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1Revision history for Perl extension EV 1Revision history for Perl extension EV
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31.8 3Changes marked with (libev) are changes in libev, and have more
4documentation in the libev Changes file.
5
64.00 Mon Oct 25 13:30:09 CEST 2010
7 - many API changes, see the manual.
8 - (libev) lots and lots of bugfixes, see the ev documentation.
9 - fix a bug where inotify usage would parse the same event
10 multiple times, causing various forms of breakage.
11 - greatly reduce stack usage for inotify (8kb to <0.5kb).
12 - expose ev_depth and ev_verify via the XS API.
13 - implement ev_cleanup watchers.
14 - (libev) ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher.
15 - (libev) disable poll backend on AIX.
16 - (libev) rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
17 - (libev) add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
18 - (libev) no child watchers on win32.
19 - make code more aliasing compliant, in case perl is ever
20 translated to C.
21 - document the EV::CHECK runtime unavailability.
22 - ported to minix 3.1.7.
23
243.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
25 - disable t/07* under automatic testing.
26 - increase t/09* timeouts as netbsd has *horribly* broken
27 select/kevent that *usually* sleep >>0.6s instead of 0.3.
28 - add constants EV::FLAG_NOSIGFD, EV::FLAG_NOINOTIFY and
29 EV::BACKEND_ALL.
30 - (libev) signalfd is no longer used by default.
31 - (libev) backport inotify code to C89.
32 - (libev) inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
33 - (libev) ev_stat watchers could keep an errornous extra ref on the loop.
34 - (libev) take advantage of inotify_init1, if available.
35 - (libev) the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows.
36 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for signalfd.
37 - (libev) only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference.
38
393.8 Sun Aug 9 15:30:10 CEST 2009
40 - implement $loop->signal/signal_ns.
41 - (libev) incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal
42 handler to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
43 - (libev) ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some
44 members, potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on
45 repated ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
46 - (libev) take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
47 - (libev) document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
48 state when using libev's signal handling.
49 - (libev) take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set
50 cloexec/nonblock on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
51 - implement internal glue code to interface more efficiently
52 with AnyEvent.
53
543.7 Fri Jul 17 16:49:16 CEST 2009
55 - add EV::loop_verify and EV::loop_depth.
56 - use output filehandle for i/o watchers waiting
57 for EV_WRITE, otherwise input filehandle.
58 - use common schmorp.h header.
59 - add EV::Timer->remaining.
60 - allow for subclassing of EV::Loop (see the exciting
61 EV::Loop::Async module for an example).
62 - added EV::invoke_pending and EV::pending_count.
63
64 - (libev) ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to
65 exit loops, instead of using a per-loop variable.
66 - (libev) the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
67 - add new functionality: EV::invoke_pending, EV::pending_count.
68 - add $timer->remaining.
69 - add EV::loop_depth.
70 - (libev) calling unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
71 for new events.
72 - (libev) use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows,
73 for slightly higher accuracy.
74 - (libev) actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing
75 signals.
76
773.6 Tue Apr 28 02:50:37 CEST 2009
78 - keepalive(0) could decrease the refcount of the loop
79 permanently.
80 - add ev_suspend/ev_resume, also make ev_now_update
81 accessible via the XS API.
82 - most EV::<eventtype> constants were missing and have been
83 added :/.
84 - add EV::VERSION_MAJOR/VERSION_MINOR constants.
85 - (libev) multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop
86 iteration will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
87 - (libev) do not leave the event loop early just because we have
88 no active watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue
89 loop that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
90 (reported by blacksand blacksand).
91 - (libev) correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying
92 and reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
93 Malek Hadj-Ali).
94 - (libev) new EV::CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
95 - (libev) add documentation section about priorites.
96 - (libev) add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
97 - (libev) extend the ev_fork description slightly.
98 - (libev) optimize a jump out of call_pending.
99 - t/03_keepalive could fail when there was no actual error.
100
1013.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
102 - (libev) on win32, the event loop creation could randomly fail
103 due to an initialised variable having the wrong value.
104 - (libev) probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and
105 fall back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
106 operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
107 - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime by default.
108
1093.52 Wed Jan 7 21:46:14 CET 2009
110 - (libev) fix some issues in the select backend when in fd_set mode.
111 - (libev) due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
112 select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
113 allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
114 - (libev) actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
115 libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
116 attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
117 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
118 should return fantasy port numbers.
119
1203.51 Wed Dec 24 23:01:59 CET 2008
121 - do not cache the arguments passed to callbacks if the refcount
122 indicates that the callback has stolen them.
123 - (libev) try to avoid librt on GNU/Linux.
124 - (libev) check port_getn return value dfferently, might potentially
125 avoid problems.
126 - (libev) fix a bug with stat watchers possibly causing freezes.
127 - (libev) work around OS X 10.5 breaking poll, now select is the
128 only viable choice left on that pile of garbage.
129 - play tester whore: disable some tests that typically fail only
130 on cpan tester machines.
131
1323.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
133 - fix typos in manpage (Alex Efros).
134 - increase timing even further, for the ever-overloaded cpan-tester
135 machines, and to the detriment of everybody else who wants a fast
136 make test.
137 - possible 5.6 compatibility.
138 - (libev) use inotify even on buggy kernels, but don't rely on it.
139 - (libev) use inotify only as an added hint on network filesystems.
140
1413.48 Thu Oct 30 09:09:48 CET 2008
142 - (libev) use a generation counter to detect spurious epoll events
143 and recreate the kernel in such a case (sorry, it's slow, but
144 I didn't design epoll...).
145 - (libev) optimise away an EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
146 backend in some cases.
147 - (libev) use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away
148 with the init functions.
149 - speed up event callback invocation further (~15%), by
150 not creating the object reference each time.
151 - EV::sleep was documented, but not implemented. fun.
152
1533.45 Tue Oct 21 22:20:39 CEST 2008
154 - (libev) disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25 (kernel bug).
155 - (libev) ev_embed will now automatically follow fork.
156 - (libev) ev_once will now pass both io and timeout events to
157 the callback when both happen concurrently, instead of giving
158 one precedence.
159 - install C library documentation as EV::libev manpage (sorry, oesi).
160 - (libev) fix a minor performance bug in ev_stat handling.
161
1623.44 Mon Sep 29 05:16:31 CEST 2008
163 - (libev) add EV::now_update and $loop->now_update.
164
1653.431 Sun Jul 13 00:19:02 CEST 2008
166 - made the EV::embed callback optional again. reported by
167 Vladimir Timofeev.
168
1693.43 Tue Jul 8 20:56:31 CEST 2008
170 - disabled warnings in EV.pm, the CHECK issue is now understood
171 and harmless.
172
1733.42 Mon May 26 07:36:46 CEST 2008
174 - (libev) work around another bug in windows perls and
175 windows itself: failed connects do NOT set read or write
176 flags in select, but this version of libev will.
177
1783.41 Thu May 22 01:39:40 CEST 2008
179 - (libev) fix many heap-related bugs (timers, periodics).
180 - (libev) improve timing stability of timers and periodics.
181 - expose ev_loop_verify to perl code.
182 - clarify documentation for periodic reschedule callbacks.
183 - verify that the passed callback argument is indeed a code
184 reference, for earlier error reporting and a nice calling
185 speed increase (as well as saving memory).
186
1873.4 Tue May 20 21:51:55 CEST 2008
188 - (libev) work around both a windows bug and a bug in perl's
189 select on windows when not waiting for any file descriptors.
190 - bundle ev.pod into the tarball, just to increase its size
191 (and for the poor internetless person).
192
1933.33 Sun May 18 12:43:04 CEST 2008
194 - (libev) use numerous enhancements such as a more
195 cache-friendly 4-heap and heap index caching for timers.
196 - remove undocumented ev_timer->at accessor.
197
1983.31 Wed Apr 16 20:48:59 CEST 2008
199 - (libev) post-last-minute fix for ev_poll.c problem.
200
2013.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:47 CEST 2008
202 - (libev) linux eventfd support.
203 - (libev) inline more with C99 compilers.
204 - (libev) work around a number of bugs in valgrind.
205 - (libev) work around broken realloc on openbsd and darwin.
206 - added example to EV::MakeMaker manpage.
207 - add async_pending method.
208
2093.2 Wed Apr 2 17:08:16 CEST 2008
210 - "ported" again to the Microsoft "C" language.
211 - relax testsuite timing for the benefit of freebsd users once more.
212 - fix EVAPI's ev_time and ev_sleep macros.
213 - (libev) fix select backend on 64 bit architetcures.
214 - (libev) ev_loop flags are now local to each invocation.
215
2163.1 Sat Mar 8 11:41:14 CET 2008
217 - add ev_sync_* and ev_fork_* to EVAPI.h.
218 - provide EV::Embed->sweep method.
219 - new watcher type: async (not very useful in perl).
220
2213.0 Mon Jan 28 13:23:11 CET 2008
222 - upgrade to libev-3.0.
223 - change child handler to incorporate tracing flag.
224
2252.01 Mon Dec 31 01:59:19 CET 2007
226 - found a minor problem in the testsuite that is only
227 caught by new Test::Harness versions (reported by Andreas
228 König).
229
2302.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
231 - no longer force kqueue when enabled, enable it
232 on more systems (as its now by default not used on most).
233 - expose fork watchers.
234 - switch to libev's MULTIPLICITY API.
235 - use a slightly different include file name strategy.
236 - get rid of (unused) libevent emulation.
237 - 5% watcher management speedup due to callback optimisation
238 when inline closures are used, 5% slowdown due to multiplicity.
239 - very minimal support for dynamic event loops and embed watchers.
240 - fix name of prepare start/stop methods.
241 - create and export EV::sleep and EV::set_*_collect_interval.
242 - fix typos in manpage (Alex Efros).
243
2441.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
245 - add periodic->at methods.
246
2471.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
248 - further optimise epoll backend by adding a heuristic that
249 avoids EPOLL_CTL_DEL calls if possible.
250 - EV::signal->start was not async-signal safe.
251 - optimise start/stop when the fd hasn't changed.
252
2531.8 Tue Dec 11 22:17:46 CET 2007
4 - API version 3:0. 254 - API version 3:0.
5 - reduced fudge factor to zero for select, poll, epoll 255 - reduced fudge factor to zero for select, poll, epoll
6 and kqueue: your system better be posix-compliant 256 and kqueue: your system better be posix-compliant
7 even in its extensions :-> 257 even in its extensions :->
8 - improve long-term numerical stability in periodic watchers 258 - improve long-term numerical stability in periodic watchers
97 - move AnyEvent adaptor into the AnyEvent module. 347 - move AnyEvent adaptor into the AnyEvent module.
98 - use private copy of evdns.[ch]. 348 - use private copy of evdns.[ch].
99 - many minor fixes. 349 - many minor fixes.
100 350
1010.6 Thu Nov 8 18:23:43 CET 2007 3510.6 Thu Nov 8 18:23:43 CET 2007
102 - better native win32 support (not relevant for perl usually). 352 - (libev) better native win32 support.
103 - fix idle watchers. 353 - fix idle watchers.
104 - implement and document periodic reschedule callbacks. 354 - implement and document periodic reschedule callbacks.
105 - do not run dns test on !linux platforms (actually to exclude win32). 355 - do not run dns test on !linux platforms (actually to exclude win32).
106 - fix (unused in EV :) poll backend. 356 - fix (unused in EV :) poll backend.
107 357

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