o Avoid integer overflow bugs in evbuffer_add() and related functions. See CVE-2014-6272 advisory for more information. (d49bc0e88b81a5812116074dc007f1db0ca1eecd)
o Provide support for SO_REUSEPORT through LEV_OPT_REUSABLE_PORT (b625361 Maciej Soltysiak)
Bugfixes (core)
o Fix use-after-free error in EV_CLOSURE_EVENT callback (3cc0eac John Ohl)
o Fix race caused by event_active (3c7d6fc vjpai)
Bugfixes (evbuffer)
o Fix evbuffer_peek() with len==-1 and start_at non-NULL. (ba59923)
o Consistently check for failure from evbuffer_pullup() (60f8f72)
o Fix evbuffer_peek() with len==-1 and start_at non-NULL. (fb7e76a)
Bugfixes (windows, IOCP)
o be async: avoid double close() (f133b86 Azat Khuzhin)
Bugfixes (bufferevents)
o Fix issue #127, double free for filterevents that use BEV_OPT_CLOSE_ON_FREE (2c82aa0 John Ohl)
o make bufferevent_getwatermark api more robust (a21e510 ufo2243)
o [Bugfix] fix bufferevent setwatermark suspend_read (b34e4ac ufo2243)
o bufferevent_openssl: reset fd_is_set when setfd with -1 is called (3da84c2 Azat Khuzhin)
o Fix compilation for older OpenSSL versions. (5c7282f Joakim Soderberg)
New APIs (evhttp)
o Add evhttp_connection_set_family() to set addrinfo->family for DNS requests (12c29b0 Azat Khuzhin)
o Implement interface that provides the ability to have an outbound evhttp_connection free itself once all requests have completed (2b9ec4c,10fe4f John Ohl)
New APIs (core)
o Implement new/free for struct evutil_monotonic_timer and export monotonic time functions (f2645f8 Andrea Shepard)
Bugfixes (evdns)
o Load hosts file on Windows. (a0b247c Vilmos Nebehaj)
o Don't truncate hosts file path on Windows. (d0dc861 Vilmos Nebehaj)
o Fix a crash in evdns related to shutting down evdns (9f39c88,e8fe749)
o evdns: avoid read-after-free in evdns_request_timeout_callback() (61262a0 Azat Khuzhin)
o Correctly handle allocation failures in evdns_getaddrinfo (6a53d15)
o evdns: fix EVDNS_BASE_DISABLE_WHEN_INACTIVE in case retransmit/retry (74d0eee Azat Khuzhin)
o evdns: add retry/reissue tests for EVDNS_BASE_DISABLE_WHEN_INACTIVE (3ca9d43 Azat Khuzhin)
o evdns: fail ns after we are failing/retrasmitting request (97c750d Azat Khuzhin)
Bugfixes (evhttp)
o http: reset connection before installing retry timer (fix http retries handling) (bc79cc5 Azat Khuzhin)
Testing
o regress_dns: fix leaks in getaddrinfo_async{,_cancel_stress} tests (2fdc5f2 Azat Khuzhin)
o test: add family argument for http_connection_test_() (177b8a7 Azat Khuzhin)
o test: add regress for evhttp_connection_set_family() with AF_INET and AF_UNSPEC (42aefeb Azat Khuzhin)
o test/http: add regress test for set family to AF_INET6 (3fbf3cc Azat Khuzhin)
o Update to a more recent tinytest_macros. (8da5a18)
o test/regress: add simplestsignal: to track reorder bugs separately (b897bef Azat Khuzhin)
o test/evbuffer_peek: add regress in case we have first buffer greater (e2d139d Azat Khuzhin)
o More evbuffer_peek() test cases (154006a)
o use correct tt macro for pointer compare (08c88ea)
o regress_buffer: fix 'memcmp' compare size (79800df Maks Naumov)
o Fix a use-after-free in unit tests. CID 752027 (3739057)
o Fix a dead-code warning in unit tests. CID 1193548 (c119f24)
o Use evutil_weakrand() in unit tests. (a677b72, 364c110)
o Use a more precise calculation for max in time-ratelim.c (ca5b5c7)
o Make a buffer larger in the tests to avoid a scary evbuffer_copyout_from() (fb57b8b)
o Fix several memory leaks in the unit tests. (89c1a3b)
o Add test for evhttp_connection_free_on_completion (b0e9924 John Ohl)
o Fix annoying heisenbug in test-time.c (cb73704)
Sample code
o Make http-server.c output into good html5 (6d72bdc)
o Use FindClose for handle from FindFirstFile in http-server.c (6466e88)
o https-client: add -retries argument, for connection retries (d9da844 Azat Khuzhin)
Bugfixes (build)
o Add missing headerfile for cmake (15d90cc Trond Norbye)
o ignore one more test binary (b6593aa Michael Richardson)
o ignore config.cache/test-driver files (c83f333 Mike Frysinger)
o add a --disable-samples configure flag (0c492b3 Mike Frysinger)
o Add a few files created by "make verify" to .gitignore. (1a8295a Pierre Phaneuf)
o updates in cmake build (27bd9fa Sergey Nikulov)
o Fix cmake error when the Module path has more than one entry. (befbd13 Acer Yang)
o Fix CMake shared library build (e69d910 Nobuaki Sukegawa)
o Fix warnings when compiling with clang 3.5 (f5b4765 John Ohl)
o Fix mixed declarations and code (forbidden by ISO C90) (8afbdbc Thomas Bernard)
Bugfixes (miscellaneous)
o tree.h: drop duplicated content of tree.h (6193187 Azat Khuzhin)
o evdns: disable probing with EVDNS_BASE_DISABLE_WHEN_INACTIVE (610410b,ad0493e,fea86a6,d83b337,5ca9e97 Azat Khuzhin)
o [Bugfix] fix grammer error (3a4d249 ufo2243)
o Change return type of evutil_load_windows_system_library_ to HMODULE (f691389)
o Fix a c90 warning (76643dd)
o Fix a typo in a doxygen comment. Reported by 亦得. (be1aeff)
o remove trailing comma from enum (b361b8a Jean-Philippe Ouellet)
Bugfixes (FreeBSD)
o Handle ENOTCAPABLE from FreeBSD - this is returned if an event in the changelist is for an FD that has been closed. (6fd7394 Adrian Chadd)
Changes in version 2.1.4-alpha (21 Mar 2014)
Libevent 2.1.4-alpha adds a number of new miscellaneous APIs to make
Libevent more useful, including support for early close detection with
epoll via EPOLLRDHUP, triggering bufferevent callbacks, adding more
evhttp callbacks, and more. There are also numerous bugfixes, including
a number for finalize-related issues from 2.1.3-alpha; and an
alternative (non-primary!) cmake-based build mechanism.
New APIs (core)
o Added event_base_get_num_events() (0fa107d Mobai Zhang)
o New event_base_active_by_fd API (865a142 Greg Hazel, 5c9da9a, 87fa2b0)
o Add event_base_active_by_signal by analogy (4865943)
o Add access to max event count stats (5173bef, efbd3dc, 26230a2
Andrew Sweeney)
o Implemented EV_CLOSED event for epoll backend
(EPOLLRDHUP). (b1b69ac Diego Giagio, 53d2793, 43ffcf6, dfe1e52
Marcin Juszkiewicz, ff26633 Joakim Soderberg, 3908a5e)
New APIs (evutil_secure_rng)
o Add evutil_secure_rng_set_urandom_device_file (2bbb5d7)
New APIs (bufferevents)
o Add function to fetch underlying ratelimit cfg (4b3d5af Mark Ellzey)
o Pass and return const for bufferevent_get_token_bucket_cfg (1c77fbb
Mark Ellzey)
o Add watermark introspection (4ce242b Ondřej Kuzník)
o Add an option to trigger bufferevent I/O callbacks (61ee18b Ondřej Kuzník)
o Add an option to trigger bufferevent event callbacks (a7384c7
Ondřej Kuzník)
o Clarifications in response to merge req. comments (bd41947 Ondřej
Kuzník)
o Minor optimizations on bufferevent_trigger options (a3172a4)
New APIs (evhttp)
o Add evhttp_connection_get_server(). (a7f82a3 Maxime Henrion)
o add a http default content type option (5a5acd9 Nicolas Martyanoff)
o http: implement new evhttp_connection_get_addr() api. (0c7f040 Azat
Khuzhin)
o Add a variant of evhttp_send_reply_chunk() with a callback on
evhttp_write_buffer() (8d8decf Julien BLACHE)
o Allow registering callback for parsing HTTP headers (b0bd7fe Balint Reczey)
o Provide on request complete callback facility (b083ca0 Andrew Sweeney)
o evhttp_request_set_on_complete_cb to be more specific about what
the function actually does and usage (da86dda Andrew Sweeney)
o Update unit test to make sure that the callback happens after the
output data is written (b85f398 Andrew Sweeney)
Features (evdns)
o bug fix for issues #293 evdns_base_load_hosts doesn't remove
o fix #73 and fix http_connection_fail_test to catch it (crash fix) (b618204 Greg Hazel)
o Avoid racy bufferevent activation (5eb1788 Nate Rosenblum)
BUGFIXES (compilation and portability)
o Fix compilation with WIN32_HAVE_CONDITION_VARIABLES enabled (7e45739)
o Fix missing AC_PROG_SED on older Autoconfs (9ab2b3f Tay Ray Chuan)
o Backport libevent to vanilla Autoconf 2.59 (as used in RHEL5) (74d4c44 Kevin Bowling)
o Use AC_CONFIG_HEADERS in place of AM_CONFIG_HEADERS for autmake 1.13 compat (817ea36)
o Rename configure.in to configure.ac to appease newer autoconfs (0c79787)
o Avoid using top_srcdir in TESTS: new automakes do not like this (a55514e)
o Use windows vsnprintf fixup logic on all windows environments (e826f19)
o Fix a compiler warning when checking for arc4random_buf linker breakage. (5cb3865)
o Fix another arc4random_buf-related warning (e64a2b0)
BUGFIXES (resource leaks/lock errors on error)
o Avoid leaking fds on evconnlistener with no callback set (69db261)
o Avoid double-close on getsockname error in evutil_ersatz_socketpair (0a822a6)
o Fix a locking error in bufferevent_socket_get_dns_error. (0a5eb2e)
o libevent/win32_dealloc() : fix sizeof(pointer) vs sizeof(*pointer) (b8f5980 Frank Denis)
BUGFIXES (miscellaneous)
o Avoid other RNG initialization FS reads when urandom file is specified (9695e9c, bb52471)
o Avoid redundant invocations of init_extension_functions for IOCP (3b77d62)
BUFGIXES (evdns)
o Checking request nameserver for NULL, before using it. (5c710c0 Belobrov Andrey)
o Fix SEGFAULT after evdns_base_resume if no nameservers installed. (f8d7df8 Azat Khuzhin)
BUGFIXES (evutil_secure_random)
o When we seed from /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid, count it as success (e35b540)
o Document that arc4random is not a great cryptographic PRNG. (6e49696)
o Add evutil_secure_rng_set_urandom_device_file (2bbb5d7)
o Really remove RNG seeds from the stack (f5ced88)
DOCUMENTATION FIXES
o Fix a mistake in evbuffer_remove() arguments in example http server code (c322c20 Gyepi Sam)
o Fix a typo in a comment in buffer.h. Spotted by Alt_F4 (773b0a5)
Changes in version 2.0.21-stable (18 Nov 2012)
BUGFIXES:
o ssl: Don't discard SSL read event when timeout and read come close together (576b29f)
o ssl: Stop looping in "consider_reading" if reading is suspended. (f719b8a Joachim Bauch)
o ssl: No need to reserve space if reading is suspended. (1acf2eb Joachim Bauch)
o dns: Avoid a memory-leak on OOM in evdns. (73e85dd, f2bff75 George Danchev)
o build: Use python2 rather than python (0eb0109 Ross Lagerwall)
o build: Compile without warnings on mingw64 (94866c2)
o build: Fix compilation on mingw64 with -DUSE_DEBUG (62bd2c4)
o build: Make rpcgen_wrapper.sh work on systems without a "python2" binary (f3009e4)
o iocp: Close IOCP listener socket on free when LEV_OPT_CLOSE_ON_FREE is set (cb853ea Juan Pablo Fernandez)
o core: Avoid crash when event_pending() called with no event_base set on event (e3cccf3)
o misc: remove stray 'x' so print_err will compile when uncommented (ac35650 Patrick Pelletier)
o tests: Fix renegotiation test to work around openssl 1.0.1 bug (c2f3086)
o tests: Warn when openssl version in unit test mismatches compiled version. (ac009f9)
Changes in version 2.0.20-stable (23 Aug 2012)
BUGFIXES:
o core: Make event_pending() threadsafe. (be7a95c Simon Liu)
o win32: avoid crash when waiting forever on zero fds. (160e58b)
o evhttp: Fix a memory leak on error in evhttp_uriencode (11c8b31)
o evbuffer: Avoid possible needless call to writev. Found by coverity. (6a4ec5c)
o evdns: memset sockaddr_in before using it. Found by coverity. (a1a0e67)
o evhttp: Check more setsockopt return values when binding sockets. Found by coverity (a0912e3)
o evdns: Avoid segfault on weird timeout during name lookup. (dc32077 Greg Hazel)
o bufferevent_ssl: Correctly invoke callbacks when a SSL bufferevent reads some and then blocks. (606ac43)
PORTABILITY FIXES:
o check for arc4random_buf at runtime, on OS X (bff5f94 Greg Hazel)
o Correctly check for arc4random_buf (fcec3e8 Sebastian Hahn)
o Add explicit AC_PROG_SED to configure.in so all autoconfs will expose $(SED) (ca80ea6)
BUILD FIXES:
o Add GCC annotations so that the vsprintf functions get checked properly (117e327)
o Fix an unused variable warning on *BSD. (c0720c1)
UNIT TEST FIXES:
o Fix a couple of memory leaks (found with Valgrind). (3b2529a Ross Lagerwall)
o Remove deadcode in http regression tests. Found by coverity. (5553346)
o Fix possible uninitialized read in dns regression tests. Found by coverity. (2259777)
o Set umask before calling mkstemp in unit tests. Found by coverity (f1ce15d)
o Fix various check-after-dereference issues in unit tests: found by coverity (4f3732d)
o Fix resource leaks in the unit tests; found by coverity (270f279)
o Add some missing null checks to unit tests; found by coverity (f021c3d)
o Avoid more crashes/bad calls in unit tests; found by coverity (3cde5bf)
o Remove unused variable; spotted by coverity (6355b2a)
o Add checks to various return values in unit tests. Found by coverity (b9e7329)
o Move assignment outside tt_assert in ssl unit tests. Appeases coverity. (a2006c0)
Changes in version 2.0.19-stable (3 May 2012)
BUGFIXES (CORE):
o Refactor event_persist_closure: raise and extract some common logic (bec22b4)
o If time has jumped so we'd reschedule a periodic event in the past, schedule it for the future instead (dfd808c)
o If a higher-priority event becomes active, don't continue running events of the current priority. (2bfda40)
BUGFIXES (SSL):
o Fixed potential double-readcb execution with openssl bufferevents. (4e62cd1 Mark Ellzey)
BUGFIXES (DNS):
o Cancel a probe request when the server is freed, and ignore cancelled probe callbacks (94d2336 Greg Hazel)
o Remove redundant DNS_ERR_CANCEL check, move comment (46b8060 Greg Hazel)
o When retransmitting a timed-out DNS request, pick a fresh nameserver. (3d9e52a)
DOCUMENTATION FIXES:
o Fix a typo in the bufferevent documentation (98e9119)
o Add missing ) to changelog; spotted by rransom (4c7ee6b)
o Fix the website URL in the readme (f775521)
COMPILATION FIXES:
o Fix a compilation error with MSVC 2005 due to use of mode_t (336dcae)
o Configure with gcc older than 2.95 (4a6fd43 Sebastian Hahn)
o Generate event-config.h with a single sed script (30b6f88 Zack Weinberg)
FORWARD-COMPATIBILITY:
o Backport: provide EVENT_LOG_* names, and deprecate _EVENT_LOG_* (d1a03b2)
TESTING/DEBUGGING SUPPORT:
o dns-example.c can now take a resolv.conf file on the commandline (6610fa5)
o Make some evdns.c debug logs more verbose (d873d67)
o Work-around a stupid gcov-breaking bug in OSX 10.6 (b3887cd)
Changes in version 2.0.18-stable (22 Mar 2012)
BUGFIXES (core):
o Make uses of open() close-on-exec safe by introducing an internal evutil_open_closeonexec. (d2b5f72 Ross Lagerwall, 03dce42)
BUGFIXES (kqueue):
o Properly zero the kevent in kq_setup_kevent() (c2c7b39 Sebastian Hahn)
BUILD FIXES:
o Added OPENSSL_LDFLAGS env variable which is appended to SSL checks. (9278196 Mark Ellzey)
o Changed OPENSSL_LDFLAGS to OPENSSL_LIBADD (2d67b63 Mark Ellzey)
o Don't do clang version detection when disabling some flags (083296b Sebastian Hahn)
BUGFIXES (dns):
o Stop crashing in evdns when nameserver probes give a weird error (bec5068)
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)
Changes in version 2.0.15-stable (12 Oct 2011)
BUGFIXES (DNS):
o DNS: add ttl for negative answers using RFC 2308 idea. (f72e8f6 Leonid Evdokimov)
o Add DNS_ERR_NODATA error code to handle empty replies. (94fba5b Leonid Evdokimov)
BUFGIXES (bufferevents and evbuffers):
o Make evbuffer callbacks get the right n_added value after evbuffer_add (1ef1f68 Alex)
o Prefer mmap to sendfile unless a DRAINS_TO_FD flag is set. Allows add_file to work with SSL. (0ba0af9)
BUGFIXES (event loop):
o When a signal callback is activated to run multiple times, allow event_base_loopbreak to work even before they all have run. (4e8eb6a)
DOCUMENTATION FIXES:
o Fix docstring in dns.h (2b6eae5 Leonid Evdokimov)
o refer to non-deprecated evdns functions in comments (ba5c27d Greg Hazel)
BUILD AND TESTING FIXES:
o le-proxy and regress depend on openssl directly (9ae061a Sergey Avseyev)
o Use _SOURCES, not _sources, in sample/Makefile.am (7f82382)
o Fixed compiler warnings for unchecked read/write calls. (c3b62fd Mark Ellzey)
o Make write-checking fixes use tt_fail_perror (2b76847)
o Fix some "value never used" warnings with gcc 4.6.1 (39c0cf7)
Changes in version 2.0.14-stable (31 Aug 2011)
BUGFIXES (bufferevents and evbuffers):
o Propagate errors on the underlying bufferevent to the user. (4a34394 Joachim Bauch)
o Ignore OpenSSL deprecation warnings on OS X (5d1b255 Sebastian Hahn)
o Fix handling of group rate limits under 64 bytes of burst (6d5440e)
o Solaris sendfile: correctly detect amount of data sent (643922e Michael Herf)
o Make rate limiting work with common_timeout logic (5b18f13)
o clear read watermark on underlying bufferevent when creating filtering bev to fix potentially failing fragmented ssl handshakes (54f7e61 Joachim Bauch)
BUGFIXES (IOCP):
o IOCP: don't launch reads or writes on an unconnected socket (495c227)
o Make IOCP rate-limiting group support stricter and less surprising. (a98da7b)
o Have test-ratelim.c support IOCP (0ff2c5a)
o Make overlapped reads result in evbuffer callbacks getting invoked (6acfbdd)
o Correctly terminate IO on an async bufferevent on bufferevent_free (e6af35d)
BUGFIXES (other):
o Fix evsig_dealloc memory leak with debugging turned on. (9b724b2 Leonid Evdokimov)
o Fix request_finished memory leak with debugging turned on. (aff6ba1 Leonid Evdokimov)
BUILD AND TESTING FIXES:
o Allow OS-neutral builds for platforms where some versions have arc4random_buf (b442302 Mitchell Livingston)
o Try to fix 'make distcheck' errors when building out-of-tree (04656ea Dave Hart)
o Clean up some problems identified by Coverity. (7c11e51 Harlan Stenn)
Changes in version 2.0.13-stable (18 Jul 2011)
BUGFIXES
o Avoid race-condition when initializing global locks (b683cae)
o Fix bug in SSL bufferevents backed by a bev with a write high-watermarks (e050703 Joachim Bauch)
o Speed up invoke_callbacks on evbuffers when there are no callbacks (f87f568 Mark Ellzey)
o Avoid a segfault when all methods are disabled or broken (27ce38b)
o Fix incorrect results from evbuffer_search_eol(EOL_LF) (4461f1a)
o Add some missing checks for mm_calloc failures (89d5e09)
o Replace an assertion for event_base_free(NULL) with a check-and-warn (09fe97d)
o Report kqueue ebadf, epipe, and eperm as EV_READ events (1fd34ab)
o Check if the `evhttp_new_object' function in `http.c' returns NULL. (446cc7a Mansour Moufid)
o Use the correct printf args when formatting size_t (3203f88)
o Complain if the caller tries to change threading cbs after setting them (cb6ecee)
DOCUMENTATION FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS
o Revise the event/evbuffer/bufferevent doxygen for clarity and accuracy (2888fac)
o Update Doxyfile to produce more useful output (aea0555)
TEST FIXES
o Fix up test_evutil_snprintf (caf695a)
o Fix tinytest invocation from windows shell (57def34 Ed Day)
BUILD FIXES
o Use AM_CPPFLAGS in sample/Makefile.am, not AM_CFLAGS (4a5c82d)
o Fix select.c compilation on systems with no NFDBITS (49d1136)
o Fix a few warnings on OpenBSD (8ee9f9c Nicholas Marriott)
o Don't break when building tests from git without python installed (b031adf)
o Don't install event_rpcgen.py when --disable-libevent-install is used (e23cda3 Harlan Stenn)
o Fix AIX build issue with TAILQ_FOREACH definition (e934096)
Changes in version 2.0.12-stable (4 Jun 2011)
BUGFIXES
o Fix a warn-and-fail bug in kqueue by providing kevent() room to report errors (28317a0)
o Fix an assert-inducing fencepost bug in the select backend (d90149d)
o Fix failing http assertion introducd in commit 0d6622e (0848814 Kevin Ko)
o Fix a bug that prevented us from configuring IPv6 nameservers. (74760f1)
o Prevent size_t overflow in evhttp_htmlescape. (06c51cd Mansour Moufid)
o Added several checks for under/overflow conditions in evhttp_handle_chunked_read (a279272 Mark Ellzey)
o Added overflow checks in evhttp_read_body and evhttp_get_body (84560fc Mark Ellzey)
DOCUMENTATION:
o Add missing words to EVLOOP_NONBLOCK documentation (9556a7d)
BUILD FIXES
o libssl depends on libcrypto, not the other way around. (274dd03 Peter Rosin)
o Libtool brings in the dependencies of libevent_openssl.la automatically (7b819f2 Peter Rosin)
o Use OPENSSL_LIBS in Makefile.am (292092e Sebastian Hahn)
o Move the win32 detection in configure.in (ceb03b9 Sebastian Hahn)
o Correctly detect openssl on windows (6619385 Sebastian Hahn)
o Fix a compile warning with zlib 1.2.4 and 1.2.5 (5786b91 Sebastian Hahn)
o Fix compilation with GCC 2, which had no __builtin_expect (09d39a1 Dave Hart)
o Fix new warnings from GCC 4.6 (06a714f)
o Link with -lshell32 and -ladvapi32 on Win32. (86090ee Peter Rosin)
o Make the tests build when OpenSSL is not available. (07c41be Peter Rosin)
o Bring in the compile script from automake, if needed. (f3c7a4c Peter Rosin)
o MSVC does not provide S_ISDIR, so provide it manually. (70be7d1 Peter Rosin)
o unistd.h and sys/time.h might not exist. (fe93022 Peter Rosin)
o Make sure TINYTEST_LOCAL is defined when building tinytest.c (8fa030c Peter Rosin)
o Fix winsock2.h #include issues with MSVC (3d768dc Peter Rosin)
o Use evutil_gettimeofday instead of relying on the system gettimeofday. (0de87fe Peter Rosin)
o Always use evutil_snprintf, even if OS provides it (d1b2d11 Sebastian Hahn)
o InitializeCriticalSectionAndSpinCount requires _WIN32_WINNT >= 0x0403. (816115a Peter Rosin)
o cygwin: make it possible to build DLLs (d54d3fc)
Changes in version 2.0.11-stable (27 Apr 2011)
[Autogenerated from the Git log, sorted and cleaned by hand.]
BUGFIXES:
o Fix evport handling of POLLHUP and POLLERR (b42ce4b)
o Fix compilation on Windows with NDEBUG (cb8059d)
o Check for POLLERR, POLLHUP and POLLNVAL for Solaris event ports (0144886 Trond Norbye)
o Detect and handle more allocation failures. (666b096 Jardel Weyrich)
o Use event_err() only if the failure is truly unrecoverable. (3f8d22a Jardel Weyrich)
o Handle resize failures in the select backend better. (83e805a)
o Correctly free selectop fields when select_resize fails in select_init (0c0ec0b)
o Make --enable-gcc-warnings a no-op if not using gcc (3267703)
o Fix a type error in our (unused) arc4random_stir() (f736198)
o Correctly detect and stop non-chunked http requests when the body is too long (63a715e)
o Have event_base_gettimeofday_cached() always return wall-clock time (a459ef7)
o Workaround for http crash bug 3078187 (5dc5662 Tomash Brechko)
o Fix incorrect assertions and possible use-after-free in evrpc_free() (4b8f02f Christophe Fillot)
o Reset outgoing http connection when read data in idle state. (272823f Tomash Brechko)
o Fix subtle recursion in evhttp_connection_cb_cleanup(). (218cf19 Tomash Brechko)
o Fix the case when failed evhttp_make_request() leaved request in the queue. (0d6622e Tomash Brechko)
o Fix a crash bug in evdns server circular list code (00e91b3)
o Handle calloc failure in evdns. (Found by Dave Hart) (364291e)
o Fix a memory leak on win32 socket->event map. (b4f89f0)
o Add a forgotten NULL check to evhttp_parse_headers (12311ff Sebastian Hahn)
o Fix possible NULL-deref in evdns_cancel_request (5208544 Sebastian Hahn)
PORTABILITY:
o Fall back to sscanf if we have no other way to implement strtoll (453317b)
o Build correctly on platforms without sockaddr_storage (9184563)
o Try to build correctly on platforms with no IPv6 support (713c254)
o Build on systems without AI_PASSIVE (cb92113)
o Fix http unit test on non-windows platforms without getaddrinfo (6092f12)
o Do not check for gethostbyname_r versions if we have getaddrinfo (c1260b0)
o Include arpa/inet.h as needed on HPUX (10c834c Harlan Stenn)
o Include util-internal.h as needed to build on platforms with no sockaddr_storage (bbf5515 Harlan Stenn)
o Check for getservbyname even if not on win32. (af08a94 Harlan Stenn)
o Add -D_OSF_SOURCE to fix hpux builds (0b33479 Harlan Stenn)
o Check for allocation failures in apply_socktype_protocol_hack (637d17a)
o Fix the check for multicast or broadcast addresses in evutil_check_interfaces (1a21d7b)
o Avoid a free(NULL) if out-of-memory in evdns_getaddrinfo. Found by Dave Hart (3417f68)
DEFENSIVE PROGRAMMING:
o Add compile-time check for AF_UNSPEC==PF_UNSPEC (3c8f4e7)
BUGS IN TESTS:
o Fix test.sh output on solaris (b4f89b6 Dave Hart)
o Make test-eof fail with a timeout if we never get an eof. (05a2c22 Harlan Stenn)
o Use %s with printf in test.sh (039b9bd)
o Add an assert to appease clang's static analyzer (b0ff7eb Sebastian Hahn)
o Add a forgotten return value check in the unit tests (3819b62 Sebastian Hahn)
o Actually send NULL request in http_bad_request_test (b693c32 Sebastian Hahn)
o add some (void) casts for unused variables (65707d7 Sebastian Hahn)
o Refactor test_getaddrinfo_async_cancel_stress() (48c44a6 Sebastian Hahn)
o Be nice and "handle" error return values in sample code (4bac793 Sebastian Hahn)
o Check return value of evbuffer_add_cb in tests (93a1abb Sebastian Hahn)
o Remote some dead code from dns-example.c (744c745 Sebastian Hahn)
o Zero a struct sockaddr_in before using it (646f9fe Sebastian Hahn)
BUILD FIXES:
o Fix warnings about AC_LANG_PROGRAM usage (f663112 Sebastian Hahn)
o Skip check for zlib if we have no zlib.h (a317c06 Harlan Stenn)
o Fix autoconf bracket issues; make check for getaddrinfo include netdb.h (833e5e9 Harlan Stenn)
o Correct an AM_CFLAGS to an AM_CPPFLAGS in test/Makefile.am (9c469db Dave Hart)
o Fix make distcheck & installation of libevent 1 headers (b5a1f9f Dave Hart)
o Fix compilation under LLVM/clang with --enable-gcc-warnings (ad9ff58 Sebastian Hahn)
FEATURES:
o Make URI parser able to tolerate nonconformant URIs. (95060b5)
DOCUMENTATION:
o Clarify event_set_mem_functions doc (926f816)
o Correct evhttp_del_accept_socket documentation on whether socket is closed (f665924)
o fix spelling mistake in whatsnew-2.0.txt (deb2f73)
o Fix sample/http-server ipv6 fixes (eb692be)
o Comment internal headers used in sample code. (4eb281c)
o Be explicit about how long event loops run in event.h documentation (f95bafb)
o Add comment to configure.in to explain gc-sections test logic (c621359)
o Fix a couple of memory leaks in samples/http-server.c. Found by Dave Hart. (2e9f665)