--- EV/Changes 2009/07/14 20:34:58 1.175 +++ EV/Changes 2010/07/08 00:45:03 1.192 @@ -1,15 +1,77 @@ Revision history for Perl extension EV -3.7 -TODO: libev changes etc. etc. +Changes marked with (libev) are changes in libev, and have more +documentation in the libev Changes file. + +4.00 + - 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). + - renamed loop_verify to verify, loop_count to iteration and + loop_depth to depth. + - expose ev_depth and ev_verify via the XS API. + - (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. + - 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 for EV_WRITE, otherwise input filehandle. - use common schmorp.h header. + - add EV::Timer->remaining. - allow for subclassing of EV::Loop (see the exciting EV::Loop::Async module for an example). - added EV::invoke_pending and EV::pending_count. + - (libev) ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to + exit loops, instead of using a per-loop variable. + - (libev) the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed. + - add new functionality: EV::invoke_pending, EV::pending_count. + - add $timer->remaining. + - add EV::loop_depth. + - (libev) calling unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll + for new events. + - (libev) use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, + for slightly higher accuracy. + - (libev) actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing + signals. + 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:50:37 CEST 2009 - keepalive(0) could decrease the refcount of the loop permanently.