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1 Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent.
2
3 TODO: document TCP_*** constants
4 TODO: add debug/trace logging to some modules
5 TODO: use the eval-with-cb-call trick also to speed up JSON?
6 TODO: common pitfalls? invoke-before-return
7
8 7.01
9 - use File::Spec to get the tmpdir in t/*, to avoid needless
10 failures on (most, not mine :) windows boxes.
11
12 7.0 Fri Apr 13 06:33:30 CEST 2012
13 - child watchers are broken in POE 1.352 (also many earlier
14 versions) and there seems to be no way to work around it, as POE
15 itself is inherently racy. Document this regression and add a delay
16 in t/68_poe_03_child.t for the time being.
17 - new module AnyEvent::IO, that is a frontend to either a pure-perl
18 synchronous I/O implementation (AnyEvent::IO::Perl), or to the
19 asynchronous I/O extension IO::AIO (AnyEvent::IO::IOAIO).
20 - load /etc/hosts only when DNS has no answer.
21 - stat /etc/hosts on every access and reload it if it changed.
22 - load /etc/hosts via AnyEvent::IO - potentially asynchronous.
23 - fix a buggy croak in the dh parameter reading in AnyEvent::TLS.
24 - AnyEvent::Log log_to_file and log_to_path now use AnyEvent::IO. As
25 a side effect, they now use true appending as opposed to libc
26 appending, and the file might not have been opened when the function
27 returns.
28 - the default logging level was not properly documented in a variety of
29 places, this has hopefully been rectified.
30 - updated uts46data.pl for unicode 6.1.0.
31 - made log messages generated by AnyEvent submodules not
32 include the package name anymore, as it will be logged
33 by default already.
34 - upgrade to the trick used by common-sense 3.5 to work
35 around extra warning torture/breakage under perl 5.15.x.
36 - log messages by anyevent are now ucfirst, are usually full
37 sentences and do no longer include the package name.
38 - the storable read type would sometimes throw an exception instead
39 of causing EBADMSG (analyzed by Maxime Soulé).
40 - work around a bug in openssl 1.0.1 which enforces a minimum rsa
41 keysize (reported by Paul Howarth).
42 - documented Rocco fabricating statements about AnyEvent and me.
43
44 6.14 Tue Jan 31 20:00:24 CET 2012
45 - AnyEvent::Impl::Tk was broken due to a mysterious "die" inside,
46 probably an editing mistake (reported by Darin McBride).
47
48 6.13 Thu Jan 12 07:27:01 CET 2012
49 - AnyEvent::Util::fork_call checked for POSIX availability in the wrong way,
50 causing it to fail if POSIX wasn't loaded already (analysed by Rock Power).
51 - AnyEvent::Handle::push_read (line => did pass $1 directly, so
52 regex-matching inside the callback would change the parameter, despite
53 $1 being dynamically scoped per-block. this perl bug is now being
54 worked around (testcase by Cindy Wang).
55
56 6.12 Mon Dec 12 13:21:10 CET 2011
57 - $! was clobbered by subsequent calls in tcp_connect, due to
58 the postpone not saving/restoring it (analyzed by Richard Garnish).
59
60 6.11 Tue Nov 22 10:36:05 CET 2011
61 - Tk cannot create windows when tainted unless you set a title, so
62 set a dummy title for AnyEvent's dummy mainwindow. How dummy.
63 - escape any nonprintable/nonascii characters when stringifying
64 backtraces.
65 - log the reason loading an interface module fails to load at level debug.
66
67 6.1 Tue Oct 4 19:44:30 CEST 2011
68 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: the default log level is now "4" (error
69 and above), and some messages inside AnyEvent have been elevated
70 to higher log levels to print by default.
71 - AnyEvent::log, unlike AnyEvent::Log::log, did not always exit on fatal.
72 - work around yet another signal race bug, newly introduced by POE. My
73 how that module sucks.
74 - add google public ipv6 dns as fallback servers, so AE::DNS can finally
75 support ipv6-only operation even with defaults (also use ::1 instead
76 of 127.0.0.1).
77 - give better guidelines on how to chose a logging level.
78 - AnyEvent::Log can now cap (limit) log message priority by context.
79 - AE::log will now save and restore $! and $@, so callers don't have to.
80 - AE::Strict now checks that registered fds are still valid at regular
81 intervals.
82 - skip frequently called 'require' calls if the module appears loaded.
83 - increase signal latency test timer considerably for poor little osx,
84 which can't be bothered with basic posix functionality such as signal
85 delivery.
86 - mention some debugging aids in the tutorial.
87 - new env variable PERL_ANYEVENT_MAX_SIGNAL_LATENCY.
88 - private (%namespace) log contexts in PERL_ANYEVENT_LOG now have the name
89 of the context as title.
90 - AnyEvent::Strict would not restore read-write access to $_ when a callback
91 died - this is a user bug, but since AE::Strict exists to help dbeugging...
92 - detect the extremely evil IO::Async::Loop::AnyEvent module and refuse
93 to work with it - the author is well aware of the issues but refuses
94 to fix them. This extreme step has been taken because the module actively
95 attacks the goals of AnyEvent and makes it harder for module authors to use
96 AnyEvent.
97
98 6.02 Fri Aug 26 20:08:31 CEST 2011
99 - log_to_syslog now accepts facility strings.
100 - log_to_syslog would not allow facilities - "$facility|$level"
101 *literally* means that string. sheesh.
102 - the CPAN parser got confused and thought we provide Sys::Syslog, try
103 to work around.
104 - renamed AnyEvent::Impl::FLTK2 to FLTK.
105
106 6.01 Fri Aug 26 07:04:11 CEST 2011
107 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: AnyEvent::DNS resource records now include
108 the TTL as fourth element - this affects ->resolve, ->request
109 and ->dns_unpack indirectly. Convenience functions such as
110 AnyEvent::DNS::{a,txt,mx,srv} are not affected, neither is
111 AnyEvent::Socket.
112 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: backend authors now should not implement
113 one_event or loop, but instead the AnyEvent::CondVar::_wait and _poll
114 methods.
115 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: verbosity levels have been redefined, see
116 AnyEvent (PERL_ANYEVENT_VERBOSE) and AnyEvent::Log for details.
117 - DEPRECIATION: please change
118 "use AnyEvent::Impl::Perl" to "use AnyEvent::Loop" and
119 "AnyEvent::Impl::Perl::loop" to "AnyEvent::Loop::run"
120 in your programs, for future compatibility.
121 - *blush* idle watcher emulation was borked.
122 - AnyEvent::Strict now checks the AE::xxx functions as well.
123 - querying too long domain names would barf deep inside AnyEvent::DNS - since
124 this is hard to avoid for applications, AnyEvent:.DNS::request now checks for
125 for too long domain names explicitly and passes an undef to the callback
126 instead (reported by James Bromberger).
127 - make AnyEvent::Util more robust against EINTR (analyzed by Andrew Suffield).
128 - new functions: AnyEvent::postpone, AnyEvent::log.
129 - new module: AnyEvent::Log, for simple logging needs.
130 - new env variable, PERL_ANYEVENT_LOG, for fine-grained logging config.
131 - new env variable, PERL_ANYEVENT_DEBUG_SHELL, to automatically start
132 a debug shell.
133 - new env variable, PERL_ANYEVENT_DEBUG_WRAP, to automatically enable
134 watcher instrumentation/wrapping (see AnyEvent::Debug::wrap).
135 - new env variable, PERL_ANYEVENT_HOSTS, to override the place where
136 /etc/hosts can be found.
137 - an empty PERL_ANYEVENT_RESOLV_CONF now selects the default
138 configuration.
139 - env variables can now be specified using AE_xyz instead of
140 PERL_ANYEVENT_xyz, subject to some rules.
141 - lots of new AnyEvent::Debug functionality.
142 - AnyEvent::Strict now checks for modifications of $_ by the callback
143 (by setting it to readonly while executing the callback, if possible).
144 - IO::Async sometimes cancels the wrong timer when you call cancel_timer.
145 Invest extra overhead to work around this peculiar behaviour.
146 - split the pure perl backend into a loop module and an impl
147 module (AnyEvent::Loop and AnyEvent::Impl::Perl).
148 - some read types (regex, netstring, json, storable) could
149 errornously keep an AE::Handle object alive on their own
150 (reported by Mohammad Toossi).
151 - AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr and all functions using it now
152 supports /etc/hosts overrides.
153 - add more workarounds around child watcher bugs in IO::Async
154 and (newly introduced) in POE.
155 - use glib child watchers and try to work around its limitations,
156 if possible (based on a patch by Kevin Ryde).
157 - add support for FLTK (fltk2), via AnyEvent::Impl::FLTK2.
158 - many read types in AnyEvent::Handle would malfunction during
159 transitions to TLS because of a "delete $self->{rbuf}".
160 (reported by Gerald Galster).
161 - improve condvar blocking wait performance (probably only noticable
162 with faster backends), also make it easier for event loops that
163 do not support blocking waits.
164 - PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL now also allows full module names, although
165 the usefulness of this feature is not yet clear.
166 - add tests for all supported event loops, conditional on PERL_ANYEVENT_LOOP_TESTS.
167 - add t/80_ssltext.t.
168 - no longer use AUTOLOAD for the initial loading (for no very good reason).
169 - tcp_server now tries to unlink unix domain sockets when it gets destroyed.
170 - do not run event loop detection multiple times when programs call their cached
171 copies of AnyEvent::detect.
172 - parse_hostport now accepts absolute paths als unix domain sockets.
173 - suppress the idiotic warning inside POE by patching the POE::Kernel
174 run flags instead of asking the user to jump through contortions.
175 - add Task::Weaken as dependency (as recommends only at this time).
176 - replace PF_UNSPEC by 0, for good old minix.
177
178 6.0 (not officially released, but was on CPAN for about 15 minutes :/)
179
180 5.34 Thu May 12 09:59:41 CEST 2011
181 - AE::TLS didn't support both cert_file and key at the same time,
182 due to some copy&paste bug (reported and analyzed by vti).
183 - improve AE::Handle timeout documentation slightly.
184
185 5.33 Mon Feb 7 21:51:41 CET 2011
186 - never appeared on CPAN, for unknown reasons.
187 - AnyEvent::Handle on_connect_error - do not try to destroy a handle
188 object when it's already gone (analyzed by Ryan Bullock).
189 - update idna algorithm(s) to UTS#46 version 6.0.0.
190 - preserve trailing dot in idn_to_ascii - testsuite says to preserve,
191 uts46 says it's an error, and testsuite makes more sense.
192 - remove leading dots in idn_to_ascii - testsuite says to remove,
193 uts46 says it's an error, and testsuite makes more sense.
194 - fixed a bug in idn ignored character processing.
195 - passes the uts46 6.0.0 testsuite except for three cases which
196 apparently are bugs in the testsuite itself.
197 - passes the uts46 6.0.1 testsuite except for eleven cases which
198 apparently are bugs in the testsuite itself.
199
200 5.31 Sun Jan 23 11:49:19 CET 2011
201 - work around a POE bug where POE would first poll for new events and
202 invoke handlers BEFORE handling the message queue.
203 - fix parsing of "domain" statement in resolv.conf (Johannes Plunien).
204 - stop_read now does just that in TLS mode. see its
205 documentation for caveats.
206 - update to common::sense 3.4 warning set (some warnings in perl impose
207 an arbitrary 32kb limit on regex matches, which affects
208 AnyEvent::Handle).
209 - AE::Handle had a broken rbuf_max method and missing wbuf_max method.
210 - new experimental AE::Handle::resettls method.
211
212 5.3 Fri Dec 31 05:48:13 CET 2010
213 - major IOAsync patch by Paul Evans - 0.33 is required, as the major
214 issues with IO::Async have been solved in that version, including
215 the availabilty of a default loop!
216 - implement new wbuf_max parameter for AnyEvent::Handle.
217 - added Cocoa::EventLoop backend by Daisuke Murase.
218 - the default testsuite now honors PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL (Paul Evans).
219 - clarify handle on_prepare documentation.
220 - set CLOEXEC flag on parent-side fd's in AnyEvent::Util::run_cmd,
221 to avoid leaking them to any child processes.
222 - try to force files into the arch-dependend lib directory, for the
223 half-"turly obsessive compulsive person"(s) that depend on it.
224
225 5.29 Sun Dec 5 10:49:21 CET 2010
226 - convert EV backend to EV 4.00 API (so better upgrade EV too).
227 - AE::Handle: implement dynamic read_size adjustment, add
228 max_read_size parameter, reduce default read_size to 2048.
229 - add some FAQ entries for servers and/or on_eof vs. on_error.
230 - work around OS bugs (cygwin again) when lingering in AE::Handle.
231 - reduce memory usage slightly when connect was used in AE::Handle.
232 - wrok around more segfaults in Tk.
233 - document tls_ctx => undef as valid.
234 - detect WNOHANG value at compiletime.
235 - include some probably linux-only support for building AnyEvent
236 as part of the perl core.
237 - improve compatibility of t/08_idna.t to perl 5.8.
238 - make AnyEvent::Strict truly optional (in case somebody builds a
239 minimal perl...).
240
241 5.28 Wed Oct 13 04:14:23 CEST 2010
242 - due to a glitch, AnyEvent's internal getprotobyname wasn't
243 actually used in tcp_server.
244 - implement AnyEvent::CondVar->new method, which was documented but
245 missing.
246 - support autoloading of read types in unshift_read.
247 - AnyEvent::Strict: do the test for invalid fh arguments differently,
248 resulting in more informative error messages.
249 - new AnyEvent::FAQ manpage.
250 - clarify that you can actually call push_read etc. in on_read.
251 - put keys and certs in /tmp, not into the current directory,
252 and document this in the SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS sections
253 of AnyEvent::TLS.
254 - support ";" as resolv.conf comment character in AnyEvent::DNS, as
255 requested by Ron Isaacson.
256 - document $AnyEvent::DNS::RESOLVER variable.
257 - incorporated major typo patches by Abhijit Menon-Sen.
258 - AnyEvent::Handle now croaks when negative timeouts are passed.
259 - add a shitload of TCP_xxx sockopt name constants to AnyEvent::Util,
260 undocumented, but who knows when they might come in handy.
261
262 5.271 Tue Jun 8 12:05:46 CEST 2010
263 - backport to perl 5.8.x.
264
265 5.27 Sun Jun 6 12:12:05 CEST 2010
266 - postpone differently in AnyEvent::Socket now, as
267 when not, canceling the connection attempt might fail
268 (found by Felix Antonius Wilhelm Ostmann).
269 - explicitly check for non-stream sockets in AE::Handle, too many
270 clueless people fell into the trap of this somehow working.
271 - simplified and reworked the "OTHER MODULES" section.
272 - better/more condvar examples.
273
274 5.261 Wed Apr 28 16:13:36 CEST 2010
275 - AF_INET6 was not properly used from Socket6 during configuration
276 time (found by Andy Grundman).
277
278 5.26 Mon Apr 12 04:49:35 CEST 2010
279 - don't generate spurious readyness notifications when select
280 returns EINTR in the pure perl backend (analysed and testcase
281 by Bas Denissen).
282 - give same examples in SYNOPSIS sections of AnyEvent and AE.
283 - provider faster implementations for AE::time/now/now_update for
284 EV and Perl backends.
285 - provide faster AE::cv and AE::time implementations for all
286 backends.
287 - no longer support lower/mixed-case signal names (this was
288 never documented nor universally supported).
289 - some more memory µ-optimisations, and somewhat less messy
290 code to cope with both AnyEvent and AE APIs.
291
292 5.251 Sat Mar 13 00:58:21 CET 2010
293 - make test failed if it was run before make install on perl <=
294 5.8.8, and older versions of perl make our live very difficult,
295 so write constants.pl during Makefile.PL time.
296
297 5.25 Sat Mar 13 00:23:14 CET 2010
298 - fix a race condition in AnyEvent::Handle that would cause
299 a "bio_read: unsupported method" error (in _another_
300 ssl connection) after user code threw an exception.
301 - added AnyEvent::Handle->destroyed method.
302 - speed up AnyEvent::Socket::format_address and ::format_ipv6.
303 - the AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking function worked only
304 by lucky accident on win32.
305 - smaller and faster AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking.
306 - when the (required!) Time::HiRes module is missing, AnyEvent
307 did not fall back to built-in time properly.
308 - do not load Fcntl at runtime, saving memory and loading time.
309 - precompile a number of constants and use them instead of runtime
310 detection and eval.
311 - free detection code after detection and similar memory optimisations.
312 - Perl backend timer interval best effort drift has been improved
313 (same algorithm as EV).
314 - update unicode idna mapping table.
315
316 5.24 Tue Jan 5 11:39:43 CET 2010
317 - cygwin never reports errors from failed connects. 1.5 just gives
318 you continous readyness and EAGAIN, 1.7 is even more broken and
319 just hangs. work around both issues in a cygwin-specific hack.
320 - improve idle watcher documentation slightly.
321
322 5.23 Sun Dec 20 23:48:00 CET 2009
323 - support IDNs in resolve_sockaddr, and therefore in tcp_connect.
324 - implement punycode_encode/decode, idn_nameprep,
325 idn_to_ascii and idn_to_unicode operations in AnyEvent::Util.
326 - provide $AE::VERSION.
327 - removed traces of "no strict 'refs'".
328
329 5.22 Sat Dec 5 03:51:13 CET 2009
330 - downgrade-or-fail in AnyEvent::Handle::push_write, to
331 diagnose encoding failures earlier and more succinctly.
332 (this works around bugs in perl, throwing away encoding info
333 when passing scalar data to extensions).
334 - add more examples to AnyEvent::Socket manpage.
335 - upgrade internal warning set to the same as common::sense 2.03.
336 - use pack "n/a*" for pre-5.8.9 perl compatibility in AnyEvent::DNS
337 (John Beppu).
338 - AnyEvent::Socket::inet_aton now properly supports ipv6, as documented.
339 - add google public dns servers to fallback server set and make sure
340 we load-balance properly between the three sets. also add all
341 fallback dns servers, not just a random one, to each dns config.
342
343 5.21 Thu Nov 19 02:48:47 CET 2009
344 - fix a problem where socket constants were called with parameters
345 (spotted by David Friedland).
346 - fork_call never use'd POSIX (reported by Daisuke Maki).
347 - improve perl 5.6 compatibility further (but it still won't work
348 unless you rip out everything but the core).
349 - prefer Net::DNS::Resolver over ipconfig, if installed, on win32.
350 uses 10MB of RAM, but doesn't open a console window. *sigh*.
351
352 5.202 Wed Oct 14 22:35:44 CEST 2009
353 - AnyEvent::DNS would unexpectedly clobber $_ under windows
354 (analysed by Matthias Waldorf).
355 - AnyEvent::Handle::run_cmd can now pass the PID of the
356 newly-created process, which is much less useful than it might
357 sound (based on patch by Yann Kerherve).
358
359 5.201 Tue Sep 29 12:09:25 CEST 2009
360 - AnyEvent:Handle::on_starttls/on_stoptls methods were broken
361 (reported by Torsten Foertsch).
362 - common::sense 2.0 could cause tcp_server to throw an exception
363 (analysed by elmex).
364
365 5.2 Mon Sep 14 07:04:49 CEST 2009
366 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: do no longer support register_read_type
367 and register_write_type in AnyEvent::Handle, instead support
368 package names (the facility was mostly abused).
369 - implement "packagename-as-read/write type" support in
370 AnyEvent::Handle.
371 - AnyEvent::Handle: new options "keepalive" and "oobinline".
372 - oobinline set by default to avoid security issues.
373 - the pure-perl event loop backend wrongly detected times() fallback
374 support (spotted by Pavel Boldin).
375
376 5.12 Tue Sep 1 20:26:50 CEST 2009
377 - be more lenient when parsing resolv.conf files, as some people
378 use hashmarks as comment indicator inside directives (reported
379 by Michael S. Fischer).
380 - use same set of warnings as common::sense 2.0.
381 - fix a potential 32 bit overflow issue due to perl having problems
382 with large hex constants in the Perl backend.
383 - do not use the slower 5.6 version fo the enc_name code in AnyEvent::DNS
384 by default.
385 - fix some prototypes.
386 - (optionally) require Async::Interrupt 1.02.
387 - replace opendns fallbacks by verizon/level3 public dns servers.
388
389 5.112 Fri Aug 21 13:59:04 CEST 2009
390 - AnyEvent::Handle could cause hard crashes in Net::SSLeay when
391 using starttls with an illegal/uncreatable tls context.
392 - port to broken win32 perls.
393
394 5.111 Sun Aug 16 18:44:36 CEST 2009
395 - perl errornously requires sockaddr_un structures returned by the
396 kernel to have a specific length. work around this bug by padding
397 sockaddr_un structures (found to fail on OS X, as perl only uses
398 the correct code for GNU/Linux, but likely to fail on other
399 OSes as well).
400
401 5.11 Wed Aug 12 17:49:37 CEST 2009
402 - fixed a bug in run_cmd with input from filename.
403 - create a json coder object when none is given in write direction
404 to reduce dependency on JSON.
405
406 5.1 Tue Aug 11 03:17:32 CEST 2009
407 - tcp_connect now reports the correct error in $!, not an unrelated
408 one (was broken since 4.91).
409 - AE::Handle did not properly clear rtimeout/wtimeout watchers
410 when retrying a tcp_connect.
411 - new functions: AnyEvent::Util::run_cmd and close_all_fds_except.
412 - fixed wrong documentation in AE::Socket.
413
414 5.01 Mon Aug 10 03:16:32 CEST 2009
415 - last release broke EV child watchers :/.
416
417 5.0 Sun Aug 9 17:32:09 CEST 2009
418 - officially introduce and document the AE API.
419 - lowering the timeout at runtime did not have immediate effect
420 in AnyEvent::Handle.
421 - AE::Handle now has separate and independent read and write timeout
422 settings.
423 - probe for Guard module when AnyEvent::Util is loaded, not at
424 runtime (Event doesn't like eval "use" from callbacks, and it avoids
425 exporting the probe function).
426 - Impl::IOAsync's io watchers did not use the filehandle emulation
427 code to work around it's watcher limits.
428 - work around IO::Async's problems with overloaded objects.
429 - try to disable wearnings inside IO::Async, it's just too buggy.
430 - do no longer use Event by default, only EV or Perl, Event is too buggy.
431 - hackishly provide fast AE:: interface when EV or Perl is the backend.
432 - inherit VERSION from AnyEvent::VERSION in most modules.
433
434 4.91 Thu Aug 6 15:42:45 CEST 2009
435 - AE::Handle::starttls could get out of sync when the read buffer
436 already contains some TLS handshake.
437 - AE::Handle did not properly free the TLS session, causing bigger
438 memory leaks in Net::SSLeay than expected (reported by toaster).
439 - AE::Socket::tcp_connect will now artificially delay invoking
440 the callback to avoid returning after invoking the callback.
441 - convert many internal watcher uses to AE API.
442
443 4.9 Sat Aug 1 11:07:01 CEST 2009
444 - Glib silently fails when registering a timeout with
445 a negative value, so avoid that.
446 - call condvar callback immediately when it is set
447 after the condition is already signalled.
448 - check rbuf_max condition only after trying to consume
449 data.
450 - normalise signal numbers to names when using the ae's
451 signal handling, but do not document this (yet).
452 - pure perl signal emulation did not properly set nonblocking
453 mode on the signal pipe on win32 (this is unlikely to have caused
454 any issues).
455 - new module: AnyEvent::Debug.
456 - AnyEvent::Strict now checks that a signal was specified
457 by name (not name or number).
458 - reduce memory footprint in typical cases by ~50kb by
459 only compiling signal code when necessary.
460 - add AnyEvent::Handle->rbuf_max.
461 - grab the AE namespace for future new API, implement stubs for
462 said future/alternative API.
463 - new function: AnyEvent::Socket::format_hostport.
464
465 4.881 Tue Jul 28 12:51:53 CEST 2009
466 - work around a bug in local in pre-5.10 perls, causing
467 AnyEvent::Handle to recurse when it should not
468 (analysed by elmex).
469
470 4.88 Tue Jul 28 04:04:37 CEST 2009
471 - re-bless the handle into a dummy package after calling
472 AnyEvent::Handle::destroy, so the user does not need to check
473 for errors after every push_write etc.
474 - do not attempt to run t/02_signals.t on obviously broken
475 platforms.
476
477 4.87 Sun Jul 26 02:06:16 CEST 2009
478 - do not attempt to linger when there is no longer a valid fh.
479 - enforce tls mode to be either accept or connect, do not simply
480 segfault in Net::SSLeay.
481 - AnyEvent::Handle can now call tcp_connect itself (new parameters
482 connect, on_prepare, on_connect and on_connect_error). Updated
483 tutorial accordingly.
484 - add AnyEvent::Impl::Irssi backend.
485
486 4.86 Mon Jul 20 23:52:29 CEST 2009
487 - since the verbose warning is not enough, explicitly document
488 that versions before 1.33 of Net::SSLeay are not secure.
489 - work around signal handling races in Event and (...) Event::Lib.
490 - try to align signal-race timer to full-second boundaries.
491 - work around Tk not liking negative timeouts.
492 - don't complain of different grades of environmental unfriendlyness
493 in IO::Async.
494
495 4.85 Sat Jul 18 06:16:14 CEST 2009
496 - nail the signal race problem in perl once and for all
497 (see $AnyEvent::MAX_SIGNAL_LATENCY).
498 - take advantage of Async::Interrupt if it is available.
499 - load Time::HiRes and Guard modules on demand only.
500 - add optional/recommended modules section to AnyEvent
501 documentation.
502 - reduce memory usage considerably (and reduce startup penalty)
503 by not using "strict", "warnings" and "overload" modules.
504 - work around buggy windows/openbsd perls and provide EBADMSG
505 and EPROTO ourselves when missing.
506 - improve perl 5.6 compatibility of the core event loop.
507 - made Net::SSLeay version 1.33 a soft requirement.
508
509 4.83 Fri Jul 17 16:56:26 CEST 2009
510 - implement AnyEvent::Socket::getprotobyname.
511 - AnyEvent::CondVar's will now detect recursive blocking
512 waits and will croak, as too many people fall into
513 this trap.
514 - AnyEvent::Handle will now call ->destroy on itself after
515 executing the on_error callback, instead of doing some
516 half-baked internal shutdown, for fatal errors.
517 - clarify on_eof behaviour w.r.t. the read queue and
518 on_read callbacks.
519 - ignore some possible spurious wake-ups in tcp_connect.
520
521 4.82 Sat Jul 11 00:34:55 CEST 2009
522 - POE and Event backends didn't accept some callable objects as
523 callbacks.
524 - use Config module instead of POSIX module to detect signal names
525 in AnyEvent::Strict and AnyEvent::Impl::EventLib, as the POSIX
526 module doesn't even have all POSIX signals :/.
527 - use more workarounds around the many refcnt/corruption bugs in
528 Event::Lib.
529 - work around a race condition in perl's select, causing t/03_child.t
530 to rarely fail.
531
532 4.81 Thu Jul 9 10:30:30 CEST 2009
533 - AnyEvent::Handle didn't properly diagnose write errors
534 (it expected -1 from syswrite, how lame... :).
535 - support file descriptors in addition to file handles
536 in AnyEvent->io.
537 - new env variables: PERL_ANYEVENT_RESOLV_CONF,
538 PERL_ANYEVENT_MAX_OUTSTANDING_DNS, PERL_ANYEVENT_CA_FILE
539 and PERL_ANYEVENT_CA_PATH.
540 - provide a sensible synopsis section for AnyEvent::TLS.
541 - add a "supported backends" section to the manpage.
542 - added simple io watcher test to testsuite, using a
543 portable_socketpair.
544 - tried to improve the stability of the Event::Lib backend,
545 YMMV.
546
547 4.8 Mon Jul 6 23:45:16 CEST 2009
548 - AnyEvent::DNS did not properly follow CNAME records with
549 uppercase targets.
550 - AnyEvent::DNS would errornously return AAAA records
551 with v4 mapped addresses (a faulty record) as ipv4 addresses,
552 causing AnyEvent::Socket to throw an exception.
553 - added new module AnyEvent::TLS for easier SSL/TLS context
554 creation, with many options including hostname verification,
555 secure default configuration, lots of documentation and,
556 predefined diffie-hellman keys for perfect forward security
557 and much more. get it while it's still fresh!
558 - use AnyEvent::TLS in AnyEvent::Handle for context management.
559 - load AnyEvent::Handle only on demand in AnyEvent::DNS,
560 so AnyEvent::Socket users have smaller memory footprint
561 in the common case.
562 - add AnyEvent::Handle->push_shutdown method.
563 - add an additional error message parameter to AnyEvent::Handle's
564 on_error callback (for TLS, $! is still available).
565 - add AnyEvent::Handle on_starttls/on_stoptls callbacks.
566 - make AnyEvent::Handle more robust against early conenction
567 failures (during new), and return C<undef> in that case
568 from the constructor.
569 - AnyEvent::Handle will now try to load only JSON::XS first,
570 then fall back to JSON.
571 - format_ipv4/format_ipv6 are now exported by default, for symmetry,
572 and because it was documented that way.
573
574 4.451 Fri Jul 3 00:28:58 CEST 2009
575 - do not clear rbuf when shutting down an AnyEvent::Handle
576 object - doing so breaks AnyEvent::HTTP.
577
578 4.45 Mon Jun 29 22:59:26 CEST 2009
579 - a write error could cause AnyEvent::Handle to create
580 an I/O watcher with an undefined $fh.
581 - special-case mapped ipv4 addresses in both
582 AnyEvent::Socket::format_address and parse_address,
583 to treat them just like ipv4 addresses.
584 - updated and overhauled the AnyEvent::Intro doc.
585 - implement AnyEvent::Socket::format_ipv4/ipv6.
586 - slightly speed up portable_pipe/socketpair.
587 - expand condvar begin/end documentation.
588
589 4.42 Fri Jun 26 08:32:18 CEST 2009
590 - preliminary and neccesarily incomplete support for IO::Async.
591 - reset SIGCHLD to DEFAULT when AnyEvent is loaded, in
592 case it was set to IGNORE, to ensure we can catch child statuses
593 even when the calling env acts stupidly.
594 - updated benchmarks with IO::Async, which performs very well.
595
596 4.412 Wed Jun 24 01:35:57 CEST 2009
597 - support an "untaint" attribute for AnyEvent::DNS
598 and set it on the default resolver.
599 - implement and document AnyEvent::Impl::Perl::loop.
600 - remove all anyevent-env variables from %ENV
601 when running in tainted mode.
602 - mention and extend the IO::Lambda benchmark.
603
604 4.411 Sun Jun 7 18:48:02 CEST 2009
605 - do not try to use F_SETFD on windows.
606
607 4.41 Thu May 14 06:40:11 CEST 2009
608 - work around issues in older perls (5.8.0?) when
609 a signal handler is deleted from the %SIG hash.
610 - use POSIX::_exit in child test, to avoid running
611 destructors.
612 - speed up CHLD handling by relying on SIGCHLD being
613 synchronously delivered, even when we roll our own
614 implementation.
615 - AnyEvent::DNS: add the "dname" resource record name
616 for cosmetic reasons.
617
618 4.4 Sun Apr 26 20:12:33 CEST 2009
619 - implemented idle watchers, where applicable.
620 - AnyEvent->time died when Event backend was in use.
621 - fix a memleak in the Tk backend.
622 - sped up Tk timer handling.
623 - clip negative "after" values to 0 in AnyEvent::Impl::Event
624 to avoid spamming out warning messages.
625 - fix Qt timers without interval.
626 - avoid Qt zero-timeout special case, in old libqt's.
627
628 4.352 Mon Apr 20 16:31:11 CEST 2009
629 - fix AnyEvent::Strict error messages for child watchers.
630 - fix/update Makefile.PL "recommends" versions.
631 - add AnyEvent->now_update.
632
633 4.351 Sat Apr 11 07:56:14 CEST 2009
634 - actually make the signal pipe work under win32.
635 - localise $! in signal handler to avoid changing $!, although
636 perl itself does not seem to save/restore errno either.
637 - set the cloexec flag on the signal pipe (normally set by perl too).
638
639 4.35 Fri Mar 27 11:48:20 CET 2009
640 - event models relying on AnyEvent's signal watcher emulation did
641 invoke the callback asynchronously, contradicting documentation
642 and causing signals to get lost (this includes AnyEvent's own
643 event loop). AnyEvent now uses the standard pipe trick to make
644 callback execution synchronous to the event loop.
645 - AnyEvent::Handle didn't free TLS context data on DESTROY
646 (patch by Pavel Shaydo).
647 - work around the ever-incompatibly-changing API of MakeMaker.
648 - document that changing global variables without restoring them
649 is a bad idea in Perl (noted by Adam Rosenstein).
650 - AnyEvent::Strict now barfs if ->io is passed a file.
651
652 4.34 Thu Feb 12 18:32:45 CET 2009
653 - separately buffer TLS read data, as otherwise the read queue could
654 deadlock as receiving data is not expected while draining the
655 read queue (which cna only happen with TLS).
656 - raise EBADMSG error on JSON decoding errors.
657 - fix some minor manpage bugs (reported by Maximilian Gaß).
658 - speed up select bitmask parsing quite a bit in the pure perl
659 backend.
660 - use CORE::select instead of just select in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
661
662 4.331 Tue Jan 6 21:07:25 CET 2009
663 - socketpair fails on many vista machines because vista has
664 completely broken accept/getpeername and getsockname functions,
665 so we provide our own socketpair emulation that kind of works
666 (AnyEvent::Util::portable_pipe).
667 - new function: AnyEvent::Util::portable_socketpair.
668 - take advantage of the Guard module if it exists.
669
670 4.33 Fri Nov 21 02:35:40 CET 2008
671 - AnyEvent::Strict did errornously flag a fileno of 0 as
672 illegal.
673 - reduce memory usage and slightly speed up the pure perl backend
674 by only storing the file descriptor, not the file handle.
675 - add missing autocork method to AnyEvent::Handle (reported
676 by Adam Rosenstein).
677 - AnyEvent::DNS->resolve errornously documented an $rcode result
678 argument, but there isn't (spotted by Henrik Krohns).
679 - the naked truth about Tk - it's basically unmaintained.
680
681 4.32 Mon Nov 3 22:46:32 CET 2008
682 - fix AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr to properly support
683 unix sockets again and choose a proper default for
684 the socket type.
685 - fix call to resolve_sockaddr in tcp_connect.
686
687 4.31 Thu Oct 30 04:41:48 CET 2008
688 - implemented AnyEvent::Handle->destroy method.
689 - hint about unexpected effects in TLS mode.
690 - speed up AnyEvent::Impl::Perl by using more arrays
691 instead of hashes without the slightest loss of readability :)
692 - work around a perl argument refcounting bug.
693 - with some perl patches applied, AnyEvent now seems leak-free.
694
695 4.3 Fri Oct 3 09:18:43 CEST 2008
696 - AnyEvent will now install a no-op signal handler for SIGPIPE,
697 unless one has been installed already.
698 - warn about not loaidng AnyEvent::Impl::POE early enough
699 (patch by Adam Rosenstein).
700 - fixed a great number of bugs and corner cases in AnyEvent::Handle.
701 - fix a bug in where in SSL connect mode, the
702 client would first wait for some data by the server and
703 otherwise hang. (reported and analysed in an absolutely
704 exemplary manner by Adam Rosenstein).
705 - fix a bug in where SSL EOF would not be treated
706 as stream EOF, putting the connection into a hung state.
707 (reported and analysed in an absolutely exemplary manner by Adam
708 Rosenstein).
709 - fix a potential segfault when the TLS context
710 would go missing in a read callback (e.g. due to stoptls) -
711 Net::SSLeay of course makes no type checking whatsoever.
712 - AnyEvent::Handle will not stop the read watcher in TLS mode.
713 - AnyEvent::Handle->stoptls will send a TLS close notify
714 instead of simply destroying the stream now.
715 - fix a bug where large blocks of data written in TLS mode
716 would not be sent unless triggered by receives.
717 - on_drain will now take the tls write buffer into account.
718 - SSL operations have been streamlined a bit and should be faster
719 now, more to come, though.
720 - added a FAQ section, will document nontrivial issues in there.
721
722 4.234 Mon Sep 29 04:08:13 CEST 2008
723 - fix child watcher documentation: only child exits will be reported,
724 no trace events.
725 - mention SIGPIPE in AnyEvent::Handle.
726 - perl backend will now use POSIX::times as monotonic clock
727 when available and the monotonic clock option is not.
728 - run even without Time::HiRes in some cases now, but do not
729 provide sub-second accuracy (all *supported* perl versions have
730 Time::HiRes).
731
732 4.233 Fri Aug 22 01:48:05 CEST 2008
733 - fix a bug in the testsuite, causing a hang.
734 - clarified lots of AnyEvent::Handle constructor arguments.
735
736 4.232 Thu Aug 21 20:44:25 CEST 2008
737 - fix a bug in AnyEvent::Handle that could cause two fatal error
738 callbacks on EOF, which caused AnyEvent::HTTP to signal success twice
739 (testcase by Leon Brocard).
740 - clarified on_eof/on_error documentation a bit.
741
742 4.231 Tue Jul 29 13:12:15 CEST 2008
743 - remove some debugging code left in AnyEvent::Util::fork_call
744 (and no, it's impossible to implement with the broken windows
745 perls without resource leaks or worse).
746
747 4.23 Tue Jul 29 12:19:59 CEST 2008
748 - document the first parameter passed to condvar callbacks to be
749 the callback.
750 - add AnyEvent::Socket::{ntoa,aton} aliases.
751 - optimize the AE::Handle->push_read (line) for the default
752 eol marker.
753 - optimize push_read (packstring|storable) for small packets.
754 - invoke on_error callback when no on_eof callback is set.
755 - fix a bug in push_read (storable) of unknown impact.
756
757 4.22 Sun Jul 20 16:34:13 CEST 2008
758 - new function AnyEvent::Socket::parse_hostport.
759 - as the bulkheads at microsoft can't even get getprotobyname reliably
760 working on their shitty fucking broken os we need to hardcode
761 some common protocol numbers in AnyEvent::Socket. How can
762 people even bother with such a pile of shit as windows.
763
764 4.21 Thu Jul 17 14:40:05 CEST 2008
765 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: AnyEvent::Util::fork_call now has a prototype
766 which is incompatible to previous invocation syntax.
767 - work around more windows perl bugs in fork_call. I cannot imagine
768 why anybody would bother implementing fork in such an obviously
769 unusable way.
770 - avoid calling $do_retry if the request has already finished in
771 AnyEvent::DNS, thus avoiding an exception (reported by Anatoly
772 K. Sharifulin).
773
774 4.2 Sat Jul 12 22:42:11 CEST 2008
775 - support an "interval" argument for repeating timers.
776 - fix a bug in the pure perl event loop that caused timers to
777 be delayed under some circumstances.
778 - implement optional argument checking via PERL_ANYEVENT_STRICT.
779 - not importing anything from Event causes it to malfunction
780 and not use Time::HiRes, work around this bug.
781 - more bug workarounds against the endlessly broken Tk module,
782 seems to work now on 32 bit machines, but less so on 64 bit.
783 - minor optimisations applied to most backends.
784
785 4.161 Fri Jul 4 14:24:48 CEST 2008
786 - fixed the t/handle/02_write.t, it read after write, with the
787 assumption that all data could be written before read
788 (reported by Jim Razmus).
789
790 4.160 Thu Jul 3 04:02:21 CEST 2008
791 - re-registering signal watchers after unregistering one did
792 not work if a backend falls back on AnyEvent's default
793 implementation (also affected child watchers).
794 - new AnyEvent::Handle options: autocork and no_delay.
795
796 4.152 Sun Jun 22 14:15:44 CEST 2008
797 - allow for 32-bit perls that implement shifts differently
798 on different architectures in parse_ipv4 (reported and
799 analysed by Keiichi DAIBA).
800
801 4.151 Fri Jun 6 17:34:24 CEST 2008
802 - make sure specifying _only_ on_read and never pushing reads
803 works.
804
805 4.15 Fri Jun 6 13:00:46 CEST 2008
806 - the pure perl backend would keep some watchers alive when more than
807 one watcher was registered for the same fd.
808 - new "packstring" and "storable" read and write types
809 for AnyEvent::Handle.
810 - allow on_eof handler to be called after on_error with EPIPE returns.
811 - do not immediately call on_read callback in handle constructor.
812
813 4.14 Thu Jun 5 20:29:31 CEST 2008
814 - Fixed a bug in DNS SRV priority sorting.
815 - AnyEvent::Util::guard now reports runtime errors while
816 executing the guard block as warnings.
817 - handle 0-byte-reads just before EOF correctly in AnyEvent::Handle.
818
819 4.13 Thu Jun 5 00:47:59 CEST 2008
820 - AnyEvent::DNS only followed cname chains with length 2,
821 contrary to documentation. bumped it up to 10, thanks to
822 microsoft, the current broken-dns-config-king.
823 - AnyEvent::DNS didn't check for socket return status
824 but instead relied on perl not creating filehandles in that
825 case - too bad it gives you a bogus file handle (reported
826 and analysed by Vladimir Timofeev).
827 - fix queue management logic in AnyEvent::Handle:
828 when on_read was registered, the queue was empty
829 and no progress could be made AnyEvent::Handle would
830 enter an endless loop.
831 - correctly start reading again when the handle became
832 busy again after idling.
833 - correctly treat tls shut-downs as EOF condition
834 (for the time being, would be nice to have a callback for that).
835 - correctly call eof callback under all conditions
836 (hopefully).
837 - the timeout callback did not expect that $self can go
838 away any time.
839
840 4.12 Tue Jun 3 10:58:04 CEST 2008
841 - include AnyEvent::Intro, a tutorial for anyevent,
842 anyevent::socket and anyevent::handle.
843 - allow more options in on_error.
844
845 4.11 Fri May 30 23:42:25 CEST 2008
846 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace ptr by real PTR lookup, provide
847 reverse_lookup and reverse_verify to replace it, support
848 v4mapped and v4compat addresses.
849 - provide more documentation for the resolver class.
850 - really replace longest run of :0: by :: in format_address,
851 also properly convert :: and ::1 again.
852 - support NAPTR record name and decode it.
853 - implement random weight sampling for SRV records, as per
854 rfc 2782.
855 - correctly abort on srv-record targets of ".".
856 - added AnyEvent::DNS::wait_for_slot.
857 - in the unlikely event of a virtual circuit connection
858 being invalidated by a delayed udp reply, AnyEvent::DNS
859 could die. this has been fixed.
860 - plug a probable memleak in the DNS vc code.
861 - use configured timeout also for VC request phase.
862 - implement timeout and max_outstanding methods
863 for resolver class.
864 - update version numbers in all modules.
865
866 4.1 Thu May 29 05:45:40 CEST 2008
867 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: renamed xxx_ip functions to xxx_address
868 which mirrors their purpose better (old names still available
869 for a while). Also moved AnyEvent::DNS::addr to
870 AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr.
871 - implement AnyEvent->time and AnyEvent->now.
872 - fix IPv6 support in pack_sockaddr.
873 - officially un-experimentalise all newly introduced code.
874 - support unix domain sockets everywhere by specifying
875 a host of "unix/" and the pathname as service.
876 - implement an activity timeout in AnyEvent::Handle.
877 - added a regex read type to AnyEvent::Handle.
878 - added a json read/write type to AnyEvent::Handle.
879 - always croak in on_error in AnyEvent::Handle.
880 - document how to subclass AnyEvent::Handle.
881 - implement AnyEvent::Util::fork_call.
882 - add support for IPv6 nameservers and nameserver statements.
883 - work around _yet_ _another_ windows perl bug in where empty
884 select masks cause errors in the pure perl backend (this
885 workaround cannot be implemented for the other event loops,
886 but EV also works around this).
887 - supply AnyEvent::Socket::address_type and make good use of it.
888 - clarify and fix the Handle documentation w.r.t $self vs. $handle
889 vs. callback arguments.
890 - add some recommends to the META.yml.
891
892 4.05 Mon May 26 19:44:06 CEST 2008
893 - some platforms ignore the rfc and prepend an extra sa_len member to
894 the sockaddr structure, cater for those. also use sockaddr_family,
895 didn't know it was there, but comes in handy for the workaround.
896 - undo the import WIN32 hack.
897
898 4.04 Mon May 26 08:03:31 CEST 2008
899 - try to work around yet another windows bug: failed connects are reported
900 as if it were out-of-band data. windows users: you suck. Only
901 EV, Glib, Event and the pure perl backend can handle this condition.
902 - optimize write algorithm in AnyEvent::Handle.
903 - properly parse PERL_ANYEVENT_PROTOCOLS and use the info correctly.
904 - tcp_connect now properly iterates through all targets.
905 - check wether IPv6 sockets can actually be created, otherwise, disable ipv6
906 support entirely. also hardcode some AF_INET6 constants for the
907 sake of perl 5.8.
908 - vastly improved nameserver/suffix detection algorithm for windows
909 (still a hack...)
910 - try to use a fallback dns server if no dns servers could be found.
911 - splatter around some local $SIG{__DIE__}'s to work around bad
912 die handlers.
913
914 4.03 Sun May 25 05:05:57 CEST 2008
915 - work around perl bugs on windows, where perl returns undocumented
916 error codes for sysread, syswrite etc.
917 - fix AnyEvent::Handle::unshift_read to really unshift and not push.
918 - AnyEvent::Handle could sometimes stumble over 0-byte writes.
919 - fix unpack_sockaddr, now works for AF_INET6 sockaddr's.
920 - updated documentation.
921 - lots of workarounds for perl 5.8 quirks.
922 - implement a more flexible type system for both reads and writes
923 in AnyEvent::Handle.
924 - support IPv6 in tcp_server.
925 - pass local hostname and port to the prepare callback in tcp_server.
926 - make types extendable in AnyEvent::Handle.
927 - croak, not die, in AnyEvent::Handle;
928
929 4.0 Sat May 24 19:58:08 CEST 2008
930 - added (experimental) AnyEvent::DNS module.
931 - added (experimental) AnyEvent::Socket module.
932 - added (experiemntal) support for TLS/SSL in AnyEvent::Handle.
933 - make condvar->end call ->send as documented.
934 - make condvar constructor support the documented cb => argument.
935 - overload condvars so you can use them instead of code references.
936 - support more of the POSIX forms instead of a pure dotted quad for
937 verbatim ip addresses.
938 - AnyEvent::Socket::inet_aton will use AnyEvent::DNS now and not fork anymore.
939 - try very hard not to freeze on broken windows perls.
940 - make on_eof optional in AnyEvent::Handle.
941 - support service names in tcp_connect and tcp_server.
942 - work around netbsd/openbsd bug causing unix sockets not to
943 become writable until empty.
944 - only make a dummy read for error detection when getpeername
945 returns ENOTCONN.
946 - defend AnyEvent::Util::inet_aton against Coro::LWP's brutal
947 override.
948 - new AnyEvent::Guard::cancel.
949
950 3.5 Sat May 17 23:17:14 CEST 2008
951 - gracefully deal with systems not defining CLOCK_MONOTONIC
952 (as opposed to not supporting the clock itself, which worked in 3.41).
953 - added AnyEvent::Util::tcp_connect and AnyEvent::Util::tcp_server
954 helpers, to replace the ill-designed AnyEvent::Socket class.
955 - added some examples (eg/connect, eg/handle).
956 - added AnyEvent::Util::guard.
957 - AnyEvent::Util now exports most of its functions.
958 - fixed a bug in *_read_chunk, where the callback was called with $self as
959 first and second argument.
960 - simplified and fixed regex handling in AnyEvent::Handle::*_read_line.
961 - fix manpage condvars examples to use new syntax.
962 - considerably improve inet_aton with EV::ADNS backend to support
963 cname chains (common dns configuration bug, e.g. with www.google.de)
964 and aaaa records if no a record could be found.
965
966 3.41 Sun May 11 19:53:13 CEST 2008
967 - work around a bug in perl 5.8.8's local. Reported by Yi Ma Mao.
968
969 3.4 Sun May 11 00:29:25 CEST 2008
970 - complete re-implementation of condvars with a hopefully much more useful
971 API (backward compatible functions exist but are undocumented).
972 - AnyEvent::Handle fully rewritten with a hopefully more powerful API
973 (still subject to change).
974 - take advantage of CLOCK_MONOTONIC, if available, in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl.
975 - provide AnyEvent::post_detect and @AnyEvent::post_detect, which
976 allows module authors to avoid forcing event loop detection.
977 (used by Coro::AIO, Coro::BDB, Coro::AnyEvent for example).
978 - remove coro backends: Coro now provides generic support for AnyEvent
979 via Coro::AnyEvent.
980
981 3.3 Mon Apr 28 09:51:06 CEST 2008
982 - added AnyEvent::Handle, AnyEvent::Socket and AnyEvent::Util modules.
983 - fix a bug in the pure perl backend that kept watchers alive
984 when multiple watchers were registered for the same fh/poll combo.
985 - add a benchmark section showing AnyEvent overhead and comparing
986 the different event loops with each other.
987 - prefer pure perl over tk when autoprobing, as it's about as fast,
988 but doesn't crash with many watchers.
989 - declare Qt support non-experimental.
990 - clarify the confusing section about the file descriptor being
991 kept alive.
992 - document the race between loading of an event module and
993 child processes exiting.
994 - support POE as "backend" (with some caveats, POE is not generic
995 enough, and darn slow).
996 - support Wx and Prima through POE.
997 - optimise perl backend to use 20% less memory and take advantage
998 of typical timeout behaviour. It can now compete with
999 select/poll-based C event loops in most cases (it is usually
1000 faster than Event and Glib :).
1001 - roughly cut EV memory use in half and increase its speed by 30%,
1002 by removing undocumented functionality. Did something similar
1003 to other event loops where possible.
1004
1005 3.2 Thu Apr 24 10:10:40 CEST 2008
1006 - do not die when anyevent watchers are destroyed while running callbacks
1007 in the pureperl backend (could only happen when two watchers are registered
1008 for the same fh/poll combo).
1009 - support autoloading for child watchers, was broken in all versions.
1010 - implement PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL env variable.
1011 - (experimental) implement interface to the (very crashy/buggy) Event::Lib module.
1012 - (experimental) implement interface to the Qt module (cannot be autoprobed).
1013 - this release is IO:AnyEvent-proof.
1014
1015 3.12 Tue Apr 22 07:11:46 CEST 2008
1016 - reinstate AUTHOR section that got lost somehow.
1017 - do not hang in the testsuite with badly broken perls (activestate,
1018 strawberry...), but instead diagnose the problem and continue.
1019 - use INT instead of CHLD in an attempt to support broken windows perls
1020 better (this decreases the test quality, unfortunately).
1021 - do not send the signal to the process group
1022 (no problem for CHLD, bad for INT :).
1023
1024 3.11 Sat Apr 19 06:57:31 CEST 2008
1025 - major documentation rework.
1026 - document the fact that child watchers only watch for zombies.
1027 - fix the child watcher example.
1028
1029 3.1 Wed Apr 16 17:09:01 CEST 2008
1030 - work around recurring bugs in Tk by dup'ing filehandles, the
1031 only method with good success chances on Tk (the bugs apparently
1032 don't get fixed anytime soon).
1033 - lift the restriction of only one watcher per fh direction
1034 (as the Tk bug workaround also lifts it and only Tk imposed
1035 such strong limits).
1036 - changed probe order to prefer coro adaptors.
1037 - explain why recursion into the event loop is not supported
1038 unless the backend supports it (only Coro::EV does without
1039 any restrictions...).
1040 - add simple manpages for all backend modules.
1041
1042 3.0 Mon Apr 7 21:30:23 CEST 2008
1043 - Coro::Signal changed semantics, roll our own, also cleaning
1044 up the Coro implementation in general.
1045 - rename Coro backend to CoroEvent.
1046 - add some decision helping paragraph to the manpage that should
1047 help people to decide whether AnyEvent is the right thing for them.
1048
1049 2.9 Mon Jan 28 13:31:54 CET 2008
1050 - update for EV 3.0 API changes.
1051
1052 2.8 Sun Nov 25 15:06:03 CET 2007
1053 - waitpid can validly return 0. accept this fact of life
1054 instead of reporting it to any watchers.
1055
1056 2.7 Fri Nov 23 11:41:14 CET 2007
1057 - force use of AnyEvent::Impl::Perl in testsuite, there is
1058 too much breakage outside AnyEvent.
1059 - deliver signals synchronously in AnyEvent::Impl::Perl
1060 or any other event loop that relies on AnyEvents child
1061 watcher emulation. *Could* help with hanging testsuite
1062 (except when Event or EV are installed).
1063
1064 2.6 Fri Nov 9 20:36:35 CET 2007
1065 - fix bug in testsuite.
1066 - move EV adaptor modules to AnyEvent.
1067 - add Coro+EV adaptor module.
1068
1069 2.55 Tue Nov 6 17:41:32 CET 2007
1070 - add EV to the list of supported event models.
1071 - do not auto-reset pid watchers, pass pid and status to them.
1072 - allow a pid of zero to watch for all children in child watchers.
1073
1074 2.54 Wed Jul 18 17:36:23 CEST 2007
1075 - work around a perl bug that results in
1076 BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted without
1077 any discernible reason or error message by once
1078 again not use'ing strict.
1079
1080 2.53 Sun Jul 8 10:51:53 CEST 2007
1081 - make Glib interface work again (spotted by elmex).
1082
1083 2.52 Wed Mar 7 18:36:16 CET 2007
1084 - child watchers stopped working permanently when
1085 all current child watchers were destroyed.
1086
1087 2.51 Mon Dec 11 21:33:24 CET 2006
1088 - work around bugs in perl where eval "require Module" returns
1089 true even if the module couldn't be loaded :/.
1090
1091 2.5 Mon Dec 11 02:15:28 CET 2006
1092 - avoid $AUTOLOAD because many perls corrupt it.
1093 - AnyEvent::detect forces autodetection.
1094 - implement signal watchers (experimental)
1095 (Tk does not support async signals (<= 804.027 at least),
1096 so they might get delayed indefinitely on Tk).
1097 - implement child watchers (experimental).
1098 - moved default condvar implementation into base module, simplifying
1099 most implementation modules.
1100
1101 2.1 Fri Nov 24 15:50:48 CET 2006
1102 - better docs.
1103 - simple testsuite.
1104 - added AnyEvent->one_event method for special purposes.
1105
1106 2.0 Wed Nov 1 02:21:30 CET 2006
1107 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: poll can now either be "r" or "w" but not both.
1108 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: io watcher callbacks have no arguments anymore.
1109 - EXPERIMENTAL:
1110 new pure-perl model added, AnyEvent now always finds a suitable
1111 event model.
1112 - improved documentation.
1113 - reduced cpu overhead.
1114
1115 1.02 Fri Jan 13 14:15:40 CET 2006
1116 - add COPYING to clarify license.
1117
1118 1.01 Sun Jan 8 05:48:09 CET 2006
1119 - correctly cancel Event timers, avoid memory leaks.
1120
1121 1.0 Sun Jan 8 05:40:58 CET 2006
1122 - allow third-party interfaces to be added at runtime.
1123 - fix version number.
1124
1125 0.9 Fri Dec 30 02:25:41 CET 2005
1126 - fixed errors in the documentation.
1127 - going back to using $VERSION as "load check",
1128 as suggested by Jörn Reder. Let's see why I stopped using
1129 this method.
1130 - add 'hup' to the list of events to receive for glib
1131 and generate 'rw' events for it, as some versions of
1132 glib seem to require this, while this breaks other
1133 (older) versions of glib.
1134 - implemented PERL_ANYEVENT_VERBOSE env variable.
1135
1136 0.3 Sun Dec 4 10:43:33 CET 2005
1137 - no changes to the code.
1138 - fixed documentation.
1139 - clarified some corner cases.
1140 - vastly improved documentation with a long example.
1141
1142 0.2 Thu Dec 1 22:18:49 CET 2005
1143 - check whether a valid method was called, to avoid endless loops.
1144 - move condvars into their own class (cleaner, safer).
1145 - don't die when some modules are not available.
1146 - Tk is too broken to allow for words. Will work once Tk works.
1147
1148 0.1 Thu Dec 1 19:44:57 CET 2005
1149 - spiced up and cleaned up for release.
1150
1151 0.01 Tue Sep 21 18:12:09 CEST 2004
1152 - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
1153