--- EV/Changes 2008/04/16 17:08:29 1.128 +++ EV/Changes 2009/02/15 01:44:40 1.166 @@ -1,4 +1,104 @@ -Revision history for Perl extension EV and the embedded libev library +Revision history for Perl extension EV + +3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009 + - (libev) on win32, the event loop creation could randomly fail + due to an initialised variable having the wrong value. + - (libev) probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and + fall back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older + operating systems with newer header files/libraries. + - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime by default. + +3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:46:14 CET 2009 + - (libev) fix some issues in the select backend when in fd_set mode. + - (libev) due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but + select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was + allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta). + - (libev) actually verify that local and remote port are matching in + libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service + attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure + it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname + should return fantasy port numbers. + +3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:01:59 CET 2008 + - do not cache the arguments passed to callbacks if the refcount + indicates that the callback has stolen them. + - (libev) try to avoid librt on GNU/Linux. + - (libev) check port_getn return value dfferently, might potentially + avoid problems. + - (libev) fix a bug with stat watchers possibly causing freezes. + - (libev) work around OS X 10.5 breaking poll, now select is the + only viable choice left on that pile of garbage. + - play tester whore: disable some tests that typically fail only + on cpan tester machines. + +3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008 + - fix typos in manpage (Alex Efros). + - increase timing even further, for the ever-overloaded cpan-tester + machines, and to the detriment of everybody else who wants a fast + make test. + - possible 5.6 compatibility. + - (libev) use inotify even on buggy kernels, but don't rely on it. + - (libev) use inotify only as an added hint on network filesystems. + +3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:09:48 CET 2008 + - (libev) use a generation counter to detect spurious epoll events + and recreate the kernel in such a case (sorry, it's slow, but + I didn't design epoll...). + - (libev) optimise away an EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll + backend in some cases. + - (libev) use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away + with the init functions. + - speed up event callback invocation further (~15%), by + not creating the object reference each time. + - EV::sleep was documented, but not implemented. fun. + +3.45 Tue Oct 21 22:20:39 CEST 2008 + - (libev) disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25 (kernel bug). + - (libev) ev_embed will now automatically follow fork. + - (libev) ev_once will now pass both io and timeout events to + the callback when both happen concurrently, instead of giving + one precedence. + - install C library documentation as EV::libev manpage (sorry, oesi). + - (libev) fix a minor performance bug in ev_stat handling. + +3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:16:31 CEST 2008 + - (libev) add EV::now_update and $loop->now_update. + +3.431 Sun Jul 13 00:19:02 CEST 2008 + - made the EV::embed callback optional again. reported by + Vladimir Timofeev. + +3.43 Tue Jul 8 20:56:31 CEST 2008 + - disabled warnings in EV.pm, the CHECK issue is now understood + and harmless. + +3.42 Mon May 26 07:36:46 CEST 2008 + - (libev) work around another bug in windows perls and + windows itself: failed connects do NOT set read or write + flags in select, but this version of libev will. + +3.41 Thu May 22 01:39:40 CEST 2008 + - (libev) fix many heap-related bugs (timers, periodics). + - (libev) improve timing stability of timers and periodics. + - expose ev_loop_verify to perl code. + - clarify documentation for periodic reschedule callbacks. + - verify that the passed callback argument is indeed a code + reference, for earlier error reporting and a nice calling + speed increase (as well as saving memory). + +3.4 Tue May 20 21:51:55 CEST 2008 + - (libev) work around both a windows bug and a bug in perl's + select on windows when not waiting for any file descriptors. + - bundle ev.pod into the tarball, just to increase its size + (and for the poor internetless person). + +3.33 Sun May 18 12:43:04 CEST 2008 + - (libev) use numerous enhancements such as a more + cache-friendly 4-heap and heap index caching for timers. + - remove undocumented ev_timer->at accessor. + +3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:48:59 CEST 2008 + - (libev) post-last-minute fix for ev_poll.c problem. 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:47 CEST 2008 - (libev) linux eventfd support.