[Levent-commits] [Libevent/master 1/2] Add a changelog for 2.0.4-alpha from Git, sorted by hand

[Nick M. <ni...@us...>]

Author: Nick Mathewson <ni...@to...>
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:49:03 -0500
Subject: Add a changelog for 2.0.4-alpha from Git, sorted by hand
Commit: 3a5cfb0d381a1b9e7d69903c3005abf1e447658b

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 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).
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