Changes in version 2.0.17-stable (10 Feb 2012)
BUGFIXES (core):
o Be absolutely sure to clear pncalls before leaving event_signal_closure (11f36a5)
o check for sysctl before we use it (358c745 Mike Frysinger)
o Remove bogus casts of socket to int before calling ev_callback (f032516)
o Make evconnlistener work around bug in older Linux when getting nmapped (ecfc720)
o Fix a list corruption bug when using event_reinit() with signals present (6e41cdc)
o Fix a fd leak in event_reinit() (3f18ad1)
o Do a memberwise comparison of threading function tables (c94a5f2 Nate R)
o Use C-style comments in C source files (for compatibility with compilers such as xlc on AIX). (d84d917 Greg Hewgill)
o Avoid crash when freeing event_iocp and using event_set_mem_functions (19715a6
o In the kqueue backend, do not report EBADF as an EV_READ (5d7bfa1 Nicholas Marriott)
BUGFIXES (evbuffer and bufferevents):
o Fix behavior of evbuffer_peek(buf,-1,NULL,NULL,0) (c986f23 Zack Weinberg)
o Loop on filtering SSL reads until we are blocked or exhausted. (5b4b812)
BUGFIXES (evhttp):
o Force strict validation of HTTP version in response. (790f6b3 Catalin Patulea)
BUGFIXES (evdns):
o evdns: fix a bug in circular-queue implementation (d6094b1)
BUILD FIXES:
o Fix a silly compilation error with the sun compiler (1927776 Colin Watt)
o Suppress a gcc warning from ignoring fwrite return in http-sample.c (7206e8c)
DOCUMENTATION FIXES:
o Slightly clarify evbuffer_peek documentation (7bbf6ca)
o Update copyright notices to 2012 (e49e289)
NEW APIS:
o Backport evhttp_connection_get_bufferevent to Libevent 2.0 (da70fa7 Arno Bakker)
TESTS AND TEST FIXES:
o Fix a race condition in the dns/bufferevent_connect_hostname test. (cba48c7)
o Add function to check referential integrity of an event_base (27737d5)
o Check event_base correctness at end of each unit test (3312b02)
o Workaround in the unit tests for an apparent epoll bug in Linux 3.2 (dab9187)
o Better workaround for Linux 3.2 edge-triggered epoll bug (9f9e259)
Changes in version 2.0.16-stable (18 Nov 2011)
BUGFIXES (core):
o More detailed message in case of libevent self-debugging failure. (9e6a4ef Leonid Evdokimov)
o epoll: close fd on alloc fail at initialization (1aee718 Jamie Iles)
o Fix compile warning from saying event2/*.h inside a comment (447b0ba)
o Warn when unable to construct base because of failing make_base_notifiable (4e797f3)
o Don't try to make notifiable event_base when no threading fns are configured (e787413)
BUGFIXES (evbuffer):
o unit test for remove_buffer bug (90bd620 Greg Hazel)
o Fix an evbuffer crash in evbuffer_remove_buffer() (c37069c)
BUGFIXES (bufferevent_openssl):
o Refactor amount-to-read calculations in buffervent_ssl consider_reading() (a186e73 Mark Ellzey)
o Move SSL rate-limit enforcement into bytes_to_read() (96c562f)
o Avoid spinning on OpenSSL reads (2aa036f Mark Ellzey)
BUGFIXES (dns)
o Empty DNS reply with OK status is another way to say NODATA. (21a08d6 Leonid Evdokimov)
TESTING:
o Tests for 94fba5b and f72e8f6 (d58c15e Leonid Evdokimov)
o Test for commit aff6ba1 (f7841bf Leonid Evdokimov)
o Style and comment tweaks for dns/leak* tests (5e42202)
o improve test to remove at least one buffer from src (7eb52eb Greg Hazel)
DOCUMENTATION:
o Add note about evhttp_send_reply_end to its doxygen (724bfb5)
o Update copyright dates to 2011. (3c824bd)
o Fix typo in whatsnew-2.0.txt (674bc6a Mansour Moufid)
o Improve win32 behavior of dns-sample.c code (a3f320e Gisle Vanem)