Hello, everyone! Announcing Libevent 2.0.20-stable =================================
Libevent 2.0.20-stable is now tagged and released. The package is available from the *shiny new website* at http://libevent.org/ . There are GPG signatures there too; you should probably verify them, to make sure you get the software you think you are getting. What's New in Libevent 2.0.20-stable ==================================== This is a pretty small bugfix release, considering that it's been a few months. Most of the changes are code cleanups in the unit tests. Here's the ChangeLog for this release: BUGFIXES: o core: Make event_pending() threadsafe. (be7a95c Simon Liu) o win32: avoid crash when waiting forever on zero fds. (160e58b) o evhttp: Fix a memory leak on error in evhttp_uriencode (11c8b31) o evbuffer: Avoid possible needless call to writev. Found by coverity. (6a4ec5c) o evdns: memset sockaddr_in before using it. Found by coverity. (a1a0e67) o evhttp: Check more setsockopt return values when binding sockets. Found by coverity (a0912e3) o evdns: Avoid segfault on weird timeout during name lookup. (dc32077 Greg Hazel) o bufferevent_ssl: Correctly invoke callbacks when a SSL bufferevent reads some and then blocks. (606ac43) PORTABILITY FIXES: o check for arc4random_buf at runtime, on OS X (bff5f94 Greg Hazel) o Correctly check for arc4random_buf (fcec3e8 Sebastian Hahn) o Add explicit AC_PROG_SED to configure.in so all autoconfs will expose $(SED) (ca80ea6) BUILD FIXES: o Add GCC annotations so that the vsprintf functions get checked properly (117e327) o Fix an unused variable warning on *BSD. (c0720c1) UNIT TEST FIXES: o Fix a couple of memory leaks (found with Valgrind). (3b2529a Ross Lagerwall) o Remove deadcode in http regression tests. Found by coverity. (5553346) o Fix possible uninitialized read in dns regression tests. Found by coverity. (2259777) o Set umask before calling mkstemp in unit tests. Found by coverity (f1ce15d) o Fix various check-after-dereference issues in unit tests: found by coverity (4f3732d) o Fix resource leaks in the unit tests; found by coverity (270f279) o Add some missing null checks to unit tests; found by coverity (f021c3d) o Avoid more crashes/bad calls in unit tests; found by coverity (3cde5bf) o Remove unused variable; spotted by coverity (6355b2a) o Add checks to various return values in unit tests. Found by coverity (b9e7329) o Move assignment outside tt_assert in ssl unit tests. Appeases coverity. (a2006c0) Acknowledgments =============== Thanks to everybody who helped with code, bug reports, and suggestions, including but not limited to: Andrew Cox Sebastian Hahn Greg Hazel Andrew Hochhaus Ross Lagerwall Simon Liu -- Nick *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@freehaven.net with unsubscribe libevent-users in the body.
