--- libev/Changes 2018/07/31 04:45:57 1.316 +++ libev/Changes 2019/11/22 14:35:27 1.346 @@ -1,10 +1,69 @@ Revision history for libev, a high-performance and full-featured event loop. - - move the darwin select workaround highe rin ev.c, as newre versions of +TODO: revisit 59.x timer in the light of modern powersaving +TODO: maybe use timerfd to detect time jumps on linux +TODO: document EV_TSTAMP_T + +4.29 (EV only) + - add io uring autoconf and non-autoconf detection. + - disable io_uring when some header files are too old. + +4.28 (EV only) + - linuxaio backend resulted in random memory corruption + when loop is forked. + - linuxaio backend might have tried to cancel an iocb + multiple times (was unable to trigger this). + - linuxaio backend now employs a generation counter to + avoid handling spurious events from cancelled requests. + - io_cancel can return EINTR, deal with it. also, assume + io_submit also returns EINTR. + - fix some other minor bugs in linuxaio backend. + - ev_tstamp type can now be overriden by defining EV_TSTAMP_T. + - cleanup: replace expect_true/false and noinline by their + libecb counterparts. + - move syscall infrastructure from ev_linuxaio.c to ev.c. + - prepare io_uring integration. + - tweak ev_floor. + - epoll, poll, win32 Sleep and other places that use millisecond + reslution now all try to round up times. + - solaris port backend didn't compile. + - abstract time constants into their macros, for more flexibility. + +4.27 Thu Jun 27 22:43:44 CEST 2019 + - linux aio backend almost completely rewritten to work around its + limitations. + - linux aio backend now requires linux 4.19+. + - epoll backend now mandatory for linux aio backend. + - fail assertions more aggressively on invalid fd's detected + in the event loop, do not just silently fd_kill in case of + user error. + - ev_io_start/ev_io_stop now verify the watcher fd using + a syscall when EV_VERIFY is 2 or higher. + +4.26 (EV only) + - update to libecb 0x00010006. + - new experimental linux aio backend (linux 4.18+). + - removed redundant 0-ptr check in ev_once. + - updated/extended ev_set_allocator documentation. + - replaced EMPTY2 macro by array_needsize_noinit. + - minor code cleanups. + - epoll backend now uses epoll_create1 also after fork. + +4.25 Fri Dec 21 07:49:20 CET 2018 + - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: EV_THROW was renamed to EV_NOEXCEPT + (EV_THROW still provided) and now uses noexcept on C++11 or newer. + - move the darwin select workaround higher in ev.c, as newer versions of darwin managed to break their broken select even more. - ANDROID => __ANDROID__ (reported by enh@google.com). - disable epoll_create1 on android because it has broken header files and google is unwilling to fix them (reported by enh@google.com). + - avoid a minor compilation warning on win32. + - c++: remove deprecated dynamic throw() specifications. + - c++: improve the (unsupported) bad_loop exception class. + - backport perl ev_periodic example to C, untested. + - update libecb, biggets change is to include a memory fence + in ECB_MEMORY_FENCE_RELEASE on x86/amd64. + - minor autoconf/automake modernisation. 4.24 Wed Dec 28 05:19:55 CET 2016 - bump version to 4.24, as the release tarball inexplicably