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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 2.1.12nb2, Package name: libevent-2.1.12nb2, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

The libevent API provides a mechanism to execute a callback function
when a specific event occurs on a file descriptor or after a timeout
has been reached. Furthermore, libevent also support callbacks due
to signals or regular timeouts.

libevent is meant to replace the asynchronous event loop found in
event driven network servers. An application just needs to call
event_dispatch() and can then add or remove events dynamically
without having to change the event loop.

Currently, libevent supports /dev/poll, kqueue(2), event ports,
select(2), poll(2), and epoll(4). The internal event mechanism is
completely independent of the exposed event API, and a simple update
of libevent can provide new functionality without having to redesign
the applications.

Libevent additionally provides a sophisticated framework for buffered
network IO, with support for sockets, filters, rate-limiting, SSL,
zero-copy file transmission, and IOCP. Libevent includes support
for several useful protocols, including DNS, HTTP, and a minimal
RPC framework.


Required to run:
[security/openssl]

Required to build:
[pkgtools/cwrappers]

Master sites:

Filesize: 1075.046 KB

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   2024-03-15 19:07:32 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (1) 
Log message:
libevent: Do not attempt to use the broken poll/kqueue in old Darwin.
   2023-10-25 00:11:51 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (2298) 
Log message:
*: bump for openssl 3
   2023-07-30 23:28:27 by Tobias Nygren | Files touched by this commit (1) 
Log message:
libevent: disable epoll(2) on NetBSD too
   2022-01-11 10:14:00 by Amitai Schleier | Files touched by this commit (2) 
Log message:
Solaris 11 build with SunPro fails ('unexpected "("') if we use its
__has_attribute, so let's not.
   2021-10-26 12:20:11 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (3016) 
Log message:
archivers: Replace RMD160 checksums with BLAKE2s checksums

All checksums have been double-checked against existing RMD160 and
SHA512 hashes

Could not be committed due to merge conflict:
devel/py-traitlets/distinfo

The following distfiles were unfetchable (note: some may be only fetched
conditionally):

./devel/pvs/distinfo pvs-3.2-solaris.tgz
./devel/eclipse/distinfo eclipse-sourceBuild-srcIncluded-3.0.1.zip
   2021-10-07 15:44:44 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (3017) 
Log message:
devel: Remove SHA1 hashes for distfiles
   2020-11-06 16:48:15 by Ryo ONODERA | Files touched by this commit (1) 
Log message:
libevent: Do not use empty prefix for builtin case
   2020-07-06 12:08:58 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (3) | Package updated
Log message:
libevent: updated to 2.1.12

Changes in version 2.1.12-stable (05 Jul 2020)

This release contains mostly bug fixes (I decided not to port some features
that can be ported even without ABI breakage, if you cannot find feature that
you are interested in, please give us a note!)

Since 2.1.12 libevent will use github actions as main CI, since
it recommends itself better then travis/appveyor (and had been removed from
upstream).

Look carefully at "slightly touches the behaviour" section.

Below you will find some of changes (this list has been cleaned up from the
patches that touches only tests and similar):

CI:
 o Backport github actions to 2.1 (be3acd7c Azat Khuzhin)
 o Merge branch 'event_rpcgen.py-cleanup' (f0ded5f3, 48e04887 Enji Cooper)
 o Add API/ABI checker (using LVC) (709210d4, 2af1f6cc yuangongji)

test:
 o tinytest: support timeout on Windows (794e8f75 yuangongji)
 o Merge branch 'osx-clock' (e85afbe3 Azat Khuzhin)
 o test-ratelim: calculate timers bias (for slow CPUs) to avoid false-positive \ 
(8ad26d0b Azat Khuzhin)

fixes:
 o buffer: do not pass NULL to memcpy() from evbuffer_pullup() (5b063049 Azat \ 
Khuzhin)
 o http: fix undefined-shift in EVUTIL_IS*_ helpers (6b8d02a7 Azat Khuzhin)
 o Check error code of evhttp_add_header_internal() in evhttp_parse_query_impl() \ 
(97e28f09 Azat Khuzhin)
 o http: fix EVHTTP_CON_AUTOFREE in case of timeout (and some else) (1be25938 \ 
Azat Khuzhin)
 o evdns: Add additional validation for values of dns options (c2972453 ayuseleznev)
 o There is typo in GetAdaptersAddresses windows library. It should be \ 
iphlpapi.dll (891adda9 Aleksandr-Melnikov)
 o Merge branch 'EV_CLOSED-and-EV_ET-fixes' (db2efdf5 Azat Khuzhin)
 o Fix memory corruption in EV_CLOSURE_EVENT_FINALIZE with debug enabled \ 
(8ccd8f56 Jan Kasiak)
 o increase segment refcnt only if evbuffer_add_file_segment() succeeds \ 
(30662a3c yuangongji)
 o evdns: fix a crash when evdns_base with waiting requests is freed (6f8e0e97 \ 
ayuseleznev)
 o event_base_once: fix potential null pointer threat (2e9ceb16 chenguolong)
 o http: do not assume body for CONNECT (1b42270b Azat Khuzhin)
 o evbuffer_add_file: fix freeing of segment in the error path (5f017bde Azat \ 
Khuzhin)
 o Fix checking return value of the evdns_base_resolv_conf_parse() (fc51bf2c \ 
Azat Khuzhin)
 o Merge branch 'fix-signal-leak' (poll/select now needs reinit) (1c9cc07b Azat \ 
Khuzhin)

improvements:
 o evutil_time: improve evutil_gettimeofday on Windows (a8219143 Nick Grifka)
 o Support EV_CLOSED on linux for poll(2) (2530e7c6 Azat Khuzhin)
 o Parse IPv6 scope IDs. (f602211f Philip Homburg)
 o evutil_time: Implements usleep() using wait funtion on Windows (d42240d1 \ 
yuangongji)
 o evutil_time: detect and use _gmtime64_s()/_gmtime64() (f4a6152c yuangongji)

slightly touches the behaviour:
 o bufferevent: allow setting priority on socket and openssl type (4dd3acdd \ 
Nicolas J. Bouliane)
 o Fix EV_CLOSED detection/reporting (epoll only) (1df324d4 Azat Khuzhin) (XXX)
 o Revert "Warn if forked from the event loop during event_reinit()" \ 
(71f5c0d3 Azat Khuzhin)

samples:
 o https-client: load certificates from the system cert store on Windows \ 
(e9478640 yuangongji)

build fixes:
 o Do not use sysctl.h on linux (it had been deprecated) (d2871a37 Azat Khuzhin)
 o cmake: avoid problems from use of CMAKE_USE_PTHREADS_INIT (a62ec765 Paul Osborne)
 o Update list of cmake files for autotools dist archive (2016f017 Azat Khuzhin)
 o LibeventConfig.cmake: restore CMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_SUFFIXES and \ 
LIBEVENT_STATIC_LINK default (640f9cf6 Mario Emmenlauer)
 o cmake: fix getaddrinfo checking error (dea51c2e yuangongji)
 o autoconf: fix getaddrinfo checking errors on mingw (b9bf7fa7 yuangongji)
 o Do not use shared global structures on CYGWIN (8a9b5655 Azat Khuzhin)
 o Added uninstall target check to cmakelists (3f1fb1f9 Dimo Markov)
 o Fix compilation without OPENSSL_API_COMPAT (921bdcdd Azat Khuzhin)
 o cmake: improve package config file (1c047618, baec84f2 yuangongji)
 o Link with iphlpapi only on windows (976f7d34 Azat Khuzhin)
 o autotools: fails build when need but can not find openssl (93174bb5 yuangongji)
 o Merge branch 'http-connect' (e2424229 Azat Khuzhin)
 o Fix compat with NetBSD >= 10 (5febb4e1 Kamil Rytarowski)
 o cmake: fix getrandom() detection (e0e5f3bd Azat Khuzhin)
 o arc4random: replace sysctl() with getrandom (on linux) (66ec78fd Azat Khuzhin)
 o Upgrade autoconf (after upgrading minimum required to 2.67) (45da7d9d yuangongji)
 o eliminate some C4267 warnings in Windows (9e468c77 yuangongji)
 o autotools: attach doxygen target into all target (5d1e8570 yuangongji)
 o cmake: attach doxygen target into all target (7a85300a yuangongji)
 o Change the minimum version of automake to 1.13 and autoconf to 2.67 (fdb8fb66 \ 
ygj6)
 o Add Uninstall.cmake.in into dist archive