From: Nick Mathewson Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:49:03 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Add a changelog for 2.0.4-alpha from Git, sorted by hand X-Git-Tag: release-2.0.4-alpha~1 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3a5cfb0d381a1b9e7d69903c3005abf1e447658b;p=libevent Add a changelog for 2.0.4-alpha from Git, sorted by hand --- diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index c1efe651..ca2aa343 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,4 +1,169 @@ Changes in 2.0.4-alpha: + [Autogenerated from the Git log, sorted by hand.] +DOCUMENTATION + o Add stub header for 2.0.4-alpha changelog. (94d0065) + o Improve the README with more information and links. (0b42726) + o Add more people who wrote patches to the acknowledgments (0af10d5) + o Add a warning about the use of event_initialized. (f32b575) + o Add a LICENSE file so people can find our license easily (7067006) + o Add a new "hello world" sample program (becb9f9) + o Clarify status of example programs (d60a1bd) + o Update time-test.c to use event2 (f4190bf) + o Add the arc4random.c license to the LICENSE file. (e15e1e9) + +NEW FEATURES AND INTERFACE CHANGES + o Improved optional lock debugging. (0cd3bb9) + o Rate-limiting for bufferevents; group and individual limits are supported. (737c9cd) + o Testing code for bufferevent rate-limiting. (f0c0124) + o Make the initial nameserver probe timeout configurable. (1e56a32) + o Revise the locking API: deprecate the old locking callbacks and add trylock. (347952f) + o Do not make bufferevent_setfd implicitly disable EV_READ and EV_WRITE. (8274379) + o Do not ignore bufferevent_enable(EV_READ) before bufferevent_connect(). (4a5b534) + o Introduced evutil_make_socket_closeonexec() to preserve fd flags for F_SETFD. (d0939d2 Jardel Weyrich) + o evdns_getaddrinfo() now supports the /etc/hosts file. (72dd666) + o Look at the proper /etc/hosts file on windows. (66c02c7) + o Allow http connections to use evdns for hostname looksups. (c698b77) + o Changelist code to defer event changes until just before dispatch (27308aa) + o do not use a function to assign the evdns base; instead assign it via evhttp_connection_base_new() which is a new function introduced in 2.0 (5032e52) + o Functions to access more fields of struct event. (0683950) + o Make kqueue use changelists. (45e5ae3) + o Remove kqueue->pend_changes. (3225dfb) + o Minimize epoll_ctl calls by using changelist (c8c6a89) + o Add support for a "debug mode" to try to catch common errors. (cd17c3a) + o Note a missing ratelim function (361da8f) + o Add ev_[u]intptr_t to include/event2/util.h (1fa4c81) + o const-ify a few more functions in event.h (d38a7a1) + o Deprecate EVENT_FD and EVENT_SIGNAL. (f6b2694) + o Remove EVUTIL_CHECK_FMT. (6c21c89) + o Add EV_*_MAX macros to event2/util.h to expose limits for ev_* types. (aba1fff) o Functions to view and manipulate rate-limiting buckets. (85047a6) + o Add the rest of the integer limits, and add a test for them. (60742d5) + o Remove the 'flags' argument from evdns_base_set_option() (1dd7e6d) + o Add an arc4random implementation for use by evdns (d4de062) + o Use off_t for the length parameter of evbuffer_add_file (3fe60fd) + o Construct Windows locks using InitializeCriticalSectionAndSpinCount (32c6f1b) + o Expose view of current rate limit as constrained by group limit (162ce8a) + o Provide consistent, tested semantics for bufferevent timeouts (d328829) + +BUGFIXES AND TESTS + o Tolerate code that returns from a fatal_cb. (91fe23f) + o Parenthesize macro arguments more aggressively (07e9e9b) + o Fix memory-leak of signal handler array with kqueue. (e1ffbb8) + o Stop passing EVTHREAD_READ and EVTHREAD_WRITE to non-rw locks. (76cd2b7) + o Fix two use-after-free bugs in unit tests spoted by lock debugging (d84d838) + o Fix a locking bug in event_base_loop() (da1718b) + o Fix an evdns lock violation. (2df1f82 Zhuang Yuyao) + o Valgrind fix: Clear struct kevent before checking for OSX bug. (56771a3 William Ahern) + o Fix up evthread compilation on windows (bd6f1ba Roman Puls) + o Fix regress_iocp.c usage of old lock allocation macros. (31687b4 unknown) + o Update nmake makefile to build evthread.c (b62d979 unknown) + o Fix a crash when reading badly formatted resolve.conf; from Yasuoka Masahiko (6c7c579 Yasuoka Masahiko) + o Fix a snow leopard compile warning in the unit tests. (7ae9445) + o Fix compile on Snow Leopard with gcc warnings enabled (70cdfe4 Sebastian Hahn) + o Only define _GNU_SOURCE if it is not already defined. (ea6b1df Joachim Bauch) + o Update sample/signal-test.c to use newer APIs and not leak. (f6430ac Evan Jones) + o Fix a segfault when writing a very fragmented evbuffer onto an SSL (a6adeca Joachim Bauch) + o Fix a segfault when freeing SSL bufferevents in an unusual order (a773df5 Joachim Bauch) + o Drop install-sh from our git repo: a mismatched version could break "make dist" (6799527) + o Set all instances of the version number correctly. (5a112d3) + o Fix a few locking issues on windows. (c51bb3c unknown) + o Use evutil_socket_t, not int, when logging socket errors. (292467c) + o Fix up behavior of never-defered callbacks a little (390e056) + o Replace some cases of uint32_t with ev_uint32_t. (a47d88d) + o Fix compilation of devpoll.c by adding missing thread includes. (fee2c77 Dagobert Michelsen) + o Make evutil_make_socket_nonblocking() leave any other flags alone. (4c8b7cd Jardel Weyrich) + o Fix an fd leak in evconnlistener_new_bind(). (24fb502 Jardel Weyrich) + o Fix a bogus free in evutil_new_addrinfo() (0d64051 Jardel Weyrich) + o Adjusted fcntl() retval comparison on evutil_make_socket_nonblocking(). (4df7dbc Jardel Weyrich) + o Fix the code that allowed DNS options to not end with : (ee4953f) + o Fix crash bugs when a bufferevent's eventcb is not set. (2e8eeea) + o Fix test-ratelim compilation on Linux. (885b427) + o Fix compilation of rate-limiting code on win32. (165d30e) + o Eradicated the last free() call. Let mm_free() take care of deallocation. (0546ce1 Jardel Weyrich) + o Fix byte counts when mixing deferred and non-deferred evbuffer callbacks. (29151e6) + o Fixed a memory leak on windows threads implementation. The CRITICAL_SECTION was not being free'd in evthread_win32_lock_free(). (2f33e00 Jardel Weyrich) + o Fixed a fd leak in start_accepting(), plus cosmetic changes (4367a33 Jardel Weyrich) + o Improved error handling in evconnlistener_new_async(). Also keeping the fd open because it is not opened by this function, so the caller is responsible for closing it. Additionally, since evconnlistener_new_bind() creates a socket and passes it to the function above, it required error checking to close the same socket. (fec66f9 Jardel Weyrich) + o Don't use a bind address for nameservers on loopback (8d4aaf9) + o Fix compilation of rate-limit code when threading support is disabled (97a8c79) + o Detect setenv/unsetenv; skip main/base_environ test if we can't fake them. (7296971) + o Check more internal event_add() calls for failure (ff3f6cd) + o Fix windows and msvc build (5c7a7bc) + o Call event_debug_unassign on internal events (a19b4a0) + o Try to fix a warning in hash_debug_entry (137f2c6) + o Fix a dumb typo in ev_intptr_t definitions. (27c9a40) + o do not fail while sending on http connections the client closed. (93d7369) + o make evhttp_send() safe against terminated connections, too (3978180) + o Make Libevent 1.4.12 build on win32 with Unicode enabled. (000a33e Brodie Thiesfield) + o Fix some additional -DUNICODE issues on win32. (a7a9431) + o Add a check to make soure our EVUTIL_AI flags do not conflict with the native ones (c18490e) + o Always use our own gai_strerror() replacement. (6810bdb) + o Make RNG work when we have arc4random() but not arc4random_buf() (4ec8fea) + o validate close cb on server when client connection closes (2f782af) + o Fix two unlocked reads in evbuffer. (7116bf2) + o When working without a current event base, don't try to use IOCP listeners (cb52838) + o Fix getpid() usage on Windows (ff2a134) + o Add a unit test for secure rng. (48a29b6) + o Add some headers to fix freebsd compilation (b72be50) + o When connect() succeeds immediately, don't invoke the callback immediately. (7515de9) + o Suspend read/write on bufferevents during hostname lookup (db08f64) + o Make bufferevent_free() clear all callbacks immediately. (b2fbeb3) + o Fix some race conditions in persistent events and event_reinit (e2642f0) + o Fix a bug in resetting timeouts on persistent events when IO triggers. (38ec0a7) + o Add a test for timeouts on filtering bufferevents. (c02bfe1) + o Add test for periodic timers that get activated for other reasons (8fcb7a1) + o Use new timeval diff comparison function in bufferevent test (f3dfe46) + o Delete stack-alloced event in new unit test before returning. (7ffd387) + o Fix mingw compilation (23170a6) + o Try to define a sane _EVENT_SIZEOF_SIZE_T for msvc compilation (1e14f82) + o Fix arc4random compilation on MSVC. (98edb89) + o deal with connect() failing immediately (7bc48bf) + o Small cleanups on freebsd-connect-refused patch. (57b7248) + +BUILD AND DISTRIBUTION CHANGES + o Remove the contents of WIN32-Prj as unmaintained. (c69d5a5) + o Allow the user to redirect the verbose output of test/test.sh to a file (c382de6) + o Allow test.sh to be run as ./test/test.sh (7dfbe94) + o Never believe that we have pthreads on win32, even if gcc thinks we do. (78ed097) + o Make it compile under gcc --std=c89. (e2ca403) + o Fix a number of warnings from gcc -pedantic (918e9c5) + o Add the msvc-generated .lib files to .gitignore. (e244a2e) + o Add the "compile" script to gitignore. (1ba6bed) + +INTERNALS AND CODE CLEANUPS + o Add a .gitignore file. (ba34071) + o New EVTHREAD_TRY_LOCK function to try to grab a lock. (689fc09) + o Add the abilitity to mark some buffer callbacks as never-deferred. (438f9ed) + o Refactor our 'suspend operation' logic on bufferevents. (0d744aa) + o Simplify the read high-watermark checking. (5846bf6) + o Improve readability of evutil_unparse_protoname() (5a43df8 Jardel Weyrich) + o Expose our cached gettimeofday value with a new interface (47854a8) + o Whitespace fixes in test.sh (0b151a9) + o Enable branch-prediction hints with EVUTIL_UNLIKELY. (eaaf27f) + o Refactor code from evdns into a new internal "read a file" function. (0f7144f) + o Comestic changes in evconnlistener_new(), new_accepting_socket(), accepted_socket_invoke_user_cb() and iocp_listener_enable(). (510ab6b Jardel Weyrich) + o Add unit-test for bad_request bug fixed in 1.4 recently. (6cc79c6 Pavel Plesov) o Add a comment on evthread_enable_lock_debuging. (b9f43b2) + o Fix test.sh on shells without echo -n (94131e9) + o More unit tests for getaddrinfo_async: v4timeout and cancel. (a334b31) + o Make http use evconnlistener. (ec34533) + o move dns utility functions into a separate file so that we can use them for http testing (b822639) + o add a test for evhttp_connection_base_new with a dns_base (26714ca) + o forgot to add void to test function (78a50fe) + o Add a forgotten header (changelist-internal.h) (4b9f307) + o Remove some commented-out code in evutil (26e1b6f) + o Remove a needless include of rpc_compat.h (70a4a3e) + o Use less memory for each entry in a hashtable (a66e947) + o Try to untangle the logic in server_port_flush(). (439aea0) + o Use ev_[u]intptr_t types in place of [u]intptr_t (cef61a2) + o Reduce windows header includes in our own headers. (da6135e) + o clean up terminate_chunked test (e8a9782) + o Increment the submicro version number. (63e868e) + o Update event-config.h version number to match configure.in (aae7db5) + o Clean up formatting: Disallow space-before-tab. (8fdf09c) + o Clean up formatting: use tabs, not 8-spaces, to indent. (e5bbd40) + o Clean up formatting: remove trailing spaces (e5cf987) + o Clean up formatting: function/keyword spacing consistency. (4faeaea) + + Changes in 2.0.3-alpha: o Add a new code to support SSL/TLS on bufferevents, using the OpenSSL library (where available).