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Revision: 1.499
Committed: Fri Aug 26 18:09:04 2011 UTC (12 years, 8 months ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: rel-6_02
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1 Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent.
2
3 TODO: document TCP_*** constants
4
5 6.02 Fri Aug 26 20:08:31 CEST 2011
6 - log_to_syslog now accepts facility strings.
7 - log_to_syslog would not allow facilities - "$facility|$level"
8 *literally* means that string. sheesh.
9 - the CPAN parser got confused and thought we provide Sys::Syslog, try
10 to work around.
11 - renamed AnyEvent::Impl::FLTK2 to FLTK.
12
13 6.01 Fri Aug 26 07:04:11 CEST 2011
14 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: AnyEvent::DNS resource records now include
15 the TTL as fourth element - this affects ->resolve, ->request
16 and ->dns_unpack indirectly. Convenience functions such as
17 AnyEvent::DNS::{a,txt,mx,srv} are not affected, neither is
18 AnyEvent::Socket.
19 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: backend authors now should not implement
20 one_event or loop, but instead the AnyEvent::CondVar::_wait and _poll
21 methods.
22 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: verbosity levels have been redefined, see
23 AnyEvent (PERL_ANYEVENT_VERBOSE) and AnyEvent::Log for details.
24 - DEPRECIATION: please change
25 "use AnyEvent::Impl::Perl" to "use AnyEvent::Loop" and
26 "AnyEvent::Impl::Perl::loop" to "AnyEvent::Loop::run"
27 in your programs, for future compatibility.
28 - *blush* idle watcher emulation was borked.
29 - AnyEvent::Strict now checks the AE::xxx functions as well.
30 - querying too long domain names would barf deep inside AnyEvent::DNS - since
31 this is hard to avoid for applications, AnyEvent:.DNS::request now checks for
32 for too long domain names explicitly and passes an undef to the callback
33 instead (reported by James Bromberger).
34 - make AnyEvent::Util more robust against EINTR (analyzed by Andrew Suffield).
35 - new functions: AnyEvent::postpone, AnyEvent::log.
36 - new module: AnyEvent::Log, for simple logging needs.
37 - new env variable, PERL_ANYEVENT_LOG, for fine-grained logging config.
38 - new env variable, PERL_ANYEVENT_DEBUG_SHELL, to automatically start
39 a debug shell.
40 - new env variable, PERL_ANYEVENT_DEBUG_WRAP, to automatically enable
41 watcher instrumentation/wrapping (see AnyEvent::Debug::wrap).
42 - new env variable, PERL_ANYEVENT_HOSTS, to override the place where
43 F</etc/hosts> can be found.
44 - an empty PERL_ANYEVENT_RESOLV_CONF now selects the default
45 configuration.
46 - env variables can now be specified using AE_xyz instead of
47 PERL_ANYEVENT_xyz, subject to some rules.
48 - lots of new AnyEvent::Debug functionality.
49 - AnyEvent::Strict now checks for modifications $_ by the callback
50 (by setting it to readonly while executing the callback, if possible).
51 - IO::Async sometimes cancels the wrong timer when you call cancel_timer.
52 Invest extra overhead to work around this peculiar behaviour.
53 - split the pure perl backend into a loop module and an impl
54 module (AnyEvent::Loop and AnyEvent::Impl::Perl).
55 - some read types (regex, netstring, json, storable) could
56 errornously keep an AE::Handle object alive on their own
57 (reported by Mohammad Toossi).
58 - AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr and all functions using it now
59 supports /etc/hosts overrides.
60 - add more workarounds around child watcher bugs in IO::Async
61 and (newly introduced) in POE.
62 - use glib child watchers and try to work around its limitations,
63 if possible (based on a patch by Kevin Ryde).
64 - add support for FLTK (fltk2), via AnyEvent::Impl::FLTK2.
65 - many read types in AnyEvent::Handle would malfunction during
66 transitions to TLS because of a "delete $self->{rbuf}".
67 (reported by Gerald Galster).
68 - improve condvar blocking wait performance (probably only noticable
69 with faster backends), also make it easier for event loops that
70 do not support blocking waits.
71 - PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL now also allows full module names, although
72 the usefulness of this feature is not yet clear.
73 - add tests for all supported event loops, conditional on PERL_ANYEVENT_LOOP_TESTS.
74 - add t/80_ssltext.t.
75 - no longer use AUTOLOAD for the initial loading (for no very good reason).
76 - tcp_server now tries to unlink unix domain sockets when it gets destroyed.
77 - do not run event loop detection multiple times when programs call their cached
78 copies of AnyEvent::detect.
79 - parse_hostport now accepts absolute paths als unix domain sockets.
80 - suppress the idiotic warning inside POE by patching the POE::Kernel
81 run flags instead of asking the user to jump through contortions.
82 - add Task::Weaken as dependency (as recommends only at this time).
83 - replace PF_UNSPEC by 0, for good old minix.
84
85 6.0 (not officially released, but was on CPAN for about 15 minutes :/)
86
87 5.34 Thu May 12 09:59:41 CEST 2011
88 - AE::TLS didn't support both cert_file and key at the same time,
89 due to some copy&paste bug (reported and analyzed by vti).
90 - improve AE::Handle timeout documentation slightly.
91
92 5.33 Mon Feb 7 21:51:41 CET 2011
93 - never appeared on CPAN, for unknown reasons.
94 - AnyEvent::Handle on_connect_error - do not try to destroy a handle
95 object when it's already gone (analyzed by Ryan Bullock).
96 - update idna algorithm(s) to UTS#46 version 6.0.0.
97 - preserve trailing dot in idn_to_ascii - testsuite says to preserve,
98 uts46 says it's an error, and testsuite makes more sense.
99 - remove leading dots in idn_to_ascii - testsuite says to remove,
100 uts46 says it's an error, and testsuite makes more sense.
101 - fixed a bug in idn ignored character processing.
102 - passes the uts46 6.0.0 testsuite except for three cases which
103 apparently are bugs in the testsuite itself.
104 - passes the uts46 6.0.1 testsuite except for eleven cases which
105 apparently are bugs in the testsuite itself.
106
107 5.31 Sun Jan 23 11:49:19 CET 2011
108 - work around a POE bug where POE would first poll for new events and
109 invoke handlers BEFORE handling the message queue.
110 - fix parsing of "domain" statement in resolv.conf (Johannes Plunien).
111 - stop_read now does just that in TLS mode. see its
112 documentation for caveats.
113 - update to common::sense 3.4 warning set (some warnings in perl impose
114 an arbitrary 32kb limit on regex matches, which affects
115 AnyEvent::Handle).
116 - AE::Handle had a broken rbuf_max method and missing wbuf_max method.
117 - new experimental AE::Handle::resettls method.
118
119 5.3 Fri Dec 31 05:48:13 CET 2010
120 - major IOAsync patch by Paul Evans - 0.33 is required, as the major
121 issues with IO::Async have been solved in that version, including
122 the availabilty of a default loop!
123 - implement new wbuf_max parameter for AnyEvent::Handle.
124 - added Cocoa::EventLoop backend by Daisuke Murase.
125 - the default testsuite now honors PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL (Paul Evans).
126 - clarify handle on_prepare documentation.
127 - set CLOEXEC flag on parent-side fd's in AnyEvent::Util::run_cmd,
128 to avoid leaking them to any child processes.
129 - try to force files into the arch-dependend lib directory, for the
130 half-"turly obsessive compulsive person"(s) that depend on it.
131
132 5.29 Sun Dec 5 10:49:21 CET 2010
133 - convert EV backend to EV 4.00 API (so better upgrade EV too).
134 - AE::Handle: implement dynamic read_size adjustment, add
135 max_read_size parameter, reduce default read_size to 2048.
136 - add some FAQ entries for servers and/or on_eof vs. on_error.
137 - work around OS bugs (cygwin again) when lingering in AE::Handle.
138 - reduce memory usage slightly when connect was used in AE::Handle.
139 - wrok around more segfaults in Tk.
140 - document tls_ctx => undef as valid.
141 - detect WNOHANG value at compiletime.
142 - include some probably linux-only support for building AnyEvent
143 as part of the perl core.
144 - improve compatibility of t/08_idna.t to perl 5.8.
145 - make AnyEvent::Strict truly optional (in case somebody builds a
146 minimal perl...).
147
148 5.28 Wed Oct 13 04:14:23 CEST 2010
149 - due to a glitch, AnyEvent's internal getprotobyname wasn't
150 actually used in tcp_server.
151 - implement AnyEvent::CondVar->new method, which was documented but
152 missing.
153 - support autoloading of read types in unshift_read.
154 - AnyEvent::Strict: do the test for invalid fh arguments differently,
155 resulting in more informative error messages.
156 - new AnyEvent::FAQ manpage.
157 - clarify that you can actually call push_read etc. in on_read.
158 - put keys and certs in /tmp, not into the current directory,
159 and document this in the SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS sections
160 of AnyEvent::TLS.
161 - support ";" as resolv.conf comment character in AnyEvent::DNS, as
162 requested by Ron Isaacson.
163 - document $AnyEvent::DNS::RESOLVER variable.
164 - incorporated major typo patches by Abhijit Menon-Sen.
165 - AnyEvent::Handle now croaks when negative timeouts are passed.
166 - add a shitload of TCP_xxx sockopt name constants to AnyEvent::Util,
167 undocumented, but who knows when they might come in handy.
168
169 5.271 Tue Jun 8 12:05:46 CEST 2010
170 - backport to perl 5.8.x.
171
172 5.27 Sun Jun 6 12:12:05 CEST 2010
173 - postpone differently in AnyEvent::Socket now, as
174 when not, canceling the connection attempt might fail
175 (found by Felix Antonius Wilhelm Ostmann).
176 - explicitly check for non-stream sockets in AE::Handle, too many
177 clueless people fell into the trap of this somehow working.
178 - simplified and reworked the "OTHER MODULES" section.
179 - better/more condvar examples.
180
181 5.261 Wed Apr 28 16:13:36 CEST 2010
182 - AF_INET6 was not properly used from Socket6 during configuration
183 time (found by Andy Grundman).
184
185 5.26 Mon Apr 12 04:49:35 CEST 2010
186 - don't generate spurious readyness notifications when select
187 returns EINTR in the pure perl backend (analysed and testcase
188 by Bas Denissen).
189 - give same examples in SYNOPSIS sections of AnyEvent and AE.
190 - provider faster implementations for AE::time/now/now_update for
191 EV and Perl backends.
192 - provide faster AE::cv and AE::time implementations for all
193 backends.
194 - no longer support lower/mixed-case signal names (this was
195 never documented nor universally supported).
196 - some more memory µ-optimisations, and somewhat less messy
197 code to cope with both AnyEvent and AE APIs.
198
199 5.251 Sat Mar 13 00:58:21 CET 2010
200 - make test failed if it was run before make install on perl <=
201 5.8.8, and older versions of perl make our live very difficult,
202 so write constants.pl during Makefile.PL time.
203
204 5.25 Sat Mar 13 00:23:14 CET 2010
205 - fix a race condition in AnyEvent::Handle that would cause
206 a "bio_read: unsupported method" error (in _another_
207 ssl connection) after user code threw an exception.
208 - added AnyEvent::Handle->destroyed method.
209 - speed up AnyEvent::Socket::format_address and ::format_ipv6.
210 - the AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking function worked only
211 by lucky accident on win32.
212 - smaller and faster AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking.
213 - when the (required!) Time::HiRes module is missing, AnyEvent
214 did not fall back to built-in time properly.
215 - do not load Fcntl at runtime, saving memory and loading time.
216 - precompile a number of constants and use them instead of runtime
217 detection and eval.
218 - free detection code after detection and similar memory optimisations.
219 - Perl backend timer interval best effort drift has been improved
220 (same algorithm as EV).
221 - update unicode idna mapping table.
222
223 5.24 Tue Jan 5 11:39:43 CET 2010
224 - cygwin never reports errors from failed connects. 1.5 just gives
225 you continous readyness and EAGAIN, 1.7 is even more broken and
226 just hangs. work around both issues in a cygwin-specific hack.
227 - improve idle watcher documentation slightly.
228
229 5.23 Sun Dec 20 23:48:00 CET 2009
230 - support IDNs in resolve_sockaddr, and therefore in tcp_connect.
231 - implement punycode_encode/decode, idn_nameprep,
232 idn_to_ascii and idn_to_unicode operations in AnyEvent::Util.
233 - provide $AE::VERSION.
234 - removed traces of "no strict 'refs'".
235
236 5.22 Sat Dec 5 03:51:13 CET 2009
237 - downgrade-or-fail in AnyEvent::Handle::push_write, to
238 diagnose encoding failures earlier and more succinctly.
239 (this works around bugs in perl, throwing away encoding info
240 when passing scalar data to extensions).
241 - add more examples to AnyEvent::Socket manpage.
242 - upgrade internal warning set to the same as common::sense 2.03.
243 - use pack "n/a*" for pre-5.8.9 perl compatibility in AnyEvent::DNS
244 (John Beppu).
245 - AnyEvent::Socket::inet_aton now properly supports ipv6, as documented.
246 - add google public dns servers to fallback server set and make sure
247 we load-balance properly between the three sets. also add all
248 fallback dns servers, not just a random one, to each dns config.
249
250 5.21 Thu Nov 19 02:48:47 CET 2009
251 - fix a problem where socket constants were called with parameters
252 (spotted by David Friedland).
253 - fork_call never use'd POSIX (reported by Daisuke Maki).
254 - improve perl 5.6 compatibility further (but it still won't work
255 unless you rip out everything but the core).
256 - prefer Net::DNS::Resolver over ipconfig, if installed, on win32.
257 uses 10MB of RAM, but doesn't open a console window. *sigh*.
258
259 5.202 Wed Oct 14 22:35:44 CEST 2009
260 - AnyEvent::DNS would unexpectedly clobber $_ under windows
261 (analysed by Matthias Waldorf).
262 - AnyEvent::Handle::run_cmd can now pass the PID of the
263 newly-created process, which is much less useful than it might
264 sound (based on patch by Yann Kerherve).
265
266 5.201 Tue Sep 29 12:09:25 CEST 2009
267 - AnyEvent:Handle::on_starttls/on_stoptls methods were broken
268 (reported by Torsten Foertsch).
269 - common::sense 2.0 could cause tcp_server to throw an exception
270 (analysed by elmex).
271
272 5.2 Mon Sep 14 07:04:49 CEST 2009
273 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: do no longer support register_read_type
274 and register_write_type in AnyEvent::Handle, instead support
275 package names (the facility was mostly abused).
276 - implement "packagename-as-read/write type" support in
277 AnyEvent::Handle.
278 - AnyEvent::Handle: new options "keepalive" and "oobinline".
279 - oobinline set by default to avoid security issues.
280 - the pure-perl event loop backend wrongly detected times() fallback
281 support (spotted by Pavel Boldin).
282
283 5.12 Tue Sep 1 20:26:50 CEST 2009
284 - be more lenient when parsing resolv.conf files, as some people
285 use hashmarks as comment indicator inside directives (reported
286 by Michael S. Fischer).
287 - use same set of warnings as common::sense 2.0.
288 - fix a potential 32 bit overflow issue due to perl having problems
289 with large hex constants in the Perl backend.
290 - do not use the slower 5.6 version fo the enc_name code in AnyEvent::DNS
291 by default.
292 - fix some prototypes.
293 - (optionally) require Async::Interrupt 1.02.
294 - replace opendns fallbacks by verizon/level3 public dns servers.
295
296 5.112 Fri Aug 21 13:59:04 CEST 2009
297 - AnyEvent::Handle could cause hard crashes in Net::SSLeay when
298 using starttls with an illegal/uncreatable tls context.
299 - port to broken win32 perls.
300
301 5.111 Sun Aug 16 18:44:36 CEST 2009
302 - perl errornously requires sockaddr_un structures returned by the
303 kernel to have a specific length. work around this bug by padding
304 sockaddr_un structures (found to fail on OS X, as perl only uses
305 the correct code for GNU/Linux, but likely to fail on other
306 OSes as well).
307
308 5.11 Wed Aug 12 17:49:37 CEST 2009
309 - fixed a bug in run_cmd with input from filename.
310 - create a json coder object when none is given in write direction
311 to reduce dependency on JSON.
312
313 5.1 Tue Aug 11 03:17:32 CEST 2009
314 - tcp_connect now reports the correct error in $!, not an unrelated
315 one (was broken since 4.91).
316 - AE::Handle did not properly clear rtimeout/wtimeout watchers
317 when retrying a tcp_connect.
318 - new functions: AnyEvent::Util::run_cmd and close_all_fds_except.
319 - fixed wrong documentation in AE::Socket.
320
321 5.01 Mon Aug 10 03:16:32 CEST 2009
322 - last release broke EV child watchers :/.
323
324 5.0 Sun Aug 9 17:32:09 CEST 2009
325 - officially introduce and document the AE API.
326 - lowering the timeout at runtime did not have immediate effect
327 in AnyEvent::Handle.
328 - AE::Handle now has separate and independent read and write timeout
329 settings.
330 - probe for Guard module when AnyEvent::Util is loaded, not at
331 runtime (Event doesn't like eval "use" from callbacks, and it avoids
332 exporting the probe function).
333 - Impl::IOAsync's io watchers did not use the filehandle emulation
334 code to work around it's watcher limits.
335 - work around IO::Async's problems with overloaded objects.
336 - try to disable wearnings inside IO::Async, it's just too buggy.
337 - do no longer use Event by default, only EV or Perl, Event is too buggy.
338 - hackishly provide fast AE:: interface when EV or Perl is the backend.
339 - inherit VERSION from AnyEvent::VERSION in most modules.
340
341 4.91 Thu Aug 6 15:42:45 CEST 2009
342 - AE::Handle::starttls could get out of sync when the read buffer
343 already contains some TLS handshake.
344 - AE::Handle did not properly free the TLS session, causing bigger
345 memory leaks in Net::SSLeay than expected (reported by toaster).
346 - AE::Socket::tcp_connect will now artificially delay invoking
347 the callback to avoid returning after invoking the callback.
348 - convert many internal watcher uses to AE API.
349
350 4.9 Sat Aug 1 11:07:01 CEST 2009
351 - Glib silently fails when registering a timeout with
352 a negative value, so avoid that.
353 - call condvar callback immediately when it is set
354 after the condition is already signalled.
355 - check rbuf_max condition only after trying to consume
356 data.
357 - normalise signal numbers to names when using the ae's
358 signal handling, but do not document this (yet).
359 - pure perl signal emulation did not properly set nonblocking
360 mode on the signal pipe on win32 (this is unlikely to have caused
361 any issues).
362 - new module: AnyEvent::Debug.
363 - AnyEvent::Strict now checks that a signal was specified
364 by name (not name or number).
365 - reduce memory footprint in typical cases by ~50kb by
366 only compiling signal code when necessary.
367 - add AnyEvent::Handle->rbuf_max.
368 - grab the AE namespace for future new API, implement stubs for
369 said future/alternative API.
370 - new function: AnyEvent::Socket::format_hostport.
371
372 4.881 Tue Jul 28 12:51:53 CEST 2009
373 - work around a bug in local in pre-5.10 perls, causing
374 AnyEvent::Handle to recurse when it should not
375 (analysed by elmex).
376
377 4.88 Tue Jul 28 04:04:37 CEST 2009
378 - re-bless the handle into a dummy package after calling
379 AnyEvent::Handle::destroy, so the user does not need to check
380 for errors after every push_write etc.
381 - do not attempt to run t/02_signals.t on obviously broken
382 platforms.
383
384 4.87 Sun Jul 26 02:06:16 CEST 2009
385 - do not attempt to linger when there is no longer a valid fh.
386 - enforce tls mode to be either accept or connect, do not simply
387 segfault in Net::SSLeay.
388 - AnyEvent::Handle can now call tcp_connect itself (new parameters
389 connect, on_prepare, on_connect and on_connect_error). Updated
390 tutorial accordingly.
391 - add AnyEvent::Impl::Irssi backend.
392
393 4.86 Mon Jul 20 23:52:29 CEST 2009
394 - since the verbose warning is not enough, explicitly document
395 that versions before 1.33 of Net::SSLeay are not secure.
396 - work around signal handling races in Event and (...) Event::Lib.
397 - try to align signal-race timer to full-second boundaries.
398 - work around Tk not liking negative timeouts.
399 - don't complain of different grades of environmental unfriendlyness
400 in IO::Async.
401
402 4.85 Sat Jul 18 06:16:14 CEST 2009
403 - nail the signal race problem in perl once and for all
404 (see $AnyEvent::MAX_SIGNAL_LATENCY).
405 - take advantage of Async::Interrupt if it is available.
406 - load Time::HiRes and Guard modules on demand only.
407 - add optional/recommended modules section to AnyEvent
408 documentation.
409 - reduce memory usage considerably (and reduce startup penalty)
410 by not using "strict", "warnings" and "overload" modules.
411 - work around buggy windows/openbsd perls and provide EBADMSG
412 and EPROTO ourselves when missing.
413 - improve perl 5.6 compatibility of the core event loop.
414 - made Net::SSLeay version 1.33 a soft requirement.
415
416 4.83 Fri Jul 17 16:56:26 CEST 2009
417 - implement AnyEvent::Socket::getprotobyname.
418 - AnyEvent::CondVar's will now detect recursive blocking
419 waits and will croak, as too many people fall into
420 this trap.
421 - AnyEvent::Handle will now call ->destroy on itself after
422 executing the on_error callback, instead of doing some
423 half-baked internal shutdown, for fatal errors.
424 - clarify on_eof behaviour w.r.t. the read queue and
425 on_read callbacks.
426 - ignore some possible spurious wake-ups in tcp_connect.
427
428 4.82 Sat Jul 11 00:34:55 CEST 2009
429 - POE and Event backends didn't accept some callable objects as
430 callbacks.
431 - use Config module instead of POSIX module to detect signal names
432 in AnyEvent::Strict and AnyEvent::Impl::EventLib, as the POSIX
433 module doesn't even have all POSIX signals :/.
434 - use more workarounds around the many refcnt/corruption bugs in
435 Event::Lib.
436 - work around a race condition in perl's select, causing t/03_child.t
437 to rarely fail.
438
439 4.81 Thu Jul 9 10:30:30 CEST 2009
440 - AnyEvent::Handle didn't properly diagnose write errors
441 (it expected -1 from syswrite, how lame... :).
442 - support file descriptors in addition to file handles
443 in AnyEvent->io.
444 - new env variables: PERL_ANYEVENT_RESOLV_CONF,
445 PERL_ANYEVENT_MAX_OUTSTANDING_DNS, PERL_ANYEVENT_CA_FILE
446 and PERL_ANYEVENT_CA_PATH.
447 - provide a sensible synopsis section for AnyEvent::TLS.
448 - add a "supported backends" section to the manpage.
449 - added simple io watcher test to testsuite, using a
450 portable_socketpair.
451 - tried to improve the stability of the Event::Lib backend,
452 YMMV.
453
454 4.8 Mon Jul 6 23:45:16 CEST 2009
455 - AnyEvent::DNS did not properly follow CNAME records with
456 uppercase targets.
457 - AnyEvent::DNS would errornously return AAAA records
458 with v4 mapped addresses (a faulty record) as ipv4 addresses,
459 causing AnyEvent::Socket to throw an exception.
460 - added new module AnyEvent::TLS for easier SSL/TLS context
461 creation, with many options including hostname verification,
462 secure default configuration, lots of documentation and,
463 predefined diffie-hellman keys for perfect forward security
464 and much more. get it while it's still fresh!
465 - use AnyEvent::TLS in AnyEvent::Handle for context management.
466 - load AnyEvent::Handle only on demand in AnyEvent::DNS,
467 so AnyEvent::Socket users have smaller memory footprint
468 in the common case.
469 - add AnyEvent::Handle->push_shutdown method.
470 - add an additional error message parameter to AnyEvent::Handle's
471 on_error callback (for TLS, $! is still available).
472 - add AnyEvent::Handle on_starttls/on_stoptls callbacks.
473 - make AnyEvent::Handle more robust against early conenction
474 failures (during new), and return C<undef> in that case
475 from the constructor.
476 - AnyEvent::Handle will now try to load only JSON::XS first,
477 then fall back to JSON.
478 - format_ipv4/format_ipv6 are now exported by default, for symmetry,
479 and because it was documented that way.
480
481 4.451 Fri Jul 3 00:28:58 CEST 2009
482 - do not clear rbuf when shutting down an AnyEvent::Handle
483 object - doing so breaks AnyEvent::HTTP.
484
485 4.45 Mon Jun 29 22:59:26 CEST 2009
486 - a write error could cause AnyEvent::Handle to create
487 an I/O watcher with an undefined $fh.
488 - special-case mapped ipv4 addresses in both
489 AnyEvent::Socket::format_address and parse_address,
490 to treat them just like ipv4 addresses.
491 - updated and overhauled the AnyEvent::Intro doc.
492 - implement AnyEvent::Socket::format_ipv4/ipv6.
493 - slightly speed up portable_pipe/socketpair.
494 - expand condvar begin/end documentation.
495
496 4.42 Fri Jun 26 08:32:18 CEST 2009
497 - preliminary and neccesarily incomplete support for IO::Async.
498 - reset SIGCHLD to DEFAULT when AnyEvent is loaded, in
499 case it was set to IGNORE, to ensure we can catch child statuses
500 even when the calling env acts stupidly.
501 - updated benchmarks with IO::Async, which performs very well.
502
503 4.412 Wed Jun 24 01:35:57 CEST 2009
504 - support an "untaint" attribute for AnyEvent::DNS
505 and set it on the default resolver.
506 - implement and document AnyEvent::Impl::Perl::loop.
507 - remove all anyevent-env variables from %ENV
508 when running in tainted mode.
509 - mention and extend the IO::Lambda benchmark.
510
511 4.411 Sun Jun 7 18:48:02 CEST 2009
512 - do not try to use F_SETFD on windows.
513
514 4.41 Thu May 14 06:40:11 CEST 2009
515 - work around issues in older perls (5.8.0?) when
516 a signal handler is deleted from the %SIG hash.
517 - use POSIX::_exit in child test, to avoid running
518 destructors.
519 - speed up CHLD handling by relying on SIGCHLD being
520 synchronously delivered, even when we roll our own
521 implementation.
522 - AnyEvent::DNS: add the "dname" resource record name
523 for cosmetic reasons.
524
525 4.4 Sun Apr 26 20:12:33 CEST 2009
526 - implemented idle watchers, where applicable.
527 - AnyEvent->time died when Event backend was in use.
528 - fix a memleak in the Tk backend.
529 - sped up Tk timer handling.
530 - clip negative "after" values to 0 in AnyEvent::Impl::Event
531 to avoid spamming out warning messages.
532 - fix Qt timers without interval.
533 - avoid Qt zero-timeout special case, in old libqt's.
534
535 4.352 Mon Apr 20 16:31:11 CEST 2009
536 - fix AnyEvent::Strict error messages for child watchers.
537 - fix/update Makefile.PL "recommends" versions.
538 - add AnyEvent->now_update.
539
540 4.351 Sat Apr 11 07:56:14 CEST 2009
541 - actually make the signal pipe work under win32.
542 - localise $! in signal handler to avoid changing $!, although
543 perl itself does not seem to save/restore errno either.
544 - set the cloexec flag on the signal pipe (normally set by perl too).
545
546 4.35 Fri Mar 27 11:48:20 CET 2009
547 - event models relying on AnyEvent's signal watcher emulation did
548 invoke the callback asynchronously, contradicting documentation
549 and causing signals to get lost (this includes AnyEvent's own
550 event loop). AnyEvent now uses the standard pipe trick to make
551 callback execution synchronous to the event loop.
552 - AnyEvent::Handle didn't free TLS context data on DESTROY
553 (patch by Pavel Shaydo).
554 - work around the ever-incompatibly-changing API of MakeMaker.
555 - document that changing global variables without restoring them
556 is a bad idea in Perl (noted by Adam Rosenstein).
557 - AnyEvent::Strict now barfs if ->io is passed a file.
558
559 4.34 Thu Feb 12 18:32:45 CET 2009
560 - separately buffer TLS read data, as otherwise the read queue could
561 deadlock as receiving data is not expected while draining the
562 read queue (which cna only happen with TLS).
563 - raise EBADMSG error on JSON decoding errors.
564 - fix some minor manpage bugs (reported by Maximilian Gaß).
565 - speed up select bitmask parsing quite a bit in the pure perl
566 backend.
567 - use CORE::select instead of just select in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
568
569 4.331 Tue Jan 6 21:07:25 CET 2009
570 - socketpair fails on many vista machines because vista has
571 completely broken accept/getpeername and getsockname functions,
572 so we provide our own socketpair emulation that kind of works
573 (AnyEvent::Util::portable_pipe).
574 - new function: AnyEvent::Util::portable_socketpair.
575 - take advantage of the Guard module if it exists.
576
577 4.33 Fri Nov 21 02:35:40 CET 2008
578 - AnyEvent::Strict did errornously flag a fileno of 0 as
579 illegal.
580 - reduce memory usage and slightly speed up the pure perl backend
581 by only storing the file descriptor, not the file handle.
582 - add missing autocork method to AnyEvent::Handle (reported
583 by Adam Rosenstein).
584 - AnyEvent::DNS->resolve errornously documented an $rcode result
585 argument, but there isn't (spotted by Henrik Krohns).
586 - the naked truth about Tk - it's basically unmaintained.
587
588 4.32 Mon Nov 3 22:46:32 CET 2008
589 - fix AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr to properly support
590 unix sockets again and choose a proper default for
591 the socket type.
592 - fix call to resolve_sockaddr in tcp_connect.
593
594 4.31 Thu Oct 30 04:41:48 CET 2008
595 - implemented AnyEvent::Handle->destroy method.
596 - hint about unexpected effects in TLS mode.
597 - speed up AnyEvent::Impl::Perl by using more arrays
598 instead of hashes without the slightest loss of readability :)
599 - work around a perl argument refcounting bug.
600 - with some perl patches applied, AnyEvent now seems leak-free.
601
602 4.3 Fri Oct 3 09:18:43 CEST 2008
603 - AnyEvent will now install a no-op signal handler for SIGPIPE,
604 unless one has been installed already.
605 - warn about not loaidng AnyEvent::Impl::POE early enough
606 (patch by Adam Rosenstein).
607 - fixed a great number of bugs and corner cases in AnyEvent::Handle.
608 - fix a bug in where in SSL connect mode, the
609 client would first wait for some data by the server and
610 otherwise hang. (reported and analysed in an absolutely
611 exemplary manner by Adam Rosenstein).
612 - fix a bug in where SSL EOF would not be treated
613 as stream EOF, putting the connection into a hung state.
614 (reported and analysed in an absolutely exemplary manner by Adam
615 Rosenstein).
616 - fix a potential segfault when the TLS context
617 would go missing in a read callback (e.g. due to stoptls) -
618 Net::SSLeay of course makes no type checking whatsoever.
619 - AnyEvent::Handle will not stop the read watcher in TLS mode.
620 - AnyEvent::Handle->stoptls will send a TLS close notify
621 instead of simply destroying the stream now.
622 - fix a bug where large blocks of data written in TLS mode
623 would not be sent unless triggered by receives.
624 - on_drain will now take the tls write buffer into account.
625 - SSL operations have been streamlined a bit and should be faster
626 now, more to come, though.
627 - added a FAQ section, will document nontrivial issues in there.
628
629 4.234 Mon Sep 29 04:08:13 CEST 2008
630 - fix child watcher documentation: only child exits will be reported,
631 no trace events.
632 - mention SIGPIPE in AnyEvent::Handle.
633 - perl backend will now use POSIX::times as monotonic clock
634 when available and the monotonic clock option is not.
635 - run even without Time::HiRes in some cases now, but do not
636 provide sub-second accuracy (all *supported* perl versions have
637 Time::HiRes).
638
639 4.233 Fri Aug 22 01:48:05 CEST 2008
640 - fix a bug in the testsuite, causing a hang.
641 - clarified lots of AnyEvent::Handle constructor arguments.
642
643 4.232 Thu Aug 21 20:44:25 CEST 2008
644 - fix a bug in AnyEvent::Handle that could cause two fatal error
645 callbacks on EOF, which caused AnyEvent::HTTP to signal success twice
646 (testcase by Leon Brocard).
647 - clarified on_eof/on_error documentation a bit.
648
649 4.231 Tue Jul 29 13:12:15 CEST 2008
650 - remove some debugging code left in AnyEvent::Util::fork_call
651 (and no, it's impossible to implement with the broken windows
652 perls without resource leaks or worse).
653
654 4.23 Tue Jul 29 12:19:59 CEST 2008
655 - document the first parameter passed to condvar callbacks to be
656 the callback.
657 - add AnyEvent::Socket::{ntoa,aton} aliases.
658 - optimize the AE::Handle->push_read (line) for the default
659 eol marker.
660 - optimize push_read (packstring|storable) for small packets.
661 - invoke on_error callback when no on_eof callback is set.
662 - fix a bug in push_read (storable) of unknown impact.
663
664 4.22 Sun Jul 20 16:34:13 CEST 2008
665 - new function AnyEvent::Socket::parse_hostport.
666 - as the bulkheads at microsoft can't even get getprotobyname reliably
667 working on their shitty fucking broken os we need to hardcode
668 some common protocol numbers in AnyEvent::Socket. How can
669 people even bother with such a pile of shit as windows.
670
671 4.21 Thu Jul 17 14:40:05 CEST 2008
672 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: AnyEvent::Util::fork_call now has a prototype
673 which is incompatible to previous invocation syntax.
674 - work around more windows perl bugs in fork_call. I cannot imagine
675 why anybody would bother implementing fork in such an obviously
676 unusable way.
677 - avoid calling $do_retry if the request has already finished in
678 AnyEvent::DNS, thus avoiding an exception (reported by Anatoly
679 K. Sharifulin).
680
681 4.2 Sat Jul 12 22:42:11 CEST 2008
682 - support an "interval" argument for repeating timers.
683 - fix a bug in the pure perl event loop that caused timers to
684 be delayed under some circumstances.
685 - implement optional argument checking via PERL_ANYEVENT_STRICT.
686 - not importing anything from Event causes it to malfunction
687 and not use Time::HiRes, work around this bug.
688 - more bug workarounds against the endlessly broken Tk module,
689 seems to work now on 32 bit machines, but less so on 64 bit.
690 - minor optimisations applied to most backends.
691
692 4.161 Fri Jul 4 14:24:48 CEST 2008
693 - fixed the t/handle/02_write.t, it read after write, with the
694 assumption that all data could be written before read
695 (reported by Jim Razmus).
696
697 4.160 Thu Jul 3 04:02:21 CEST 2008
698 - re-registering signal watchers after unregistering one did
699 not work if a backend falls back on AnyEvent's default
700 implementation (also affected child watchers).
701 - new AnyEvent::Handle options: autocork and no_delay.
702
703 4.152 Sun Jun 22 14:15:44 CEST 2008
704 - allow for 32-bit perls that implement shifts differently
705 on different architectures in parse_ipv4 (reported and
706 analysed by Keiichi DAIBA).
707
708 4.151 Fri Jun 6 17:34:24 CEST 2008
709 - make sure specifying _only_ on_read and never pushing reads
710 works.
711
712 4.15 Fri Jun 6 13:00:46 CEST 2008
713 - the pure perl backend would keep some watchers alive when more than
714 one watcher was registered for the same fd.
715 - new "packstring" and "storable" read and write types
716 for AnyEvent::Handle.
717 - allow on_eof handler to be called after on_error with EPIPE returns.
718 - do not immediately call on_read callback in handle constructor.
719
720 4.14 Thu Jun 5 20:29:31 CEST 2008
721 - Fixed a bug in DNS SRV priority sorting.
722 - AnyEvent::Util::guard now reports runtime errors while
723 executing the guard block as warnings.
724 - handle 0-byte-reads just before EOF correctly in AnyEvent::Handle.
725
726 4.13 Thu Jun 5 00:47:59 CEST 2008
727 - AnyEvent::DNS only followed cname chains with length 2,
728 contrary to documentation. bumped it up to 10, thanks to
729 microsoft, the current broken-dns-config-king.
730 - AnyEvent::DNS didn't check for socket return status
731 but instead relied on perl not creating filehandles in that
732 case - too bad it gives you a bogus file handle (reported
733 and analysed by Vladimir Timofeev).
734 - fix queue management logic in AnyEvent::Handle:
735 when on_read was registered, the queue was empty
736 and no progress could be made AnyEvent::Handle would
737 enter an endless loop.
738 - correctly start reading again when the handle became
739 busy again after idling.
740 - correctly treat tls shut-downs as EOF condition
741 (for the time being, would be nice to have a callback for that).
742 - correctly call eof callback under all conditions
743 (hopefully).
744 - the timeout callback did not expect that $self can go
745 away any time.
746
747 4.12 Tue Jun 3 10:58:04 CEST 2008
748 - include AnyEvent::Intro, a tutorial for anyevent,
749 anyevent::socket and anyevent::handle.
750 - allow more options in on_error.
751
752 4.11 Fri May 30 23:42:25 CEST 2008
753 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace ptr by real PTR lookup, provide
754 reverse_lookup and reverse_verify to replace it, support
755 v4mapped and v4compat addresses.
756 - provide more documentation for the resolver class.
757 - really replace longest run of :0: by :: in format_address,
758 also properly convert :: and ::1 again.
759 - support NAPTR record name and decode it.
760 - implement random weight sampling for SRV records, as per
761 rfc 2782.
762 - correctly abort on srv-record targets of ".".
763 - added AnyEvent::DNS::wait_for_slot.
764 - in the unlikely event of a virtual circuit connection
765 being invalidated by a delayed udp reply, AnyEvent::DNS
766 could die. this has been fixed.
767 - plug a probable memleak in the DNS vc code.
768 - use configured timeout also for VC request phase.
769 - implement timeout and max_outstanding methods
770 for resolver class.
771 - update version numbers in all modules.
772
773 4.1 Thu May 29 05:45:40 CEST 2008
774 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: renamed xxx_ip functions to xxx_address
775 which mirrors their purpose better (old names still available
776 for a while). Also moved AnyEvent::DNS::addr to
777 AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr.
778 - implement AnyEvent->time and AnyEvent->now.
779 - fix IPv6 support in pack_sockaddr.
780 - officially un-experimentalise all newly introduced code.
781 - support unix domain sockets everywhere by specifying
782 a host of "unix/" and the pathname as service.
783 - implement an activity timeout in AnyEvent::Handle.
784 - added a regex read type to AnyEvent::Handle.
785 - added a json read/write type to AnyEvent::Handle.
786 - always croak in on_error in AnyEvent::Handle.
787 - document how to subclass AnyEvent::Handle.
788 - implement AnyEvent::Util::fork_call.
789 - add support for IPv6 nameservers and nameserver statements.
790 - work around _yet_ _another_ windows perl bug in where empty
791 select masks cause errors in the pure perl backend (this
792 workaround cannot be implemented for the other event loops,
793 but EV also works around this).
794 - supply AnyEvent::Socket::address_type and make good use of it.
795 - clarify and fix the Handle documentation w.r.t $self vs. $handle
796 vs. callback arguments.
797 - add some recommends to the META.yml.
798
799 4.05 Mon May 26 19:44:06 CEST 2008
800 - some platforms ignore the rfc and prepend an extra sa_len member to
801 the sockaddr structure, cater for those. also use sockaddr_family,
802 didn't know it was there, but comes in handy for the workaround.
803 - undo the import WIN32 hack.
804
805 4.04 Mon May 26 08:03:31 CEST 2008
806 - try to work around yet another windows bug: failed connects are reported
807 as if it were out-of-band data. windows users: you suck. Only
808 EV, Glib, Event and the pure perl backend can handle this condition.
809 - optimize write algorithm in AnyEvent::Handle.
810 - properly parse PERL_ANYEVENT_PROTOCOLS and use the info correctly.
811 - tcp_connect now properly iterates through all targets.
812 - check wether IPv6 sockets can actually be created, otherwise, disable ipv6
813 support entirely. also hardcode some AF_INET6 constants for the
814 sake of perl 5.8.
815 - vastly improved nameserver/suffix detection algorithm for windows
816 (still a hack...)
817 - try to use a fallback dns server if no dns servers could be found.
818 - splatter around some local $SIG{__DIE__}'s to work around bad
819 die handlers.
820
821 4.03 Sun May 25 05:05:57 CEST 2008
822 - work around perl bugs on windows, where perl returns undocumented
823 error codes for sysread, syswrite etc.
824 - fix AnyEvent::Handle::unshift_read to really unshift and not push.
825 - AnyEvent::Handle could sometimes stumble over 0-byte writes.
826 - fix unpack_sockaddr, now works for AF_INET6 sockaddr's.
827 - updated documentation.
828 - lots of workarounds for perl 5.8 quirks.
829 - implement a more flexible type system for both reads and writes
830 in AnyEvent::Handle.
831 - support IPv6 in tcp_server.
832 - pass local hostname and port to the prepare callback in tcp_server.
833 - make types extendable in AnyEvent::Handle.
834 - croak, not die, in AnyEvent::Handle;
835
836 4.0 Sat May 24 19:58:08 CEST 2008
837 - added (experimental) AnyEvent::DNS module.
838 - added (experimental) AnyEvent::Socket module.
839 - added (experiemntal) support for TLS/SSL in AnyEvent::Handle.
840 - make condvar->end call ->send as documented.
841 - make condvar constructor support the documented cb => argument.
842 - overload condvars so you can use them instead of code references.
843 - support more of the POSIX forms instead of a pure dotted quad for
844 verbatim ip addresses.
845 - AnyEvent::Socket::inet_aton will use AnyEvent::DNS now and not fork anymore.
846 - try very hard not to freeze on broken windows perls.
847 - make on_eof optional in AnyEvent::Handle.
848 - support service names in tcp_connect and tcp_server.
849 - work around netbsd/openbsd bug causing unix sockets not to
850 become writable until empty.
851 - only make a dummy read for error detection when getpeername
852 returns ENOTCONN.
853 - defend AnyEvent::Util::inet_aton against Coro::LWP's brutal
854 override.
855 - new AnyEvent::Guard::cancel.
856
857 3.5 Sat May 17 23:17:14 CEST 2008
858 - gracefully deal with systems not defining CLOCK_MONOTONIC
859 (as opposed to not supporting the clock itself, which worked in 3.41).
860 - added AnyEvent::Util::tcp_connect and AnyEvent::Util::tcp_server
861 helpers, to replace the ill-designed AnyEvent::Socket class.
862 - added some examples (eg/connect, eg/handle).
863 - added AnyEvent::Util::guard.
864 - AnyEvent::Util now exports most of its functions.
865 - fixed a bug in *_read_chunk, where the callback was called with $self as
866 first and second argument.
867 - simplified and fixed regex handling in AnyEvent::Handle::*_read_line.
868 - fix manpage condvars examples to use new syntax.
869 - considerably improve inet_aton with EV::ADNS backend to support
870 cname chains (common dns configuration bug, e.g. with www.google.de)
871 and aaaa records if no a record could be found.
872
873 3.41 Sun May 11 19:53:13 CEST 2008
874 - work around a bug in perl 5.8.8's local. Reported by Yi Ma Mao.
875
876 3.4 Sun May 11 00:29:25 CEST 2008
877 - complete re-implementation of condvars with a hopefully much more useful
878 API (backward compatible functions exist but are undocumented).
879 - AnyEvent::Handle fully rewritten with a hopefully more powerful API
880 (still subject to change).
881 - take advantage of CLOCK_MONOTONIC, if available, in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
882 - provide AnyEvent::post_detect and @AnyEvent::post_detect, which
883 allows module authors to avoid forcing event loop detection.
884 (used by Coro::AIO, Coro::BDB, Coro::AnyEvent for example).
885 - remove coro backends: Coro now provides generic support for AnyEvent
886 via Coro::AnyEvent.
887
888 3.3 Mon Apr 28 09:51:06 CEST 2008
889 - added AnyEvent::Handle, AnyEvent::Socket and AnyEvent::Util modules.
890 - fix a bug in the pure perl backend that kept watchers alive
891 when multiple watchers were registered for the same fh/poll combo.
892 - add a benchmark section showing AnyEvent overhead and comparing
893 the different event loops with each other.
894 - prefer pure perl over tk when autoprobing, as it's about as fast,
895 but doesn't crash with many watchers.
896 - declare Qt support non-experimental.
897 - clarify the confusing section about the file descriptor being
898 kept alive.
899 - document the race between loading of an event module and
900 child processes exiting.
901 - support POE as "backend" (with some caveats, POE is not generic
902 enough, and darn slow).
903 - support Wx and Prima through POE.
904 - optimise perl backend to use 20% less memory and take advantage
905 of typical timeout behaviour. It can now compete with
906 select/poll-based C event loops in most cases (it is usually
907 faster than Event and Glib :).
908 - roughly cut EV memory use in half and increase its speed by 30%,
909 by removing undocumented functionality. Did something similar
910 to other event loops where possible.
911
912 3.2 Thu Apr 24 10:10:40 CEST 2008
913 - do not die when anyevent watchers are destroyed while running callbacks
914 in the pureperl backend (could only happen when two watchers are registered
915 for the same fh/poll combo).
916 - support autoloading for child watchers, was broken in all versions.
917 - implement PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL env variable.
918 - (experimental) implement interface to the (very crashy/buggy) Event::Lib module.
919 - (experimental) implement interface to the Qt module (cannot be autoprobed).
920 - this release is IO:AnyEvent-proof.
921
922 3.12 Tue Apr 22 07:11:46 CEST 2008
923 - reinstate AUTHOR section that got lost somehow.
924 - do not hang in the testsuite with badly broken perls (activestate,
925 strawberry...), but instead diagnose the problem and continue.
926 - use INT instead of CHLD in an attempt to support broken windows perls
927 better (this decreases the test quality, unfortunately).
928 - do not send the signal to the process group
929 (no problem for CHLD, bad for INT :).
930
931 3.11 Sat Apr 19 06:57:31 CEST 2008
932 - major documentation rework.
933 - document the fact that child watchers only watch for zombies.
934 - fix the child watcher example.
935
936 3.1 Wed Apr 16 17:09:01 CEST 2008
937 - work around recurring bugs in Tk by dup'ing filehandles, the
938 only method with good success chances on Tk (the bugs apparently
939 don't get fixed anytime soon).
940 - lift the restriction of only one watcher per fh direction
941 (as the Tk bug workaround also lifts it and only Tk imposed
942 such strong limits).
943 - changed probe order to prefer coro adaptors.
944 - explain why recursion into the event loop is not supported
945 unless the backend supports it (only Coro::EV does without
946 any restrictions...).
947 - add simple manpages for all backend modules.
948
949 3.0 Mon Apr 7 21:30:23 CEST 2008
950 - Coro::Signal changed semantics, roll our own, also cleaning
951 up the Coro implementation in general.
952 - rename Coro backend to CoroEvent.
953 - add some decision helping paragraph to the manpage that should
954 help people to decide whether AnyEvent is the right thing for them.
955
956 2.9 Mon Jan 28 13:31:54 CET 2008
957 - update for EV 3.0 API changes.
958
959 2.8 Sun Nov 25 15:06:03 CET 2007
960 - waitpid can validly return 0. accept this fact of life
961 instead of reporting it to any watchers.
962
963 2.7 Fri Nov 23 11:41:14 CET 2007
964 - force use of AnyEvent::Impl::Perl in testsuite, there is
965 too much breakage outside AnyEvent.
966 - deliver signals synchronously in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl
967 or any other event loop that relies on AnyEvents child
968 watcher emulation. *Could* help with hanging testsuite
969 (except when Event or EV are installed).
970
971 2.6 Fri Nov 9 20:36:35 CET 2007
972 - fix bug in testsuite.
973 - move EV adaptor modules to AnyEvent.
974 - add Coro+EV adaptor module.
975
976 2.55 Tue Nov 6 17:41:32 CET 2007
977 - add EV to the list of supported event models.
978 - do not auto-reset pid watchers, pass pid and status to them.
979 - allow a pid of zero to watch for all children in child watchers.
980
981 2.54 Wed Jul 18 17:36:23 CEST 2007
982 - work around a perl bug that results in
983 BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted without
984 any discernible reason or error message by once
985 again not use'ing strict.
986
987 2.53 Sun Jul 8 10:51:53 CEST 2007
988 - make Glib interface work again (spotted by elmex).
989
990 2.52 Wed Mar 7 18:36:16 CET 2007
991 - child watchers stopped working permanently when
992 all current child watchers were destroyed.
993
994 2.51 Mon Dec 11 21:33:24 CET 2006
995 - work around bugs in perl where eval "require Module" returns
996 true even if the module couldn't be loaded :/.
997
998 2.5 Mon Dec 11 02:15:28 CET 2006
999 - avoid $AUTOLOAD because many perls corrupt it.
1000 - AnyEvent::detect forces autodetection.
1001 - implement signal watchers (experimental)
1002 (Tk does not support async signals (<= 804.027 at least),
1003 so they might get delayed indefinitely on Tk).
1004 - implement child watchers (experimental).
1005 - moved default condvar implementation into base module, simplifying
1006 most implementation modules.
1007
1008 2.1 Fri Nov 24 15:50:48 CET 2006
1009 - better docs.
1010 - simple testsuite.
1011 - added AnyEvent->one_event method for special purposes.
1012
1013 2.0 Wed Nov 1 02:21:30 CET 2006
1014 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: poll can now either be "r" or "w" but not both.
1015 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: io watcher callbacks have no arguments anymore.
1016 - EXPERIMENTAL:
1017 new pure-perl model added, AnyEvent now always finds a suitable
1018 event model.
1019 - improved documentation.
1020 - reduced cpu overhead.
1021
1022 1.02 Fri Jan 13 14:15:40 CET 2006
1023 - add COPYING to clarify license.
1024
1025 1.01 Sun Jan 8 05:48:09 CET 2006
1026 - correctly cancel Event timers, avoid memory leaks.
1027
1028 1.0 Sun Jan 8 05:40:58 CET 2006
1029 - allow third-party interfaces to be added at runtime.
1030 - fix version number.
1031
1032 0.9 Fri Dec 30 02:25:41 CET 2005
1033 - fixed errors in the documentation.
1034 - going back to using $VERSION as "load check",
1035 as suggested by Jörn Reder. Let's see why I stopped using
1036 this method.
1037 - add 'hup' to the list of events to receive for glib
1038 and generate 'rw' events for it, as some versions of
1039 glib seem to require this, while this breaks other
1040 (older) versions of glib.
1041 - implemented PERL_ANYEVENT_VERBOSE env variable.
1042
1043 0.3 Sun Dec 4 10:43:33 CET 2005
1044 - no changes to the code.
1045 - fixed documentation.
1046 - clarified some corner cases.
1047 - vastly improved documentation with a long example.
1048
1049 0.2 Thu Dec 1 22:18:49 CET 2005
1050 - check whether a valid method was called, to avoid endless loops.
1051 - move condvars into their own class (cleaner, safer).
1052 - don't die when some modules are not available.
1053 - Tk is too broken to allow for words. Will work once Tk works.
1054
1055 0.1 Thu Dec 1 19:44:57 CET 2005
1056 - spiced up and cleaned up for release.
1057
1058 0.01 Tue Sep 21 18:12:09 CEST 2004
1059 - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
1060