Re: [Libevent-users] ANN: Libevent 2.0.8-rc is released

[Ralph Castain <rhc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Nick

FWIW: the latest autoconf release (2.68) includes a number of changes to autoconf that causes libevent's configure logic to spew a flood of warnings. Jeff Squyres and I (with input from the autoconf team) have made the required changes to stop the warnings, but they are fairly extensive.

Just so you know, you aren't alone - every configure script we work with has the same problem :-(

Don't know if you want this for 2.0.x or not - we will be sending it upstream for your consideration sometime next week.


On Oct 14, 2010, at 8:00 PM, Nick Mathewson wrote:

> Hello again!
> 
> Thanks to many people's hard work, Libevent 2.0 has now had its third
> release candidate.  You can download it from the Sourceforge site at:
> 
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/levent/files/libevent/libevent-2.0/libevent-2.0.8-rc.tar.gz/download
> 
> There's also a pgp signature of it (by me) there, at:
> 
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/levent/files/libevent/libevent-2.0/libevent-2.0.8-rc.tar.gz.asc/download
> 
> Don't forget to validate the signature.   The complete list of changes
> is available in the ChangeLog file, included with the distribution.
> 
> Niels will upload this to monkey.org when he can; he's been super-busy
> with his work lately, which is why I've been doing the "lead
> developer" stuff these days.
> 
> *** What's new in Libevent 2.0.8-rc
> 
> Thanks to everybody who reported and fixed bugs in Libevent 2.0.7-rc,
> Libevent 2.0.8-rc should be much more stable and portable, especially
> for people using listeners, bufferevent filters, threads, signals,
> rate-limiting, and SSL.
> 
> For a complete list of changes, just see the ChangeLog included with
> the source distribution.
> 
> *** Fun facts about Libevent 2.0.8-rc:
> 
> This release changes fewer lines than any other in the 2.0 series.
> This might be because we are approaching stability!  It might also be
> because I was hosed with work in September.  But let's hope that
> stability is the answer.
> 
> 2.0.8-rc: 54 files changed, 981 insertions(+), 343 deletions(-)
> 2.0.7-rc: 61 files changed, 2459 insertions(+), 685 deletions(-)
> 2.0.6-rc: 104 files changed, 1749 insertions(+), 1192 deletions(-)
> 2.0.5-beta: 122 files changed, 3283 insertions(+), 1194 deletions(-)
> 2.0.4-alpha: 122 files changed, 8112 insertions(+), 4190 deletions(-)
> 2.0.3-alpha: 98 files changed, 10131 insertions(+), 2213 deletions(-)
> 2.0.2-alpha: 90 files changed, 5677 insertions(+), 1619 deletions(-)
> 2.0.1-alpha: 113 files changed, 23909 insertions(+), 7670 deletions(-)
> 
> Unit test coverage (by line) is up a fourth of a percent.  Ho-hum,
> still not at 80%.  Also, for the first time this release, I'm tracking
> branch coverage.  That's at 69.92% according to gcov.  More tests
> still needed.
> 
> *** Status: Libevent 2.0.x-rc and beyond.
> 
> Libevent 2.0 is *still* in feature-freeze (we won't add any more
> features to it), hack-freeze (no clever backend rewrites,
> refactorings, or major performance hacks), and API freeze (all code
> written to work with the documented APIs of Libevent 2.0.5-beta should
> continue to work with future versions of Libevent).  We might change
> our minds about any of the above if there turn out to be exceptionally
> good reasons to do so; this is an aspiration, not a promise. ;)
> 
> Please upload bug reports and patches to the sourceforge site at
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/levent/ .  Feature requests and
> non-bugfix enhancements will be acknowledged but politely deferred
> till we fork Libevent 2.0 into a stable maintenance branch and start
> development on 2.1.  I'm hoping to do that around 2.0.9-(rc/stable),
> which I hope to have our in a month or so.
> 
> I'm going to try to get more http bugfixes in over the next month.  My
> next mail will be about how to make sure your favorite http bug is one
> of the ones that gets attention.
> 
> *** Acknowledgements
> 
> Many thanks to everybody who contributed code, suggestions, or bug
> reports to this release, including but absolutely not limited to
> Christopher Davis, Jason Toffaletti, Michael Herf, Ralph Castain,
> Sebastian Hahn, and Simon Perreault.
> 
> eventfully yrs,
> --
> Nick Mathewson
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