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author | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2012-11-18 10:53:26 -0500 |
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committer | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2012-11-18 10:53:26 -0500 |
commit | 143cb613bdd68dda5f55ed26c63c2a7a06a2d99c (patch) | |
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Update changelog for 2.1.2-alpha
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@@ -1,4 +1,192 @@ -Changes in version 2.1.2-alpha (?? ??? 2012) +Changes in version 2.1.2-alpha (18 Nov 2012) + + Libevent 2.1.2-alpha includes more portable for monotonic timers, + refactors much of Libevent's internal and external infrastructure, + closes some longstanding gaps in the interface, makde other + improvements. Ths log below tries to organize features by rough area of + effect. It omits a few commits which were pure bugfixes on other commits + listed below. For more detail, see the git changelogs. For more + insight, see the "whatsnew-2.1.txt" document included in the Libevent + 2.1.2-alpha distribution. + + Libevent 2.1.2-alpha also includes all changes made in 2.0.19-stable + through 2.0.21-stable inclusive. + + Performance (core): + o Replace pipe-based notification with EVFILT_USER where possible. This + should make multithreaded programs on OSX and *BSD alert the main thread a + little faster. (53a07fe) + o Make th_base_lock nonrecursive. (9cd5acb) + + New/Changed API Functions: + o New event_get_priority() function to return an event's priority (f90e255) + o Add a bufferevent_get_priority() function (bd39554) + o Add an event_base_loopcontinue() to tell Libevent to rescan for more + events right away (7d6aa5e) + o Add a new callback to get called on evbuffer_file_segment free + (e9f8feb yangacer, 64051b9) + o Expose event_base_foreach_event() as a public API. (84fd6d7 Roman + Puls, 232055e, ffe1643) + o Add an event_remove_timer() to remove timer on an event without + deleting it (e3b2e08) + o Make bufferevent_set_timeouts(bev, NULL, NULL) have plausible + semantics (9dee36b) + o Rename event_enable_lock_debuging() to ..._debugging(). (The old name + should still work.) (07e132e) + o Add missing implementation for event_enable_debug_logging (3b3e21d) + + PORTABLE MONOTONIC TIMERS: + + Libevent 2.1.2 includes internal support for monotonic timers on + (nearly) all supported platforms, including Windows, and OSX. Libevent + applications should now be more resilient to jumps forwards or backwards + in the system clock. Also, on Linux systems with epoll, we now + optionally support microsecond-level timeouts (whereas epoll only + supports millisecond-precision timeouts). + + o Use mach_absolute_time() for monotonic clock support on OSX. (b8fd6f9) + o Do not track use_monotonic field when is no monotonic clock (cb653a0) + o EVENT_BASE_FLAG_PRECISE_TIMER indicates we want fine timer precision + (ddd69d3) + o On Linux, use CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE by default (55780a7) + o Implement a GetTickCount-based monotonic timer for Windows (d5e1d5a) + o Refactor monotonic timer handling into a new type and set of + functions; add a gettimeofday-based ratcheting implementation (f5e4eb0) + o Add EVENT_PRECISE_TIMER environment var for selecting precise-but-slow + timer (a2598ec) + o Implement fast/precise monotonic clocks on Windows (2c47045) + o Simple unit tests for monotonic timers (630f077) + o Improve the monotonic-time unit test: make it check the step size (7428c78) + o When PRECISE_TIMERS is set with epoll, use timerfd for microsecond + precision (26c7582) + o Split out time-related evutil functions into a new evutil_time.c (c419485) + o Split out time-related prototypes into time-internal.h (71bca50) + o Add evutil_time.obj to Makefile.nmake (0ba0683) + o Avoid giving a spurious warning when timerfd support is unavailable + (1aaf9f0 Dave Hart) + o Make test_evutil_monotonic a little more tolerant (def3b83) + o Avoid unused-var warning on systems with clock_gettime but without + CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE (9be5468) + +EVENT_BASE_ONCE LEAKS: + If a callback added by event_base_once() is never invoked, Libevent no + longer leaks internal memory. + + o Free dangling event_once objects on event_base_free() (c17dd59) + o Add a unit test in which an event is created with event_base_once() + but never fires (4343edf) + +TESTING SUPPORT, FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS: + + Libevent now disables by default its unit tests that would touch the + network, or that tend to fail on heavily-loaded systems. To re-enable + them, invoke the ./test/regress program with the @all alias. + + o Simplify test.sh code significantly. (9b856fd Ross Lagerwall) + o Make all tests that hit the network disabled by default (f2cea87) + o Avoid a resource leak on error in http client benchmark (ea92fba) + o Update to latest tinytest (911b4f0349377) (ef7c4f7) + o Avoid (unlikely) overflow in bench_httpclient.c (5671033) + o Shave 700 msec off the persistent_timeout_jump test (21205b8) + o Check return value of write() in regress.c (c8009d2) + o Make load-dependent monotonic timer tests off-by-default (2b6fe8b) + o Add deferred_cb_skew to list of timing-dependent tests (34c8f31) + o Avoid test -e; older shs don't have one. (f1bd938) + o Fix renegotiation test to work around openssl 1.0.1 bug (c2f3086) + o Fix a couple of compile warnings in the unit tests (5a9a014) + +MISC: + o Change evutil_weakrand_() to avoid platform random() (e86af4b Nicholas + Marriott, 3aa4415) + +INFRASTRUCTURE (Active-later events): + As a simplification and optimization to Libevent's "deferred callback" + logic (introduced in 2.0 to avoid callback recursion), Libevent now + treats all of its deferrable callback types using the same logic it uses + for active events. Now deferred events no longer cause priority + inversion, no longer require special code to cancel them, and so on. + + o Refactor the callback part of an event into its own event_callback + type (cba59e5) + o Add "active later" event_callbacks to supersede deferred (745a63d) + o event_base_assert_ok: check value of event_active_count for + correctness (fec8bae) + o Replace deferred_cbs with event_callback-based implementation. (ae2b84b) + o Replace more deferred_cb names with event_callback (a4079aa) + o Give event_base_process_active a single exit path (581b5be) + o Restore our priority-inversion-prevention code with deferreds (c0e425a) + o Refactor event_persist_closure: raise and extract some common logic + (bec22b4) + o Remove the unused bits from EVLIST_ALL (9889a3d) + +BUILD IMPROVEMENTS: + Libevent 2.1.2-alpha modernizes Libevent's use of autotools, and makes + numerous other build system. Parallel builds should be faster, and all + builds should be quieter. + + o Split long lists in Makefile.am into one-item-per-line (2711cda) + o Remove unnecessary code in configure.in. (e65914f Ross Lagerwall) + o attempt to support OpenSSL in Makefile.nmake (eba0eb2 Patrick Pelletier) + o Use newer syntax for autoconf/automake init (7d60ba8) + o Enable silent build rules by default. Override with V=1 (7b18e5c) + o Switch to non-recursive makefiles (7092f3b) + o Rename subordinate Makefile.ams to include.am (6cdfeeb) + o Make quiet build even quieter (371a123) + o New --quiet option for event_rpcgen.py (aa59c1e) + o Be quiet when making regress.gen.[ch] (607a8ff) + o Fix handling of no-python case for nonrecursive make (1e3123d) + o We now require automake 1.9 or later. Modernize! (b7f6e89) + o Rename configure.in to configure.ac. (b3fea67 Ross Lagerwall) + o Use correct openssl libs and includes in pkgconfig file (d70af27) + o Use the same CFLAGS for openssl when building unit tests as with + libevent (1d9d511) + +DOCUMENTATION + o Note that make_base_notifiable should not be necessary (26ee5f9) + o Be more clear that LEV_OPT_DEFERRED_ACCEPT has tricky prereqs (371efeb) + o Add caveat to docs about bufferevent_free() with data in outbuf (6fab9ee) + o Make it more clear that NOLOCK means "I promise, no multithreading" + (9444524) + o Fix a comment in test-fdleak after 077c7e949. (3881d8f Ross Lagerwall) + o Make the Makefile.nmake warning slightly less dire (e7bf4c8) + o Fix typo : events instead of evets (05f1aca Azat Khuzhin) + o Additional comments about OPENSSL_DIR variable, prompted by Dave Hart + (6bde2ef Patrick Pelletier) + +EVHTTP: + o ignore LWS after field-content in headers (370a2c0 Artem Germanov) + o Clean up rtrim implementation (aa59d80) + o Remove trailing tabs in HTTP headers as well. (ac42519) + o Remove internal ws from multiline http headers correctly (c6ff381) + o Move evutil_rtrim_lws_ to evutil.c where it belongs (61b93af) + o add evhttp_request_get_response_code_line (4f4d0c9 Jay R. Wren) + o Use EVUTIL_SOCKET_ERROR() wrapper to save/restore errno in + evhttp_connection_fail_ (7afbd60) + o preserve errno in evhttp_connection_fail_ for inspection by the + callback (36d0ee5 Patrick Pelletier) + +BUGFIXES: + o Correctly handle running on a system where accept4 doesn't work. (9fbfe9b) + o Avoid double-free on error in evbuffer_add_file. Found by + coverity. (6a81b1f) + o Fix another possible uninitialized read in dns regression tests. Found + by coverity. (13525c5) + o Add checks for functions in test-ratelim.c; found by Coverity (aa501e1) + o Avoid memory leak in test_event_calloc unit test; found by coverity + (92817a1) + o Fix a shadowed variable in addfile_test_readcb; found by coverity + (225344c) + o Check return value when using LEV_OPT_DEFERRED_ACCEPT. Found by + coverity (6487f63) + o Prevent reference leak of bufferevent if getaddrinfo fails. (b757786 + Joachim Bauch) + o Make event_base_getnpriorities work with old "implicit base" code + (c46cb9c) + o Simplify and correct evutil_open_closeonexec_ (0de587f) + o Fix event_dlist definition when sys/queue not included (81b6209 + Derrick Pallas) + + Changes in version 2.1.1-alpha (4 Apr 2012) |