Changelog and readme for 2.0.8-rc

ChangeLog

@@ -1,9 +1,50 @@
-Changes in 2.0.8-(rc/stable/????):
- [see the Git log for now.]
+Changes in 2.0.8-rc (14 Oct 2010):
+ [Autogenerated from the Git log, sorted and cleaned by hand.]
+NEW APIS
+ o Add error callback to evconnlistener (c4be8d8 Simon Perreault)
+ o Add a LEV_OPT_THREADSAFE option for threadsafe evconnlisteners (127d4f2)
+
+CHANGED BEHAVIOR
+ o Correct logic on disabling underlying bufferevents when disabling a filter (ac27eb8)
+
+BUGFIXES
+ o Obey enabled status when unsuspending (040a019 Simon Perreault)
+ o Warn when using the error-prone EV_SIGNAL interface in an error-prone way.  Also, fix a couple of race conditions in signal.c (720bd93)
+ O Make default signal backend fully threadsafe (95a7d41)
+ o Put internal events at highest priority (90651b3)
+ o Fix warnings in the main codebase flagged by -Wsigned-compare (9c8db0, 5e4bafb, 5c214a, 6be589a, e06f514)
+ o Fix compile in kqueue.c (b395392 Sebastian Hahn)
+ o Do not search outside of the system directory for windows DLLs (d49b5e3)
+ o Fix a spurious-call bug on epoll.c (0faaee0)
+ o Send a shutdown(SHUT_WR) before closing an http connection (e0fd870 Christopher Davis)
+ o Fix warnings on mingw with gcc 4.5 (5b7a370)
+ o Fix an EINVAL on evbuffer_write_iovec on OpenSolaris. (fdc640b)
+ o Fix allocation error for IOCP listeners. Probably harmless, since struct event is big (481ef92)
+ o Make iocp/listener/error work; don't accept again if lev is disabled. (62b429a Christopher Davis)
+ o Handle rate-limiting for reading on OpenSSL bufferevents correctly. (819b171)
+ o Fix serious bugs in per-bufferevent rate-limiting code (34d64f8)
+ o Avoid spurious reads from just-created open openssl bufferevents (223ee40)
+ o Fix a case where an ssl bufferevent with CLOSE_ON_FREE didn't close its fd (93bb7d8)
+ o The corrected bufferevent filter semantics let us fix our openssl tests (34331e4)
+
+TESTING
+ o Make SSL tests cover enabling/disabling EV_READ. (a5ce9ad)
+ o Bump to the latest version of tinytest (f0bd83e)
+ o Unit tests for listener error callbacks (045eef4)
+ o New unit test for ssl bufferevents starting with connected SSLs. (02f6259)
+
+DEBUGGABILITY
+ o Make debugging output for epoll backend more comprehensive (ec2b05e)
+ o Make event.c debugging messages report fds (e119899)
+ o Make the --enable-gcc-warnings option include signed comparison warnings (d3b096c)
+
+DEADCODE REMOVAL
+ o Remove the now-useless evsig_caught and evsig_process (4858b79)
+ o Remove event_base.evsigbase; nothing used it. (38d0960)
 
 
 
-Changes in 2.0.7-rc:
+Changes in 2.0.7-rc (9 Sep 2010):
  [Autogenerated from the Git log, sorted and cleaned by hand.]
 NEW APIS
  o Expose a evdns_base_nameserver_sockaddr_add() function to add a nameserver by sockaddr (1952143)
@@ -66,7 +107,8 @@ DOCUMENTATION
  o Update the whatsnew-2.0.txt document (4991669)
 
 
-Changes in 2.0.6-rc:
+
+Changes in 2.0.6-rc (6 Aug 2010):
  [Autogenerated from the Git log, sorted by hand.]
 DOCUMENTATION
  o Document a change in the semantics of event_get_struct_event_size() (e21f5d1)
@@ -153,7 +195,8 @@ INTERNALS, PERFORMANCE, AND CODE CLEANUPS
  o Turn our socketpair() replacement into its own function (57b30cd)
 
 
-Changes in 2.0.5-beta:
+
+Changes in 2.0.5-beta (10 May 2010):
  [Autogenerated from the Git log, sorted by hand.]
 DOCUMENTATION
  o Update all our copyright notices to say "2010" (17efc1c)
@@ -288,7 +331,7 @@ INTERNALS, PERFORMANCE, AND AND CODE CLEANUPS
 
 
 
-Changes in 2.0.4-alpha:
+Changes in 2.0.4-alpha (28 Feb 2010):
  [Autogenerated from the Git log, sorted by hand.]
 DOCUMENTATION
  o Add stub header for 2.0.4-alpha changelog. (94d0065)
@@ -455,7 +498,7 @@ INTERNALS AND CODE CLEANUPS
 
 
 
-Changes in 2.0.3-alpha:
+Changes in 2.0.3-alpha (20 Nov 2009):
  o Add a new code to support SSL/TLS on bufferevents, using the OpenSSL library (where available).
  o Fix a bug where we didn't allocate enough memory in event_get_supported_methods().
  o Avoid segfault during failed allocation of locked evdns_base. (Found by Rocco Carbone.)
@@ -512,7 +555,9 @@ Changes in 2.0.3-alpha:
  o Fix a race condition in the pthreads test case; found by Nick Mathewson
  o Remove most calls to event_err() in http and deal with memory errors instead
 
-Changes in 2.0.2-alpha:
+
+
+Changes in 2.0.2-alpha (25 Jul 2009):
  o Add a new flag to bufferevents to make all callbacks automatically deferred.
  o Make evdns functionality locked, and automatically defer dns callbacks.
  o Fix a possible free(NULL) when freeing an event_base with no signals.
@@ -560,7 +605,9 @@ Changes in 2.0.2-alpha:
  o event_get_supported_methods() now lists methods that have been disabled with the EVENT_NO* environment options.
  o Rename encode_int[64] to evtag_encode_int[64] to avoid polluting the global namespace.  The old method names are still available as macros in event2/tag_compat.h.
 
-Changes in 2.0.1-alpha:
+
+
+Changes in 2.0.1-alpha (17 Apr 2009):
  o free minheap on event_base_free(); from Christopher Layne
  o debug cleanups in signal.c; from Christopher Layne
  o provide event_base_new() that does not set the current_base global

README

@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ fixing bugs:
   Shie Erlich
   Alexander von Gernler
   Artur Grabowski
+  Michael Herf
   Sebastian Hahn
   Aaron Hopkins
   Tani Hosokawa
@@ -116,6 +117,7 @@ fixing bugs:
   Phil Oleson
   Dave Pacheco
   Tassilo von Parseval
+  Simon Perreault
   Pierre Phaneuf
   Ryan Phillips
   Jon Poland
@@ -127,6 +129,7 @@ fixing bugs:
   Ferenc Szalai
   Dug Song
   Brodie Thiesfield
+  Jason Toffaletti
   Zack Weinberg
   Taral
   propanbutan