Libevent 2.2.1-alpha includes a number of new features and performance
improvements.
The log below tries to organize them by rough area of effect.
This release contains around 1000 patches (without merges) with 151 new
contributors!
Some keywords highlights of this major release:
- wepoll backend (by Nick Grifka, @nigriMSFT, #1006)
- signalfd backend (by Dmitry Antipov, @dmantipov, #1342)
- DNS over TCP for evdns (by ayuseleznev, @seleznevae, #1004)
- websockets layer (by Dmitry Ilyin, @widgetii, #1322)
- "prepare" and "check" watchers (by Dan Rosen, @mergeconflict, #793)
- MbedTLS support (by okhowang, @okhowang, #1028)
- unix domain sockets for HTTP (by Sean Young, @seanyoung, #322)
- cmake over autotools/automake
- extensive CI (significant work by converting to github actions had been done by @ygj6, #951)
- documentation deploy - https://libevent.org/doc/
More descriptive changelog you will find in Changelog,
and there are some documentation about newly added features in whatsnew-2.2.txt
And here is a full list of all contributors:
@aapeliv @Aleksandr-Melnikov @alexbudgh @andreazevedo @azat @Berbe @Biswa96 @boryssmejda @botovq @carenas @chenshuo @chrstphrchvz @chux0519 @Coeur @cuishuang @cybojanek @danielkempenich @davidben @DavidKorczynski @ddcc @ddiss @delimitry @dmantipov @dota17 @dpayne @edigaryev @edo9300 @ejurgensen @emilengler @emmenlau @Epixu @fanquake @ffontaine @frestr @froexilize @fuel7inc @guoxiangCN @heaven-hq @hustlijian @hwhsu1231 @hwti @ibauersachs @ihsinme @iysheng @JackBoosY @jbeich @jcoffland @jeremy-murphy @jrtc27 @Keelan10 @keith @kenpingliu @kroeckx @krytarowski @lemourin lukka/run-vcpkg@v7 @lux01 @mareksm @mayerui @mdavidsaver @mergeconflict @mkckr0 @mkm85 @moonlightsh @msharov @NathanFrench @Neilpang @ngie-eign @ngorskikh @nicboul @nigriMSFT @nzh63 @OgreTransporter @okhowang @okodron @peadar @PhilipHomburg @ploxiln @posborne @pprindeville @ranchothu @rectified95 @rpavlik @sclei @seleznevae @sem-hub @sorc1 @stoeckmann @sungjungk @supersaiyanmode @Syedh30 @thuantr-dek @tobhe @tobim @uniontech-lilinjie @vjardin @wataash @wcsjdzz @widgetii @wodny @wrowe @ygj6 @yifan19 @yogo1212 @yongw5 @ZhipengXue97 @zltl