POE 0.9917 is out on the PAUSE, and it should be available at Your
Favorite CPAN Mirror shortly. And by "shortly" I mean "when your
mirror gets around to synchronizing". Whenever that is.
POE's been quite stable, and this release is mainly bug fixes. So
what's new? This release's Awards for Outstanding Contributions go to:
+ Rob Bloodgood! He provided a test case for an error that happened
while closing the main window in a Tk application, which made the bug
really easy to find and fix. Rob also successfully campaigned for
alias_resolve() not throwing fatal errors when the session can't be
resolved and assertions are enabled.
+ Matt Sickler! He singlehandedly removed all traces of new() from
the POE::Session docs.
+ David Davis! This long-time committer added a get_one() interface
to POE::Filter::HTTPD, making it switchable and maybe even improving
its ability to support keepalive.
+ Philip Gwyn! Philip hunted down an obscure reference counting bug
in sig_chld(). Formerly it was possible to stop a sig_chld() watcher
that wasn't active, causing the reference count for that watcher to
go negative. Hilarity would ensue. Now clowns everywhere are
mourning the loss of this pure comedy gold.
+ Whitney Jackson! Whitney found a race condition where unprocessed
lines in a rolled-away log would not be processed. His test case and
patch are in this release.
+ Paul Evans! Mr. Evans found an edge case in
POE::Component::Server::TCP. $heap->{connected} would not be cleared
when a connection's session was shut down. Now it's fixed.
And that's it for this release. Maybe your name will be here next time?
If you're looking for New and Exciting Developments, have a peek at
the various POE::Component modules throughout CPAN. I'm surprised by
something new nearly every time I look: http://search.cpan.org/search?
query=POE%3A%3AComponent&mode=dist
POE::Stage is slowly clawing its way out of the "experimental"
graveyard. You should track its progress at http://thirdlobe.com/svn/
poe-stage/trunk/ ... just in case it's behind you.
Thanks for reading, and enjoy!
--
Rocco Caputo - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
