Changlog and new acknowledgements for 2.0.6-rc

ChangeLog

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 Changes in 2.0.6-rc:
- [see git log for now]
+ [Autogenerated from the Git log, sorted by hand.]
+
+DOCUMENTATION
+ o Document a change in the semantics of event_get_struct_event_size() (e21f5d1)
+ o Add a comment to describe our plan for library versioning (9659ece)
+ o Fix sentence fragment in docs for event_get_struct_event_size() (7b259b6)
+
+NEW FEATURES AND INTERFACE CHANGES
+ o Remove the obsolete evthread interfaces (c5bab56)
+ o Let evhttp_send_error infer the right error reasons (3990669)
+ o Add a function to retrieve the other side of a bufferevent pair (17a8e2d)
+ o Add bufferevent_lock()/bufferevent_unlock() (215e629)
+ o Stop asserting when asked for a (unsupported) TCP dns port. Just return NULL. (7e87a59)
+ o Replace (unused,always 0) is_tcp argument to evdns_add_server_port*() with flags (e1c1167)
+ o Constify a couple of arguments to evdns_server_request_add_*_reply (cc2379d)
+ o Add an interface to expose min_share in ratelimiting groups (6ae53d6)
+
+BUGFIXES
+ o Avoid event_del on uninitialized event in event_base_free (6d19510)
+ o Add some missing includes to fix Linux build again (75701e8)
+ o Avoid close of uninitialized socket in evbuffer unit test (bda21e7)
+ o Correctly recognize .255 addresses as link-local when looking for interfaces (8c3452b)
+ o If no evdns request can be launched, return NULL, not a handle (b14f151)
+ o Use generic win32 interfaces, not ASCII-only ones, where possible. (899b0a3)
+ o Fix the default HTTP error template (06bd056 Felix Nawothnig)
+ o Close the file in evutil_read_file whether there's an error or not. (0798dd1 Pierre Phaneuf)
+ o Fix possible nullptr dereference in evhttp_send_reply_end() (29b2e23 Felix Nawothnig)
+ o never let bufferevent_rlim functions return negative (0859870)
+ o Make sample/hello_world work on windows (d89fdba)
+ o Fix a deadlock related to event-base notification.  Diagnosed by Zhou Li, Avi Bab, and Scott Lamb. (17522d2)
+ o Possible fix to 100% cpu usage with epoll and openssl (cf249e7 Mike Smellie)
+ o Don't race when calling event_active/event_add on a running signal event (fc5e0a2)
+ o Suppress a spurious EPERM warning in epoll.c (e73cbde)
+ o Fix wrong size calculation of iovec buffers when exact=1 (65abdc2 niks)
+ o Change bufferevent_openssl::do_write so it doesn't call SSL_write with a 0 length buffer (c991317 Mike Smellie)
+ o Fixed compilation of sample/le-proxy.c on win32 (13b912e Trond Norbye)
+ o Fix rate-limit calculation on openssl bufferevents. (009f300)
+ o Remember to initialize timeout events for bufferevent_async (de1f5d6 Christopher Davis)
+
+BUILD AND DISTRIBUTION CHANGES
+ o Test the unlocked-deferred callback case of bufferevents (dfb75ab)
+ o Remove the now-unusable EVTHREAD_LOCK/UNLOCK constants (fdfc3fc)
+ o Use -Wlogical-op on gcc 4.5 or higher (d14bb92)
+ o Add the libtool-generated /m4/* stuff to .gitignore (c21c663)
+ o Remove some automake-generated files from version control. (9b14911)
+ o Have autogen.sh pass --force-missing to automake (8a44062)
+ o Set library version for libevent_pthreads correctly (b2d7440)
+ o Really only add libevent_core.la to LIBADD on mingw (1425003 Sebastian Hahn)
+ o Build more cleanly with NetBSDs that dislike toupper(char) (42a8c71)
+ o Fix unit tests with -DUSE_DEBUG enabled (28f31a4)
+ o Fix evdns build with -DUNICODE (5fa30d2)
+ o Move event-config.h to include/event2 (ec347b9)
+
+TESTING
+ o Add options to test-ratelim.c to check its results (2b44dcc)
+ o Make test-ratelim clean up after itself better. (b5bfc44)
+ o Remove the now-obsolete setup_test() and cleanup_test() functions (e73f1d7)
+ o Remove all non-error prints from test/regress.c (8bc1e3d)
+ o Make test.sh exit with nonzero status if tests fail (faf2a04)
+ o Have the unit tests report errors from test.sh (3689bd2)
+ o Fix logic in correcting high values from FIONREAD (3467f2f)
+ o Add test for behavior on remote socket close (44d57ee)
+ o Unit test for event_get_struct_event_size() (7510aac)
+ o Make test/test.sh call test-changelist (7c92691)
+ o Fix badly-behaved subtest of dns/bufferevent_connect_hostname (840a72f Joachim Bauch)
+ o Add option to test-ratelim to test min_share (42f6b62)
+ o Fix an assertion bug in test-ratelim (b2c6202)
+ o Make tests quieter on local dns resolver failure (e996b3d)
+ o Increase the tolerance in our unit tests for sloppy clocks. (170ffd2)
+ o Use AF_INET socketpair to test sendfile on Solaris (9b60209)
+ o Make test-changelist count cpu usage right on win32 (ea1ea3d)
+
+INTERNALS, PERFORMANCE, AND CODE CLEANUPS
+ o Mark the event_err() functions as __attribute__((noreturn)) (33bbbed)
+ o Do not check that event_base is set in EVBASE_ACQUIRE_LOCK (218a3c3)
+ o Replace (safe) use of strcpy with memcpy to appease OpenBSD (caca2f4)
+ o Remove some dead assignments (47c5dfb)
+ o Fix a pedantic gcc 4.4 warning in event2/event.h (276e7ee)
+ o Drain th_notify_fd[0] more bytes at a time. (a5bc15b)
+ o Tidy up the code in evthread_make_base_notifiable a little (61e1eee)
+ o Pass flags to fcntl(F_SETFL) and fcntl(F_SETFD) as int, not long (7c2dea1)
+ o Remove unused variables in test/test-changelist.c (b00d4c0)
+ o Fix whitespace. (cb927a5)
+ o Improve error message for failed epoll to make debugging easier. (9e725f7)
+ o Turn our socketpair() replacement into its own function (57b30cd)
 
 
 Changes in 2.0.5-beta:

README

@@ -74,7 +74,9 @@ fixing bugs:
   Alejo
   Weston Andros Adamson
   William Ahern
+  Avi Bab
   Stas Bekman
+  Joachim Bauch
   Ka-Hing Cheung
   Andrew Danforth
   Christopher Davis
@@ -82,6 +84,7 @@ fixing bugs:
   Shie Erlich
   Alexander von Gernler
   Artur Grabowski
+  Sebastian Hahn
   Aaron Hopkins
   Tani Hosokawa
   Claudio Jeker
@@ -91,6 +94,7 @@ fixing bugs:
   Adam Langley
   Christopher Layne
   Philip Lewis
+  Zhou Li
   David Libenzi
   Moshe Litvin
   Hagne Mahre
@@ -99,6 +103,7 @@ fixing bugs:
   James Mansion
   Andrey Matveev
   Caitlin Mercer
+  Felix Nawothnig
   Trond Norbye
   Richard Nyberg
   Jon Oberheide
@@ -110,9 +115,11 @@ fixing bugs:
   Jon Poland
   Bert JW Regeer
   Hanna Schroeter
+  Mike Smellie
   Kevin Springborn
   Ferenc Szalai
   Dug Song
+  Brodie Thiesfield
   Zack Weinberg
   Taral
   propanbutan