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1 Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent.
2
3 TODO: _AVOID_, _VERBOSE_
4 - improve perl 5.6 compatibility of the core event loop.
5 - nail the signal race problem in perl once and for all
6 (see $AnyEvent::MAX_SIGNAL_LATENCY).
7 - take advantage of Async::Interrupt if it is available.
8 - load Time::HiRes and Guard modules on demand only.
9 - add optional/recommended modules section to AnyEvent
10 documentation.
11 - reduce memory usage considerably (and reduce startup penalty)
12 by not using "strict", "warnings" and "overload" modules.
13 - work around buggy windows perls and provide EBADMSG and EPROTO
14 ourselves.
15
16 4.83 Fri Jul 17 16:56:26 CEST 2009
17 - implement AnyEvent::Socket::getprotobyname.
18 - AnyEvent::CondVar's will now detect recursive blocking
19 waits and will croak, as too many people fall into
20 this trap.
21 - AnyEvent::Handle will now call ->destroy on itself after
22 executing the on_error callback, instead of doing some
23 half-baked internal shutdown, for fatal errors.
24 - clarify on_eof behaviour w.r.t. the read queue and
25 on_read callbacks.
26 - ignore some possible spurious wake-ups in tcp_connect.
27
28 4.82 Sat Jul 11 00:34:55 CEST 2009
29 - POE and Event backends didn't accept some callable objects as
30 callbacks.
31 - use Config module instead of POSIX module to detect signal names
32 in AnyEvent::Strict and AnyEvent::Impl::EventLib, as the POSIX
33 module doesn't even have all POSIX signals :/.
34 - use more workarounds around the many refcnt/corruption bugs in
35 Event::Lib.
36 - work around a race condition in perl's select, causing t/03_child.t
37 to rarely fail.
38
39 4.81 Thu Jul 9 10:30:30 CEST 2009
40 - AnyEvent::Handle didn't properly diagnose write errors
41 (it expected -1 from syswrite, how lame... :).
42 - support file descriptors in addition to file handles
43 in AnyEvent->io.
44 - new env variables: PERL_ANYEVENT_RESOLV_CONF,
45 PERL_ANYEVENT_MAX_OUTSTANDING_DNS, PERL_ANYEVENT_CA_FILE
46 and PERL_ANYEVENT_CA_PATH.
47 - provide a sensible synopsis section for AnyEvent::TLS.
48 - add a "supported backends" section to the manpage.
49 - added simple io watcher test to testsuite, using a
50 portable_socketpair.
51 - tried to improve the stability of the Event::Lib backend,
52 YMMV.
53
54 4.8 Mon Jul 6 23:45:16 CEST 2009
55 - AnyEvent::DNS did not properly follow CNAME records with
56 uppercase targets.
57 - AnyEvent::DNS would errornously return AAAA records
58 with v4 mapped addresses (a faulty record) as ipv4 addresses,
59 causing AnyEvent::Socket to throw an exception.
60 - added new module AnyEvent::TLS for easier SSL/TLS context
61 creation, with many options including hostname verification,
62 secure default configuration, lots of documentation and,
63 predefined diffie-hellman keys for perfect forward security
64 and much more. get it while it's still fresh!
65 - use AnyEvent::TLS in AnyEvent::Handle for context management.
66 - load AnyEvent::Handle only on demand in AnyEvent::DNS,
67 so AnyEvent::Socket users have smaller memory footprint
68 in the common case.
69 - add AnyEvent::Handle->push_shutdown method.
70 - add an additional error message parameter to AnyEvent::Handle's
71 on_error callback (for TLS, $! is still available).
72 - add AnyEvent::Handle on_starttls/on_stoptls callbacks.
73 - make AnyEvent::Handle more robust against early conenction
74 failures (during new), and return C<undef> in that case
75 from the constructor.
76 - AnyEvent::Handle will now try to load only JSON::XS first,
77 then fall back to JSON.
78 - format_ipv4/format_ipv6 are now exported by default, for symmetry,
79 and because it was documented that way.
80
81 4.451 Fri Jul 3 00:28:58 CEST 2009
82 - do not clear rbuf when shutting down an AnyEvent::Handle
83 object - doing so breaks AnyEvent::HTTP.
84
85 4.45 Mon Jun 29 22:59:26 CEST 2009
86 - a write error could cause AnyEvent::Handle to create
87 an I/O watcher with an undefined $fh.
88 - special-case mapped ipv4 addresses in both
89 AnyEvent::Socket::format_address and parse_address,
90 to treat them just like ipv4 addresses.
91 - updated and overhauled the AnyEvent::Intro doc.
92 - implement AnyEvent::Socket::format_ipv4/ipv6.
93 - slightly speed up portable_pipe/socketpair.
94 - expand condvar begin/end documentation.
95
96 4.42 Fri Jun 26 08:32:18 CEST 2009
97 - preliminary and neccesarily incomplete support for IO::Async.
98 - reset SIGCHLD to DEFAULT when AnyEvent is loaded, in
99 case it was set to IGNORE, to ensure we can catch child statuses
100 even when the calling env acts stupidly.
101 - updated benchmarks with IO::Async, which performs very well.
102
103 4.412 Wed Jun 24 01:35:57 CEST 2009
104 - support an "untaint" attribute for AnyEvent::DNS
105 and set it on the default resolver.
106 - implement and document AnyEvent::Impl::Perl::loop.
107 - remove all anyevent-env variables from %ENV
108 when running in tainted mode.
109 - mention and extend the IO::Lambda benchmark.
110
111 4.411 Sun Jun 7 18:48:02 CEST 2009
112 - do not try to use F_SETFD on windows.
113
114 4.41 Thu May 14 06:40:11 CEST 2009
115 - work around issues in older perls (5.8.0?) when
116 a signal handler is deleted from the %SIG hash.
117 - use POSIX::_exit in child test, to avoid running
118 destructors.
119 - speed up CHLD handling by relying on SIGCHLD being
120 synchronously delivered, even when we roll our own
121 implementation.
122 - AnyEvent::DNS: add the "dname" resource record name
123 for cosmetic reasons.
124
125 4.4 Sun Apr 26 20:12:33 CEST 2009
126 - implemented idle watchers, where applicable.
127 - AnyEvent->time died when Event backend was in use.
128 - fix a memleak in the Tk backend.
129 - sped up Tk timer handling.
130 - clip negative "after" values to 0 in AnyEvent::Impl::Event
131 to avoid spamming out warning messages.
132 - fix Qt timers without interval.
133 - avoid Qt zero-timeout special case, in old libqt's.
134
135 4.352 Mon Apr 20 16:31:11 CEST 2009
136 - fix AnyEvent::Strict error messages for child watchers.
137 - fix/update Makefile.PL "recommends" versions.
138 - add AnyEvent->now_update.
139
140 4.351 Sat Apr 11 07:56:14 CEST 2009
141 - actually make the signal pipe work under win32.
142 - localise $! in signal handler to avoid changing $!, although
143 perl itself does not seem to save/restore errno either.
144 - set the cloexec flag on the signal pipe (normally set by perl too).
145
146 4.35 Fri Mar 27 11:48:20 CET 2009
147 - event models relying on AnyEvent's signal watcher emulation did
148 invoke the callback asynchronously, contradicting documentation
149 and causing signals to get lost (this includes AnyEvent's own
150 event loop). AnyEvent now uses the standard pipe trick to make
151 callback execution synchronous to the event loop.
152 - AnyEvent::Handle didn't free TLS context data on DESTROY
153 (patch by Pavel Shaydo).
154 - work around the ever-incompatibly-changing API of MakeMaker.
155 - document that changing global variables without restoring them
156 is a bad idea in Perl (noted by Adam Rosenstein).
157 - AnyEvent::Strict now barfs if ->io is passed a file.
158
159 4.34 Thu Feb 12 18:32:45 CET 2009
160 - separately buffer TLS read data, as otherwise the read queue could
161 deadlock as receiving data is not expected while draining the
162 read queue (which cna only happen with TLS).
163 - raise EBADMSG error on JSON decoding errors.
164 - fix some minor manpage bugs (reported by Maximilian Gaß).
165 - speed up select bitmask parsing quite a bit in the pure perl
166 backend.
167 - use CORE::select instead of just select in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
168
169 4.331 Tue Jan 6 21:07:25 CET 2009
170 - socketpair fails on many vista machines because vista has
171 completely broken accept/getpeername and getsockname functions,
172 so we provide our own socketpair emulation that kind of works
173 (AnyEvent::Util::portable_pipe).
174 - new function: AnyEvent::Util::portable_socketpair.
175 - take advantage of the Guard module if it exists.
176
177 4.33 Fri Nov 21 02:35:40 CET 2008
178 - AnyEvent::Strict did errornously flag a fileno of 0 as
179 illegal.
180 - reduce memory usage and slightly speed up the pure perl backend
181 by only storing the file descriptor, not the file handle.
182 - add missing autocork method to AnyEvent::Handle (reported
183 by Adam Rosenstein).
184 - AnyEvent::DNS->resolve errornously documented an $rcode result
185 argument, but there isn't (spotted by Henrik Krohns).
186 - the naked truth about Tk - it's basically unmaintained.
187
188 4.32 Mon Nov 3 22:46:32 CET 2008
189 - fix AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr to properly support
190 unix sockets again and choose a proper default for
191 the socket type.
192 - fix call to resolve_sockaddr in tcp_connect.
193
194 4.31 Thu Oct 30 04:41:48 CET 2008
195 - implemented AnyEvent::Handle->destroy method.
196 - hint about unexpected effects in TLS mode.
197 - speed up AnyEvent::Impl::Perl by using more arrays
198 instead of hashes without the slightest loss of readability :)
199 - work around a perl argument refcounting bug.
200 - with some perl patches applied, AnyEvent now seems leak-free.
201
202 4.3 Fri Oct 3 09:18:43 CEST 2008
203 - AnyEvent will now install a no-op signal handler for SIGPIPE,
204 unless one has been installed already.
205 - warn about not loaidng AnyEvent::Impl::POE early enough
206 (patch by Adam Rosenstein).
207 - fixed a great number of bugs and corner cases in AnyEvent::Handle:
208 - fix a bug in where in SSL connect mode, the
209 client would first wait for some data by the server and
210 otherwise hang. (reported and analyzed in an absolutely
211 exemplary manner by Adam Rosenstein).
212 - fix a bug in where SSL EOF would not be treated
213 as stream EOF, putting the connection into a hung state.
214 (reported and analyzed in an absolutely exemplary manner by Adam
215 Rosenstein).
216 - fix a potential segfault when the TLS context
217 would go missing in a read callback (e.g. due to stoptls) -
218 Net::SSLeay of course makes no type checking whatsoever.
219 - AnyEvent::Handle will not stop the read watcher in TLS mode.
220 - AnyEvent::Handle->stoptls will send a TLS close notify
221 instead of simply destroying the stream now.
222 - fix a bug where large blocks of data written in TLS mode
223 would not be sent unless triggered by receives.
224 - on_drain will now take the tls write buffer into account.
225 - SSL operations have been streamlined a bit and should be faster
226 now, more to come, though.
227 - added a FAQ section, will document nontrivial issues in there.
228
229 4.234 Mon Sep 29 04:08:13 CEST 2008
230 - fix child watcher documentation: only child exits will be reported,
231 no trace events.
232 - mention SIGPIPE in AnyEvent::Handle.
233 - perl backend will now use POSIX::times as monotonic clock
234 when available and the monotonic clock option is not.
235 - run even without Time::HiRes in some cases now, but do not
236 provide sub-second accuracy (all *supported* perl versions have
237 Time::HiRes).
238
239 4.233 Fri Aug 22 01:48:05 CEST 2008
240 - fix a bug in the testsuite, causing a hang.
241 - clarified lots of AnyEvent::Handle constructor arguments.
242
243 4.232 Thu Aug 21 20:44:25 CEST 2008
244 - fix a bug in AnyEvent::Handle that could cause two fatal error
245 callbacks on EOF, which caused AnyEvent::HTTP to signal success twice
246 (testcase by Leon Brocard).
247 - clarified on_eof/on_error documentation a bit.
248
249 4.231 Tue Jul 29 13:12:15 CEST 2008
250 - remove some debugging code left in AnyEvent::Util::fork_call
251 (and no, it's impossible to implement with the broken windows
252 perls without resource leaks or worse).
253
254 4.23 Tue Jul 29 12:19:59 CEST 2008
255 - document the first parameter passed to condvar callbacks to be
256 the callback.
257 - add AnyEvent::Socket::{ntoa,aton} aliases.
258 - optimize the AE::Handle->push_read (line) for the default
259 eol marker.
260 - optimize push_read (packstring|storable) for small packets.
261 - invoke on_error callback when no on_eof callback is set.
262 - fix a bug in push_read (storable) of unknown impact.
263
264 4.22 Sun Jul 20 16:34:13 CEST 2008
265 - new function AnyEvent::Socket::parse_hostport.
266 - as the bulkheads at microsoft can't even get getprotobyname reliably
267 working on their shitty fucking broken os we need to hardcode
268 some common protocol numbers in AnyEvent::Socket. How can
269 people even bother with such a pile of shit as windows.
270
271 4.21 Thu Jul 17 14:40:05 CEST 2008
272 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: AnyEvent::Util::fork_call now has a prototype
273 which is incompatible to previous invocation syntax.
274 - work around more windows perl bugs in fork_call. I cannot imagine
275 why anybody would bother implementing fork in such an obviously
276 unusable way.
277 - avoid calling $do_retry if the request has already finished in
278 AnyEvent::DNS, thus avoiding an exception (reported by Anatoly
279 K. Sharifulin).
280
281 4.2 Sat Jul 12 22:42:11 CEST 2008
282 - support an "interval" argument for repeating timers.
283 - fix a bug in the pure perl event loop that caused timers to
284 be delayed under some circumstances.
285 - implement optional argument checking via PERL_ANYEVENT_STRICT.
286 - not importing anything from Event causes it to malfunction
287 and not use Time::HiRes, work around this bug.
288 - more bug workarounds against the endlessly broken Tk module,
289 seems to work now on 32 bit machines, but less so on 64 bit.
290 - minor optimisations applied to most backends.
291
292 4.161 Fri Jul 4 14:24:48 CEST 2008
293 - fixed the t/handle/02_write.t, it read after write, with the
294 assumption that all data could be written before read
295 (reported by Jim Razmus).
296
297 4.160 Thu Jul 3 04:02:21 CEST 2008
298 - re-registering signal watchers after unregistering one did
299 not work if a backend falls back on AnyEvent's default
300 implementation (also affected child watchers).
301 - new AnyEvent::Handle options: autocork and no_delay.
302
303 4.152 Sun Jun 22 14:15:44 CEST 2008
304 - allow for 32-bit perls that implement shifts differently
305 on different architectures in parse_ipv4 (reported and
306 analysed by Keiichi DAIBA).
307
308 4.151 Fri Jun 6 17:34:24 CEST 2008
309 - make sure specifying _only_ on_read and never pushing reads
310 works.
311
312 4.15 Fri Jun 6 13:00:46 CEST 2008
313 - the pure perl backend would keep some watchers alive when more than
314 one watcher was registered for the same fd.
315 - new "packstring" and "storable" read and write types
316 for AnyEvent::Handle.
317 - allow on_eof handler to be called after on_error with EPIPE returns.
318 - do not immediately call on_read callback in handle constructor.
319
320 4.14 Thu Jun 5 20:29:31 CEST 2008
321 - Fixed a bug in DNS SRV priority sorting.
322 - AnyEvent::Util::guard now reports runtime errors while
323 executing the guard block as warnings.
324 - handle 0-byte-reads just before EOF correctly in AnyEvent::Handle.
325
326 4.13 Thu Jun 5 00:47:59 CEST 2008
327 - AnyEvent::DNS only followed cname chains with length 2,
328 contrary to documentation. bumped it up to 10, thanks to
329 microsoft, the current broken-dns-config-king.
330 - AnyEvent::DNS didn't check for socket return status
331 but instead relied on perl not creating filehandles in that
332 case - too bad it gives you a bogus file handle (reported
333 and analysed by Vladimir Timofeev).
334 - fix queue management logic in AnyEvent::Handle:
335 when on_read was registered, the queue was empty
336 and no progress could be made AnyEvent::Handle would
337 enter an endless loop.
338 - correctly start reading again when the handle became
339 busy again after idling.
340 - correctly treat tls shut-downs as EOF condition
341 (for the time being, would be nice to have a callback for that).
342 - correctly call eof callback under all conditions
343 (hopefully).
344 - the timeout callback did not expect that $self can go
345 away any time.
346
347 4.12 Tue Jun 3 10:58:04 CEST 2008
348 - include AnyEvent::Intro, a tutorial for anyevent,
349 anyevent::socket and anyevent::handle.
350 - allow more options in on_error.
351
352 4.11 Fri May 30 23:42:25 CEST 2008
353 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace ptr by real PTR lookup, provide
354 reverse_lookup and reverse_verify to replace it, support
355 v4mapped and v4compat addresses.
356 - provide more documentation for the resolver class.
357 - really replace longest run of :0: by :: in format_address,
358 also properly convert :: and ::1 again.
359 - support NAPTR record name and decode it.
360 - implement random weight sampling for SRV records, as per
361 rfc 2782.
362 - correctly abort on srv-record targets of ".".
363 - added AnyEvent::DNS::wait_for_slot.
364 - in the unlikely event of a virtual circuit connection
365 being invalidated by a delayed udp reply, AnyEvent::DNS
366 could die. this has been fixed.
367 - plug a probable memleak in the DNS vc code.
368 - use configured timeout also for VC request phase.
369 - implement timeout and max_outstanding methods
370 for resolver class.
371 - update version numbers in all modules.
372
373 4.1 Thu May 29 05:45:40 CEST 2008
374 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: renamed xxx_ip functions to xxx_address
375 which mirrors their purpose better (old names still available
376 for a while). Also moved AnyEvent::DNS::addr to
377 AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr.
378 - implement AnyEvent->time and AnyEvent->now.
379 - fix IPv6 support in pack_sockaddr.
380 - officially un-experimentalise all newly introduced code.
381 - support unix domain sockets everywhere by specifying
382 a host of "unix/" and the pathname as service.
383 - implement an activity timeout in AnyEvent::Handle.
384 - added a regex read type to AnyEvent::Handle.
385 - added a json read/write type to AnyEvent::Handle.
386 - always croak in on_error in AnyEvent::Handle.
387 - document how to subclass AnyEvent::Handle.
388 - implement AnyEvent::Util::fork_call.
389 - add support for IPv6 nameservers and nameserver statements.
390 - work around _yet_ _another_ windows perl bug in where empty
391 select masks cause errors in the pure perl backend (this
392 workaround cannot be implemented for the other event loops,
393 but EV also works around this).
394 - supply AnyEvent::Socket::address_type and make good use of it.
395 - clarify and fix the Handle documentation w.r.t $self vs. $handle
396 vs. callback arguments.
397 - add some recommends to the META.yml.
398
399 4.05 Mon May 26 19:44:06 CEST 2008
400 - some platforms ignore the rfc and prepend an extra sa_len member to
401 the sockaddr structure, cater for those. also use sockaddr_family,
402 didn't know it was there, but comes in handy for the workaround.
403 - undo the import WIN32 hack.
404
405 4.04 Mon May 26 08:03:31 CEST 2008
406 - try to work around yet another windows bug: failed connects are reported
407 as if it were out-of-band data. windows users: you suck. Only
408 EV, Glib, Event and the pure perl backend can handle this condition.
409 - optimize write algorithm in AnyEvent::Handle.
410 - properly parse PERL_ANYEVENT_PROTOCOLS and use the info correctly.
411 - tcp_connect now properly iterates through all targets.
412 - check wether IPv6 sockets can actually be created, otherwise, disable ipv6
413 support entirely. also hardcode some AF_INET6 constants for the
414 sake of perl 5.8.
415 - vastly improved nameserver/suffix detection algorithm for windows
416 (still a hack...)
417 - try to use a fallback dns server if no dns servers could be found.
418 - splatter around some local $SIG{__DIE__}'s to work around bad
419 die handlers.
420
421 4.03 Sun May 25 05:05:57 CEST 2008
422 - work around perl bugs on windows, where perl returns undocumented
423 error codes for sysread, syswrite etc.
424 - fix AnyEvent::Handle::unshift_read to really unshift and not push.
425 - AnyEvent::Handle could sometimes stumble over 0-byte writes.
426 - fix unpack_sockaddr, now works for AF_INET6 sockaddr's.
427 - updated documentation.
428 - lots of workarounds for perl 5.8 quirks.
429 - implement a more flexible type system for both reads and writes
430 in AnyEvent::Handle.
431 - support IPv6 in tcp_server.
432 - pass local hostname and port to the prepare callback in tcp_server.
433 - make types extendable in AnyEvent::Handle.
434 - croak, not die, in AnyEvent::Handle;
435
436 4.0 Sat May 24 19:58:08 CEST 2008
437 - added (experimental) AnyEvent::DNS module.
438 - added (experimental) AnyEvent::Socket module.
439 - added (experiemntal) support for TLS/SSL in AnyEvent::Handle.
440 - make condvar->end call ->send as documented.
441 - make condvar constructor support the documented cb => argument.
442 - overload condvars so you can use them instead of code references.
443 - support more of the POSIX forms instead of a pure dotted quad for
444 verbatim ip addresses.
445 - AnyEvent::Socket::inet_aton will use AnyEvent::DNS now and not fork anymore.
446 - try very hard not to freeze on broken windows perls.
447 - make on_eof optional in AnyEvent::Handle.
448 - support service names in tcp_connect and tcp_server.
449 - work around netbsd/openbsd bug causing unix sockets not to
450 become writable until empty.
451 - only make a dummy read for error detection when getpeername
452 returns ENOTCONN.
453 - defend AnyEvent::Util::inet_aton against Coro::LWP's brutal
454 override.
455 - new AnyEvent::Guard::cancel.
456
457 3.5 Sat May 17 23:17:14 CEST 2008
458 - gracefully deal with systems not defining CLOCK_MONOTONIC
459 (as opposed to not supporting the clock itself, which worked in 3.41).
460 - added AnyEvent::Util::tcp_connect and AnyEvent::Util::tcp_server
461 helpers, to replace the ill-designed AnyEvent::Socket class.
462 - added some examples (eg/connect, eg/handle).
463 - added AnyEvent::Util::guard.
464 - AnyEvent::Util now exports most of its functions.
465 - fixed a bug in *_read_chunk, where the callback was called with $self as
466 first and second argument.
467 - simplified and fixed regex handling in AnyEvent::Handle::*_read_line.
468 - fix manpage condvars examples to use new syntax.
469 - considerably improve inet_aton with EV::ADNS backend to support
470 cname chains (common dns configuration bug, e.g. with www.google.de)
471 and aaaa records if no a record could be found.
472
473 3.41 Sun May 11 19:53:13 CEST 2008
474 - work around a bug in perl 5.8.8's local. Reported by Yi Ma Mao.
475
476 3.4 Sun May 11 00:29:25 CEST 2008
477 - complete re-implementation of condvars with a hopefully much more useful
478 API (backward compatible functions exist but are undocumented).
479 - AnyEvent::Handle fully rewritten with a hopefully more powerful API
480 (still subject to change).
481 - take advantage of CLOCK_MONOTONIC, if available, in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
482 - provide AnyEvent::post_detect and @AnyEvent::post_detect, which
483 allows module authors to avoid forcing event loop detection.
484 (used by Coro::AIO, Coro::BDB, Coro::AnyEvent for example).
485 - remove coro backends: Coro now provides generic support for AnyEvent
486 via Coro::AnyEvent.
487
488 3.3 Mon Apr 28 09:51:06 CEST 2008
489 - added AnyEvent::Handle, AnyEvent::Socket and AnyEvent::Util modules.
490 - fix a bug in the pure perl backend that kept watchers alive
491 when multiple watchers were registered for the same fh/poll combo.
492 - add a benchmark section showing AnyEvent overhead and comparing
493 the different event loops with each other.
494 - prefer pure perl over tk when autoprobing, as it's about as fast,
495 but doesn't crash with many watchers.
496 - declare Qt support non-experimental.
497 - clarify the confusing section about the file descriptor being
498 kept alive.
499 - document the race between loading of an event module and
500 child processes exiting.
501 - support POE as "backend" (with some caveats, POE is not generic
502 enough, and darn slow).
503 - support Wx and Prima through POE.
504 - optimise perl backend to use 20% less memory and take advantage
505 of typical timeout behaviour. It can now compete with
506 select/poll-based C event loops in most cases (it is usually
507 faster than Event and Glib :).
508 - roughly cut EV memory use in half and increase its speed by 30%,
509 by removing undocumented functionality. Did something similar
510 to other event loops where possible.
511
512 3.2 Thu Apr 24 10:10:40 CEST 2008
513 - do not die when anyevent watchers are destroyed while running callbacks
514 in the pureperl backend (could only happen when two watchers are registered
515 for the same fh/poll combo).
516 - support autoloading for child watchers, was broken in all versions.
517 - implement PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL env variable.
518 - (experimental) implement interface to the (very crashy/buggy) Event::Lib module.
519 - (experimental) implement interface to the Qt module (cannot be autoprobed).
520 - this release is IO:AnyEvent-proof.
521
522 3.12 Tue Apr 22 07:11:46 CEST 2008
523 - reinstate AUTHOR section that got lost somehow.
524 - do not hang in the testsuite with badly broken perls (activestate,
525 strawberry...), but instead diagnose the problem and continue.
526 - use INT instead of CHLD in an attempt to support broken windows perls
527 better (this decreases the test quality, unfortunately).
528 - do not send the signal to the process group
529 (no problem for CHLD, bad for INT :).
530
531 3.11 Sat Apr 19 06:57:31 CEST 2008
532 - major documentation rework.
533 - document the fact that child watchers only watch for zombies.
534 - fix the child watcher example.
535
536 3.1 Wed Apr 16 17:09:01 CEST 2008
537 - work around recurring bugs in Tk by dup'ing filehandles, the
538 only method with good success chances on Tk (the bugs apparently
539 don't get fixed anytime soon).
540 - lift the restriction of only one watcher per fh direction
541 (as the Tk bug workaround also lifts it and only Tk imposed
542 such strong limits).
543 - changed probe order to prefer coro adaptors.
544 - explain why recursion into the event loop is not supported
545 unless the backend supports it (only Coro::EV does without
546 any restrictions...).
547 - add simple manpages for all backend modules.
548
549 3.0 Mon Apr 7 21:30:23 CEST 2008
550 - Coro::Signal changed semantics, roll our own, also cleaning
551 up the Coro implementation in general.
552 - rename Coro backend to CoroEvent.
553 - add some decision helping paragraph to the manpage that should
554 help people to decide whether AnyEvent is the right thing for them.
555
556 2.9 Mon Jan 28 13:31:54 CET 2008
557 - update for EV 3.0 API changes.
558
559 2.8 Sun Nov 25 15:06:03 CET 2007
560 - waitpid can validly return 0. accept this fact of life
561 instead of reporting it to any watchers.
562
563 2.7 Fri Nov 23 11:41:14 CET 2007
564 - force use of AnyEvent::Impl::Perl in testsuite, there is
565 too much breakage outside AnyEvent.
566 - deliver signals synchronously in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl
567 or any other event loop that relies on AnyEvents child
568 watcher emulation. *Could* help with hanging testsuite
569 (except when Event or EV are installed).
570
571 2.6 Fri Nov 9 20:36:35 CET 2007
572 - fix bug in testsuite.
573 - move EV adaptor modules to AnyEvent.
574 - add Coro+EV adaptor module.
575
576 2.55 Tue Nov 6 17:41:32 CET 2007
577 - add EV to the list of supported event models.
578 - do not auto-reset pid watchers, pass pid and status to them.
579 - allow a pid of zero to watch for all children in child watchers.
580
581 2.54 Wed Jul 18 17:36:23 CEST 2007
582 - work around a perl bug that results in
583 BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted without
584 any discernible reason or error message by once
585 again not use'ing strict.
586
587 2.53 Sun Jul 8 10:51:53 CEST 2007
588 - make Glib interface work again (spotted by elmex).
589
590 2.52 Wed Mar 7 18:36:16 CET 2007
591 - child watchers stopped working permanently when
592 all current child watchers were destroyed.
593
594 2.51 Mon Dec 11 21:33:24 CET 2006
595 - work around bugs in perl where eval "require Module" returns
596 true even if the module couldn't be loaded :/.
597
598 2.5 Mon Dec 11 02:15:28 CET 2006
599 - avoid $AUTOLOAD because many perls corrupt it.
600 - AnyEvent::detect forces autodetection.
601 - implement signal watchers (experimental)
602 (Tk does not support async signals (<= 804.027 at least),
603 so they might get delayed indefinitely on Tk).
604 - implement child watchers (experimental).
605 - moved default condvar implementation into base module, simplifying
606 most implementation modules.
607
608 2.1 Fri Nov 24 15:50:48 CET 2006
609 - better docs.
610 - simple testsuite.
611 - added AnyEvent->one_event method for special purposes.
612
613 2.0 Wed Nov 1 02:21:30 CET 2006
614 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: poll can now either be "r" or "w" but not both.
615 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: io watcher callbacks have no arguments anymore.
616 - EXPERIMENTAL:
617 new pure-perl model added, AnyEvent now always finds a suitable
618 event model.
619 - improved documentation.
620 - reduced cpu overhead.
621
622 1.02 Fri Jan 13 14:15:40 CET 2006
623 - add COPYING to clarify license.
624
625 1.01 Sun Jan 8 05:48:09 CET 2006
626 - correctly cancel Event timers, avoid memory leaks.
627
628 1.0 Sun Jan 8 05:40:58 CET 2006
629 - allow third-party interfaces to be added at runtime.
630 - fix version number.
631
632 0.9 Fri Dec 30 02:25:41 CET 2005
633 - fixed errors in the documentation.
634 - going back to using $VERSION as "load check",
635 as suggested by Jörn Reder. Let's see why I stopped using
636 this method.
637 - add 'hup' to the list of events to receive for glib
638 and generate 'rw' events for it, as some versions of
639 glib seem to require this, while this breaks other
640 (older) versions of glib.
641 - implemented PERL_ANYEVENT_VERBOSE env variable.
642
643 0.3 Sun Dec 4 10:43:33 CET 2005
644 - no changes to the code.
645 - fixed documentation.
646 - clarified some corner cases.
647 - vastly improved documentation with a long example.
648
649 0.2 Thu Dec 1 22:18:49 CET 2005
650 - check whether a valid method was called, to avoid endless loops.
651 - move condvars into their own class (cleaner, safer).
652 - don't die when some modules are not available.
653 - Tk is too broken to allow for words. Will work once Tk works.
654
655 0.1 Thu Dec 1 19:44:57 CET 2005
656 - spiced up and cleaned up for release.
657
658 0.01 Tue Sep 21 18:12:09 CEST 2004
659 - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
660