Improved
release-2.2.1-alpha
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:
- wepoll backend (by Nick Grifka, @nigriMSFT, #1006)
- signalfd backend (by Dmitry Antipov, @dmantipov, #1342)
- DNS over TCP for evdns (by ayuseleznev, @seleznevae, #1004)
- websockets layer (by Dmitry Ilyin, @widgetii, #1322)
- "prepare" and "check" watchers (by Dan Rosen, @mergeconflict, #793)
- MbedTLS support (by okhowang, @okhowang, #1028)
- unix domain sockets for HTTP (by Sean Young, @seanyoung, #322)