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Andy Greena35c86f2013-01-31 10:16:44 +08001Changelog
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Andy Green7b405452013-02-01 10:50:15 +08004(development since 1.1....)
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6User api additions
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8
9 - lws_get_library_version() returns a const char * with a string like
10 "1.1 9e7f737", representing the library version from configure.ac
11 and the git HEAD hash the library was built from
12
Andy Greena690cd02013-02-09 12:25:31 +080013 - TCP Keepalive can now optionally be applied to all lws sockets, with
14 controllable timeout, number of probes and probe interval. This
15 enables detection of idle connections which are logically okay, but
16 are in fact dead, due to network connectivity issues at the server,
17 client, or any intermediary. By default it's not enabled, but you
18 can enable it by setting a non-zero timeout (in seconds) at the new
19 ka_time member at context creation time.
20
Andy Green7b405452013-02-01 10:50:15 +080021
Andy Greened334462013-02-07 21:14:33 +080022User api changes
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Andy Green1b265272013-02-09 14:01:09 +080025 - libwebsocket_create_context() has changed from taking a ton of parameters
26 to just taking a pointer to a struct containing the parameters. The
27 struct lws_context_creation_info is in libwebsockets.h, the members
28 are in the same order as when they were parameters to the call
29 previously. The test apps are all updated accordingly so you can
30 see example code there.
31
Andy Greened334462013-02-07 21:14:33 +080032 - Header tokens are now deleted after the websocket connection is
Andy Green54495112013-02-06 21:10:16 +090033 established. Not just the header data is saved, but the pointer and
34 length array is also removed from (union) scope saving several hundred
35 bytes per connection once it is established
36
37 - struct libwebsocket_protocols has a new member rx_buffer_size, this
38 controls rx buffer size per connection of that protocol now. Sources
39 for apps built against older versions of the library won't declare
40 this in their protocols, defaulting it to 0. Zero buffer is legal,
41 it causes a default buffer to be allocated (currently 4096)
42
43 If you want to receive only atomic frames in your user callback, you
44 should set this to greater than your largest frame size. If a frame
45 comes that exceeds that, no error occurs but the callback happens as
46 soon as the buffer limit is reached, and again if it is reached again
47 or the frame completes. You can detect that has happened by seeing
48 there is still frame content pending using
49 libwebsockets_remaining_packet_payload()
50
51 By correctly setting this, you can save a lot of memory when your
52 protocol has small frames (see the test server and client sources).
53
54
55User api removals
56-----------------
57
58The configuration-time option MAX_USER_RX_BUFFER has been replaced by a
59buffer size chosen per-protocol. For compatibility, there's a default of
604096 rx buffer, but user code should set the appropriate size for the
61protocol frames.
Andy Greened334462013-02-07 21:14:33 +080062
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Andy Greendf60b0c2013-02-06 19:57:12 +090064New features
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Andy Green9b09dc02013-02-08 12:48:36 +080067 - Cmake project file added, aimed initially at Windows support: this replaces
Andy Greendf60b0c2013-02-06 19:57:12 +090068the visual studio project files that were in the tree until now.
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Andy Green9b09dc02013-02-08 12:48:36 +080070 - PATH_MAX or MAX_PATH no longer needed
Andy Greendf60b0c2013-02-06 19:57:12 +090071
Andy Green54495112013-02-06 21:10:16 +090072 - cutomizable frame rx buffer size by protocol
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Andy Green7b405452013-02-01 10:50:15 +080075
Andy Greenbd1132f2013-01-31 19:53:05 +080076v1.1-chrome26-firefox18
Andy Greena35c86f2013-01-31 10:16:44 +080077=======================
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79Diffstat
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81
82 Makefile.am | 4 +
83 README-test-server | 291 ---
84 README.build | 239 ++
85 README.coding | 138 ++
86 README.rst | 72 -
87 README.test-apps | 272 +++
88 configure.ac | 116 +-
89 lib/Makefile.am | 55 +-
90 lib/base64-decode.c | 5 +-
91 lib/client-handshake.c | 121 +-
92 lib/client-parser.c | 394 ++++
93 lib/client.c | 807 +++++++
94 lib/daemonize.c | 212 ++
95 lib/extension-deflate-frame.c | 132 +-
96 lib/extension-deflate-stream.c | 12 +-
97 lib/extension-x-google-mux.c | 1223 ----------
98 lib/extension-x-google-mux.h | 96 -
99 lib/extension.c | 8 -
100 lib/getifaddrs.c | 271 +++
101 lib/getifaddrs.h | 76 +
102 lib/handshake.c | 582 +----
103 lib/libwebsockets.c | 2493 ++++++---------------
104 lib/libwebsockets.h | 115 +-
105 lib/md5.c | 217 --
106 lib/minilex.c | 440 ++++
107 lib/output.c | 628 ++++++
108 lib/parsers.c | 2016 +++++------------
109 lib/private-libwebsockets.h | 284 +--
110 lib/server-handshake.c | 275 +++
111 lib/server.c | 377 ++++
112 libwebsockets-api-doc.html | 300 +--
113 m4/ignore-me | 2 +
114 test-server/Makefile.am | 111 +-
115 test-server/libwebsockets.org-logo.png | Bin 0 -> 7029 bytes
116 test-server/test-client.c | 45 +-
117 test-server/test-echo.c | 330 +++
118 test-server/test-fraggle.c | 20 +-
119 test-server/test-ping.c | 22 +-
120 test-server/test-server-extpoll.c | 554 -----
121 test-server/test-server.c | 349 ++-
122 test-server/test.html | 3 +-
123 win32port/zlib/ZLib.vcxproj | 749 ++++---
124 win32port/zlib/ZLib.vcxproj.filters | 188 +-
125 win32port/zlib/adler32.c | 348 ++-
126 win32port/zlib/compress.c | 160 +-
127 win32port/zlib/crc32.c | 867 ++++----
128 win32port/zlib/crc32.h | 882 ++++----
129 win32port/zlib/deflate.c | 3799 +++++++++++++++-----------------
130 win32port/zlib/deflate.h | 688 +++---
131 win32port/zlib/gzclose.c | 50 +-
132 win32port/zlib/gzguts.h | 325 ++-
133 win32port/zlib/gzlib.c | 1157 +++++-----
134 win32port/zlib/gzread.c | 1242 ++++++-----
135 win32port/zlib/gzwrite.c | 1096 +++++----
136 win32port/zlib/infback.c | 1272 ++++++-----
137 win32port/zlib/inffast.c | 680 +++---
138 win32port/zlib/inffast.h | 22 +-
139 win32port/zlib/inffixed.h | 188 +-
140 win32port/zlib/inflate.c | 2976 +++++++++++++------------
141 win32port/zlib/inflate.h | 244 +-
142 win32port/zlib/inftrees.c | 636 +++---
143 win32port/zlib/inftrees.h | 124 +-
144 win32port/zlib/trees.c | 2468 +++++++++++----------
145 win32port/zlib/trees.h | 256 +--
146 win32port/zlib/uncompr.c | 118 +-
147 win32port/zlib/zconf.h | 934 ++++----
148 win32port/zlib/zlib.h | 3357 ++++++++++++++--------------
149 win32port/zlib/zutil.c | 642 +++---
150 win32port/zlib/zutil.h | 526 ++---
151 69 files changed, 19556 insertions(+), 20145 deletions(-)
152
153user api changes
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155
156 - libwebsockets_serve_http_file() now takes a context as first argument
157
158 - libwebsockets_get_peer_addresses() now takes a context and wsi as first
159 two arguments
160
161
162user api additions
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164
165 - lwsl_...() logging apis, default to stderr but retargetable by user code;
166 may be used also by user code
167
168 - lws_set_log_level() set which logging apis are able to emit (defaults to
169 notice, warn, err severities), optionally set the emit callback
170
171 - lwsl_emit_syslog() helper callback emits to syslog
172
173 - lws_daemonize() helper code that forks the app into a headless daemon
174 properly, maintains a lock file with pid in suitable for sysvinit etc to
175 control lifecycle
176
177 - LWS_CALLBACK_HTTP_FILE_COMPLETION callback added since http file
178 transfer is now asynchronous (see test server code)
179
180 - lws_frame_is_binary() from a wsi pointer, let you know if the received
181 data was sent in BINARY mode
182
183
184user api removals
185-----------------
186
187 - libwebsockets_fork_service_loop() - no longer supported (had intractable problems)
188 arrange your code to act from the user callback instead from same
189 process context as the service loop
190
191 - libwebsockets_broadcast() - use libwebsocket_callback_on_writable[_all_protocol]()
192 instead from same process context as the service loop. See the test apps
193 for examples.
194
195 - x-google-mux() removed until someone wants it
196
197 - pre -v13 (ancient) protocol support removed
198
199
200New features
201------------
202
203 - echo test server and client compatible with echo.websocket.org added
204
205 - many new configure options (see README.build) to reduce footprint of the
206 library to what you actually need, eg, --without-client and
207 --without-server
208
209 - http + websocket server can build to as little as 12K .text for ARM
210
211 - no more MAX_CLIENTS limitation; adapts to support the max number of fds
212 allowed to the process by ulimit, defaults to 1024 on Fedora and
213 Ubuntu. Use ulimit to control this without needing to configure
214 the library. Code here is smaller and faster.
215
216 - adaptive ratio of listen socket to connection socket service allows
217 good behaviour under Apache ab test load. Tested with thousands
218 of simultaneous connections
219
220 - reduction in per-connection memory footprint by moving to a union to hold
221 mutually-exclusive state for the connection
222
223 - robustness: Out of Memory taken care of for all allocation code now
224
225 - internal getifaddrs option if your toolchain lacks it (some uclibc)
226
227 - configurable memory limit for deflate operations
228
229 - improvements in SSL code nonblocking operation, possible hang solved,
230 some SSL operations broken down into pollable states so there is
231 no library blocking, timeout coverage for SSL_connect
232
233 - extpoll test server merged into single test server source
234
235 - robustness: library should deal with all recoverable socket conditions
236
237 - rx flowcontrol for backpressure notification fixed and implmeneted
238 correctly in the test server
239
240 - optimal lexical parser added for header processing; all headers in a
241 single 276-byte state table
242
243 - latency tracking api added (configure --with-latency)
244
245 - Improved in-tree documentation, REAME.build, README.coding,
246 README.test-apps, changelog
247
248 - Many small fixes
249
250
251v1.0-chrome25-firefox17 (6cd1ea9b005933f)