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1Revision history for Perl extension EV 1Revision history for Perl extension EV
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3Changes marked with (libev) are changes in libev, and have more
4documentation in the libev Changes file.
5
6 - EV::run now returns boolean.
7 - API version 5:1.
8 - document that cleanup watchers are not availble via perl.
9
104.11 Sat Feb 4 19:56:26 CET 2012
11 - (libev) implement memory fences for (obsolete) llvm-gcc.
12
134.10 Thu Jan 19 18:54:23 CET 2012
14 - (libev) fix a race where the workaround against the epoll fork
15 bugs caused signals to not be handled anymore.
16 - (libev) correct backend_fudge for most backends, and implement
17 a windows specific workaround to avoid looping because we call
18 both select and Sleep, both with different time resolutions.
19 - e_new wasn't declared static (causing very minor .so bloat).
20 - replace more old api names by new ones.
21
224.03 Tue Jan 11 14:51:05 CET 2011
23 - do not avoid the clock_gettime call on GNU/Linux anymore, as EV
24 links against -lpthread anyways - as a result, EV might now take
25 advantage of fast userspace clock_gettime implementations,
26 but also links against -lrt.
27 - (libev) lots of event port bug workarounds.
28 - (libev) officially support files in I/O watchers.
29 - (libev) new function ev_feed_signal.
30 - fix documentation parts still refering to the 3.x API.
31
324.02 Thu Dec 30 08:27:41 CET 2010
33 - the revents argument did not stringify correctly, as only the
34 numeric value was updated, while the string value was kept from
35 previous invocations.
36
374.01 Sun Dec 5 12:42:13 CET 2010
38 - fully support EV_COMPAT3=0.
39 - default_fork was stupidly defined as inline.
40 - ask cpan to upgrade AnyEvent if < 5.29.
41 - support EV_EXTRA_DEFS during configuration.
42 - support -DEV_NO_LOOPS for snakker build.
43
444.00 Mon Oct 25 13:30:09 CEST 2010
45 - many API changes, see the manual.
46 - (libev) lots and lots of bugfixes, see the ev documentation.
47 - fix a bug where inotify usage would parse the same event
48 multiple times, causing various forms of breakage.
49 - greatly reduce stack usage for inotify (8kb to <0.5kb).
50 - expose ev_depth and ev_verify via the XS API.
51 - implement ev_cleanup watchers.
52 - (libev) ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher.
53 - (libev) disable poll backend on AIX.
54 - (libev) rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
55 - (libev) add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
56 - (libev) no child watchers on win32.
57 - make code more aliasing compliant, in case perl is ever
58 translated to C.
59 - document the EV::CHECK runtime unavailability.
60 - ported to minix 3.1.7.
61
623.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
63 - disable t/07* under automatic testing.
64 - increase t/09* timeouts as netbsd has *horribly* broken
65 select/kevent that *usually* sleep >>0.6s instead of 0.3.
66 - add constants EV::FLAG_NOSIGFD, EV::FLAG_NOINOTIFY and
67 EV::BACKEND_ALL.
68 - (libev) signalfd is no longer used by default.
69 - (libev) backport inotify code to C89.
70 - (libev) inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
71 - (libev) ev_stat watchers could keep an errornous extra ref on the loop.
72 - (libev) take advantage of inotify_init1, if available.
73 - (libev) the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows.
74 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for signalfd.
75 - (libev) only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference.
76
773.8 Sun Aug 9 15:30:10 CEST 2009
78 - implement $loop->signal/signal_ns.
79 - (libev) incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal
80 handler to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
81 - (libev) ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some
82 members, potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on
83 repated ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
84 - (libev) take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
85 - (libev) document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
86 state when using libev's signal handling.
87 - (libev) take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set
88 cloexec/nonblock on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
89 - implement internal glue code to interface more efficiently
90 with AnyEvent.
91
923.7 Fri Jul 17 16:49:16 CEST 2009
93 - add EV::loop_verify and EV::loop_depth.
94 - use output filehandle for i/o watchers waiting
95 for EV_WRITE, otherwise input filehandle.
96 - use common schmorp.h header.
97 - add EV::Timer->remaining.
98 - allow for subclassing of EV::Loop (see the exciting
99 EV::Loop::Async module for an example).
100 - added EV::invoke_pending and EV::pending_count.
101
102 - (libev) ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to
103 exit loops, instead of using a per-loop variable.
104 - (libev) the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
105 - add new functionality: EV::invoke_pending, EV::pending_count.
106 - add $timer->remaining.
107 - add EV::loop_depth.
108 - (libev) calling unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
109 for new events.
110 - (libev) use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows,
111 for slightly higher accuracy.
112 - (libev) actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing
113 signals.
114
1153.6 Tue Apr 28 02:50:37 CEST 2009
116 - keepalive(0) could decrease the refcount of the loop
117 permanently.
118 - add ev_suspend/ev_resume, also make ev_now_update
119 accessible via the XS API.
120 - most EV::<eventtype> constants were missing and have been
121 added :/.
122 - add EV::VERSION_MAJOR/VERSION_MINOR constants.
123 - (libev) multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop
124 iteration will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
125 - (libev) do not leave the event loop early just because we have
126 no active watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue
127 loop that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
128 (reported by blacksand blacksand).
129 - (libev) correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying
130 and reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
131 Malek Hadj-Ali).
132 - (libev) new EV::CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
133 - (libev) add documentation section about priorites.
134 - (libev) add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
135 - (libev) extend the ev_fork description slightly.
136 - (libev) optimize a jump out of call_pending.
137 - t/03_keepalive could fail when there was no actual error.
138
1393.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
140 - (libev) on win32, the event loop creation could randomly fail
141 due to an initialised variable having the wrong value.
142 - (libev) probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and
143 fall back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
144 operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
145 - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime by default.
146
1473.52 Wed Jan 7 21:46:14 CET 2009
148 - (libev) fix some issues in the select backend when in fd_set mode.
149 - (libev) due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
150 select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
151 allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
152 - (libev) actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
153 libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
154 attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
155 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
156 should return fantasy port numbers.
157
1583.51 Wed Dec 24 23:01:59 CET 2008
159 - do not cache the arguments passed to callbacks if the refcount
160 indicates that the callback has stolen them.
161 - (libev) try to avoid librt on GNU/Linux.
162 - (libev) check port_getn return value dfferently, might potentially
163 avoid problems.
164 - (libev) fix a bug with stat watchers possibly causing freezes.
165 - (libev) work around OS X 10.5 breaking poll, now select is the
166 only viable choice left on that pile of garbage.
167 - play tester whore: disable some tests that typically fail only
168 on cpan tester machines.
169
1703.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
171 - fix typos in manpage (Alex Efros).
172 - increase timing even further, for the ever-overloaded cpan-tester
173 machines, and to the detriment of everybody else who wants a fast
174 make test.
175 - possible 5.6 compatibility.
176 - (libev) use inotify even on buggy kernels, but don't rely on it.
177 - (libev) use inotify only as an added hint on network filesystems.
178
1793.48 Thu Oct 30 09:09:48 CET 2008
180 - (libev) use a generation counter to detect spurious epoll events
181 and recreate the kernel in such a case (sorry, it's slow, but
182 I didn't design epoll...).
183 - (libev) optimise away an EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
184 backend in some cases.
185 - (libev) use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away
186 with the init functions.
187 - speed up event callback invocation further (~15%), by
188 not creating the object reference each time.
189 - EV::sleep was documented, but not implemented. fun.
190
1913.45 Tue Oct 21 22:20:39 CEST 2008
192 - (libev) disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25 (kernel bug).
193 - (libev) ev_embed will now automatically follow fork.
194 - (libev) ev_once will now pass both io and timeout events to
195 the callback when both happen concurrently, instead of giving
196 one precedence.
197 - install C library documentation as EV::libev manpage (sorry, oesi).
198 - (libev) fix a minor performance bug in ev_stat handling.
199
2003.44 Mon Sep 29 05:16:31 CEST 2008
201 - (libev) add EV::now_update and $loop->now_update.
202
2033.431 Sun Jul 13 00:19:02 CEST 2008
204 - made the EV::embed callback optional again. reported by
205 Vladimir Timofeev.
206
2073.43 Tue Jul 8 20:56:31 CEST 2008
208 - disabled warnings in EV.pm, the CHECK issue is now understood
209 and harmless.
210
2113.42 Mon May 26 07:36:46 CEST 2008
212 - (libev) work around another bug in windows perls and
213 windows itself: failed connects do NOT set read or write
214 flags in select, but this version of libev will.
215
2163.41 Thu May 22 01:39:40 CEST 2008
217 - (libev) fix many heap-related bugs (timers, periodics).
218 - (libev) improve timing stability of timers and periodics.
219 - expose ev_loop_verify to perl code.
220 - clarify documentation for periodic reschedule callbacks.
221 - verify that the passed callback argument is indeed a code
222 reference, for earlier error reporting and a nice calling
223 speed increase (as well as saving memory).
224
2253.4 Tue May 20 21:51:55 CEST 2008
226 - (libev) work around both a windows bug and a bug in perl's
227 select on windows when not waiting for any file descriptors.
228 - bundle ev.pod into the tarball, just to increase its size
229 (and for the poor internetless person).
230
2313.33 Sun May 18 12:43:04 CEST 2008
232 - (libev) use numerous enhancements such as a more
233 cache-friendly 4-heap and heap index caching for timers.
234 - remove undocumented ev_timer->at accessor.
235
2363.31 Wed Apr 16 20:48:59 CEST 2008
237 - (libev) post-last-minute fix for ev_poll.c problem.
238
2393.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:47 CEST 2008
240 - (libev) linux eventfd support.
241 - (libev) inline more with C99 compilers.
242 - (libev) work around a number of bugs in valgrind.
243 - (libev) work around broken realloc on openbsd and darwin.
244 - added example to EV::MakeMaker manpage.
245 - add async_pending method.
246
2473.2 Wed Apr 2 17:08:16 CEST 2008
248 - "ported" again to the Microsoft "C" language.
249 - relax testsuite timing for the benefit of freebsd users once more.
250 - fix EVAPI's ev_time and ev_sleep macros.
251 - (libev) fix select backend on 64 bit architetcures.
252 - (libev) ev_loop flags are now local to each invocation.
253
2543.1 Sat Mar 8 11:41:14 CET 2008
255 - add ev_sync_* and ev_fork_* to EVAPI.h.
256 - provide EV::Embed->sweep method.
257 - new watcher type: async (not very useful in perl).
258
2593.0 Mon Jan 28 13:23:11 CET 2008
260 - upgrade to libev-3.0.
261 - change child handler to incorporate tracing flag.
262
2632.01 Mon Dec 31 01:59:19 CET 2007
264 - found a minor problem in the testsuite that is only
265 caught by new Test::Harness versions (reported by Andreas
266 König).
267
2682.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
269 - no longer force kqueue when enabled, enable it
270 on more systems (as its now by default not used on most).
271 - expose fork watchers.
272 - switch to libev's MULTIPLICITY API.
273 - use a slightly different include file name strategy.
274 - get rid of (unused) libevent emulation.
275 - 5% watcher management speedup due to callback optimisation
276 when inline closures are used, 5% slowdown due to multiplicity.
277 - very minimal support for dynamic event loops and embed watchers.
278 - fix name of prepare start/stop methods.
279 - create and export EV::sleep and EV::set_*_collect_interval.
280 - fix typos in manpage (Alex Efros).
281
2821.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
283 - add periodic->at methods.
284
2851.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
286 - further optimise epoll backend by adding a heuristic that
287 avoids EPOLL_CTL_DEL calls if possible.
288 - EV::signal->start was not async-signal safe.
289 - optimise start/stop when the fd hasn't changed.
290
2911.8 Tue Dec 11 22:17:46 CET 2007
3 - API version 3:0. 292 - API version 3:0.
4 - reduced fudge factor to zero for select, poll, epoll 293 - reduced fudge factor to zero for select, poll, epoll
5 and kqueue: your system better be posix-compliant 294 and kqueue: your system better be posix-compliant
6 even in its extensions :-> 295 even in its extensions :->
7 - improve long-term numerical stability in periodic watchers 296 - improve long-term numerical stability in periodic watchers
8 by introducing a separate offset value instead of reusing at. 297 by introducing a separate offset value instead of reusing at.
298 - recalculate real/monotonic clocks before blocking fully
299 to avoid blocking for longer than necessary.
300 - fix bugs in the heap functions. this rarely lead to illegal
301 heap orderings.
9 302
101.72 Sat Dec 8 15:31:26 CET 2007 3031.72 Sat Dec 8 15:31:26 CET 2007
11 - add dummy loop arguments to some EVAPI functions 304 - add dummy loop arguments to some EVAPI functions
12 so that clients can use EV_A and EV_DEFAULT. 305 so that clients can use EV_A and EV_DEFAULT.
13 - expose ev_clear_pending. 306 - expose ev_clear_pending.
92 - move AnyEvent adaptor into the AnyEvent module. 385 - move AnyEvent adaptor into the AnyEvent module.
93 - use private copy of evdns.[ch]. 386 - use private copy of evdns.[ch].
94 - many minor fixes. 387 - many minor fixes.
95 388
960.6 Thu Nov 8 18:23:43 CET 2007 3890.6 Thu Nov 8 18:23:43 CET 2007
97 - better native win32 support (not relevant for perl usually). 390 - (libev) better native win32 support.
98 - fix idle watchers. 391 - fix idle watchers.
99 - implement and document periodic reschedule callbacks. 392 - implement and document periodic reschedule callbacks.
100 - do not run dns test on !linux platforms (actually to exclude win32). 393 - do not run dns test on !linux platforms (actually to exclude win32).
101 - fix (unused in EV :) poll backend. 394 - fix (unused in EV :) poll backend.
102 395

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