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1 Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent.
2
3 TODO: Event seems to have some racy signal handling.
4
5 4.85 Sat Jul 18 06:16:14 CEST 2009
6 - nail the signal race problem in perl once and for all
7 (see $AnyEvent::MAX_SIGNAL_LATENCY).
8 - take advantage of Async::Interrupt if it is available.
9 - load Time::HiRes and Guard modules on demand only.
10 - add optional/recommended modules section to AnyEvent
11 documentation.
12 - reduce memory usage considerably (and reduce startup penalty)
13 by not using "strict", "warnings" and "overload" modules.
14 - work around buggy windows/openbsd perls and provide EBADMSG
15 and EPROTO ourselves when missing.
16 - improve perl 5.6 compatibility of the core event loop.
17 - made Net::SSLeay version 1.33 a soft requirement.
18
19 4.83 Fri Jul 17 16:56:26 CEST 2009
20 - implement AnyEvent::Socket::getprotobyname.
21 - AnyEvent::CondVar's will now detect recursive blocking
22 waits and will croak, as too many people fall into
23 this trap.
24 - AnyEvent::Handle will now call ->destroy on itself after
25 executing the on_error callback, instead of doing some
26 half-baked internal shutdown, for fatal errors.
27 - clarify on_eof behaviour w.r.t. the read queue and
28 on_read callbacks.
29 - ignore some possible spurious wake-ups in tcp_connect.
30
31 4.82 Sat Jul 11 00:34:55 CEST 2009
32 - POE and Event backends didn't accept some callable objects as
33 callbacks.
34 - use Config module instead of POSIX module to detect signal names
35 in AnyEvent::Strict and AnyEvent::Impl::EventLib, as the POSIX
36 module doesn't even have all POSIX signals :/.
37 - use more workarounds around the many refcnt/corruption bugs in
38 Event::Lib.
39 - work around a race condition in perl's select, causing t/03_child.t
40 to rarely fail.
41
42 4.81 Thu Jul 9 10:30:30 CEST 2009
43 - AnyEvent::Handle didn't properly diagnose write errors
44 (it expected -1 from syswrite, how lame... :).
45 - support file descriptors in addition to file handles
46 in AnyEvent->io.
47 - new env variables: PERL_ANYEVENT_RESOLV_CONF,
48 PERL_ANYEVENT_MAX_OUTSTANDING_DNS, PERL_ANYEVENT_CA_FILE
49 and PERL_ANYEVENT_CA_PATH.
50 - provide a sensible synopsis section for AnyEvent::TLS.
51 - add a "supported backends" section to the manpage.
52 - added simple io watcher test to testsuite, using a
53 portable_socketpair.
54 - tried to improve the stability of the Event::Lib backend,
55 YMMV.
56
57 4.8 Mon Jul 6 23:45:16 CEST 2009
58 - AnyEvent::DNS did not properly follow CNAME records with
59 uppercase targets.
60 - AnyEvent::DNS would errornously return AAAA records
61 with v4 mapped addresses (a faulty record) as ipv4 addresses,
62 causing AnyEvent::Socket to throw an exception.
63 - added new module AnyEvent::TLS for easier SSL/TLS context
64 creation, with many options including hostname verification,
65 secure default configuration, lots of documentation and,
66 predefined diffie-hellman keys for perfect forward security
67 and much more. get it while it's still fresh!
68 - use AnyEvent::TLS in AnyEvent::Handle for context management.
69 - load AnyEvent::Handle only on demand in AnyEvent::DNS,
70 so AnyEvent::Socket users have smaller memory footprint
71 in the common case.
72 - add AnyEvent::Handle->push_shutdown method.
73 - add an additional error message parameter to AnyEvent::Handle's
74 on_error callback (for TLS, $! is still available).
75 - add AnyEvent::Handle on_starttls/on_stoptls callbacks.
76 - make AnyEvent::Handle more robust against early conenction
77 failures (during new), and return C<undef> in that case
78 from the constructor.
79 - AnyEvent::Handle will now try to load only JSON::XS first,
80 then fall back to JSON.
81 - format_ipv4/format_ipv6 are now exported by default, for symmetry,
82 and because it was documented that way.
83
84 4.451 Fri Jul 3 00:28:58 CEST 2009
85 - do not clear rbuf when shutting down an AnyEvent::Handle
86 object - doing so breaks AnyEvent::HTTP.
87
88 4.45 Mon Jun 29 22:59:26 CEST 2009
89 - a write error could cause AnyEvent::Handle to create
90 an I/O watcher with an undefined $fh.
91 - special-case mapped ipv4 addresses in both
92 AnyEvent::Socket::format_address and parse_address,
93 to treat them just like ipv4 addresses.
94 - updated and overhauled the AnyEvent::Intro doc.
95 - implement AnyEvent::Socket::format_ipv4/ipv6.
96 - slightly speed up portable_pipe/socketpair.
97 - expand condvar begin/end documentation.
98
99 4.42 Fri Jun 26 08:32:18 CEST 2009
100 - preliminary and neccesarily incomplete support for IO::Async.
101 - reset SIGCHLD to DEFAULT when AnyEvent is loaded, in
102 case it was set to IGNORE, to ensure we can catch child statuses
103 even when the calling env acts stupidly.
104 - updated benchmarks with IO::Async, which performs very well.
105
106 4.412 Wed Jun 24 01:35:57 CEST 2009
107 - support an "untaint" attribute for AnyEvent::DNS
108 and set it on the default resolver.
109 - implement and document AnyEvent::Impl::Perl::loop.
110 - remove all anyevent-env variables from %ENV
111 when running in tainted mode.
112 - mention and extend the IO::Lambda benchmark.
113
114 4.411 Sun Jun 7 18:48:02 CEST 2009
115 - do not try to use F_SETFD on windows.
116
117 4.41 Thu May 14 06:40:11 CEST 2009
118 - work around issues in older perls (5.8.0?) when
119 a signal handler is deleted from the %SIG hash.
120 - use POSIX::_exit in child test, to avoid running
121 destructors.
122 - speed up CHLD handling by relying on SIGCHLD being
123 synchronously delivered, even when we roll our own
124 implementation.
125 - AnyEvent::DNS: add the "dname" resource record name
126 for cosmetic reasons.
127
128 4.4 Sun Apr 26 20:12:33 CEST 2009
129 - implemented idle watchers, where applicable.
130 - AnyEvent->time died when Event backend was in use.
131 - fix a memleak in the Tk backend.
132 - sped up Tk timer handling.
133 - clip negative "after" values to 0 in AnyEvent::Impl::Event
134 to avoid spamming out warning messages.
135 - fix Qt timers without interval.
136 - avoid Qt zero-timeout special case, in old libqt's.
137
138 4.352 Mon Apr 20 16:31:11 CEST 2009
139 - fix AnyEvent::Strict error messages for child watchers.
140 - fix/update Makefile.PL "recommends" versions.
141 - add AnyEvent->now_update.
142
143 4.351 Sat Apr 11 07:56:14 CEST 2009
144 - actually make the signal pipe work under win32.
145 - localise $! in signal handler to avoid changing $!, although
146 perl itself does not seem to save/restore errno either.
147 - set the cloexec flag on the signal pipe (normally set by perl too).
148
149 4.35 Fri Mar 27 11:48:20 CET 2009
150 - event models relying on AnyEvent's signal watcher emulation did
151 invoke the callback asynchronously, contradicting documentation
152 and causing signals to get lost (this includes AnyEvent's own
153 event loop). AnyEvent now uses the standard pipe trick to make
154 callback execution synchronous to the event loop.
155 - AnyEvent::Handle didn't free TLS context data on DESTROY
156 (patch by Pavel Shaydo).
157 - work around the ever-incompatibly-changing API of MakeMaker.
158 - document that changing global variables without restoring them
159 is a bad idea in Perl (noted by Adam Rosenstein).
160 - AnyEvent::Strict now barfs if ->io is passed a file.
161
162 4.34 Thu Feb 12 18:32:45 CET 2009
163 - separately buffer TLS read data, as otherwise the read queue could
164 deadlock as receiving data is not expected while draining the
165 read queue (which cna only happen with TLS).
166 - raise EBADMSG error on JSON decoding errors.
167 - fix some minor manpage bugs (reported by Maximilian Gaß).
168 - speed up select bitmask parsing quite a bit in the pure perl
169 backend.
170 - use CORE::select instead of just select in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
171
172 4.331 Tue Jan 6 21:07:25 CET 2009
173 - socketpair fails on many vista machines because vista has
174 completely broken accept/getpeername and getsockname functions,
175 so we provide our own socketpair emulation that kind of works
176 (AnyEvent::Util::portable_pipe).
177 - new function: AnyEvent::Util::portable_socketpair.
178 - take advantage of the Guard module if it exists.
179
180 4.33 Fri Nov 21 02:35:40 CET 2008
181 - AnyEvent::Strict did errornously flag a fileno of 0 as
182 illegal.
183 - reduce memory usage and slightly speed up the pure perl backend
184 by only storing the file descriptor, not the file handle.
185 - add missing autocork method to AnyEvent::Handle (reported
186 by Adam Rosenstein).
187 - AnyEvent::DNS->resolve errornously documented an $rcode result
188 argument, but there isn't (spotted by Henrik Krohns).
189 - the naked truth about Tk - it's basically unmaintained.
190
191 4.32 Mon Nov 3 22:46:32 CET 2008
192 - fix AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr to properly support
193 unix sockets again and choose a proper default for
194 the socket type.
195 - fix call to resolve_sockaddr in tcp_connect.
196
197 4.31 Thu Oct 30 04:41:48 CET 2008
198 - implemented AnyEvent::Handle->destroy method.
199 - hint about unexpected effects in TLS mode.
200 - speed up AnyEvent::Impl::Perl by using more arrays
201 instead of hashes without the slightest loss of readability :)
202 - work around a perl argument refcounting bug.
203 - with some perl patches applied, AnyEvent now seems leak-free.
204
205 4.3 Fri Oct 3 09:18:43 CEST 2008
206 - AnyEvent will now install a no-op signal handler for SIGPIPE,
207 unless one has been installed already.
208 - warn about not loaidng AnyEvent::Impl::POE early enough
209 (patch by Adam Rosenstein).
210 - fixed a great number of bugs and corner cases in AnyEvent::Handle:
211 - fix a bug in where in SSL connect mode, the
212 client would first wait for some data by the server and
213 otherwise hang. (reported and analyzed in an absolutely
214 exemplary manner by Adam Rosenstein).
215 - fix a bug in where SSL EOF would not be treated
216 as stream EOF, putting the connection into a hung state.
217 (reported and analyzed in an absolutely exemplary manner by Adam
218 Rosenstein).
219 - fix a potential segfault when the TLS context
220 would go missing in a read callback (e.g. due to stoptls) -
221 Net::SSLeay of course makes no type checking whatsoever.
222 - AnyEvent::Handle will not stop the read watcher in TLS mode.
223 - AnyEvent::Handle->stoptls will send a TLS close notify
224 instead of simply destroying the stream now.
225 - fix a bug where large blocks of data written in TLS mode
226 would not be sent unless triggered by receives.
227 - on_drain will now take the tls write buffer into account.
228 - SSL operations have been streamlined a bit and should be faster
229 now, more to come, though.
230 - added a FAQ section, will document nontrivial issues in there.
231
232 4.234 Mon Sep 29 04:08:13 CEST 2008
233 - fix child watcher documentation: only child exits will be reported,
234 no trace events.
235 - mention SIGPIPE in AnyEvent::Handle.
236 - perl backend will now use POSIX::times as monotonic clock
237 when available and the monotonic clock option is not.
238 - run even without Time::HiRes in some cases now, but do not
239 provide sub-second accuracy (all *supported* perl versions have
240 Time::HiRes).
241
242 4.233 Fri Aug 22 01:48:05 CEST 2008
243 - fix a bug in the testsuite, causing a hang.
244 - clarified lots of AnyEvent::Handle constructor arguments.
245
246 4.232 Thu Aug 21 20:44:25 CEST 2008
247 - fix a bug in AnyEvent::Handle that could cause two fatal error
248 callbacks on EOF, which caused AnyEvent::HTTP to signal success twice
249 (testcase by Leon Brocard).
250 - clarified on_eof/on_error documentation a bit.
251
252 4.231 Tue Jul 29 13:12:15 CEST 2008
253 - remove some debugging code left in AnyEvent::Util::fork_call
254 (and no, it's impossible to implement with the broken windows
255 perls without resource leaks or worse).
256
257 4.23 Tue Jul 29 12:19:59 CEST 2008
258 - document the first parameter passed to condvar callbacks to be
259 the callback.
260 - add AnyEvent::Socket::{ntoa,aton} aliases.
261 - optimize the AE::Handle->push_read (line) for the default
262 eol marker.
263 - optimize push_read (packstring|storable) for small packets.
264 - invoke on_error callback when no on_eof callback is set.
265 - fix a bug in push_read (storable) of unknown impact.
266
267 4.22 Sun Jul 20 16:34:13 CEST 2008
268 - new function AnyEvent::Socket::parse_hostport.
269 - as the bulkheads at microsoft can't even get getprotobyname reliably
270 working on their shitty fucking broken os we need to hardcode
271 some common protocol numbers in AnyEvent::Socket. How can
272 people even bother with such a pile of shit as windows.
273
274 4.21 Thu Jul 17 14:40:05 CEST 2008
275 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: AnyEvent::Util::fork_call now has a prototype
276 which is incompatible to previous invocation syntax.
277 - work around more windows perl bugs in fork_call. I cannot imagine
278 why anybody would bother implementing fork in such an obviously
279 unusable way.
280 - avoid calling $do_retry if the request has already finished in
281 AnyEvent::DNS, thus avoiding an exception (reported by Anatoly
282 K. Sharifulin).
283
284 4.2 Sat Jul 12 22:42:11 CEST 2008
285 - support an "interval" argument for repeating timers.
286 - fix a bug in the pure perl event loop that caused timers to
287 be delayed under some circumstances.
288 - implement optional argument checking via PERL_ANYEVENT_STRICT.
289 - not importing anything from Event causes it to malfunction
290 and not use Time::HiRes, work around this bug.
291 - more bug workarounds against the endlessly broken Tk module,
292 seems to work now on 32 bit machines, but less so on 64 bit.
293 - minor optimisations applied to most backends.
294
295 4.161 Fri Jul 4 14:24:48 CEST 2008
296 - fixed the t/handle/02_write.t, it read after write, with the
297 assumption that all data could be written before read
298 (reported by Jim Razmus).
299
300 4.160 Thu Jul 3 04:02:21 CEST 2008
301 - re-registering signal watchers after unregistering one did
302 not work if a backend falls back on AnyEvent's default
303 implementation (also affected child watchers).
304 - new AnyEvent::Handle options: autocork and no_delay.
305
306 4.152 Sun Jun 22 14:15:44 CEST 2008
307 - allow for 32-bit perls that implement shifts differently
308 on different architectures in parse_ipv4 (reported and
309 analysed by Keiichi DAIBA).
310
311 4.151 Fri Jun 6 17:34:24 CEST 2008
312 - make sure specifying _only_ on_read and never pushing reads
313 works.
314
315 4.15 Fri Jun 6 13:00:46 CEST 2008
316 - the pure perl backend would keep some watchers alive when more than
317 one watcher was registered for the same fd.
318 - new "packstring" and "storable" read and write types
319 for AnyEvent::Handle.
320 - allow on_eof handler to be called after on_error with EPIPE returns.
321 - do not immediately call on_read callback in handle constructor.
322
323 4.14 Thu Jun 5 20:29:31 CEST 2008
324 - Fixed a bug in DNS SRV priority sorting.
325 - AnyEvent::Util::guard now reports runtime errors while
326 executing the guard block as warnings.
327 - handle 0-byte-reads just before EOF correctly in AnyEvent::Handle.
328
329 4.13 Thu Jun 5 00:47:59 CEST 2008
330 - AnyEvent::DNS only followed cname chains with length 2,
331 contrary to documentation. bumped it up to 10, thanks to
332 microsoft, the current broken-dns-config-king.
333 - AnyEvent::DNS didn't check for socket return status
334 but instead relied on perl not creating filehandles in that
335 case - too bad it gives you a bogus file handle (reported
336 and analysed by Vladimir Timofeev).
337 - fix queue management logic in AnyEvent::Handle:
338 when on_read was registered, the queue was empty
339 and no progress could be made AnyEvent::Handle would
340 enter an endless loop.
341 - correctly start reading again when the handle became
342 busy again after idling.
343 - correctly treat tls shut-downs as EOF condition
344 (for the time being, would be nice to have a callback for that).
345 - correctly call eof callback under all conditions
346 (hopefully).
347 - the timeout callback did not expect that $self can go
348 away any time.
349
350 4.12 Tue Jun 3 10:58:04 CEST 2008
351 - include AnyEvent::Intro, a tutorial for anyevent,
352 anyevent::socket and anyevent::handle.
353 - allow more options in on_error.
354
355 4.11 Fri May 30 23:42:25 CEST 2008
356 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace ptr by real PTR lookup, provide
357 reverse_lookup and reverse_verify to replace it, support
358 v4mapped and v4compat addresses.
359 - provide more documentation for the resolver class.
360 - really replace longest run of :0: by :: in format_address,
361 also properly convert :: and ::1 again.
362 - support NAPTR record name and decode it.
363 - implement random weight sampling for SRV records, as per
364 rfc 2782.
365 - correctly abort on srv-record targets of ".".
366 - added AnyEvent::DNS::wait_for_slot.
367 - in the unlikely event of a virtual circuit connection
368 being invalidated by a delayed udp reply, AnyEvent::DNS
369 could die. this has been fixed.
370 - plug a probable memleak in the DNS vc code.
371 - use configured timeout also for VC request phase.
372 - implement timeout and max_outstanding methods
373 for resolver class.
374 - update version numbers in all modules.
375
376 4.1 Thu May 29 05:45:40 CEST 2008
377 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: renamed xxx_ip functions to xxx_address
378 which mirrors their purpose better (old names still available
379 for a while). Also moved AnyEvent::DNS::addr to
380 AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr.
381 - implement AnyEvent->time and AnyEvent->now.
382 - fix IPv6 support in pack_sockaddr.
383 - officially un-experimentalise all newly introduced code.
384 - support unix domain sockets everywhere by specifying
385 a host of "unix/" and the pathname as service.
386 - implement an activity timeout in AnyEvent::Handle.
387 - added a regex read type to AnyEvent::Handle.
388 - added a json read/write type to AnyEvent::Handle.
389 - always croak in on_error in AnyEvent::Handle.
390 - document how to subclass AnyEvent::Handle.
391 - implement AnyEvent::Util::fork_call.
392 - add support for IPv6 nameservers and nameserver statements.
393 - work around _yet_ _another_ windows perl bug in where empty
394 select masks cause errors in the pure perl backend (this
395 workaround cannot be implemented for the other event loops,
396 but EV also works around this).
397 - supply AnyEvent::Socket::address_type and make good use of it.
398 - clarify and fix the Handle documentation w.r.t $self vs. $handle
399 vs. callback arguments.
400 - add some recommends to the META.yml.
401
402 4.05 Mon May 26 19:44:06 CEST 2008
403 - some platforms ignore the rfc and prepend an extra sa_len member to
404 the sockaddr structure, cater for those. also use sockaddr_family,
405 didn't know it was there, but comes in handy for the workaround.
406 - undo the import WIN32 hack.
407
408 4.04 Mon May 26 08:03:31 CEST 2008
409 - try to work around yet another windows bug: failed connects are reported
410 as if it were out-of-band data. windows users: you suck. Only
411 EV, Glib, Event and the pure perl backend can handle this condition.
412 - optimize write algorithm in AnyEvent::Handle.
413 - properly parse PERL_ANYEVENT_PROTOCOLS and use the info correctly.
414 - tcp_connect now properly iterates through all targets.
415 - check wether IPv6 sockets can actually be created, otherwise, disable ipv6
416 support entirely. also hardcode some AF_INET6 constants for the
417 sake of perl 5.8.
418 - vastly improved nameserver/suffix detection algorithm for windows
419 (still a hack...)
420 - try to use a fallback dns server if no dns servers could be found.
421 - splatter around some local $SIG{__DIE__}'s to work around bad
422 die handlers.
423
424 4.03 Sun May 25 05:05:57 CEST 2008
425 - work around perl bugs on windows, where perl returns undocumented
426 error codes for sysread, syswrite etc.
427 - fix AnyEvent::Handle::unshift_read to really unshift and not push.
428 - AnyEvent::Handle could sometimes stumble over 0-byte writes.
429 - fix unpack_sockaddr, now works for AF_INET6 sockaddr's.
430 - updated documentation.
431 - lots of workarounds for perl 5.8 quirks.
432 - implement a more flexible type system for both reads and writes
433 in AnyEvent::Handle.
434 - support IPv6 in tcp_server.
435 - pass local hostname and port to the prepare callback in tcp_server.
436 - make types extendable in AnyEvent::Handle.
437 - croak, not die, in AnyEvent::Handle;
438
439 4.0 Sat May 24 19:58:08 CEST 2008
440 - added (experimental) AnyEvent::DNS module.
441 - added (experimental) AnyEvent::Socket module.
442 - added (experiemntal) support for TLS/SSL in AnyEvent::Handle.
443 - make condvar->end call ->send as documented.
444 - make condvar constructor support the documented cb => argument.
445 - overload condvars so you can use them instead of code references.
446 - support more of the POSIX forms instead of a pure dotted quad for
447 verbatim ip addresses.
448 - AnyEvent::Socket::inet_aton will use AnyEvent::DNS now and not fork anymore.
449 - try very hard not to freeze on broken windows perls.
450 - make on_eof optional in AnyEvent::Handle.
451 - support service names in tcp_connect and tcp_server.
452 - work around netbsd/openbsd bug causing unix sockets not to
453 become writable until empty.
454 - only make a dummy read for error detection when getpeername
455 returns ENOTCONN.
456 - defend AnyEvent::Util::inet_aton against Coro::LWP's brutal
457 override.
458 - new AnyEvent::Guard::cancel.
459
460 3.5 Sat May 17 23:17:14 CEST 2008
461 - gracefully deal with systems not defining CLOCK_MONOTONIC
462 (as opposed to not supporting the clock itself, which worked in 3.41).
463 - added AnyEvent::Util::tcp_connect and AnyEvent::Util::tcp_server
464 helpers, to replace the ill-designed AnyEvent::Socket class.
465 - added some examples (eg/connect, eg/handle).
466 - added AnyEvent::Util::guard.
467 - AnyEvent::Util now exports most of its functions.
468 - fixed a bug in *_read_chunk, where the callback was called with $self as
469 first and second argument.
470 - simplified and fixed regex handling in AnyEvent::Handle::*_read_line.
471 - fix manpage condvars examples to use new syntax.
472 - considerably improve inet_aton with EV::ADNS backend to support
473 cname chains (common dns configuration bug, e.g. with www.google.de)
474 and aaaa records if no a record could be found.
475
476 3.41 Sun May 11 19:53:13 CEST 2008
477 - work around a bug in perl 5.8.8's local. Reported by Yi Ma Mao.
478
479 3.4 Sun May 11 00:29:25 CEST 2008
480 - complete re-implementation of condvars with a hopefully much more useful
481 API (backward compatible functions exist but are undocumented).
482 - AnyEvent::Handle fully rewritten with a hopefully more powerful API
483 (still subject to change).
484 - take advantage of CLOCK_MONOTONIC, if available, in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
485 - provide AnyEvent::post_detect and @AnyEvent::post_detect, which
486 allows module authors to avoid forcing event loop detection.
487 (used by Coro::AIO, Coro::BDB, Coro::AnyEvent for example).
488 - remove coro backends: Coro now provides generic support for AnyEvent
489 via Coro::AnyEvent.
490
491 3.3 Mon Apr 28 09:51:06 CEST 2008
492 - added AnyEvent::Handle, AnyEvent::Socket and AnyEvent::Util modules.
493 - fix a bug in the pure perl backend that kept watchers alive
494 when multiple watchers were registered for the same fh/poll combo.
495 - add a benchmark section showing AnyEvent overhead and comparing
496 the different event loops with each other.
497 - prefer pure perl over tk when autoprobing, as it's about as fast,
498 but doesn't crash with many watchers.
499 - declare Qt support non-experimental.
500 - clarify the confusing section about the file descriptor being
501 kept alive.
502 - document the race between loading of an event module and
503 child processes exiting.
504 - support POE as "backend" (with some caveats, POE is not generic
505 enough, and darn slow).
506 - support Wx and Prima through POE.
507 - optimise perl backend to use 20% less memory and take advantage
508 of typical timeout behaviour. It can now compete with
509 select/poll-based C event loops in most cases (it is usually
510 faster than Event and Glib :).
511 - roughly cut EV memory use in half and increase its speed by 30%,
512 by removing undocumented functionality. Did something similar
513 to other event loops where possible.
514
515 3.2 Thu Apr 24 10:10:40 CEST 2008
516 - do not die when anyevent watchers are destroyed while running callbacks
517 in the pureperl backend (could only happen when two watchers are registered
518 for the same fh/poll combo).
519 - support autoloading for child watchers, was broken in all versions.
520 - implement PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL env variable.
521 - (experimental) implement interface to the (very crashy/buggy) Event::Lib module.
522 - (experimental) implement interface to the Qt module (cannot be autoprobed).
523 - this release is IO:AnyEvent-proof.
524
525 3.12 Tue Apr 22 07:11:46 CEST 2008
526 - reinstate AUTHOR section that got lost somehow.
527 - do not hang in the testsuite with badly broken perls (activestate,
528 strawberry...), but instead diagnose the problem and continue.
529 - use INT instead of CHLD in an attempt to support broken windows perls
530 better (this decreases the test quality, unfortunately).
531 - do not send the signal to the process group
532 (no problem for CHLD, bad for INT :).
533
534 3.11 Sat Apr 19 06:57:31 CEST 2008
535 - major documentation rework.
536 - document the fact that child watchers only watch for zombies.
537 - fix the child watcher example.
538
539 3.1 Wed Apr 16 17:09:01 CEST 2008
540 - work around recurring bugs in Tk by dup'ing filehandles, the
541 only method with good success chances on Tk (the bugs apparently
542 don't get fixed anytime soon).
543 - lift the restriction of only one watcher per fh direction
544 (as the Tk bug workaround also lifts it and only Tk imposed
545 such strong limits).
546 - changed probe order to prefer coro adaptors.
547 - explain why recursion into the event loop is not supported
548 unless the backend supports it (only Coro::EV does without
549 any restrictions...).
550 - add simple manpages for all backend modules.
551
552 3.0 Mon Apr 7 21:30:23 CEST 2008
553 - Coro::Signal changed semantics, roll our own, also cleaning
554 up the Coro implementation in general.
555 - rename Coro backend to CoroEvent.
556 - add some decision helping paragraph to the manpage that should
557 help people to decide whether AnyEvent is the right thing for them.
558
559 2.9 Mon Jan 28 13:31:54 CET 2008
560 - update for EV 3.0 API changes.
561
562 2.8 Sun Nov 25 15:06:03 CET 2007
563 - waitpid can validly return 0. accept this fact of life
564 instead of reporting it to any watchers.
565
566 2.7 Fri Nov 23 11:41:14 CET 2007
567 - force use of AnyEvent::Impl::Perl in testsuite, there is
568 too much breakage outside AnyEvent.
569 - deliver signals synchronously in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl
570 or any other event loop that relies on AnyEvents child
571 watcher emulation. *Could* help with hanging testsuite
572 (except when Event or EV are installed).
573
574 2.6 Fri Nov 9 20:36:35 CET 2007
575 - fix bug in testsuite.
576 - move EV adaptor modules to AnyEvent.
577 - add Coro+EV adaptor module.
578
579 2.55 Tue Nov 6 17:41:32 CET 2007
580 - add EV to the list of supported event models.
581 - do not auto-reset pid watchers, pass pid and status to them.
582 - allow a pid of zero to watch for all children in child watchers.
583
584 2.54 Wed Jul 18 17:36:23 CEST 2007
585 - work around a perl bug that results in
586 BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted without
587 any discernible reason or error message by once
588 again not use'ing strict.
589
590 2.53 Sun Jul 8 10:51:53 CEST 2007
591 - make Glib interface work again (spotted by elmex).
592
593 2.52 Wed Mar 7 18:36:16 CET 2007
594 - child watchers stopped working permanently when
595 all current child watchers were destroyed.
596
597 2.51 Mon Dec 11 21:33:24 CET 2006
598 - work around bugs in perl where eval "require Module" returns
599 true even if the module couldn't be loaded :/.
600
601 2.5 Mon Dec 11 02:15:28 CET 2006
602 - avoid $AUTOLOAD because many perls corrupt it.
603 - AnyEvent::detect forces autodetection.
604 - implement signal watchers (experimental)
605 (Tk does not support async signals (<= 804.027 at least),
606 so they might get delayed indefinitely on Tk).
607 - implement child watchers (experimental).
608 - moved default condvar implementation into base module, simplifying
609 most implementation modules.
610
611 2.1 Fri Nov 24 15:50:48 CET 2006
612 - better docs.
613 - simple testsuite.
614 - added AnyEvent->one_event method for special purposes.
615
616 2.0 Wed Nov 1 02:21:30 CET 2006
617 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: poll can now either be "r" or "w" but not both.
618 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: io watcher callbacks have no arguments anymore.
619 - EXPERIMENTAL:
620 new pure-perl model added, AnyEvent now always finds a suitable
621 event model.
622 - improved documentation.
623 - reduced cpu overhead.
624
625 1.02 Fri Jan 13 14:15:40 CET 2006
626 - add COPYING to clarify license.
627
628 1.01 Sun Jan 8 05:48:09 CET 2006
629 - correctly cancel Event timers, avoid memory leaks.
630
631 1.0 Sun Jan 8 05:40:58 CET 2006
632 - allow third-party interfaces to be added at runtime.
633 - fix version number.
634
635 0.9 Fri Dec 30 02:25:41 CET 2005
636 - fixed errors in the documentation.
637 - going back to using $VERSION as "load check",
638 as suggested by Jörn Reder. Let's see why I stopped using
639 this method.
640 - add 'hup' to the list of events to receive for glib
641 and generate 'rw' events for it, as some versions of
642 glib seem to require this, while this breaks other
643 (older) versions of glib.
644 - implemented PERL_ANYEVENT_VERBOSE env variable.
645
646 0.3 Sun Dec 4 10:43:33 CET 2005
647 - no changes to the code.
648 - fixed documentation.
649 - clarified some corner cases.
650 - vastly improved documentation with a long example.
651
652 0.2 Thu Dec 1 22:18:49 CET 2005
653 - check whether a valid method was called, to avoid endless loops.
654 - move condvars into their own class (cleaner, safer).
655 - don't die when some modules are not available.
656 - Tk is too broken to allow for words. Will work once Tk works.
657
658 0.1 Thu Dec 1 19:44:57 CET 2005
659 - spiced up and cleaned up for release.
660
661 0.01 Tue Sep 21 18:12:09 CEST 2004
662 - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
663