--- libev/Changes 2009/12/31 06:50:16 1.155 +++ libev/Changes 2010/10/14 07:20:12 1.184 @@ -1,5 +1,44 @@ Revision history for libev, a high-performance and full-featured event loop. +TODO: ABI??? API????? Changes??? +TODO: include ev_xyz_start in each example? +TODO: section watcher states/lifetime + - "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). + - 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. + - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu). + - 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. + - greatly expanded the portability section. + - 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. + - switch to two-digit minor version. + - work around an apparent gentoo compiler bug. + - define _DARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT. just so. + +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.