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1 root 1.143 Revision history for Perl extension EV
2 root 1.1
3 root 1.185 Changes marked with (libev) are changes in libev, and have more
4     documentation in the libev Changes file.
5    
6 root 1.187 - fix a bug where inotify usage would parse the same event
7     multiple times, causing various forms of breakage.
8     - greatly reduce stack usage for inotify (8kb to <0.5kb).
9    
10 root 1.186 3.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
11 root 1.182 - disable t/07* under automatic testing.
12 root 1.183 - increase t/09* timeouts as netbsd has *horribly* broken
13     select/kevent that *usually* sleep >>0.6s instead of 0.3.
14 root 1.184 - add constants EV::FLAG_NOSIGFD, EV::FLAG_NOINOTIFY and
15     EV::BACKEND_ALL.
16 root 1.185 - (libev) signalfd is no longer used by default.
17     - (libev) backport inotify code to C89.
18     - (libev) inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
19     - (libev) ev_stat watchers could keep an errornous extra ref on the loop.
20     - (libev) take advantage of inotify_init1, if available.
21     - (libev) the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows.
22     - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for signalfd.
23     - (libev) only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference.
24 root 1.182
25 root 1.181 3.8 Sun Aug 9 15:30:10 CEST 2009
26 root 1.180 - implement $loop->signal/signal_ns.
27 root 1.181 - (libev) incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal
28     handler to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
29     - (libev) ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some
30     members, potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on
31     repated ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
32     - (libev) take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
33     - (libev) document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
34     state when using libev's signal handling.
35     - (libev) take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set
36     cloexec/nonblock on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
37     - implement internal glue code to interface more efficiently
38     with AnyEvent.
39 root 1.180
40 root 1.177 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:49:16 CEST 2009
41 root 1.171 - add EV::loop_verify and EV::loop_depth.
42 root 1.172 - use output filehandle for i/o watchers waiting
43     for EV_WRITE, otherwise input filehandle.
44     - use common schmorp.h header.
45 root 1.176 - add EV::Timer->remaining.
46 root 1.175 - allow for subclassing of EV::Loop (see the exciting
47     EV::Loop::Async module for an example).
48     - added EV::invoke_pending and EV::pending_count.
49 root 1.171
50 root 1.177 - (libev) ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to
51     exit loops, instead of using a per-loop variable.
52     - (libev) the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
53     - add new functionality: EV::invoke_pending, EV::pending_count.
54     - add $timer->remaining.
55     - add EV::loop_depth.
56     - (libev) calling unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
57     for new events.
58     - (libev) use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows,
59     for slightly higher accuracy.
60     - (libev) actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing
61     signals.
62    
63 root 1.170 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:50:37 CEST 2009
64 root 1.167 - keepalive(0) could decrease the refcount of the loop
65     permanently.
66 root 1.168 - add ev_suspend/ev_resume, also make ev_now_update
67     accessible via the XS API.
68 root 1.169 - most EV::<eventtype> constants were missing and have been
69     added :/.
70     - add EV::VERSION_MAJOR/VERSION_MINOR constants.
71     - (libev) multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop
72     iteration will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
73     - (libev) do not leave the event loop early just because we have
74     no active watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue
75     loop that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
76     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
77     - (libev) correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying
78     and reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
79     Malek Hadj-Ali).
80     - (libev) new EV::CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
81     - (libev) add documentation section about priorites.
82     - (libev) add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
83     - (libev) extend the ev_fork description slightly.
84     - (libev) optimize a jump out of call_pending.
85     - t/03_keepalive could fail when there was no actual error.
86 root 1.167
87 root 1.166 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
88     - (libev) on win32, the event loop creation could randomly fail
89     due to an initialised variable having the wrong value.
90 root 1.165 - (libev) probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and
91     fall back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
92     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
93     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime by default.
94    
95 root 1.164 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:46:14 CET 2009
96 root 1.163 - (libev) fix some issues in the select backend when in fd_set mode.
97     - (libev) due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
98     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
99     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
100     - (libev) actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
101     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
102     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
103     it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
104     should return fantasy port numbers.
105    
106 root 1.162 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:01:59 CET 2008
107 root 1.161 - do not cache the arguments passed to callbacks if the refcount
108     indicates that the callback has stolen them.
109 root 1.159 - (libev) try to avoid librt on GNU/Linux.
110 root 1.160 - (libev) check port_getn return value dfferently, might potentially
111     avoid problems.
112 root 1.162 - (libev) fix a bug with stat watchers possibly causing freezes.
113     - (libev) work around OS X 10.5 breaking poll, now select is the
114     only viable choice left on that pile of garbage.
115 root 1.161 - play tester whore: disable some tests that typically fail only
116     on cpan tester machines.
117 root 1.159
118 root 1.158 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
119 root 1.155 - fix typos in manpage (Alex Efros).
120 root 1.156 - increase timing even further, for the ever-overloaded cpan-tester
121     machines, and to the detriment of everybody else who wants a fast
122     make test.
123 root 1.157 - possible 5.6 compatibility.
124 root 1.158 - (libev) use inotify even on buggy kernels, but don't rely on it.
125     - (libev) use inotify only as an added hint on network filesystems.
126 root 1.155
127 root 1.154 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:09:48 CET 2008
128 root 1.152 - (libev) use a generation counter to detect spurious epoll events
129 root 1.151 and recreate the kernel in such a case (sorry, it's slow, but
130     I didn't design epoll...).
131 root 1.150 - (libev) optimise away an EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
132     backend in some cases.
133     - (libev) use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away
134     with the init functions.
135 root 1.152 - speed up event callback invocation further (~15%), by
136 root 1.151 not creating the object reference each time.
137 root 1.153 - EV::sleep was documented, but not implemented. fun.
138 root 1.150
139     3.45 Tue Oct 21 22:20:39 CEST 2008
140     - (libev) disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25 (kernel bug).
141 root 1.146 - (libev) ev_embed will now automatically follow fork.
142     - (libev) ev_once will now pass both io and timeout events to
143     the callback when both happen concurrently, instead of giving
144     one precedence.
145 root 1.149 - install C library documentation as EV::libev manpage (sorry, oesi).
146 root 1.150 - (libev) fix a minor performance bug in ev_stat handling.
147 root 1.146
148 root 1.145 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:16:31 CEST 2008
149 root 1.144 - (libev) add EV::now_update and $loop->now_update.
150    
151 root 1.142 3.431 Sun Jul 13 00:19:02 CEST 2008
152     - made the EV::embed callback optional again. reported by
153     Vladimir Timofeev.
154    
155 root 1.141 3.43 Tue Jul 8 20:56:31 CEST 2008
156 root 1.140 - disabled warnings in EV.pm, the CHECK issue is now understood
157     and harmless.
158    
159 root 1.139 3.42 Mon May 26 07:36:46 CEST 2008
160 root 1.138 - (libev) work around another bug in windows perls and
161     windows itself: failed connects do NOT set read or write
162     flags in select, but this version of libev will.
163    
164 root 1.136 3.41 Thu May 22 01:39:40 CEST 2008
165 root 1.135 - (libev) fix many heap-related bugs (timers, periodics).
166 root 1.134 - (libev) improve timing stability of timers and periodics.
167 root 1.137 - expose ev_loop_verify to perl code.
168 root 1.134 - clarify documentation for periodic reschedule callbacks.
169     - verify that the passed callback argument is indeed a code
170     reference, for earlier error reporting and a nice calling
171     speed increase (as well as saving memory).
172    
173 root 1.133 3.4 Tue May 20 21:51:55 CEST 2008
174 root 1.132 - (libev) work around both a windows bug and a bug in perl's
175     select on windows when not waiting for any file descriptors.
176 root 1.131 - bundle ev.pod into the tarball, just to increase its size
177     (and for the poor internetless person).
178    
179 root 1.130 3.33 Sun May 18 12:43:04 CEST 2008
180     - (libev) use numerous enhancements such as a more
181     cache-friendly 4-heap and heap index caching for timers.
182     - remove undocumented ev_timer->at accessor.
183    
184 root 1.129 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:48:59 CEST 2008
185     - (libev) post-last-minute fix for ev_poll.c problem.
186    
187 root 1.128 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:47 CEST 2008
188 root 1.125 - (libev) linux eventfd support.
189 root 1.128 - (libev) inline more with C99 compilers.
190     - (libev) work around a number of bugs in valgrind.
191     - (libev) work around broken realloc on openbsd and darwin.
192 root 1.126 - added example to EV::MakeMaker manpage.
193 root 1.127 - add async_pending method.
194 root 1.125
195 root 1.123 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:08:16 CEST 2008
196 root 1.117 - "ported" again to the Microsoft "C" language.
197 root 1.124 - relax testsuite timing for the benefit of freebsd users once more.
198 root 1.121 - fix EVAPI's ev_time and ev_sleep macros.
199 root 1.120 - (libev) fix select backend on 64 bit architetcures.
200 root 1.122 - (libev) ev_loop flags are now local to each invocation.
201 root 1.117
202 root 1.116 3.1 Sat Mar 8 11:41:14 CET 2008
203 root 1.113 - add ev_sync_* and ev_fork_* to EVAPI.h.
204 root 1.115 - provide EV::Embed->sweep method.
205     - new watcher type: async (not very useful in perl).
206 root 1.113
207 root 1.112 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:23:11 CET 2008
208     - upgrade to libev-3.0.
209 root 1.111 - change child handler to incorporate tracing flag.
210    
211 root 1.110 2.01 Mon Dec 31 01:59:19 CET 2007
212     - found a minor problem in the testsuite that is only
213     caught by new Test::Harness versions (reported by Andreas
214     König).
215    
216 root 1.107 2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
217 root 1.100 - no longer force kqueue when enabled, enable it
218     on more systems (as its now by default not used on most).
219 root 1.95 - expose fork watchers.
220     - switch to libev's MULTIPLICITY API.
221 root 1.96 - use a slightly different include file name strategy.
222     - get rid of (unused) libevent emulation.
223 root 1.97 - 5% watcher management speedup due to callback optimisation
224     when inline closures are used, 5% slowdown due to multiplicity.
225 root 1.98 - very minimal support for dynamic event loops and embed watchers.
226 root 1.103 - fix name of prepare start/stop methods.
227 root 1.105 - create and export EV::sleep and EV::set_*_collect_interval.
228 root 1.106 - fix typos in manpage (Alex Efros).
229 root 1.95
230 root 1.94 1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
231 root 1.93 - add periodic->at methods.
232 root 1.92
233 root 1.91 1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
234 root 1.90 - further optimise epoll backend by adding a heuristic that
235     avoids EPOLL_CTL_DEL calls if possible.
236 root 1.87 - EV::signal->start was not async-signal safe.
237 root 1.89 - optimise start/stop when the fd hasn't changed.
238 root 1.87
239 root 1.86 1.8 Tue Dec 11 22:17:46 CET 2007
240 root 1.83 - API version 3:0.
241 root 1.81 - reduced fudge factor to zero for select, poll, epoll
242     and kqueue: your system better be posix-compliant
243     even in its extensions :->
244 root 1.82 - improve long-term numerical stability in periodic watchers
245     by introducing a separate offset value instead of reusing at.
246 root 1.84 - recalculate real/monotonic clocks before blocking fully
247     to avoid blocking for longer than necessary.
248 root 1.85 - fix bugs in the heap functions. this rarely lead to illegal
249     heap orderings.
250 root 1.81
251 root 1.80 1.72 Sat Dec 8 15:31:26 CET 2007
252 root 1.77 - add dummy loop arguments to some EVAPI functions
253     so that clients can use EV_A and EV_DEFAULT.
254 root 1.78 - expose ev_clear_pending.
255 root 1.79 - renamed trigger to invoke.
256 root 1.77
257 root 1.76 1.71 Fri Dec 7 19:10:24 CET 2007
258 root 1.75 - changed/implemented idle watcher priority.
259     - allow out-of-range priorities to be set.
260     - fix ->priority to actually work on started watchers.
261     - improved testsuite.
262    
263 root 1.74 1.6 Wed Dec 5 15:06:20 CET 2007
264 root 1.70 - add a missing SPAGAIN.
265 root 1.71 - ripped out EV::DNS, use EV::ADNS for a better backend.
266     - make ev_time callable from EVAPI.h.
267 root 1.72 - add EV::loop_count.
268 root 1.73 - some space optimisations.
269 root 1.70
270 root 1.69 1.5 Wed Nov 28 20:19:09 CET 2007
271 root 1.67 - add inotify backend.
272 root 1.69 - make testsuite even less sensible to timing issues,
273     add more stat tests.
274 root 1.68 - add ->attr, ->prev, ->stat calls to stat watcher.
275 root 1.67
276 root 1.66 1.4 Tue Nov 27 17:35:27 CET 2007
277 root 1.64 - work around a linux 2.4 kernel bug in child handlers.
278     - implement stat watcher interface.
279 root 1.65 - implement fork watcher interface.
280 root 1.64 - io->set did not keep the fh alive.
281     - actively check signal numbers/names to be valid.
282     - cleanups, minor fixes, new bugs.
283 root 1.66 - work around windows bugs in the testsuite.
284 root 1.64
285 root 1.63 1.3 Sun Nov 25 10:46:57 CET 2007
286     - stopping idle/check/prepare watchers could cause data corruption.
287 root 1.58 - implement and document EV::once.
288 root 1.57 - improved documentation, verify that netbsd indeed has the only
289     working kqueue implementation (out of darwin, freebsd, netbsd and
290     openbsd). Praise them!
291 root 1.62 - fix the data method so it might work.
292 root 1.59 - expose ev_ref/ev_unref to the C API.
293 root 1.61 - expose ref/unref in form of the ->keepalive method to perl.
294 root 1.58 - minor bugfixes and portability fixes.
295 root 1.57
296 root 1.56 1.2 Thu Nov 22 05:44:09 CET 2007
297     - disable kqueue by default on !netbsd, as its broken on freebsd,
298     darwin and openbsd and thus almost everywhere.
299     - add some allowance in t/01_timer.t for the uneven monotonic
300     vs. realtime clock tick on at least freebsd.
301     - add -lsocket -lnsl on solaris in case the perl guy forgot to
302     configure them.
303    
304 root 1.55 1.1 Wed Nov 21 06:08:48 CET 2007
305 root 1.53 - improved timer test to include periodics and
306     withstand small timing variations.
307 root 1.54 - many minor tweaks to libev.
308 root 1.53
309 root 1.52 1.0 Fri Nov 16 14:51:59 CET 2007
310 root 1.50 - require AnyEvent update if AnyEvent is installed.
311 root 1.51 - add solaris 10 port-based backend.
312     - add child_ns and fix check_ns.
313 root 1.52 - treat yes/no as enforcement, not as hint, when configuring,
314     documentation update (reported by Andy Grundman).
315 root 1.50
316 root 1.49 0.9 Wed Nov 14 22:24:49 CET 2007
317 root 1.45 - changed LIBEV_METHODS to LIBEV_FLAGS and the
318     way this is used inside libev.
319 root 1.46 - many, many bugfixes.
320     - add unloop constants.
321 root 1.47 - add timer test.
322 root 1.48 - ev_loop will now terminate immediately when no watchers are active.
323 root 1.45
324 root 1.44 0.8 Mon Nov 12 02:28:46 CET 2007
325 root 1.41 - fix "testsuite" again :().
326     - fix check/idle/prepare/child watcher stop.
327 root 1.42 - enourmously many fixes.
328     - rewritten select backend (mostly for win32).
329     - cache socket handles on win32.
330 root 1.43 - provide considerably finer control over configuration.
331 root 1.41
332 root 1.40 0.7 Fri Nov 9 20:37:58 CET 2007
333 root 1.39 - move AnyEvent adaptor into the AnyEvent module.
334 root 1.41 - use private copy of evdns.[ch].
335 root 1.39 - many minor fixes.
336    
337 root 1.38 0.6 Thu Nov 8 18:23:43 CET 2007
338 root 1.95 - (libev) better native win32 support.
339 root 1.35 - fix idle watchers.
340 root 1.37 - implement and document periodic reschedule callbacks.
341     - do not run dns test on !linux platforms (actually to exclude win32).
342 root 1.38 - fix (unused in EV :) poll backend.
343 root 1.34
344 root 1.33 0.51 Tue Nov 6 19:50:22 CET 2007
345 root 1.32 - fix kqueue/poll compilation issue.
346 root 1.33 - work around design issues in kqueue.
347 root 1.32 - enable kqueue by default, seems to work.
348    
349 root 1.31 0.5 Tue Nov 6 17:37:44 CET 2007
350 root 1.23 - add signal and pid mutators.
351 root 1.27 - add rstatus/rpid accessors.
352 root 1.24 - updated libev (lower cost for clock monotonic).
353 root 1.25 - support event priorities.
354 root 1.26 - try to find SIG_SIZE on perls that don't have it (Slaven Rezic).
355 root 1.28 - improved signal handling, fixed child watchers.
356 root 1.29 - experimentally add kqueue backend, completely untested.
357 root 1.30 - ported to cygwin and native win32.
358 root 1.23
359 root 1.22 0.1 Thu Nov 1 18:29:22 CET 2007
360 root 1.18 - replaced libevent by libev (total rewrite).
361     - many bugfixes w.r.t. libevent.
362     - new watcher types: periodic, check, prepare, child, idle.
363 root 1.16 - performance optimisations.
364 root 1.19 - added interactive configuration.
365 root 1.21 - added fork support.
366 root 1.16
367 root 1.14 0.03 Mon Oct 29 20:52:50 CET 2007
368 root 1.9 - add timed_io convenience constructors.
369     - improve documentation.
370 root 1.8 - support signal names in addition to signal numbers.
371 root 1.9 - support signal anyevent watchers.
372 root 1.10 - vastly improved testsuite (its all relative :).
373 root 1.11 - add EV::MakeMaker, beginning of C-level API.
374 root 1.12 - force strings to byte form.
375 root 1.6
376 root 1.5 0.02 Sun Oct 28 07:40:21 CET 2007
377 root 1.15 - call $EV::DIED in case a callback throws an exception.
378 root 1.4 - add const char * to typemap for possible 5.6 compatibility.
379 root 1.3
380     0.01 Sat Oct 27 19:10:18 CEST 2007
381     - initial release.
382    
383     0.00 Fri Oct 26 11:12:57 CEST 2007
384 root 1.1 - original version; cloned from JSON::XS
385