[Libevent-users] ANN: Libevent 1.4.2-rc released

[Niels Provos]

Hi,

we are getting closer to a stable release of the Libevent 1.4.x
series.  Today, we announce release candidate 1.4.2-rc which you can
download from:

  http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent-1.4.2-rc.tar.gz

We expect this to be very close to the final release.  Please, try it
and let us know if you find any problems with it, so that we can fix
them for the official release.

There are a number of changes since 1.4.1-beta, but no major feature
improvements:

 - New APIs
  - event_base_get_method() allows retrieval of the event mechanism
    used by libevent.
 - Bugfixes:
  - Solaris devpoll and event ports now get correctly initialized when
    calling event_reinit() after fork.  Some interrupt issues have been
    fixed, too
  - HTTP/1.1 chunking now correctly includes CRLF after each chunk.
 - Portability:
  - Integer types are now better detected on various platforms
  - Python is no longer required to generate code for the regression
    tests

See, the ChangeLog for more detail:

 http://levent.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/levent/branches/patches-1.4/libevent/ChangeLog?revision=664&view=markup

Nick and I have also started maintaining a "What's New in Libevent
1.4" document that explains the main differences from the 1.3 series.
You can see the latest draft at:

 https://levent.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/levent/branches/patches-1.4/libevent/whatsnew-14.txt

A lot more development is happening in trunk.  We expect major
performance improvements and major API cleanups in the 1.5 or 2.0
release - whatever it is going to be.

We would like to thank everyone who contributed to this release by
either submitting code or filing bug reports.  Here are just a few
names who helped make this release happen: W.C.A. Wijngaards,
Springande Ulv, "propanbutan", Scott Lamb, and Tani Hosokawa.  We
really appreciate your help.

To report a bug, make a feature request, or submit code, you can use
our sourceforge interface here:

 https://sourceforge.net/projects/levent

Thanks again,
 Niels.