--- EV/Changes 2009/07/19 06:35:25 1.179 +++ EV/Changes 2013/10/22 10:43:05 1.219 @@ -1,5 +1,104 @@ Revision history for Perl extension EV +Changes marked with (libev) are changes in libev, and have more +documentation in the libev Changes file. + +TODO: better multiarch detection + + - make sure EV::CHECK is available at all times. + - avoid a spurious warning when perl -w overrides "no warnings". + - use perl's signal implementation on WIN32. + +4.15 Fri Mar 1 12:15:53 CET 2013 + - (libev) upgrade to 4.15 - too many changes to list. + - EV::run now returns a boolean. + - API version 5:1. + - document that cleanup watchers are not available via perl. + - cast I32 to int in error message printf. + - remove dependencies on librt and libpthreads on GNU/Linux. + +4.11 Sat Feb 4 19:56:26 CET 2012 + - (libev) implement memory fences for (obsolete) llvm-gcc. + +4.10 Thu Jan 19 18:54:23 CET 2012 + - (libev) fix a race where the workaround against the epoll fork + bugs caused signals to not be handled anymore. + - (libev) correct backend_fudge for most backends, and implement + a windows specific workaround to avoid looping because we call + both select and Sleep, both with different time resolutions. + - e_new wasn't declared static (causing very minor .so bloat). + - replace more old api names by new ones. + +4.03 Tue Jan 11 14:51:05 CET 2011 + - do not avoid the clock_gettime call on GNU/Linux anymore, as EV + links against -lpthread anyways - as a result, EV might now take + advantage of fast userspace clock_gettime implementations, + but also links against -lrt. + - (libev) lots of event port bug workarounds. + - (libev) officially support files in I/O watchers. + - (libev) new function ev_feed_signal. + - fix documentation parts still refering to the 3.x API. + +4.02 Thu Dec 30 08:27:41 CET 2010 + - the revents argument did not stringify correctly, as only the + numeric value was updated, while the string value was kept from + previous invocations. + +4.01 Sun Dec 5 12:42:13 CET 2010 + - fully support EV_COMPAT3=0. + - default_fork was stupidly defined as inline. + - ask cpan to upgrade AnyEvent if < 5.29. + - support EV_EXTRA_DEFS during configuration. + - support -DEV_NO_LOOPS for snakker build. + +4.00 Mon Oct 25 13:30:09 CEST 2010 + - many API changes, see the manual. + - (libev) lots and lots of bugfixes, see the ev documentation. + - fix a bug where inotify usage would parse the same event + multiple times, causing various forms of breakage. + - greatly reduce stack usage for inotify (8kb to <0.5kb). + - expose ev_depth and ev_verify via the XS API. + - implement ev_cleanup watchers. + - (libev) ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher. + - (libev) disable poll backend on AIX. + - (libev) rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER. + - (libev) add section on accept() problems to the manpage. + - (libev) no child watchers on win32. + - make code more aliasing compliant, in case perl is ever + translated to C. + - document the EV::CHECK runtime unavailability. + - ported to minix 3.1.7. + +3.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009 + - disable t/07* under automatic testing. + - increase t/09* timeouts as netbsd has *horribly* broken + select/kevent that *usually* sleep >>0.6s instead of 0.3. + - add constants EV::FLAG_NOSIGFD, EV::FLAG_NOINOTIFY and + EV::BACKEND_ALL. + - (libev) signalfd is no longer used by default. + - (libev) backport inotify code to C89. + - (libev) inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes. + - (libev) ev_stat watchers could keep an errornous extra ref on the loop. + - (libev) take advantage of inotify_init1, if available. + - (libev) the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows. + - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for signalfd. + - (libev) only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference. + +3.8 Sun Aug 9 15:30:10 CEST 2009 + - implement $loop->signal/signal_ns. + - (libev) incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal + handler to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped. + - (libev) ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some + members, potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on + repated ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls. + - (libev) take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems. + - (libev) document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified + state when using libev's signal handling. + - (libev) take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set + cloexec/nonblock on fd creation, to avoid race conditions. + - implement internal glue code to interface more efficiently + with AnyEvent. + 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:49:16 CEST 2009 - add EV::loop_verify and EV::loop_depth. - use output filehandle for i/o watchers waiting