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  1. Revision history for libev, a high-performance and full-featured event loop.
  2. 4.25 Fri Dec 21 07:49:20 CET 2018
  3. - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: EV_THROW was renamed to EV_NOEXCEPT
  4. (EV_THROW sitll provided) and now uses noexcept on C++11 or newer.
  5. - move the darwin select workaround highe rin ev.c, as newer versions of
  6. darwin managed to break their broken select even more.
  7. - ANDROID => __ANDROID__ (reported by enh@google.com).
  8. - disable epoll_create1 on android because it has broken header files
  9. and google is unwilling to fix them (reported by enh@google.com).
  10. - avoid a minor compilation warning on win32.
  11. - c++: remove deprecated dynamic throw() specifications.
  12. - c++: improve the (unsupported) bad_loop exception class.
  13. - backport perl ev_periodic example to C, untested.
  14. - update libecb, biggets change is to include a memory fence
  15. in ECB_MEMORY_FENCE_RELEASE on x86/amd64.
  16. - minor autoconf/automake modernisation.
  17. 4.24 Wed Dec 28 05:19:55 CET 2016
  18. - bump version to 4.24, as the release tarball inexplicably
  19. didn't have the right version in ev.h, even though the cvs-tagged
  20. version did have the right one (reported by Ales Teska).
  21. 4.23 Wed Nov 16 18:23:41 CET 2016
  22. - move some declarations at the beginning to help certain retarded
  23. microsoft compilers, even though their documentation claims
  24. otherwise (reported by Ruslan Osmanov).
  25. 4.22 Sun Dec 20 22:11:50 CET 2015
  26. - when epoll detects unremovable fds in the fd set, rebuild
  27. only the epoll descriptor, not the signal pipe, to avoid
  28. SIGPIPE in ev_async_send. This doesn't solve it on fork,
  29. so document what needs to be done in ev_loop_fork
  30. (analyzed by Benjamin Mahler).
  31. - remove superfluous sys/timeb.h include on win32
  32. (analyzed by Jason Madden).
  33. - updated libecb.
  34. 4.20 Sat Jun 20 13:01:43 CEST 2015
  35. - prefer noexcept over throw () with C++ 11.
  36. - update ecb.h due to incompatibilities with c11.
  37. - fix a potential aliasing issue when reading and writing
  38. watcher callbacks.
  39. 4.19 Thu Sep 25 08:18:25 CEST 2014
  40. - ev.h wasn't valid C++ anymore, which tripped compilers other than
  41. clang, msvc or gcc (analyzed by Raphael 'kena' Poss). Unfortunately,
  42. C++ doesn't support typedefs for function pointers fully, so the affected
  43. declarations have to spell out the types each time.
  44. - when not using autoconf, tighten the check for clock_gettime and related
  45. functionality.
  46. 4.18 Fri Sep 5 17:55:26 CEST 2014
  47. - events on files were not always generated properly with the
  48. epoll backend (testcase by Assaf Inbal).
  49. - mark event pipe fd as cloexec after a fork (analyzed by Sami Farin).
  50. - (ecb) support m68k, m88k and sh (patch by Miod Vallat).
  51. - use a reasonable fallback for EV_NSIG instead of erroring out
  52. when we can't detect the signal set size.
  53. - in the absence of autoconf, do not use the clock syscall
  54. on glibc >= 2.17 (avoids the syscall AND -lrt on systems
  55. doing clock_gettime in userspace).
  56. - ensure extern "C" function pointers are used for externally-visible
  57. loop callbacks (not watcher callbacks yet).
  58. - (ecb) work around memory barriers and volatile apparently both being
  59. broken in visual studio 2008 and later (analysed and patch by Nicolas Noble).
  60. 4.15 Fri Mar 1 12:04:50 CET 2013
  61. - destroying a non-default loop would stop the global waitpid
  62. watcher (Denis Bilenko).
  63. - queueing pending watchers of higher priority from a watcher now invokes
  64. them in a timely fashion (reported by Denis Bilenko).
  65. - add throw() to all libev functions that cannot throw exceptions, for
  66. further code size decrease when compiling for C++.
  67. - add throw () to callbacks that must not throw exceptions (allocator,
  68. syserr, loop acquire/release, periodic reschedule cbs).
  69. - fix event_base_loop return code, add event_get_callback, event_base_new,
  70. event_base_get_method calls to improve libevent 1.x emulation and add
  71. some libevent 2.x functionality (based on a patch by Jeff Davey).
  72. - add more memory fences to fix a bug reported by Jeff Davey. Better
  73. be overfenced than underprotected.
  74. - ev_run now returns a boolean status (true meaning watchers are
  75. still active).
  76. - ev_once: undef EV_ERROR in ev_kqueue.c, to avoid clashing with
  77. libev's EV_ERROR (reported by 191919).
  78. - (ecb) add memory fence support for xlC (Darin McBride).
  79. - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-mips (Anton Kirilov).
  80. - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-alpha (Christian Weisgerber).
  81. - work around some kernels losing file descriptors by leaking
  82. the kqueue descriptor in the child.
  83. - work around linux inotify not reporting IN_ATTRIB changes for directories
  84. in many cases.
  85. - include sys/syscall.h instead of plain syscall.h.
  86. - check for io watcher loops in ev_verify, check for the most
  87. common reported usage bug in ev_io_start.
  88. - choose socket vs. WSASocket at compiletime using EV_USE_WSASOCKET.
  89. - always use WSASend/WSARecv directly on windows, hoping that this
  90. works in all cases (unlike read/write/send/recv...).
  91. - try to detect signals around a fork faster (test program by
  92. Denis Bilenko).
  93. - work around recent glibc versions that leak memory in realloc.
  94. - rename ev::embed::set to ev::embed::set_embed to avoid clashing
  95. the watcher base set (loop) method.
  96. - rewrite the async/signal pipe logic to always keep a valid fd, which
  97. simplifies (and hopefully correctifies :) the race checking
  98. on fork, at the cost of one extra fd.
  99. - add fat, msdos, jffs2, ramfs, ntfs and btrfs to the list of
  100. inotify-supporting filesystems.
  101. - move orig_CFLAGS assignment to after AC_INIT, as newer autoconf
  102. versions ignore it before
  103. (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908096).
  104. - add some untested android support.
  105. - enum expressions must be of type int (reported by Juan Pablo L).
  106. 4.11 Sat Feb 4 19:52:39 CET 2012
  107. - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: ev_timer_again now clears the pending status, as
  108. was documented already, but not implemented in the repeating case.
  109. - new compiletime symbols: EV_NO_SMP and EV_NO_THREADS.
  110. - fix a race where the workaround against the epoll fork bugs
  111. caused signals to not be handled anymore.
  112. - correct backend_fudge for most backends, and implement a windows
  113. specific workaround to avoid looping because we call both
  114. select and Sleep, both with different time resolutions.
  115. - document range and guarantees of ev_sleep.
  116. - document reasonable ranges for periodics interval and offset.
  117. - rename backend_fudge to backend_mintime to avoid future confusion :)
  118. - change the default periodic reschedule function to hopefully be more
  119. exact and correct even in corner cases or in the far future.
  120. - do not rely on -lm anymore: use it when available but use our
  121. own floor () if it is missing. This should make it easier to embed,
  122. as no external libraries are required.
  123. - strategically import macros from libecb and mark rarely-used functions
  124. as cache-cold (saving almost 2k code size on typical amd64 setups).
  125. - add Symbols.ev and Symbols.event files, that were missing.
  126. - fix backend_mintime value for epoll (was 1/1024, is 1/1000 now).
  127. - fix #3 "be smart about timeouts" to not "deadlock" when
  128. timeout == now, also improve the section overall.
  129. - avoid "AVOIDING FINISHING BEFORE RETURNING" idiom.
  130. - support new EV_API_STATIC mode to make all libev symbols
  131. static.
  132. - supply default CFLAGS of -g -O3 with gcc when original CFLAGS
  133. were empty.
  134. 4.04 Wed Feb 16 09:01:51 CET 2011
  135. - fix two problems in the native win32 backend, where reuse of fd's
  136. with different underlying handles caused handles not to be removed
  137. or added to the select set (analyzed and tested by Bert Belder).
  138. - do no rely on ceil() in ev_e?poll.c.
  139. - backport libev to HP-UX versions before 11 v3.
  140. - configure did not detect nanosleep and clock_gettime properly when
  141. they are available in the libc (as opposed to -lrt).
  142. 4.03 Tue Jan 11 14:37:25 CET 2011
  143. - officially support polling files with all backends.
  144. - support files, /dev/zero etc. the same way as select in the epoll
  145. backend, by generating events on our own.
  146. - ports backend: work around solaris bug 6874410 and many related ones
  147. (EINTR, maybe more), with no performance loss (note that the solaris
  148. bug report is actually wrong, reality is far more bizarre and broken
  149. than that).
  150. - define EV_READ/EV_WRITE as macros in event.h, as some programs use
  151. #ifdef to test for them.
  152. - new (experimental) function: ev_feed_signal.
  153. - new (to become default) EVFLAG_NOSIGMASK flag.
  154. - new EVBACKEND_MASK symbol.
  155. - updated COMMON IDIOMS SECTION.
  156. 4.01 Fri Nov 5 21:51:29 CET 2010
  157. - automake fucked it up, apparently, --add-missing -f is not quite enough
  158. to make it update its files, so 4.00 didn't install ev++.h and
  159. event.h on make install. grrr.
  160. - ev_loop(count|depth) didn't return anything (Robin Haberkorn).
  161. - change EV_UNDEF to 0xffffffff to silence some overzealous compilers.
  162. - use "(libev) " prefix for all libev error messages now.
  163. 4.00 Mon Oct 25 12:32:12 CEST 2010
  164. - "PORTING FROM LIBEV 3.X TO 4.X" (in ev.pod) is recommended reading.
  165. - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good
  166. testcase by Vladimir Timofeev).
  167. - ev_run will now always update the current loop time - it erroneously
  168. didn't when idle watchers were active, causing timers not to fire.
  169. - fix a bug where a timeout of zero caused the timer not to fire
  170. in the libevent emulation (testcase by Péter Szabó).
  171. - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion).
  172. - replace EV_MINIMAL by EV_FEATURES.
  173. - prefer EPOLL_CTL_ADD over EPOLL_CTL_MOD in some more cases, as it
  174. seems the former is *much* faster than the latter.
  175. - linux kernel version detection (for inotify bug workarounds)
  176. did not work properly.
  177. - reduce the number of spurious wake-ups with the ports backend.
  178. - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu).
  179. - do async init within ev_async_start, not ev_async_set, which avoids
  180. an API quirk where the set function must be called in the C++ API
  181. even when there is nothing to set.
  182. - add (undocumented) EV_ENABLE when adding events with kqueue,
  183. this might help with OS X, which seems to need it despite documenting
  184. not to need it (helpfully pointed out by Tilghman Lesher).
  185. - do not use poll by default on freebsd, it's broken (what isn't
  186. on freebsd...).
  187. - allow to embed epoll on kernels >= 2.6.32.
  188. - configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still
  189. override it.
  190. - ev.pod: greatly expanded the portability section, added a porting
  191. section, a description of watcher states and made lots of minor fixes.
  192. - disable poll backend on AIX, the poll header spams the namespace
  193. and it's not worth working around dead platforms (reported
  194. and analyzed by Aivars Kalvans).
  195. - improve header file compatibility of the standalone eventfd code
  196. in an obscure case.
  197. - implement EV_AVOID_STDIO option.
  198. - do not use sscanf to parse linux version number (smaller, faster,
  199. no sscanf dependency).
  200. - new EV_CHILD_ENABLE and EV_SIGNAL_ENABLE configurable settings.
  201. - update libev.m4 HAVE_CLOCK_SYSCALL test for newer glibcs.
  202. - add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
  203. - rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
  204. - rename ev_loop_count/depth/verify/loop/unloop.
  205. - remove ev_default_destroy and ev_default_fork.
  206. - switch to two-digit minor version.
  207. - work around an apparent gentoo compiler bug.
  208. - define _DARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT. just so.
  209. - use enum instead of #define for most constants.
  210. - improve compatibility to older C++ compilers.
  211. - (experimental) ev_run/ev_default_loop/ev_break/ev_loop_new have now
  212. default arguments when compiled as C++.
  213. - enable automake dependency tracking.
  214. - ev_loop_new no longer leaks memory when loop creation failed.
  215. - new ev_cleanup watcher type.
  216. 3.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
  217. - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested
  218. explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to
  219. catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.
  220. - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and
  221. that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD.
  222. - backport inotify code to C89.
  223. - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
  224. - ev_stat watchers could keep an erroneous extra ref on the loop,
  225. preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases
  226. provided by ry@tinyclouds.org).
  227. - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
  228. symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
  229. - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
  230. (patch by Didier Spezia).
  231. - take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock
  232. on fd creation, to avoid races.
  233. - the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows
  234. (analysed by lekma).
  235. - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for
  236. signalfd.
  237. - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff).
  238. - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference,
  239. so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might
  240. have caused the problems with 04_stat.t.
  241. - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API.
  242. 3.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
  243. - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
  244. to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
  245. - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
  246. potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repeated
  247. ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
  248. - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
  249. - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
  250. state when using libev's signal handling.
  251. - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
  252. on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
  253. 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
  254. - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
  255. instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
  256. - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
  257. - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
  258. ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
  259. ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
  260. about thread locking.
  261. - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
  262. - add ev_loop_depth.
  263. - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
  264. for new events.
  265. - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
  266. - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
  267. check that the syscall number is available before trying to
  268. use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
  269. - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
  270. slightly higher accuracy.
  271. - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
  272. !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
  273. - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
  274. - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
  275. - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
  276. - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
  277. 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
  278. - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
  279. will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
  280. - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
  281. watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
  282. that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
  283. (reported by blacksand blacksand).
  284. - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
  285. reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
  286. Malek Hadj-Ali).
  287. - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
  288. - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
  289. - add documentation section about priorities.
  290. - add a glossary to the documentation.
  291. - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
  292. - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
  293. 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
  294. - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
  295. failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
  296. - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
  297. back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
  298. operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
  299. - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
  300. (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
  301. 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
  302. - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
  303. missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
  304. - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
  305. - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
  306. - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
  307. select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
  308. allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
  309. - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
  310. libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
  311. attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
  312. it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
  313. should return fantasy port numbers.
  314. - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
  315. clearer diagnostics.
  316. - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
  317. a useless string instead of the expected version string
  318. (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
  319. 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
  320. - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
  321. freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
  322. - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
  323. a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
  324. - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
  325. (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
  326. (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
  327. - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
  328. automatically.
  329. - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
  330. to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
  331. - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
  332. - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
  333. ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
  334. - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
  335. - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
  336. - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
  337. so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
  338. - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
  339. 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
  340. - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
  341. kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
  342. "known to be good" list.
  343. - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
  344. (analysed by Roger Pack).
  345. - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
  346. confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
  347. I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
  348. with their C compiler.
  349. 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
  350. - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
  351. backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
  352. ADD fails with EEXIST.
  353. - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
  354. a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
  355. spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
  356. but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
  357. - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
  358. init functions.
  359. - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
  360. - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
  361. documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
  362. to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
  363. - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
  364. loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
  365. - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
  366. do similar changes for event.c.
  367. 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
  368. - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
  369. (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
  370. - ev_stat erroneously would try to add inotify watchers
  371. even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
  372. have a performance impact).
  373. - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
  374. occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
  375. - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
  376. 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
  377. - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
  378. embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
  379. - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
  380. - verify_watcher was not marked static.
  381. - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
  382. - documentation tweaks here and there.
  383. 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
  384. - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
  385. (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
  386. - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
  387. Matt Tolton).
  388. 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
  389. - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
  390. multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
  391. otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
  392. - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
  393. (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
  394. - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
  395. programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
  396. - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
  397. under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
  398. reported by Matt Tolton.
  399. - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
  400. - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
  401. is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
  402. switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
  403. have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
  404. - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
  405. and some other default values.
  406. 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
  407. - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
  408. provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
  409. - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
  410. - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
  411. codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
  412. - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
  413. of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
  414. 2-based heaps.
  415. - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
  416. memory accesses.
  417. - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
  418. - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
  419. - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
  420. - improve ev_stat docs.
  421. - add portability requirements section.
  422. - fix manpage headers etc.
  423. - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
  424. - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
  425. or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
  426. 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
  427. - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
  428. 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
  429. - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
  430. (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
  431. - added linux eventfd support.
  432. - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
  433. by libc header version if not using autoconf.
  434. - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
  435. - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
  436. C99 or gcc are available.
  437. - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
  438. - work around broken poll implementations potentially
  439. not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
  440. (no such systems are known at this time).
  441. - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
  442. also makes the erroneous valgrind complaints
  443. go away (noted by various people).
  444. - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
  445. (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer).
  446. - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
  447. - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
  448. 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
  449. - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
  450. by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
  451. - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
  452. - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
  453. flags of any outer loops anymore.
  454. - add ev_async_pending.
  455. 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
  456. - implement ev_async watchers.
  457. - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
  458. - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
  459. - improved documentation.
  460. 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
  461. - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
  462. - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
  463. - slightly improved documentation.
  464. - speed up signal detection after a fork.
  465. - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
  466. watchers.
  467. - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
  468. 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
  469. - separate Changes file.
  470. - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
  471. - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
  472. - change how include files are found.
  473. - doc updates.
  474. - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
  475. 2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
  476. - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
  477. - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
  478. - fix embed watchers.
  479. - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
  480. - added exported Symbol tables.
  481. - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
  482. - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
  483. 1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
  484. - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
  485. 1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
  486. - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
  487. (not relevant for perl).
  488. (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
  489. 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
  490. - original version; hacked together in <24h.