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Revision: 1.302
Committed: Tue Jul 28 02:07:18 2009 UTC (14 years, 9 months ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: rel-4_88
Changes since 1.301: +4 -1 lines
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4.88

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1 Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent.
2
3 4.88 Tue Jul 28 04:04:37 CEST 2009
4 - re-bless the handle into a dummy package after calling
5 AnyEvent::Handle::destroy, so the user does not need to check
6 for errors after every push_write etc.
7 - do not attempt to run t/02_signals.t on obviously broken
8 platforms.
9
10 4.87 Sun Jul 26 02:06:16 CEST 2009
11 - do not attempt to linger when there is no longer a valid fh.
12 - enforce tls mode to be either accept or connect, do not simply
13 segfault in Net::SSLeay.
14 - AnyEvent::Handle can now call tcp_connect itself (new parameters
15 connect, on_prepare, on_connect and on_connect_error). Updated
16 tutorial accordingly.
17 - add AnyEvent::Impl::Irssi backend.
18
19 4.86 Mon Jul 20 23:52:29 CEST 2009
20 - since the verbose warning is not enough, explicitly document
21 that versions before 1.33 of Net::SSLeay are not secure.
22 - work around signal handling races in Event and (...) Event::Lib.
23 - try to align signal-race timer to full-second boundaries.
24 - work around Tk not liking negative timeouts.
25 - don't complain of different grades of environmental unfriendlyness
26 in IO::Async.
27
28 4.85 Sat Jul 18 06:16:14 CEST 2009
29 - nail the signal race problem in perl once and for all
30 (see $AnyEvent::MAX_SIGNAL_LATENCY).
31 - take advantage of Async::Interrupt if it is available.
32 - load Time::HiRes and Guard modules on demand only.
33 - add optional/recommended modules section to AnyEvent
34 documentation.
35 - reduce memory usage considerably (and reduce startup penalty)
36 by not using "strict", "warnings" and "overload" modules.
37 - work around buggy windows/openbsd perls and provide EBADMSG
38 and EPROTO ourselves when missing.
39 - improve perl 5.6 compatibility of the core event loop.
40 - made Net::SSLeay version 1.33 a soft requirement.
41
42 4.83 Fri Jul 17 16:56:26 CEST 2009
43 - implement AnyEvent::Socket::getprotobyname.
44 - AnyEvent::CondVar's will now detect recursive blocking
45 waits and will croak, as too many people fall into
46 this trap.
47 - AnyEvent::Handle will now call ->destroy on itself after
48 executing the on_error callback, instead of doing some
49 half-baked internal shutdown, for fatal errors.
50 - clarify on_eof behaviour w.r.t. the read queue and
51 on_read callbacks.
52 - ignore some possible spurious wake-ups in tcp_connect.
53
54 4.82 Sat Jul 11 00:34:55 CEST 2009
55 - POE and Event backends didn't accept some callable objects as
56 callbacks.
57 - use Config module instead of POSIX module to detect signal names
58 in AnyEvent::Strict and AnyEvent::Impl::EventLib, as the POSIX
59 module doesn't even have all POSIX signals :/.
60 - use more workarounds around the many refcnt/corruption bugs in
61 Event::Lib.
62 - work around a race condition in perl's select, causing t/03_child.t
63 to rarely fail.
64
65 4.81 Thu Jul 9 10:30:30 CEST 2009
66 - AnyEvent::Handle didn't properly diagnose write errors
67 (it expected -1 from syswrite, how lame... :).
68 - support file descriptors in addition to file handles
69 in AnyEvent->io.
70 - new env variables: PERL_ANYEVENT_RESOLV_CONF,
71 PERL_ANYEVENT_MAX_OUTSTANDING_DNS, PERL_ANYEVENT_CA_FILE
72 and PERL_ANYEVENT_CA_PATH.
73 - provide a sensible synopsis section for AnyEvent::TLS.
74 - add a "supported backends" section to the manpage.
75 - added simple io watcher test to testsuite, using a
76 portable_socketpair.
77 - tried to improve the stability of the Event::Lib backend,
78 YMMV.
79
80 4.8 Mon Jul 6 23:45:16 CEST 2009
81 - AnyEvent::DNS did not properly follow CNAME records with
82 uppercase targets.
83 - AnyEvent::DNS would errornously return AAAA records
84 with v4 mapped addresses (a faulty record) as ipv4 addresses,
85 causing AnyEvent::Socket to throw an exception.
86 - added new module AnyEvent::TLS for easier SSL/TLS context
87 creation, with many options including hostname verification,
88 secure default configuration, lots of documentation and,
89 predefined diffie-hellman keys for perfect forward security
90 and much more. get it while it's still fresh!
91 - use AnyEvent::TLS in AnyEvent::Handle for context management.
92 - load AnyEvent::Handle only on demand in AnyEvent::DNS,
93 so AnyEvent::Socket users have smaller memory footprint
94 in the common case.
95 - add AnyEvent::Handle->push_shutdown method.
96 - add an additional error message parameter to AnyEvent::Handle's
97 on_error callback (for TLS, $! is still available).
98 - add AnyEvent::Handle on_starttls/on_stoptls callbacks.
99 - make AnyEvent::Handle more robust against early conenction
100 failures (during new), and return C<undef> in that case
101 from the constructor.
102 - AnyEvent::Handle will now try to load only JSON::XS first,
103 then fall back to JSON.
104 - format_ipv4/format_ipv6 are now exported by default, for symmetry,
105 and because it was documented that way.
106
107 4.451 Fri Jul 3 00:28:58 CEST 2009
108 - do not clear rbuf when shutting down an AnyEvent::Handle
109 object - doing so breaks AnyEvent::HTTP.
110
111 4.45 Mon Jun 29 22:59:26 CEST 2009
112 - a write error could cause AnyEvent::Handle to create
113 an I/O watcher with an undefined $fh.
114 - special-case mapped ipv4 addresses in both
115 AnyEvent::Socket::format_address and parse_address,
116 to treat them just like ipv4 addresses.
117 - updated and overhauled the AnyEvent::Intro doc.
118 - implement AnyEvent::Socket::format_ipv4/ipv6.
119 - slightly speed up portable_pipe/socketpair.
120 - expand condvar begin/end documentation.
121
122 4.42 Fri Jun 26 08:32:18 CEST 2009
123 - preliminary and neccesarily incomplete support for IO::Async.
124 - reset SIGCHLD to DEFAULT when AnyEvent is loaded, in
125 case it was set to IGNORE, to ensure we can catch child statuses
126 even when the calling env acts stupidly.
127 - updated benchmarks with IO::Async, which performs very well.
128
129 4.412 Wed Jun 24 01:35:57 CEST 2009
130 - support an "untaint" attribute for AnyEvent::DNS
131 and set it on the default resolver.
132 - implement and document AnyEvent::Impl::Perl::loop.
133 - remove all anyevent-env variables from %ENV
134 when running in tainted mode.
135 - mention and extend the IO::Lambda benchmark.
136
137 4.411 Sun Jun 7 18:48:02 CEST 2009
138 - do not try to use F_SETFD on windows.
139
140 4.41 Thu May 14 06:40:11 CEST 2009
141 - work around issues in older perls (5.8.0?) when
142 a signal handler is deleted from the %SIG hash.
143 - use POSIX::_exit in child test, to avoid running
144 destructors.
145 - speed up CHLD handling by relying on SIGCHLD being
146 synchronously delivered, even when we roll our own
147 implementation.
148 - AnyEvent::DNS: add the "dname" resource record name
149 for cosmetic reasons.
150
151 4.4 Sun Apr 26 20:12:33 CEST 2009
152 - implemented idle watchers, where applicable.
153 - AnyEvent->time died when Event backend was in use.
154 - fix a memleak in the Tk backend.
155 - sped up Tk timer handling.
156 - clip negative "after" values to 0 in AnyEvent::Impl::Event
157 to avoid spamming out warning messages.
158 - fix Qt timers without interval.
159 - avoid Qt zero-timeout special case, in old libqt's.
160
161 4.352 Mon Apr 20 16:31:11 CEST 2009
162 - fix AnyEvent::Strict error messages for child watchers.
163 - fix/update Makefile.PL "recommends" versions.
164 - add AnyEvent->now_update.
165
166 4.351 Sat Apr 11 07:56:14 CEST 2009
167 - actually make the signal pipe work under win32.
168 - localise $! in signal handler to avoid changing $!, although
169 perl itself does not seem to save/restore errno either.
170 - set the cloexec flag on the signal pipe (normally set by perl too).
171
172 4.35 Fri Mar 27 11:48:20 CET 2009
173 - event models relying on AnyEvent's signal watcher emulation did
174 invoke the callback asynchronously, contradicting documentation
175 and causing signals to get lost (this includes AnyEvent's own
176 event loop). AnyEvent now uses the standard pipe trick to make
177 callback execution synchronous to the event loop.
178 - AnyEvent::Handle didn't free TLS context data on DESTROY
179 (patch by Pavel Shaydo).
180 - work around the ever-incompatibly-changing API of MakeMaker.
181 - document that changing global variables without restoring them
182 is a bad idea in Perl (noted by Adam Rosenstein).
183 - AnyEvent::Strict now barfs if ->io is passed a file.
184
185 4.34 Thu Feb 12 18:32:45 CET 2009
186 - separately buffer TLS read data, as otherwise the read queue could
187 deadlock as receiving data is not expected while draining the
188 read queue (which cna only happen with TLS).
189 - raise EBADMSG error on JSON decoding errors.
190 - fix some minor manpage bugs (reported by Maximilian Gaß).
191 - speed up select bitmask parsing quite a bit in the pure perl
192 backend.
193 - use CORE::select instead of just select in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
194
195 4.331 Tue Jan 6 21:07:25 CET 2009
196 - socketpair fails on many vista machines because vista has
197 completely broken accept/getpeername and getsockname functions,
198 so we provide our own socketpair emulation that kind of works
199 (AnyEvent::Util::portable_pipe).
200 - new function: AnyEvent::Util::portable_socketpair.
201 - take advantage of the Guard module if it exists.
202
203 4.33 Fri Nov 21 02:35:40 CET 2008
204 - AnyEvent::Strict did errornously flag a fileno of 0 as
205 illegal.
206 - reduce memory usage and slightly speed up the pure perl backend
207 by only storing the file descriptor, not the file handle.
208 - add missing autocork method to AnyEvent::Handle (reported
209 by Adam Rosenstein).
210 - AnyEvent::DNS->resolve errornously documented an $rcode result
211 argument, but there isn't (spotted by Henrik Krohns).
212 - the naked truth about Tk - it's basically unmaintained.
213
214 4.32 Mon Nov 3 22:46:32 CET 2008
215 - fix AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr to properly support
216 unix sockets again and choose a proper default for
217 the socket type.
218 - fix call to resolve_sockaddr in tcp_connect.
219
220 4.31 Thu Oct 30 04:41:48 CET 2008
221 - implemented AnyEvent::Handle->destroy method.
222 - hint about unexpected effects in TLS mode.
223 - speed up AnyEvent::Impl::Perl by using more arrays
224 instead of hashes without the slightest loss of readability :)
225 - work around a perl argument refcounting bug.
226 - with some perl patches applied, AnyEvent now seems leak-free.
227
228 4.3 Fri Oct 3 09:18:43 CEST 2008
229 - AnyEvent will now install a no-op signal handler for SIGPIPE,
230 unless one has been installed already.
231 - warn about not loaidng AnyEvent::Impl::POE early enough
232 (patch by Adam Rosenstein).
233 - fixed a great number of bugs and corner cases in AnyEvent::Handle:
234 - fix a bug in where in SSL connect mode, the
235 client would first wait for some data by the server and
236 otherwise hang. (reported and analyzed in an absolutely
237 exemplary manner by Adam Rosenstein).
238 - fix a bug in where SSL EOF would not be treated
239 as stream EOF, putting the connection into a hung state.
240 (reported and analyzed in an absolutely exemplary manner by Adam
241 Rosenstein).
242 - fix a potential segfault when the TLS context
243 would go missing in a read callback (e.g. due to stoptls) -
244 Net::SSLeay of course makes no type checking whatsoever.
245 - AnyEvent::Handle will not stop the read watcher in TLS mode.
246 - AnyEvent::Handle->stoptls will send a TLS close notify
247 instead of simply destroying the stream now.
248 - fix a bug where large blocks of data written in TLS mode
249 would not be sent unless triggered by receives.
250 - on_drain will now take the tls write buffer into account.
251 - SSL operations have been streamlined a bit and should be faster
252 now, more to come, though.
253 - added a FAQ section, will document nontrivial issues in there.
254
255 4.234 Mon Sep 29 04:08:13 CEST 2008
256 - fix child watcher documentation: only child exits will be reported,
257 no trace events.
258 - mention SIGPIPE in AnyEvent::Handle.
259 - perl backend will now use POSIX::times as monotonic clock
260 when available and the monotonic clock option is not.
261 - run even without Time::HiRes in some cases now, but do not
262 provide sub-second accuracy (all *supported* perl versions have
263 Time::HiRes).
264
265 4.233 Fri Aug 22 01:48:05 CEST 2008
266 - fix a bug in the testsuite, causing a hang.
267 - clarified lots of AnyEvent::Handle constructor arguments.
268
269 4.232 Thu Aug 21 20:44:25 CEST 2008
270 - fix a bug in AnyEvent::Handle that could cause two fatal error
271 callbacks on EOF, which caused AnyEvent::HTTP to signal success twice
272 (testcase by Leon Brocard).
273 - clarified on_eof/on_error documentation a bit.
274
275 4.231 Tue Jul 29 13:12:15 CEST 2008
276 - remove some debugging code left in AnyEvent::Util::fork_call
277 (and no, it's impossible to implement with the broken windows
278 perls without resource leaks or worse).
279
280 4.23 Tue Jul 29 12:19:59 CEST 2008
281 - document the first parameter passed to condvar callbacks to be
282 the callback.
283 - add AnyEvent::Socket::{ntoa,aton} aliases.
284 - optimize the AE::Handle->push_read (line) for the default
285 eol marker.
286 - optimize push_read (packstring|storable) for small packets.
287 - invoke on_error callback when no on_eof callback is set.
288 - fix a bug in push_read (storable) of unknown impact.
289
290 4.22 Sun Jul 20 16:34:13 CEST 2008
291 - new function AnyEvent::Socket::parse_hostport.
292 - as the bulkheads at microsoft can't even get getprotobyname reliably
293 working on their shitty fucking broken os we need to hardcode
294 some common protocol numbers in AnyEvent::Socket. How can
295 people even bother with such a pile of shit as windows.
296
297 4.21 Thu Jul 17 14:40:05 CEST 2008
298 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: AnyEvent::Util::fork_call now has a prototype
299 which is incompatible to previous invocation syntax.
300 - work around more windows perl bugs in fork_call. I cannot imagine
301 why anybody would bother implementing fork in such an obviously
302 unusable way.
303 - avoid calling $do_retry if the request has already finished in
304 AnyEvent::DNS, thus avoiding an exception (reported by Anatoly
305 K. Sharifulin).
306
307 4.2 Sat Jul 12 22:42:11 CEST 2008
308 - support an "interval" argument for repeating timers.
309 - fix a bug in the pure perl event loop that caused timers to
310 be delayed under some circumstances.
311 - implement optional argument checking via PERL_ANYEVENT_STRICT.
312 - not importing anything from Event causes it to malfunction
313 and not use Time::HiRes, work around this bug.
314 - more bug workarounds against the endlessly broken Tk module,
315 seems to work now on 32 bit machines, but less so on 64 bit.
316 - minor optimisations applied to most backends.
317
318 4.161 Fri Jul 4 14:24:48 CEST 2008
319 - fixed the t/handle/02_write.t, it read after write, with the
320 assumption that all data could be written before read
321 (reported by Jim Razmus).
322
323 4.160 Thu Jul 3 04:02:21 CEST 2008
324 - re-registering signal watchers after unregistering one did
325 not work if a backend falls back on AnyEvent's default
326 implementation (also affected child watchers).
327 - new AnyEvent::Handle options: autocork and no_delay.
328
329 4.152 Sun Jun 22 14:15:44 CEST 2008
330 - allow for 32-bit perls that implement shifts differently
331 on different architectures in parse_ipv4 (reported and
332 analysed by Keiichi DAIBA).
333
334 4.151 Fri Jun 6 17:34:24 CEST 2008
335 - make sure specifying _only_ on_read and never pushing reads
336 works.
337
338 4.15 Fri Jun 6 13:00:46 CEST 2008
339 - the pure perl backend would keep some watchers alive when more than
340 one watcher was registered for the same fd.
341 - new "packstring" and "storable" read and write types
342 for AnyEvent::Handle.
343 - allow on_eof handler to be called after on_error with EPIPE returns.
344 - do not immediately call on_read callback in handle constructor.
345
346 4.14 Thu Jun 5 20:29:31 CEST 2008
347 - Fixed a bug in DNS SRV priority sorting.
348 - AnyEvent::Util::guard now reports runtime errors while
349 executing the guard block as warnings.
350 - handle 0-byte-reads just before EOF correctly in AnyEvent::Handle.
351
352 4.13 Thu Jun 5 00:47:59 CEST 2008
353 - AnyEvent::DNS only followed cname chains with length 2,
354 contrary to documentation. bumped it up to 10, thanks to
355 microsoft, the current broken-dns-config-king.
356 - AnyEvent::DNS didn't check for socket return status
357 but instead relied on perl not creating filehandles in that
358 case - too bad it gives you a bogus file handle (reported
359 and analysed by Vladimir Timofeev).
360 - fix queue management logic in AnyEvent::Handle:
361 when on_read was registered, the queue was empty
362 and no progress could be made AnyEvent::Handle would
363 enter an endless loop.
364 - correctly start reading again when the handle became
365 busy again after idling.
366 - correctly treat tls shut-downs as EOF condition
367 (for the time being, would be nice to have a callback for that).
368 - correctly call eof callback under all conditions
369 (hopefully).
370 - the timeout callback did not expect that $self can go
371 away any time.
372
373 4.12 Tue Jun 3 10:58:04 CEST 2008
374 - include AnyEvent::Intro, a tutorial for anyevent,
375 anyevent::socket and anyevent::handle.
376 - allow more options in on_error.
377
378 4.11 Fri May 30 23:42:25 CEST 2008
379 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace ptr by real PTR lookup, provide
380 reverse_lookup and reverse_verify to replace it, support
381 v4mapped and v4compat addresses.
382 - provide more documentation for the resolver class.
383 - really replace longest run of :0: by :: in format_address,
384 also properly convert :: and ::1 again.
385 - support NAPTR record name and decode it.
386 - implement random weight sampling for SRV records, as per
387 rfc 2782.
388 - correctly abort on srv-record targets of ".".
389 - added AnyEvent::DNS::wait_for_slot.
390 - in the unlikely event of a virtual circuit connection
391 being invalidated by a delayed udp reply, AnyEvent::DNS
392 could die. this has been fixed.
393 - plug a probable memleak in the DNS vc code.
394 - use configured timeout also for VC request phase.
395 - implement timeout and max_outstanding methods
396 for resolver class.
397 - update version numbers in all modules.
398
399 4.1 Thu May 29 05:45:40 CEST 2008
400 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: renamed xxx_ip functions to xxx_address
401 which mirrors their purpose better (old names still available
402 for a while). Also moved AnyEvent::DNS::addr to
403 AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr.
404 - implement AnyEvent->time and AnyEvent->now.
405 - fix IPv6 support in pack_sockaddr.
406 - officially un-experimentalise all newly introduced code.
407 - support unix domain sockets everywhere by specifying
408 a host of "unix/" and the pathname as service.
409 - implement an activity timeout in AnyEvent::Handle.
410 - added a regex read type to AnyEvent::Handle.
411 - added a json read/write type to AnyEvent::Handle.
412 - always croak in on_error in AnyEvent::Handle.
413 - document how to subclass AnyEvent::Handle.
414 - implement AnyEvent::Util::fork_call.
415 - add support for IPv6 nameservers and nameserver statements.
416 - work around _yet_ _another_ windows perl bug in where empty
417 select masks cause errors in the pure perl backend (this
418 workaround cannot be implemented for the other event loops,
419 but EV also works around this).
420 - supply AnyEvent::Socket::address_type and make good use of it.
421 - clarify and fix the Handle documentation w.r.t $self vs. $handle
422 vs. callback arguments.
423 - add some recommends to the META.yml.
424
425 4.05 Mon May 26 19:44:06 CEST 2008
426 - some platforms ignore the rfc and prepend an extra sa_len member to
427 the sockaddr structure, cater for those. also use sockaddr_family,
428 didn't know it was there, but comes in handy for the workaround.
429 - undo the import WIN32 hack.
430
431 4.04 Mon May 26 08:03:31 CEST 2008
432 - try to work around yet another windows bug: failed connects are reported
433 as if it were out-of-band data. windows users: you suck. Only
434 EV, Glib, Event and the pure perl backend can handle this condition.
435 - optimize write algorithm in AnyEvent::Handle.
436 - properly parse PERL_ANYEVENT_PROTOCOLS and use the info correctly.
437 - tcp_connect now properly iterates through all targets.
438 - check wether IPv6 sockets can actually be created, otherwise, disable ipv6
439 support entirely. also hardcode some AF_INET6 constants for the
440 sake of perl 5.8.
441 - vastly improved nameserver/suffix detection algorithm for windows
442 (still a hack...)
443 - try to use a fallback dns server if no dns servers could be found.
444 - splatter around some local $SIG{__DIE__}'s to work around bad
445 die handlers.
446
447 4.03 Sun May 25 05:05:57 CEST 2008
448 - work around perl bugs on windows, where perl returns undocumented
449 error codes for sysread, syswrite etc.
450 - fix AnyEvent::Handle::unshift_read to really unshift and not push.
451 - AnyEvent::Handle could sometimes stumble over 0-byte writes.
452 - fix unpack_sockaddr, now works for AF_INET6 sockaddr's.
453 - updated documentation.
454 - lots of workarounds for perl 5.8 quirks.
455 - implement a more flexible type system for both reads and writes
456 in AnyEvent::Handle.
457 - support IPv6 in tcp_server.
458 - pass local hostname and port to the prepare callback in tcp_server.
459 - make types extendable in AnyEvent::Handle.
460 - croak, not die, in AnyEvent::Handle;
461
462 4.0 Sat May 24 19:58:08 CEST 2008
463 - added (experimental) AnyEvent::DNS module.
464 - added (experimental) AnyEvent::Socket module.
465 - added (experiemntal) support for TLS/SSL in AnyEvent::Handle.
466 - make condvar->end call ->send as documented.
467 - make condvar constructor support the documented cb => argument.
468 - overload condvars so you can use them instead of code references.
469 - support more of the POSIX forms instead of a pure dotted quad for
470 verbatim ip addresses.
471 - AnyEvent::Socket::inet_aton will use AnyEvent::DNS now and not fork anymore.
472 - try very hard not to freeze on broken windows perls.
473 - make on_eof optional in AnyEvent::Handle.
474 - support service names in tcp_connect and tcp_server.
475 - work around netbsd/openbsd bug causing unix sockets not to
476 become writable until empty.
477 - only make a dummy read for error detection when getpeername
478 returns ENOTCONN.
479 - defend AnyEvent::Util::inet_aton against Coro::LWP's brutal
480 override.
481 - new AnyEvent::Guard::cancel.
482
483 3.5 Sat May 17 23:17:14 CEST 2008
484 - gracefully deal with systems not defining CLOCK_MONOTONIC
485 (as opposed to not supporting the clock itself, which worked in 3.41).
486 - added AnyEvent::Util::tcp_connect and AnyEvent::Util::tcp_server
487 helpers, to replace the ill-designed AnyEvent::Socket class.
488 - added some examples (eg/connect, eg/handle).
489 - added AnyEvent::Util::guard.
490 - AnyEvent::Util now exports most of its functions.
491 - fixed a bug in *_read_chunk, where the callback was called with $self as
492 first and second argument.
493 - simplified and fixed regex handling in AnyEvent::Handle::*_read_line.
494 - fix manpage condvars examples to use new syntax.
495 - considerably improve inet_aton with EV::ADNS backend to support
496 cname chains (common dns configuration bug, e.g. with www.google.de)
497 and aaaa records if no a record could be found.
498
499 3.41 Sun May 11 19:53:13 CEST 2008
500 - work around a bug in perl 5.8.8's local. Reported by Yi Ma Mao.
501
502 3.4 Sun May 11 00:29:25 CEST 2008
503 - complete re-implementation of condvars with a hopefully much more useful
504 API (backward compatible functions exist but are undocumented).
505 - AnyEvent::Handle fully rewritten with a hopefully more powerful API
506 (still subject to change).
507 - take advantage of CLOCK_MONOTONIC, if available, in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
508 - provide AnyEvent::post_detect and @AnyEvent::post_detect, which
509 allows module authors to avoid forcing event loop detection.
510 (used by Coro::AIO, Coro::BDB, Coro::AnyEvent for example).
511 - remove coro backends: Coro now provides generic support for AnyEvent
512 via Coro::AnyEvent.
513
514 3.3 Mon Apr 28 09:51:06 CEST 2008
515 - added AnyEvent::Handle, AnyEvent::Socket and AnyEvent::Util modules.
516 - fix a bug in the pure perl backend that kept watchers alive
517 when multiple watchers were registered for the same fh/poll combo.
518 - add a benchmark section showing AnyEvent overhead and comparing
519 the different event loops with each other.
520 - prefer pure perl over tk when autoprobing, as it's about as fast,
521 but doesn't crash with many watchers.
522 - declare Qt support non-experimental.
523 - clarify the confusing section about the file descriptor being
524 kept alive.
525 - document the race between loading of an event module and
526 child processes exiting.
527 - support POE as "backend" (with some caveats, POE is not generic
528 enough, and darn slow).
529 - support Wx and Prima through POE.
530 - optimise perl backend to use 20% less memory and take advantage
531 of typical timeout behaviour. It can now compete with
532 select/poll-based C event loops in most cases (it is usually
533 faster than Event and Glib :).
534 - roughly cut EV memory use in half and increase its speed by 30%,
535 by removing undocumented functionality. Did something similar
536 to other event loops where possible.
537
538 3.2 Thu Apr 24 10:10:40 CEST 2008
539 - do not die when anyevent watchers are destroyed while running callbacks
540 in the pureperl backend (could only happen when two watchers are registered
541 for the same fh/poll combo).
542 - support autoloading for child watchers, was broken in all versions.
543 - implement PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL env variable.
544 - (experimental) implement interface to the (very crashy/buggy) Event::Lib module.
545 - (experimental) implement interface to the Qt module (cannot be autoprobed).
546 - this release is IO:AnyEvent-proof.
547
548 3.12 Tue Apr 22 07:11:46 CEST 2008
549 - reinstate AUTHOR section that got lost somehow.
550 - do not hang in the testsuite with badly broken perls (activestate,
551 strawberry...), but instead diagnose the problem and continue.
552 - use INT instead of CHLD in an attempt to support broken windows perls
553 better (this decreases the test quality, unfortunately).
554 - do not send the signal to the process group
555 (no problem for CHLD, bad for INT :).
556
557 3.11 Sat Apr 19 06:57:31 CEST 2008
558 - major documentation rework.
559 - document the fact that child watchers only watch for zombies.
560 - fix the child watcher example.
561
562 3.1 Wed Apr 16 17:09:01 CEST 2008
563 - work around recurring bugs in Tk by dup'ing filehandles, the
564 only method with good success chances on Tk (the bugs apparently
565 don't get fixed anytime soon).
566 - lift the restriction of only one watcher per fh direction
567 (as the Tk bug workaround also lifts it and only Tk imposed
568 such strong limits).
569 - changed probe order to prefer coro adaptors.
570 - explain why recursion into the event loop is not supported
571 unless the backend supports it (only Coro::EV does without
572 any restrictions...).
573 - add simple manpages for all backend modules.
574
575 3.0 Mon Apr 7 21:30:23 CEST 2008
576 - Coro::Signal changed semantics, roll our own, also cleaning
577 up the Coro implementation in general.
578 - rename Coro backend to CoroEvent.
579 - add some decision helping paragraph to the manpage that should
580 help people to decide whether AnyEvent is the right thing for them.
581
582 2.9 Mon Jan 28 13:31:54 CET 2008
583 - update for EV 3.0 API changes.
584
585 2.8 Sun Nov 25 15:06:03 CET 2007
586 - waitpid can validly return 0. accept this fact of life
587 instead of reporting it to any watchers.
588
589 2.7 Fri Nov 23 11:41:14 CET 2007
590 - force use of AnyEvent::Impl::Perl in testsuite, there is
591 too much breakage outside AnyEvent.
592 - deliver signals synchronously in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl
593 or any other event loop that relies on AnyEvents child
594 watcher emulation. *Could* help with hanging testsuite
595 (except when Event or EV are installed).
596
597 2.6 Fri Nov 9 20:36:35 CET 2007
598 - fix bug in testsuite.
599 - move EV adaptor modules to AnyEvent.
600 - add Coro+EV adaptor module.
601
602 2.55 Tue Nov 6 17:41:32 CET 2007
603 - add EV to the list of supported event models.
604 - do not auto-reset pid watchers, pass pid and status to them.
605 - allow a pid of zero to watch for all children in child watchers.
606
607 2.54 Wed Jul 18 17:36:23 CEST 2007
608 - work around a perl bug that results in
609 BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted without
610 any discernible reason or error message by once
611 again not use'ing strict.
612
613 2.53 Sun Jul 8 10:51:53 CEST 2007
614 - make Glib interface work again (spotted by elmex).
615
616 2.52 Wed Mar 7 18:36:16 CET 2007
617 - child watchers stopped working permanently when
618 all current child watchers were destroyed.
619
620 2.51 Mon Dec 11 21:33:24 CET 2006
621 - work around bugs in perl where eval "require Module" returns
622 true even if the module couldn't be loaded :/.
623
624 2.5 Mon Dec 11 02:15:28 CET 2006
625 - avoid $AUTOLOAD because many perls corrupt it.
626 - AnyEvent::detect forces autodetection.
627 - implement signal watchers (experimental)
628 (Tk does not support async signals (<= 804.027 at least),
629 so they might get delayed indefinitely on Tk).
630 - implement child watchers (experimental).
631 - moved default condvar implementation into base module, simplifying
632 most implementation modules.
633
634 2.1 Fri Nov 24 15:50:48 CET 2006
635 - better docs.
636 - simple testsuite.
637 - added AnyEvent->one_event method for special purposes.
638
639 2.0 Wed Nov 1 02:21:30 CET 2006
640 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: poll can now either be "r" or "w" but not both.
641 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: io watcher callbacks have no arguments anymore.
642 - EXPERIMENTAL:
643 new pure-perl model added, AnyEvent now always finds a suitable
644 event model.
645 - improved documentation.
646 - reduced cpu overhead.
647
648 1.02 Fri Jan 13 14:15:40 CET 2006
649 - add COPYING to clarify license.
650
651 1.01 Sun Jan 8 05:48:09 CET 2006
652 - correctly cancel Event timers, avoid memory leaks.
653
654 1.0 Sun Jan 8 05:40:58 CET 2006
655 - allow third-party interfaces to be added at runtime.
656 - fix version number.
657
658 0.9 Fri Dec 30 02:25:41 CET 2005
659 - fixed errors in the documentation.
660 - going back to using $VERSION as "load check",
661 as suggested by Jörn Reder. Let's see why I stopped using
662 this method.
663 - add 'hup' to the list of events to receive for glib
664 and generate 'rw' events for it, as some versions of
665 glib seem to require this, while this breaks other
666 (older) versions of glib.
667 - implemented PERL_ANYEVENT_VERBOSE env variable.
668
669 0.3 Sun Dec 4 10:43:33 CET 2005
670 - no changes to the code.
671 - fixed documentation.
672 - clarified some corner cases.
673 - vastly improved documentation with a long example.
674
675 0.2 Thu Dec 1 22:18:49 CET 2005
676 - check whether a valid method was called, to avoid endless loops.
677 - move condvars into their own class (cleaner, safer).
678 - don't die when some modules are not available.
679 - Tk is too broken to allow for words. Will work once Tk works.
680
681 0.1 Thu Dec 1 19:44:57 CET 2005
682 - spiced up and cleaned up for release.
683
684 0.01 Tue Sep 21 18:12:09 CEST 2004
685 - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
686