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1 Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent.
2
3 TODO: document TCP_*** constants
4 TODO: catch AE::xxx for anyevent strict and anyevent debug
5 TODO: anyevent::trace? or debug tracing all watchers?
6 TODO: anyevent strict checking for $_ changes?
7
8 TODO: AnyEvent->postpone
9 TODO: redesign Impl
10 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: AnyEvent::DNS resource records now include
11 the TTL as fourth element - this affects ->resolve directly,
12 and ->request and ->dns_unpack indirectly. Convenience functions
13 such as AnyEvent::DNS::{a,txt,mx,srv} are not affected.
14 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: backend authors now should not implement
15 one_event or loop, but instead the AnyEvent::CondVar::_wait and _poll
16 methods.
17 - DEPRECIATION: please change
18 "use AnyEvent::Impl::Perl" to "use AnyEvent::Loop" and
19 "AnyEvent::Impl::Perl::loop" to "AnyEvent::Loop::run"
20 in your programs, for future compatibility.
21 - new function: AnyEvent::postpone.
22 - split the pure perl backend into a loop module and an impl
23 module (AnyEvent::Loop and AnyEvent::Impl::Perl).
24 - some read types (regex, netstring, json, storable) could
25 errornously keep an AE::Handle object alive on their own
26 (reported by Mohammad Toossi).
27 - add more workarounds around child watcher bugs in IO::Async
28 and (newly introduced) in POE.
29 - use glib child watchers and try to work around its limitations,
30 if possible (based on a patch by Kevin Ryde).
31 - add support for (currently third-party) AnyEvent::Impl::FLTK.
32 - many read types in AnyEvent::Handle would malfunction during
33 transitions to TLS because of a "delete $self->{rbuf}".
34 (reported by Gerald Galster).
35 - resolve AnyEvent::Util::guard at first-use-time, not at load time,
36 for further speed and memory savings when not used.
37 - improve condvar blocking wait performance (probably only noticable
38 with faster backends), also make it easier for event loops that
39 do not support blocking waits.
40
41 5.34 Thu May 12 09:59:41 CEST 2011
42 - AE::TLS didn't support both cert_file and key at the same time,
43 due to some copy&paste bug (reported and analyzed by vti).
44 - improve AE::Handle timeout documentation slightly.
45
46 5.33 Mon Feb 7 21:51:41 CET 2011
47 - never appeared on CPAN, for unknown reasons.
48 - AnyEvent::Handle on_connect_error - do not try to destroy a handle
49 object when it's already gone (analyzed by Ryan Bullock).
50 - update idna algorithm(s) to UTS#46 version 6.0.0.
51 - preserve trailing dot in idn_to_ascii - testsuite says to preserve,
52 uts46 says it's an error, and testsuite makes more sense.
53 - remove leading dots in idn_to_ascii - testsuite says to remove,
54 uts46 says it's an error, and testsuite makes more sense.
55 - fixed a bug in idn ignored character processing.
56 - passes the uts46 6.0.0 testsuite except for three cases which
57 apparently are bugs in the testsuite itself.
58 - passes the uts46 6.0.1 testsuite except for eleven cases which
59 apparently are bugs in the testsuite itself.
60
61 5.31 Sun Jan 23 11:49:19 CET 2011
62 - work around a POE bug where POE would first poll for new events and
63 invoke handlers BEFORE handling the message queue.
64 - fix parsing of "domain" statement in resolv.conf (Johannes Plunien).
65 - stop_read now does just that in TLS mode. see its
66 documentation for caveats.
67 - update to common::sense 3.4 warning set (some warnings in perl impose
68 an arbitrary 32kb limit on regex matches, which affects
69 AnyEvent::Handle).
70 - AE::Handle had a broken rbuf_max method and missing wbuf_max method.
71 - new experimental AE::Handle::resettls method.
72
73 5.3 Fri Dec 31 05:48:13 CET 2010
74 - major IOAsync patch by Paul Evans - 0.33 is required, as the major
75 issues with IO::Async have been solved in that version, including
76 the availabilty of a default loop!
77 - implement new wbuf_max parameter for AnyEvent::Handle.
78 - added Cocoa::EventLoop backend by Daisuke Murase.
79 - the default testsuite now honors PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL (Paul Evans).
80 - clarify handle on_prepare documentation.
81 - set CLOEXEC flag on parent-side fd's in AnyEvent::Util::run_cmd,
82 to avoid leaking them to any child processes.
83 - try to force files into the arch-dependend lib directory, for the
84 half-"turly obsessive compulsive person"(s) that depend on it.
85
86 5.29 Sun Dec 5 10:49:21 CET 2010
87 - convert EV backend to EV 4.00 API (so better upgrade EV too).
88 - AE::Handle: implement dynamic read_size adjustment, add
89 max_read_size parameter, reduce default read_size to 2048.
90 - add some FAQ entries for servers and/or on_eof vs. on_error.
91 - work around OS bugs (cygwin again) when lingering in AE::Handle.
92 - reduce memory usage slightly when connect was used in AE::Handle.
93 - wrok around more segfaults in Tk.
94 - document tls_ctx => undef as valid.
95 - detect WNOHANG value at compiletime.
96 - include some probably linux-only support for building AnyEvent
97 as part of the perl core.
98 - improve compatibility of t/08_idna.t to perl 5.8.
99 - make AnyEvent::Strict truly optional (in case somebody builds a
100 minimal perl...).
101
102 5.28 Wed Oct 13 04:14:23 CEST 2010
103 - due to a glitch, AnyEvent's internal getprotobyname wasn't
104 actually used in tcp_server.
105 - implement AnyEvent::CondVar->new method, which was documented but
106 missing.
107 - support autoloading of read types in unshift_read.
108 - AnyEvent::Strict: do the test for invalid fh arguments differently,
109 resulting in more informative error messages.
110 - new AnyEvent::FAQ manpage.
111 - clarify that you can actually call push_read etc. in on_read.
112 - put keys and certs in /tmp, not into the current directory,
113 and document this in the SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS sections
114 of AnyEvent::TLS.
115 - support ";" as resolv.conf comment character in AnyEvent::DNS, as
116 requested by Ron Isaacson.
117 - document $AnyEvent::DNS::RESOLVER variable.
118 - incorporated major typo patches by Abhijit Menon-Sen.
119 - AnyEvent::Handle now croaks when negative timeouts are passed.
120 - add a shitload of TCP_xxx sockopt name constants to AnyEvent::Util,
121 undocumented, but who knows when they might come in handy.
122
123 5.271 Tue Jun 8 12:05:46 CEST 2010
124 - backport to perl 5.8.x.
125
126 5.27 Sun Jun 6 12:12:05 CEST 2010
127 - postpone differently in AnyEvent::Socket now, as
128 when not, canceling the connection attempt might fail
129 (found by Felix Antonius Wilhelm Ostmann).
130 - explicitly check for non-stream sockets in AE::Handle, too many
131 clueless people fell into the trap of this somehow working.
132 - simplified and reworked the "OTHER MODULES" section.
133 - better/more condvar examples.
134
135 5.261 Wed Apr 28 16:13:36 CEST 2010
136 - AF_INET6 was not properly used from Socket6 during configuration
137 time (found by Andy Grundman).
138
139 5.26 Mon Apr 12 04:49:35 CEST 2010
140 - don't generate spurious readyness notifications when select
141 returns EINTR in the pure perl backend (analysed and testcase
142 by Bas Denissen).
143 - give same examples in SYNOPSIS sections of AnyEvent and AE.
144 - provider faster implementations for AE::time/now/now_update for
145 EV and Perl backends.
146 - provide faster AE::cv and AE::time implementations for all
147 backends.
148 - no longer support lower/mixed-case signal names (this was
149 never documented nor universally supported).
150 - some more memory µ-optimisations, and somewhat less messy
151 code to cope with both AnyEvent and AE APIs.
152
153 5.251 Sat Mar 13 00:58:21 CET 2010
154 - make test failed if it was run before make install on perl <=
155 5.8.8, and older versions of perl make our live very difficult,
156 so write constants.pl during Makefile.PL time.
157
158 5.25 Sat Mar 13 00:23:14 CET 2010
159 - fix a race condition in AnyEvent::Handle that would cause
160 a "bio_read: unsupported method" error (in _another_
161 ssl connection) after user code threw an exception.
162 - added AnyEvent::Handle->destroyed method.
163 - speed up AnyEvent::Socket::format_address and ::format_ipv6.
164 - the AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking function worked only
165 by lucky accident on win32.
166 - smaller and faster AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking.
167 - when the (required!) Time::HiRes module is missing, AnyEvent
168 did not fall back to built-in time properly.
169 - do not load Fcntl at runtime, saving memory and loading time.
170 - precompile a number of constants and use them instead of runtime
171 detection and eval.
172 - free detection code after detection and similar memory optimisations.
173 - Perl backend timer interval best effort drift has been improved
174 (same algorithm as EV).
175 - update unicode idna mapping table.
176
177 5.24 Tue Jan 5 11:39:43 CET 2010
178 - cygwin never reports errors from failed connects. 1.5 just gives
179 you continous readyness and EAGAIN, 1.7 is even more broken and
180 just hangs. work around both issues in a cygwin-specific hack.
181 - improve idle watcher documentation slightly.
182
183 5.23 Sun Dec 20 23:48:00 CET 2009
184 - support IDNs in resolve_sockaddr, and therefore in tcp_connect.
185 - implement punycode_encode/decode, idn_nameprep,
186 idn_to_ascii and idn_to_unicode operations in AnyEvent::Util.
187 - provide $AE::VERSION.
188 - removed traces of "no strict 'refs'".
189
190 5.22 Sat Dec 5 03:51:13 CET 2009
191 - downgrade-or-fail in AnyEvent::Handle::push_write, to
192 diagnose encoding failures earlier and more succinctly.
193 (this works around bugs in perl, throwing away encoding info
194 when passing scalar data to extensions).
195 - add more examples to AnyEvent::Socket manpage.
196 - upgrade internal warning set to the same as common::sense 2.03.
197 - use pack "n/a*" for pre-5.8.9 perl compatibility in AnyEvent::DNS
198 (John Beppu).
199 - AnyEvent::Socket::inet_aton now properly supports ipv6, as documented.
200 - add google public dns servers to fallback server set and make sure
201 we load-balance properly between the three sets. also add all
202 fallback dns servers, not just a random one, to each dns config.
203
204 5.21 Thu Nov 19 02:48:47 CET 2009
205 - fix a problem where socket constants were called with parameters
206 (spotted by David Friedland).
207 - fork_call never use'd POSIX (reported by Daisuke Maki).
208 - improve perl 5.6 compatibility further (but it still won't work
209 unless you rip out everything but the core).
210 - prefer Net::DNS::Resolver over ipconfig, if installed, on win32.
211 uses 10MB of RAM, but doesn't open a console window. *sigh*.
212
213 5.202 Wed Oct 14 22:35:44 CEST 2009
214 - AnyEvent::DNS would unexpectedly clobber $_ under windows
215 (analysed by Matthias Waldorf).
216 - AnyEvent::Handle::run_cmd can now pass the PID of the
217 newly-created process, which is much less useful than it might
218 sound (based on patch by Yann Kerherve).
219
220 5.201 Tue Sep 29 12:09:25 CEST 2009
221 - AnyEvent:Handle::on_starttls/on_stoptls methods were broken
222 (reported by Torsten Foertsch).
223 - common::sense 2.0 could cause tcp_server to throw an exception
224 (analysed by elmex).
225
226 5.2 Mon Sep 14 07:04:49 CEST 2009
227 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: do no longer support register_read_type
228 and register_write_type in AnyEvent::Handle, instead support
229 package names (the facility was mostly abused).
230 - implement "packagename-as-read/write type" support in
231 AnyEvent::Handle.
232 - AnyEvent::Handle: new options "keepalive" and "oobinline".
233 - oobinline set by default to avoid security issues.
234 - the pure-perl event loop backend wrongly detected times() fallback
235 support (spotted by Pavel Boldin).
236
237 5.12 Tue Sep 1 20:26:50 CEST 2009
238 - be more lenient when parsing resolv.conf files, as some people
239 use hashmarks as comment indicator inside directives (reported
240 by Michael S. Fischer).
241 - use same set of warnings as common::sense 2.0.
242 - fix a potential 32 bit overflow issue due to perl having problems
243 with large hex constants in the Perl backend.
244 - do not use the slower 5.6 version fo the enc_name code in AnyEvent::DNS
245 by default.
246 - fix some prototypes.
247 - (optionally) require Async::Interrupt 1.02.
248 - replace opendns fallbacks by verizon/level3 public dns servers.
249
250 5.112 Fri Aug 21 13:59:04 CEST 2009
251 - AnyEvent::Handle could cause hard crashes in Net::SSLeay when
252 using starttls with an illegal/uncreatable tls context.
253 - port to broken win32 perls.
254
255 5.111 Sun Aug 16 18:44:36 CEST 2009
256 - perl errornously requires sockaddr_un structures returned by the
257 kernel to have a specific length. work around this bug by padding
258 sockaddr_un structures (found to fail on OS X, as perl only uses
259 the correct code for GNU/Linux, but likely to fail on other
260 OSes as well).
261
262 5.11 Wed Aug 12 17:49:37 CEST 2009
263 - fixed a bug in run_cmd with input from filename.
264 - create a json coder object when none is given in write direction
265 to reduce dependency on JSON.
266
267 5.1 Tue Aug 11 03:17:32 CEST 2009
268 - tcp_connect now reports the correct error in $!, not an unrelated
269 one (was broken since 4.91).
270 - AE::Handle did not properly clear rtimeout/wtimeout watchers
271 when retrying a tcp_connect.
272 - new functions: AnyEvent::Util::run_cmd and close_all_fds_except.
273 - fixed wrong documentation in AE::Socket.
274
275 5.01 Mon Aug 10 03:16:32 CEST 2009
276 - last release broke EV child watchers :/.
277
278 5.0 Sun Aug 9 17:32:09 CEST 2009
279 - officially introduce and document the AE API.
280 - lowering the timeout at runtime did not have immediate effect
281 in AnyEvent::Handle.
282 - AE::Handle now has separate and independent read and write timeout
283 settings.
284 - probe for Guard module when AnyEvent::Util is loaded, not at
285 runtime (Event doesn't like eval "use" from callbacks, and it avoids
286 exporting the probe function).
287 - Impl::IOAsync's io watchers did not use the filehandle emulation
288 code to work around it's watcher limits.
289 - work around IO::Async's problems with overloaded objects.
290 - try to disable wearnings inside IO::Async, it's just too buggy.
291 - do no longer use Event by default, only EV or Perl, Event is too buggy.
292 - hackishly provide fast AE:: interface when EV or Perl is the backend.
293 - inherit VERSION from AnyEvent::VERSION in most modules.
294
295 4.91 Thu Aug 6 15:42:45 CEST 2009
296 - AE::Handle::starttls could get out of sync when the read buffer
297 already contains some TLS handshake.
298 - AE::Handle did not properly free the TLS session, causing bigger
299 memory leaks in Net::SSLeay than expected (reported by toaster).
300 - AE::Socket::tcp_connect will now artificially delay invoking
301 the callback to avoid returning after invoking the callback.
302 - convert many internal watcher uses to AE API.
303
304 4.9 Sat Aug 1 11:07:01 CEST 2009
305 - Glib silently fails when registering a timeout with
306 a negative value, so avoid that.
307 - call condvar callback immediately when it is set
308 after the condition is already signalled.
309 - check rbuf_max condition only after trying to consume
310 data.
311 - normalise signal numbers to names when using the ae's
312 signal handling, but do not document this (yet).
313 - pure perl signal emulation did not properly set nonblocking
314 mode on the signal pipe on win32 (this is unlikely to have caused
315 any issues).
316 - new module: AnyEvent::Debug.
317 - AnyEvent::Strict now checks that a signal was specified
318 by name (not name or number).
319 - reduce memory footprint in typical cases by ~50kb by
320 only compiling signal code when necessary.
321 - add AnyEvent::Handle->rbuf_max.
322 - grab the AE namespace for future new API, implement stubs for
323 said future/alternative API.
324 - new function: AnyEvent::Socket::format_hostport.
325
326 4.881 Tue Jul 28 12:51:53 CEST 2009
327 - work around a bug in local in pre-5.10 perls, causing
328 AnyEvent::Handle to recurse when it should not
329 (analysed by elmex).
330
331 4.88 Tue Jul 28 04:04:37 CEST 2009
332 - re-bless the handle into a dummy package after calling
333 AnyEvent::Handle::destroy, so the user does not need to check
334 for errors after every push_write etc.
335 - do not attempt to run t/02_signals.t on obviously broken
336 platforms.
337
338 4.87 Sun Jul 26 02:06:16 CEST 2009
339 - do not attempt to linger when there is no longer a valid fh.
340 - enforce tls mode to be either accept or connect, do not simply
341 segfault in Net::SSLeay.
342 - AnyEvent::Handle can now call tcp_connect itself (new parameters
343 connect, on_prepare, on_connect and on_connect_error). Updated
344 tutorial accordingly.
345 - add AnyEvent::Impl::Irssi backend.
346
347 4.86 Mon Jul 20 23:52:29 CEST 2009
348 - since the verbose warning is not enough, explicitly document
349 that versions before 1.33 of Net::SSLeay are not secure.
350 - work around signal handling races in Event and (...) Event::Lib.
351 - try to align signal-race timer to full-second boundaries.
352 - work around Tk not liking negative timeouts.
353 - don't complain of different grades of environmental unfriendlyness
354 in IO::Async.
355
356 4.85 Sat Jul 18 06:16:14 CEST 2009
357 - nail the signal race problem in perl once and for all
358 (see $AnyEvent::MAX_SIGNAL_LATENCY).
359 - take advantage of Async::Interrupt if it is available.
360 - load Time::HiRes and Guard modules on demand only.
361 - add optional/recommended modules section to AnyEvent
362 documentation.
363 - reduce memory usage considerably (and reduce startup penalty)
364 by not using "strict", "warnings" and "overload" modules.
365 - work around buggy windows/openbsd perls and provide EBADMSG
366 and EPROTO ourselves when missing.
367 - improve perl 5.6 compatibility of the core event loop.
368 - made Net::SSLeay version 1.33 a soft requirement.
369
370 4.83 Fri Jul 17 16:56:26 CEST 2009
371 - implement AnyEvent::Socket::getprotobyname.
372 - AnyEvent::CondVar's will now detect recursive blocking
373 waits and will croak, as too many people fall into
374 this trap.
375 - AnyEvent::Handle will now call ->destroy on itself after
376 executing the on_error callback, instead of doing some
377 half-baked internal shutdown, for fatal errors.
378 - clarify on_eof behaviour w.r.t. the read queue and
379 on_read callbacks.
380 - ignore some possible spurious wake-ups in tcp_connect.
381
382 4.82 Sat Jul 11 00:34:55 CEST 2009
383 - POE and Event backends didn't accept some callable objects as
384 callbacks.
385 - use Config module instead of POSIX module to detect signal names
386 in AnyEvent::Strict and AnyEvent::Impl::EventLib, as the POSIX
387 module doesn't even have all POSIX signals :/.
388 - use more workarounds around the many refcnt/corruption bugs in
389 Event::Lib.
390 - work around a race condition in perl's select, causing t/03_child.t
391 to rarely fail.
392
393 4.81 Thu Jul 9 10:30:30 CEST 2009
394 - AnyEvent::Handle didn't properly diagnose write errors
395 (it expected -1 from syswrite, how lame... :).
396 - support file descriptors in addition to file handles
397 in AnyEvent->io.
398 - new env variables: PERL_ANYEVENT_RESOLV_CONF,
399 PERL_ANYEVENT_MAX_OUTSTANDING_DNS, PERL_ANYEVENT_CA_FILE
400 and PERL_ANYEVENT_CA_PATH.
401 - provide a sensible synopsis section for AnyEvent::TLS.
402 - add a "supported backends" section to the manpage.
403 - added simple io watcher test to testsuite, using a
404 portable_socketpair.
405 - tried to improve the stability of the Event::Lib backend,
406 YMMV.
407
408 4.8 Mon Jul 6 23:45:16 CEST 2009
409 - AnyEvent::DNS did not properly follow CNAME records with
410 uppercase targets.
411 - AnyEvent::DNS would errornously return AAAA records
412 with v4 mapped addresses (a faulty record) as ipv4 addresses,
413 causing AnyEvent::Socket to throw an exception.
414 - added new module AnyEvent::TLS for easier SSL/TLS context
415 creation, with many options including hostname verification,
416 secure default configuration, lots of documentation and,
417 predefined diffie-hellman keys for perfect forward security
418 and much more. get it while it's still fresh!
419 - use AnyEvent::TLS in AnyEvent::Handle for context management.
420 - load AnyEvent::Handle only on demand in AnyEvent::DNS,
421 so AnyEvent::Socket users have smaller memory footprint
422 in the common case.
423 - add AnyEvent::Handle->push_shutdown method.
424 - add an additional error message parameter to AnyEvent::Handle's
425 on_error callback (for TLS, $! is still available).
426 - add AnyEvent::Handle on_starttls/on_stoptls callbacks.
427 - make AnyEvent::Handle more robust against early conenction
428 failures (during new), and return C<undef> in that case
429 from the constructor.
430 - AnyEvent::Handle will now try to load only JSON::XS first,
431 then fall back to JSON.
432 - format_ipv4/format_ipv6 are now exported by default, for symmetry,
433 and because it was documented that way.
434
435 4.451 Fri Jul 3 00:28:58 CEST 2009
436 - do not clear rbuf when shutting down an AnyEvent::Handle
437 object - doing so breaks AnyEvent::HTTP.
438
439 4.45 Mon Jun 29 22:59:26 CEST 2009
440 - a write error could cause AnyEvent::Handle to create
441 an I/O watcher with an undefined $fh.
442 - special-case mapped ipv4 addresses in both
443 AnyEvent::Socket::format_address and parse_address,
444 to treat them just like ipv4 addresses.
445 - updated and overhauled the AnyEvent::Intro doc.
446 - implement AnyEvent::Socket::format_ipv4/ipv6.
447 - slightly speed up portable_pipe/socketpair.
448 - expand condvar begin/end documentation.
449
450 4.42 Fri Jun 26 08:32:18 CEST 2009
451 - preliminary and neccesarily incomplete support for IO::Async.
452 - reset SIGCHLD to DEFAULT when AnyEvent is loaded, in
453 case it was set to IGNORE, to ensure we can catch child statuses
454 even when the calling env acts stupidly.
455 - updated benchmarks with IO::Async, which performs very well.
456
457 4.412 Wed Jun 24 01:35:57 CEST 2009
458 - support an "untaint" attribute for AnyEvent::DNS
459 and set it on the default resolver.
460 - implement and document AnyEvent::Impl::Perl::loop.
461 - remove all anyevent-env variables from %ENV
462 when running in tainted mode.
463 - mention and extend the IO::Lambda benchmark.
464
465 4.411 Sun Jun 7 18:48:02 CEST 2009
466 - do not try to use F_SETFD on windows.
467
468 4.41 Thu May 14 06:40:11 CEST 2009
469 - work around issues in older perls (5.8.0?) when
470 a signal handler is deleted from the %SIG hash.
471 - use POSIX::_exit in child test, to avoid running
472 destructors.
473 - speed up CHLD handling by relying on SIGCHLD being
474 synchronously delivered, even when we roll our own
475 implementation.
476 - AnyEvent::DNS: add the "dname" resource record name
477 for cosmetic reasons.
478
479 4.4 Sun Apr 26 20:12:33 CEST 2009
480 - implemented idle watchers, where applicable.
481 - AnyEvent->time died when Event backend was in use.
482 - fix a memleak in the Tk backend.
483 - sped up Tk timer handling.
484 - clip negative "after" values to 0 in AnyEvent::Impl::Event
485 to avoid spamming out warning messages.
486 - fix Qt timers without interval.
487 - avoid Qt zero-timeout special case, in old libqt's.
488
489 4.352 Mon Apr 20 16:31:11 CEST 2009
490 - fix AnyEvent::Strict error messages for child watchers.
491 - fix/update Makefile.PL "recommends" versions.
492 - add AnyEvent->now_update.
493
494 4.351 Sat Apr 11 07:56:14 CEST 2009
495 - actually make the signal pipe work under win32.
496 - localise $! in signal handler to avoid changing $!, although
497 perl itself does not seem to save/restore errno either.
498 - set the cloexec flag on the signal pipe (normally set by perl too).
499
500 4.35 Fri Mar 27 11:48:20 CET 2009
501 - event models relying on AnyEvent's signal watcher emulation did
502 invoke the callback asynchronously, contradicting documentation
503 and causing signals to get lost (this includes AnyEvent's own
504 event loop). AnyEvent now uses the standard pipe trick to make
505 callback execution synchronous to the event loop.
506 - AnyEvent::Handle didn't free TLS context data on DESTROY
507 (patch by Pavel Shaydo).
508 - work around the ever-incompatibly-changing API of MakeMaker.
509 - document that changing global variables without restoring them
510 is a bad idea in Perl (noted by Adam Rosenstein).
511 - AnyEvent::Strict now barfs if ->io is passed a file.
512
513 4.34 Thu Feb 12 18:32:45 CET 2009
514 - separately buffer TLS read data, as otherwise the read queue could
515 deadlock as receiving data is not expected while draining the
516 read queue (which cna only happen with TLS).
517 - raise EBADMSG error on JSON decoding errors.
518 - fix some minor manpage bugs (reported by Maximilian Gaß).
519 - speed up select bitmask parsing quite a bit in the pure perl
520 backend.
521 - use CORE::select instead of just select in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
522
523 4.331 Tue Jan 6 21:07:25 CET 2009
524 - socketpair fails on many vista machines because vista has
525 completely broken accept/getpeername and getsockname functions,
526 so we provide our own socketpair emulation that kind of works
527 (AnyEvent::Util::portable_pipe).
528 - new function: AnyEvent::Util::portable_socketpair.
529 - take advantage of the Guard module if it exists.
530
531 4.33 Fri Nov 21 02:35:40 CET 2008
532 - AnyEvent::Strict did errornously flag a fileno of 0 as
533 illegal.
534 - reduce memory usage and slightly speed up the pure perl backend
535 by only storing the file descriptor, not the file handle.
536 - add missing autocork method to AnyEvent::Handle (reported
537 by Adam Rosenstein).
538 - AnyEvent::DNS->resolve errornously documented an $rcode result
539 argument, but there isn't (spotted by Henrik Krohns).
540 - the naked truth about Tk - it's basically unmaintained.
541
542 4.32 Mon Nov 3 22:46:32 CET 2008
543 - fix AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr to properly support
544 unix sockets again and choose a proper default for
545 the socket type.
546 - fix call to resolve_sockaddr in tcp_connect.
547
548 4.31 Thu Oct 30 04:41:48 CET 2008
549 - implemented AnyEvent::Handle->destroy method.
550 - hint about unexpected effects in TLS mode.
551 - speed up AnyEvent::Impl::Perl by using more arrays
552 instead of hashes without the slightest loss of readability :)
553 - work around a perl argument refcounting bug.
554 - with some perl patches applied, AnyEvent now seems leak-free.
555
556 4.3 Fri Oct 3 09:18:43 CEST 2008
557 - AnyEvent will now install a no-op signal handler for SIGPIPE,
558 unless one has been installed already.
559 - warn about not loaidng AnyEvent::Impl::POE early enough
560 (patch by Adam Rosenstein).
561 - fixed a great number of bugs and corner cases in AnyEvent::Handle.
562 - fix a bug in where in SSL connect mode, the
563 client would first wait for some data by the server and
564 otherwise hang. (reported and analysed in an absolutely
565 exemplary manner by Adam Rosenstein).
566 - fix a bug in where SSL EOF would not be treated
567 as stream EOF, putting the connection into a hung state.
568 (reported and analysed in an absolutely exemplary manner by Adam
569 Rosenstein).
570 - fix a potential segfault when the TLS context
571 would go missing in a read callback (e.g. due to stoptls) -
572 Net::SSLeay of course makes no type checking whatsoever.
573 - AnyEvent::Handle will not stop the read watcher in TLS mode.
574 - AnyEvent::Handle->stoptls will send a TLS close notify
575 instead of simply destroying the stream now.
576 - fix a bug where large blocks of data written in TLS mode
577 would not be sent unless triggered by receives.
578 - on_drain will now take the tls write buffer into account.
579 - SSL operations have been streamlined a bit and should be faster
580 now, more to come, though.
581 - added a FAQ section, will document nontrivial issues in there.
582
583 4.234 Mon Sep 29 04:08:13 CEST 2008
584 - fix child watcher documentation: only child exits will be reported,
585 no trace events.
586 - mention SIGPIPE in AnyEvent::Handle.
587 - perl backend will now use POSIX::times as monotonic clock
588 when available and the monotonic clock option is not.
589 - run even without Time::HiRes in some cases now, but do not
590 provide sub-second accuracy (all *supported* perl versions have
591 Time::HiRes).
592
593 4.233 Fri Aug 22 01:48:05 CEST 2008
594 - fix a bug in the testsuite, causing a hang.
595 - clarified lots of AnyEvent::Handle constructor arguments.
596
597 4.232 Thu Aug 21 20:44:25 CEST 2008
598 - fix a bug in AnyEvent::Handle that could cause two fatal error
599 callbacks on EOF, which caused AnyEvent::HTTP to signal success twice
600 (testcase by Leon Brocard).
601 - clarified on_eof/on_error documentation a bit.
602
603 4.231 Tue Jul 29 13:12:15 CEST 2008
604 - remove some debugging code left in AnyEvent::Util::fork_call
605 (and no, it's impossible to implement with the broken windows
606 perls without resource leaks or worse).
607
608 4.23 Tue Jul 29 12:19:59 CEST 2008
609 - document the first parameter passed to condvar callbacks to be
610 the callback.
611 - add AnyEvent::Socket::{ntoa,aton} aliases.
612 - optimize the AE::Handle->push_read (line) for the default
613 eol marker.
614 - optimize push_read (packstring|storable) for small packets.
615 - invoke on_error callback when no on_eof callback is set.
616 - fix a bug in push_read (storable) of unknown impact.
617
618 4.22 Sun Jul 20 16:34:13 CEST 2008
619 - new function AnyEvent::Socket::parse_hostport.
620 - as the bulkheads at microsoft can't even get getprotobyname reliably
621 working on their shitty fucking broken os we need to hardcode
622 some common protocol numbers in AnyEvent::Socket. How can
623 people even bother with such a pile of shit as windows.
624
625 4.21 Thu Jul 17 14:40:05 CEST 2008
626 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: AnyEvent::Util::fork_call now has a prototype
627 which is incompatible to previous invocation syntax.
628 - work around more windows perl bugs in fork_call. I cannot imagine
629 why anybody would bother implementing fork in such an obviously
630 unusable way.
631 - avoid calling $do_retry if the request has already finished in
632 AnyEvent::DNS, thus avoiding an exception (reported by Anatoly
633 K. Sharifulin).
634
635 4.2 Sat Jul 12 22:42:11 CEST 2008
636 - support an "interval" argument for repeating timers.
637 - fix a bug in the pure perl event loop that caused timers to
638 be delayed under some circumstances.
639 - implement optional argument checking via PERL_ANYEVENT_STRICT.
640 - not importing anything from Event causes it to malfunction
641 and not use Time::HiRes, work around this bug.
642 - more bug workarounds against the endlessly broken Tk module,
643 seems to work now on 32 bit machines, but less so on 64 bit.
644 - minor optimisations applied to most backends.
645
646 4.161 Fri Jul 4 14:24:48 CEST 2008
647 - fixed the t/handle/02_write.t, it read after write, with the
648 assumption that all data could be written before read
649 (reported by Jim Razmus).
650
651 4.160 Thu Jul 3 04:02:21 CEST 2008
652 - re-registering signal watchers after unregistering one did
653 not work if a backend falls back on AnyEvent's default
654 implementation (also affected child watchers).
655 - new AnyEvent::Handle options: autocork and no_delay.
656
657 4.152 Sun Jun 22 14:15:44 CEST 2008
658 - allow for 32-bit perls that implement shifts differently
659 on different architectures in parse_ipv4 (reported and
660 analysed by Keiichi DAIBA).
661
662 4.151 Fri Jun 6 17:34:24 CEST 2008
663 - make sure specifying _only_ on_read and never pushing reads
664 works.
665
666 4.15 Fri Jun 6 13:00:46 CEST 2008
667 - the pure perl backend would keep some watchers alive when more than
668 one watcher was registered for the same fd.
669 - new "packstring" and "storable" read and write types
670 for AnyEvent::Handle.
671 - allow on_eof handler to be called after on_error with EPIPE returns.
672 - do not immediately call on_read callback in handle constructor.
673
674 4.14 Thu Jun 5 20:29:31 CEST 2008
675 - Fixed a bug in DNS SRV priority sorting.
676 - AnyEvent::Util::guard now reports runtime errors while
677 executing the guard block as warnings.
678 - handle 0-byte-reads just before EOF correctly in AnyEvent::Handle.
679
680 4.13 Thu Jun 5 00:47:59 CEST 2008
681 - AnyEvent::DNS only followed cname chains with length 2,
682 contrary to documentation. bumped it up to 10, thanks to
683 microsoft, the current broken-dns-config-king.
684 - AnyEvent::DNS didn't check for socket return status
685 but instead relied on perl not creating filehandles in that
686 case - too bad it gives you a bogus file handle (reported
687 and analysed by Vladimir Timofeev).
688 - fix queue management logic in AnyEvent::Handle:
689 when on_read was registered, the queue was empty
690 and no progress could be made AnyEvent::Handle would
691 enter an endless loop.
692 - correctly start reading again when the handle became
693 busy again after idling.
694 - correctly treat tls shut-downs as EOF condition
695 (for the time being, would be nice to have a callback for that).
696 - correctly call eof callback under all conditions
697 (hopefully).
698 - the timeout callback did not expect that $self can go
699 away any time.
700
701 4.12 Tue Jun 3 10:58:04 CEST 2008
702 - include AnyEvent::Intro, a tutorial for anyevent,
703 anyevent::socket and anyevent::handle.
704 - allow more options in on_error.
705
706 4.11 Fri May 30 23:42:25 CEST 2008
707 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace ptr by real PTR lookup, provide
708 reverse_lookup and reverse_verify to replace it, support
709 v4mapped and v4compat addresses.
710 - provide more documentation for the resolver class.
711 - really replace longest run of :0: by :: in format_address,
712 also properly convert :: and ::1 again.
713 - support NAPTR record name and decode it.
714 - implement random weight sampling for SRV records, as per
715 rfc 2782.
716 - correctly abort on srv-record targets of ".".
717 - added AnyEvent::DNS::wait_for_slot.
718 - in the unlikely event of a virtual circuit connection
719 being invalidated by a delayed udp reply, AnyEvent::DNS
720 could die. this has been fixed.
721 - plug a probable memleak in the DNS vc code.
722 - use configured timeout also for VC request phase.
723 - implement timeout and max_outstanding methods
724 for resolver class.
725 - update version numbers in all modules.
726
727 4.1 Thu May 29 05:45:40 CEST 2008
728 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: renamed xxx_ip functions to xxx_address
729 which mirrors their purpose better (old names still available
730 for a while). Also moved AnyEvent::DNS::addr to
731 AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr.
732 - implement AnyEvent->time and AnyEvent->now.
733 - fix IPv6 support in pack_sockaddr.
734 - officially un-experimentalise all newly introduced code.
735 - support unix domain sockets everywhere by specifying
736 a host of "unix/" and the pathname as service.
737 - implement an activity timeout in AnyEvent::Handle.
738 - added a regex read type to AnyEvent::Handle.
739 - added a json read/write type to AnyEvent::Handle.
740 - always croak in on_error in AnyEvent::Handle.
741 - document how to subclass AnyEvent::Handle.
742 - implement AnyEvent::Util::fork_call.
743 - add support for IPv6 nameservers and nameserver statements.
744 - work around _yet_ _another_ windows perl bug in where empty
745 select masks cause errors in the pure perl backend (this
746 workaround cannot be implemented for the other event loops,
747 but EV also works around this).
748 - supply AnyEvent::Socket::address_type and make good use of it.
749 - clarify and fix the Handle documentation w.r.t $self vs. $handle
750 vs. callback arguments.
751 - add some recommends to the META.yml.
752
753 4.05 Mon May 26 19:44:06 CEST 2008
754 - some platforms ignore the rfc and prepend an extra sa_len member to
755 the sockaddr structure, cater for those. also use sockaddr_family,
756 didn't know it was there, but comes in handy for the workaround.
757 - undo the import WIN32 hack.
758
759 4.04 Mon May 26 08:03:31 CEST 2008
760 - try to work around yet another windows bug: failed connects are reported
761 as if it were out-of-band data. windows users: you suck. Only
762 EV, Glib, Event and the pure perl backend can handle this condition.
763 - optimize write algorithm in AnyEvent::Handle.
764 - properly parse PERL_ANYEVENT_PROTOCOLS and use the info correctly.
765 - tcp_connect now properly iterates through all targets.
766 - check wether IPv6 sockets can actually be created, otherwise, disable ipv6
767 support entirely. also hardcode some AF_INET6 constants for the
768 sake of perl 5.8.
769 - vastly improved nameserver/suffix detection algorithm for windows
770 (still a hack...)
771 - try to use a fallback dns server if no dns servers could be found.
772 - splatter around some local $SIG{__DIE__}'s to work around bad
773 die handlers.
774
775 4.03 Sun May 25 05:05:57 CEST 2008
776 - work around perl bugs on windows, where perl returns undocumented
777 error codes for sysread, syswrite etc.
778 - fix AnyEvent::Handle::unshift_read to really unshift and not push.
779 - AnyEvent::Handle could sometimes stumble over 0-byte writes.
780 - fix unpack_sockaddr, now works for AF_INET6 sockaddr's.
781 - updated documentation.
782 - lots of workarounds for perl 5.8 quirks.
783 - implement a more flexible type system for both reads and writes
784 in AnyEvent::Handle.
785 - support IPv6 in tcp_server.
786 - pass local hostname and port to the prepare callback in tcp_server.
787 - make types extendable in AnyEvent::Handle.
788 - croak, not die, in AnyEvent::Handle;
789
790 4.0 Sat May 24 19:58:08 CEST 2008
791 - added (experimental) AnyEvent::DNS module.
792 - added (experimental) AnyEvent::Socket module.
793 - added (experiemntal) support for TLS/SSL in AnyEvent::Handle.
794 - make condvar->end call ->send as documented.
795 - make condvar constructor support the documented cb => argument.
796 - overload condvars so you can use them instead of code references.
797 - support more of the POSIX forms instead of a pure dotted quad for
798 verbatim ip addresses.
799 - AnyEvent::Socket::inet_aton will use AnyEvent::DNS now and not fork anymore.
800 - try very hard not to freeze on broken windows perls.
801 - make on_eof optional in AnyEvent::Handle.
802 - support service names in tcp_connect and tcp_server.
803 - work around netbsd/openbsd bug causing unix sockets not to
804 become writable until empty.
805 - only make a dummy read for error detection when getpeername
806 returns ENOTCONN.
807 - defend AnyEvent::Util::inet_aton against Coro::LWP's brutal
808 override.
809 - new AnyEvent::Guard::cancel.
810
811 3.5 Sat May 17 23:17:14 CEST 2008
812 - gracefully deal with systems not defining CLOCK_MONOTONIC
813 (as opposed to not supporting the clock itself, which worked in 3.41).
814 - added AnyEvent::Util::tcp_connect and AnyEvent::Util::tcp_server
815 helpers, to replace the ill-designed AnyEvent::Socket class.
816 - added some examples (eg/connect, eg/handle).
817 - added AnyEvent::Util::guard.
818 - AnyEvent::Util now exports most of its functions.
819 - fixed a bug in *_read_chunk, where the callback was called with $self as
820 first and second argument.
821 - simplified and fixed regex handling in AnyEvent::Handle::*_read_line.
822 - fix manpage condvars examples to use new syntax.
823 - considerably improve inet_aton with EV::ADNS backend to support
824 cname chains (common dns configuration bug, e.g. with www.google.de)
825 and aaaa records if no a record could be found.
826
827 3.41 Sun May 11 19:53:13 CEST 2008
828 - work around a bug in perl 5.8.8's local. Reported by Yi Ma Mao.
829
830 3.4 Sun May 11 00:29:25 CEST 2008
831 - complete re-implementation of condvars with a hopefully much more useful
832 API (backward compatible functions exist but are undocumented).
833 - AnyEvent::Handle fully rewritten with a hopefully more powerful API
834 (still subject to change).
835 - take advantage of CLOCK_MONOTONIC, if available, in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
836 - provide AnyEvent::post_detect and @AnyEvent::post_detect, which
837 allows module authors to avoid forcing event loop detection.
838 (used by Coro::AIO, Coro::BDB, Coro::AnyEvent for example).
839 - remove coro backends: Coro now provides generic support for AnyEvent
840 via Coro::AnyEvent.
841
842 3.3 Mon Apr 28 09:51:06 CEST 2008
843 - added AnyEvent::Handle, AnyEvent::Socket and AnyEvent::Util modules.
844 - fix a bug in the pure perl backend that kept watchers alive
845 when multiple watchers were registered for the same fh/poll combo.
846 - add a benchmark section showing AnyEvent overhead and comparing
847 the different event loops with each other.
848 - prefer pure perl over tk when autoprobing, as it's about as fast,
849 but doesn't crash with many watchers.
850 - declare Qt support non-experimental.
851 - clarify the confusing section about the file descriptor being
852 kept alive.
853 - document the race between loading of an event module and
854 child processes exiting.
855 - support POE as "backend" (with some caveats, POE is not generic
856 enough, and darn slow).
857 - support Wx and Prima through POE.
858 - optimise perl backend to use 20% less memory and take advantage
859 of typical timeout behaviour. It can now compete with
860 select/poll-based C event loops in most cases (it is usually
861 faster than Event and Glib :).
862 - roughly cut EV memory use in half and increase its speed by 30%,
863 by removing undocumented functionality. Did something similar
864 to other event loops where possible.
865
866 3.2 Thu Apr 24 10:10:40 CEST 2008
867 - do not die when anyevent watchers are destroyed while running callbacks
868 in the pureperl backend (could only happen when two watchers are registered
869 for the same fh/poll combo).
870 - support autoloading for child watchers, was broken in all versions.
871 - implement PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL env variable.
872 - (experimental) implement interface to the (very crashy/buggy) Event::Lib module.
873 - (experimental) implement interface to the Qt module (cannot be autoprobed).
874 - this release is IO:AnyEvent-proof.
875
876 3.12 Tue Apr 22 07:11:46 CEST 2008
877 - reinstate AUTHOR section that got lost somehow.
878 - do not hang in the testsuite with badly broken perls (activestate,
879 strawberry...), but instead diagnose the problem and continue.
880 - use INT instead of CHLD in an attempt to support broken windows perls
881 better (this decreases the test quality, unfortunately).
882 - do not send the signal to the process group
883 (no problem for CHLD, bad for INT :).
884
885 3.11 Sat Apr 19 06:57:31 CEST 2008
886 - major documentation rework.
887 - document the fact that child watchers only watch for zombies.
888 - fix the child watcher example.
889
890 3.1 Wed Apr 16 17:09:01 CEST 2008
891 - work around recurring bugs in Tk by dup'ing filehandles, the
892 only method with good success chances on Tk (the bugs apparently
893 don't get fixed anytime soon).
894 - lift the restriction of only one watcher per fh direction
895 (as the Tk bug workaround also lifts it and only Tk imposed
896 such strong limits).
897 - changed probe order to prefer coro adaptors.
898 - explain why recursion into the event loop is not supported
899 unless the backend supports it (only Coro::EV does without
900 any restrictions...).
901 - add simple manpages for all backend modules.
902
903 3.0 Mon Apr 7 21:30:23 CEST 2008
904 - Coro::Signal changed semantics, roll our own, also cleaning
905 up the Coro implementation in general.
906 - rename Coro backend to CoroEvent.
907 - add some decision helping paragraph to the manpage that should
908 help people to decide whether AnyEvent is the right thing for them.
909
910 2.9 Mon Jan 28 13:31:54 CET 2008
911 - update for EV 3.0 API changes.
912
913 2.8 Sun Nov 25 15:06:03 CET 2007
914 - waitpid can validly return 0. accept this fact of life
915 instead of reporting it to any watchers.
916
917 2.7 Fri Nov 23 11:41:14 CET 2007
918 - force use of AnyEvent::Impl::Perl in testsuite, there is
919 too much breakage outside AnyEvent.
920 - deliver signals synchronously in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl
921 or any other event loop that relies on AnyEvents child
922 watcher emulation. *Could* help with hanging testsuite
923 (except when Event or EV are installed).
924
925 2.6 Fri Nov 9 20:36:35 CET 2007
926 - fix bug in testsuite.
927 - move EV adaptor modules to AnyEvent.
928 - add Coro+EV adaptor module.
929
930 2.55 Tue Nov 6 17:41:32 CET 2007
931 - add EV to the list of supported event models.
932 - do not auto-reset pid watchers, pass pid and status to them.
933 - allow a pid of zero to watch for all children in child watchers.
934
935 2.54 Wed Jul 18 17:36:23 CEST 2007
936 - work around a perl bug that results in
937 BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted without
938 any discernible reason or error message by once
939 again not use'ing strict.
940
941 2.53 Sun Jul 8 10:51:53 CEST 2007
942 - make Glib interface work again (spotted by elmex).
943
944 2.52 Wed Mar 7 18:36:16 CET 2007
945 - child watchers stopped working permanently when
946 all current child watchers were destroyed.
947
948 2.51 Mon Dec 11 21:33:24 CET 2006
949 - work around bugs in perl where eval "require Module" returns
950 true even if the module couldn't be loaded :/.
951
952 2.5 Mon Dec 11 02:15:28 CET 2006
953 - avoid $AUTOLOAD because many perls corrupt it.
954 - AnyEvent::detect forces autodetection.
955 - implement signal watchers (experimental)
956 (Tk does not support async signals (<= 804.027 at least),
957 so they might get delayed indefinitely on Tk).
958 - implement child watchers (experimental).
959 - moved default condvar implementation into base module, simplifying
960 most implementation modules.
961
962 2.1 Fri Nov 24 15:50:48 CET 2006
963 - better docs.
964 - simple testsuite.
965 - added AnyEvent->one_event method for special purposes.
966
967 2.0 Wed Nov 1 02:21:30 CET 2006
968 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: poll can now either be "r" or "w" but not both.
969 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: io watcher callbacks have no arguments anymore.
970 - EXPERIMENTAL:
971 new pure-perl model added, AnyEvent now always finds a suitable
972 event model.
973 - improved documentation.
974 - reduced cpu overhead.
975
976 1.02 Fri Jan 13 14:15:40 CET 2006
977 - add COPYING to clarify license.
978
979 1.01 Sun Jan 8 05:48:09 CET 2006
980 - correctly cancel Event timers, avoid memory leaks.
981
982 1.0 Sun Jan 8 05:40:58 CET 2006
983 - allow third-party interfaces to be added at runtime.
984 - fix version number.
985
986 0.9 Fri Dec 30 02:25:41 CET 2005
987 - fixed errors in the documentation.
988 - going back to using $VERSION as "load check",
989 as suggested by Jörn Reder. Let's see why I stopped using
990 this method.
991 - add 'hup' to the list of events to receive for glib
992 and generate 'rw' events for it, as some versions of
993 glib seem to require this, while this breaks other
994 (older) versions of glib.
995 - implemented PERL_ANYEVENT_VERBOSE env variable.
996
997 0.3 Sun Dec 4 10:43:33 CET 2005
998 - no changes to the code.
999 - fixed documentation.
1000 - clarified some corner cases.
1001 - vastly improved documentation with a long example.
1002
1003 0.2 Thu Dec 1 22:18:49 CET 2005
1004 - check whether a valid method was called, to avoid endless loops.
1005 - move condvars into their own class (cleaner, safer).
1006 - don't die when some modules are not available.
1007 - Tk is too broken to allow for words. Will work once Tk works.
1008
1009 0.1 Thu Dec 1 19:44:57 CET 2005
1010 - spiced up and cleaned up for release.
1011
1012 0.01 Tue Sep 21 18:12:09 CEST 2004
1013 - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
1014