Re: [Libevent-users] ANN: Libevent 2.0.7-rc is released

[Mihai Draghicioiu <mihai.draghicioiu@xxxxxxxxx>]

Good job.

However, i seem to be getting a lot of different crashes with the http
code. I'm not sure if it's my application or the libevent code, i'll
have to debug it, but i hope you've planned a http bug hunt until the
next tarball :)


On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Nick Mathewson <nickm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello again!
>
> Thanks to many people's hard work, Libevent 2.0 has now had its second
> release candidate. ÂYou can download it from the Sourceforge site at:
>
> Âhttps://sourceforge.net/projects/levent/files/libevent/libevent-2.0/libevent-2.0.7-rc.tar.gz/download
>
> There's also a pgp signature of it (by me) there, at:
>
> Âhttps://sourceforge.net/projects/levent/files/libevent/libevent-2.0/libevent-2.0.7-rc.tar.gz.asc/download
>
> Don't forget to validate the signature. Â The complete list of changes
> is available in the ChangeLog file, included with the distribution.
>
> Niels will upload this to monkey.org as soon as he has a chance; 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 2.0.7-rc
>
> Thanks to everybody who reported and fixed bugs in Libevent 2.0.6-rc,
> Libevent 2.0.7-rc should be much more stable and portable, especially
> for people using IOCP, Windows, rate-limiting, or threads.
>
> There are also numerous small bugfixes thoughout the codebase (though
> still not, alas, in the http stuff).
>
> For a complete list of changes, just see the ChangeLog included with
> the source distribution.
>
> *** Fun facts about Libevent 2.0.7-rc:
>
> This release changes more lines than 2.0.6-rc, but fewer than any
> other in the 2.0 series:
> 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(-)
>
> The big changes are mostly accounted for by the new condition-variable
> code that we needed to introduce to solve the deadlock bug discussed
> on the list last month, by Chris's IOCP fixes, and by new
> threading-related unit tests.
>
> Unit test coverage (for me, on Fedora 13) is at 79.25%, down from
> 79.76% in Libevent 2.0.5-beta. ÂLet's try to get back up to 80% for
> the release!
>
> *** 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). ÂWe 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/ . ÂFeature 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.
>
> *** Acknowledgements
>
> Many thanks to everybody who contributed code, suggestions, or bug
> reports to this release, including but absolutely not limited to Niels
> Provos, Christopher Davis, Avi Bab, Gilad Benjamini, Ralph Castain,
> Shuo Chen, Mihai Draghicioiu, Sebastian Hahn, Christopher Layne,
> Nicholas Marriott, and Ralf Schmitt.
>
> yrs,
> --
> Nick
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