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Revision: 1.330
Committed: Mon Aug 10 01:17:38 2009 UTC (14 years, 9 months ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: rel-5_01
Changes since 1.329: +3 -0 lines
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1 Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent.
2
3 5.01 Mon Aug 10 03:16:32 CEST 2009
4 - last release broke EV child watchers :/.
5
6 5.0 Sun Aug 9 17:32:09 CEST 2009
7 - officially introduce and document the AE API.
8 - lowering the timeout at runtime did not have immediate effect
9 in AnyEvent::Handle.
10 - AE::Handle now has separate and independent read and write timeout
11 settings.
12 - probe for Guard module when AnyEvent::Util is loaded, not at
13 runtime (Event doesn't like eval "use" from callbacks, and it avoids
14 exporting the probe function).
15 - Impl::IOAsync's io watchers did not use the filehandle emulation
16 code to work around it's watcher limits.
17 - work around IO::Async's problems with overloaded objects.
18 - try to disable wearnings inside IO::Async, it's just too buggy.
19 - do no longer use Event by default, only EV or Perl, Event is too buggy.
20 - hackishly provide fast AE:: interface when EV or Perl is the backend.
21 - inherit VERSION from AnyEvent::VERSION in most modules.
22
23 4.91 Thu Aug 6 15:42:45 CEST 2009
24 - AE::Handle::starttls could get out of sync when the read buffer
25 already contains some TLS handshake.
26 - AE::Handle did not properly free the TLS session, causing bigger
27 memory leaks in Net::SSLeay than expected (reported by toaster).
28 - AE::Socket::tcp_connect will now artificially delay invoking
29 the callback to avoid returning after invoking the callback.
30 - convert many internal watcher uses to AE API.
31
32 4.9 Sat Aug 1 11:07:01 CEST 2009
33 - Glib silently fails when registering a timeout with
34 a negative value, so avoid that.
35 - call condvar callback immediately when it is set
36 after the condition is already signalled.
37 - check rbuf_max condition only after trying to consume
38 data.
39 - normalise signal numbers to names when using the ae's
40 signal handling, but do not document this (yet).
41 - pure perl signal emulation did not properly set nonblocking
42 mode on the signal pipe on win32 (this is unlikely to have caused
43 any issues).
44 - new module: AnyEvent::Debug.
45 - AnyEvent::Strict now checks that a signal was specified
46 by name (not name or number).
47 - reduce memory footprint in typical cases by ~50kb by
48 only compiling signal code when necessary.
49 - add AnyEvent::Handle->rbuf_max.
50 - grab the AE namespace for future new API, implement stubs for
51 said future/alternative API.
52 - new function: AnyEvent::Socket::format_hostport.
53
54 4.881 Tue Jul 28 12:51:53 CEST 2009
55 - work around a bug in local in pre-5.10 perls, causing
56 AnyEvent::Handle to recurse when it should not
57 (analyzed by elmex).
58
59 4.88 Tue Jul 28 04:04:37 CEST 2009
60 - re-bless the handle into a dummy package after calling
61 AnyEvent::Handle::destroy, so the user does not need to check
62 for errors after every push_write etc.
63 - do not attempt to run t/02_signals.t on obviously broken
64 platforms.
65
66 4.87 Sun Jul 26 02:06:16 CEST 2009
67 - do not attempt to linger when there is no longer a valid fh.
68 - enforce tls mode to be either accept or connect, do not simply
69 segfault in Net::SSLeay.
70 - AnyEvent::Handle can now call tcp_connect itself (new parameters
71 connect, on_prepare, on_connect and on_connect_error). Updated
72 tutorial accordingly.
73 - add AnyEvent::Impl::Irssi backend.
74
75 4.86 Mon Jul 20 23:52:29 CEST 2009
76 - since the verbose warning is not enough, explicitly document
77 that versions before 1.33 of Net::SSLeay are not secure.
78 - work around signal handling races in Event and (...) Event::Lib.
79 - try to align signal-race timer to full-second boundaries.
80 - work around Tk not liking negative timeouts.
81 - don't complain of different grades of environmental unfriendlyness
82 in IO::Async.
83
84 4.85 Sat Jul 18 06:16:14 CEST 2009
85 - nail the signal race problem in perl once and for all
86 (see $AnyEvent::MAX_SIGNAL_LATENCY).
87 - take advantage of Async::Interrupt if it is available.
88 - load Time::HiRes and Guard modules on demand only.
89 - add optional/recommended modules section to AnyEvent
90 documentation.
91 - reduce memory usage considerably (and reduce startup penalty)
92 by not using "strict", "warnings" and "overload" modules.
93 - work around buggy windows/openbsd perls and provide EBADMSG
94 and EPROTO ourselves when missing.
95 - improve perl 5.6 compatibility of the core event loop.
96 - made Net::SSLeay version 1.33 a soft requirement.
97
98 4.83 Fri Jul 17 16:56:26 CEST 2009
99 - implement AnyEvent::Socket::getprotobyname.
100 - AnyEvent::CondVar's will now detect recursive blocking
101 waits and will croak, as too many people fall into
102 this trap.
103 - AnyEvent::Handle will now call ->destroy on itself after
104 executing the on_error callback, instead of doing some
105 half-baked internal shutdown, for fatal errors.
106 - clarify on_eof behaviour w.r.t. the read queue and
107 on_read callbacks.
108 - ignore some possible spurious wake-ups in tcp_connect.
109
110 4.82 Sat Jul 11 00:34:55 CEST 2009
111 - POE and Event backends didn't accept some callable objects as
112 callbacks.
113 - use Config module instead of POSIX module to detect signal names
114 in AnyEvent::Strict and AnyEvent::Impl::EventLib, as the POSIX
115 module doesn't even have all POSIX signals :/.
116 - use more workarounds around the many refcnt/corruption bugs in
117 Event::Lib.
118 - work around a race condition in perl's select, causing t/03_child.t
119 to rarely fail.
120
121 4.81 Thu Jul 9 10:30:30 CEST 2009
122 - AnyEvent::Handle didn't properly diagnose write errors
123 (it expected -1 from syswrite, how lame... :).
124 - support file descriptors in addition to file handles
125 in AnyEvent->io.
126 - new env variables: PERL_ANYEVENT_RESOLV_CONF,
127 PERL_ANYEVENT_MAX_OUTSTANDING_DNS, PERL_ANYEVENT_CA_FILE
128 and PERL_ANYEVENT_CA_PATH.
129 - provide a sensible synopsis section for AnyEvent::TLS.
130 - add a "supported backends" section to the manpage.
131 - added simple io watcher test to testsuite, using a
132 portable_socketpair.
133 - tried to improve the stability of the Event::Lib backend,
134 YMMV.
135
136 4.8 Mon Jul 6 23:45:16 CEST 2009
137 - AnyEvent::DNS did not properly follow CNAME records with
138 uppercase targets.
139 - AnyEvent::DNS would errornously return AAAA records
140 with v4 mapped addresses (a faulty record) as ipv4 addresses,
141 causing AnyEvent::Socket to throw an exception.
142 - added new module AnyEvent::TLS for easier SSL/TLS context
143 creation, with many options including hostname verification,
144 secure default configuration, lots of documentation and,
145 predefined diffie-hellman keys for perfect forward security
146 and much more. get it while it's still fresh!
147 - use AnyEvent::TLS in AnyEvent::Handle for context management.
148 - load AnyEvent::Handle only on demand in AnyEvent::DNS,
149 so AnyEvent::Socket users have smaller memory footprint
150 in the common case.
151 - add AnyEvent::Handle->push_shutdown method.
152 - add an additional error message parameter to AnyEvent::Handle's
153 on_error callback (for TLS, $! is still available).
154 - add AnyEvent::Handle on_starttls/on_stoptls callbacks.
155 - make AnyEvent::Handle more robust against early conenction
156 failures (during new), and return C<undef> in that case
157 from the constructor.
158 - AnyEvent::Handle will now try to load only JSON::XS first,
159 then fall back to JSON.
160 - format_ipv4/format_ipv6 are now exported by default, for symmetry,
161 and because it was documented that way.
162
163 4.451 Fri Jul 3 00:28:58 CEST 2009
164 - do not clear rbuf when shutting down an AnyEvent::Handle
165 object - doing so breaks AnyEvent::HTTP.
166
167 4.45 Mon Jun 29 22:59:26 CEST 2009
168 - a write error could cause AnyEvent::Handle to create
169 an I/O watcher with an undefined $fh.
170 - special-case mapped ipv4 addresses in both
171 AnyEvent::Socket::format_address and parse_address,
172 to treat them just like ipv4 addresses.
173 - updated and overhauled the AnyEvent::Intro doc.
174 - implement AnyEvent::Socket::format_ipv4/ipv6.
175 - slightly speed up portable_pipe/socketpair.
176 - expand condvar begin/end documentation.
177
178 4.42 Fri Jun 26 08:32:18 CEST 2009
179 - preliminary and neccesarily incomplete support for IO::Async.
180 - reset SIGCHLD to DEFAULT when AnyEvent is loaded, in
181 case it was set to IGNORE, to ensure we can catch child statuses
182 even when the calling env acts stupidly.
183 - updated benchmarks with IO::Async, which performs very well.
184
185 4.412 Wed Jun 24 01:35:57 CEST 2009
186 - support an "untaint" attribute for AnyEvent::DNS
187 and set it on the default resolver.
188 - implement and document AnyEvent::Impl::Perl::loop.
189 - remove all anyevent-env variables from %ENV
190 when running in tainted mode.
191 - mention and extend the IO::Lambda benchmark.
192
193 4.411 Sun Jun 7 18:48:02 CEST 2009
194 - do not try to use F_SETFD on windows.
195
196 4.41 Thu May 14 06:40:11 CEST 2009
197 - work around issues in older perls (5.8.0?) when
198 a signal handler is deleted from the %SIG hash.
199 - use POSIX::_exit in child test, to avoid running
200 destructors.
201 - speed up CHLD handling by relying on SIGCHLD being
202 synchronously delivered, even when we roll our own
203 implementation.
204 - AnyEvent::DNS: add the "dname" resource record name
205 for cosmetic reasons.
206
207 4.4 Sun Apr 26 20:12:33 CEST 2009
208 - implemented idle watchers, where applicable.
209 - AnyEvent->time died when Event backend was in use.
210 - fix a memleak in the Tk backend.
211 - sped up Tk timer handling.
212 - clip negative "after" values to 0 in AnyEvent::Impl::Event
213 to avoid spamming out warning messages.
214 - fix Qt timers without interval.
215 - avoid Qt zero-timeout special case, in old libqt's.
216
217 4.352 Mon Apr 20 16:31:11 CEST 2009
218 - fix AnyEvent::Strict error messages for child watchers.
219 - fix/update Makefile.PL "recommends" versions.
220 - add AnyEvent->now_update.
221
222 4.351 Sat Apr 11 07:56:14 CEST 2009
223 - actually make the signal pipe work under win32.
224 - localise $! in signal handler to avoid changing $!, although
225 perl itself does not seem to save/restore errno either.
226 - set the cloexec flag on the signal pipe (normally set by perl too).
227
228 4.35 Fri Mar 27 11:48:20 CET 2009
229 - event models relying on AnyEvent's signal watcher emulation did
230 invoke the callback asynchronously, contradicting documentation
231 and causing signals to get lost (this includes AnyEvent's own
232 event loop). AnyEvent now uses the standard pipe trick to make
233 callback execution synchronous to the event loop.
234 - AnyEvent::Handle didn't free TLS context data on DESTROY
235 (patch by Pavel Shaydo).
236 - work around the ever-incompatibly-changing API of MakeMaker.
237 - document that changing global variables without restoring them
238 is a bad idea in Perl (noted by Adam Rosenstein).
239 - AnyEvent::Strict now barfs if ->io is passed a file.
240
241 4.34 Thu Feb 12 18:32:45 CET 2009
242 - separately buffer TLS read data, as otherwise the read queue could
243 deadlock as receiving data is not expected while draining the
244 read queue (which cna only happen with TLS).
245 - raise EBADMSG error on JSON decoding errors.
246 - fix some minor manpage bugs (reported by Maximilian Gaß).
247 - speed up select bitmask parsing quite a bit in the pure perl
248 backend.
249 - use CORE::select instead of just select in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
250
251 4.331 Tue Jan 6 21:07:25 CET 2009
252 - socketpair fails on many vista machines because vista has
253 completely broken accept/getpeername and getsockname functions,
254 so we provide our own socketpair emulation that kind of works
255 (AnyEvent::Util::portable_pipe).
256 - new function: AnyEvent::Util::portable_socketpair.
257 - take advantage of the Guard module if it exists.
258
259 4.33 Fri Nov 21 02:35:40 CET 2008
260 - AnyEvent::Strict did errornously flag a fileno of 0 as
261 illegal.
262 - reduce memory usage and slightly speed up the pure perl backend
263 by only storing the file descriptor, not the file handle.
264 - add missing autocork method to AnyEvent::Handle (reported
265 by Adam Rosenstein).
266 - AnyEvent::DNS->resolve errornously documented an $rcode result
267 argument, but there isn't (spotted by Henrik Krohns).
268 - the naked truth about Tk - it's basically unmaintained.
269
270 4.32 Mon Nov 3 22:46:32 CET 2008
271 - fix AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr to properly support
272 unix sockets again and choose a proper default for
273 the socket type.
274 - fix call to resolve_sockaddr in tcp_connect.
275
276 4.31 Thu Oct 30 04:41:48 CET 2008
277 - implemented AnyEvent::Handle->destroy method.
278 - hint about unexpected effects in TLS mode.
279 - speed up AnyEvent::Impl::Perl by using more arrays
280 instead of hashes without the slightest loss of readability :)
281 - work around a perl argument refcounting bug.
282 - with some perl patches applied, AnyEvent now seems leak-free.
283
284 4.3 Fri Oct 3 09:18:43 CEST 2008
285 - AnyEvent will now install a no-op signal handler for SIGPIPE,
286 unless one has been installed already.
287 - warn about not loaidng AnyEvent::Impl::POE early enough
288 (patch by Adam Rosenstein).
289 - fixed a great number of bugs and corner cases in AnyEvent::Handle:
290 - fix a bug in where in SSL connect mode, the
291 client would first wait for some data by the server and
292 otherwise hang. (reported and analyzed in an absolutely
293 exemplary manner by Adam Rosenstein).
294 - fix a bug in where SSL EOF would not be treated
295 as stream EOF, putting the connection into a hung state.
296 (reported and analyzed in an absolutely exemplary manner by Adam
297 Rosenstein).
298 - fix a potential segfault when the TLS context
299 would go missing in a read callback (e.g. due to stoptls) -
300 Net::SSLeay of course makes no type checking whatsoever.
301 - AnyEvent::Handle will not stop the read watcher in TLS mode.
302 - AnyEvent::Handle->stoptls will send a TLS close notify
303 instead of simply destroying the stream now.
304 - fix a bug where large blocks of data written in TLS mode
305 would not be sent unless triggered by receives.
306 - on_drain will now take the tls write buffer into account.
307 - SSL operations have been streamlined a bit and should be faster
308 now, more to come, though.
309 - added a FAQ section, will document nontrivial issues in there.
310
311 4.234 Mon Sep 29 04:08:13 CEST 2008
312 - fix child watcher documentation: only child exits will be reported,
313 no trace events.
314 - mention SIGPIPE in AnyEvent::Handle.
315 - perl backend will now use POSIX::times as monotonic clock
316 when available and the monotonic clock option is not.
317 - run even without Time::HiRes in some cases now, but do not
318 provide sub-second accuracy (all *supported* perl versions have
319 Time::HiRes).
320
321 4.233 Fri Aug 22 01:48:05 CEST 2008
322 - fix a bug in the testsuite, causing a hang.
323 - clarified lots of AnyEvent::Handle constructor arguments.
324
325 4.232 Thu Aug 21 20:44:25 CEST 2008
326 - fix a bug in AnyEvent::Handle that could cause two fatal error
327 callbacks on EOF, which caused AnyEvent::HTTP to signal success twice
328 (testcase by Leon Brocard).
329 - clarified on_eof/on_error documentation a bit.
330
331 4.231 Tue Jul 29 13:12:15 CEST 2008
332 - remove some debugging code left in AnyEvent::Util::fork_call
333 (and no, it's impossible to implement with the broken windows
334 perls without resource leaks or worse).
335
336 4.23 Tue Jul 29 12:19:59 CEST 2008
337 - document the first parameter passed to condvar callbacks to be
338 the callback.
339 - add AnyEvent::Socket::{ntoa,aton} aliases.
340 - optimize the AE::Handle->push_read (line) for the default
341 eol marker.
342 - optimize push_read (packstring|storable) for small packets.
343 - invoke on_error callback when no on_eof callback is set.
344 - fix a bug in push_read (storable) of unknown impact.
345
346 4.22 Sun Jul 20 16:34:13 CEST 2008
347 - new function AnyEvent::Socket::parse_hostport.
348 - as the bulkheads at microsoft can't even get getprotobyname reliably
349 working on their shitty fucking broken os we need to hardcode
350 some common protocol numbers in AnyEvent::Socket. How can
351 people even bother with such a pile of shit as windows.
352
353 4.21 Thu Jul 17 14:40:05 CEST 2008
354 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: AnyEvent::Util::fork_call now has a prototype
355 which is incompatible to previous invocation syntax.
356 - work around more windows perl bugs in fork_call. I cannot imagine
357 why anybody would bother implementing fork in such an obviously
358 unusable way.
359 - avoid calling $do_retry if the request has already finished in
360 AnyEvent::DNS, thus avoiding an exception (reported by Anatoly
361 K. Sharifulin).
362
363 4.2 Sat Jul 12 22:42:11 CEST 2008
364 - support an "interval" argument for repeating timers.
365 - fix a bug in the pure perl event loop that caused timers to
366 be delayed under some circumstances.
367 - implement optional argument checking via PERL_ANYEVENT_STRICT.
368 - not importing anything from Event causes it to malfunction
369 and not use Time::HiRes, work around this bug.
370 - more bug workarounds against the endlessly broken Tk module,
371 seems to work now on 32 bit machines, but less so on 64 bit.
372 - minor optimisations applied to most backends.
373
374 4.161 Fri Jul 4 14:24:48 CEST 2008
375 - fixed the t/handle/02_write.t, it read after write, with the
376 assumption that all data could be written before read
377 (reported by Jim Razmus).
378
379 4.160 Thu Jul 3 04:02:21 CEST 2008
380 - re-registering signal watchers after unregistering one did
381 not work if a backend falls back on AnyEvent's default
382 implementation (also affected child watchers).
383 - new AnyEvent::Handle options: autocork and no_delay.
384
385 4.152 Sun Jun 22 14:15:44 CEST 2008
386 - allow for 32-bit perls that implement shifts differently
387 on different architectures in parse_ipv4 (reported and
388 analysed by Keiichi DAIBA).
389
390 4.151 Fri Jun 6 17:34:24 CEST 2008
391 - make sure specifying _only_ on_read and never pushing reads
392 works.
393
394 4.15 Fri Jun 6 13:00:46 CEST 2008
395 - the pure perl backend would keep some watchers alive when more than
396 one watcher was registered for the same fd.
397 - new "packstring" and "storable" read and write types
398 for AnyEvent::Handle.
399 - allow on_eof handler to be called after on_error with EPIPE returns.
400 - do not immediately call on_read callback in handle constructor.
401
402 4.14 Thu Jun 5 20:29:31 CEST 2008
403 - Fixed a bug in DNS SRV priority sorting.
404 - AnyEvent::Util::guard now reports runtime errors while
405 executing the guard block as warnings.
406 - handle 0-byte-reads just before EOF correctly in AnyEvent::Handle.
407
408 4.13 Thu Jun 5 00:47:59 CEST 2008
409 - AnyEvent::DNS only followed cname chains with length 2,
410 contrary to documentation. bumped it up to 10, thanks to
411 microsoft, the current broken-dns-config-king.
412 - AnyEvent::DNS didn't check for socket return status
413 but instead relied on perl not creating filehandles in that
414 case - too bad it gives you a bogus file handle (reported
415 and analysed by Vladimir Timofeev).
416 - fix queue management logic in AnyEvent::Handle:
417 when on_read was registered, the queue was empty
418 and no progress could be made AnyEvent::Handle would
419 enter an endless loop.
420 - correctly start reading again when the handle became
421 busy again after idling.
422 - correctly treat tls shut-downs as EOF condition
423 (for the time being, would be nice to have a callback for that).
424 - correctly call eof callback under all conditions
425 (hopefully).
426 - the timeout callback did not expect that $self can go
427 away any time.
428
429 4.12 Tue Jun 3 10:58:04 CEST 2008
430 - include AnyEvent::Intro, a tutorial for anyevent,
431 anyevent::socket and anyevent::handle.
432 - allow more options in on_error.
433
434 4.11 Fri May 30 23:42:25 CEST 2008
435 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace ptr by real PTR lookup, provide
436 reverse_lookup and reverse_verify to replace it, support
437 v4mapped and v4compat addresses.
438 - provide more documentation for the resolver class.
439 - really replace longest run of :0: by :: in format_address,
440 also properly convert :: and ::1 again.
441 - support NAPTR record name and decode it.
442 - implement random weight sampling for SRV records, as per
443 rfc 2782.
444 - correctly abort on srv-record targets of ".".
445 - added AnyEvent::DNS::wait_for_slot.
446 - in the unlikely event of a virtual circuit connection
447 being invalidated by a delayed udp reply, AnyEvent::DNS
448 could die. this has been fixed.
449 - plug a probable memleak in the DNS vc code.
450 - use configured timeout also for VC request phase.
451 - implement timeout and max_outstanding methods
452 for resolver class.
453 - update version numbers in all modules.
454
455 4.1 Thu May 29 05:45:40 CEST 2008
456 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: renamed xxx_ip functions to xxx_address
457 which mirrors their purpose better (old names still available
458 for a while). Also moved AnyEvent::DNS::addr to
459 AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr.
460 - implement AnyEvent->time and AnyEvent->now.
461 - fix IPv6 support in pack_sockaddr.
462 - officially un-experimentalise all newly introduced code.
463 - support unix domain sockets everywhere by specifying
464 a host of "unix/" and the pathname as service.
465 - implement an activity timeout in AnyEvent::Handle.
466 - added a regex read type to AnyEvent::Handle.
467 - added a json read/write type to AnyEvent::Handle.
468 - always croak in on_error in AnyEvent::Handle.
469 - document how to subclass AnyEvent::Handle.
470 - implement AnyEvent::Util::fork_call.
471 - add support for IPv6 nameservers and nameserver statements.
472 - work around _yet_ _another_ windows perl bug in where empty
473 select masks cause errors in the pure perl backend (this
474 workaround cannot be implemented for the other event loops,
475 but EV also works around this).
476 - supply AnyEvent::Socket::address_type and make good use of it.
477 - clarify and fix the Handle documentation w.r.t $self vs. $handle
478 vs. callback arguments.
479 - add some recommends to the META.yml.
480
481 4.05 Mon May 26 19:44:06 CEST 2008
482 - some platforms ignore the rfc and prepend an extra sa_len member to
483 the sockaddr structure, cater for those. also use sockaddr_family,
484 didn't know it was there, but comes in handy for the workaround.
485 - undo the import WIN32 hack.
486
487 4.04 Mon May 26 08:03:31 CEST 2008
488 - try to work around yet another windows bug: failed connects are reported
489 as if it were out-of-band data. windows users: you suck. Only
490 EV, Glib, Event and the pure perl backend can handle this condition.
491 - optimize write algorithm in AnyEvent::Handle.
492 - properly parse PERL_ANYEVENT_PROTOCOLS and use the info correctly.
493 - tcp_connect now properly iterates through all targets.
494 - check wether IPv6 sockets can actually be created, otherwise, disable ipv6
495 support entirely. also hardcode some AF_INET6 constants for the
496 sake of perl 5.8.
497 - vastly improved nameserver/suffix detection algorithm for windows
498 (still a hack...)
499 - try to use a fallback dns server if no dns servers could be found.
500 - splatter around some local $SIG{__DIE__}'s to work around bad
501 die handlers.
502
503 4.03 Sun May 25 05:05:57 CEST 2008
504 - work around perl bugs on windows, where perl returns undocumented
505 error codes for sysread, syswrite etc.
506 - fix AnyEvent::Handle::unshift_read to really unshift and not push.
507 - AnyEvent::Handle could sometimes stumble over 0-byte writes.
508 - fix unpack_sockaddr, now works for AF_INET6 sockaddr's.
509 - updated documentation.
510 - lots of workarounds for perl 5.8 quirks.
511 - implement a more flexible type system for both reads and writes
512 in AnyEvent::Handle.
513 - support IPv6 in tcp_server.
514 - pass local hostname and port to the prepare callback in tcp_server.
515 - make types extendable in AnyEvent::Handle.
516 - croak, not die, in AnyEvent::Handle;
517
518 4.0 Sat May 24 19:58:08 CEST 2008
519 - added (experimental) AnyEvent::DNS module.
520 - added (experimental) AnyEvent::Socket module.
521 - added (experiemntal) support for TLS/SSL in AnyEvent::Handle.
522 - make condvar->end call ->send as documented.
523 - make condvar constructor support the documented cb => argument.
524 - overload condvars so you can use them instead of code references.
525 - support more of the POSIX forms instead of a pure dotted quad for
526 verbatim ip addresses.
527 - AnyEvent::Socket::inet_aton will use AnyEvent::DNS now and not fork anymore.
528 - try very hard not to freeze on broken windows perls.
529 - make on_eof optional in AnyEvent::Handle.
530 - support service names in tcp_connect and tcp_server.
531 - work around netbsd/openbsd bug causing unix sockets not to
532 become writable until empty.
533 - only make a dummy read for error detection when getpeername
534 returns ENOTCONN.
535 - defend AnyEvent::Util::inet_aton against Coro::LWP's brutal
536 override.
537 - new AnyEvent::Guard::cancel.
538
539 3.5 Sat May 17 23:17:14 CEST 2008
540 - gracefully deal with systems not defining CLOCK_MONOTONIC
541 (as opposed to not supporting the clock itself, which worked in 3.41).
542 - added AnyEvent::Util::tcp_connect and AnyEvent::Util::tcp_server
543 helpers, to replace the ill-designed AnyEvent::Socket class.
544 - added some examples (eg/connect, eg/handle).
545 - added AnyEvent::Util::guard.
546 - AnyEvent::Util now exports most of its functions.
547 - fixed a bug in *_read_chunk, where the callback was called with $self as
548 first and second argument.
549 - simplified and fixed regex handling in AnyEvent::Handle::*_read_line.
550 - fix manpage condvars examples to use new syntax.
551 - considerably improve inet_aton with EV::ADNS backend to support
552 cname chains (common dns configuration bug, e.g. with www.google.de)
553 and aaaa records if no a record could be found.
554
555 3.41 Sun May 11 19:53:13 CEST 2008
556 - work around a bug in perl 5.8.8's local. Reported by Yi Ma Mao.
557
558 3.4 Sun May 11 00:29:25 CEST 2008
559 - complete re-implementation of condvars with a hopefully much more useful
560 API (backward compatible functions exist but are undocumented).
561 - AnyEvent::Handle fully rewritten with a hopefully more powerful API
562 (still subject to change).
563 - take advantage of CLOCK_MONOTONIC, if available, in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
564 - provide AnyEvent::post_detect and @AnyEvent::post_detect, which
565 allows module authors to avoid forcing event loop detection.
566 (used by Coro::AIO, Coro::BDB, Coro::AnyEvent for example).
567 - remove coro backends: Coro now provides generic support for AnyEvent
568 via Coro::AnyEvent.
569
570 3.3 Mon Apr 28 09:51:06 CEST 2008
571 - added AnyEvent::Handle, AnyEvent::Socket and AnyEvent::Util modules.
572 - fix a bug in the pure perl backend that kept watchers alive
573 when multiple watchers were registered for the same fh/poll combo.
574 - add a benchmark section showing AnyEvent overhead and comparing
575 the different event loops with each other.
576 - prefer pure perl over tk when autoprobing, as it's about as fast,
577 but doesn't crash with many watchers.
578 - declare Qt support non-experimental.
579 - clarify the confusing section about the file descriptor being
580 kept alive.
581 - document the race between loading of an event module and
582 child processes exiting.
583 - support POE as "backend" (with some caveats, POE is not generic
584 enough, and darn slow).
585 - support Wx and Prima through POE.
586 - optimise perl backend to use 20% less memory and take advantage
587 of typical timeout behaviour. It can now compete with
588 select/poll-based C event loops in most cases (it is usually
589 faster than Event and Glib :).
590 - roughly cut EV memory use in half and increase its speed by 30%,
591 by removing undocumented functionality. Did something similar
592 to other event loops where possible.
593
594 3.2 Thu Apr 24 10:10:40 CEST 2008
595 - do not die when anyevent watchers are destroyed while running callbacks
596 in the pureperl backend (could only happen when two watchers are registered
597 for the same fh/poll combo).
598 - support autoloading for child watchers, was broken in all versions.
599 - implement PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL env variable.
600 - (experimental) implement interface to the (very crashy/buggy) Event::Lib module.
601 - (experimental) implement interface to the Qt module (cannot be autoprobed).
602 - this release is IO:AnyEvent-proof.
603
604 3.12 Tue Apr 22 07:11:46 CEST 2008
605 - reinstate AUTHOR section that got lost somehow.
606 - do not hang in the testsuite with badly broken perls (activestate,
607 strawberry...), but instead diagnose the problem and continue.
608 - use INT instead of CHLD in an attempt to support broken windows perls
609 better (this decreases the test quality, unfortunately).
610 - do not send the signal to the process group
611 (no problem for CHLD, bad for INT :).
612
613 3.11 Sat Apr 19 06:57:31 CEST 2008
614 - major documentation rework.
615 - document the fact that child watchers only watch for zombies.
616 - fix the child watcher example.
617
618 3.1 Wed Apr 16 17:09:01 CEST 2008
619 - work around recurring bugs in Tk by dup'ing filehandles, the
620 only method with good success chances on Tk (the bugs apparently
621 don't get fixed anytime soon).
622 - lift the restriction of only one watcher per fh direction
623 (as the Tk bug workaround also lifts it and only Tk imposed
624 such strong limits).
625 - changed probe order to prefer coro adaptors.
626 - explain why recursion into the event loop is not supported
627 unless the backend supports it (only Coro::EV does without
628 any restrictions...).
629 - add simple manpages for all backend modules.
630
631 3.0 Mon Apr 7 21:30:23 CEST 2008
632 - Coro::Signal changed semantics, roll our own, also cleaning
633 up the Coro implementation in general.
634 - rename Coro backend to CoroEvent.
635 - add some decision helping paragraph to the manpage that should
636 help people to decide whether AnyEvent is the right thing for them.
637
638 2.9 Mon Jan 28 13:31:54 CET 2008
639 - update for EV 3.0 API changes.
640
641 2.8 Sun Nov 25 15:06:03 CET 2007
642 - waitpid can validly return 0. accept this fact of life
643 instead of reporting it to any watchers.
644
645 2.7 Fri Nov 23 11:41:14 CET 2007
646 - force use of AnyEvent::Impl::Perl in testsuite, there is
647 too much breakage outside AnyEvent.
648 - deliver signals synchronously in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl
649 or any other event loop that relies on AnyEvents child
650 watcher emulation. *Could* help with hanging testsuite
651 (except when Event or EV are installed).
652
653 2.6 Fri Nov 9 20:36:35 CET 2007
654 - fix bug in testsuite.
655 - move EV adaptor modules to AnyEvent.
656 - add Coro+EV adaptor module.
657
658 2.55 Tue Nov 6 17:41:32 CET 2007
659 - add EV to the list of supported event models.
660 - do not auto-reset pid watchers, pass pid and status to them.
661 - allow a pid of zero to watch for all children in child watchers.
662
663 2.54 Wed Jul 18 17:36:23 CEST 2007
664 - work around a perl bug that results in
665 BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted without
666 any discernible reason or error message by once
667 again not use'ing strict.
668
669 2.53 Sun Jul 8 10:51:53 CEST 2007
670 - make Glib interface work again (spotted by elmex).
671
672 2.52 Wed Mar 7 18:36:16 CET 2007
673 - child watchers stopped working permanently when
674 all current child watchers were destroyed.
675
676 2.51 Mon Dec 11 21:33:24 CET 2006
677 - work around bugs in perl where eval "require Module" returns
678 true even if the module couldn't be loaded :/.
679
680 2.5 Mon Dec 11 02:15:28 CET 2006
681 - avoid $AUTOLOAD because many perls corrupt it.
682 - AnyEvent::detect forces autodetection.
683 - implement signal watchers (experimental)
684 (Tk does not support async signals (<= 804.027 at least),
685 so they might get delayed indefinitely on Tk).
686 - implement child watchers (experimental).
687 - moved default condvar implementation into base module, simplifying
688 most implementation modules.
689
690 2.1 Fri Nov 24 15:50:48 CET 2006
691 - better docs.
692 - simple testsuite.
693 - added AnyEvent->one_event method for special purposes.
694
695 2.0 Wed Nov 1 02:21:30 CET 2006
696 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: poll can now either be "r" or "w" but not both.
697 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: io watcher callbacks have no arguments anymore.
698 - EXPERIMENTAL:
699 new pure-perl model added, AnyEvent now always finds a suitable
700 event model.
701 - improved documentation.
702 - reduced cpu overhead.
703
704 1.02 Fri Jan 13 14:15:40 CET 2006
705 - add COPYING to clarify license.
706
707 1.01 Sun Jan 8 05:48:09 CET 2006
708 - correctly cancel Event timers, avoid memory leaks.
709
710 1.0 Sun Jan 8 05:40:58 CET 2006
711 - allow third-party interfaces to be added at runtime.
712 - fix version number.
713
714 0.9 Fri Dec 30 02:25:41 CET 2005
715 - fixed errors in the documentation.
716 - going back to using $VERSION as "load check",
717 as suggested by Jörn Reder. Let's see why I stopped using
718 this method.
719 - add 'hup' to the list of events to receive for glib
720 and generate 'rw' events for it, as some versions of
721 glib seem to require this, while this breaks other
722 (older) versions of glib.
723 - implemented PERL_ANYEVENT_VERBOSE env variable.
724
725 0.3 Sun Dec 4 10:43:33 CET 2005
726 - no changes to the code.
727 - fixed documentation.
728 - clarified some corner cases.
729 - vastly improved documentation with a long example.
730
731 0.2 Thu Dec 1 22:18:49 CET 2005
732 - check whether a valid method was called, to avoid endless loops.
733 - move condvars into their own class (cleaner, safer).
734 - don't die when some modules are not available.
735 - Tk is too broken to allow for words. Will work once Tk works.
736
737 0.1 Thu Dec 1 19:44:57 CET 2005
738 - spiced up and cleaned up for release.
739
740 0.01 Tue Sep 21 18:12:09 CEST 2004
741 - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
742