Event-RPC/Changes
Revision history and release notes for Event::RPC:
1.10 Wed Jun 27, 2018, joern
Bugfixes:
- Test suite failed on newer Perl versions which
do not have . in @INC anymore.
1.09 Mon Jun 25, 2018, joern
Features:
- Event::RPC::Server->prepare() to support having
control over the Event loop yourself.
Bugfixes:
- SSL tests failed due to expired CA certificate.
Just created new certificates with 30 year
expiration and put a gen.sh script inside to
easily generate new certificates after that
period ;)
- Removed unused code. Thanks for the hint to
ppisar AT redhat.com.
1.08 Sun Sep 26, 2015, joern
Notes:
- Just a stable release without changes.
1.08_01 Sat Sep 26, 2015, joern
Features:
- Support for multiple serialisers: Sereal, CBOR::XS,
JSON::XS and Storable. That's because Storable is
known to be insecure, so this module should not
rely on it.
Great care has been taken to make these changes
up- and downwards compatible, so old clients still
can connect to new servers and vice versa.
Check documentation chapters MESSAGE FORMAT OPTIONS
in Event::RPC, Event::RPC::Server and Event::RPC::Client
manpages for details.
Thanks to mala <mala AT ma.la> for his hint about the
security issues of Storable. You find more details in
this article:
http://www.masteringperl.org/2012/12/the-storable-security-problem/
Bugfixes:
- Proper handling of exceptions which occur at the
server before a remote method is really executed,
e.g. when lookup of the class failed due to
incorrect @INC path.
- Fixed encoding of source files and corrected
the year of all Copyright notices.
1.07 Mon Sep 21, 2015, joern
Features:
- New method return type '_singleton'. Objects
created this way are never destroyed on the
server.
1.06 Sun Sep 20, 2015, joern
Features:
- New 'ssl_opts' attribute for Server and Client to
give more control over the SSL connection.
Bugfixes:
- Some tests failed due to stronger hostname verifcation
in IO::Socket:SSL >= 2.017. Fixed that by adding
proper certificates with cn 'localhost' and a test
which verifies the failing connection with wrong
hostname. Thanks to ppisar AT redhat.com. This
fixes rt #106874.
1.05 Tue Feb 28, 2014, joern
Features:
- New Method set_max_packet_size (Client and Server)
to change the default value of 2 GB up to 4 GB
(or less).
Bugfixes
- Increased default maximum packet size from 4 MB
to 2 GB.
- Fixed test suite for parallel execution by using
different port numbers for the test server.
Thanks for the report to Andreas König.
- Applied a patch from Salvatore Bonaccorso which
fixes missing encoding declarations in POD. Thanks!
- Fixed some POD typos. Thanks for the report to
Xavier Guimard.
1.04 Fri Feb 24, 2014, joern
Bugfixes
- Under certain infrequently conditions it could
happen that the server process blocked when
sending a response packet to a client.
- Event::RPC::Client failed loading when no
IO::Socket::SSL is installed.
1.03 Sat Feb 2, 2013, joern
Features:
- Added options 'ssl_ca_file and 'ssl_ca_path' options
to Event::RPC::Client, which enable SSL peer verifcation
on the client. Thanks for the report about a security
warning of IO::Socket::SSL to Moritz Bunkus.
1.02 Tue Mar 8, 2011, joern
Features:
- Added AnyEvent mainloop implementation.
1.01 Sat Oct 25, 2008, joern
Bugfixes:
- Even objects returned by methods not declared as
an "object returner" where turned into Event::RPC
object handles instead of copying the complete
data structure to the client. Thanks for the report
to Alex <alex AT lokku.com>.
1.00 Sat Jun 21, 2008, joern
Notes:
- Time for version 1.00 ;)
Features:
- load_modules option added to Event::RPC::Server.
- timeout option added to Event::RPC::Client. Patch
by Strzelecki Lukasz <strzelec AT rswsystems.pl>.
0.90 Sun Apr 23, 2006, joern
Notes:
- Just a change to the license, switched from LGPL
to Perl Artistic + GPL. Thanks for the hint about
the bad wording in the old license text to
Gregor Herrmann.
0.89 Mon Mar 27, 2006, joern
Features:
- New class_map attribute for Event::RPC::Client to be
able to use classes locally which are imported from the
server as well, by giving the server classes a different
name on the client.
- Turn execptions of unregistered object access into
warnings, which makes client / server communication
more robust and debugging easier.
Bugfixes:
- Fixed crashing when a method declared as an object
returner returned undef, which should be absolutely
legal.
- Fixed client side exceptions if server connection is
unexpectedly interrupted during a remote method call.
- Exceptions are now stringified before send to the
client, otherwise Storable may complain on exception
objects which can't be freezed e.g. due to embedded
code refs.
0.88 Sat Dec 24, 2005, joern
Bugfixes:
- Use Storable::nfreeze() to pack network messages, so
Event::RPC works with mixed endian architectures
as well. Patch by Rolf Grossmann <rg AT PROGTECH.net>.
0.87 Sun Dec 18, 2005, joern
Features:
- Delegation of authentication resp. user/password check
to an external module via Event::RPC::Server attribute
"auth_module". Old passwd hash based model is implemented
in Event::RPC::AuthPasswdHash.
- Fixed a typo in Event::RPC::Looger manpage. Thanks to
Sean <soso AT kol.co.nz> for the report.
- Cleaned up examples/: server.pl and client.pl now both
accept -h option for binding/connecting to a specific
host, not just localhost.
- Makefile.PL tuning: add detected optional modules to
PREREQ_PM to get their version numbers added to CPAN
Testers reports.
Bugfixes:
- ChangeLog entry 0.86 was wrong regarding the SSL stuff.
0.86 Sat Dec 17, 2005, joern
Features:
- added Event::RPC::Server->get_active_connection
- documented Event::RPC::Connection->get_client_oids
- added Event::RPC::Connection->get_client_object
Bugfixes:
- Added missing documentation for Event::RPC::Client's
error_cb attribute, which was just mentioned in
the SYNPOSIS.
- Fixed an incompatability with IO::Socket::SSL 0.97,
which doesn't return different sysread() states for
error and eof anymore which confused Event::RPC.
0.85 Sun Aug 28, 2005, joern
Bugfixes:
- Make server more bullet proof: handle log connections
even if no logger is set, but a log listener was started.
- Event::RPC::Server->new didn't recognize the
'connection_hook' parameter.
- Try making the testsuite more stable with Win32.
0.84 Mon Jul 25, 2005, joern
Bugfixes:
- Buffering for big incoming RPC requests (> 64KB) didn't
work properly
0.83 Fri Apr 15, 2005, joern
Features:
- Made more parts of the API public by documenting them.
- New server option "connection_hook" for accessing
Event::RPC::Connection objects during connecting and
disconnecting.
- New server option "auto_reload_modules" to control the
server's auto reloading facility, which was activated
by default up to now.
- New server option "host" to bind the listener to a
specific address. Default is to bind to all addresses.
- Increased connect performance by reducing the number
of messages exchanged between client and server.
- Client may request a subset of exported server classes.
Default is still to import all classes exported by the
server.
- Client checks Event::RPC version and used protocol version
on connect and warns different software versions but dies
on incompatible protocol versions. Naturally it's
recommended to use the same Event::RPC version on server
and client.
- Methods for getting client and server (after connecting)
software and protocol version numbers.
Bugfixes:
- Missed ReuseAddr on listener sockets.
- Made testsuite more robust
- Network logging clients could block the server by
sending data to it.
- Renamed client option 'server' to 'host', which is more
adequate. 'server' is still allowed but deprecated and
using it triggers a warning.
0.82 Sun Apr 10, 2005, joern
Notes:
- First public release. API is fairly stable.
Features:
- User/password based authentication added.
- Full documentation added.
- Test suite added which covers all connection
types and the most important features.
0.81 Sun Mar 13, 2005, joern
Notes:
- Still an internal release, incomplete documentation, no
test suite.
Features:
- Support for SSL encryption added using IO::Socket::SSL.
- Event loop abstraction. Event::RPC now works with Event
and Glib and can be easily extended for other event loop
frameworks. Thanks to Rocco Caputo for the suggestion.
0.80 Sun Mar 13, 2005, joern
Notes:
- A non public release. Only announced on the perl-loop mailing
list for the namespace request and to get comments. Module
is fully working but API isn't documented yet very well.
Security stuff (SSL encryption, some password authentication)
is missing also a complete test suite.
