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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
7------------------
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 Greena47865f2013-02-10 09:39:47 +080013 - TCP Keepalive can now optionally be applied to all lws sockets, on Linux
14 also with controllable timeout, number of probes and probe interval.
15 (On BSD type OS, you can only use system default settings for the
16 timing and retries, although enabling it is supported by setting
17 ka_time to nonzero, the exact value has no meaning.)
18 This enables detection of idle connections which are logically okay,
19 but are in fact dead, due to network connectivity issues at the server,
Andy Greena690cd02013-02-09 12:25:31 +080020 client, or any intermediary. By default it's not enabled, but you
21 can enable it by setting a non-zero timeout (in seconds) at the new
22 ka_time member at context creation time.
23
Andy Green7b405452013-02-01 10:50:15 +080024
Andy Greened334462013-02-07 21:14:33 +080025User api changes
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27
Andy Green1b265272013-02-09 14:01:09 +080028 - libwebsocket_create_context() has changed from taking a ton of parameters
29 to just taking a pointer to a struct containing the parameters. The
30 struct lws_context_creation_info is in libwebsockets.h, the members
31 are in the same order as when they were parameters to the call
32 previously. The test apps are all updated accordingly so you can
33 see example code there.
34
Andy Greened334462013-02-07 21:14:33 +080035 - Header tokens are now deleted after the websocket connection is
Andy Green54495112013-02-06 21:10:16 +090036 established. Not just the header data is saved, but the pointer and
37 length array is also removed from (union) scope saving several hundred
38 bytes per connection once it is established
39
40 - struct libwebsocket_protocols has a new member rx_buffer_size, this
41 controls rx buffer size per connection of that protocol now. Sources
42 for apps built against older versions of the library won't declare
43 this in their protocols, defaulting it to 0. Zero buffer is legal,
44 it causes a default buffer to be allocated (currently 4096)
45
46 If you want to receive only atomic frames in your user callback, you
47 should set this to greater than your largest frame size. If a frame
48 comes that exceeds that, no error occurs but the callback happens as
49 soon as the buffer limit is reached, and again if it is reached again
50 or the frame completes. You can detect that has happened by seeing
51 there is still frame content pending using
52 libwebsockets_remaining_packet_payload()
53
54 By correctly setting this, you can save a lot of memory when your
55 protocol has small frames (see the test server and client sources).
56
57
58User api removals
59-----------------
60
61The configuration-time option MAX_USER_RX_BUFFER has been replaced by a
62buffer size chosen per-protocol. For compatibility, there's a default of
634096 rx buffer, but user code should set the appropriate size for the
64protocol frames.
Andy Greened334462013-02-07 21:14:33 +080065
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Andy Greendf60b0c2013-02-06 19:57:12 +090067New features
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69
Andy Green9b09dc02013-02-08 12:48:36 +080070 - Cmake project file added, aimed initially at Windows support: this replaces
Andy Greendf60b0c2013-02-06 19:57:12 +090071the visual studio project files that were in the tree until now.
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Andy Green9b09dc02013-02-08 12:48:36 +080073 - PATH_MAX or MAX_PATH no longer needed
Andy Greendf60b0c2013-02-06 19:57:12 +090074
Andy Green54495112013-02-06 21:10:16 +090075 - cutomizable frame rx buffer size by protocol
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Andy Green7b405452013-02-01 10:50:15 +080078
Andy Greenbd1132f2013-01-31 19:53:05 +080079v1.1-chrome26-firefox18
Andy Greena35c86f2013-01-31 10:16:44 +080080=======================
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82Diffstat
83--------
84
85 Makefile.am | 4 +
86 README-test-server | 291 ---
87 README.build | 239 ++
88 README.coding | 138 ++
89 README.rst | 72 -
90 README.test-apps | 272 +++
91 configure.ac | 116 +-
92 lib/Makefile.am | 55 +-
93 lib/base64-decode.c | 5 +-
94 lib/client-handshake.c | 121 +-
95 lib/client-parser.c | 394 ++++
96 lib/client.c | 807 +++++++
97 lib/daemonize.c | 212 ++
98 lib/extension-deflate-frame.c | 132 +-
99 lib/extension-deflate-stream.c | 12 +-
100 lib/extension-x-google-mux.c | 1223 ----------
101 lib/extension-x-google-mux.h | 96 -
102 lib/extension.c | 8 -
103 lib/getifaddrs.c | 271 +++
104 lib/getifaddrs.h | 76 +
105 lib/handshake.c | 582 +----
106 lib/libwebsockets.c | 2493 ++++++---------------
107 lib/libwebsockets.h | 115 +-
108 lib/md5.c | 217 --
109 lib/minilex.c | 440 ++++
110 lib/output.c | 628 ++++++
111 lib/parsers.c | 2016 +++++------------
112 lib/private-libwebsockets.h | 284 +--
113 lib/server-handshake.c | 275 +++
114 lib/server.c | 377 ++++
115 libwebsockets-api-doc.html | 300 +--
116 m4/ignore-me | 2 +
117 test-server/Makefile.am | 111 +-
118 test-server/libwebsockets.org-logo.png | Bin 0 -> 7029 bytes
119 test-server/test-client.c | 45 +-
120 test-server/test-echo.c | 330 +++
121 test-server/test-fraggle.c | 20 +-
122 test-server/test-ping.c | 22 +-
123 test-server/test-server-extpoll.c | 554 -----
124 test-server/test-server.c | 349 ++-
125 test-server/test.html | 3 +-
126 win32port/zlib/ZLib.vcxproj | 749 ++++---
127 win32port/zlib/ZLib.vcxproj.filters | 188 +-
128 win32port/zlib/adler32.c | 348 ++-
129 win32port/zlib/compress.c | 160 +-
130 win32port/zlib/crc32.c | 867 ++++----
131 win32port/zlib/crc32.h | 882 ++++----
132 win32port/zlib/deflate.c | 3799 +++++++++++++++-----------------
133 win32port/zlib/deflate.h | 688 +++---
134 win32port/zlib/gzclose.c | 50 +-
135 win32port/zlib/gzguts.h | 325 ++-
136 win32port/zlib/gzlib.c | 1157 +++++-----
137 win32port/zlib/gzread.c | 1242 ++++++-----
138 win32port/zlib/gzwrite.c | 1096 +++++----
139 win32port/zlib/infback.c | 1272 ++++++-----
140 win32port/zlib/inffast.c | 680 +++---
141 win32port/zlib/inffast.h | 22 +-
142 win32port/zlib/inffixed.h | 188 +-
143 win32port/zlib/inflate.c | 2976 +++++++++++++------------
144 win32port/zlib/inflate.h | 244 +-
145 win32port/zlib/inftrees.c | 636 +++---
146 win32port/zlib/inftrees.h | 124 +-
147 win32port/zlib/trees.c | 2468 +++++++++++----------
148 win32port/zlib/trees.h | 256 +--
149 win32port/zlib/uncompr.c | 118 +-
150 win32port/zlib/zconf.h | 934 ++++----
151 win32port/zlib/zlib.h | 3357 ++++++++++++++--------------
152 win32port/zlib/zutil.c | 642 +++---
153 win32port/zlib/zutil.h | 526 ++---
154 69 files changed, 19556 insertions(+), 20145 deletions(-)
155
156user api changes
157----------------
158
159 - libwebsockets_serve_http_file() now takes a context as first argument
160
161 - libwebsockets_get_peer_addresses() now takes a context and wsi as first
162 two arguments
163
164
165user api additions
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167
168 - lwsl_...() logging apis, default to stderr but retargetable by user code;
169 may be used also by user code
170
171 - lws_set_log_level() set which logging apis are able to emit (defaults to
172 notice, warn, err severities), optionally set the emit callback
173
174 - lwsl_emit_syslog() helper callback emits to syslog
175
176 - lws_daemonize() helper code that forks the app into a headless daemon
177 properly, maintains a lock file with pid in suitable for sysvinit etc to
178 control lifecycle
179
180 - LWS_CALLBACK_HTTP_FILE_COMPLETION callback added since http file
181 transfer is now asynchronous (see test server code)
182
183 - lws_frame_is_binary() from a wsi pointer, let you know if the received
184 data was sent in BINARY mode
185
186
187user api removals
188-----------------
189
190 - libwebsockets_fork_service_loop() - no longer supported (had intractable problems)
191 arrange your code to act from the user callback instead from same
192 process context as the service loop
193
194 - libwebsockets_broadcast() - use libwebsocket_callback_on_writable[_all_protocol]()
195 instead from same process context as the service loop. See the test apps
196 for examples.
197
198 - x-google-mux() removed until someone wants it
199
200 - pre -v13 (ancient) protocol support removed
201
202
203New features
204------------
205
206 - echo test server and client compatible with echo.websocket.org added
207
208 - many new configure options (see README.build) to reduce footprint of the
209 library to what you actually need, eg, --without-client and
210 --without-server
211
212 - http + websocket server can build to as little as 12K .text for ARM
213
214 - no more MAX_CLIENTS limitation; adapts to support the max number of fds
215 allowed to the process by ulimit, defaults to 1024 on Fedora and
216 Ubuntu. Use ulimit to control this without needing to configure
217 the library. Code here is smaller and faster.
218
219 - adaptive ratio of listen socket to connection socket service allows
220 good behaviour under Apache ab test load. Tested with thousands
221 of simultaneous connections
222
223 - reduction in per-connection memory footprint by moving to a union to hold
224 mutually-exclusive state for the connection
225
226 - robustness: Out of Memory taken care of for all allocation code now
227
228 - internal getifaddrs option if your toolchain lacks it (some uclibc)
229
230 - configurable memory limit for deflate operations
231
232 - improvements in SSL code nonblocking operation, possible hang solved,
233 some SSL operations broken down into pollable states so there is
234 no library blocking, timeout coverage for SSL_connect
235
236 - extpoll test server merged into single test server source
237
238 - robustness: library should deal with all recoverable socket conditions
239
240 - rx flowcontrol for backpressure notification fixed and implmeneted
241 correctly in the test server
242
243 - optimal lexical parser added for header processing; all headers in a
244 single 276-byte state table
245
246 - latency tracking api added (configure --with-latency)
247
248 - Improved in-tree documentation, REAME.build, README.coding,
249 README.test-apps, changelog
250
251 - Many small fixes
252
253
254v1.0-chrome25-firefox17 (6cd1ea9b005933f)