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Revision: 1.296
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1 Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent.
2
3 TODO: maybe support "peerip" verificstion, i.e. getpeername diretcly as
4 additional peername?
5
6 - do not attempt to linger when there is no longer a valid fh.
7 - enforce tls mode to be either accept or connect, do not simply
8 segfault in Net::SSLeay.
9
10 4.86 Mon Jul 20 23:52:29 CEST 2009
11 - since the verbose warning is not enough, explicitly document
12 that versions before 1.33 of Net::SSLeay are not secure.
13 - work around signal handling races in Event and (...) Event::Lib.
14 - try to align signal-race timer to full-second boundaries.
15 - work around Tk not liking negative timeouts.
16 - don't complain of different grades of environmental unfriendlyness
17 in IO::ASync.
18
19 4.85 Sat Jul 18 06:16:14 CEST 2009
20 - nail the signal race problem in perl once and for all
21 (see $AnyEvent::MAX_SIGNAL_LATENCY).
22 - take advantage of Async::Interrupt if it is available.
23 - load Time::HiRes and Guard modules on demand only.
24 - add optional/recommended modules section to AnyEvent
25 documentation.
26 - reduce memory usage considerably (and reduce startup penalty)
27 by not using "strict", "warnings" and "overload" modules.
28 - work around buggy windows/openbsd perls and provide EBADMSG
29 and EPROTO ourselves when missing.
30 - improve perl 5.6 compatibility of the core event loop.
31 - made Net::SSLeay version 1.33 a soft requirement.
32
33 4.83 Fri Jul 17 16:56:26 CEST 2009
34 - implement AnyEvent::Socket::getprotobyname.
35 - AnyEvent::CondVar's will now detect recursive blocking
36 waits and will croak, as too many people fall into
37 this trap.
38 - AnyEvent::Handle will now call ->destroy on itself after
39 executing the on_error callback, instead of doing some
40 half-baked internal shutdown, for fatal errors.
41 - clarify on_eof behaviour w.r.t. the read queue and
42 on_read callbacks.
43 - ignore some possible spurious wake-ups in tcp_connect.
44
45 4.82 Sat Jul 11 00:34:55 CEST 2009
46 - POE and Event backends didn't accept some callable objects as
47 callbacks.
48 - use Config module instead of POSIX module to detect signal names
49 in AnyEvent::Strict and AnyEvent::Impl::EventLib, as the POSIX
50 module doesn't even have all POSIX signals :/.
51 - use more workarounds around the many refcnt/corruption bugs in
52 Event::Lib.
53 - work around a race condition in perl's select, causing t/03_child.t
54 to rarely fail.
55
56 4.81 Thu Jul 9 10:30:30 CEST 2009
57 - AnyEvent::Handle didn't properly diagnose write errors
58 (it expected -1 from syswrite, how lame... :).
59 - support file descriptors in addition to file handles
60 in AnyEvent->io.
61 - new env variables: PERL_ANYEVENT_RESOLV_CONF,
62 PERL_ANYEVENT_MAX_OUTSTANDING_DNS, PERL_ANYEVENT_CA_FILE
63 and PERL_ANYEVENT_CA_PATH.
64 - provide a sensible synopsis section for AnyEvent::TLS.
65 - add a "supported backends" section to the manpage.
66 - added simple io watcher test to testsuite, using a
67 portable_socketpair.
68 - tried to improve the stability of the Event::Lib backend,
69 YMMV.
70
71 4.8 Mon Jul 6 23:45:16 CEST 2009
72 - AnyEvent::DNS did not properly follow CNAME records with
73 uppercase targets.
74 - AnyEvent::DNS would errornously return AAAA records
75 with v4 mapped addresses (a faulty record) as ipv4 addresses,
76 causing AnyEvent::Socket to throw an exception.
77 - added new module AnyEvent::TLS for easier SSL/TLS context
78 creation, with many options including hostname verification,
79 secure default configuration, lots of documentation and,
80 predefined diffie-hellman keys for perfect forward security
81 and much more. get it while it's still fresh!
82 - use AnyEvent::TLS in AnyEvent::Handle for context management.
83 - load AnyEvent::Handle only on demand in AnyEvent::DNS,
84 so AnyEvent::Socket users have smaller memory footprint
85 in the common case.
86 - add AnyEvent::Handle->push_shutdown method.
87 - add an additional error message parameter to AnyEvent::Handle's
88 on_error callback (for TLS, $! is still available).
89 - add AnyEvent::Handle on_starttls/on_stoptls callbacks.
90 - make AnyEvent::Handle more robust against early conenction
91 failures (during new), and return C<undef> in that case
92 from the constructor.
93 - AnyEvent::Handle will now try to load only JSON::XS first,
94 then fall back to JSON.
95 - format_ipv4/format_ipv6 are now exported by default, for symmetry,
96 and because it was documented that way.
97
98 4.451 Fri Jul 3 00:28:58 CEST 2009
99 - do not clear rbuf when shutting down an AnyEvent::Handle
100 object - doing so breaks AnyEvent::HTTP.
101
102 4.45 Mon Jun 29 22:59:26 CEST 2009
103 - a write error could cause AnyEvent::Handle to create
104 an I/O watcher with an undefined $fh.
105 - special-case mapped ipv4 addresses in both
106 AnyEvent::Socket::format_address and parse_address,
107 to treat them just like ipv4 addresses.
108 - updated and overhauled the AnyEvent::Intro doc.
109 - implement AnyEvent::Socket::format_ipv4/ipv6.
110 - slightly speed up portable_pipe/socketpair.
111 - expand condvar begin/end documentation.
112
113 4.42 Fri Jun 26 08:32:18 CEST 2009
114 - preliminary and neccesarily incomplete support for IO::Async.
115 - reset SIGCHLD to DEFAULT when AnyEvent is loaded, in
116 case it was set to IGNORE, to ensure we can catch child statuses
117 even when the calling env acts stupidly.
118 - updated benchmarks with IO::Async, which performs very well.
119
120 4.412 Wed Jun 24 01:35:57 CEST 2009
121 - support an "untaint" attribute for AnyEvent::DNS
122 and set it on the default resolver.
123 - implement and document AnyEvent::Impl::Perl::loop.
124 - remove all anyevent-env variables from %ENV
125 when running in tainted mode.
126 - mention and extend the IO::Lambda benchmark.
127
128 4.411 Sun Jun 7 18:48:02 CEST 2009
129 - do not try to use F_SETFD on windows.
130
131 4.41 Thu May 14 06:40:11 CEST 2009
132 - work around issues in older perls (5.8.0?) when
133 a signal handler is deleted from the %SIG hash.
134 - use POSIX::_exit in child test, to avoid running
135 destructors.
136 - speed up CHLD handling by relying on SIGCHLD being
137 synchronously delivered, even when we roll our own
138 implementation.
139 - AnyEvent::DNS: add the "dname" resource record name
140 for cosmetic reasons.
141
142 4.4 Sun Apr 26 20:12:33 CEST 2009
143 - implemented idle watchers, where applicable.
144 - AnyEvent->time died when Event backend was in use.
145 - fix a memleak in the Tk backend.
146 - sped up Tk timer handling.
147 - clip negative "after" values to 0 in AnyEvent::Impl::Event
148 to avoid spamming out warning messages.
149 - fix Qt timers without interval.
150 - avoid Qt zero-timeout special case, in old libqt's.
151
152 4.352 Mon Apr 20 16:31:11 CEST 2009
153 - fix AnyEvent::Strict error messages for child watchers.
154 - fix/update Makefile.PL "recommends" versions.
155 - add AnyEvent->now_update.
156
157 4.351 Sat Apr 11 07:56:14 CEST 2009
158 - actually make the signal pipe work under win32.
159 - localise $! in signal handler to avoid changing $!, although
160 perl itself does not seem to save/restore errno either.
161 - set the cloexec flag on the signal pipe (normally set by perl too).
162
163 4.35 Fri Mar 27 11:48:20 CET 2009
164 - event models relying on AnyEvent's signal watcher emulation did
165 invoke the callback asynchronously, contradicting documentation
166 and causing signals to get lost (this includes AnyEvent's own
167 event loop). AnyEvent now uses the standard pipe trick to make
168 callback execution synchronous to the event loop.
169 - AnyEvent::Handle didn't free TLS context data on DESTROY
170 (patch by Pavel Shaydo).
171 - work around the ever-incompatibly-changing API of MakeMaker.
172 - document that changing global variables without restoring them
173 is a bad idea in Perl (noted by Adam Rosenstein).
174 - AnyEvent::Strict now barfs if ->io is passed a file.
175
176 4.34 Thu Feb 12 18:32:45 CET 2009
177 - separately buffer TLS read data, as otherwise the read queue could
178 deadlock as receiving data is not expected while draining the
179 read queue (which cna only happen with TLS).
180 - raise EBADMSG error on JSON decoding errors.
181 - fix some minor manpage bugs (reported by Maximilian Gaß).
182 - speed up select bitmask parsing quite a bit in the pure perl
183 backend.
184 - use CORE::select instead of just select in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
185
186 4.331 Tue Jan 6 21:07:25 CET 2009
187 - socketpair fails on many vista machines because vista has
188 completely broken accept/getpeername and getsockname functions,
189 so we provide our own socketpair emulation that kind of works
190 (AnyEvent::Util::portable_pipe).
191 - new function: AnyEvent::Util::portable_socketpair.
192 - take advantage of the Guard module if it exists.
193
194 4.33 Fri Nov 21 02:35:40 CET 2008
195 - AnyEvent::Strict did errornously flag a fileno of 0 as
196 illegal.
197 - reduce memory usage and slightly speed up the pure perl backend
198 by only storing the file descriptor, not the file handle.
199 - add missing autocork method to AnyEvent::Handle (reported
200 by Adam Rosenstein).
201 - AnyEvent::DNS->resolve errornously documented an $rcode result
202 argument, but there isn't (spotted by Henrik Krohns).
203 - the naked truth about Tk - it's basically unmaintained.
204
205 4.32 Mon Nov 3 22:46:32 CET 2008
206 - fix AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr to properly support
207 unix sockets again and choose a proper default for
208 the socket type.
209 - fix call to resolve_sockaddr in tcp_connect.
210
211 4.31 Thu Oct 30 04:41:48 CET 2008
212 - implemented AnyEvent::Handle->destroy method.
213 - hint about unexpected effects in TLS mode.
214 - speed up AnyEvent::Impl::Perl by using more arrays
215 instead of hashes without the slightest loss of readability :)
216 - work around a perl argument refcounting bug.
217 - with some perl patches applied, AnyEvent now seems leak-free.
218
219 4.3 Fri Oct 3 09:18:43 CEST 2008
220 - AnyEvent will now install a no-op signal handler for SIGPIPE,
221 unless one has been installed already.
222 - warn about not loaidng AnyEvent::Impl::POE early enough
223 (patch by Adam Rosenstein).
224 - fixed a great number of bugs and corner cases in AnyEvent::Handle:
225 - fix a bug in where in SSL connect mode, the
226 client would first wait for some data by the server and
227 otherwise hang. (reported and analyzed in an absolutely
228 exemplary manner by Adam Rosenstein).
229 - fix a bug in where SSL EOF would not be treated
230 as stream EOF, putting the connection into a hung state.
231 (reported and analyzed in an absolutely exemplary manner by Adam
232 Rosenstein).
233 - fix a potential segfault when the TLS context
234 would go missing in a read callback (e.g. due to stoptls) -
235 Net::SSLeay of course makes no type checking whatsoever.
236 - AnyEvent::Handle will not stop the read watcher in TLS mode.
237 - AnyEvent::Handle->stoptls will send a TLS close notify
238 instead of simply destroying the stream now.
239 - fix a bug where large blocks of data written in TLS mode
240 would not be sent unless triggered by receives.
241 - on_drain will now take the tls write buffer into account.
242 - SSL operations have been streamlined a bit and should be faster
243 now, more to come, though.
244 - added a FAQ section, will document nontrivial issues in there.
245
246 4.234 Mon Sep 29 04:08:13 CEST 2008
247 - fix child watcher documentation: only child exits will be reported,
248 no trace events.
249 - mention SIGPIPE in AnyEvent::Handle.
250 - perl backend will now use POSIX::times as monotonic clock
251 when available and the monotonic clock option is not.
252 - run even without Time::HiRes in some cases now, but do not
253 provide sub-second accuracy (all *supported* perl versions have
254 Time::HiRes).
255
256 4.233 Fri Aug 22 01:48:05 CEST 2008
257 - fix a bug in the testsuite, causing a hang.
258 - clarified lots of AnyEvent::Handle constructor arguments.
259
260 4.232 Thu Aug 21 20:44:25 CEST 2008
261 - fix a bug in AnyEvent::Handle that could cause two fatal error
262 callbacks on EOF, which caused AnyEvent::HTTP to signal success twice
263 (testcase by Leon Brocard).
264 - clarified on_eof/on_error documentation a bit.
265
266 4.231 Tue Jul 29 13:12:15 CEST 2008
267 - remove some debugging code left in AnyEvent::Util::fork_call
268 (and no, it's impossible to implement with the broken windows
269 perls without resource leaks or worse).
270
271 4.23 Tue Jul 29 12:19:59 CEST 2008
272 - document the first parameter passed to condvar callbacks to be
273 the callback.
274 - add AnyEvent::Socket::{ntoa,aton} aliases.
275 - optimize the AE::Handle->push_read (line) for the default
276 eol marker.
277 - optimize push_read (packstring|storable) for small packets.
278 - invoke on_error callback when no on_eof callback is set.
279 - fix a bug in push_read (storable) of unknown impact.
280
281 4.22 Sun Jul 20 16:34:13 CEST 2008
282 - new function AnyEvent::Socket::parse_hostport.
283 - as the bulkheads at microsoft can't even get getprotobyname reliably
284 working on their shitty fucking broken os we need to hardcode
285 some common protocol numbers in AnyEvent::Socket. How can
286 people even bother with such a pile of shit as windows.
287
288 4.21 Thu Jul 17 14:40:05 CEST 2008
289 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: AnyEvent::Util::fork_call now has a prototype
290 which is incompatible to previous invocation syntax.
291 - work around more windows perl bugs in fork_call. I cannot imagine
292 why anybody would bother implementing fork in such an obviously
293 unusable way.
294 - avoid calling $do_retry if the request has already finished in
295 AnyEvent::DNS, thus avoiding an exception (reported by Anatoly
296 K. Sharifulin).
297
298 4.2 Sat Jul 12 22:42:11 CEST 2008
299 - support an "interval" argument for repeating timers.
300 - fix a bug in the pure perl event loop that caused timers to
301 be delayed under some circumstances.
302 - implement optional argument checking via PERL_ANYEVENT_STRICT.
303 - not importing anything from Event causes it to malfunction
304 and not use Time::HiRes, work around this bug.
305 - more bug workarounds against the endlessly broken Tk module,
306 seems to work now on 32 bit machines, but less so on 64 bit.
307 - minor optimisations applied to most backends.
308
309 4.161 Fri Jul 4 14:24:48 CEST 2008
310 - fixed the t/handle/02_write.t, it read after write, with the
311 assumption that all data could be written before read
312 (reported by Jim Razmus).
313
314 4.160 Thu Jul 3 04:02:21 CEST 2008
315 - re-registering signal watchers after unregistering one did
316 not work if a backend falls back on AnyEvent's default
317 implementation (also affected child watchers).
318 - new AnyEvent::Handle options: autocork and no_delay.
319
320 4.152 Sun Jun 22 14:15:44 CEST 2008
321 - allow for 32-bit perls that implement shifts differently
322 on different architectures in parse_ipv4 (reported and
323 analysed by Keiichi DAIBA).
324
325 4.151 Fri Jun 6 17:34:24 CEST 2008
326 - make sure specifying _only_ on_read and never pushing reads
327 works.
328
329 4.15 Fri Jun 6 13:00:46 CEST 2008
330 - the pure perl backend would keep some watchers alive when more than
331 one watcher was registered for the same fd.
332 - new "packstring" and "storable" read and write types
333 for AnyEvent::Handle.
334 - allow on_eof handler to be called after on_error with EPIPE returns.
335 - do not immediately call on_read callback in handle constructor.
336
337 4.14 Thu Jun 5 20:29:31 CEST 2008
338 - Fixed a bug in DNS SRV priority sorting.
339 - AnyEvent::Util::guard now reports runtime errors while
340 executing the guard block as warnings.
341 - handle 0-byte-reads just before EOF correctly in AnyEvent::Handle.
342
343 4.13 Thu Jun 5 00:47:59 CEST 2008
344 - AnyEvent::DNS only followed cname chains with length 2,
345 contrary to documentation. bumped it up to 10, thanks to
346 microsoft, the current broken-dns-config-king.
347 - AnyEvent::DNS didn't check for socket return status
348 but instead relied on perl not creating filehandles in that
349 case - too bad it gives you a bogus file handle (reported
350 and analysed by Vladimir Timofeev).
351 - fix queue management logic in AnyEvent::Handle:
352 when on_read was registered, the queue was empty
353 and no progress could be made AnyEvent::Handle would
354 enter an endless loop.
355 - correctly start reading again when the handle became
356 busy again after idling.
357 - correctly treat tls shut-downs as EOF condition
358 (for the time being, would be nice to have a callback for that).
359 - correctly call eof callback under all conditions
360 (hopefully).
361 - the timeout callback did not expect that $self can go
362 away any time.
363
364 4.12 Tue Jun 3 10:58:04 CEST 2008
365 - include AnyEvent::Intro, a tutorial for anyevent,
366 anyevent::socket and anyevent::handle.
367 - allow more options in on_error.
368
369 4.11 Fri May 30 23:42:25 CEST 2008
370 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace ptr by real PTR lookup, provide
371 reverse_lookup and reverse_verify to replace it, support
372 v4mapped and v4compat addresses.
373 - provide more documentation for the resolver class.
374 - really replace longest run of :0: by :: in format_address,
375 also properly convert :: and ::1 again.
376 - support NAPTR record name and decode it.
377 - implement random weight sampling for SRV records, as per
378 rfc 2782.
379 - correctly abort on srv-record targets of ".".
380 - added AnyEvent::DNS::wait_for_slot.
381 - in the unlikely event of a virtual circuit connection
382 being invalidated by a delayed udp reply, AnyEvent::DNS
383 could die. this has been fixed.
384 - plug a probable memleak in the DNS vc code.
385 - use configured timeout also for VC request phase.
386 - implement timeout and max_outstanding methods
387 for resolver class.
388 - update version numbers in all modules.
389
390 4.1 Thu May 29 05:45:40 CEST 2008
391 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: renamed xxx_ip functions to xxx_address
392 which mirrors their purpose better (old names still available
393 for a while). Also moved AnyEvent::DNS::addr to
394 AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr.
395 - implement AnyEvent->time and AnyEvent->now.
396 - fix IPv6 support in pack_sockaddr.
397 - officially un-experimentalise all newly introduced code.
398 - support unix domain sockets everywhere by specifying
399 a host of "unix/" and the pathname as service.
400 - implement an activity timeout in AnyEvent::Handle.
401 - added a regex read type to AnyEvent::Handle.
402 - added a json read/write type to AnyEvent::Handle.
403 - always croak in on_error in AnyEvent::Handle.
404 - document how to subclass AnyEvent::Handle.
405 - implement AnyEvent::Util::fork_call.
406 - add support for IPv6 nameservers and nameserver statements.
407 - work around _yet_ _another_ windows perl bug in where empty
408 select masks cause errors in the pure perl backend (this
409 workaround cannot be implemented for the other event loops,
410 but EV also works around this).
411 - supply AnyEvent::Socket::address_type and make good use of it.
412 - clarify and fix the Handle documentation w.r.t $self vs. $handle
413 vs. callback arguments.
414 - add some recommends to the META.yml.
415
416 4.05 Mon May 26 19:44:06 CEST 2008
417 - some platforms ignore the rfc and prepend an extra sa_len member to
418 the sockaddr structure, cater for those. also use sockaddr_family,
419 didn't know it was there, but comes in handy for the workaround.
420 - undo the import WIN32 hack.
421
422 4.04 Mon May 26 08:03:31 CEST 2008
423 - try to work around yet another windows bug: failed connects are reported
424 as if it were out-of-band data. windows users: you suck. Only
425 EV, Glib, Event and the pure perl backend can handle this condition.
426 - optimize write algorithm in AnyEvent::Handle.
427 - properly parse PERL_ANYEVENT_PROTOCOLS and use the info correctly.
428 - tcp_connect now properly iterates through all targets.
429 - check wether IPv6 sockets can actually be created, otherwise, disable ipv6
430 support entirely. also hardcode some AF_INET6 constants for the
431 sake of perl 5.8.
432 - vastly improved nameserver/suffix detection algorithm for windows
433 (still a hack...)
434 - try to use a fallback dns server if no dns servers could be found.
435 - splatter around some local $SIG{__DIE__}'s to work around bad
436 die handlers.
437
438 4.03 Sun May 25 05:05:57 CEST 2008
439 - work around perl bugs on windows, where perl returns undocumented
440 error codes for sysread, syswrite etc.
441 - fix AnyEvent::Handle::unshift_read to really unshift and not push.
442 - AnyEvent::Handle could sometimes stumble over 0-byte writes.
443 - fix unpack_sockaddr, now works for AF_INET6 sockaddr's.
444 - updated documentation.
445 - lots of workarounds for perl 5.8 quirks.
446 - implement a more flexible type system for both reads and writes
447 in AnyEvent::Handle.
448 - support IPv6 in tcp_server.
449 - pass local hostname and port to the prepare callback in tcp_server.
450 - make types extendable in AnyEvent::Handle.
451 - croak, not die, in AnyEvent::Handle;
452
453 4.0 Sat May 24 19:58:08 CEST 2008
454 - added (experimental) AnyEvent::DNS module.
455 - added (experimental) AnyEvent::Socket module.
456 - added (experiemntal) support for TLS/SSL in AnyEvent::Handle.
457 - make condvar->end call ->send as documented.
458 - make condvar constructor support the documented cb => argument.
459 - overload condvars so you can use them instead of code references.
460 - support more of the POSIX forms instead of a pure dotted quad for
461 verbatim ip addresses.
462 - AnyEvent::Socket::inet_aton will use AnyEvent::DNS now and not fork anymore.
463 - try very hard not to freeze on broken windows perls.
464 - make on_eof optional in AnyEvent::Handle.
465 - support service names in tcp_connect and tcp_server.
466 - work around netbsd/openbsd bug causing unix sockets not to
467 become writable until empty.
468 - only make a dummy read for error detection when getpeername
469 returns ENOTCONN.
470 - defend AnyEvent::Util::inet_aton against Coro::LWP's brutal
471 override.
472 - new AnyEvent::Guard::cancel.
473
474 3.5 Sat May 17 23:17:14 CEST 2008
475 - gracefully deal with systems not defining CLOCK_MONOTONIC
476 (as opposed to not supporting the clock itself, which worked in 3.41).
477 - added AnyEvent::Util::tcp_connect and AnyEvent::Util::tcp_server
478 helpers, to replace the ill-designed AnyEvent::Socket class.
479 - added some examples (eg/connect, eg/handle).
480 - added AnyEvent::Util::guard.
481 - AnyEvent::Util now exports most of its functions.
482 - fixed a bug in *_read_chunk, where the callback was called with $self as
483 first and second argument.
484 - simplified and fixed regex handling in AnyEvent::Handle::*_read_line.
485 - fix manpage condvars examples to use new syntax.
486 - considerably improve inet_aton with EV::ADNS backend to support
487 cname chains (common dns configuration bug, e.g. with www.google.de)
488 and aaaa records if no a record could be found.
489
490 3.41 Sun May 11 19:53:13 CEST 2008
491 - work around a bug in perl 5.8.8's local. Reported by Yi Ma Mao.
492
493 3.4 Sun May 11 00:29:25 CEST 2008
494 - complete re-implementation of condvars with a hopefully much more useful
495 API (backward compatible functions exist but are undocumented).
496 - AnyEvent::Handle fully rewritten with a hopefully more powerful API
497 (still subject to change).
498 - take advantage of CLOCK_MONOTONIC, if available, in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
499 - provide AnyEvent::post_detect and @AnyEvent::post_detect, which
500 allows module authors to avoid forcing event loop detection.
501 (used by Coro::AIO, Coro::BDB, Coro::AnyEvent for example).
502 - remove coro backends: Coro now provides generic support for AnyEvent
503 via Coro::AnyEvent.
504
505 3.3 Mon Apr 28 09:51:06 CEST 2008
506 - added AnyEvent::Handle, AnyEvent::Socket and AnyEvent::Util modules.
507 - fix a bug in the pure perl backend that kept watchers alive
508 when multiple watchers were registered for the same fh/poll combo.
509 - add a benchmark section showing AnyEvent overhead and comparing
510 the different event loops with each other.
511 - prefer pure perl over tk when autoprobing, as it's about as fast,
512 but doesn't crash with many watchers.
513 - declare Qt support non-experimental.
514 - clarify the confusing section about the file descriptor being
515 kept alive.
516 - document the race between loading of an event module and
517 child processes exiting.
518 - support POE as "backend" (with some caveats, POE is not generic
519 enough, and darn slow).
520 - support Wx and Prima through POE.
521 - optimise perl backend to use 20% less memory and take advantage
522 of typical timeout behaviour. It can now compete with
523 select/poll-based C event loops in most cases (it is usually
524 faster than Event and Glib :).
525 - roughly cut EV memory use in half and increase its speed by 30%,
526 by removing undocumented functionality. Did something similar
527 to other event loops where possible.
528
529 3.2 Thu Apr 24 10:10:40 CEST 2008
530 - do not die when anyevent watchers are destroyed while running callbacks
531 in the pureperl backend (could only happen when two watchers are registered
532 for the same fh/poll combo).
533 - support autoloading for child watchers, was broken in all versions.
534 - implement PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL env variable.
535 - (experimental) implement interface to the (very crashy/buggy) Event::Lib module.
536 - (experimental) implement interface to the Qt module (cannot be autoprobed).
537 - this release is IO:AnyEvent-proof.
538
539 3.12 Tue Apr 22 07:11:46 CEST 2008
540 - reinstate AUTHOR section that got lost somehow.
541 - do not hang in the testsuite with badly broken perls (activestate,
542 strawberry...), but instead diagnose the problem and continue.
543 - use INT instead of CHLD in an attempt to support broken windows perls
544 better (this decreases the test quality, unfortunately).
545 - do not send the signal to the process group
546 (no problem for CHLD, bad for INT :).
547
548 3.11 Sat Apr 19 06:57:31 CEST 2008
549 - major documentation rework.
550 - document the fact that child watchers only watch for zombies.
551 - fix the child watcher example.
552
553 3.1 Wed Apr 16 17:09:01 CEST 2008
554 - work around recurring bugs in Tk by dup'ing filehandles, the
555 only method with good success chances on Tk (the bugs apparently
556 don't get fixed anytime soon).
557 - lift the restriction of only one watcher per fh direction
558 (as the Tk bug workaround also lifts it and only Tk imposed
559 such strong limits).
560 - changed probe order to prefer coro adaptors.
561 - explain why recursion into the event loop is not supported
562 unless the backend supports it (only Coro::EV does without
563 any restrictions...).
564 - add simple manpages for all backend modules.
565
566 3.0 Mon Apr 7 21:30:23 CEST 2008
567 - Coro::Signal changed semantics, roll our own, also cleaning
568 up the Coro implementation in general.
569 - rename Coro backend to CoroEvent.
570 - add some decision helping paragraph to the manpage that should
571 help people to decide whether AnyEvent is the right thing for them.
572
573 2.9 Mon Jan 28 13:31:54 CET 2008
574 - update for EV 3.0 API changes.
575
576 2.8 Sun Nov 25 15:06:03 CET 2007
577 - waitpid can validly return 0. accept this fact of life
578 instead of reporting it to any watchers.
579
580 2.7 Fri Nov 23 11:41:14 CET 2007
581 - force use of AnyEvent::Impl::Perl in testsuite, there is
582 too much breakage outside AnyEvent.
583 - deliver signals synchronously in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl
584 or any other event loop that relies on AnyEvents child
585 watcher emulation. *Could* help with hanging testsuite
586 (except when Event or EV are installed).
587
588 2.6 Fri Nov 9 20:36:35 CET 2007
589 - fix bug in testsuite.
590 - move EV adaptor modules to AnyEvent.
591 - add Coro+EV adaptor module.
592
593 2.55 Tue Nov 6 17:41:32 CET 2007
594 - add EV to the list of supported event models.
595 - do not auto-reset pid watchers, pass pid and status to them.
596 - allow a pid of zero to watch for all children in child watchers.
597
598 2.54 Wed Jul 18 17:36:23 CEST 2007
599 - work around a perl bug that results in
600 BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted without
601 any discernible reason or error message by once
602 again not use'ing strict.
603
604 2.53 Sun Jul 8 10:51:53 CEST 2007
605 - make Glib interface work again (spotted by elmex).
606
607 2.52 Wed Mar 7 18:36:16 CET 2007
608 - child watchers stopped working permanently when
609 all current child watchers were destroyed.
610
611 2.51 Mon Dec 11 21:33:24 CET 2006
612 - work around bugs in perl where eval "require Module" returns
613 true even if the module couldn't be loaded :/.
614
615 2.5 Mon Dec 11 02:15:28 CET 2006
616 - avoid $AUTOLOAD because many perls corrupt it.
617 - AnyEvent::detect forces autodetection.
618 - implement signal watchers (experimental)
619 (Tk does not support async signals (<= 804.027 at least),
620 so they might get delayed indefinitely on Tk).
621 - implement child watchers (experimental).
622 - moved default condvar implementation into base module, simplifying
623 most implementation modules.
624
625 2.1 Fri Nov 24 15:50:48 CET 2006
626 - better docs.
627 - simple testsuite.
628 - added AnyEvent->one_event method for special purposes.
629
630 2.0 Wed Nov 1 02:21:30 CET 2006
631 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: poll can now either be "r" or "w" but not both.
632 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: io watcher callbacks have no arguments anymore.
633 - EXPERIMENTAL:
634 new pure-perl model added, AnyEvent now always finds a suitable
635 event model.
636 - improved documentation.
637 - reduced cpu overhead.
638
639 1.02 Fri Jan 13 14:15:40 CET 2006
640 - add COPYING to clarify license.
641
642 1.01 Sun Jan 8 05:48:09 CET 2006
643 - correctly cancel Event timers, avoid memory leaks.
644
645 1.0 Sun Jan 8 05:40:58 CET 2006
646 - allow third-party interfaces to be added at runtime.
647 - fix version number.
648
649 0.9 Fri Dec 30 02:25:41 CET 2005
650 - fixed errors in the documentation.
651 - going back to using $VERSION as "load check",
652 as suggested by Jörn Reder. Let's see why I stopped using
653 this method.
654 - add 'hup' to the list of events to receive for glib
655 and generate 'rw' events for it, as some versions of
656 glib seem to require this, while this breaks other
657 (older) versions of glib.
658 - implemented PERL_ANYEVENT_VERBOSE env variable.
659
660 0.3 Sun Dec 4 10:43:33 CET 2005
661 - no changes to the code.
662 - fixed documentation.
663 - clarified some corner cases.
664 - vastly improved documentation with a long example.
665
666 0.2 Thu Dec 1 22:18:49 CET 2005
667 - check whether a valid method was called, to avoid endless loops.
668 - move condvars into their own class (cleaner, safer).
669 - don't die when some modules are not available.
670 - Tk is too broken to allow for words. Will work once Tk works.
671
672 0.1 Thu Dec 1 19:44:57 CET 2005
673 - spiced up and cleaned up for release.
674
675 0.01 Tue Sep 21 18:12:09 CEST 2004
676 - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
677