--- EV/Changes 2013/04/03 23:46:45 1.216 +++ EV/Changes 2019/12/20 21:02:34 1.244 @@ -1,10 +1,107 @@ Revision history for Perl extension EV -Changes marked with (libev) are changes in libev, and have more +Changes marked with (libev) are changes in libev, and might have more documentation in the libev Changes file. +4.31 Fri Dec 20 21:57:00 CET 2019 + - (libev) handle backends with minimum wait time a bit better by + not waiting in the presence of already-expired timers + (behaviour reported by Felipe Gasper). + - (libev) use timerfd to detect timejumps. + - (libev) new loop flag: EVFLAG_NOTIMERFD. + +4.30 Fri Nov 22 21:00:00 CET 2019 + - (libev) use a different and hopefully even more portable + test to disable io_uring when header files are too old, + by directly testing LINUX_VERSION_CODE. + - (libev) fix a bug in the io_uring backend that polled the wrong + backend fd, causing it to not work in many cases. + +4.29 Fri Nov 22 15:34:29 CET 2019 + - (libev) add io uring autoconf and non-autoconf detection, + the latter of which should disable io_uring compilation + on old systems. + +4.28 Tue Nov 19 13:55:39 CET 2019 + - (libev) fix ev_port backend, thanks to David H. Gutteridge for + - (libev) many bugfixes in linuxaio backend. + - (libev) experimental io uring interface. + reminding me to actually release the fix. + - try to name ev.h more explicitly, to hopefully improve portability. + - opportunistically round up wait times for poll and epoll backend, + to avoid unnecessary loop iterations. + - add build dependency on ev_linuxaio.c. + - quickly (re)-ported to minix 3.3 before minix crashed again. + +4.27 Thu Jun 27 09:39:58 CEST 2019 + - (libev) completely rewritten linuxaio backend, maybe + usable as a general-use backend. + - (libev) use more aggressive assertions to catch + more usage errors. + - allow users to re-enable assert() in case it is disabled + by perl (which is typically the case). + +4.26 Mon Jun 24 23:39:40 CEST 2019 + - (libev) included experimental linux aio backend. + - allow the linux aio backend to be used by default + only when explicitly configured during Makefile.PL time. + +4.25 Fri Dec 21 08:04:26 CET 2018 + - (libev) updated to libev 4.25, minor fixes and enhancements. + - document the requirement to "use EV" when using EV::MakeMaker. + - only use __register_atfork with glibc and uclibc, as musl + defines __linux__, but doesn't implement the linux standard + base ABI, nor makes itself detectable via a macro, both apparently + by design, winning the "broken by design 2016 award" - well done. + - correct EV::periodic example 24h after midnight -> one day after + midnight (reported by Felix Ostmann). + +4.22 Sun Dec 20 02:34:39 CET 2015 + - (libev) when epoll detects unremovable fds in the fd set, rebuild + only the epoll descriptor, not the signal pipe, to avoid + SIGPIPE in ev_async_send. This doesn't solve it on fork, + so document what needs to be done in ev_loop_fork + (analyzed by Benjamin Mahler). + - (libev) remove superfluous sys/timeb.h include on win32 + (analyzed by Jason Madden). + - updated libecb. + +4.21 Mon Jul 13 21:47:33 CEST 2015 + - allow argument in timer->again. + - document timer->remaining. + - document default repeat value for timer->set. + +4.20 Sat Jun 20 13:07:34 CEST 2015 + - added stability canary support. + - truly rely on automatic configuration for clock_gettime and others. + unfortunately, this doesn't help with activeperl and similar perls, + which define _POSIX_TIMERS without actually implementing any of it. + - (libev, ecb) make it compile as C++ again. + - (libev) fix a potential aliasing issue when accessing watcher cbs. + +4.18 Sat Sep 6 20:37:23 CEST 2014 + - use slightly better weay to find includes, to support multiarch + on newer perls. + +4.17 Fri Apr 11 06:22:38 CEST 2014 + - perl5porters broke Async::Interrupt, BDB, EV, IO::AIO, OpenCL + without warning by switching the meaning of USE_SOCKETS_AS_HANDLES + in 5.18. What's so attractive about giving a shit about backwards + compatibility - I will never understand. + +4.16 Sat Mar 8 16:49:05 CET 2014 - 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. + - ensure extern "C" function pointers are used for externally-visible + pointers. + - (libev) mark event pipe fd as cloexec after a fork (analyzed by Sami Farin). + - (ecb) support m68k, m88k and sh (patch by Miod Vallat). + - (libev) in the absence of autoconf, do not use the clock syscall + on glibc >= 2.17 (avoids the syscall AND -lrt on systems + doing clock_gettime in userspace). + - (ecb) work around memory barriers and volatile apparently both being + broken in visual studio 2008 and later (analysed and patch by Nicolas Noble). 4.15 Fri Mar 1 12:15:53 CET 2013 - (libev) upgrade to 4.15 - too many changes to list.