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Libevent 2.2.1-alpha includes a number of new features and performance improvements.
The log below tries to organize them by rough area of effect.
This release contains around 1000 patches (without merges) with 151 new contributors!
Some keywords highlights of this major release:
This release contains only bug fixes.
Please note, that you should use dist archives, i.e. libevent-2.1.11-stable.tar.gz, not the sources generated by github automatically
This release contains one ABI breakage fix (that had been introduced in 2.1.10, and strictly speaking this release breaks ABI again to make it compatible with 2.1.9 and less, please take a look at 18104973 for more details). Apart from that it contains some bug fixes, that grouped below.
And even though the return value for evbuffer_setcb() had been changed it
should ABI compatibl...
Finally 2.1.x stable release - 2.1.10-stable.
This release contains mostly fixes (some evbuffer oddity, AF_UNIX handling in http server, some UB fixes and others) but also some new functionality (without ABI breakage as usual) and now dist archive can be used for building on windows (getopt had been added into it).
I'm not going to attach ChangeLog here (since it is pretty large), but for t...
New 2.1.x release is out - 2.1.9-beta. The reason why it is beta, is because it is better to have few weeks (or more) to know about possible problems (although I'm pretty sure that it is good enough to be stable).
2.1.9 contains almost all patches from 2.2 (since 2.2 contains almost bug fixes only, except I guess only few patches or so), and it is pretty stable in regression tests, but n...