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Revision: 1.176
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1 Revision history for Perl extension EV
2
3 3.7
4 TODO: libev changes etc. etc.
5 - add EV::loop_verify and EV::loop_depth.
6 - use output filehandle for i/o watchers waiting
7 for EV_WRITE, otherwise input filehandle.
8 - use common schmorp.h header.
9 - add EV::Timer->remaining.
10 - allow for subclassing of EV::Loop (see the exciting
11 EV::Loop::Async module for an example).
12 - added EV::invoke_pending and EV::pending_count.
13
14 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:50:37 CEST 2009
15 - keepalive(0) could decrease the refcount of the loop
16 permanently.
17 - add ev_suspend/ev_resume, also make ev_now_update
18 accessible via the XS API.
19 - most EV::<eventtype> constants were missing and have been
20 added :/.
21 - add EV::VERSION_MAJOR/VERSION_MINOR constants.
22 - (libev) multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop
23 iteration will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
24 - (libev) do not leave the event loop early just because we have
25 no active watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue
26 loop that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
27 (reported by blacksand blacksand).
28 - (libev) correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying
29 and reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
30 Malek Hadj-Ali).
31 - (libev) new EV::CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
32 - (libev) add documentation section about priorites.
33 - (libev) add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
34 - (libev) extend the ev_fork description slightly.
35 - (libev) optimize a jump out of call_pending.
36 - t/03_keepalive could fail when there was no actual error.
37
38 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
39 - (libev) on win32, the event loop creation could randomly fail
40 due to an initialised variable having the wrong value.
41 - (libev) probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and
42 fall back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
43 operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
44 - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime by default.
45
46 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:46:14 CET 2009
47 - (libev) fix some issues in the select backend when in fd_set mode.
48 - (libev) due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
49 select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
50 allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
51 - (libev) actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
52 libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
53 attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
54 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
55 should return fantasy port numbers.
56
57 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:01:59 CET 2008
58 - do not cache the arguments passed to callbacks if the refcount
59 indicates that the callback has stolen them.
60 - (libev) try to avoid librt on GNU/Linux.
61 - (libev) check port_getn return value dfferently, might potentially
62 avoid problems.
63 - (libev) fix a bug with stat watchers possibly causing freezes.
64 - (libev) work around OS X 10.5 breaking poll, now select is the
65 only viable choice left on that pile of garbage.
66 - play tester whore: disable some tests that typically fail only
67 on cpan tester machines.
68
69 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
70 - fix typos in manpage (Alex Efros).
71 - increase timing even further, for the ever-overloaded cpan-tester
72 machines, and to the detriment of everybody else who wants a fast
73 make test.
74 - possible 5.6 compatibility.
75 - (libev) use inotify even on buggy kernels, but don't rely on it.
76 - (libev) use inotify only as an added hint on network filesystems.
77
78 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:09:48 CET 2008
79 - (libev) use a generation counter to detect spurious epoll events
80 and recreate the kernel in such a case (sorry, it's slow, but
81 I didn't design epoll...).
82 - (libev) optimise away an EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
83 backend in some cases.
84 - (libev) use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away
85 with the init functions.
86 - speed up event callback invocation further (~15%), by
87 not creating the object reference each time.
88 - EV::sleep was documented, but not implemented. fun.
89
90 3.45 Tue Oct 21 22:20:39 CEST 2008
91 - (libev) disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25 (kernel bug).
92 - (libev) ev_embed will now automatically follow fork.
93 - (libev) ev_once will now pass both io and timeout events to
94 the callback when both happen concurrently, instead of giving
95 one precedence.
96 - install C library documentation as EV::libev manpage (sorry, oesi).
97 - (libev) fix a minor performance bug in ev_stat handling.
98
99 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:16:31 CEST 2008
100 - (libev) add EV::now_update and $loop->now_update.
101
102 3.431 Sun Jul 13 00:19:02 CEST 2008
103 - made the EV::embed callback optional again. reported by
104 Vladimir Timofeev.
105
106 3.43 Tue Jul 8 20:56:31 CEST 2008
107 - disabled warnings in EV.pm, the CHECK issue is now understood
108 and harmless.
109
110 3.42 Mon May 26 07:36:46 CEST 2008
111 - (libev) work around another bug in windows perls and
112 windows itself: failed connects do NOT set read or write
113 flags in select, but this version of libev will.
114
115 3.41 Thu May 22 01:39:40 CEST 2008
116 - (libev) fix many heap-related bugs (timers, periodics).
117 - (libev) improve timing stability of timers and periodics.
118 - expose ev_loop_verify to perl code.
119 - clarify documentation for periodic reschedule callbacks.
120 - verify that the passed callback argument is indeed a code
121 reference, for earlier error reporting and a nice calling
122 speed increase (as well as saving memory).
123
124 3.4 Tue May 20 21:51:55 CEST 2008
125 - (libev) work around both a windows bug and a bug in perl's
126 select on windows when not waiting for any file descriptors.
127 - bundle ev.pod into the tarball, just to increase its size
128 (and for the poor internetless person).
129
130 3.33 Sun May 18 12:43:04 CEST 2008
131 - (libev) use numerous enhancements such as a more
132 cache-friendly 4-heap and heap index caching for timers.
133 - remove undocumented ev_timer->at accessor.
134
135 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:48:59 CEST 2008
136 - (libev) post-last-minute fix for ev_poll.c problem.
137
138 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:47 CEST 2008
139 - (libev) linux eventfd support.
140 - (libev) inline more with C99 compilers.
141 - (libev) work around a number of bugs in valgrind.
142 - (libev) work around broken realloc on openbsd and darwin.
143 - added example to EV::MakeMaker manpage.
144 - add async_pending method.
145
146 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:08:16 CEST 2008
147 - "ported" again to the Microsoft "C" language.
148 - relax testsuite timing for the benefit of freebsd users once more.
149 - fix EVAPI's ev_time and ev_sleep macros.
150 - (libev) fix select backend on 64 bit architetcures.
151 - (libev) ev_loop flags are now local to each invocation.
152
153 3.1 Sat Mar 8 11:41:14 CET 2008
154 - add ev_sync_* and ev_fork_* to EVAPI.h.
155 - provide EV::Embed->sweep method.
156 - new watcher type: async (not very useful in perl).
157
158 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:23:11 CET 2008
159 - upgrade to libev-3.0.
160 - change child handler to incorporate tracing flag.
161
162 2.01 Mon Dec 31 01:59:19 CET 2007
163 - found a minor problem in the testsuite that is only
164 caught by new Test::Harness versions (reported by Andreas
165 König).
166
167 2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
168 - no longer force kqueue when enabled, enable it
169 on more systems (as its now by default not used on most).
170 - expose fork watchers.
171 - switch to libev's MULTIPLICITY API.
172 - use a slightly different include file name strategy.
173 - get rid of (unused) libevent emulation.
174 - 5% watcher management speedup due to callback optimisation
175 when inline closures are used, 5% slowdown due to multiplicity.
176 - very minimal support for dynamic event loops and embed watchers.
177 - fix name of prepare start/stop methods.
178 - create and export EV::sleep and EV::set_*_collect_interval.
179 - fix typos in manpage (Alex Efros).
180
181 1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
182 - add periodic->at methods.
183
184 1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
185 - further optimise epoll backend by adding a heuristic that
186 avoids EPOLL_CTL_DEL calls if possible.
187 - EV::signal->start was not async-signal safe.
188 - optimise start/stop when the fd hasn't changed.
189
190 1.8 Tue Dec 11 22:17:46 CET 2007
191 - API version 3:0.
192 - reduced fudge factor to zero for select, poll, epoll
193 and kqueue: your system better be posix-compliant
194 even in its extensions :->
195 - improve long-term numerical stability in periodic watchers
196 by introducing a separate offset value instead of reusing at.
197 - recalculate real/monotonic clocks before blocking fully
198 to avoid blocking for longer than necessary.
199 - fix bugs in the heap functions. this rarely lead to illegal
200 heap orderings.
201
202 1.72 Sat Dec 8 15:31:26 CET 2007
203 - add dummy loop arguments to some EVAPI functions
204 so that clients can use EV_A and EV_DEFAULT.
205 - expose ev_clear_pending.
206 - renamed trigger to invoke.
207
208 1.71 Fri Dec 7 19:10:24 CET 2007
209 - changed/implemented idle watcher priority.
210 - allow out-of-range priorities to be set.
211 - fix ->priority to actually work on started watchers.
212 - improved testsuite.
213
214 1.6 Wed Dec 5 15:06:20 CET 2007
215 - add a missing SPAGAIN.
216 - ripped out EV::DNS, use EV::ADNS for a better backend.
217 - make ev_time callable from EVAPI.h.
218 - add EV::loop_count.
219 - some space optimisations.
220
221 1.5 Wed Nov 28 20:19:09 CET 2007
222 - add inotify backend.
223 - make testsuite even less sensible to timing issues,
224 add more stat tests.
225 - add ->attr, ->prev, ->stat calls to stat watcher.
226
227 1.4 Tue Nov 27 17:35:27 CET 2007
228 - work around a linux 2.4 kernel bug in child handlers.
229 - implement stat watcher interface.
230 - implement fork watcher interface.
231 - io->set did not keep the fh alive.
232 - actively check signal numbers/names to be valid.
233 - cleanups, minor fixes, new bugs.
234 - work around windows bugs in the testsuite.
235
236 1.3 Sun Nov 25 10:46:57 CET 2007
237 - stopping idle/check/prepare watchers could cause data corruption.
238 - implement and document EV::once.
239 - improved documentation, verify that netbsd indeed has the only
240 working kqueue implementation (out of darwin, freebsd, netbsd and
241 openbsd). Praise them!
242 - fix the data method so it might work.
243 - expose ev_ref/ev_unref to the C API.
244 - expose ref/unref in form of the ->keepalive method to perl.
245 - minor bugfixes and portability fixes.
246
247 1.2 Thu Nov 22 05:44:09 CET 2007
248 - disable kqueue by default on !netbsd, as its broken on freebsd,
249 darwin and openbsd and thus almost everywhere.
250 - add some allowance in t/01_timer.t for the uneven monotonic
251 vs. realtime clock tick on at least freebsd.
252 - add -lsocket -lnsl on solaris in case the perl guy forgot to
253 configure them.
254
255 1.1 Wed Nov 21 06:08:48 CET 2007
256 - improved timer test to include periodics and
257 withstand small timing variations.
258 - many minor tweaks to libev.
259
260 1.0 Fri Nov 16 14:51:59 CET 2007
261 - require AnyEvent update if AnyEvent is installed.
262 - add solaris 10 port-based backend.
263 - add child_ns and fix check_ns.
264 - treat yes/no as enforcement, not as hint, when configuring,
265 documentation update (reported by Andy Grundman).
266
267 0.9 Wed Nov 14 22:24:49 CET 2007
268 - changed LIBEV_METHODS to LIBEV_FLAGS and the
269 way this is used inside libev.
270 - many, many bugfixes.
271 - add unloop constants.
272 - add timer test.
273 - ev_loop will now terminate immediately when no watchers are active.
274
275 0.8 Mon Nov 12 02:28:46 CET 2007
276 - fix "testsuite" again :().
277 - fix check/idle/prepare/child watcher stop.
278 - enourmously many fixes.
279 - rewritten select backend (mostly for win32).
280 - cache socket handles on win32.
281 - provide considerably finer control over configuration.
282
283 0.7 Fri Nov 9 20:37:58 CET 2007
284 - move AnyEvent adaptor into the AnyEvent module.
285 - use private copy of evdns.[ch].
286 - many minor fixes.
287
288 0.6 Thu Nov 8 18:23:43 CET 2007
289 - (libev) better native win32 support.
290 - fix idle watchers.
291 - implement and document periodic reschedule callbacks.
292 - do not run dns test on !linux platforms (actually to exclude win32).
293 - fix (unused in EV :) poll backend.
294
295 0.51 Tue Nov 6 19:50:22 CET 2007
296 - fix kqueue/poll compilation issue.
297 - work around design issues in kqueue.
298 - enable kqueue by default, seems to work.
299
300 0.5 Tue Nov 6 17:37:44 CET 2007
301 - add signal and pid mutators.
302 - add rstatus/rpid accessors.
303 - updated libev (lower cost for clock monotonic).
304 - support event priorities.
305 - try to find SIG_SIZE on perls that don't have it (Slaven Rezic).
306 - improved signal handling, fixed child watchers.
307 - experimentally add kqueue backend, completely untested.
308 - ported to cygwin and native win32.
309
310 0.1 Thu Nov 1 18:29:22 CET 2007
311 - replaced libevent by libev (total rewrite).
312 - many bugfixes w.r.t. libevent.
313 - new watcher types: periodic, check, prepare, child, idle.
314 - performance optimisations.
315 - added interactive configuration.
316 - added fork support.
317
318 0.03 Mon Oct 29 20:52:50 CET 2007
319 - add timed_io convenience constructors.
320 - improve documentation.
321 - support signal names in addition to signal numbers.
322 - support signal anyevent watchers.
323 - vastly improved testsuite (its all relative :).
324 - add EV::MakeMaker, beginning of C-level API.
325 - force strings to byte form.
326
327 0.02 Sun Oct 28 07:40:21 CET 2007
328 - call $EV::DIED in case a callback throws an exception.
329 - add const char * to typemap for possible 5.6 compatibility.
330
331 0.01 Sat Oct 27 19:10:18 CEST 2007
332 - initial release.
333
334 0.00 Fri Oct 26 11:12:57 CEST 2007
335 - original version; cloned from JSON::XS
336