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Revision: 1.390
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1 Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent.
2
3 - don't generate spurious readyness notifications when select
4 returns EINTR in the pure perl backend (analysed and testcase
5 by Bas Denissen).
6 - provider faster implementations for AE::time/now/now_update for
7 EV and Perl backends.
8 - provide faster AE::cv and AE::time implementations for all
9 backends.
10 - no longer support lower/mixed-case signal names (this was
11 never documented nor universally supported).
12 - some more memory µ-optimisations, and somewhat less messy
13 code to cope with both AnyEvent and AE APIs.
14
15 5.251 Sat Mar 13 00:58:21 CET 2010
16 - make test failed if it was run before make install on perl <=
17 5.8.8, and older versions of perl make our live very difficult,
18 so write constants.pl during Makefile.PL time.
19
20 5.25 Sat Mar 13 00:23:14 CET 2010
21 - fix a race condition in AnyEvent::Handle that would cause
22 a "bio_read: unsupported method" error (in _another_
23 ssl connection) after user code threw an exception.
24 - added AnyEvent::Handle->destroyed method.
25 - speed up AnyEvent::Socket::format_address and ::format_ipv6.
26 - the AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking function worked only
27 by lucky accident on win32.
28 - smaller and faster AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking.
29 - when the (required!) Time::HiRes module is missing, AnyEvent
30 did not fall back to built-in time properly.
31 - do not load Fcntl at runtime, saving memory and loading time.
32 - precompile a number of constants and use them instead of runtime
33 detection and eval.
34 - free detection code after detection and similar memory optimisations.
35 - Perl backend timer interval best effort drift has been improved
36 (same algorithm as EV).
37 - update unicode idna mapping table.
38
39 5.24 Tue Jan 5 11:39:43 CET 2010
40 - cygwin never reports errors from failed connects. 1.5 just gives
41 you continous readyness and EAGAIN, 1.7 is even more broken and
42 just hangs. work around both issues in a cygwin-specific hack.
43 - improve idle watcher documentation slightly.
44
45 5.23 Sun Dec 20 23:48:00 CET 2009
46 - support IDNs in resolve_sockaddr, and therefore in tcp_connect.
47 - implement punycode_encode/decode, idn_nameprep,
48 idn_to_ascii and idn_to_unicode operations in AnyEvent::Util.
49 - provide $AE::VERSION.
50 - removed traces of "no strict 'refs'".
51
52 5.22 Sat Dec 5 03:51:13 CET 2009
53 - downgrade-or-fail in AnyEvent::Handle::push_write, to
54 diagnose encoding failures earlier and more succinctly.
55 (this works around bugs in perl, throwing away encoding info
56 when passing scalar data to extensions).
57 - add more examples to AnyEvent::Socket manpage.
58 - upgrade internal warning set to the same as common::sense 2.03.
59 - use pack "n/a*" for pre-5.8.9 perl compatibility in AnyEvent::DNS
60 (John Beppu).
61 - AnyEvent::Socket::inet_aton now properly supports ipv6, as documented.
62 - add google public dns servers to fallback server set and make sure
63 we load-balance properly between the three sets. also add all
64 fallback dns servers, not just a random one, to each dns config.
65
66 5.21 Thu Nov 19 02:48:47 CET 2009
67 - fix a problem where socket constants were called with parameters
68 (spotted by David Friedland).
69 - fork_call never use'd POSIX (reported by Daisuke Maki).
70 - improve perl 5.6 compatibility further (but it still won't work
71 unless you rip out everything but the core).
72 - prefer Net::DNS::Resolver over ipconfig, if installed, on win32.
73 uses 10MB of RAM, but doesn't open a console window. *sigh*.
74
75 5.202 Wed Oct 14 22:35:44 CEST 2009
76 - AnyEvent::DNS would unexpectedly clobber $_ under windows
77 (analysed by Matthias Waldorf).
78 - AnyEvent::Handle::run_cmd can now pass the PID of the
79 newly-created process, which is much less useful than it might
80 sound (based on patch by Yann Kerherve).
81
82 5.201 Tue Sep 29 12:09:25 CEST 2009
83 - AnyEvent:Handle::on_starttls/on_stoptls methods were broken
84 (reported by Torsten Foertsch).
85 - common::sense 2.0 could cause tcp_server to throw an exception
86 (analysed by elmex).
87
88 5.2 Mon Sep 14 07:04:49 CEST 2009
89 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: do no longer support register_read_type
90 and register_write_type in AnyEvent::Handle, instead support
91 package names (the facility was mostly abused).
92 - implement "packagename-as-read/write type" support in
93 AnyEvent::Handle.
94 - AnyEvent::Handle: new options "keepalive" and "oobinline".
95 - oobinline set by default to avoid security issues.
96 - the pure-perl event loop backend wrongly detected times() fallback
97 support (spotted by Pavel Boldin).
98
99 5.12 Tue Sep 1 20:26:50 CEST 2009
100 - be more lenient when parsing resolv.conf files, as some people
101 use hashmarks as comment indicator inside directives (reported
102 by Michael S. Fischer).
103 - use same set of warnings as common::sense 2.0.
104 - fix a potential 32 bit overflow issue due to perl having problems
105 with large hex constants in the Perl backend.
106 - do not use the slower 5.6 version fo the enc_name code in AnyEvent::DNS
107 by default.
108 - fix some prototypes.
109 - (optionally) require Async::Interrupt 1.02.
110 - replace opendns fallbacks by verizon/level3 public dns servers.
111
112 5.112 Fri Aug 21 13:59:04 CEST 2009
113 - AnyEvent::Handle could cause hard crashes in Net::SSLeay when
114 using starttls with an illegal/uncreatable tls context.
115 - port to broken win32 perls.
116
117 5.111 Sun Aug 16 18:44:36 CEST 2009
118 - perl errornously requires sockaddr_un structures returned by the
119 kernel to have a specific length. work around this bug by padding
120 sockaddr_un structures (found to fail on OS X, as perl only uses
121 the correct code for GNU/Linux, but likely to fail on other
122 OSes as well).
123
124 5.11 Wed Aug 12 17:49:37 CEST 2009
125 - fixed a bug in run_cmd with input from filename.
126 - create a json coder object when none is given in write direction
127 to reduce dependency on JSON.
128
129 5.1 Tue Aug 11 03:17:32 CEST 2009
130 - tcp_connect now reports the correct error in $!, not an unrelated
131 one (was broken since 4.91).
132 - AE::Handle did not properly clear rtimeout/wtimeout watchers
133 when retrying a tcp_connect.
134 - new functions: AnyEvent::Util::run_cmd and close_all_fds_except.
135 - fixed wrong documentation in AE::Socket.
136
137 5.01 Mon Aug 10 03:16:32 CEST 2009
138 - last release broke EV child watchers :/.
139
140 5.0 Sun Aug 9 17:32:09 CEST 2009
141 - officially introduce and document the AE API.
142 - lowering the timeout at runtime did not have immediate effect
143 in AnyEvent::Handle.
144 - AE::Handle now has separate and independent read and write timeout
145 settings.
146 - probe for Guard module when AnyEvent::Util is loaded, not at
147 runtime (Event doesn't like eval "use" from callbacks, and it avoids
148 exporting the probe function).
149 - Impl::IOAsync's io watchers did not use the filehandle emulation
150 code to work around it's watcher limits.
151 - work around IO::Async's problems with overloaded objects.
152 - try to disable wearnings inside IO::Async, it's just too buggy.
153 - do no longer use Event by default, only EV or Perl, Event is too buggy.
154 - hackishly provide fast AE:: interface when EV or Perl is the backend.
155 - inherit VERSION from AnyEvent::VERSION in most modules.
156
157 4.91 Thu Aug 6 15:42:45 CEST 2009
158 - AE::Handle::starttls could get out of sync when the read buffer
159 already contains some TLS handshake.
160 - AE::Handle did not properly free the TLS session, causing bigger
161 memory leaks in Net::SSLeay than expected (reported by toaster).
162 - AE::Socket::tcp_connect will now artificially delay invoking
163 the callback to avoid returning after invoking the callback.
164 - convert many internal watcher uses to AE API.
165
166 4.9 Sat Aug 1 11:07:01 CEST 2009
167 - Glib silently fails when registering a timeout with
168 a negative value, so avoid that.
169 - call condvar callback immediately when it is set
170 after the condition is already signalled.
171 - check rbuf_max condition only after trying to consume
172 data.
173 - normalise signal numbers to names when using the ae's
174 signal handling, but do not document this (yet).
175 - pure perl signal emulation did not properly set nonblocking
176 mode on the signal pipe on win32 (this is unlikely to have caused
177 any issues).
178 - new module: AnyEvent::Debug.
179 - AnyEvent::Strict now checks that a signal was specified
180 by name (not name or number).
181 - reduce memory footprint in typical cases by ~50kb by
182 only compiling signal code when necessary.
183 - add AnyEvent::Handle->rbuf_max.
184 - grab the AE namespace for future new API, implement stubs for
185 said future/alternative API.
186 - new function: AnyEvent::Socket::format_hostport.
187
188 4.881 Tue Jul 28 12:51:53 CEST 2009
189 - work around a bug in local in pre-5.10 perls, causing
190 AnyEvent::Handle to recurse when it should not
191 (analysed by elmex).
192
193 4.88 Tue Jul 28 04:04:37 CEST 2009
194 - re-bless the handle into a dummy package after calling
195 AnyEvent::Handle::destroy, so the user does not need to check
196 for errors after every push_write etc.
197 - do not attempt to run t/02_signals.t on obviously broken
198 platforms.
199
200 4.87 Sun Jul 26 02:06:16 CEST 2009
201 - do not attempt to linger when there is no longer a valid fh.
202 - enforce tls mode to be either accept or connect, do not simply
203 segfault in Net::SSLeay.
204 - AnyEvent::Handle can now call tcp_connect itself (new parameters
205 connect, on_prepare, on_connect and on_connect_error). Updated
206 tutorial accordingly.
207 - add AnyEvent::Impl::Irssi backend.
208
209 4.86 Mon Jul 20 23:52:29 CEST 2009
210 - since the verbose warning is not enough, explicitly document
211 that versions before 1.33 of Net::SSLeay are not secure.
212 - work around signal handling races in Event and (...) Event::Lib.
213 - try to align signal-race timer to full-second boundaries.
214 - work around Tk not liking negative timeouts.
215 - don't complain of different grades of environmental unfriendlyness
216 in IO::Async.
217
218 4.85 Sat Jul 18 06:16:14 CEST 2009
219 - nail the signal race problem in perl once and for all
220 (see $AnyEvent::MAX_SIGNAL_LATENCY).
221 - take advantage of Async::Interrupt if it is available.
222 - load Time::HiRes and Guard modules on demand only.
223 - add optional/recommended modules section to AnyEvent
224 documentation.
225 - reduce memory usage considerably (and reduce startup penalty)
226 by not using "strict", "warnings" and "overload" modules.
227 - work around buggy windows/openbsd perls and provide EBADMSG
228 and EPROTO ourselves when missing.
229 - improve perl 5.6 compatibility of the core event loop.
230 - made Net::SSLeay version 1.33 a soft requirement.
231
232 4.83 Fri Jul 17 16:56:26 CEST 2009
233 - implement AnyEvent::Socket::getprotobyname.
234 - AnyEvent::CondVar's will now detect recursive blocking
235 waits and will croak, as too many people fall into
236 this trap.
237 - AnyEvent::Handle will now call ->destroy on itself after
238 executing the on_error callback, instead of doing some
239 half-baked internal shutdown, for fatal errors.
240 - clarify on_eof behaviour w.r.t. the read queue and
241 on_read callbacks.
242 - ignore some possible spurious wake-ups in tcp_connect.
243
244 4.82 Sat Jul 11 00:34:55 CEST 2009
245 - POE and Event backends didn't accept some callable objects as
246 callbacks.
247 - use Config module instead of POSIX module to detect signal names
248 in AnyEvent::Strict and AnyEvent::Impl::EventLib, as the POSIX
249 module doesn't even have all POSIX signals :/.
250 - use more workarounds around the many refcnt/corruption bugs in
251 Event::Lib.
252 - work around a race condition in perl's select, causing t/03_child.t
253 to rarely fail.
254
255 4.81 Thu Jul 9 10:30:30 CEST 2009
256 - AnyEvent::Handle didn't properly diagnose write errors
257 (it expected -1 from syswrite, how lame... :).
258 - support file descriptors in addition to file handles
259 in AnyEvent->io.
260 - new env variables: PERL_ANYEVENT_RESOLV_CONF,
261 PERL_ANYEVENT_MAX_OUTSTANDING_DNS, PERL_ANYEVENT_CA_FILE
262 and PERL_ANYEVENT_CA_PATH.
263 - provide a sensible synopsis section for AnyEvent::TLS.
264 - add a "supported backends" section to the manpage.
265 - added simple io watcher test to testsuite, using a
266 portable_socketpair.
267 - tried to improve the stability of the Event::Lib backend,
268 YMMV.
269
270 4.8 Mon Jul 6 23:45:16 CEST 2009
271 - AnyEvent::DNS did not properly follow CNAME records with
272 uppercase targets.
273 - AnyEvent::DNS would errornously return AAAA records
274 with v4 mapped addresses (a faulty record) as ipv4 addresses,
275 causing AnyEvent::Socket to throw an exception.
276 - added new module AnyEvent::TLS for easier SSL/TLS context
277 creation, with many options including hostname verification,
278 secure default configuration, lots of documentation and,
279 predefined diffie-hellman keys for perfect forward security
280 and much more. get it while it's still fresh!
281 - use AnyEvent::TLS in AnyEvent::Handle for context management.
282 - load AnyEvent::Handle only on demand in AnyEvent::DNS,
283 so AnyEvent::Socket users have smaller memory footprint
284 in the common case.
285 - add AnyEvent::Handle->push_shutdown method.
286 - add an additional error message parameter to AnyEvent::Handle's
287 on_error callback (for TLS, $! is still available).
288 - add AnyEvent::Handle on_starttls/on_stoptls callbacks.
289 - make AnyEvent::Handle more robust against early conenction
290 failures (during new), and return C<undef> in that case
291 from the constructor.
292 - AnyEvent::Handle will now try to load only JSON::XS first,
293 then fall back to JSON.
294 - format_ipv4/format_ipv6 are now exported by default, for symmetry,
295 and because it was documented that way.
296
297 4.451 Fri Jul 3 00:28:58 CEST 2009
298 - do not clear rbuf when shutting down an AnyEvent::Handle
299 object - doing so breaks AnyEvent::HTTP.
300
301 4.45 Mon Jun 29 22:59:26 CEST 2009
302 - a write error could cause AnyEvent::Handle to create
303 an I/O watcher with an undefined $fh.
304 - special-case mapped ipv4 addresses in both
305 AnyEvent::Socket::format_address and parse_address,
306 to treat them just like ipv4 addresses.
307 - updated and overhauled the AnyEvent::Intro doc.
308 - implement AnyEvent::Socket::format_ipv4/ipv6.
309 - slightly speed up portable_pipe/socketpair.
310 - expand condvar begin/end documentation.
311
312 4.42 Fri Jun 26 08:32:18 CEST 2009
313 - preliminary and neccesarily incomplete support for IO::Async.
314 - reset SIGCHLD to DEFAULT when AnyEvent is loaded, in
315 case it was set to IGNORE, to ensure we can catch child statuses
316 even when the calling env acts stupidly.
317 - updated benchmarks with IO::Async, which performs very well.
318
319 4.412 Wed Jun 24 01:35:57 CEST 2009
320 - support an "untaint" attribute for AnyEvent::DNS
321 and set it on the default resolver.
322 - implement and document AnyEvent::Impl::Perl::loop.
323 - remove all anyevent-env variables from %ENV
324 when running in tainted mode.
325 - mention and extend the IO::Lambda benchmark.
326
327 4.411 Sun Jun 7 18:48:02 CEST 2009
328 - do not try to use F_SETFD on windows.
329
330 4.41 Thu May 14 06:40:11 CEST 2009
331 - work around issues in older perls (5.8.0?) when
332 a signal handler is deleted from the %SIG hash.
333 - use POSIX::_exit in child test, to avoid running
334 destructors.
335 - speed up CHLD handling by relying on SIGCHLD being
336 synchronously delivered, even when we roll our own
337 implementation.
338 - AnyEvent::DNS: add the "dname" resource record name
339 for cosmetic reasons.
340
341 4.4 Sun Apr 26 20:12:33 CEST 2009
342 - implemented idle watchers, where applicable.
343 - AnyEvent->time died when Event backend was in use.
344 - fix a memleak in the Tk backend.
345 - sped up Tk timer handling.
346 - clip negative "after" values to 0 in AnyEvent::Impl::Event
347 to avoid spamming out warning messages.
348 - fix Qt timers without interval.
349 - avoid Qt zero-timeout special case, in old libqt's.
350
351 4.352 Mon Apr 20 16:31:11 CEST 2009
352 - fix AnyEvent::Strict error messages for child watchers.
353 - fix/update Makefile.PL "recommends" versions.
354 - add AnyEvent->now_update.
355
356 4.351 Sat Apr 11 07:56:14 CEST 2009
357 - actually make the signal pipe work under win32.
358 - localise $! in signal handler to avoid changing $!, although
359 perl itself does not seem to save/restore errno either.
360 - set the cloexec flag on the signal pipe (normally set by perl too).
361
362 4.35 Fri Mar 27 11:48:20 CET 2009
363 - event models relying on AnyEvent's signal watcher emulation did
364 invoke the callback asynchronously, contradicting documentation
365 and causing signals to get lost (this includes AnyEvent's own
366 event loop). AnyEvent now uses the standard pipe trick to make
367 callback execution synchronous to the event loop.
368 - AnyEvent::Handle didn't free TLS context data on DESTROY
369 (patch by Pavel Shaydo).
370 - work around the ever-incompatibly-changing API of MakeMaker.
371 - document that changing global variables without restoring them
372 is a bad idea in Perl (noted by Adam Rosenstein).
373 - AnyEvent::Strict now barfs if ->io is passed a file.
374
375 4.34 Thu Feb 12 18:32:45 CET 2009
376 - separately buffer TLS read data, as otherwise the read queue could
377 deadlock as receiving data is not expected while draining the
378 read queue (which cna only happen with TLS).
379 - raise EBADMSG error on JSON decoding errors.
380 - fix some minor manpage bugs (reported by Maximilian Gaß).
381 - speed up select bitmask parsing quite a bit in the pure perl
382 backend.
383 - use CORE::select instead of just select in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
384
385 4.331 Tue Jan 6 21:07:25 CET 2009
386 - socketpair fails on many vista machines because vista has
387 completely broken accept/getpeername and getsockname functions,
388 so we provide our own socketpair emulation that kind of works
389 (AnyEvent::Util::portable_pipe).
390 - new function: AnyEvent::Util::portable_socketpair.
391 - take advantage of the Guard module if it exists.
392
393 4.33 Fri Nov 21 02:35:40 CET 2008
394 - AnyEvent::Strict did errornously flag a fileno of 0 as
395 illegal.
396 - reduce memory usage and slightly speed up the pure perl backend
397 by only storing the file descriptor, not the file handle.
398 - add missing autocork method to AnyEvent::Handle (reported
399 by Adam Rosenstein).
400 - AnyEvent::DNS->resolve errornously documented an $rcode result
401 argument, but there isn't (spotted by Henrik Krohns).
402 - the naked truth about Tk - it's basically unmaintained.
403
404 4.32 Mon Nov 3 22:46:32 CET 2008
405 - fix AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr to properly support
406 unix sockets again and choose a proper default for
407 the socket type.
408 - fix call to resolve_sockaddr in tcp_connect.
409
410 4.31 Thu Oct 30 04:41:48 CET 2008
411 - implemented AnyEvent::Handle->destroy method.
412 - hint about unexpected effects in TLS mode.
413 - speed up AnyEvent::Impl::Perl by using more arrays
414 instead of hashes without the slightest loss of readability :)
415 - work around a perl argument refcounting bug.
416 - with some perl patches applied, AnyEvent now seems leak-free.
417
418 4.3 Fri Oct 3 09:18:43 CEST 2008
419 - AnyEvent will now install a no-op signal handler for SIGPIPE,
420 unless one has been installed already.
421 - warn about not loaidng AnyEvent::Impl::POE early enough
422 (patch by Adam Rosenstein).
423 - fixed a great number of bugs and corner cases in AnyEvent::Handle.
424 - fix a bug in where in SSL connect mode, the
425 client would first wait for some data by the server and
426 otherwise hang. (reported and analysed in an absolutely
427 exemplary manner by Adam Rosenstein).
428 - fix a bug in where SSL EOF would not be treated
429 as stream EOF, putting the connection into a hung state.
430 (reported and analysed in an absolutely exemplary manner by Adam
431 Rosenstein).
432 - fix a potential segfault when the TLS context
433 would go missing in a read callback (e.g. due to stoptls) -
434 Net::SSLeay of course makes no type checking whatsoever.
435 - AnyEvent::Handle will not stop the read watcher in TLS mode.
436 - AnyEvent::Handle->stoptls will send a TLS close notify
437 instead of simply destroying the stream now.
438 - fix a bug where large blocks of data written in TLS mode
439 would not be sent unless triggered by receives.
440 - on_drain will now take the tls write buffer into account.
441 - SSL operations have been streamlined a bit and should be faster
442 now, more to come, though.
443 - added a FAQ section, will document nontrivial issues in there.
444
445 4.234 Mon Sep 29 04:08:13 CEST 2008
446 - fix child watcher documentation: only child exits will be reported,
447 no trace events.
448 - mention SIGPIPE in AnyEvent::Handle.
449 - perl backend will now use POSIX::times as monotonic clock
450 when available and the monotonic clock option is not.
451 - run even without Time::HiRes in some cases now, but do not
452 provide sub-second accuracy (all *supported* perl versions have
453 Time::HiRes).
454
455 4.233 Fri Aug 22 01:48:05 CEST 2008
456 - fix a bug in the testsuite, causing a hang.
457 - clarified lots of AnyEvent::Handle constructor arguments.
458
459 4.232 Thu Aug 21 20:44:25 CEST 2008
460 - fix a bug in AnyEvent::Handle that could cause two fatal error
461 callbacks on EOF, which caused AnyEvent::HTTP to signal success twice
462 (testcase by Leon Brocard).
463 - clarified on_eof/on_error documentation a bit.
464
465 4.231 Tue Jul 29 13:12:15 CEST 2008
466 - remove some debugging code left in AnyEvent::Util::fork_call
467 (and no, it's impossible to implement with the broken windows
468 perls without resource leaks or worse).
469
470 4.23 Tue Jul 29 12:19:59 CEST 2008
471 - document the first parameter passed to condvar callbacks to be
472 the callback.
473 - add AnyEvent::Socket::{ntoa,aton} aliases.
474 - optimize the AE::Handle->push_read (line) for the default
475 eol marker.
476 - optimize push_read (packstring|storable) for small packets.
477 - invoke on_error callback when no on_eof callback is set.
478 - fix a bug in push_read (storable) of unknown impact.
479
480 4.22 Sun Jul 20 16:34:13 CEST 2008
481 - new function AnyEvent::Socket::parse_hostport.
482 - as the bulkheads at microsoft can't even get getprotobyname reliably
483 working on their shitty fucking broken os we need to hardcode
484 some common protocol numbers in AnyEvent::Socket. How can
485 people even bother with such a pile of shit as windows.
486
487 4.21 Thu Jul 17 14:40:05 CEST 2008
488 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: AnyEvent::Util::fork_call now has a prototype
489 which is incompatible to previous invocation syntax.
490 - work around more windows perl bugs in fork_call. I cannot imagine
491 why anybody would bother implementing fork in such an obviously
492 unusable way.
493 - avoid calling $do_retry if the request has already finished in
494 AnyEvent::DNS, thus avoiding an exception (reported by Anatoly
495 K. Sharifulin).
496
497 4.2 Sat Jul 12 22:42:11 CEST 2008
498 - support an "interval" argument for repeating timers.
499 - fix a bug in the pure perl event loop that caused timers to
500 be delayed under some circumstances.
501 - implement optional argument checking via PERL_ANYEVENT_STRICT.
502 - not importing anything from Event causes it to malfunction
503 and not use Time::HiRes, work around this bug.
504 - more bug workarounds against the endlessly broken Tk module,
505 seems to work now on 32 bit machines, but less so on 64 bit.
506 - minor optimisations applied to most backends.
507
508 4.161 Fri Jul 4 14:24:48 CEST 2008
509 - fixed the t/handle/02_write.t, it read after write, with the
510 assumption that all data could be written before read
511 (reported by Jim Razmus).
512
513 4.160 Thu Jul 3 04:02:21 CEST 2008
514 - re-registering signal watchers after unregistering one did
515 not work if a backend falls back on AnyEvent's default
516 implementation (also affected child watchers).
517 - new AnyEvent::Handle options: autocork and no_delay.
518
519 4.152 Sun Jun 22 14:15:44 CEST 2008
520 - allow for 32-bit perls that implement shifts differently
521 on different architectures in parse_ipv4 (reported and
522 analysed by Keiichi DAIBA).
523
524 4.151 Fri Jun 6 17:34:24 CEST 2008
525 - make sure specifying _only_ on_read and never pushing reads
526 works.
527
528 4.15 Fri Jun 6 13:00:46 CEST 2008
529 - the pure perl backend would keep some watchers alive when more than
530 one watcher was registered for the same fd.
531 - new "packstring" and "storable" read and write types
532 for AnyEvent::Handle.
533 - allow on_eof handler to be called after on_error with EPIPE returns.
534 - do not immediately call on_read callback in handle constructor.
535
536 4.14 Thu Jun 5 20:29:31 CEST 2008
537 - Fixed a bug in DNS SRV priority sorting.
538 - AnyEvent::Util::guard now reports runtime errors while
539 executing the guard block as warnings.
540 - handle 0-byte-reads just before EOF correctly in AnyEvent::Handle.
541
542 4.13 Thu Jun 5 00:47:59 CEST 2008
543 - AnyEvent::DNS only followed cname chains with length 2,
544 contrary to documentation. bumped it up to 10, thanks to
545 microsoft, the current broken-dns-config-king.
546 - AnyEvent::DNS didn't check for socket return status
547 but instead relied on perl not creating filehandles in that
548 case - too bad it gives you a bogus file handle (reported
549 and analysed by Vladimir Timofeev).
550 - fix queue management logic in AnyEvent::Handle:
551 when on_read was registered, the queue was empty
552 and no progress could be made AnyEvent::Handle would
553 enter an endless loop.
554 - correctly start reading again when the handle became
555 busy again after idling.
556 - correctly treat tls shut-downs as EOF condition
557 (for the time being, would be nice to have a callback for that).
558 - correctly call eof callback under all conditions
559 (hopefully).
560 - the timeout callback did not expect that $self can go
561 away any time.
562
563 4.12 Tue Jun 3 10:58:04 CEST 2008
564 - include AnyEvent::Intro, a tutorial for anyevent,
565 anyevent::socket and anyevent::handle.
566 - allow more options in on_error.
567
568 4.11 Fri May 30 23:42:25 CEST 2008
569 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace ptr by real PTR lookup, provide
570 reverse_lookup and reverse_verify to replace it, support
571 v4mapped and v4compat addresses.
572 - provide more documentation for the resolver class.
573 - really replace longest run of :0: by :: in format_address,
574 also properly convert :: and ::1 again.
575 - support NAPTR record name and decode it.
576 - implement random weight sampling for SRV records, as per
577 rfc 2782.
578 - correctly abort on srv-record targets of ".".
579 - added AnyEvent::DNS::wait_for_slot.
580 - in the unlikely event of a virtual circuit connection
581 being invalidated by a delayed udp reply, AnyEvent::DNS
582 could die. this has been fixed.
583 - plug a probable memleak in the DNS vc code.
584 - use configured timeout also for VC request phase.
585 - implement timeout and max_outstanding methods
586 for resolver class.
587 - update version numbers in all modules.
588
589 4.1 Thu May 29 05:45:40 CEST 2008
590 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: renamed xxx_ip functions to xxx_address
591 which mirrors their purpose better (old names still available
592 for a while). Also moved AnyEvent::DNS::addr to
593 AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr.
594 - implement AnyEvent->time and AnyEvent->now.
595 - fix IPv6 support in pack_sockaddr.
596 - officially un-experimentalise all newly introduced code.
597 - support unix domain sockets everywhere by specifying
598 a host of "unix/" and the pathname as service.
599 - implement an activity timeout in AnyEvent::Handle.
600 - added a regex read type to AnyEvent::Handle.
601 - added a json read/write type to AnyEvent::Handle.
602 - always croak in on_error in AnyEvent::Handle.
603 - document how to subclass AnyEvent::Handle.
604 - implement AnyEvent::Util::fork_call.
605 - add support for IPv6 nameservers and nameserver statements.
606 - work around _yet_ _another_ windows perl bug in where empty
607 select masks cause errors in the pure perl backend (this
608 workaround cannot be implemented for the other event loops,
609 but EV also works around this).
610 - supply AnyEvent::Socket::address_type and make good use of it.
611 - clarify and fix the Handle documentation w.r.t $self vs. $handle
612 vs. callback arguments.
613 - add some recommends to the META.yml.
614
615 4.05 Mon May 26 19:44:06 CEST 2008
616 - some platforms ignore the rfc and prepend an extra sa_len member to
617 the sockaddr structure, cater for those. also use sockaddr_family,
618 didn't know it was there, but comes in handy for the workaround.
619 - undo the import WIN32 hack.
620
621 4.04 Mon May 26 08:03:31 CEST 2008
622 - try to work around yet another windows bug: failed connects are reported
623 as if it were out-of-band data. windows users: you suck. Only
624 EV, Glib, Event and the pure perl backend can handle this condition.
625 - optimize write algorithm in AnyEvent::Handle.
626 - properly parse PERL_ANYEVENT_PROTOCOLS and use the info correctly.
627 - tcp_connect now properly iterates through all targets.
628 - check wether IPv6 sockets can actually be created, otherwise, disable ipv6
629 support entirely. also hardcode some AF_INET6 constants for the
630 sake of perl 5.8.
631 - vastly improved nameserver/suffix detection algorithm for windows
632 (still a hack...)
633 - try to use a fallback dns server if no dns servers could be found.
634 - splatter around some local $SIG{__DIE__}'s to work around bad
635 die handlers.
636
637 4.03 Sun May 25 05:05:57 CEST 2008
638 - work around perl bugs on windows, where perl returns undocumented
639 error codes for sysread, syswrite etc.
640 - fix AnyEvent::Handle::unshift_read to really unshift and not push.
641 - AnyEvent::Handle could sometimes stumble over 0-byte writes.
642 - fix unpack_sockaddr, now works for AF_INET6 sockaddr's.
643 - updated documentation.
644 - lots of workarounds for perl 5.8 quirks.
645 - implement a more flexible type system for both reads and writes
646 in AnyEvent::Handle.
647 - support IPv6 in tcp_server.
648 - pass local hostname and port to the prepare callback in tcp_server.
649 - make types extendable in AnyEvent::Handle.
650 - croak, not die, in AnyEvent::Handle;
651
652 4.0 Sat May 24 19:58:08 CEST 2008
653 - added (experimental) AnyEvent::DNS module.
654 - added (experimental) AnyEvent::Socket module.
655 - added (experiemntal) support for TLS/SSL in AnyEvent::Handle.
656 - make condvar->end call ->send as documented.
657 - make condvar constructor support the documented cb => argument.
658 - overload condvars so you can use them instead of code references.
659 - support more of the POSIX forms instead of a pure dotted quad for
660 verbatim ip addresses.
661 - AnyEvent::Socket::inet_aton will use AnyEvent::DNS now and not fork anymore.
662 - try very hard not to freeze on broken windows perls.
663 - make on_eof optional in AnyEvent::Handle.
664 - support service names in tcp_connect and tcp_server.
665 - work around netbsd/openbsd bug causing unix sockets not to
666 become writable until empty.
667 - only make a dummy read for error detection when getpeername
668 returns ENOTCONN.
669 - defend AnyEvent::Util::inet_aton against Coro::LWP's brutal
670 override.
671 - new AnyEvent::Guard::cancel.
672
673 3.5 Sat May 17 23:17:14 CEST 2008
674 - gracefully deal with systems not defining CLOCK_MONOTONIC
675 (as opposed to not supporting the clock itself, which worked in 3.41).
676 - added AnyEvent::Util::tcp_connect and AnyEvent::Util::tcp_server
677 helpers, to replace the ill-designed AnyEvent::Socket class.
678 - added some examples (eg/connect, eg/handle).
679 - added AnyEvent::Util::guard.
680 - AnyEvent::Util now exports most of its functions.
681 - fixed a bug in *_read_chunk, where the callback was called with $self as
682 first and second argument.
683 - simplified and fixed regex handling in AnyEvent::Handle::*_read_line.
684 - fix manpage condvars examples to use new syntax.
685 - considerably improve inet_aton with EV::ADNS backend to support
686 cname chains (common dns configuration bug, e.g. with www.google.de)
687 and aaaa records if no a record could be found.
688
689 3.41 Sun May 11 19:53:13 CEST 2008
690 - work around a bug in perl 5.8.8's local. Reported by Yi Ma Mao.
691
692 3.4 Sun May 11 00:29:25 CEST 2008
693 - complete re-implementation of condvars with a hopefully much more useful
694 API (backward compatible functions exist but are undocumented).
695 - AnyEvent::Handle fully rewritten with a hopefully more powerful API
696 (still subject to change).
697 - take advantage of CLOCK_MONOTONIC, if available, in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
698 - provide AnyEvent::post_detect and @AnyEvent::post_detect, which
699 allows module authors to avoid forcing event loop detection.
700 (used by Coro::AIO, Coro::BDB, Coro::AnyEvent for example).
701 - remove coro backends: Coro now provides generic support for AnyEvent
702 via Coro::AnyEvent.
703
704 3.3 Mon Apr 28 09:51:06 CEST 2008
705 - added AnyEvent::Handle, AnyEvent::Socket and AnyEvent::Util modules.
706 - fix a bug in the pure perl backend that kept watchers alive
707 when multiple watchers were registered for the same fh/poll combo.
708 - add a benchmark section showing AnyEvent overhead and comparing
709 the different event loops with each other.
710 - prefer pure perl over tk when autoprobing, as it's about as fast,
711 but doesn't crash with many watchers.
712 - declare Qt support non-experimental.
713 - clarify the confusing section about the file descriptor being
714 kept alive.
715 - document the race between loading of an event module and
716 child processes exiting.
717 - support POE as "backend" (with some caveats, POE is not generic
718 enough, and darn slow).
719 - support Wx and Prima through POE.
720 - optimise perl backend to use 20% less memory and take advantage
721 of typical timeout behaviour. It can now compete with
722 select/poll-based C event loops in most cases (it is usually
723 faster than Event and Glib :).
724 - roughly cut EV memory use in half and increase its speed by 30%,
725 by removing undocumented functionality. Did something similar
726 to other event loops where possible.
727
728 3.2 Thu Apr 24 10:10:40 CEST 2008
729 - do not die when anyevent watchers are destroyed while running callbacks
730 in the pureperl backend (could only happen when two watchers are registered
731 for the same fh/poll combo).
732 - support autoloading for child watchers, was broken in all versions.
733 - implement PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL env variable.
734 - (experimental) implement interface to the (very crashy/buggy) Event::Lib module.
735 - (experimental) implement interface to the Qt module (cannot be autoprobed).
736 - this release is IO:AnyEvent-proof.
737
738 3.12 Tue Apr 22 07:11:46 CEST 2008
739 - reinstate AUTHOR section that got lost somehow.
740 - do not hang in the testsuite with badly broken perls (activestate,
741 strawberry...), but instead diagnose the problem and continue.
742 - use INT instead of CHLD in an attempt to support broken windows perls
743 better (this decreases the test quality, unfortunately).
744 - do not send the signal to the process group
745 (no problem for CHLD, bad for INT :).
746
747 3.11 Sat Apr 19 06:57:31 CEST 2008
748 - major documentation rework.
749 - document the fact that child watchers only watch for zombies.
750 - fix the child watcher example.
751
752 3.1 Wed Apr 16 17:09:01 CEST 2008
753 - work around recurring bugs in Tk by dup'ing filehandles, the
754 only method with good success chances on Tk (the bugs apparently
755 don't get fixed anytime soon).
756 - lift the restriction of only one watcher per fh direction
757 (as the Tk bug workaround also lifts it and only Tk imposed
758 such strong limits).
759 - changed probe order to prefer coro adaptors.
760 - explain why recursion into the event loop is not supported
761 unless the backend supports it (only Coro::EV does without
762 any restrictions...).
763 - add simple manpages for all backend modules.
764
765 3.0 Mon Apr 7 21:30:23 CEST 2008
766 - Coro::Signal changed semantics, roll our own, also cleaning
767 up the Coro implementation in general.
768 - rename Coro backend to CoroEvent.
769 - add some decision helping paragraph to the manpage that should
770 help people to decide whether AnyEvent is the right thing for them.
771
772 2.9 Mon Jan 28 13:31:54 CET 2008
773 - update for EV 3.0 API changes.
774
775 2.8 Sun Nov 25 15:06:03 CET 2007
776 - waitpid can validly return 0. accept this fact of life
777 instead of reporting it to any watchers.
778
779 2.7 Fri Nov 23 11:41:14 CET 2007
780 - force use of AnyEvent::Impl::Perl in testsuite, there is
781 too much breakage outside AnyEvent.
782 - deliver signals synchronously in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl
783 or any other event loop that relies on AnyEvents child
784 watcher emulation. *Could* help with hanging testsuite
785 (except when Event or EV are installed).
786
787 2.6 Fri Nov 9 20:36:35 CET 2007
788 - fix bug in testsuite.
789 - move EV adaptor modules to AnyEvent.
790 - add Coro+EV adaptor module.
791
792 2.55 Tue Nov 6 17:41:32 CET 2007
793 - add EV to the list of supported event models.
794 - do not auto-reset pid watchers, pass pid and status to them.
795 - allow a pid of zero to watch for all children in child watchers.
796
797 2.54 Wed Jul 18 17:36:23 CEST 2007
798 - work around a perl bug that results in
799 BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted without
800 any discernible reason or error message by once
801 again not use'ing strict.
802
803 2.53 Sun Jul 8 10:51:53 CEST 2007
804 - make Glib interface work again (spotted by elmex).
805
806 2.52 Wed Mar 7 18:36:16 CET 2007
807 - child watchers stopped working permanently when
808 all current child watchers were destroyed.
809
810 2.51 Mon Dec 11 21:33:24 CET 2006
811 - work around bugs in perl where eval "require Module" returns
812 true even if the module couldn't be loaded :/.
813
814 2.5 Mon Dec 11 02:15:28 CET 2006
815 - avoid $AUTOLOAD because many perls corrupt it.
816 - AnyEvent::detect forces autodetection.
817 - implement signal watchers (experimental)
818 (Tk does not support async signals (<= 804.027 at least),
819 so they might get delayed indefinitely on Tk).
820 - implement child watchers (experimental).
821 - moved default condvar implementation into base module, simplifying
822 most implementation modules.
823
824 2.1 Fri Nov 24 15:50:48 CET 2006
825 - better docs.
826 - simple testsuite.
827 - added AnyEvent->one_event method for special purposes.
828
829 2.0 Wed Nov 1 02:21:30 CET 2006
830 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: poll can now either be "r" or "w" but not both.
831 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: io watcher callbacks have no arguments anymore.
832 - EXPERIMENTAL:
833 new pure-perl model added, AnyEvent now always finds a suitable
834 event model.
835 - improved documentation.
836 - reduced cpu overhead.
837
838 1.02 Fri Jan 13 14:15:40 CET 2006
839 - add COPYING to clarify license.
840
841 1.01 Sun Jan 8 05:48:09 CET 2006
842 - correctly cancel Event timers, avoid memory leaks.
843
844 1.0 Sun Jan 8 05:40:58 CET 2006
845 - allow third-party interfaces to be added at runtime.
846 - fix version number.
847
848 0.9 Fri Dec 30 02:25:41 CET 2005
849 - fixed errors in the documentation.
850 - going back to using $VERSION as "load check",
851 as suggested by Jörn Reder. Let's see why I stopped using
852 this method.
853 - add 'hup' to the list of events to receive for glib
854 and generate 'rw' events for it, as some versions of
855 glib seem to require this, while this breaks other
856 (older) versions of glib.
857 - implemented PERL_ANYEVENT_VERBOSE env variable.
858
859 0.3 Sun Dec 4 10:43:33 CET 2005
860 - no changes to the code.
861 - fixed documentation.
862 - clarified some corner cases.
863 - vastly improved documentation with a long example.
864
865 0.2 Thu Dec 1 22:18:49 CET 2005
866 - check whether a valid method was called, to avoid endless loops.
867 - move condvars into their own class (cleaner, safer).
868 - don't die when some modules are not available.
869 - Tk is too broken to allow for words. Will work once Tk works.
870
871 0.1 Thu Dec 1 19:44:57 CET 2005
872 - spiced up and cleaned up for release.
873
874 0.01 Tue Sep 21 18:12:09 CEST 2004
875 - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
876