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Revision: 1.292
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1 Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent.
2
3 TODO: Event seems to have some racy signal handling.
4
5 - work around signal handling races in Event and (...) Event::Lib.
6 - don't complain of different grades of environmental unfriendlyness
7 in IO::ASync.
8 - try to align signal-race timer to full-second boundaries.
9
10 4.85 Sat Jul 18 06:16:14 CEST 2009
11 - nail the signal race problem in perl once and for all
12 (see $AnyEvent::MAX_SIGNAL_LATENCY).
13 - take advantage of Async::Interrupt if it is available.
14 - load Time::HiRes and Guard modules on demand only.
15 - add optional/recommended modules section to AnyEvent
16 documentation.
17 - reduce memory usage considerably (and reduce startup penalty)
18 by not using "strict", "warnings" and "overload" modules.
19 - work around buggy windows/openbsd perls and provide EBADMSG
20 and EPROTO ourselves when missing.
21 - improve perl 5.6 compatibility of the core event loop.
22 - made Net::SSLeay version 1.33 a soft requirement.
23
24 4.83 Fri Jul 17 16:56:26 CEST 2009
25 - implement AnyEvent::Socket::getprotobyname.
26 - AnyEvent::CondVar's will now detect recursive blocking
27 waits and will croak, as too many people fall into
28 this trap.
29 - AnyEvent::Handle will now call ->destroy on itself after
30 executing the on_error callback, instead of doing some
31 half-baked internal shutdown, for fatal errors.
32 - clarify on_eof behaviour w.r.t. the read queue and
33 on_read callbacks.
34 - ignore some possible spurious wake-ups in tcp_connect.
35
36 4.82 Sat Jul 11 00:34:55 CEST 2009
37 - POE and Event backends didn't accept some callable objects as
38 callbacks.
39 - use Config module instead of POSIX module to detect signal names
40 in AnyEvent::Strict and AnyEvent::Impl::EventLib, as the POSIX
41 module doesn't even have all POSIX signals :/.
42 - use more workarounds around the many refcnt/corruption bugs in
43 Event::Lib.
44 - work around a race condition in perl's select, causing t/03_child.t
45 to rarely fail.
46
47 4.81 Thu Jul 9 10:30:30 CEST 2009
48 - AnyEvent::Handle didn't properly diagnose write errors
49 (it expected -1 from syswrite, how lame... :).
50 - support file descriptors in addition to file handles
51 in AnyEvent->io.
52 - new env variables: PERL_ANYEVENT_RESOLV_CONF,
53 PERL_ANYEVENT_MAX_OUTSTANDING_DNS, PERL_ANYEVENT_CA_FILE
54 and PERL_ANYEVENT_CA_PATH.
55 - provide a sensible synopsis section for AnyEvent::TLS.
56 - add a "supported backends" section to the manpage.
57 - added simple io watcher test to testsuite, using a
58 portable_socketpair.
59 - tried to improve the stability of the Event::Lib backend,
60 YMMV.
61
62 4.8 Mon Jul 6 23:45:16 CEST 2009
63 - AnyEvent::DNS did not properly follow CNAME records with
64 uppercase targets.
65 - AnyEvent::DNS would errornously return AAAA records
66 with v4 mapped addresses (a faulty record) as ipv4 addresses,
67 causing AnyEvent::Socket to throw an exception.
68 - added new module AnyEvent::TLS for easier SSL/TLS context
69 creation, with many options including hostname verification,
70 secure default configuration, lots of documentation and,
71 predefined diffie-hellman keys for perfect forward security
72 and much more. get it while it's still fresh!
73 - use AnyEvent::TLS in AnyEvent::Handle for context management.
74 - load AnyEvent::Handle only on demand in AnyEvent::DNS,
75 so AnyEvent::Socket users have smaller memory footprint
76 in the common case.
77 - add AnyEvent::Handle->push_shutdown method.
78 - add an additional error message parameter to AnyEvent::Handle's
79 on_error callback (for TLS, $! is still available).
80 - add AnyEvent::Handle on_starttls/on_stoptls callbacks.
81 - make AnyEvent::Handle more robust against early conenction
82 failures (during new), and return C<undef> in that case
83 from the constructor.
84 - AnyEvent::Handle will now try to load only JSON::XS first,
85 then fall back to JSON.
86 - format_ipv4/format_ipv6 are now exported by default, for symmetry,
87 and because it was documented that way.
88
89 4.451 Fri Jul 3 00:28:58 CEST 2009
90 - do not clear rbuf when shutting down an AnyEvent::Handle
91 object - doing so breaks AnyEvent::HTTP.
92
93 4.45 Mon Jun 29 22:59:26 CEST 2009
94 - a write error could cause AnyEvent::Handle to create
95 an I/O watcher with an undefined $fh.
96 - special-case mapped ipv4 addresses in both
97 AnyEvent::Socket::format_address and parse_address,
98 to treat them just like ipv4 addresses.
99 - updated and overhauled the AnyEvent::Intro doc.
100 - implement AnyEvent::Socket::format_ipv4/ipv6.
101 - slightly speed up portable_pipe/socketpair.
102 - expand condvar begin/end documentation.
103
104 4.42 Fri Jun 26 08:32:18 CEST 2009
105 - preliminary and neccesarily incomplete support for IO::Async.
106 - reset SIGCHLD to DEFAULT when AnyEvent is loaded, in
107 case it was set to IGNORE, to ensure we can catch child statuses
108 even when the calling env acts stupidly.
109 - updated benchmarks with IO::Async, which performs very well.
110
111 4.412 Wed Jun 24 01:35:57 CEST 2009
112 - support an "untaint" attribute for AnyEvent::DNS
113 and set it on the default resolver.
114 - implement and document AnyEvent::Impl::Perl::loop.
115 - remove all anyevent-env variables from %ENV
116 when running in tainted mode.
117 - mention and extend the IO::Lambda benchmark.
118
119 4.411 Sun Jun 7 18:48:02 CEST 2009
120 - do not try to use F_SETFD on windows.
121
122 4.41 Thu May 14 06:40:11 CEST 2009
123 - work around issues in older perls (5.8.0?) when
124 a signal handler is deleted from the %SIG hash.
125 - use POSIX::_exit in child test, to avoid running
126 destructors.
127 - speed up CHLD handling by relying on SIGCHLD being
128 synchronously delivered, even when we roll our own
129 implementation.
130 - AnyEvent::DNS: add the "dname" resource record name
131 for cosmetic reasons.
132
133 4.4 Sun Apr 26 20:12:33 CEST 2009
134 - implemented idle watchers, where applicable.
135 - AnyEvent->time died when Event backend was in use.
136 - fix a memleak in the Tk backend.
137 - sped up Tk timer handling.
138 - clip negative "after" values to 0 in AnyEvent::Impl::Event
139 to avoid spamming out warning messages.
140 - fix Qt timers without interval.
141 - avoid Qt zero-timeout special case, in old libqt's.
142
143 4.352 Mon Apr 20 16:31:11 CEST 2009
144 - fix AnyEvent::Strict error messages for child watchers.
145 - fix/update Makefile.PL "recommends" versions.
146 - add AnyEvent->now_update.
147
148 4.351 Sat Apr 11 07:56:14 CEST 2009
149 - actually make the signal pipe work under win32.
150 - localise $! in signal handler to avoid changing $!, although
151 perl itself does not seem to save/restore errno either.
152 - set the cloexec flag on the signal pipe (normally set by perl too).
153
154 4.35 Fri Mar 27 11:48:20 CET 2009
155 - event models relying on AnyEvent's signal watcher emulation did
156 invoke the callback asynchronously, contradicting documentation
157 and causing signals to get lost (this includes AnyEvent's own
158 event loop). AnyEvent now uses the standard pipe trick to make
159 callback execution synchronous to the event loop.
160 - AnyEvent::Handle didn't free TLS context data on DESTROY
161 (patch by Pavel Shaydo).
162 - work around the ever-incompatibly-changing API of MakeMaker.
163 - document that changing global variables without restoring them
164 is a bad idea in Perl (noted by Adam Rosenstein).
165 - AnyEvent::Strict now barfs if ->io is passed a file.
166
167 4.34 Thu Feb 12 18:32:45 CET 2009
168 - separately buffer TLS read data, as otherwise the read queue could
169 deadlock as receiving data is not expected while draining the
170 read queue (which cna only happen with TLS).
171 - raise EBADMSG error on JSON decoding errors.
172 - fix some minor manpage bugs (reported by Maximilian Gaß).
173 - speed up select bitmask parsing quite a bit in the pure perl
174 backend.
175 - use CORE::select instead of just select in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
176
177 4.331 Tue Jan 6 21:07:25 CET 2009
178 - socketpair fails on many vista machines because vista has
179 completely broken accept/getpeername and getsockname functions,
180 so we provide our own socketpair emulation that kind of works
181 (AnyEvent::Util::portable_pipe).
182 - new function: AnyEvent::Util::portable_socketpair.
183 - take advantage of the Guard module if it exists.
184
185 4.33 Fri Nov 21 02:35:40 CET 2008
186 - AnyEvent::Strict did errornously flag a fileno of 0 as
187 illegal.
188 - reduce memory usage and slightly speed up the pure perl backend
189 by only storing the file descriptor, not the file handle.
190 - add missing autocork method to AnyEvent::Handle (reported
191 by Adam Rosenstein).
192 - AnyEvent::DNS->resolve errornously documented an $rcode result
193 argument, but there isn't (spotted by Henrik Krohns).
194 - the naked truth about Tk - it's basically unmaintained.
195
196 4.32 Mon Nov 3 22:46:32 CET 2008
197 - fix AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr to properly support
198 unix sockets again and choose a proper default for
199 the socket type.
200 - fix call to resolve_sockaddr in tcp_connect.
201
202 4.31 Thu Oct 30 04:41:48 CET 2008
203 - implemented AnyEvent::Handle->destroy method.
204 - hint about unexpected effects in TLS mode.
205 - speed up AnyEvent::Impl::Perl by using more arrays
206 instead of hashes without the slightest loss of readability :)
207 - work around a perl argument refcounting bug.
208 - with some perl patches applied, AnyEvent now seems leak-free.
209
210 4.3 Fri Oct 3 09:18:43 CEST 2008
211 - AnyEvent will now install a no-op signal handler for SIGPIPE,
212 unless one has been installed already.
213 - warn about not loaidng AnyEvent::Impl::POE early enough
214 (patch by Adam Rosenstein).
215 - fixed a great number of bugs and corner cases in AnyEvent::Handle:
216 - fix a bug in where in SSL connect mode, the
217 client would first wait for some data by the server and
218 otherwise hang. (reported and analyzed in an absolutely
219 exemplary manner by Adam Rosenstein).
220 - fix a bug in where SSL EOF would not be treated
221 as stream EOF, putting the connection into a hung state.
222 (reported and analyzed in an absolutely exemplary manner by Adam
223 Rosenstein).
224 - fix a potential segfault when the TLS context
225 would go missing in a read callback (e.g. due to stoptls) -
226 Net::SSLeay of course makes no type checking whatsoever.
227 - AnyEvent::Handle will not stop the read watcher in TLS mode.
228 - AnyEvent::Handle->stoptls will send a TLS close notify
229 instead of simply destroying the stream now.
230 - fix a bug where large blocks of data written in TLS mode
231 would not be sent unless triggered by receives.
232 - on_drain will now take the tls write buffer into account.
233 - SSL operations have been streamlined a bit and should be faster
234 now, more to come, though.
235 - added a FAQ section, will document nontrivial issues in there.
236
237 4.234 Mon Sep 29 04:08:13 CEST 2008
238 - fix child watcher documentation: only child exits will be reported,
239 no trace events.
240 - mention SIGPIPE in AnyEvent::Handle.
241 - perl backend will now use POSIX::times as monotonic clock
242 when available and the monotonic clock option is not.
243 - run even without Time::HiRes in some cases now, but do not
244 provide sub-second accuracy (all *supported* perl versions have
245 Time::HiRes).
246
247 4.233 Fri Aug 22 01:48:05 CEST 2008
248 - fix a bug in the testsuite, causing a hang.
249 - clarified lots of AnyEvent::Handle constructor arguments.
250
251 4.232 Thu Aug 21 20:44:25 CEST 2008
252 - fix a bug in AnyEvent::Handle that could cause two fatal error
253 callbacks on EOF, which caused AnyEvent::HTTP to signal success twice
254 (testcase by Leon Brocard).
255 - clarified on_eof/on_error documentation a bit.
256
257 4.231 Tue Jul 29 13:12:15 CEST 2008
258 - remove some debugging code left in AnyEvent::Util::fork_call
259 (and no, it's impossible to implement with the broken windows
260 perls without resource leaks or worse).
261
262 4.23 Tue Jul 29 12:19:59 CEST 2008
263 - document the first parameter passed to condvar callbacks to be
264 the callback.
265 - add AnyEvent::Socket::{ntoa,aton} aliases.
266 - optimize the AE::Handle->push_read (line) for the default
267 eol marker.
268 - optimize push_read (packstring|storable) for small packets.
269 - invoke on_error callback when no on_eof callback is set.
270 - fix a bug in push_read (storable) of unknown impact.
271
272 4.22 Sun Jul 20 16:34:13 CEST 2008
273 - new function AnyEvent::Socket::parse_hostport.
274 - as the bulkheads at microsoft can't even get getprotobyname reliably
275 working on their shitty fucking broken os we need to hardcode
276 some common protocol numbers in AnyEvent::Socket. How can
277 people even bother with such a pile of shit as windows.
278
279 4.21 Thu Jul 17 14:40:05 CEST 2008
280 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: AnyEvent::Util::fork_call now has a prototype
281 which is incompatible to previous invocation syntax.
282 - work around more windows perl bugs in fork_call. I cannot imagine
283 why anybody would bother implementing fork in such an obviously
284 unusable way.
285 - avoid calling $do_retry if the request has already finished in
286 AnyEvent::DNS, thus avoiding an exception (reported by Anatoly
287 K. Sharifulin).
288
289 4.2 Sat Jul 12 22:42:11 CEST 2008
290 - support an "interval" argument for repeating timers.
291 - fix a bug in the pure perl event loop that caused timers to
292 be delayed under some circumstances.
293 - implement optional argument checking via PERL_ANYEVENT_STRICT.
294 - not importing anything from Event causes it to malfunction
295 and not use Time::HiRes, work around this bug.
296 - more bug workarounds against the endlessly broken Tk module,
297 seems to work now on 32 bit machines, but less so on 64 bit.
298 - minor optimisations applied to most backends.
299
300 4.161 Fri Jul 4 14:24:48 CEST 2008
301 - fixed the t/handle/02_write.t, it read after write, with the
302 assumption that all data could be written before read
303 (reported by Jim Razmus).
304
305 4.160 Thu Jul 3 04:02:21 CEST 2008
306 - re-registering signal watchers after unregistering one did
307 not work if a backend falls back on AnyEvent's default
308 implementation (also affected child watchers).
309 - new AnyEvent::Handle options: autocork and no_delay.
310
311 4.152 Sun Jun 22 14:15:44 CEST 2008
312 - allow for 32-bit perls that implement shifts differently
313 on different architectures in parse_ipv4 (reported and
314 analysed by Keiichi DAIBA).
315
316 4.151 Fri Jun 6 17:34:24 CEST 2008
317 - make sure specifying _only_ on_read and never pushing reads
318 works.
319
320 4.15 Fri Jun 6 13:00:46 CEST 2008
321 - the pure perl backend would keep some watchers alive when more than
322 one watcher was registered for the same fd.
323 - new "packstring" and "storable" read and write types
324 for AnyEvent::Handle.
325 - allow on_eof handler to be called after on_error with EPIPE returns.
326 - do not immediately call on_read callback in handle constructor.
327
328 4.14 Thu Jun 5 20:29:31 CEST 2008
329 - Fixed a bug in DNS SRV priority sorting.
330 - AnyEvent::Util::guard now reports runtime errors while
331 executing the guard block as warnings.
332 - handle 0-byte-reads just before EOF correctly in AnyEvent::Handle.
333
334 4.13 Thu Jun 5 00:47:59 CEST 2008
335 - AnyEvent::DNS only followed cname chains with length 2,
336 contrary to documentation. bumped it up to 10, thanks to
337 microsoft, the current broken-dns-config-king.
338 - AnyEvent::DNS didn't check for socket return status
339 but instead relied on perl not creating filehandles in that
340 case - too bad it gives you a bogus file handle (reported
341 and analysed by Vladimir Timofeev).
342 - fix queue management logic in AnyEvent::Handle:
343 when on_read was registered, the queue was empty
344 and no progress could be made AnyEvent::Handle would
345 enter an endless loop.
346 - correctly start reading again when the handle became
347 busy again after idling.
348 - correctly treat tls shut-downs as EOF condition
349 (for the time being, would be nice to have a callback for that).
350 - correctly call eof callback under all conditions
351 (hopefully).
352 - the timeout callback did not expect that $self can go
353 away any time.
354
355 4.12 Tue Jun 3 10:58:04 CEST 2008
356 - include AnyEvent::Intro, a tutorial for anyevent,
357 anyevent::socket and anyevent::handle.
358 - allow more options in on_error.
359
360 4.11 Fri May 30 23:42:25 CEST 2008
361 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace ptr by real PTR lookup, provide
362 reverse_lookup and reverse_verify to replace it, support
363 v4mapped and v4compat addresses.
364 - provide more documentation for the resolver class.
365 - really replace longest run of :0: by :: in format_address,
366 also properly convert :: and ::1 again.
367 - support NAPTR record name and decode it.
368 - implement random weight sampling for SRV records, as per
369 rfc 2782.
370 - correctly abort on srv-record targets of ".".
371 - added AnyEvent::DNS::wait_for_slot.
372 - in the unlikely event of a virtual circuit connection
373 being invalidated by a delayed udp reply, AnyEvent::DNS
374 could die. this has been fixed.
375 - plug a probable memleak in the DNS vc code.
376 - use configured timeout also for VC request phase.
377 - implement timeout and max_outstanding methods
378 for resolver class.
379 - update version numbers in all modules.
380
381 4.1 Thu May 29 05:45:40 CEST 2008
382 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: renamed xxx_ip functions to xxx_address
383 which mirrors their purpose better (old names still available
384 for a while). Also moved AnyEvent::DNS::addr to
385 AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr.
386 - implement AnyEvent->time and AnyEvent->now.
387 - fix IPv6 support in pack_sockaddr.
388 - officially un-experimentalise all newly introduced code.
389 - support unix domain sockets everywhere by specifying
390 a host of "unix/" and the pathname as service.
391 - implement an activity timeout in AnyEvent::Handle.
392 - added a regex read type to AnyEvent::Handle.
393 - added a json read/write type to AnyEvent::Handle.
394 - always croak in on_error in AnyEvent::Handle.
395 - document how to subclass AnyEvent::Handle.
396 - implement AnyEvent::Util::fork_call.
397 - add support for IPv6 nameservers and nameserver statements.
398 - work around _yet_ _another_ windows perl bug in where empty
399 select masks cause errors in the pure perl backend (this
400 workaround cannot be implemented for the other event loops,
401 but EV also works around this).
402 - supply AnyEvent::Socket::address_type and make good use of it.
403 - clarify and fix the Handle documentation w.r.t $self vs. $handle
404 vs. callback arguments.
405 - add some recommends to the META.yml.
406
407 4.05 Mon May 26 19:44:06 CEST 2008
408 - some platforms ignore the rfc and prepend an extra sa_len member to
409 the sockaddr structure, cater for those. also use sockaddr_family,
410 didn't know it was there, but comes in handy for the workaround.
411 - undo the import WIN32 hack.
412
413 4.04 Mon May 26 08:03:31 CEST 2008
414 - try to work around yet another windows bug: failed connects are reported
415 as if it were out-of-band data. windows users: you suck. Only
416 EV, Glib, Event and the pure perl backend can handle this condition.
417 - optimize write algorithm in AnyEvent::Handle.
418 - properly parse PERL_ANYEVENT_PROTOCOLS and use the info correctly.
419 - tcp_connect now properly iterates through all targets.
420 - check wether IPv6 sockets can actually be created, otherwise, disable ipv6
421 support entirely. also hardcode some AF_INET6 constants for the
422 sake of perl 5.8.
423 - vastly improved nameserver/suffix detection algorithm for windows
424 (still a hack...)
425 - try to use a fallback dns server if no dns servers could be found.
426 - splatter around some local $SIG{__DIE__}'s to work around bad
427 die handlers.
428
429 4.03 Sun May 25 05:05:57 CEST 2008
430 - work around perl bugs on windows, where perl returns undocumented
431 error codes for sysread, syswrite etc.
432 - fix AnyEvent::Handle::unshift_read to really unshift and not push.
433 - AnyEvent::Handle could sometimes stumble over 0-byte writes.
434 - fix unpack_sockaddr, now works for AF_INET6 sockaddr's.
435 - updated documentation.
436 - lots of workarounds for perl 5.8 quirks.
437 - implement a more flexible type system for both reads and writes
438 in AnyEvent::Handle.
439 - support IPv6 in tcp_server.
440 - pass local hostname and port to the prepare callback in tcp_server.
441 - make types extendable in AnyEvent::Handle.
442 - croak, not die, in AnyEvent::Handle;
443
444 4.0 Sat May 24 19:58:08 CEST 2008
445 - added (experimental) AnyEvent::DNS module.
446 - added (experimental) AnyEvent::Socket module.
447 - added (experiemntal) support for TLS/SSL in AnyEvent::Handle.
448 - make condvar->end call ->send as documented.
449 - make condvar constructor support the documented cb => argument.
450 - overload condvars so you can use them instead of code references.
451 - support more of the POSIX forms instead of a pure dotted quad for
452 verbatim ip addresses.
453 - AnyEvent::Socket::inet_aton will use AnyEvent::DNS now and not fork anymore.
454 - try very hard not to freeze on broken windows perls.
455 - make on_eof optional in AnyEvent::Handle.
456 - support service names in tcp_connect and tcp_server.
457 - work around netbsd/openbsd bug causing unix sockets not to
458 become writable until empty.
459 - only make a dummy read for error detection when getpeername
460 returns ENOTCONN.
461 - defend AnyEvent::Util::inet_aton against Coro::LWP's brutal
462 override.
463 - new AnyEvent::Guard::cancel.
464
465 3.5 Sat May 17 23:17:14 CEST 2008
466 - gracefully deal with systems not defining CLOCK_MONOTONIC
467 (as opposed to not supporting the clock itself, which worked in 3.41).
468 - added AnyEvent::Util::tcp_connect and AnyEvent::Util::tcp_server
469 helpers, to replace the ill-designed AnyEvent::Socket class.
470 - added some examples (eg/connect, eg/handle).
471 - added AnyEvent::Util::guard.
472 - AnyEvent::Util now exports most of its functions.
473 - fixed a bug in *_read_chunk, where the callback was called with $self as
474 first and second argument.
475 - simplified and fixed regex handling in AnyEvent::Handle::*_read_line.
476 - fix manpage condvars examples to use new syntax.
477 - considerably improve inet_aton with EV::ADNS backend to support
478 cname chains (common dns configuration bug, e.g. with www.google.de)
479 and aaaa records if no a record could be found.
480
481 3.41 Sun May 11 19:53:13 CEST 2008
482 - work around a bug in perl 5.8.8's local. Reported by Yi Ma Mao.
483
484 3.4 Sun May 11 00:29:25 CEST 2008
485 - complete re-implementation of condvars with a hopefully much more useful
486 API (backward compatible functions exist but are undocumented).
487 - AnyEvent::Handle fully rewritten with a hopefully more powerful API
488 (still subject to change).
489 - take advantage of CLOCK_MONOTONIC, if available, in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
490 - provide AnyEvent::post_detect and @AnyEvent::post_detect, which
491 allows module authors to avoid forcing event loop detection.
492 (used by Coro::AIO, Coro::BDB, Coro::AnyEvent for example).
493 - remove coro backends: Coro now provides generic support for AnyEvent
494 via Coro::AnyEvent.
495
496 3.3 Mon Apr 28 09:51:06 CEST 2008
497 - added AnyEvent::Handle, AnyEvent::Socket and AnyEvent::Util modules.
498 - fix a bug in the pure perl backend that kept watchers alive
499 when multiple watchers were registered for the same fh/poll combo.
500 - add a benchmark section showing AnyEvent overhead and comparing
501 the different event loops with each other.
502 - prefer pure perl over tk when autoprobing, as it's about as fast,
503 but doesn't crash with many watchers.
504 - declare Qt support non-experimental.
505 - clarify the confusing section about the file descriptor being
506 kept alive.
507 - document the race between loading of an event module and
508 child processes exiting.
509 - support POE as "backend" (with some caveats, POE is not generic
510 enough, and darn slow).
511 - support Wx and Prima through POE.
512 - optimise perl backend to use 20% less memory and take advantage
513 of typical timeout behaviour. It can now compete with
514 select/poll-based C event loops in most cases (it is usually
515 faster than Event and Glib :).
516 - roughly cut EV memory use in half and increase its speed by 30%,
517 by removing undocumented functionality. Did something similar
518 to other event loops where possible.
519
520 3.2 Thu Apr 24 10:10:40 CEST 2008
521 - do not die when anyevent watchers are destroyed while running callbacks
522 in the pureperl backend (could only happen when two watchers are registered
523 for the same fh/poll combo).
524 - support autoloading for child watchers, was broken in all versions.
525 - implement PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL env variable.
526 - (experimental) implement interface to the (very crashy/buggy) Event::Lib module.
527 - (experimental) implement interface to the Qt module (cannot be autoprobed).
528 - this release is IO:AnyEvent-proof.
529
530 3.12 Tue Apr 22 07:11:46 CEST 2008
531 - reinstate AUTHOR section that got lost somehow.
532 - do not hang in the testsuite with badly broken perls (activestate,
533 strawberry...), but instead diagnose the problem and continue.
534 - use INT instead of CHLD in an attempt to support broken windows perls
535 better (this decreases the test quality, unfortunately).
536 - do not send the signal to the process group
537 (no problem for CHLD, bad for INT :).
538
539 3.11 Sat Apr 19 06:57:31 CEST 2008
540 - major documentation rework.
541 - document the fact that child watchers only watch for zombies.
542 - fix the child watcher example.
543
544 3.1 Wed Apr 16 17:09:01 CEST 2008
545 - work around recurring bugs in Tk by dup'ing filehandles, the
546 only method with good success chances on Tk (the bugs apparently
547 don't get fixed anytime soon).
548 - lift the restriction of only one watcher per fh direction
549 (as the Tk bug workaround also lifts it and only Tk imposed
550 such strong limits).
551 - changed probe order to prefer coro adaptors.
552 - explain why recursion into the event loop is not supported
553 unless the backend supports it (only Coro::EV does without
554 any restrictions...).
555 - add simple manpages for all backend modules.
556
557 3.0 Mon Apr 7 21:30:23 CEST 2008
558 - Coro::Signal changed semantics, roll our own, also cleaning
559 up the Coro implementation in general.
560 - rename Coro backend to CoroEvent.
561 - add some decision helping paragraph to the manpage that should
562 help people to decide whether AnyEvent is the right thing for them.
563
564 2.9 Mon Jan 28 13:31:54 CET 2008
565 - update for EV 3.0 API changes.
566
567 2.8 Sun Nov 25 15:06:03 CET 2007
568 - waitpid can validly return 0. accept this fact of life
569 instead of reporting it to any watchers.
570
571 2.7 Fri Nov 23 11:41:14 CET 2007
572 - force use of AnyEvent::Impl::Perl in testsuite, there is
573 too much breakage outside AnyEvent.
574 - deliver signals synchronously in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl
575 or any other event loop that relies on AnyEvents child
576 watcher emulation. *Could* help with hanging testsuite
577 (except when Event or EV are installed).
578
579 2.6 Fri Nov 9 20:36:35 CET 2007
580 - fix bug in testsuite.
581 - move EV adaptor modules to AnyEvent.
582 - add Coro+EV adaptor module.
583
584 2.55 Tue Nov 6 17:41:32 CET 2007
585 - add EV to the list of supported event models.
586 - do not auto-reset pid watchers, pass pid and status to them.
587 - allow a pid of zero to watch for all children in child watchers.
588
589 2.54 Wed Jul 18 17:36:23 CEST 2007
590 - work around a perl bug that results in
591 BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted without
592 any discernible reason or error message by once
593 again not use'ing strict.
594
595 2.53 Sun Jul 8 10:51:53 CEST 2007
596 - make Glib interface work again (spotted by elmex).
597
598 2.52 Wed Mar 7 18:36:16 CET 2007
599 - child watchers stopped working permanently when
600 all current child watchers were destroyed.
601
602 2.51 Mon Dec 11 21:33:24 CET 2006
603 - work around bugs in perl where eval "require Module" returns
604 true even if the module couldn't be loaded :/.
605
606 2.5 Mon Dec 11 02:15:28 CET 2006
607 - avoid $AUTOLOAD because many perls corrupt it.
608 - AnyEvent::detect forces autodetection.
609 - implement signal watchers (experimental)
610 (Tk does not support async signals (<= 804.027 at least),
611 so they might get delayed indefinitely on Tk).
612 - implement child watchers (experimental).
613 - moved default condvar implementation into base module, simplifying
614 most implementation modules.
615
616 2.1 Fri Nov 24 15:50:48 CET 2006
617 - better docs.
618 - simple testsuite.
619 - added AnyEvent->one_event method for special purposes.
620
621 2.0 Wed Nov 1 02:21:30 CET 2006
622 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: poll can now either be "r" or "w" but not both.
623 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: io watcher callbacks have no arguments anymore.
624 - EXPERIMENTAL:
625 new pure-perl model added, AnyEvent now always finds a suitable
626 event model.
627 - improved documentation.
628 - reduced cpu overhead.
629
630 1.02 Fri Jan 13 14:15:40 CET 2006
631 - add COPYING to clarify license.
632
633 1.01 Sun Jan 8 05:48:09 CET 2006
634 - correctly cancel Event timers, avoid memory leaks.
635
636 1.0 Sun Jan 8 05:40:58 CET 2006
637 - allow third-party interfaces to be added at runtime.
638 - fix version number.
639
640 0.9 Fri Dec 30 02:25:41 CET 2005
641 - fixed errors in the documentation.
642 - going back to using $VERSION as "load check",
643 as suggested by Jörn Reder. Let's see why I stopped using
644 this method.
645 - add 'hup' to the list of events to receive for glib
646 and generate 'rw' events for it, as some versions of
647 glib seem to require this, while this breaks other
648 (older) versions of glib.
649 - implemented PERL_ANYEVENT_VERBOSE env variable.
650
651 0.3 Sun Dec 4 10:43:33 CET 2005
652 - no changes to the code.
653 - fixed documentation.
654 - clarified some corner cases.
655 - vastly improved documentation with a long example.
656
657 0.2 Thu Dec 1 22:18:49 CET 2005
658 - check whether a valid method was called, to avoid endless loops.
659 - move condvars into their own class (cleaner, safer).
660 - don't die when some modules are not available.
661 - Tk is too broken to allow for words. Will work once Tk works.
662
663 0.1 Thu Dec 1 19:44:57 CET 2005
664 - spiced up and cleaned up for release.
665
666 0.01 Tue Sep 21 18:12:09 CEST 2004
667 - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
668