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Revision: 1.294
Committed: Mon Jul 20 22:39:57 2009 UTC (14 years, 10 months ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: rel-4_86
Changes since 1.293: +3 -0 lines
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1 Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent.
2
3 4.86 Mon Jul 20 23:52:29 CEST 2009
4 - since the verbose warning is not enough, explicitly document
5 that versions before 1.33 of Net::SSLeay are not secure.
6 - work around signal handling races in Event and (...) Event::Lib.
7 - try to align signal-race timer to full-second boundaries.
8 - work around Tk not liking negative timeouts.
9 - don't complain of different grades of environmental unfriendlyness
10 in IO::ASync.
11
12 4.85 Sat Jul 18 06:16:14 CEST 2009
13 - nail the signal race problem in perl once and for all
14 (see $AnyEvent::MAX_SIGNAL_LATENCY).
15 - take advantage of Async::Interrupt if it is available.
16 - load Time::HiRes and Guard modules on demand only.
17 - add optional/recommended modules section to AnyEvent
18 documentation.
19 - reduce memory usage considerably (and reduce startup penalty)
20 by not using "strict", "warnings" and "overload" modules.
21 - work around buggy windows/openbsd perls and provide EBADMSG
22 and EPROTO ourselves when missing.
23 - improve perl 5.6 compatibility of the core event loop.
24 - made Net::SSLeay version 1.33 a soft requirement.
25
26 4.83 Fri Jul 17 16:56:26 CEST 2009
27 - implement AnyEvent::Socket::getprotobyname.
28 - AnyEvent::CondVar's will now detect recursive blocking
29 waits and will croak, as too many people fall into
30 this trap.
31 - AnyEvent::Handle will now call ->destroy on itself after
32 executing the on_error callback, instead of doing some
33 half-baked internal shutdown, for fatal errors.
34 - clarify on_eof behaviour w.r.t. the read queue and
35 on_read callbacks.
36 - ignore some possible spurious wake-ups in tcp_connect.
37
38 4.82 Sat Jul 11 00:34:55 CEST 2009
39 - POE and Event backends didn't accept some callable objects as
40 callbacks.
41 - use Config module instead of POSIX module to detect signal names
42 in AnyEvent::Strict and AnyEvent::Impl::EventLib, as the POSIX
43 module doesn't even have all POSIX signals :/.
44 - use more workarounds around the many refcnt/corruption bugs in
45 Event::Lib.
46 - work around a race condition in perl's select, causing t/03_child.t
47 to rarely fail.
48
49 4.81 Thu Jul 9 10:30:30 CEST 2009
50 - AnyEvent::Handle didn't properly diagnose write errors
51 (it expected -1 from syswrite, how lame... :).
52 - support file descriptors in addition to file handles
53 in AnyEvent->io.
54 - new env variables: PERL_ANYEVENT_RESOLV_CONF,
55 PERL_ANYEVENT_MAX_OUTSTANDING_DNS, PERL_ANYEVENT_CA_FILE
56 and PERL_ANYEVENT_CA_PATH.
57 - provide a sensible synopsis section for AnyEvent::TLS.
58 - add a "supported backends" section to the manpage.
59 - added simple io watcher test to testsuite, using a
60 portable_socketpair.
61 - tried to improve the stability of the Event::Lib backend,
62 YMMV.
63
64 4.8 Mon Jul 6 23:45:16 CEST 2009
65 - AnyEvent::DNS did not properly follow CNAME records with
66 uppercase targets.
67 - AnyEvent::DNS would errornously return AAAA records
68 with v4 mapped addresses (a faulty record) as ipv4 addresses,
69 causing AnyEvent::Socket to throw an exception.
70 - added new module AnyEvent::TLS for easier SSL/TLS context
71 creation, with many options including hostname verification,
72 secure default configuration, lots of documentation and,
73 predefined diffie-hellman keys for perfect forward security
74 and much more. get it while it's still fresh!
75 - use AnyEvent::TLS in AnyEvent::Handle for context management.
76 - load AnyEvent::Handle only on demand in AnyEvent::DNS,
77 so AnyEvent::Socket users have smaller memory footprint
78 in the common case.
79 - add AnyEvent::Handle->push_shutdown method.
80 - add an additional error message parameter to AnyEvent::Handle's
81 on_error callback (for TLS, $! is still available).
82 - add AnyEvent::Handle on_starttls/on_stoptls callbacks.
83 - make AnyEvent::Handle more robust against early conenction
84 failures (during new), and return C<undef> in that case
85 from the constructor.
86 - AnyEvent::Handle will now try to load only JSON::XS first,
87 then fall back to JSON.
88 - format_ipv4/format_ipv6 are now exported by default, for symmetry,
89 and because it was documented that way.
90
91 4.451 Fri Jul 3 00:28:58 CEST 2009
92 - do not clear rbuf when shutting down an AnyEvent::Handle
93 object - doing so breaks AnyEvent::HTTP.
94
95 4.45 Mon Jun 29 22:59:26 CEST 2009
96 - a write error could cause AnyEvent::Handle to create
97 an I/O watcher with an undefined $fh.
98 - special-case mapped ipv4 addresses in both
99 AnyEvent::Socket::format_address and parse_address,
100 to treat them just like ipv4 addresses.
101 - updated and overhauled the AnyEvent::Intro doc.
102 - implement AnyEvent::Socket::format_ipv4/ipv6.
103 - slightly speed up portable_pipe/socketpair.
104 - expand condvar begin/end documentation.
105
106 4.42 Fri Jun 26 08:32:18 CEST 2009
107 - preliminary and neccesarily incomplete support for IO::Async.
108 - reset SIGCHLD to DEFAULT when AnyEvent is loaded, in
109 case it was set to IGNORE, to ensure we can catch child statuses
110 even when the calling env acts stupidly.
111 - updated benchmarks with IO::Async, which performs very well.
112
113 4.412 Wed Jun 24 01:35:57 CEST 2009
114 - support an "untaint" attribute for AnyEvent::DNS
115 and set it on the default resolver.
116 - implement and document AnyEvent::Impl::Perl::loop.
117 - remove all anyevent-env variables from %ENV
118 when running in tainted mode.
119 - mention and extend the IO::Lambda benchmark.
120
121 4.411 Sun Jun 7 18:48:02 CEST 2009
122 - do not try to use F_SETFD on windows.
123
124 4.41 Thu May 14 06:40:11 CEST 2009
125 - work around issues in older perls (5.8.0?) when
126 a signal handler is deleted from the %SIG hash.
127 - use POSIX::_exit in child test, to avoid running
128 destructors.
129 - speed up CHLD handling by relying on SIGCHLD being
130 synchronously delivered, even when we roll our own
131 implementation.
132 - AnyEvent::DNS: add the "dname" resource record name
133 for cosmetic reasons.
134
135 4.4 Sun Apr 26 20:12:33 CEST 2009
136 - implemented idle watchers, where applicable.
137 - AnyEvent->time died when Event backend was in use.
138 - fix a memleak in the Tk backend.
139 - sped up Tk timer handling.
140 - clip negative "after" values to 0 in AnyEvent::Impl::Event
141 to avoid spamming out warning messages.
142 - fix Qt timers without interval.
143 - avoid Qt zero-timeout special case, in old libqt's.
144
145 4.352 Mon Apr 20 16:31:11 CEST 2009
146 - fix AnyEvent::Strict error messages for child watchers.
147 - fix/update Makefile.PL "recommends" versions.
148 - add AnyEvent->now_update.
149
150 4.351 Sat Apr 11 07:56:14 CEST 2009
151 - actually make the signal pipe work under win32.
152 - localise $! in signal handler to avoid changing $!, although
153 perl itself does not seem to save/restore errno either.
154 - set the cloexec flag on the signal pipe (normally set by perl too).
155
156 4.35 Fri Mar 27 11:48:20 CET 2009
157 - event models relying on AnyEvent's signal watcher emulation did
158 invoke the callback asynchronously, contradicting documentation
159 and causing signals to get lost (this includes AnyEvent's own
160 event loop). AnyEvent now uses the standard pipe trick to make
161 callback execution synchronous to the event loop.
162 - AnyEvent::Handle didn't free TLS context data on DESTROY
163 (patch by Pavel Shaydo).
164 - work around the ever-incompatibly-changing API of MakeMaker.
165 - document that changing global variables without restoring them
166 is a bad idea in Perl (noted by Adam Rosenstein).
167 - AnyEvent::Strict now barfs if ->io is passed a file.
168
169 4.34 Thu Feb 12 18:32:45 CET 2009
170 - separately buffer TLS read data, as otherwise the read queue could
171 deadlock as receiving data is not expected while draining the
172 read queue (which cna only happen with TLS).
173 - raise EBADMSG error on JSON decoding errors.
174 - fix some minor manpage bugs (reported by Maximilian Gaß).
175 - speed up select bitmask parsing quite a bit in the pure perl
176 backend.
177 - use CORE::select instead of just select in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
178
179 4.331 Tue Jan 6 21:07:25 CET 2009
180 - socketpair fails on many vista machines because vista has
181 completely broken accept/getpeername and getsockname functions,
182 so we provide our own socketpair emulation that kind of works
183 (AnyEvent::Util::portable_pipe).
184 - new function: AnyEvent::Util::portable_socketpair.
185 - take advantage of the Guard module if it exists.
186
187 4.33 Fri Nov 21 02:35:40 CET 2008
188 - AnyEvent::Strict did errornously flag a fileno of 0 as
189 illegal.
190 - reduce memory usage and slightly speed up the pure perl backend
191 by only storing the file descriptor, not the file handle.
192 - add missing autocork method to AnyEvent::Handle (reported
193 by Adam Rosenstein).
194 - AnyEvent::DNS->resolve errornously documented an $rcode result
195 argument, but there isn't (spotted by Henrik Krohns).
196 - the naked truth about Tk - it's basically unmaintained.
197
198 4.32 Mon Nov 3 22:46:32 CET 2008
199 - fix AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr to properly support
200 unix sockets again and choose a proper default for
201 the socket type.
202 - fix call to resolve_sockaddr in tcp_connect.
203
204 4.31 Thu Oct 30 04:41:48 CET 2008
205 - implemented AnyEvent::Handle->destroy method.
206 - hint about unexpected effects in TLS mode.
207 - speed up AnyEvent::Impl::Perl by using more arrays
208 instead of hashes without the slightest loss of readability :)
209 - work around a perl argument refcounting bug.
210 - with some perl patches applied, AnyEvent now seems leak-free.
211
212 4.3 Fri Oct 3 09:18:43 CEST 2008
213 - AnyEvent will now install a no-op signal handler for SIGPIPE,
214 unless one has been installed already.
215 - warn about not loaidng AnyEvent::Impl::POE early enough
216 (patch by Adam Rosenstein).
217 - fixed a great number of bugs and corner cases in AnyEvent::Handle:
218 - fix a bug in where in SSL connect mode, the
219 client would first wait for some data by the server and
220 otherwise hang. (reported and analyzed in an absolutely
221 exemplary manner by Adam Rosenstein).
222 - fix a bug in where SSL EOF would not be treated
223 as stream EOF, putting the connection into a hung state.
224 (reported and analyzed in an absolutely exemplary manner by Adam
225 Rosenstein).
226 - fix a potential segfault when the TLS context
227 would go missing in a read callback (e.g. due to stoptls) -
228 Net::SSLeay of course makes no type checking whatsoever.
229 - AnyEvent::Handle will not stop the read watcher in TLS mode.
230 - AnyEvent::Handle->stoptls will send a TLS close notify
231 instead of simply destroying the stream now.
232 - fix a bug where large blocks of data written in TLS mode
233 would not be sent unless triggered by receives.
234 - on_drain will now take the tls write buffer into account.
235 - SSL operations have been streamlined a bit and should be faster
236 now, more to come, though.
237 - added a FAQ section, will document nontrivial issues in there.
238
239 4.234 Mon Sep 29 04:08:13 CEST 2008
240 - fix child watcher documentation: only child exits will be reported,
241 no trace events.
242 - mention SIGPIPE in AnyEvent::Handle.
243 - perl backend will now use POSIX::times as monotonic clock
244 when available and the monotonic clock option is not.
245 - run even without Time::HiRes in some cases now, but do not
246 provide sub-second accuracy (all *supported* perl versions have
247 Time::HiRes).
248
249 4.233 Fri Aug 22 01:48:05 CEST 2008
250 - fix a bug in the testsuite, causing a hang.
251 - clarified lots of AnyEvent::Handle constructor arguments.
252
253 4.232 Thu Aug 21 20:44:25 CEST 2008
254 - fix a bug in AnyEvent::Handle that could cause two fatal error
255 callbacks on EOF, which caused AnyEvent::HTTP to signal success twice
256 (testcase by Leon Brocard).
257 - clarified on_eof/on_error documentation a bit.
258
259 4.231 Tue Jul 29 13:12:15 CEST 2008
260 - remove some debugging code left in AnyEvent::Util::fork_call
261 (and no, it's impossible to implement with the broken windows
262 perls without resource leaks or worse).
263
264 4.23 Tue Jul 29 12:19:59 CEST 2008
265 - document the first parameter passed to condvar callbacks to be
266 the callback.
267 - add AnyEvent::Socket::{ntoa,aton} aliases.
268 - optimize the AE::Handle->push_read (line) for the default
269 eol marker.
270 - optimize push_read (packstring|storable) for small packets.
271 - invoke on_error callback when no on_eof callback is set.
272 - fix a bug in push_read (storable) of unknown impact.
273
274 4.22 Sun Jul 20 16:34:13 CEST 2008
275 - new function AnyEvent::Socket::parse_hostport.
276 - as the bulkheads at microsoft can't even get getprotobyname reliably
277 working on their shitty fucking broken os we need to hardcode
278 some common protocol numbers in AnyEvent::Socket. How can
279 people even bother with such a pile of shit as windows.
280
281 4.21 Thu Jul 17 14:40:05 CEST 2008
282 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: AnyEvent::Util::fork_call now has a prototype
283 which is incompatible to previous invocation syntax.
284 - work around more windows perl bugs in fork_call. I cannot imagine
285 why anybody would bother implementing fork in such an obviously
286 unusable way.
287 - avoid calling $do_retry if the request has already finished in
288 AnyEvent::DNS, thus avoiding an exception (reported by Anatoly
289 K. Sharifulin).
290
291 4.2 Sat Jul 12 22:42:11 CEST 2008
292 - support an "interval" argument for repeating timers.
293 - fix a bug in the pure perl event loop that caused timers to
294 be delayed under some circumstances.
295 - implement optional argument checking via PERL_ANYEVENT_STRICT.
296 - not importing anything from Event causes it to malfunction
297 and not use Time::HiRes, work around this bug.
298 - more bug workarounds against the endlessly broken Tk module,
299 seems to work now on 32 bit machines, but less so on 64 bit.
300 - minor optimisations applied to most backends.
301
302 4.161 Fri Jul 4 14:24:48 CEST 2008
303 - fixed the t/handle/02_write.t, it read after write, with the
304 assumption that all data could be written before read
305 (reported by Jim Razmus).
306
307 4.160 Thu Jul 3 04:02:21 CEST 2008
308 - re-registering signal watchers after unregistering one did
309 not work if a backend falls back on AnyEvent's default
310 implementation (also affected child watchers).
311 - new AnyEvent::Handle options: autocork and no_delay.
312
313 4.152 Sun Jun 22 14:15:44 CEST 2008
314 - allow for 32-bit perls that implement shifts differently
315 on different architectures in parse_ipv4 (reported and
316 analysed by Keiichi DAIBA).
317
318 4.151 Fri Jun 6 17:34:24 CEST 2008
319 - make sure specifying _only_ on_read and never pushing reads
320 works.
321
322 4.15 Fri Jun 6 13:00:46 CEST 2008
323 - the pure perl backend would keep some watchers alive when more than
324 one watcher was registered for the same fd.
325 - new "packstring" and "storable" read and write types
326 for AnyEvent::Handle.
327 - allow on_eof handler to be called after on_error with EPIPE returns.
328 - do not immediately call on_read callback in handle constructor.
329
330 4.14 Thu Jun 5 20:29:31 CEST 2008
331 - Fixed a bug in DNS SRV priority sorting.
332 - AnyEvent::Util::guard now reports runtime errors while
333 executing the guard block as warnings.
334 - handle 0-byte-reads just before EOF correctly in AnyEvent::Handle.
335
336 4.13 Thu Jun 5 00:47:59 CEST 2008
337 - AnyEvent::DNS only followed cname chains with length 2,
338 contrary to documentation. bumped it up to 10, thanks to
339 microsoft, the current broken-dns-config-king.
340 - AnyEvent::DNS didn't check for socket return status
341 but instead relied on perl not creating filehandles in that
342 case - too bad it gives you a bogus file handle (reported
343 and analysed by Vladimir Timofeev).
344 - fix queue management logic in AnyEvent::Handle:
345 when on_read was registered, the queue was empty
346 and no progress could be made AnyEvent::Handle would
347 enter an endless loop.
348 - correctly start reading again when the handle became
349 busy again after idling.
350 - correctly treat tls shut-downs as EOF condition
351 (for the time being, would be nice to have a callback for that).
352 - correctly call eof callback under all conditions
353 (hopefully).
354 - the timeout callback did not expect that $self can go
355 away any time.
356
357 4.12 Tue Jun 3 10:58:04 CEST 2008
358 - include AnyEvent::Intro, a tutorial for anyevent,
359 anyevent::socket and anyevent::handle.
360 - allow more options in on_error.
361
362 4.11 Fri May 30 23:42:25 CEST 2008
363 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace ptr by real PTR lookup, provide
364 reverse_lookup and reverse_verify to replace it, support
365 v4mapped and v4compat addresses.
366 - provide more documentation for the resolver class.
367 - really replace longest run of :0: by :: in format_address,
368 also properly convert :: and ::1 again.
369 - support NAPTR record name and decode it.
370 - implement random weight sampling for SRV records, as per
371 rfc 2782.
372 - correctly abort on srv-record targets of ".".
373 - added AnyEvent::DNS::wait_for_slot.
374 - in the unlikely event of a virtual circuit connection
375 being invalidated by a delayed udp reply, AnyEvent::DNS
376 could die. this has been fixed.
377 - plug a probable memleak in the DNS vc code.
378 - use configured timeout also for VC request phase.
379 - implement timeout and max_outstanding methods
380 for resolver class.
381 - update version numbers in all modules.
382
383 4.1 Thu May 29 05:45:40 CEST 2008
384 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: renamed xxx_ip functions to xxx_address
385 which mirrors their purpose better (old names still available
386 for a while). Also moved AnyEvent::DNS::addr to
387 AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr.
388 - implement AnyEvent->time and AnyEvent->now.
389 - fix IPv6 support in pack_sockaddr.
390 - officially un-experimentalise all newly introduced code.
391 - support unix domain sockets everywhere by specifying
392 a host of "unix/" and the pathname as service.
393 - implement an activity timeout in AnyEvent::Handle.
394 - added a regex read type to AnyEvent::Handle.
395 - added a json read/write type to AnyEvent::Handle.
396 - always croak in on_error in AnyEvent::Handle.
397 - document how to subclass AnyEvent::Handle.
398 - implement AnyEvent::Util::fork_call.
399 - add support for IPv6 nameservers and nameserver statements.
400 - work around _yet_ _another_ windows perl bug in where empty
401 select masks cause errors in the pure perl backend (this
402 workaround cannot be implemented for the other event loops,
403 but EV also works around this).
404 - supply AnyEvent::Socket::address_type and make good use of it.
405 - clarify and fix the Handle documentation w.r.t $self vs. $handle
406 vs. callback arguments.
407 - add some recommends to the META.yml.
408
409 4.05 Mon May 26 19:44:06 CEST 2008
410 - some platforms ignore the rfc and prepend an extra sa_len member to
411 the sockaddr structure, cater for those. also use sockaddr_family,
412 didn't know it was there, but comes in handy for the workaround.
413 - undo the import WIN32 hack.
414
415 4.04 Mon May 26 08:03:31 CEST 2008
416 - try to work around yet another windows bug: failed connects are reported
417 as if it were out-of-band data. windows users: you suck. Only
418 EV, Glib, Event and the pure perl backend can handle this condition.
419 - optimize write algorithm in AnyEvent::Handle.
420 - properly parse PERL_ANYEVENT_PROTOCOLS and use the info correctly.
421 - tcp_connect now properly iterates through all targets.
422 - check wether IPv6 sockets can actually be created, otherwise, disable ipv6
423 support entirely. also hardcode some AF_INET6 constants for the
424 sake of perl 5.8.
425 - vastly improved nameserver/suffix detection algorithm for windows
426 (still a hack...)
427 - try to use a fallback dns server if no dns servers could be found.
428 - splatter around some local $SIG{__DIE__}'s to work around bad
429 die handlers.
430
431 4.03 Sun May 25 05:05:57 CEST 2008
432 - work around perl bugs on windows, where perl returns undocumented
433 error codes for sysread, syswrite etc.
434 - fix AnyEvent::Handle::unshift_read to really unshift and not push.
435 - AnyEvent::Handle could sometimes stumble over 0-byte writes.
436 - fix unpack_sockaddr, now works for AF_INET6 sockaddr's.
437 - updated documentation.
438 - lots of workarounds for perl 5.8 quirks.
439 - implement a more flexible type system for both reads and writes
440 in AnyEvent::Handle.
441 - support IPv6 in tcp_server.
442 - pass local hostname and port to the prepare callback in tcp_server.
443 - make types extendable in AnyEvent::Handle.
444 - croak, not die, in AnyEvent::Handle;
445
446 4.0 Sat May 24 19:58:08 CEST 2008
447 - added (experimental) AnyEvent::DNS module.
448 - added (experimental) AnyEvent::Socket module.
449 - added (experiemntal) support for TLS/SSL in AnyEvent::Handle.
450 - make condvar->end call ->send as documented.
451 - make condvar constructor support the documented cb => argument.
452 - overload condvars so you can use them instead of code references.
453 - support more of the POSIX forms instead of a pure dotted quad for
454 verbatim ip addresses.
455 - AnyEvent::Socket::inet_aton will use AnyEvent::DNS now and not fork anymore.
456 - try very hard not to freeze on broken windows perls.
457 - make on_eof optional in AnyEvent::Handle.
458 - support service names in tcp_connect and tcp_server.
459 - work around netbsd/openbsd bug causing unix sockets not to
460 become writable until empty.
461 - only make a dummy read for error detection when getpeername
462 returns ENOTCONN.
463 - defend AnyEvent::Util::inet_aton against Coro::LWP's brutal
464 override.
465 - new AnyEvent::Guard::cancel.
466
467 3.5 Sat May 17 23:17:14 CEST 2008
468 - gracefully deal with systems not defining CLOCK_MONOTONIC
469 (as opposed to not supporting the clock itself, which worked in 3.41).
470 - added AnyEvent::Util::tcp_connect and AnyEvent::Util::tcp_server
471 helpers, to replace the ill-designed AnyEvent::Socket class.
472 - added some examples (eg/connect, eg/handle).
473 - added AnyEvent::Util::guard.
474 - AnyEvent::Util now exports most of its functions.
475 - fixed a bug in *_read_chunk, where the callback was called with $self as
476 first and second argument.
477 - simplified and fixed regex handling in AnyEvent::Handle::*_read_line.
478 - fix manpage condvars examples to use new syntax.
479 - considerably improve inet_aton with EV::ADNS backend to support
480 cname chains (common dns configuration bug, e.g. with www.google.de)
481 and aaaa records if no a record could be found.
482
483 3.41 Sun May 11 19:53:13 CEST 2008
484 - work around a bug in perl 5.8.8's local. Reported by Yi Ma Mao.
485
486 3.4 Sun May 11 00:29:25 CEST 2008
487 - complete re-implementation of condvars with a hopefully much more useful
488 API (backward compatible functions exist but are undocumented).
489 - AnyEvent::Handle fully rewritten with a hopefully more powerful API
490 (still subject to change).
491 - take advantage of CLOCK_MONOTONIC, if available, in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
492 - provide AnyEvent::post_detect and @AnyEvent::post_detect, which
493 allows module authors to avoid forcing event loop detection.
494 (used by Coro::AIO, Coro::BDB, Coro::AnyEvent for example).
495 - remove coro backends: Coro now provides generic support for AnyEvent
496 via Coro::AnyEvent.
497
498 3.3 Mon Apr 28 09:51:06 CEST 2008
499 - added AnyEvent::Handle, AnyEvent::Socket and AnyEvent::Util modules.
500 - fix a bug in the pure perl backend that kept watchers alive
501 when multiple watchers were registered for the same fh/poll combo.
502 - add a benchmark section showing AnyEvent overhead and comparing
503 the different event loops with each other.
504 - prefer pure perl over tk when autoprobing, as it's about as fast,
505 but doesn't crash with many watchers.
506 - declare Qt support non-experimental.
507 - clarify the confusing section about the file descriptor being
508 kept alive.
509 - document the race between loading of an event module and
510 child processes exiting.
511 - support POE as "backend" (with some caveats, POE is not generic
512 enough, and darn slow).
513 - support Wx and Prima through POE.
514 - optimise perl backend to use 20% less memory and take advantage
515 of typical timeout behaviour. It can now compete with
516 select/poll-based C event loops in most cases (it is usually
517 faster than Event and Glib :).
518 - roughly cut EV memory use in half and increase its speed by 30%,
519 by removing undocumented functionality. Did something similar
520 to other event loops where possible.
521
522 3.2 Thu Apr 24 10:10:40 CEST 2008
523 - do not die when anyevent watchers are destroyed while running callbacks
524 in the pureperl backend (could only happen when two watchers are registered
525 for the same fh/poll combo).
526 - support autoloading for child watchers, was broken in all versions.
527 - implement PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL env variable.
528 - (experimental) implement interface to the (very crashy/buggy) Event::Lib module.
529 - (experimental) implement interface to the Qt module (cannot be autoprobed).
530 - this release is IO:AnyEvent-proof.
531
532 3.12 Tue Apr 22 07:11:46 CEST 2008
533 - reinstate AUTHOR section that got lost somehow.
534 - do not hang in the testsuite with badly broken perls (activestate,
535 strawberry...), but instead diagnose the problem and continue.
536 - use INT instead of CHLD in an attempt to support broken windows perls
537 better (this decreases the test quality, unfortunately).
538 - do not send the signal to the process group
539 (no problem for CHLD, bad for INT :).
540
541 3.11 Sat Apr 19 06:57:31 CEST 2008
542 - major documentation rework.
543 - document the fact that child watchers only watch for zombies.
544 - fix the child watcher example.
545
546 3.1 Wed Apr 16 17:09:01 CEST 2008
547 - work around recurring bugs in Tk by dup'ing filehandles, the
548 only method with good success chances on Tk (the bugs apparently
549 don't get fixed anytime soon).
550 - lift the restriction of only one watcher per fh direction
551 (as the Tk bug workaround also lifts it and only Tk imposed
552 such strong limits).
553 - changed probe order to prefer coro adaptors.
554 - explain why recursion into the event loop is not supported
555 unless the backend supports it (only Coro::EV does without
556 any restrictions...).
557 - add simple manpages for all backend modules.
558
559 3.0 Mon Apr 7 21:30:23 CEST 2008
560 - Coro::Signal changed semantics, roll our own, also cleaning
561 up the Coro implementation in general.
562 - rename Coro backend to CoroEvent.
563 - add some decision helping paragraph to the manpage that should
564 help people to decide whether AnyEvent is the right thing for them.
565
566 2.9 Mon Jan 28 13:31:54 CET 2008
567 - update for EV 3.0 API changes.
568
569 2.8 Sun Nov 25 15:06:03 CET 2007
570 - waitpid can validly return 0. accept this fact of life
571 instead of reporting it to any watchers.
572
573 2.7 Fri Nov 23 11:41:14 CET 2007
574 - force use of AnyEvent::Impl::Perl in testsuite, there is
575 too much breakage outside AnyEvent.
576 - deliver signals synchronously in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl
577 or any other event loop that relies on AnyEvents child
578 watcher emulation. *Could* help with hanging testsuite
579 (except when Event or EV are installed).
580
581 2.6 Fri Nov 9 20:36:35 CET 2007
582 - fix bug in testsuite.
583 - move EV adaptor modules to AnyEvent.
584 - add Coro+EV adaptor module.
585
586 2.55 Tue Nov 6 17:41:32 CET 2007
587 - add EV to the list of supported event models.
588 - do not auto-reset pid watchers, pass pid and status to them.
589 - allow a pid of zero to watch for all children in child watchers.
590
591 2.54 Wed Jul 18 17:36:23 CEST 2007
592 - work around a perl bug that results in
593 BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted without
594 any discernible reason or error message by once
595 again not use'ing strict.
596
597 2.53 Sun Jul 8 10:51:53 CEST 2007
598 - make Glib interface work again (spotted by elmex).
599
600 2.52 Wed Mar 7 18:36:16 CET 2007
601 - child watchers stopped working permanently when
602 all current child watchers were destroyed.
603
604 2.51 Mon Dec 11 21:33:24 CET 2006
605 - work around bugs in perl where eval "require Module" returns
606 true even if the module couldn't be loaded :/.
607
608 2.5 Mon Dec 11 02:15:28 CET 2006
609 - avoid $AUTOLOAD because many perls corrupt it.
610 - AnyEvent::detect forces autodetection.
611 - implement signal watchers (experimental)
612 (Tk does not support async signals (<= 804.027 at least),
613 so they might get delayed indefinitely on Tk).
614 - implement child watchers (experimental).
615 - moved default condvar implementation into base module, simplifying
616 most implementation modules.
617
618 2.1 Fri Nov 24 15:50:48 CET 2006
619 - better docs.
620 - simple testsuite.
621 - added AnyEvent->one_event method for special purposes.
622
623 2.0 Wed Nov 1 02:21:30 CET 2006
624 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: poll can now either be "r" or "w" but not both.
625 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: io watcher callbacks have no arguments anymore.
626 - EXPERIMENTAL:
627 new pure-perl model added, AnyEvent now always finds a suitable
628 event model.
629 - improved documentation.
630 - reduced cpu overhead.
631
632 1.02 Fri Jan 13 14:15:40 CET 2006
633 - add COPYING to clarify license.
634
635 1.01 Sun Jan 8 05:48:09 CET 2006
636 - correctly cancel Event timers, avoid memory leaks.
637
638 1.0 Sun Jan 8 05:40:58 CET 2006
639 - allow third-party interfaces to be added at runtime.
640 - fix version number.
641
642 0.9 Fri Dec 30 02:25:41 CET 2005
643 - fixed errors in the documentation.
644 - going back to using $VERSION as "load check",
645 as suggested by Jörn Reder. Let's see why I stopped using
646 this method.
647 - add 'hup' to the list of events to receive for glib
648 and generate 'rw' events for it, as some versions of
649 glib seem to require this, while this breaks other
650 (older) versions of glib.
651 - implemented PERL_ANYEVENT_VERBOSE env variable.
652
653 0.3 Sun Dec 4 10:43:33 CET 2005
654 - no changes to the code.
655 - fixed documentation.
656 - clarified some corner cases.
657 - vastly improved documentation with a long example.
658
659 0.2 Thu Dec 1 22:18:49 CET 2005
660 - check whether a valid method was called, to avoid endless loops.
661 - move condvars into their own class (cleaner, safer).
662 - don't die when some modules are not available.
663 - Tk is too broken to allow for words. Will work once Tk works.
664
665 0.1 Thu Dec 1 19:44:57 CET 2005
666 - spiced up and cleaned up for release.
667
668 0.01 Tue Sep 21 18:12:09 CEST 2004
669 - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
670