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4.27 Thu Jun 27 22:43:44 CEST 2019
	- linux aio backend almost completely rewritten to work around its
          limitations.
        - linux aio backend now requires linux 4.19+.
        - epoll backend now mandatory for linux aio backend.
        - fail assertions more aggressively on invalid fd's detected
          in the event loop, do not just silently fd_kill in case of
          user error.
        - ev_io_start/ev_io_stop now verify the watcher fd using
          a syscall when EV_VERIFY is 2 or higher.

4.26 (EV only)
	- update to libecb 0x00010006.
	- new experimental linux aio backend (linux 4.18+).
	- removed redundant 0-ptr check in ev_once.
        - updated/extended ev_set_allocator documentation.
        - replaced EMPTY2 macro by array_needsize_noinit.
        - minor code cleanups.
        - epoll backend now uses epoll_create1 also after fork.

4.25 Fri Dec 21 07:49:20 CET 2018
        - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: EV_THROW was renamed to EV_NOEXCEPT
          (EV_THROW still provided) and now uses noexcept on C++11 or newer.
	- move the darwin select workaround higher in ev.c, as newer versions of
          darwin managed to break their broken select even more.
	- ANDROID => __ANDROID__ (reported by enh@google.com).
        - disable epoll_create1 on android because it has broken header files
          and google is unwilling to fix them (reported by enh@google.com).
        - avoid a minor compilation warning on win32.
        - c++: remove deprecated dynamic throw() specifications.
        - c++: improve the (unsupported) bad_loop exception class.
        - backport perl ev_periodic example to C, untested.
        - update libecb, biggets change is to include a memory fence
          in ECB_MEMORY_FENCE_RELEASE on x86/amd64.
        - minor autoconf/automake modernisation.

4.24 Wed Dec 28 05:19:55 CET 2016
	- bump version to 4.24, as the release tarball inexplicably
          didn't have the right version in ev.h, even though the cvs-tagged
          version did have the right one (reported by Ales Teska).

4.23 Wed Nov 16 18:23:41 CET 2016
	- move some declarations at the beginning to help certain retarded
          microsoft compilers, even though their documentation claims
          otherwise (reported by Ruslan Osmanov).

4.22 Sun Dec 20 22:11:50 CET 2015
	- when epoll detects unremovable fds in the fd set, rebuild
          only the epoll descriptor, not the signal pipe, to avoid
          SIGPIPE in ev_async_send. This doesn't solve it on fork,
          so document what needs to be done in ev_loop_fork
          (analyzed by Benjamin Mahler).
	- remove superfluous sys/timeb.h include on win32
          (analyzed by Jason Madden).
        - updated libecb.

4.20 Sat Jun 20 13:01:43 CEST 2015
	- prefer noexcept over throw () with C++ 11.
        - update ecb.h due to incompatibilities with c11.
        - fix a potential aliasing issue when reading and writing
          watcher callbacks.

4.19 Thu Sep 25 08:18:25 CEST 2014
	- ev.h wasn't valid C++ anymore, which tripped compilers other than
          clang, msvc or gcc (analyzed by Raphael 'kena' Poss). Unfortunately,
          C++ doesn't support typedefs for function pointers fully, so the affected
          declarations have to spell out the types each time.
	- when not using autoconf, tighten the check for clock_gettime and related
          functionality.

4.18 Fri Sep  5 17:55:26 CEST 2014
	- events on files were not always generated properly with the
          epoll backend (testcase by Assaf Inbal).
	- mark event pipe fd as cloexec after a fork (analyzed by Sami Farin).
        - (ecb) support m68k, m88k and sh (patch by Miod Vallat).
        - use a reasonable fallback for EV_NSIG instead of erroring out
          when we can't detect the signal set size.
        - in the absence of autoconf, do not use the clock syscall
          on glibc >= 2.17 (avoids the syscall AND -lrt on systems
          doing clock_gettime in userspace).
        - ensure extern "C" function pointers are used for externally-visible
          loop callbacks (not watcher callbacks yet).
        - (ecb) work around memory barriers and volatile apparently both being
          broken in visual studio 2008 and later (analysed and patch by Nicolas Noble).

4.15 Fri Mar  1 12:04:50 CET 2013
        - destroying a non-default loop would stop the global waitpid
          watcher (Denis Bilenko).
	- queueing pending watchers of higher priority from a watcher now invokes
          them in a timely fashion (reported by Denis Bilenko).
	- add throw() to all libev functions that cannot throw exceptions, for
          further code size decrease when compiling for C++.
        - add throw () to callbacks that must not throw exceptions (allocator,
          syserr, loop acquire/release, periodic reschedule cbs).
	- fix event_base_loop return code, add event_get_callback, event_base_new,
          event_base_get_method calls to improve libevent 1.x emulation and add
          some libevent 2.x functionality (based on a patch by Jeff Davey).
        - add more memory fences to fix a bug reported by Jeff Davey. Better
          be overfenced than underprotected.
	- ev_run now returns a boolean status (true meaning watchers are
          still active).
	- ev_once: undef EV_ERROR in ev_kqueue.c, to avoid clashing with
          libev's EV_ERROR (reported by 191919).
	- (ecb) add memory fence support for xlC (Darin McBride).
	- (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-mips (Anton Kirilov).
	- (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-alpha (Christian Weisgerber).
        - work around some kernels losing file descriptors by leaking
          the kqueue descriptor in the child.
        - work around linux inotify not reporting IN_ATTRIB changes for directories
          in many cases.
        - include sys/syscall.h instead of plain syscall.h.
        - check for io watcher loops in ev_verify, check for the most
          common reported usage bug in ev_io_start.
        - choose socket vs. WSASocket at compiletime using EV_USE_WSASOCKET.
        - always use WSASend/WSARecv directly on windows, hoping that this
          works in all cases (unlike read/write/send/recv...).
        - try to detect signals around a fork faster (test program by
          Denis Bilenko).
        - work around recent glibc versions that leak memory in realloc.
        - rename ev::embed::set to ev::embed::set_embed to avoid clashing
          the watcher base set (loop) method.
        - rewrite the async/signal pipe logic to always keep a valid fd, which
          simplifies (and hopefully correctifies :) the race checking
          on fork, at the cost of one extra fd.
        - add fat, msdos, jffs2, ramfs, ntfs and btrfs to the list of
          inotify-supporting filesystems.
        - move orig_CFLAGS assignment to after AC_INIT, as newer autoconf
          versions ignore it before
          (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908096).
        - add some untested android support.
        - enum expressions must be of type int (reported by Juan Pablo L).

4.11 Sat Feb  4 19:52:39 CET 2012
	- INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: ev_timer_again now clears the pending status, as
          was documented already, but not implemented in the repeating case.
        - new compiletime symbols: EV_NO_SMP and EV_NO_THREADS.
	- fix a race where the workaround against the epoll fork bugs
          caused signals to not be handled anymore.
	- correct backend_fudge for most backends, and implement a windows
          specific workaround to avoid looping because we call both
          select and Sleep, both with different time resolutions.
        - document range and guarantees of ev_sleep.
        - document reasonable ranges for periodics interval and offset.
        - rename backend_fudge to backend_mintime to avoid future confusion :)
	- change the default periodic reschedule function to hopefully be more
          exact and correct even in corner cases or in the far future.
        - do not rely on -lm anymore: use it when available but use our
          own floor () if it is missing. This should make it easier to embed,
          as no external libraries are required.
        - strategically import macros from libecb and mark rarely-used functions
          as cache-cold (saving almost 2k code size on typical amd64 setups).
        - add Symbols.ev and Symbols.event files, that were missing.
        - fix backend_mintime value for epoll (was 1/1024, is 1/1000 now).

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        - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
        - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.

3.6  Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
	- multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
          will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
	- do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
          watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
          that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
          (reported by blacksand blacksand).
	- correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
          reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
          Malek Hadj-Ali).
        - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
        - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
        - add documentation section about priorities.
        - add a glossary to the documentation.
        - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
        - optimize a jump out of call_pending.

3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
	- fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
          failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
	- probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
          back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
          operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
        - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
          (default most everywhere), otherwise not.

3.52 Wed Jan  7 21:43:02 CET 2009
	- fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
          missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
        - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
        - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
        - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
          select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
          allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
        - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
          libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
          attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
          it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
          should return fantasy port numbers.
        - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
          clearer diagnostics.
        - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
          a useless string instead of the expected version string
          (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).

3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
        - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
          freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
	- new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
          a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
        - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
          (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
          (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
        - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
          automatically.
        - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
          to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
        - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
        - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
          ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
        - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
        - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
        - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
          so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
        - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.

3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
	- ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
          kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
          "known to be good" list.
        - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
          (analysed by Roger Pack).
        - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
          confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
          I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
          with their C compiler.

3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
	- further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
          backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
          ADD fails with EEXIST.
        - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
          a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
          spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
          but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
        - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
          init functions.
        - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
        - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
          documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
          to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
	- fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
          loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
        - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
          do similar changes for event.c.

3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
	- disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
          (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
        - ev_stat erroneously would try to add inotify watchers
          even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
          have a performance impact).
	- ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
          occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
	- disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.

3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
	- embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
          embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
	- new function: ev_now_update (loop).
	- verify_watcher was not marked static.
        - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
        - documentation tweaks here and there.

3.43 Sun Jul  6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
	- include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
          (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
	- add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by



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