libevent v2.1.5 Release Notes
Release Date: 2015-05-28 // almost 9 years ago-
π Security Fixes (evbuffers)
π o Avoid integer overflow bugs in evbuffer_add() and related functions. See CVE-2014-6272 advisory for more information. (d49bc0e88b81a5812116074dc007f1db0ca1eecd)π New APIs (evconnlistener)
o Provide support for SO_REUSEPORT through LEV_OPT_REUSABLE_PORT (b625361 Maciej Soltysiak)π 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)π 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)π Bugfixes (windows, IOCP)
o be async: avoid double close() (f133b86 Azat Khuzhin)π 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)
π 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)π New APIs (evhttp)
o Add evhttp_connection_set_family() to set addrinfo->family for DNS requests (12c29b0 Azat Khuzhin)
π o Implement interface that provides the ability to have an outbound evhttp_connection free itself once all requests have completed (2b9ec4c,10fe4f John Ohl)π New APIs (core)
o Implement new/free for struct evutil_monotonic_timer and export monotonic time functions (f2645f8 Andrea Shepard)π Bugfixes (evdns)
π o Load hosts file on Windows. (a0b247c Vilmos Nebehaj)
π 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)π Bugfixes (evhttp)
o http: reset connection before installing retry timer (fix http retries handling) (bc79cc5 Azat Khuzhin)β 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)
β o test/http: add regress test for set family to AF_INET6 (3fbf3cc Azat Khuzhin)
β‘οΈ o Update to a more recent tinytest_macros. (8da5a18)
π¦ o test/regress: add simplestsignal: to track reorder bugs separately (b897bef Azat Khuzhin)
β o test/evbuffer_peek: add regress in case we have first buffer greater (e2d139d Azat Khuzhin)
β 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)
β o Fix a use-after-free in unit tests. CID 752027 (3739057)
β o Fix a dead-code warning in unit tests. CID 1193548 (c119f24)
β 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)
β o Fix several memory leaks in the unit tests. (89c1a3b)
o Add test for evhttp_connection_free_on_completion (b0e9924 John Ohl)
β 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)π Bugfixes (build)
o Add missing headerfile for cmake (15d90cc Trond Norbye)
β o ignore one more test binary (b6593aa Michael Richardson)
β o ignore config.cache/test-driver files (c83f333 Mike Frysinger)
π§ o add a --disable-samples configure flag (0c492b3 Mike Frysinger)
o Add a few files created by "make verify" to .gitignore. (1a8295a Pierre Phaneuf)
β‘οΈ o updates in cmake build (27bd9fa Sergey Nikulov)
o Fix cmake error when the Module path has more than one entry. (befbd13 Acer Yang)
π o Fix CMake shared library build (e69d910 Nobuaki Sukegawa)
β 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)π 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)
π o [Bugfix] fix grammer error (3a4d249 ufo2243)
o Change return type of evutil_load_windows_system_library_ to HMODULE (f691389)
β o Fix a c90 warning (76643dd)
o Fix a typo in a doxygen comment. Reported by δΊ¦εΎ. (be1aeff)
π o remove trailing comma from enum (b361b8a Jean-Philippe Ouellet)π 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)