Supposedly API backwards-compatible with libevent 1.x.
Will need a recursive revbump for shlib name changes, though.
All regression tests pass except "thread_conditions_simple". Not sure
why yet, but it's new API so shouldn't break anything existing in pkgsrc
today.
Changes in libevent 2.0 include cleaner interfaces, buffered I/O improvements,
improved multithreading and openssl integration.
1.4.3-stable:
1.4.2-rc:
* make Solaris event subsystems more reliable; from W.C.A. Wijngaards
* event_base_get_method(); from Springande Ulv
* fix HTTP/1.1 chunk formatting; from "propanbutan"
* allow 64-bit content lengths; from Scott Lamb
* and more...
1.4.1-beta:
* fixed some memory leaks and other misc cleanup; from Christopher Layne,
Scott Lamb and Charles Kerr
* introduced event_reinit to deal with fork()
* improved efficiency of generated RPC structure
* performance improvements to Win32 backend
* and many more...
1.4.0-beta:
* a new RPC subsytem for writing distributed clients and servers
* almost everything is documented via Doxygen now
* many fixes and improvements to evdns and evhttp
* libevent now builds two additional libraries: libevent_core (containing only
the event core) and libevent_extras (contained evdns, evhttp and evrpc)
* performance improvements due to using a heap instead of red-black trees for
timeouts
* Solaris' event ports are better supported
1.3e:
* Fix compilation on Solaris; from Magne Mahre
* Add a "Date" header to HTTP responses when it's missing, as required by
HTTP 1.1. Original Patch from Ralph Moritz.
* Fix a memory leak in which failed HTTP connections whould not free the
request object.
* Fix a memory leak in the DNS server.
* Handle NULL timeouts correctly on Solaris; from Trond Norbye
* Recalculate pending events properly when reallocating event array on
Solaris; from Trond Norbye
1.2a:
* Made HTTP support more usable
* Various portability fixes.
1.2:
* Support for non-blocking DNS resolution; from Adam Langley
and Nick Mathewson.
* Support for lightweight HTTP clients and servers.
* Support for Sun's Event Ports from David Pacheco of Sun.
# libevent-1.1.tar.gz - Release 2005-05-14
* Performance improvements from Nick Mathewson.
* Work around for kqueue bug in Mac OS X 10.4.
# libevent-1.0e.tar.gz - Release 2005-04-26
* Important fix to bug in poll implementation introduced in 1.0d.
# libevent-1.0d.tar.gz - Release 2005-04-22
* Several minor bug fixes and building of shared libraries.
The libevent API provides a mechanism to execute a callback function when a
specific event occurs on a file descriptor or after a timeout has been
reached.
libevent is meant to replace the asynchronous event loop found in event
driven network servers. An application just needs to call event_dispatch()
and can then add or remove events dynamically without having to change the
event loop.
Currently, libevent supports kqueue(2) and select(2). Support for poll(2)
and /dev/poll is planned. The internal event mechanism is completely
independent of the exposed event API, and a simple update of libevent can
provide this new functionality without having to redesign the server
applications.
