--- libev/Changes 2009/07/15 16:08:24 1.127 +++ libev/Changes 2010/10/21 23:43:17 1.191 @@ -1,19 +1,102 @@ Revision history for libev, a high-performance and full-featured event loop. -TODO: ev_walk -TODO: remain -TODO: EV_MINIMAL +TODO: include ev_xyz_start in each example? + - "PORTING FROM LIBEV 3.X TO 4.X" (in ev.pod) is recommended reading. + - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good + testcase by Vladimir Timofeev). + - ev_run will now always update the current loop time - it erroneously + didn't when idle watchers were active, causing timers not to fire. + - fix a bug where a timeout of zero caused the timer not to fire + in the libevent emulation (testcase by Péter Szabó). + - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion). + - replace EV_MINIMAL by EV_FEATURES. + - prefer EPOLL_CTL_ADD over EPOLL_CTL_MOD in some more cases, as it + seems the former is *much* faster than the latter. + - reduce the number of spurious wake-ups with the ports backend. + - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu). + - do async init within ev_async_start, not ev_async_set, which avoids + an API quirk where the set function must be called in the C++ API + even when there is nothing to set. + - add (undocumented) EV_ENABLE when adding events with kqueue, + this might help with OS X, which seems to need it despite documenting + not to need it (helpfully pointed out by Tilghman Lesher). + - do not use poll by default on freebsd, it's broken (what isn't + on freebsd...). + - configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still + override it. + - ev.pod: greatly expanded the portability section, added a porting + section, a description of watcher states and made lots of minor fixes. + - disable poll backend on AIX, the poll header spams the namespace + and it's not worth working around dead platforms (reported + and analyzed by Aivars Kalvans). + - improve header file compatibility of the standalone eventfd code + in an obscure case. + - implement EV_AVOID_STDIO option. + - do not use sscanf to parse linux version number (smaller, faster, + no sscanf dependency). + - new EV_CHILD_ENABLE and EV_SIGNAL_ENABLE configurable settings. + - update libev.m4 HAVE_CLOCK_SYSCALL test for newer glibcs. + - add section on accept() problems to the manpage. + - rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER. + - rename ev_loop_count/depth/verify/loop/unloop. + - switch to two-digit minor version. + - work around an apparent gentoo compiler bug. + - define _DARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT. just so. + - use enum instead of #define for most constants. + - improve compatibility to older C++ compilers. + +3.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009 + - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested + explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to + catch race conditions, but the users have spoken. + - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and + that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD. + - backport inotify code to C89. + - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes. + - ev_stat watchers could keep an errornous extra ref on the loop, + preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases + provided by ry@tinyclouds.org). + - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration + symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management. + - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h + (patch by Didier Spezia). + - take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock + on fd creation, to avoid races. + - the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows + (analysed by lekma). + - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for + signalfd. + - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff). + - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference, + so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might + have caused the problems with 04_stat.t. + - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API. + +3.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009 + - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler + to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped. + - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members, + potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repeated + ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls. + - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems. + - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified + state when using libev's signal handling. + - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock + on fd creation, to avoid race conditions. - - new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata, - ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb, - ev_invoke_pending, together with a long example about thread - locking. +3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops, instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...). + - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed. + - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata, + ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb, + ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example + about thread locking. + - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff). + - add ev_loop_depth. - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll for new events. - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets. - - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed. - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double- check that the syscall number is available before trying to use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds). @@ -21,7 +104,6 @@ slightly higher accuracy. - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when !EV_MULTIPLICITY. - - implement ev_loop_depth. - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI. - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API. - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals. @@ -126,7 +208,7 @@ 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere). - - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers + - ev_stat erroneously would try to add inotify watchers even when inotify wasn't available (this should only have a performance impact). - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both @@ -204,10 +286,10 @@ not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black) (no such systems are known at this time). - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin, - also makes the errornous valgrind complaints + also makes the erroneous valgrind complaints go away (noted by various people). - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async - (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer. + (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer). - add sensible set method to ev::embed. - made integer constants type int in ev.h.