Revision history for Socket

2.027   2018-01-12 16:58:47

        [BUGFIXES]

         * Reimplement croak_sv (securely) for older perls (RT124063)

2.026   2018-01-11 23:15:28

        [CHANGES]

         * Add TCP_USER_TIMEOUT (RT123253)

        [BUGFIXES]

         * Fix printf format specifier for STRLEN/sizeof (RT124044)

         * Recognise %Config key for HAS_GAI_STRERROR (RT124044)

         * Remove unused and insecure implementation of croak_sv (RT122830)

2.025   2018-01-09 15:12:51

        [CHANGES]

         * Add IPPROTO_ICMPV6

        [BUGFIXES]

         * Fix for C++11 compilers - require a space either side of

           string-pasting macros (thanks Karl Williamson)

         * Fix for machines lacking HAS_SOCKADDR_IN6 (RT116913) (thanks ilmari)

         * Print to STDERR on test failures (RT123436) (thanks ilmari)

2.024   2016/08/11 13:49:48

        [BUGFIXES]

         * Restore back-compat to pre-2.011 behaviour on undefined port

           numbers to pack_sockaddr_in(6?) - silently accept undef as zero

           (RT116699)

         * Warn if pack_sockaddr_un is truncating an overly long path

           (mitigates but does not resolve RT116819)

2.023   2016/08/02 14:50:50

        [CHANGES]

         * Add more socket(7), ip(7) and ipv6(7) socket options from Linux

        [BUGFIXES]

         * Fix skip count for abstract AF_UNIX path tests when not running on

           Linux

2.022   2016/08/01 16:02:48

        [CHANGES]

         * Throw exceptions if pack/unpack sockaddr functions are passed

           undefined arguments (RT116624)

        [BUGFIXES]

         * Fix coverty complaint (RT111707)

2.021   2015/11/18 17:09:13

        [CHANGES]

         * Add constants for TCP fastopen (RT105155)

        [BUGFIXES]

         * Respect HAS_GETHOSTBYNAME before calling gethostbyname() (RT105947)

         * Fixes for inet_pton() fallback on Win32 (RT107058)

         * Fix for INET_ADDRSTRLEN on AmigaOS (really!) (RT106797)

         * Provide gai_strerror() fallback on platforms that lack one

           (RT76091)

2.020   2015/06/24 14:45:25

        [CHANGES]

         * Provide more IPPROTO constants - IGMP, GRE, ESP, AH, SCTP

        [BUGFIXES]

         * Provide an SvPVx_nolen wrapper for older perls (<5.8.8) that lack

           it (RT104120)

2.019   2015/04/29 17:05:33

        [BUGFIXES]

         * Provide emulations of inet_ntop/inet_pton on MSWin32 by using

           WSAStringToAddress/WSAAddressToString

2.018   2015/02/12 13:42:41

        [BUGFIXES]

         * Fix for "addr is not a string" test to use SvPOKp() before 5.18

2.017   2015/02/10 12:05:14

        [CHANGES]

         * Added some more SO_* constants defined on Linux (thanks

           Ronald van Dorp)

        [BUGFIXES]

         * Remember to SvGETMAGIC in getnameinfo() (RT79557)

         * Quiet some compiler warnings (RT101495, RT100736)

         * Fix "Attempt to free unreferenced scalar" warnings (RT78626, et.al.)

2.016   2014/10/08 21:53:10

        [BUGFIXES]

         * Wrap configure tests in a {} block in case of C99-deficient

           compilers (RT99363)

         * #include <stddef.h> so that NULL definitely exists (RT98248)

         * Need to pass NI_NUMERICSERV during unit tests for some OSes not to

           error (VMS) (RT98217)

2.015   2014/08/15 23:27:07

        [BUGFIXES]

         * Test multiple possibnle portnum->name lookups in case /etc/services

           lacks one (RT96874)

         * Stronger kill in unit-test for cygwin (RT97773)

         * Don't try to assert the result of getnameinfo() to match

           gethostbyaddr() or getservbyport() (RT77248)

         * Ensure that 'socktype' hint is always passed to getaddrinfo during

           unit-testing (RT96274)

         * Fix regexp borrowed from Regexp::Common::net (RT96274)

2.014   2014/06/01 00:09:13

        [BUGFIXES]

         * Make sure to (UV)-cast arguments sprintf'ed with UVf

         * Use STRUCT_OFFSET() instead of plain C99 offsetof() (RT96036)

         * Fix the regexp used to filter for numeric IP addresses in

           fake_getaddrinfo() (RT95758)

         * Protect against getprotobyname() not being available (RT90217)

2.013   2013/10/28 00:49:43

        [BUGFIXES]

         * Unit-test bugfixes for VMS (RT89766):

            + Need to pass protocol => IPPROTO_TCP to avoid SCTP as well

            + Perform AI_NUMERICHOST test against non-"localhost"

            + May have to set NI_NUMERICSERV flag if it fails without

           (thanks Craig A. Berry)

2.012   2013/09/03 13:20:09

        [CHANGES]

         * <ws2tcpip.h> is not needed on WinCE (RT87389)

         * "#undef interface" to avoid issues from Windows' <ole2.h> (RT87389)

2013/07/28

2.011   CHANGES:

         * Handle FreeBSD (or other platforms) returning shorter AF_UNIX

           sockaddr structures due to embedded sun_len (RT86613)

           (thanks Maxime Soulé; MAXS)

2013/06/24

2.010   CHANGES:

         * Wrap some IPTOS_* constants, which may come from <netinet/ip.h>

         * Probe for and optionally include <netinet/ip.h>

         * Defeat C compilers' attempts to optimise away configure-time probes

           for functions that are never called

2013/01/18

2.009   CHANGES:

         * Fix building in core by skipping check_for() as it doesn't work

           there (RT82760)

2012/12/27

2.008   CHANGES:

         * Fix uninitialised memory read (RT82119)

2012/12/16

2.007   CHANGES:

         * Test %Config keys for definedness, not mere existence (RT79854)

         * Fix missing argument in sprintf in Socket.xs (from perl.git

           5d6dfea82e1c4b6, RT82007)

2012/08/19

2.006   CHANGES:

         * Fix AF_INET6 test skip counts in t/sockaddr.t (RT79071)

         * Define mPUSHs() as it's lacking before 5.10.1

2012/08/16

2.005   CHANGES:

         * Have unpack_sockaddr_in{,6} return just the IP address in scalar

           context

         * Guard against incorrect length scalars being passed in to inet_ntop

           (RT78890)

2012/08/15

2.004   BUGFIXES:

         * Put skip() arguments the right way around in t/ip_mreq.t (RT78986)

2012/08/15

 ** Do not use; see 2.004 **

2.003   CHANGES:

         * Added IPV6_JOIN_GROUP and IPV6_LEAVE_GROUP

         * Added constants and functions required for IP multicast source

           group membership

         * Added TCP_NOPUSH,NOOPT,CONNECTIONTIMEOUT,INIT_CWND,SACK_ENABLE

           (RT78626)

2012/06/06

2.002   CHANGES:

         * Wrap Linux's SOCK_NONBLOCK and SOCK_CLOEXEC constants

         * Added sockopt constants and structure handling functions for IPv4

           multicast (also with thanks to Christian Walde for help on MSWin32)

2012/03/27

2.001   CHANGES:

         * Apply (modified) patch from ppisar@redhat.com to fix memory

           addressing bug with Zero() - RT76067

         * Document that inet_pton() doesn't work on hostnames, only textual

           addresses - RT76010

         * Ignore any existing-but-undefined hints hash members to

           getaddrinfo()

2012/03/10

2.000   CHANGES:

         * Apply (modified) patch from rurban to fix memory overflow bug with

           sockaddr_un() - RT75623

         * Increase to three-digit version suffix in new major version

2012/02/21

1.99    CHANGES:

         * Better implementation of inet_pton() that sets correct size (RT 75074)

         * Added SO_DOMAIN

         * More robust unit tests of address-mangling functions

1.98    CHANGES:

         * Detect presence of sockaddr_in6 and ipv6_mreq; conditionally build

           pack/unpack functions on this

         * Back-compatibility improvements for older perls, back as far as

           5.6.1 (thanks Zefram)

         * Fix for picky compilers or platforms on which size_t doesn't

           printf() correctly by %d

         * Suppress some harmless compile-time warnings about unused variables

1.97    CHANGES:

         * Rewritten Makefile.PL configure-time logic to use only core's

           ExtUtils::CBuilder rather than CPAN's ExtUtils::CChecker

         * Fix implementation of synthesized newSVpvn_flags() to also work on

           threaded 5.10.0

         * Set INSTALLDIRS=perl on perl before 5.11; required as it's

           replacing a core module

1.96    CHANGES:

         * Fix Socket.t to use ok() instead of is() where required - RT73039

         * Complete rewrite of module docs; list all the constants and

           functions, updated SYNOPSIS

         * Added convenient Exporter tag :addrinfo for all the gai/gni-related

           symbols

         * Provide static synthesized newSVpvn_flags() replacement for older

           Perls

         * Implement getnameinfo() NIx_NOHOST and NIx_NOSERV extension flags

1.95    CHANGES:

         * Implement the remaining AI_*, EAI_* and NI_* constants from

           Socket::GetAddrInfo

         * Declare configure-time dependency on ExtUtils::Constants 0.23 for

           when building out of core

         * Initial attempt at dual-life extraction from bleadperl