 - AnyEvent::Handle->stoptls will send a TLS close notify
216 instead of simply destroying the stream now.
217 - fix a bug where large blocks of data written in TLS mode
218 would not be sent unless triggered by receives.
219 - on_drain will now take the tls write buffer into account.
220 - SSL operations have been streamlined a bit and should be faster
221 now, more to come, though.
222 - added a FAQ section, will document nontrivial issues in there.
223
224 4.234 Mon Sep 29 04:08:13 CEST 2008
225 - fix child watcher documentation: only child exits will be reported,
226 no trace events.
227 - mention SIGPIPE in AnyEvent::Handle.
228 - perl backend will now use POSIX::times as monotonic clock
229 when available and the monotonic clock option is not.
230 - run even without Time::HiRes in some cases now, but do not
231 provide sub-second accuracy (all *supported* perl versions have
232 Time::HiRes).
233
234 4.233 Fri Aug 22 01:48:05 CEST 2008
235 - fix a bug in the testsuite, causing a hang.
236 - clarified lots of AnyEvent::Handle constructor arguments.
237
238 4.232 Thu Aug 21 20:44:25 CEST 2008
239 - fix a bug in AnyEvent::Handle that could cause two fatal error
240 callbacks on EOF, which caused AnyEvent::HTTP to signal success twice
241 (testcase by Leon Brocard).
242 - clarified on_eof/on_error documentation a bit.
243
244 4.231 Tue Jul 29 13:12:15 CEST 2008
245 - remove some debugging code left in AnyEvent::Util::fork_call
246 (and no, it's impossible to implement with the broken windows
247 perls without resource leaks or worse).
248
249 4.23 Tue Jul 29 12:19:59 CEST 2008
250 - document the first parameter passed to condvar callbacks to be
251 the callback.
252 - add AnyEvent::Socket::{ntoa,aton} aliases.
253 - optimize the AE::Handle->push_read (line) for the default
254 eol marker.
255 - optimize push_read (packstring|storable) for small packets.
256 - invoke on_error callback when no on_eof callback is set.
257 - fix a bug in push_read (storable) of unknown impact.
258
259 4.22 Sun Jul 20 16:34:13 CEST 2008
260 - new function AnyEvent::Socket::parse_hostport.
261 - as the bulkheads at microsoft can't even get getprotobyname reliably
262 working on their shitty fucking broken os we need to hardcode
263 some common protocol numbers in AnyEvent::Socket. How can
264 people even bother with such a pile of shit as windows.
265
266 4.21 Thu Jul 17 14:40:05 CEST 2008
267 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: AnyEvent::Util::fork_call now has a prototype
268 which is incompatible to previous invocation syntax.
269 - work around more windows perl bugs in fork_call. I cannot imagine
270 why anybody would bother implementing fork in such an obviously
271 unusable way.
272 - avoid calling $do_retry if the request has already finished in
273 AnyEvent::DNS, thus avoiding an exception (reported by Anatoly
274 K. Sharifulin).
275
276 4.2 Sat Jul 12 22:42:11 CEST 2008
277 - support an "interval" argument for repeating timers.
278 - fix a bug in the pure perl event loop that caused timers to
279 be delayed under some circumstances.
280 - implement optional argument checking via PERL_ANYEVENT_STRICT.
281 - not importing anything from Event causes it to malfunction
282 and not use Time::HiRes, work around this bug.
283 - more bug workarounds against the endlessly broken Tk module,
284 seems to work now on 32 bit machines, but less so on 64 bit.
285 - minor optimisations applied to most backends.
286
287 4.161 Fri Jul 4 14:24:48 CEST 2008
288 - fixed the t/handle/02_write.t, it read after write, with the
289 assumption that all data could be written before read
290 (reported by Jim Razmus).
291
292 4.160 Thu Jul 3 04:02:21 CEST 2008
293 - re-registering signal watchers after unregistering one did
294 not work if a backend falls back on AnyEvent's default
295 implementation (also affected child watchers).
296 - new AnyEvent::Handle options: autocork and no_delay.
297
298 4.152 Sun Jun 22 14:15:44 CEST 2008
299 - allow for 32-bit perls that implement shifts differently
300 on different architectures in parse_ipv4 (reported and
301 analysed by Keiichi DAIBA).
302
303 4.151 Fri Jun 6 17:34:24 CEST 2008
304 - make sure specifying _only_ on_read and never pushing reads
305 works.
306
307 4.15 Fri Jun 6 13:00:46 CEST 2008
308 - the pure perl backend would keep some watchers alive when more than
309 one watcher was registered for the same fd.
310 - new "packstring" and "storable" read and write types
311 for AnyEvent::Handle.
312 - allow on_eof handler to be called after on_error with EPIPE returns.
313 - do not immediately call on_read callback in handle constructor.
314
315 4.14 Thu Jun 5 20:29:31 CEST 2008
316 - Fixed a bug in DNS SRV priority sorting.
317 - AnyEvent::Util::guard now reports runtime errors while
318 executing the guard block as warnings.
319 - handle 0-byte-reads just before EOF correctly in AnyEvent::Handle.
320
321 4.13 Thu Jun 5 00:47:59 CEST 2008
322 - AnyEvent::DNS only followed cname chains with length 2,
323 contrary to documentation. bumped it up to 10, thanks to
324 microsoft, the current broken-dns-config-king.
325 - AnyEvent::DNS didn't check for socket return status
326 but instead relied on perl not creating filehandles in that
327 case - too bad it gives you a bogus file handle (reported
328 and analysed by Vladimir Timofeev).
329 - fix queue management logic in AnyEvent::Handle:
330 when on_read was registered, the queue was empty
331 and no progress could be made AnyEvent::Handle would
332 enter an endless loop.
333 - correctly start reading again when the handle became
334 busy again after idling.
335 - correctly treat tls shut-downs as EOF condition
336 (for the time being, would be nice to have a callback for that).
337 - correctly call eof callback under all conditions
338 (hopefully).
339 - the timeout callback did not expect that $self can go
340 away any time.
341
342 4.12 Tue Jun 3 10:58:04 CEST 2008
343 - include AnyEvent::Intro, a tutorial for anyevent,
344 anyevent::socket and anyevent::handle.
345 - allow more options in on_error.
346
347 4.11 Fri May 30 23:42:25 CEST 2008
348 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace ptr by real PTR lookup, provide
349 reverse_lookup and reverse_verify to replace it, support
350 v4mapped and v4compat addresses.
351 - provide more documentation for the resolver class.
352 - really replace longest run of :0: by :: in format_address,
353 also properly convert :: and ::1 again.
354 - support NAPTR record name and decode it.
355 - implement random weight sampling for SRV records, as per
356 rfc 2782.
357 - correctly abort on srv-record targets of ".".
358 - added AnyEvent::DNS::wait_for_slot.
359 - in the unlikely event of a virtual circuit connection
360 being invalidated by a delayed udp reply, AnyEvent::DNS
361 could die. this has been fixed.
362 - plug a probable memleak in the DNS vc code.
363 - use configured timeout also for VC request phase.
364 - implement timeout and max_outstanding methods
365 for resolver class.
366 - update version numbers in all modules.
367
368 4.1 Thu May 29 05:45:40 CEST 2008
369 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: renamed xxx_ip functions to xxx_address
370 which mirrors their purpose better (old names still available
371 for a while). Also moved AnyEvent::DNS::addr to
372 AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr.
373 - implement AnyEvent->time and AnyEvent->now.
374 - fix IPv6 support in pack_sockaddr.
375 - officially un-experimentalise all newly introduced code.
376 - support unix domain sockets everywhere by specifying
377 a host of "unix/" and the pathname as service.
378 - implement an activity timeout in AnyEvent::Handle.
379 - added a regex read type to AnyEvent::Handle.
380 - added a json read/write type to AnyEvent::Handle.
381 - always croak in on_error in AnyEvent::Handle.
382 - document how to subclass AnyEvent::Handle.
383 - implement AnyEvent::Util::fork_call.
384 - add support for IPv6 nameservers and nameserver statements.
385 - work around _yet_ _another_ windows perl bug in where empty
386 select masks cause errors in the pure perl backend (this
387 workaround cannot be implemented for the other event loops,
388 but EV also works around this).
389 - supply AnyEvent::Socket::address_type and make good use of it.
390 - clarify and fix the Handle documentation w.r.t $self vs. $handle
391 vs. callback arguments.
392 - add some recommends to the META.yml.
393
394 4.05 Mon May 26 19:44:06 CEST 2008
395 - some platforms ignore the rfc and prepend an extra sa_len member to
396 the sockaddr structure, cater for those. also use sockaddr_family,
397 didn't know it was there, but comes in handy for the workaround.
398 - undo the import WIN32 hack.
399
400 4.04 Mon May 26 08:03:31 CEST 2008
401 - try to work around yet another windows bug: failed connects are reported
402 as if it were out-of-band data. windows users: you suck. Only
403 EV, Glib, Event and the pure perl backend can handle this condition.
404 - optimize write algorithm in AnyEvent::Handle.
405 - properly parse PERL_ANYEVENT_PROTOCOLS and use the info correctly.
406 - tcp_connect now properly iterates through all targets.
407 - check wether IPv6 sockets can actually be created, otherwise, disable ipv6
408 support entirely. also hardcode some AF_INET6 constants for the
409 sake of perl 5.8.
410 - vastly improved nameserver/suffix detection algorithm for windows
411 (still a hack...)
412 - try to use a fallback dns server if no dns servers could be found.
413 - splatter around some local $SIG{__DIE__}'s to work around bad
414 die handlers.
415
416 4.03 Sun May 25 05:05:57 CEST 2008
417 - work around perl bugs on windows, where perl returns undocumented
418 error codes for sysread, syswrite etc.
419 - fix AnyEvent::Handle::unshift_read to really unshift and not push.
420 - AnyEvent::Handle could sometimes stumble over 0-byte writes.
421 - fix unpack_sockaddr, now works for AF_INET6 sockaddr's.
422 - updated documentation.
423 - lots of workarounds for perl 5.8 quirks.
424 - implement a more flexible type system for both reads and writes
425 in AnyEvent::Handle.
426 - support IPv6 in tcp_server.
427 - pass local hostname and port to the prepare callback in tcp_server.
428 - make types extendable in AnyEvent::Handle.
429 - croak, not die, in AnyEvent::Handle;
430
431 4.0 Sat May 24 19:58:08 CEST 2008
432 - added (experimental) AnyEvent::DNS module.
433 - added (experimental) AnyEvent::Socket module.
434 - added (experiemntal) support for TLS/SSL in AnyEvent::Handle.
435 - make condvar->end call ->send as documented.
436 - make condvar constructor support the documented cb => argument.
437 - overload condvars so you can use them instead of code references.
438 - support more of the POSIX forms instead of a pure dotted quad for
439 verbatim ip addresses.
440 - AnyEvent::Socket::inet_aton will use AnyEvent::DNS now and not fork anymore.
441 - try very hard not to freeze on broken windows perls.
442 - make on_eof optional in AnyEvent::Handle.
443 - support service names in tcp_connect and tcp_server.
444 - work around netbsd/openbsd bug causing unix sockets not to
445 become writable until empty.
446 - only make a dummy read for error detection when getpeername
447 returns ENOTCONN.
448 - defend AnyEvent::Util::inet_aton against Coro::LWP's brutal
449 override.
450 - new AnyEvent::Guard::cancel.
451
452 3.5 Sat May 17 23:17:14 CEST 2008
453 - gracefully deal with systems not defining CLOCK_MONOTONIC
454 (as opposed to not supporting the clock itself, which worked in 3.41).
455 - added AnyEvent::Util::tcp_connect and AnyEvent::Util::tcp_server
456 helpers, to replace the ill-designed AnyEvent::Socket class.
457 - added some examples (eg/connect, eg/handle).
458 - added AnyEvent::Util::guard.
459 - AnyEvent::Util now exports most of its functions.
460 - fixed a bug in *_read_chunk, where the callback was called with $self as
461 first and second argument.
462 - simplified and fixed regex handling in AnyEvent::Handle::*_read_line.
463 - fix manpage condvars examples to use new syntax.
464 - considerably improve inet_aton with EV::ADNS backend to support
465 cname chains (common dns configuration bug, e.g. with www.google.de)
466 and aaaa records if no a record could be found.
467
468 3.41 Sun May 11 19:53:13 CEST 2008
469 - work around a bug in perl 5.8.8's local. Reported by Yi Ma Mao.
470
471 3.4 Sun May 11 00:29:25 CEST 2008
472 - complete re-implementation of condvars with a hopefully much more useful
473 API (backward compatible functions exist but are undocumented).
474 - AnyEvent::Handle fully rewritten with a hopefully more powerful API
475 (still subject to change).
476 - take advantage of CLOCK_MONOTONIC, if available, in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
477 - provide AnyEvent::post_detect and @AnyEvent::post_detect, which
478 allows module authors to avoid forcing event loop detection.
479 (used by Coro::AIO, Coro::BDB, Coro::AnyEvent for example).
480 - remove coro backends: Coro now provides generic support for AnyEvent
481 via Coro::AnyEvent.
482
483 3.3 Mon Apr 28 09:51:06 CEST 2008
484 - added AnyEvent::Handle, AnyEvent::Socket and AnyEvent::Util modules.
485 - fix a bug in the pure perl backend that kept watchers alive
486 when multiple watchers were registered for the same fh/poll combo.
487 - add a benchmark section showing AnyEvent overhead and comparing
488 the different event loops with each other.
489 - prefer pure perl over tk when autoprobing, as it's about as fast,
490 but doesn't crash with many watchers.
491 - declare Qt support non-experimental.
492 - clarify the confusing section about the file descriptor being
493 kept alive.
494 - document the race between loading of an event module and
495 child processes exiting.
496 - support POE as "backend" (with some caveats, POE is not generic
497 enough, and darn slow).
498 - support Wx and Prima through POE.
499 - optimise perl backend to use 20% less memory and take advantage
500 of typical timeout behaviour. It can now compete with
501 select/poll-based C event loops in most cases (it is usually
502 faster than Event and Glib :).
503 - roughly cut EV memory use in half and increase its speed by 30%,
504 by removing undocumented functionality. Did something similar
505 to other event loops where possible.
506
507 3.2 Thu Apr 24 10:10:40 CEST 2008
508 - do not die when anyevent watchers are destroyed while running callbacks
509 in the pureperl backend (could only happen when two watchers are registered
510 for the same fh/poll combo).
511 - support autoloading for child watchers, was broken in all versions.
512 - implement PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL env variable.
513 - (experimental) implement interface to the (very crashy/buggy) Event::Lib module.
514 - (experimental) implement interface to the Qt module (cannot be autoprobed).
515 - this release is IO:AnyEvent-proof.
516
517 3.12 Tue Apr 22 07:11:46 CEST 2008
518 - reinstate AUTHOR section that got lost somehow.
519 - do not hang in the testsuite with badly broken perls (activestate,
520 strawberry...), but instead diagnose the problem and continue.
521 - use INT instead of CHLD in an attempt to support broken windows perls
522 better (this decreases the test quality, unfortunately).
523 - do not send the signal to the process group
524 (no problem for CHLD, bad for INT :).
525
526 3.11 Sat Apr 19 06:57:31 CEST 2008
527 - major documentation rework.
528 - document the fact that child watchers only watch for zombies.
529 - fix the child watcher example.
530
531 3.1 Wed Apr 16 17:09:01 CEST 2008
532 - work around recurring bugs in Tk by dup'ing filehandles, the
533 only method with good success chances on Tk (the bugs apparently
534 don't get fixed anytime soon).
535 - lift the restriction of only one watcher per fh direction
536 (as the Tk bug workaround also lifts it and only Tk imposed
537 such strong limits).
538 - changed probe order to prefer coro adaptors.
539 - explain why recursion into the event loop is not supported
540 unless the backend supports it (only Coro::EV does without
541 any restrictions...).
542 - add simple manpages for all backend modules.
543
544 3.0 Mon Apr 7 21:30:23 CEST 2008
545 - Coro::Signal changed semantics, roll our own, also cleaning
546 up the Coro implementation in general.
547 - rename Coro backend to CoroEvent.
548 - add some decision helping paragraph to the manpage that should
549 help people to decide whether AnyEvent is the right thing for them.
550
551 2.9 Mon Jan 28 13:31:54 CET 2008
552 - update for EV 3.0 API changes.
553
554 2.8 Sun Nov 25 15:06:03 CET 2007
555 - waitpid can validly return 0. accept this fact of life
556 instead of reporting it to any watchers.
557
558 2.7 Fri Nov 23 11:41:14 CET 2007
559 - force use of AnyEvent::Impl::Perl in testsuite, there is
560 too much breakage outside AnyEvent.
561 - deliver signals synchronously in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl
562 or any other event loop that relies on AnyEvents child
563 watcher emulation. *Could* help with hanging testsuite
564 (except when Event or EV are installed).
565
566 2.6 Fri Nov 9 20:36:35 CET 2007
567 - fix bug in testsuite.
568 - move EV adaptor modules to AnyEvent.
569 - add Coro+EV adaptor module.
570
571 2.55 Tue Nov 6 17:41:32 CET 2007
572 - add EV to the list of supported event models.
573 - do not auto-reset pid watchers, pass pid and status to them.
574 - allow a pid of zero to watch for all children in child watchers.
575
576 2.54 Wed Jul 18 17:36:23 CEST 2007
577 - work around a perl bug that results in
578 BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted without
579 any discernible reason or error message by once
580 again not use'ing strict.
581
582 2.53 Sun Jul 8 10:51:53 CEST 2007
583 - make Glib interface work again (spotted by elmex).
584
585 2.52 Wed Mar 7 18:36:16 CET 2007
586 - child watchers stopped working permanently when
587 all current child watchers were destroyed.
588
589 2.51 Mon Dec 11 21:33:24 CET 2006
590 - work around bugs in perl where eval "require Module" returns
591 true even if the module couldn't be loaded :/.
592
593 2.5 Mon Dec 11 02:15:28 CET 2006
594 - avoid $AUTOLOAD because many perls corrupt it.
595 - AnyEvent::detect forces autodetection.
596 - implement signal watchers (experimental)
597 (Tk does not support async signals (<= 804.027 at least),
598 so they might get delayed indefinitely on Tk).
599 - implement child watchers (experimental).
600 - moved default condvar implementation into base module, simplifying
601 most implementation modules.
602
603 2.1 Fri Nov 24 15:50:48 CET 2006
604 - better docs.
605 - simple testsuite.
606 - added AnyEvent->one_event method for special purposes.
607
608 2.0 Wed Nov 1 02:21:30 CET 2006
609 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: poll can now either be "r" or "w" but not both.
610 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: io watcher callbacks have no arguments anymore.
611 - EXPERIMENTAL:
612 new pure-perl model added, AnyEvent now always finds a suitable
613 event model.
614 - improved documentation.
615 - reduced cpu overhead.
616
617 1.02 Fri Jan 13 14:15:40 CET 2006
618 - add COPYING to clarify license.
619
620 1.01 Sun Jan 8 05:48:09 CET 2006
621 - correctly cancel Event timers, avoid memory leaks.
622
623 1.0 Sun Jan 8 05:40:58 CET 2006
624 - allow third-party interfaces to be added at runtime.
625 - fix version number.
626
627 0.9 Fri Dec 30 02:25:41 CET 2005
628 - fixed errors in the documentation.
629 - going back to using $VERSION as "load check",
630 as suggested by Jörn Reder. Let's see why I stopped using
631 this method.
632 - add 'hup' to the list of events to receive for glib
633 and generate 'rw' events for it, as some versions of
634 glib seem to require this, while this breaks other
635 (older) versions of glib.
636 - implemented PERL_ANYEVENT_VERBOSE env variable.
637
638 0.3 Sun Dec 4 10:43:33 CET 2005
639 - no changes to the code.
640 - fixed documentation.
641 - clarified some corner cases.
642 - vastly improved documentation with a long example.
643
644 0.2 Thu Dec 1 22:18:49 CET 2005
645 - check whether a valid method was called, to avoid endless loops.
646 - move condvars into their own class (cleaner, safer).
647 - don't die when some modules are not available.
648 - Tk is too broken to allow for words. Will work once Tk works.
649
650 0.1 Thu Dec 1 19:44:57 CET 2005
651 - spiced up and cleaned up for release.
652
653 0.01 Tue Sep 21 18:12:09 CEST 2004
654 - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
655