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Revision: 1.391
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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 - give same examples in SYNOPSIS sections of AnyEvent and AE.
7 - provider faster implementations for AE::time/now/now_update for
8 EV and Perl backends.
9 - provide faster AE::cv and AE::time implementations for all
10 backends.
11 - no longer support lower/mixed-case signal names (this was
12 never documented nor universally supported).
13 - some more memory µ-optimisations, and somewhat less messy
14 code to cope with both AnyEvent and AE APIs.
15
16 5.251 Sat Mar 13 00:58:21 CET 2010
17 - make test failed if it was run before make install on perl <=
18 5.8.8, and older versions of perl make our live very difficult,
19 so write constants.pl during Makefile.PL time.
20
21 5.25 Sat Mar 13 00:23:14 CET 2010
22 - fix a race condition in AnyEvent::Handle that would cause
23 a "bio_read: unsupported method" error (in _another_
24 ssl connection) after user code threw an exception.
25 - added AnyEvent::Handle->destroyed method.
26 - speed up AnyEvent::Socket::format_address and ::format_ipv6.
27 - the AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking function worked only
28 by lucky accident on win32.
29 - smaller and faster AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking.
30 - when the (required!) Time::HiRes module is missing, AnyEvent
31 did not fall back to built-in time properly.
32 - do not load Fcntl at runtime, saving memory and loading time.
33 - precompile a number of constants and use them instead of runtime
34 detection and eval.
35 - free detection code after detection and similar memory optimisations.
36 - Perl backend timer interval best effort drift has been improved
37 (same algorithm as EV).
38 - update unicode idna mapping table.
39
40 5.24 Tue Jan 5 11:39:43 CET 2010
41 - cygwin never reports errors from failed connects. 1.5 just gives
42 you continous readyness and EAGAIN, 1.7 is even more broken and
43 just hangs. work around both issues in a cygwin-specific hack.
44 - improve idle watcher documentation slightly.
45
46 5.23 Sun Dec 20 23:48:00 CET 2009
47 - support IDNs in resolve_sockaddr, and therefore in tcp_connect.
48 - implement punycode_encode/decode, idn_nameprep,
49 idn_to_ascii and idn_to_unicode operations in AnyEvent::Util.
50 - provide $AE::VERSION.
51 - removed traces of "no strict 'refs'".
52
53 5.22 Sat Dec 5 03:51:13 CET 2009
54 - downgrade-or-fail in AnyEvent::Handle::push_write, to
55 diagnose encoding failures earlier and more succinctly.
56 (this works around bugs in perl, throwing away encoding info
57 when passing scalar data to extensions).
58 - add more examples to AnyEvent::Socket manpage.
59 - upgrade internal warning set to the same as common::sense 2.03.
60 - use pack "n/a*" for pre-5.8.9 perl compatibility in AnyEvent::DNS
61 (John Beppu).
62 - AnyEvent::Socket::inet_aton now properly supports ipv6, as documented.
63 - add google public dns servers to fallback server set and make sure
64 we load-balance properly between the three sets. also add all
65 fallback dns servers, not just a random one, to each dns config.
66
67 5.21 Thu Nov 19 02:48:47 CET 2009
68 - fix a problem where socket constants were called with parameters
69 (spotted by David Friedland).
70 - fork_call never use'd POSIX (reported by Daisuke Maki).
71 - improve perl 5.6 compatibility further (but it still won't work
72 unless you rip out everything but the core).
73 - prefer Net::DNS::Resolver over ipconfig, if installed, on win32.
74 uses 10MB of RAM, but doesn't open a console window. *sigh*.
75
76 5.202 Wed Oct 14 22:35:44 CEST 2009
77 - AnyEvent::DNS would unexpectedly clobber $_ under windows
78 (analysed by Matthias Waldorf).
79 - AnyEvent::Handle::run_cmd can now pass the PID of the
80 newly-created process, which is much less useful than it might
81 sound (based on patch by Yann Kerherve).
82
83 5.201 Tue Sep 29 12:09:25 CEST 2009
84 - AnyEvent:Handle::on_starttls/on_stoptls methods were broken
85 (reported by Torsten Foertsch).
86 - common::sense 2.0 could cause tcp_server to throw an exception
87 (analysed by elmex).
88
89 5.2 Mon Sep 14 07:04:49 CEST 2009
90 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: do no longer support register_read_type
91 and register_write_type in AnyEvent::Handle, instead support
92 package names (the facility was mostly abused).
93 - implement "packagename-as-read/write type" support in
94 AnyEvent::Handle.
95 - AnyEvent::Handle: new options "keepalive" and "oobinline".
96 - oobinline set by default to avoid security issues.
97 - the pure-perl event loop backend wrongly detected times() fallback
98 support (spotted by Pavel Boldin).
99
100 5.12 Tue Sep 1 20:26:50 CEST 2009
101 - be more lenient when parsing resolv.conf files, as some people
102 use hashmarks as comment indicator inside directives (reported
103 by Michael S. Fischer).
104 - use same set of warnings as common::sense 2.0.
105 - fix a potential 32 bit overflow issue due to perl having problems
106 with large hex constants in the Perl backend.
107 - do not use the slower 5.6 version fo the enc_name code in AnyEvent::DNS
108 by default.
109 - fix some prototypes.
110 - (optionally) require Async::Interrupt 1.02.
111 - replace opendns fallbacks by verizon/level3 public dns servers.
112
113 5.112 Fri Aug 21 13:59:04 CEST 2009
114 - AnyEvent::Handle could cause hard crashes in Net::SSLeay when
115 using starttls with an illegal/uncreatable tls context.
116 - port to broken win32 perls.
117
118 5.111 Sun Aug 16 18:44:36 CEST 2009
119 - perl errornously requires sockaddr_un structures returned by the
120 kernel to have a specific length. work around this bug by padding
121 sockaddr_un structures (found to fail on OS X, as perl only uses
122 the correct code for GNU/Linux, but likely to fail on other
123 OSes as well).
124
125 5.11 Wed Aug 12 17:49:37 CEST 2009
126 - fixed a bug in run_cmd with input from filename.
127 - create a json coder object when none is given in write direction
128 to reduce dependency on JSON.
129
130 5.1 Tue Aug 11 03:17:32 CEST 2009
131 - tcp_connect now reports the correct error in $!, not an unrelated
132 one (was broken since 4.91).
133 - AE::Handle did not properly clear rtimeout/wtimeout watchers
134 when retrying a tcp_connect.
135 - new functions: AnyEvent::Util::run_cmd and close_all_fds_except.
136 - fixed wrong documentation in AE::Socket.
137
138 5.01 Mon Aug 10 03:16:32 CEST 2009
139 - last release broke EV child watchers :/.
140
141 5.0 Sun Aug 9 17:32:09 CEST 2009
142 - officially introduce and document the AE API.
143 - lowering the timeout at runtime did not have immediate effect
144 in AnyEvent::Handle.
145 - AE::Handle now has separate and independent read and write timeout
146 settings.
147 - probe for Guard module when AnyEvent::Util is loaded, not at
148 runtime (Event doesn't like eval "use" from callbacks, and it avoids
149 exporting the probe function).
150 - Impl::IOAsync's io watchers did not use the filehandle emulation
151 code to work around it's watcher limits.
152 - work around IO::Async's problems with overloaded objects.
153 - try to disable wearnings inside IO::Async, it's just too buggy.
154 - do no longer use Event by default, only EV or Perl, Event is too buggy.
155 - hackishly provide fast AE:: interface when EV or Perl is the backend.
156 - inherit VERSION from AnyEvent::VERSION in most modules.
157
158 4.91 Thu Aug 6 15:42:45 CEST 2009
159 - AE::Handle::starttls could get out of sync when the read buffer
160 already contains some TLS handshake.
161 - AE::Handle did not properly free the TLS session, causing bigger
162 memory leaks in Net::SSLeay than expected (reported by toaster).
163 - AE::Socket::tcp_connect will now artificially delay invoking
164 the callback to avoid returning after invoking the callback.
165 - convert many internal watcher uses to AE API.
166
167 4.9 Sat Aug 1 11:07:01 CEST 2009
168 - Glib silently fails when registering a timeout with
169 a negative value, so avoid that.
170 - call condvar callback immediately when it is set
171 after the condition is already signalled.
172 - check rbuf_max condition only after trying to consume
173 data.
174 - normalise signal numbers to names when using the ae's
175 signal handling, but do not document this (yet).
176 - pure perl signal emulation did not properly set nonblocking
177 mode on the signal pipe on win32 (this is unlikely to have caused
178 any issues).
179 - new module: AnyEvent::Debug.
180 - AnyEvent::Strict now checks that a signal was specified
181 by name (not name or number).
182 - reduce memory footprint in typical cases by ~50kb by
183 only compiling signal code when necessary.
184 - add AnyEvent::Handle->rbuf_max.
185 - grab the AE namespace for future new API, implement stubs for
186 said future/alternative API.
187 - new function: AnyEvent::Socket::format_hostport.
188
189 4.881 Tue Jul 28 12:51:53 CEST 2009
190 - work around a bug in local in pre-5.10 perls, causing
191 AnyEvent::Handle to recurse when it should not
192 (analysed by elmex).
193
194 4.88 Tue Jul 28 04:04:37 CEST 2009
195 - re-bless the handle into a dummy package after calling
196 AnyEvent::Handle::destroy, so the user does not need to check
197 for errors after every push_write etc.
198 - do not attempt to run t/02_signals.t on obviously broken
199 platforms.
200
201 4.87 Sun Jul 26 02:06:16 CEST 2009
202 - do not attempt to linger when there is no longer a valid fh.
203 - enforce tls mode to be either accept or connect, do not simply
204 segfault in Net::SSLeay.
205 - AnyEvent::Handle can now call tcp_connect itself (new parameters
206 connect, on_prepare, on_connect and on_connect_error). Updated
207 tutorial accordingly.
208 - add AnyEvent::Impl::Irssi backend.
209
210 4.86 Mon Jul 20 23:52:29 CEST 2009
211 - since the verbose warning is not enough, explicitly document
212 that versions before 1.33 of Net::SSLeay are not secure.
213 - work around signal handling races in Event and (...) Event::Lib.
214 - try to align signal-race timer to full-second boundaries.
215 - work around Tk not liking negative timeouts.
216 - don't complain of different grades of environmental unfriendlyness
217 in IO::Async.
218
219 4.85 Sat Jul 18 06:16:14 CEST 2009
220 - nail the signal race problem in perl once and for all
221 (see $AnyEvent::MAX_SIGNAL_LATENCY).
222 - take advantage of Async::Interrupt if it is available.
223 - load Time::HiRes and Guard modules on demand only.
224 - add optional/recommended modules section to AnyEvent
225 documentation.
226 - reduce memory usage considerably (and reduce startup penalty)
227 by not using "strict", "warnings" and "overload" modules.
228 - work around buggy windows/openbsd perls and provide EBADMSG
229 and EPROTO ourselves when missing.
230 - improve perl 5.6 compatibility of the core event loop.
231 - made Net::SSLeay version 1.33 a soft requirement.
232
233 4.83 Fri Jul 17 16:56:26 CEST 2009
234 - implement AnyEvent::Socket::getprotobyname.
235 - AnyEvent::CondVar's will now detect recursive blocking
236 waits and will croak, as too many people fall into
237 this trap.
238 - AnyEvent::Handle will now call ->destroy on itself after
239 executing the on_error callback, instead of doing some
240 half-baked internal shutdown, for fatal errors.
241 - clarify on_eof behaviour w.r.t. the read queue and
242 on_read callbacks.
243 - ignore some possible spurious wake-ups in tcp_connect.
244
245 4.82 Sat Jul 11 00:34:55 CEST 2009
246 - POE and Event backends didn't accept some callable objects as
247 callbacks.
248 - use Config module instead of POSIX module to detect signal names
249 in AnyEvent::Strict and AnyEvent::Impl::EventLib, as the POSIX
250 module doesn't even have all POSIX signals :/.
251 - use more workarounds around the many refcnt/corruption bugs in
252 Event::Lib.
253 - work around a race condition in perl's select, causing t/03_child.t
254 to rarely fail.
255
256 4.81 Thu Jul 9 10:30:30 CEST 2009
257 - AnyEvent::Handle didn't properly diagnose write errors
258 (it expected -1 from syswrite, how lame... :).
259 - support file descriptors in addition to file handles
260 in AnyEvent->io.
261 - new env variables: PERL_ANYEVENT_RESOLV_CONF,
262 PERL_ANYEVENT_MAX_OUTSTANDING_DNS, PERL_ANYEVENT_CA_FILE
263 and PERL_ANYEVENT_CA_PATH.
264 - provide a sensible synopsis section for AnyEvent::TLS.
265 - add a "supported backends" section to the manpage.
266 - added simple io watcher test to testsuite, using a
267 portable_socketpair.
268 - tried to improve the stability of the Event::Lib backend,
269 YMMV.
270
271 4.8 Mon Jul 6 23:45:16 CEST 2009
272 - AnyEvent::DNS did not properly follow CNAME records with
273 uppercase targets.
274 - AnyEvent::DNS would errornously return AAAA records
275 with v4 mapped addresses (a faulty record) as ipv4 addresses,
276 causing AnyEvent::Socket to throw an exception.
277 - added new module AnyEvent::TLS for easier SSL/TLS context
278 creation, with many options including hostname verification,
279 secure default configuration, lots of documentation and,
280 predefined diffie-hellman keys for perfect forward security
281 and much more. get it while it's still fresh!
282 - use AnyEvent::TLS in AnyEvent::Handle for context management.
283 - load AnyEvent::Handle only on demand in AnyEvent::DNS,
284 so AnyEvent::Socket users have smaller memory footprint
285 in the common case.
286 - add AnyEvent::Handle->push_shutdown method.
287 - add an additional error message parameter to AnyEvent::Handle's
288 on_error callback (for TLS, $! is still available).
289 - add AnyEvent::Handle on_starttls/on_stoptls callbacks.
290 - make AnyEvent::Handle more robust against early conenction
291 failures (during new), and return C<undef> in that case
292 from the constructor.
293 - AnyEvent::Handle will now try to load only JSON::XS first,
294 then fall back to JSON.
295 - format_ipv4/format_ipv6 are now exported by default, for symmetry,
296 and because it was documented that way.
297
298 4.451 Fri Jul 3 00:28:58 CEST 2009
299 - do not clear rbuf when shutting down an AnyEvent::Handle
300 object - doing so breaks AnyEvent::HTTP.
301
302 4.45 Mon Jun 29 22:59:26 CEST 2009
303 - a write error could cause AnyEvent::Handle to create
304 an I/O watcher with an undefined $fh.
305 - special-case mapped ipv4 addresses in both
306 AnyEvent::Socket::format_address and parse_address,
307 to treat them just like ipv4 addresses.
308 - updated and overhauled the AnyEvent::Intro doc.
309 - implement AnyEvent::Socket::format_ipv4/ipv6.
310 - slightly speed up portable_pipe/socketpair.
311 - expand condvar begin/end documentation.
312
313 4.42 Fri Jun 26 08:32:18 CEST 2009
314 - preliminary and neccesarily incomplete support for IO::Async.
315 - reset SIGCHLD to DEFAULT when AnyEvent is loaded, in
316 case it was set to IGNORE, to ensure we can catch child statuses
317 even when the calling env acts stupidly.
318 - updated benchmarks with IO::Async, which performs very well.
319
320 4.412 Wed Jun 24 01:35:57 CEST 2009
321 - support an "untaint" attribute for AnyEvent::DNS
322 and set it on the default resolver.
323 - implement and document AnyEvent::Impl::Perl::loop.
324 - remove all anyevent-env variables from %ENV
325 when running in tainted mode.
326 - mention and extend the IO::Lambda benchmark.
327
328 4.411 Sun Jun 7 18:48:02 CEST 2009
329 - do not try to use F_SETFD on windows.
330
331 4.41 Thu May 14 06:40:11 CEST 2009
332 - work around issues in older perls (5.8.0?) when
333 a signal handler is deleted from the %SIG hash.
334 - use POSIX::_exit in child test, to avoid running
335 destructors.
336 - speed up CHLD handling by relying on SIGCHLD being
337 synchronously delivered, even when we roll our own
338 implementation.
339 - AnyEvent::DNS: add the "dname" resource record name
340 for cosmetic reasons.
341
342 4.4 Sun Apr 26 20:12:33 CEST 2009
343 - implemented idle watchers, where applicable.
344 - AnyEvent->time died when Event backend was in use.
345 - fix a memleak in the Tk backend.
346 - sped up Tk timer handling.
347 - clip negative "after" values to 0 in AnyEvent::Impl::Event
348 to avoid spamming out warning messages.
349 - fix Qt timers without interval.
350 - avoid Qt zero-timeout special case, in old libqt's.
351
352 4.352 Mon Apr 20 16:31:11 CEST 2009
353 - fix AnyEvent::Strict error messages for child watchers.
354 - fix/update Makefile.PL "recommends" versions.
355 - add AnyEvent->now_update.
356
357 4.351 Sat Apr 11 07:56:14 CEST 2009
358 - actually make the signal pipe work under win32.
359 - localise $! in signal handler to avoid changing $!, although
360 perl itself does not seem to save/restore errno either.
361 - set the cloexec flag on the signal pipe (normally set by perl too).
362
363 4.35 Fri Mar 27 11:48:20 CET 2009
364 - event models relying on AnyEvent's signal watcher emulation did
365 invoke the callback asynchronously, contradicting documentation
366 and causing signals to get lost (this includes AnyEvent's own
367 event loop). AnyEvent now uses the standard pipe trick to make
368 callback execution synchronous to the event loop.
369 - AnyEvent::Handle didn't free TLS context data on DESTROY
370 (patch by Pavel Shaydo).
371 - work around the ever-incompatibly-changing API of MakeMaker.
372 - document that changing global variables without restoring them
373 is a bad idea in Perl (noted by Adam Rosenstein).
374 - AnyEvent::Strict now barfs if ->io is passed a file.
375
376 4.34 Thu Feb 12 18:32:45 CET 2009
377 - separately buffer TLS read data, as otherwise the read queue could
378 deadlock as receiving data is not expected while draining the
379 read queue (which cna only happen with TLS).
380 - raise EBADMSG error on JSON decoding errors.
381 - fix some minor manpage bugs (reported by Maximilian Gaß).
382 - speed up select bitmask parsing quite a bit in the pure perl
383 backend.
384 - use CORE::select instead of just select in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
385
386 4.331 Tue Jan 6 21:07:25 CET 2009
387 - socketpair fails on many vista machines because vista has
388 completely broken accept/getpeername and getsockname functions,
389 so we provide our own socketpair emulation that kind of works
390 (AnyEvent::Util::portable_pipe).
391 - new function: AnyEvent::Util::portable_socketpair.
392 - take advantage of the Guard module if it exists.
393
394 4.33 Fri Nov 21 02:35:40 CET 2008
395 - AnyEvent::Strict did errornously flag a fileno of 0 as
396 illegal.
397 - reduce memory usage and slightly speed up the pure perl backend
398 by only storing the file descriptor, not the file handle.
399 - add missing autocork method to AnyEvent::Handle (reported
400 by Adam Rosenstein).
401 - AnyEvent::DNS->resolve errornously documented an $rcode result
402 argument, but there isn't (spotted by Henrik Krohns).
403 - the naked truth about Tk - it's basically unmaintained.
404
405 4.32 Mon Nov 3 22:46:32 CET 2008
406 - fix AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr to properly support
407 unix sockets again and choose a proper default for
408 the socket type.
409 - fix call to resolve_sockaddr in tcp_connect.
410
411 4.31 Thu Oct 30 04:41:48 CET 2008
412 - implemented AnyEvent::Handle->destroy method.
413 - hint about unexpected effects in TLS mode.
414 - speed up AnyEvent::Impl::Perl by using more arrays
415 instead of hashes without the slightest loss of readability :)
416 - work around a perl argument refcounting bug.
417 - with some perl patches applied, AnyEvent now seems leak-free.
418
419 4.3 Fri Oct 3 09:18:43 CEST 2008
420 - AnyEvent will now install a no-op signal handler for SIGPIPE,
421 unless one has been installed already.
422 - warn about not loaidng AnyEvent::Impl::POE early enough
423 (patch by Adam Rosenstein).
424 - fixed a great number of bugs and corner cases in AnyEvent::Handle.
425 - fix a bug in where in SSL connect mode, the
426 client would first wait for some data by the server and
427 otherwise hang. (reported and analysed in an absolutely
428 exemplary manner by Adam Rosenstein).
429 - fix a bug in where SSL EOF would not be treated
430 as stream EOF, putting the connection into a hung state.
431 (reported and analysed in an absolutely exemplary manner by Adam
432 Rosenstein).
433 - fix a potential segfault when the TLS context
434 would go missing in a read callback (e.g. due to stoptls) -
435 Net::SSLeay of course makes no type checking whatsoever.
436 - AnyEvent::Handle will not stop the read watcher in TLS mode.
437 - AnyEvent::Handle->stoptls will send a TLS close notify
438 instead of simply destroying the stream now.
439 - fix a bug where large blocks of data written in TLS mode
440 would not be sent unless triggered by receives.
441 - on_drain will now take the tls write buffer into account.
442 - SSL operations have been streamlined a bit and should be faster
443 now, more to come, though.
444 - added a FAQ section, will document nontrivial issues in there.
445
446 4.234 Mon Sep 29 04:08:13 CEST 2008
447 - fix child watcher documentation: only child exits will be reported,
448 no trace events.
449 - mention SIGPIPE in AnyEvent::Handle.
450 - perl backend will now use POSIX::times as monotonic clock
451 when available and the monotonic clock option is not.
452 - run even without Time::HiRes in some cases now, but do not
453 provide sub-second accuracy (all *supported* perl versions have
454 Time::HiRes).
455
456 4.233 Fri Aug 22 01:48:05 CEST 2008
457 - fix a bug in the testsuite, causing a hang.
458 - clarified lots of AnyEvent::Handle constructor arguments.
459
460 4.232 Thu Aug 21 20:44:25 CEST 2008
461 - fix a bug in AnyEvent::Handle that could cause two fatal error
462 callbacks on EOF, which caused AnyEvent::HTTP to signal success twice
463 (testcase by Leon Brocard).
464 - clarified on_eof/on_error documentation a bit.
465
466 4.231 Tue Jul 29 13:12:15 CEST 2008
467 - remove some debugging code left in AnyEvent::Util::fork_call
468 (and no, it's impossible to implement with the broken windows
469 perls without resource leaks or worse).
470
471 4.23 Tue Jul 29 12:19:59 CEST 2008
472 - document the first parameter passed to condvar callbacks to be
473 the callback.
474 - add AnyEvent::Socket::{ntoa,aton} aliases.
475 - optimize the AE::Handle->push_read (line) for the default
476 eol marker.
477 - optimize push_read (packstring|storable) for small packets.
478 - invoke on_error callback when no on_eof callback is set.
479 - fix a bug in push_read (storable) of unknown impact.
480
481 4.22 Sun Jul 20 16:34:13 CEST 2008
482 - new function AnyEvent::Socket::parse_hostport.
483 - as the bulkheads at microsoft can't even get getprotobyname reliably
484 working on their shitty fucking broken os we need to hardcode
485 some common protocol numbers in AnyEvent::Socket. How can
486 people even bother with such a pile of shit as windows.
487
488 4.21 Thu Jul 17 14:40:05 CEST 2008
489 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: AnyEvent::Util::fork_call now has a prototype
490 which is incompatible to previous invocation syntax.
491 - work around more windows perl bugs in fork_call. I cannot imagine
492 why anybody would bother implementing fork in such an obviously
493 unusable way.
494 - avoid calling $do_retry if the request has already finished in
495 AnyEvent::DNS, thus avoiding an exception (reported by Anatoly
496 K. Sharifulin).
497
498 4.2 Sat Jul 12 22:42:11 CEST 2008
499 - support an "interval" argument for repeating timers.
500 - fix a bug in the pure perl event loop that caused timers to
501 be delayed under some circumstances.
502 - implement optional argument checking via PERL_ANYEVENT_STRICT.
503 - not importing anything from Event causes it to malfunction
504 and not use Time::HiRes, work around this bug.
505 - more bug workarounds against the endlessly broken Tk module,
506 seems to work now on 32 bit machines, but less so on 64 bit.
507 - minor optimisations applied to most backends.
508
509 4.161 Fri Jul 4 14:24:48 CEST 2008
510 - fixed the t/handle/02_write.t, it read after write, with the
511 assumption that all data could be written before read
512 (reported by Jim Razmus).
513
514 4.160 Thu Jul 3 04:02:21 CEST 2008
515 - re-registering signal watchers after unregistering one did
516 not work if a backend falls back on AnyEvent's default
517 implementation (also affected child watchers).
518 - new AnyEvent::Handle options: autocork and no_delay.
519
520 4.152 Sun Jun 22 14:15:44 CEST 2008
521 - allow for 32-bit perls that implement shifts differently
522 on different architectures in parse_ipv4 (reported and
523 analysed by Keiichi DAIBA).
524
525 4.151 Fri Jun 6 17:34:24 CEST 2008
526 - make sure specifying _only_ on_read and never pushing reads
527 works.
528
529 4.15 Fri Jun 6 13:00:46 CEST 2008
530 - the pure perl backend would keep some watchers alive when more than
531 one watcher was registered for the same fd.
532 - new "packstring" and "storable" read and write types
533 for AnyEvent::Handle.
534 - allow on_eof handler to be called after on_error with EPIPE returns.
535 - do not immediately call on_read callback in handle constructor.
536
537 4.14 Thu Jun 5 20:29:31 CEST 2008
538 - Fixed a bug in DNS SRV priority sorting.
539 - AnyEvent::Util::guard now reports runtime errors while
540 executing the guard block as warnings.
541 - handle 0-byte-reads just before EOF correctly in AnyEvent::Handle.
542
543 4.13 Thu Jun 5 00:47:59 CEST 2008
544 - AnyEvent::DNS only followed cname chains with length 2,
545 contrary to documentation. bumped it up to 10, thanks to
546 microsoft, the current broken-dns-config-king.
547 - AnyEvent::DNS didn't check for socket return status
548 but instead relied on perl not creating filehandles in that
549 case - too bad it gives you a bogus file handle (reported
550 and analysed by Vladimir Timofeev).
551 - fix queue management logic in AnyEvent::Handle:
552 when on_read was registered, the queue was empty
553 and no progress could be made AnyEvent::Handle would
554 enter an endless loop.
555 - correctly start reading again when the handle became
556 busy again after idling.
557 - correctly treat tls shut-downs as EOF condition
558 (for the time being, would be nice to have a callback for that).
559 - correctly call eof callback under all conditions
560 (hopefully).
561 - the timeout callback did not expect that $self can go
562 away any time.
563
564 4.12 Tue Jun 3 10:58:04 CEST 2008
565 - include AnyEvent::Intro, a tutorial for anyevent,
566 anyevent::socket and anyevent::handle.
567 - allow more options in on_error.
568
569 4.11 Fri May 30 23:42:25 CEST 2008
570 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace ptr by real PTR lookup, provide
571 reverse_lookup and reverse_verify to replace it, support
572 v4mapped and v4compat addresses.
573 - provide more documentation for the resolver class.
574 - really replace longest run of :0: by :: in format_address,
575 also properly convert :: and ::1 again.
576 - support NAPTR record name and decode it.
577 - implement random weight sampling for SRV records, as per
578 rfc 2782.
579 - correctly abort on srv-record targets of ".".
580 - added AnyEvent::DNS::wait_for_slot.
581 - in the unlikely event of a virtual circuit connection
582 being invalidated by a delayed udp reply, AnyEvent::DNS
583 could die. this has been fixed.
584 - plug a probable memleak in the DNS vc code.
585 - use configured timeout also for VC request phase.
586 - implement timeout and max_outstanding methods
587 for resolver class.
588 - update version numbers in all modules.
589
590 4.1 Thu May 29 05:45:40 CEST 2008
591 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: renamed xxx_ip functions to xxx_address
592 which mirrors their purpose better (old names still available
593 for a while). Also moved AnyEvent::DNS::addr to
594 AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr.
595 - implement AnyEvent->time and AnyEvent->now.
596 - fix IPv6 support in pack_sockaddr.
597 - officially un-experimentalise all newly introduced code.
598 - support unix domain sockets everywhere by specifying
599 a host of "unix/" and the pathname as service.
600 - implement an activity timeout in AnyEvent::Handle.
601 - added a regex read type to AnyEvent::Handle.
602 - added a json read/write type to AnyEvent::Handle.
603 - always croak in on_error in AnyEvent::Handle.
604 - document how to subclass AnyEvent::Handle.
605 - implement AnyEvent::Util::fork_call.
606 - add support for IPv6 nameservers and nameserver statements.
607 - work around _yet_ _another_ windows perl bug in where empty
608 select masks cause errors in the pure perl backend (this
609 workaround cannot be implemented for the other event loops,
610 but EV also works around this).
611 - supply AnyEvent::Socket::address_type and make good use of it.
612 - clarify and fix the Handle documentation w.r.t $self vs. $handle
613 vs. callback arguments.
614 - add some recommends to the META.yml.
615
616 4.05 Mon May 26 19:44:06 CEST 2008
617 - some platforms ignore the rfc and prepend an extra sa_len member to
618 the sockaddr structure, cater for those. also use sockaddr_family,
619 didn't know it was there, but comes in handy for the workaround.
620 - undo the import WIN32 hack.
621
622 4.04 Mon May 26 08:03:31 CEST 2008
623 - try to work around yet another windows bug: failed connects are reported
624 as if it were out-of-band data. windows users: you suck. Only
625 EV, Glib, Event and the pure perl backend can handle this condition.
626 - optimize write algorithm in AnyEvent::Handle.
627 - properly parse PERL_ANYEVENT_PROTOCOLS and use the info correctly.
628 - tcp_connect now properly iterates through all targets.
629 - check wether IPv6 sockets can actually be created, otherwise, disable ipv6
630 support entirely. also hardcode some AF_INET6 constants for the
631 sake of perl 5.8.
632 - vastly improved nameserver/suffix detection algorithm for windows
633 (still a hack...)
634 - try to use a fallback dns server if no dns servers could be found.
635 - splatter around some local $SIG{__DIE__}'s to work around bad
636 die handlers.
637
638 4.03 Sun May 25 05:05:57 CEST 2008
639 - work around perl bugs on windows, where perl returns undocumented
640 error codes for sysread, syswrite etc.
641 - fix AnyEvent::Handle::unshift_read to really unshift and not push.
642 - AnyEvent::Handle could sometimes stumble over 0-byte writes.
643 - fix unpack_sockaddr, now works for AF_INET6 sockaddr's.
644 - updated documentation.
645 - lots of workarounds for perl 5.8 quirks.
646 - implement a more flexible type system for both reads and writes
647 in AnyEvent::Handle.
648 - support IPv6 in tcp_server.
649 - pass local hostname and port to the prepare callback in tcp_server.
650 - make types extendable in AnyEvent::Handle.
651 - croak, not die, in AnyEvent::Handle;
652
653 4.0 Sat May 24 19:58:08 CEST 2008
654 - added (experimental) AnyEvent::DNS module.
655 - added (experimental) AnyEvent::Socket module.
656 - added (experiemntal) support for TLS/SSL in AnyEvent::Handle.
657 - make condvar->end call ->send as documented.
658 - make condvar constructor support the documented cb => argument.
659 - overload condvars so you can use them instead of code references.
660 - support more of the POSIX forms instead of a pure dotted quad for
661 verbatim ip addresses.
662 - AnyEvent::Socket::inet_aton will use AnyEvent::DNS now and not fork anymore.
663 - try very hard not to freeze on broken windows perls.
664 - make on_eof optional in AnyEvent::Handle.
665 - support service names in tcp_connect and tcp_server.
666 - work around netbsd/openbsd bug causing unix sockets not to
667 become writable until empty.
668 - only make a dummy read for error detection when getpeername
669 returns ENOTCONN.
670 - defend AnyEvent::Util::inet_aton against Coro::LWP's brutal
671 override.
672 - new AnyEvent::Guard::cancel.
673
674 3.5 Sat May 17 23:17:14 CEST 2008
675 - gracefully deal with systems not defining CLOCK_MONOTONIC
676 (as opposed to not supporting the clock itself, which worked in 3.41).
677 - added AnyEvent::Util::tcp_connect and AnyEvent::Util::tcp_server
678 helpers, to replace the ill-designed AnyEvent::Socket class.
679 - added some examples (eg/connect, eg/handle).
680 - added AnyEvent::Util::guard.
681 - AnyEvent::Util now exports most of its functions.
682 - fixed a bug in *_read_chunk, where the callback was called with $self as
683 first and second argument.
684 - simplified and fixed regex handling in AnyEvent::Handle::*_read_line.
685 - fix manpage condvars examples to use new syntax.
686 - considerably improve inet_aton with EV::ADNS backend to support
687 cname chains (common dns configuration bug, e.g. with www.google.de)
688 and aaaa records if no a record could be found.
689
690 3.41 Sun May 11 19:53:13 CEST 2008
691 - work around a bug in perl 5.8.8's local. Reported by Yi Ma Mao.
692
693 3.4 Sun May 11 00:29:25 CEST 2008
694 - complete re-implementation of condvars with a hopefully much more useful
695 API (backward compatible functions exist but are undocumented).
696 - AnyEvent::Handle fully rewritten with a hopefully more powerful API
697 (still subject to change).
698 - take advantage of CLOCK_MONOTONIC, if available, in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
699 - provide AnyEvent::post_detect and @AnyEvent::post_detect, which
700 allows module authors to avoid forcing event loop detection.
701 (used by Coro::AIO, Coro::BDB, Coro::AnyEvent for example).
702 - remove coro backends: Coro now provides generic support for AnyEvent
703 via Coro::AnyEvent.
704
705 3.3 Mon Apr 28 09:51:06 CEST 2008
706 - added AnyEvent::Handle, AnyEvent::Socket and AnyEvent::Util modules.
707 - fix a bug in the pure perl backend that kept watchers alive
708 when multiple watchers were registered for the same fh/poll combo.
709 - add a benchmark section showing AnyEvent overhead and comparing
710 the different event loops with each other.
711 - prefer pure perl over tk when autoprobing, as it's about as fast,
712 but doesn't crash with many watchers.
713 - declare Qt support non-experimental.
714 - clarify the confusing section about the file descriptor being
715 kept alive.
716 - document the race between loading of an event module and
717 child processes exiting.
718 - support POE as "backend" (with some caveats, POE is not generic
719 enough, and darn slow).
720 - support Wx and Prima through POE.
721 - optimise perl backend to use 20% less memory and take advantage
722 of typical timeout behaviour. It can now compete with
723 select/poll-based C event loops in most cases (it is usually
724 faster than Event and Glib :).
725 - roughly cut EV memory use in half and increase its speed by 30%,
726 by removing undocumented functionality. Did something similar
727 to other event loops where possible.
728
729 3.2 Thu Apr 24 10:10:40 CEST 2008
730 - do not die when anyevent watchers are destroyed while running callbacks
731 in the pureperl backend (could only happen when two watchers are registered
732 for the same fh/poll combo).
733 - support autoloading for child watchers, was broken in all versions.
734 - implement PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL env variable.
735 - (experimental) implement interface to the (very crashy/buggy) Event::Lib module.
736 - (experimental) implement interface to the Qt module (cannot be autoprobed).
737 - this release is IO:AnyEvent-proof.
738
739 3.12 Tue Apr 22 07:11:46 CEST 2008
740 - reinstate AUTHOR section that got lost somehow.
741 - do not hang in the testsuite with badly broken perls (activestate,
742 strawberry...), but instead diagnose the problem and continue.
743 - use INT instead of CHLD in an attempt to support broken windows perls
744 better (this decreases the test quality, unfortunately).
745 - do not send the signal to the process group
746 (no problem for CHLD, bad for INT :).
747
748 3.11 Sat Apr 19 06:57:31 CEST 2008
749 - major documentation rework.
750 - document the fact that child watchers only watch for zombies.
751 - fix the child watcher example.
752
753 3.1 Wed Apr 16 17:09:01 CEST 2008
754 - work around recurring bugs in Tk by dup'ing filehandles, the
755 only method with good success chances on Tk (the bugs apparently
756 don't get fixed anytime soon).
757 - lift the restriction of only one watcher per fh direction
758 (as the Tk bug workaround also lifts it and only Tk imposed
759 such strong limits).
760 - changed probe order to prefer coro adaptors.
761 - explain why recursion into the event loop is not supported
762 unless the backend supports it (only Coro::EV does without
763 any restrictions...).
764 - add simple manpages for all backend modules.
765
766 3.0 Mon Apr 7 21:30:23 CEST 2008
767 - Coro::Signal changed semantics, roll our own, also cleaning
768 up the Coro implementation in general.
769 - rename Coro backend to CoroEvent.
770 - add some decision helping paragraph to the manpage that should
771 help people to decide whether AnyEvent is the right thing for them.
772
773 2.9 Mon Jan 28 13:31:54 CET 2008
774 - update for EV 3.0 API changes.
775
776 2.8 Sun Nov 25 15:06:03 CET 2007
777 - waitpid can validly return 0. accept this fact of life
778 instead of reporting it to any watchers.
779
780 2.7 Fri Nov 23 11:41:14 CET 2007
781 - force use of AnyEvent::Impl::Perl in testsuite, there is
782 too much breakage outside AnyEvent.
783 - deliver signals synchronously in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl
784 or any other event loop that relies on AnyEvents child
785 watcher emulation. *Could* help with hanging testsuite
786 (except when Event or EV are installed).
787
788 2.6 Fri Nov 9 20:36:35 CET 2007
789 - fix bug in testsuite.
790 - move EV adaptor modules to AnyEvent.
791 - add Coro+EV adaptor module.
792
793 2.55 Tue Nov 6 17:41:32 CET 2007
794 - add EV to the list of supported event models.
795 - do not auto-reset pid watchers, pass pid and status to them.
796 - allow a pid of zero to watch for all children in child watchers.
797
798 2.54 Wed Jul 18 17:36:23 CEST 2007
799 - work around a perl bug that results in
800 BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted without
801 any discernible reason or error message by once
802 again not use'ing strict.
803
804 2.53 Sun Jul 8 10:51:53 CEST 2007
805 - make Glib interface work again (spotted by elmex).
806
807 2.52 Wed Mar 7 18:36:16 CET 2007
808 - child watchers stopped working permanently when
809 all current child watchers were destroyed.
810
811 2.51 Mon Dec 11 21:33:24 CET 2006
812 - work around bugs in perl where eval "require Module" returns
813 true even if the module couldn't be loaded :/.
814
815 2.5 Mon Dec 11 02:15:28 CET 2006
816 - avoid $AUTOLOAD because many perls corrupt it.
817 - AnyEvent::detect forces autodetection.
818 - implement signal watchers (experimental)
819 (Tk does not support async signals (<= 804.027 at least),
820 so they might get delayed indefinitely on Tk).
821 - implement child watchers (experimental).
822 - moved default condvar implementation into base module, simplifying
823 most implementation modules.
824
825 2.1 Fri Nov 24 15:50:48 CET 2006
826 - better docs.
827 - simple testsuite.
828 - added AnyEvent->one_event method for special purposes.
829
830 2.0 Wed Nov 1 02:21:30 CET 2006
831 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: poll can now either be "r" or "w" but not both.
832 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: io watcher callbacks have no arguments anymore.
833 - EXPERIMENTAL:
834 new pure-perl model added, AnyEvent now always finds a suitable
835 event model.
836 - improved documentation.
837 - reduced cpu overhead.
838
839 1.02 Fri Jan 13 14:15:40 CET 2006
840 - add COPYING to clarify license.
841
842 1.01 Sun Jan 8 05:48:09 CET 2006
843 - correctly cancel Event timers, avoid memory leaks.
844
845 1.0 Sun Jan 8 05:40:58 CET 2006
846 - allow third-party interfaces to be added at runtime.
847 - fix version number.
848
849 0.9 Fri Dec 30 02:25:41 CET 2005
850 - fixed errors in the documentation.
851 - going back to using $VERSION as "load check",
852 as suggested by Jörn Reder. Let's see why I stopped using
853 this method.
854 - add 'hup' to the list of events to receive for glib
855 and generate 'rw' events for it, as some versions of
856 glib seem to require this, while this breaks other
857 (older) versions of glib.
858 - implemented PERL_ANYEVENT_VERBOSE env variable.
859
860 0.3 Sun Dec 4 10:43:33 CET 2005
861 - no changes to the code.
862 - fixed documentation.
863 - clarified some corner cases.
864 - vastly improved documentation with a long example.
865
866 0.2 Thu Dec 1 22:18:49 CET 2005
867 - check whether a valid method was called, to avoid endless loops.
868 - move condvars into their own class (cleaner, safer).
869 - don't die when some modules are not available.
870 - Tk is too broken to allow for words. Will work once Tk works.
871
872 0.1 Thu Dec 1 19:44:57 CET 2005
873 - spiced up and cleaned up for release.
874
875 0.01 Tue Sep 21 18:12:09 CEST 2004
876 - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
877