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Revision: 1.295
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1 Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent.
2
3 - do not attempt to linger when there is no longer a valid fh.
4
5 4.86 Mon Jul 20 23:52:29 CEST 2009
6 - since the verbose warning is not enough, explicitly document
7 that versions before 1.33 of Net::SSLeay are not secure.
8 - work around signal handling races in Event and (...) Event::Lib.
9 - try to align signal-race timer to full-second boundaries.
10 - work around Tk not liking negative timeouts.
11 - don't complain of different grades of environmental unfriendlyness
12 in IO::ASync.
13
14 4.85 Sat Jul 18 06:16:14 CEST 2009
15 - nail the signal race problem in perl once and for all
16 (see $AnyEvent::MAX_SIGNAL_LATENCY).
17 - take advantage of Async::Interrupt if it is available.
18 - load Time::HiRes and Guard modules on demand only.
19 - add optional/recommended modules section to AnyEvent
20 documentation.
21 - reduce memory usage considerably (and reduce startup penalty)
22 by not using "strict", "warnings" and "overload" modules.
23 - work around buggy windows/openbsd perls and provide EBADMSG
24 and EPROTO ourselves when missing.
25 - improve perl 5.6 compatibility of the core event loop.
26 - made Net::SSLeay version 1.33 a soft requirement.
27
28 4.83 Fri Jul 17 16:56:26 CEST 2009
29 - implement AnyEvent::Socket::getprotobyname.
30 - AnyEvent::CondVar's will now detect recursive blocking
31 waits and will croak, as too many people fall into
32 this trap.
33 - AnyEvent::Handle will now call ->destroy on itself after
34 executing the on_error callback, instead of doing some
35 half-baked internal shutdown, for fatal errors.
36 - clarify on_eof behaviour w.r.t. the read queue and
37 on_read callbacks.
38 - ignore some possible spurious wake-ups in tcp_connect.
39
40 4.82 Sat Jul 11 00:34:55 CEST 2009
41 - POE and Event backends didn't accept some callable objects as
42 callbacks.
43 - use Config module instead of POSIX module to detect signal names
44 in AnyEvent::Strict and AnyEvent::Impl::EventLib, as the POSIX
45 module doesn't even have all POSIX signals :/.
46 - use more workarounds around the many refcnt/corruption bugs in
47 Event::Lib.
48 - work around a race condition in perl's select, causing t/03_child.t
49 to rarely fail.
50
51 4.81 Thu Jul 9 10:30:30 CEST 2009
52 - AnyEvent::Handle didn't properly diagnose write errors
53 (it expected -1 from syswrite, how lame... :).
54 - support file descriptors in addition to file handles
55 in AnyEvent->io.
56 - new env variables: PERL_ANYEVENT_RESOLV_CONF,
57 PERL_ANYEVENT_MAX_OUTSTANDING_DNS, PERL_ANYEVENT_CA_FILE
58 and PERL_ANYEVENT_CA_PATH.
59 - provide a sensible synopsis section for AnyEvent::TLS.
60 - add a "supported backends" section to the manpage.
61 - added simple io watcher test to testsuite, using a
62 portable_socketpair.
63 - tried to improve the stability of the Event::Lib backend,
64 YMMV.
65
66 4.8 Mon Jul 6 23:45:16 CEST 2009
67 - AnyEvent::DNS did not properly follow CNAME records with
68 uppercase targets.
69 - AnyEvent::DNS would errornously return AAAA records
70 with v4 mapped addresses (a faulty record) as ipv4 addresses,
71 causing AnyEvent::Socket to throw an exception.
72 - added new module AnyEvent::TLS for easier SSL/TLS context
73 creation, with many options including hostname verification,
74 secure default configuration, lots of documentation and,
75 predefined diffie-hellman keys for perfect forward security
76 and much more. get it while it's still fresh!
77 - use AnyEvent::TLS in AnyEvent::Handle for context management.
78 - load AnyEvent::Handle only on demand in AnyEvent::DNS,
79 so AnyEvent::Socket users have smaller memory footprint
80 in the common case.
81 - add AnyEvent::Handle->push_shutdown method.
82 - add an additional error message parameter to AnyEvent::Handle's
83 on_error callback (for TLS, $! is still available).
84 - add AnyEvent::Handle on_starttls/on_stoptls callbacks.
85 - make AnyEvent::Handle more robust against early conenction
86 failures (during new), and return C<undef> in that case
87 from the constructor.
88 - AnyEvent::Handle will now try to load only JSON::XS first,
89 then fall back to JSON.
90 - format_ipv4/format_ipv6 are now exported by default, for symmetry,
91 and because it was documented that way.
92
93 4.451 Fri Jul 3 00:28:58 CEST 2009
94 - do not clear rbuf when shutting down an AnyEvent::Handle
95 object - doing so breaks AnyEvent::HTTP.
96
97 4.45 Mon Jun 29 22:59:26 CEST 2009
98 - a write error could cause AnyEvent::Handle to create
99 an I/O watcher with an undefined $fh.
100 - special-case mapped ipv4 addresses in both
101 AnyEvent::Socket::format_address and parse_address,
102 to treat them just like ipv4 addresses.
103 - updated and overhauled the AnyEvent::Intro doc.
104 - implement AnyEvent::Socket::format_ipv4/ipv6.
105 - slightly speed up portable_pipe/socketpair.
106 - expand condvar begin/end documentation.
107
108 4.42 Fri Jun 26 08:32:18 CEST 2009
109 - preliminary and neccesarily incomplete support for IO::Async.
110 - reset SIGCHLD to DEFAULT when AnyEvent is loaded, in
111 case it was set to IGNORE, to ensure we can catch child statuses
112 even when the calling env acts stupidly.
113 - updated benchmarks with IO::Async, which performs very well.
114
115 4.412 Wed Jun 24 01:35:57 CEST 2009
116 - support an "untaint" attribute for AnyEvent::DNS
117 and set it on the default resolver.
118 - implement and document AnyEvent::Impl::Perl::loop.
119 - remove all anyevent-env variables from %ENV
120 when running in tainted mode.
121 - mention and extend the IO::Lambda benchmark.
122
123 4.411 Sun Jun 7 18:48:02 CEST 2009
124 - do not try to use F_SETFD on windows.
125
126 4.41 Thu May 14 06:40:11 CEST 2009
127 - work around issues in older perls (5.8.0?) when
128 a signal handler is deleted from the %SIG hash.
129 - use POSIX::_exit in child test, to avoid running
130 destructors.
131 - speed up CHLD handling by relying on SIGCHLD being
132 synchronously delivered, even when we roll our own
133 implementation.
134 - AnyEvent::DNS: add the "dname" resource record name
135 for cosmetic reasons.
136
137 4.4 Sun Apr 26 20:12:33 CEST 2009
138 - implemented idle watchers, where applicable.
139 - AnyEvent->time died when Event backend was in use.
140 - fix a memleak in the Tk backend.
141 - sped up Tk timer handling.
142 - clip negative "after" values to 0 in AnyEvent::Impl::Event
143 to avoid spamming out warning messages.
144 - fix Qt timers without interval.
145 - avoid Qt zero-timeout special case, in old libqt's.
146
147 4.352 Mon Apr 20 16:31:11 CEST 2009
148 - fix AnyEvent::Strict error messages for child watchers.
149 - fix/update Makefile.PL "recommends" versions.
150 - add AnyEvent->now_update.
151
152 4.351 Sat Apr 11 07:56:14 CEST 2009
153 - actually make the signal pipe work under win32.
154 - localise $! in signal handler to avoid changing $!, although
155 perl itself does not seem to save/restore errno either.
156 - set the cloexec flag on the signal pipe (normally set by perl too).
157
158 4.35 Fri Mar 27 11:48:20 CET 2009
159 - event models relying on AnyEvent's signal watcher emulation did
160 invoke the callback asynchronously, contradicting documentation
161 and causing signals to get lost (this includes AnyEvent's own
162 event loop). AnyEvent now uses the standard pipe trick to make
163 callback execution synchronous to the event loop.
164 - AnyEvent::Handle didn't free TLS context data on DESTROY
165 (patch by Pavel Shaydo).
166 - work around the ever-incompatibly-changing API of MakeMaker.
167 - document that changing global variables without restoring them
168 is a bad idea in Perl (noted by Adam Rosenstein).
169 - AnyEvent::Strict now barfs if ->io is passed a file.
170
171 4.34 Thu Feb 12 18:32:45 CET 2009
172 - separately buffer TLS read data, as otherwise the read queue could
173 deadlock as receiving data is not expected while draining the
174 read queue (which cna only happen with TLS).
175 - raise EBADMSG error on JSON decoding errors.
176 - fix some minor manpage bugs (reported by Maximilian Gaß).
177 - speed up select bitmask parsing quite a bit in the pure perl
178 backend.
179 - use CORE::select instead of just select in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
180
181 4.331 Tue Jan 6 21:07:25 CET 2009
182 - socketpair fails on many vista machines because vista has
183 completely broken accept/getpeername and getsockname functions,
184 so we provide our own socketpair emulation that kind of works
185 (AnyEvent::Util::portable_pipe).
186 - new function: AnyEvent::Util::portable_socketpair.
187 - take advantage of the Guard module if it exists.
188
189 4.33 Fri Nov 21 02:35:40 CET 2008
190 - AnyEvent::Strict did errornously flag a fileno of 0 as
191 illegal.
192 - reduce memory usage and slightly speed up the pure perl backend
193 by only storing the file descriptor, not the file handle.
194 - add missing autocork method to AnyEvent::Handle (reported
195 by Adam Rosenstein).
196 - AnyEvent::DNS->resolve errornously documented an $rcode result
197 argument, but there isn't (spotted by Henrik Krohns).
198 - the naked truth about Tk - it's basically unmaintained.
199
200 4.32 Mon Nov 3 22:46:32 CET 2008
201 - fix AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr to properly support
202 unix sockets again and choose a proper default for
203 the socket type.
204 - fix call to resolve_sockaddr in tcp_connect.
205
206 4.31 Thu Oct 30 04:41:48 CET 2008
207 - implemented AnyEvent::Handle->destroy method.
208 - hint about unexpected effects in TLS mode.
209 - speed up AnyEvent::Impl::Perl by using more arrays
210 instead of hashes without the slightest loss of readability :)
211 - work around a perl argument refcounting bug.
212 - with some perl patches applied, AnyEvent now seems leak-free.
213
214 4.3 Fri Oct 3 09:18:43 CEST 2008
215 - AnyEvent will now install a no-op signal handler for SIGPIPE,
216 unless one has been installed already.
217 - warn about not loaidng AnyEvent::Impl::POE early enough
218 (patch by Adam Rosenstein).
219 - fixed a great number of bugs and corner cases in AnyEvent::Handle:
220 - fix a bug in where in SSL connect mode, the
221 client would first wait for some data by the server and
222 otherwise hang. (reported and analyzed in an absolutely
223 exemplary manner by Adam Rosenstein).
224 - fix a bug in where SSL EOF would not be treated
225 as stream EOF, putting the connection into a hung state.
226 (reported and analyzed in an absolutely exemplary manner by Adam
227 Rosenstein).
228 - fix a potential segfault when the TLS context
229 would go missing in a read callback (e.g. due to stoptls) -
230 Net::SSLeay of course makes no type checking whatsoever.
231 - AnyEvent::Handle will not stop the read watcher in TLS mode.
232 - AnyEvent::Handle->stoptls will send a TLS close notify
233 instead of simply destroying the stream now.
234 - fix a bug where large blocks of data written in TLS mode
235 would not be sent unless triggered by receives.
236 - on_drain will now take the tls write buffer into account.
237 - SSL operations have been streamlined a bit and should be faster
238 now, more to come, though.
239 - added a FAQ section, will document nontrivial issues in there.
240
241 4.234 Mon Sep 29 04:08:13 CEST 2008
242 - fix child watcher documentation: only child exits will be reported,
243 no trace events.
244 - mention SIGPIPE in AnyEvent::Handle.
245 - perl backend will now use POSIX::times as monotonic clock
246 when available and the monotonic clock option is not.
247 - run even without Time::HiRes in some cases now, but do not
248 provide sub-second accuracy (all *supported* perl versions have
249 Time::HiRes).
250
251 4.233 Fri Aug 22 01:48:05 CEST 2008
252 - fix a bug in the testsuite, causing a hang.
253 - clarified lots of AnyEvent::Handle constructor arguments.
254
255 4.232 Thu Aug 21 20:44:25 CEST 2008
256 - fix a bug in AnyEvent::Handle that could cause two fatal error
257 callbacks on EOF, which caused AnyEvent::HTTP to signal success twice
258 (testcase by Leon Brocard).
259 - clarified on_eof/on_error documentation a bit.
260
261 4.231 Tue Jul 29 13:12:15 CEST 2008
262 - remove some debugging code left in AnyEvent::Util::fork_call
263 (and no, it's impossible to implement with the broken windows
264 perls without resource leaks or worse).
265
266 4.23 Tue Jul 29 12:19:59 CEST 2008
267 - document the first parameter passed to condvar callbacks to be
268 the callback.
269 - add AnyEvent::Socket::{ntoa,aton} aliases.
270 - optimize the AE::Handle->push_read (line) for the default
271 eol marker.
272 - optimize push_read (packstring|storable) for small packets.
273 - invoke on_error callback when no on_eof callback is set.
274 - fix a bug in push_read (storable) of unknown impact.
275
276 4.22 Sun Jul 20 16:34:13 CEST 2008
277 - new function AnyEvent::Socket::parse_hostport.
278 - as the bulkheads at microsoft can't even get getprotobyname reliably
279 working on their shitty fucking broken os we need to hardcode
280 some common protocol numbers in AnyEvent::Socket. How can
281 people even bother with such a pile of shit as windows.
282
283 4.21 Thu Jul 17 14:40:05 CEST 2008
284 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: AnyEvent::Util::fork_call now has a prototype
285 which is incompatible to previous invocation syntax.
286 - work around more windows perl bugs in fork_call. I cannot imagine
287 why anybody would bother implementing fork in such an obviously
288 unusable way.
289 - avoid calling $do_retry if the request has already finished in
290 AnyEvent::DNS, thus avoiding an exception (reported by Anatoly
291 K. Sharifulin).
292
293 4.2 Sat Jul 12 22:42:11 CEST 2008
294 - support an "interval" argument for repeating timers.
295 - fix a bug in the pure perl event loop that caused timers to
296 be delayed under some circumstances.
297 - implement optional argument checking via PERL_ANYEVENT_STRICT.
298 - not importing anything from Event causes it to malfunction
299 and not use Time::HiRes, work around this bug.
300 - more bug workarounds against the endlessly broken Tk module,
301 seems to work now on 32 bit machines, but less so on 64 bit.
302 - minor optimisations applied to most backends.
303
304 4.161 Fri Jul 4 14:24:48 CEST 2008
305 - fixed the t/handle/02_write.t, it read after write, with the
306 assumption that all data could be written before read
307 (reported by Jim Razmus).
308
309 4.160 Thu Jul 3 04:02:21 CEST 2008
310 - re-registering signal watchers after unregistering one did
311 not work if a backend falls back on AnyEvent's default
312 implementation (also affected child watchers).
313 - new AnyEvent::Handle options: autocork and no_delay.
314
315 4.152 Sun Jun 22 14:15:44 CEST 2008
316 - allow for 32-bit perls that implement shifts differently
317 on different architectures in parse_ipv4 (reported and
318 analysed by Keiichi DAIBA).
319
320 4.151 Fri Jun 6 17:34:24 CEST 2008
321 - make sure specifying _only_ on_read and never pushing reads
322 works.
323
324 4.15 Fri Jun 6 13:00:46 CEST 2008
325 - the pure perl backend would keep some watchers alive when more than
326 one watcher was registered for the same fd.
327 - new "packstring" and "storable" read and write types
328 for AnyEvent::Handle.
329 - allow on_eof handler to be called after on_error with EPIPE returns.
330 - do not immediately call on_read callback in handle constructor.
331
332 4.14 Thu Jun 5 20:29:31 CEST 2008
333 - Fixed a bug in DNS SRV priority sorting.
334 - AnyEvent::Util::guard now reports runtime errors while
335 executing the guard block as warnings.
336 - handle 0-byte-reads just before EOF correctly in AnyEvent::Handle.
337
338 4.13 Thu Jun 5 00:47:59 CEST 2008
339 - AnyEvent::DNS only followed cname chains with length 2,
340 contrary to documentation. bumped it up to 10, thanks to
341 microsoft, the current broken-dns-config-king.
342 - AnyEvent::DNS didn't check for socket return status
343 but instead relied on perl not creating filehandles in that
344 case - too bad it gives you a bogus file handle (reported
345 and analysed by Vladimir Timofeev).
346 - fix queue management logic in AnyEvent::Handle:
347 when on_read was registered, the queue was empty
348 and no progress could be made AnyEvent::Handle would
349 enter an endless loop.
350 - correctly start reading again when the handle became
351 busy again after idling.
352 - correctly treat tls shut-downs as EOF condition
353 (for the time being, would be nice to have a callback for that).
354 - correctly call eof callback under all conditions
355 (hopefully).
356 - the timeout callback did not expect that $self can go
357 away any time.
358
359 4.12 Tue Jun 3 10:58:04 CEST 2008
360 - include AnyEvent::Intro, a tutorial for anyevent,
361 anyevent::socket and anyevent::handle.
362 - allow more options in on_error.
363
364 4.11 Fri May 30 23:42:25 CEST 2008
365 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace ptr by real PTR lookup, provide
366 reverse_lookup and reverse_verify to replace it, support
367 v4mapped and v4compat addresses.
368 - provide more documentation for the resolver class.
369 - really replace longest run of :0: by :: in format_address,
370 also properly convert :: and ::1 again.
371 - support NAPTR record name and decode it.
372 - implement random weight sampling for SRV records, as per
373 rfc 2782.
374 - correctly abort on srv-record targets of ".".
375 - added AnyEvent::DNS::wait_for_slot.
376 - in the unlikely event of a virtual circuit connection
377 being invalidated by a delayed udp reply, AnyEvent::DNS
378 could die. this has been fixed.
379 - plug a probable memleak in the DNS vc code.
380 - use configured timeout also for VC request phase.
381 - implement timeout and max_outstanding methods
382 for resolver class.
383 - update version numbers in all modules.
384
385 4.1 Thu May 29 05:45:40 CEST 2008
386 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: renamed xxx_ip functions to xxx_address
387 which mirrors their purpose better (old names still available
388 for a while). Also moved AnyEvent::DNS::addr to
389 AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr.
390 - implement AnyEvent->time and AnyEvent->now.
391 - fix IPv6 support in pack_sockaddr.
392 - officially un-experimentalise all newly introduced code.
393 - support unix domain sockets everywhere by specifying
394 a host of "unix/" and the pathname as service.
395 - implement an activity timeout in AnyEvent::Handle.
396 - added a regex read type to AnyEvent::Handle.
397 - added a json read/write type to AnyEvent::Handle.
398 - always croak in on_error in AnyEvent::Handle.
399 - document how to subclass AnyEvent::Handle.
400 - implement AnyEvent::Util::fork_call.
401 - add support for IPv6 nameservers and nameserver statements.
402 - work around _yet_ _another_ windows perl bug in where empty
403 select masks cause errors in the pure perl backend (this
404 workaround cannot be implemented for the other event loops,
405 but EV also works around this).
406 - supply AnyEvent::Socket::address_type and make good use of it.
407 - clarify and fix the Handle documentation w.r.t $self vs. $handle
408 vs. callback arguments.
409 - add some recommends to the META.yml.
410
411 4.05 Mon May 26 19:44:06 CEST 2008
412 - some platforms ignore the rfc and prepend an extra sa_len member to
413 the sockaddr structure, cater for those. also use sockaddr_family,
414 didn't know it was there, but comes in handy for the workaround.
415 - undo the import WIN32 hack.
416
417 4.04 Mon May 26 08:03:31 CEST 2008
418 - try to work around yet another windows bug: failed connects are reported
419 as if it were out-of-band data. windows users: you suck. Only
420 EV, Glib, Event and the pure perl backend can handle this condition.
421 - optimize write algorithm in AnyEvent::Handle.
422 - properly parse PERL_ANYEVENT_PROTOCOLS and use the info correctly.
423 - tcp_connect now properly iterates through all targets.
424 - check wether IPv6 sockets can actually be created, otherwise, disable ipv6
425 support entirely. also hardcode some AF_INET6 constants for the
426 sake of perl 5.8.
427 - vastly improved nameserver/suffix detection algorithm for windows
428 (still a hack...)
429 - try to use a fallback dns server if no dns servers could be found.
430 - splatter around some local $SIG{__DIE__}'s to work around bad
431 die handlers.
432
433 4.03 Sun May 25 05:05:57 CEST 2008
434 - work around perl bugs on windows, where perl returns undocumented
435 error codes for sysread, syswrite etc.
436 - fix AnyEvent::Handle::unshift_read to really unshift and not push.
437 - AnyEvent::Handle could sometimes stumble over 0-byte writes.
438 - fix unpack_sockaddr, now works for AF_INET6 sockaddr's.
439 - updated documentation.
440 - lots of workarounds for perl 5.8 quirks.
441 - implement a more flexible type system for both reads and writes
442 in AnyEvent::Handle.
443 - support IPv6 in tcp_server.
444 - pass local hostname and port to the prepare callback in tcp_server.
445 - make types extendable in AnyEvent::Handle.
446 - croak, not die, in AnyEvent::Handle;
447
448 4.0 Sat May 24 19:58:08 CEST 2008
449 - added (experimental) AnyEvent::DNS module.
450 - added (experimental) AnyEvent::Socket module.
451 - added (experiemntal) support for TLS/SSL in AnyEvent::Handle.
452 - make condvar->end call ->send as documented.
453 - make condvar constructor support the documented cb => argument.
454 - overload condvars so you can use them instead of code references.
455 - support more of the POSIX forms instead of a pure dotted quad for
456 verbatim ip addresses.
457 - AnyEvent::Socket::inet_aton will use AnyEvent::DNS now and not fork anymore.
458 - try very hard not to freeze on broken windows perls.
459 - make on_eof optional in AnyEvent::Handle.
460 - support service names in tcp_connect and tcp_server.
461 - work around netbsd/openbsd bug causing unix sockets not to
462 become writable until empty.
463 - only make a dummy read for error detection when getpeername
464 returns ENOTCONN.
465 - defend AnyEvent::Util::inet_aton against Coro::LWP's brutal
466 override.
467 - new AnyEvent::Guard::cancel.
468
469 3.5 Sat May 17 23:17:14 CEST 2008
470 - gracefully deal with systems not defining CLOCK_MONOTONIC
471 (as opposed to not supporting the clock itself, which worked in 3.41).
472 - added AnyEvent::Util::tcp_connect and AnyEvent::Util::tcp_server
473 helpers, to replace the ill-designed AnyEvent::Socket class.
474 - added some examples (eg/connect, eg/handle).
475 - added AnyEvent::Util::guard.
476 - AnyEvent::Util now exports most of its functions.
477 - fixed a bug in *_read_chunk, where the callback was called with $self as
478 first and second argument.
479 - simplified and fixed regex handling in AnyEvent::Handle::*_read_line.
480 - fix manpage condvars examples to use new syntax.
481 - considerably improve inet_aton with EV::ADNS backend to support
482 cname chains (common dns configuration bug, e.g. with www.google.de)
483 and aaaa records if no a record could be found.
484
485 3.41 Sun May 11 19:53:13 CEST 2008
486 - work around a bug in perl 5.8.8's local. Reported by Yi Ma Mao.
487
488 3.4 Sun May 11 00:29:25 CEST 2008
489 - complete re-implementation of condvars with a hopefully much more useful
490 API (backward compatible functions exist but are undocumented).
491 - AnyEvent::Handle fully rewritten with a hopefully more powerful API
492 (still subject to change).
493 - take advantage of CLOCK_MONOTONIC, if available, in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
494 - provide AnyEvent::post_detect and @AnyEvent::post_detect, which
495 allows module authors to avoid forcing event loop detection.
496 (used by Coro::AIO, Coro::BDB, Coro::AnyEvent for example).
497 - remove coro backends: Coro now provides generic support for AnyEvent
498 via Coro::AnyEvent.
499
500 3.3 Mon Apr 28 09:51:06 CEST 2008
501 - added AnyEvent::Handle, AnyEvent::Socket and AnyEvent::Util modules.
502 - fix a bug in the pure perl backend that kept watchers alive
503 when multiple watchers were registered for the same fh/poll combo.
504 - add a benchmark section showing AnyEvent overhead and comparing
505 the different event loops with each other.
506 - prefer pure perl over tk when autoprobing, as it's about as fast,
507 but doesn't crash with many watchers.
508 - declare Qt support non-experimental.
509 - clarify the confusing section about the file descriptor being
510 kept alive.
511 - document the race between loading of an event module and
512 child processes exiting.
513 - support POE as "backend" (with some caveats, POE is not generic
514 enough, and darn slow).
515 - support Wx and Prima through POE.
516 - optimise perl backend to use 20% less memory and take advantage
517 of typical timeout behaviour. It can now compete with
518 select/poll-based C event loops in most cases (it is usually
519 faster than Event and Glib :).
520 - roughly cut EV memory use in half and increase its speed by 30%,
521 by removing undocumented functionality. Did something similar
522 to other event loops where possible.
523
524 3.2 Thu Apr 24 10:10:40 CEST 2008
525 - do not die when anyevent watchers are destroyed while running callbacks
526 in the pureperl backend (could only happen when two watchers are registered
527 for the same fh/poll combo).
528 - support autoloading for child watchers, was broken in all versions.
529 - implement PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL env variable.
530 - (experimental) implement interface to the (very crashy/buggy) Event::Lib module.
531 - (experimental) implement interface to the Qt module (cannot be autoprobed).
532 - this release is IO:AnyEvent-proof.
533
534 3.12 Tue Apr 22 07:11:46 CEST 2008
535 - reinstate AUTHOR section that got lost somehow.
536 - do not hang in the testsuite with badly broken perls (activestate,
537 strawberry...), but instead diagnose the problem and continue.
538 - use INT instead of CHLD in an attempt to support broken windows perls
539 better (this decreases the test quality, unfortunately).
540 - do not send the signal to the process group
541 (no problem for CHLD, bad for INT :).
542
543 3.11 Sat Apr 19 06:57:31 CEST 2008
544 - major documentation rework.
545 - document the fact that child watchers only watch for zombies.
546 - fix the child watcher example.
547
548 3.1 Wed Apr 16 17:09:01 CEST 2008
549 - work around recurring bugs in Tk by dup'ing filehandles, the
550 only method with good success chances on Tk (the bugs apparently
551 don't get fixed anytime soon).
552 - lift the restriction of only one watcher per fh direction
553 (as the Tk bug workaround also lifts it and only Tk imposed
554 such strong limits).
555 - changed probe order to prefer coro adaptors.
556 - explain why recursion into the event loop is not supported
557 unless the backend supports it (only Coro::EV does without
558 any restrictions...).
559 - add simple manpages for all backend modules.
560
561 3.0 Mon Apr 7 21:30:23 CEST 2008
562 - Coro::Signal changed semantics, roll our own, also cleaning
563 up the Coro implementation in general.
564 - rename Coro backend to CoroEvent.
565 - add some decision helping paragraph to the manpage that should
566 help people to decide whether AnyEvent is the right thing for them.
567
568 2.9 Mon Jan 28 13:31:54 CET 2008
569 - update for EV 3.0 API changes.
570
571 2.8 Sun Nov 25 15:06:03 CET 2007
572 - waitpid can validly return 0. accept this fact of life
573 instead of reporting it to any watchers.
574
575 2.7 Fri Nov 23 11:41:14 CET 2007
576 - force use of AnyEvent::Impl::Perl in testsuite, there is
577 too much breakage outside AnyEvent.
578 - deliver signals synchronously in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl
579 or any other event loop that relies on AnyEvents child
580 watcher emulation. *Could* help with hanging testsuite
581 (except when Event or EV are installed).
582
583 2.6 Fri Nov 9 20:36:35 CET 2007
584 - fix bug in testsuite.
585 - move EV adaptor modules to AnyEvent.
586 - add Coro+EV adaptor module.
587
588 2.55 Tue Nov 6 17:41:32 CET 2007
589 - add EV to the list of supported event models.
590 - do not auto-reset pid watchers, pass pid and status to them.
591 - allow a pid of zero to watch for all children in child watchers.
592
593 2.54 Wed Jul 18 17:36:23 CEST 2007
594 - work around a perl bug that results in
595 BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted without
596 any discernible reason or error message by once
597 again not use'ing strict.
598
599 2.53 Sun Jul 8 10:51:53 CEST 2007
600 - make Glib interface work again (spotted by elmex).
601
602 2.52 Wed Mar 7 18:36:16 CET 2007
603 - child watchers stopped working permanently when
604 all current child watchers were destroyed.
605
606 2.51 Mon Dec 11 21:33:24 CET 2006
607 - work around bugs in perl where eval "require Module" returns
608 true even if the module couldn't be loaded :/.
609
610 2.5 Mon Dec 11 02:15:28 CET 2006
611 - avoid $AUTOLOAD because many perls corrupt it.
612 - AnyEvent::detect forces autodetection.
613 - implement signal watchers (experimental)
614 (Tk does not support async signals (<= 804.027 at least),
615 so they might get delayed indefinitely on Tk).
616 - implement child watchers (experimental).
617 - moved default condvar implementation into base module, simplifying
618 most implementation modules.
619
620 2.1 Fri Nov 24 15:50:48 CET 2006
621 - better docs.
622 - simple testsuite.
623 - added AnyEvent->one_event method for special purposes.
624
625 2.0 Wed Nov 1 02:21:30 CET 2006
626 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: poll can now either be "r" or "w" but not both.
627 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: io watcher callbacks have no arguments anymore.
628 - EXPERIMENTAL:
629 new pure-perl model added, AnyEvent now always finds a suitable
630 event model.
631 - improved documentation.
632 - reduced cpu overhead.
633
634 1.02 Fri Jan 13 14:15:40 CET 2006
635 - add COPYING to clarify license.
636
637 1.01 Sun Jan 8 05:48:09 CET 2006
638 - correctly cancel Event timers, avoid memory leaks.
639
640 1.0 Sun Jan 8 05:40:58 CET 2006
641 - allow third-party interfaces to be added at runtime.
642 - fix version number.
643
644 0.9 Fri Dec 30 02:25:41 CET 2005
645 - fixed errors in the documentation.
646 - going back to using $VERSION as "load check",
647 as suggested by Jörn Reder. Let's see why I stopped using
648 this method.
649 - add 'hup' to the list of events to receive for glib
650 and generate 'rw' events for it, as some versions of
651 glib seem to require this, while this breaks other
652 (older) versions of glib.
653 - implemented PERL_ANYEVENT_VERBOSE env variable.
654
655 0.3 Sun Dec 4 10:43:33 CET 2005
656 - no changes to the code.
657 - fixed documentation.
658 - clarified some corner cases.
659 - vastly improved documentation with a long example.
660
661 0.2 Thu Dec 1 22:18:49 CET 2005
662 - check whether a valid method was called, to avoid endless loops.
663 - move condvars into their own class (cleaner, safer).
664 - don't die when some modules are not available.
665 - Tk is too broken to allow for words. Will work once Tk works.
666
667 0.1 Thu Dec 1 19:44:57 CET 2005
668 - spiced up and cleaned up for release.
669
670 0.01 Tue Sep 21 18:12:09 CEST 2004
671 - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
672