-
Improved performance.
-
Reduced compile times.
-
Reduced the size of generated code.
-
Extended the guarantee that background threads don't call user code to all
asynchronous operations (#3923).
-
Changed to use edge-triggered epoll on Linux.
-
Changed to use
timerfd for
dispatching timers on Linux, when available.
-
Changed to use one-shot notifications with kqueue on Mac OS X and BSD platforms.
-
Added a bitmask type
ip::resolver_query_base::flags as per the TR2 proposal. This type
prevents implicit conversion from int
to flags, allowing the compiler
to catch cases where users incorrectly pass a numeric port number as the
service name.
-
Added
#define NOMINMAX
for all Windows compilers. Users can define BOOST_ASIO_NO_NOMINMAX
to suppress this definition (#3901).
-
Fixed a bug where 0-byte asynchronous reads were incorrectly passing an
error::eof result to the completion handler (#4023).
-
Changed the
io_control()
member functions to always call ioctl
on the underlying descriptor when modifying blocking mode (#3307).
-
Changed the resolver implementation to longer require the typedefs
InternetProtocol::resolver_query and InternetProtocol::resolver_iterator,
as neither typedef is part of the documented InternetProtocol
requirements. The corresponding typedefs in the ip::tcp,
ip::udp and ip::icmp
classes have been deprecated.
-
Fixed out-of-band handling for reactors not based on
select().
-
Added new
BOOST_ASIO_DISABLE_THREADS
macro that allows Asio's threading support to be independently disabled.
-
Minor documentation improvements.
-
Added a new HTTP Server 4 example illustrating the use of stackless coroutines
with Asio.
-
Changed handler allocation and invocation to use
boost::addressof
to get the address of handler objects, rather than applying operator&
directly (#2977).
-
Restricted MSVC buffer debugging workaround to 2008, as it causes a crash
with 2010 beta 2 (#3796,
#3822).
-
Fixed a problem with the lifetime of handler memory, where Windows needs
the
OVERLAPPED structure
to be valid until both the initiating function call has returned and the
completion packet has been delivered.
-
Don't block signals while performing system calls, but instead restart the
calls if they are interrupted.
-
Documented the guarantee made by strand objects with respect to order of
handler invocation.
-
Changed strands to use a pool of implementations, to make copying of strands
cheaper.
-
Ensured that kqueue support is enabled for BSD platforms (#3626).
-
Added a
boost_ prefix to
the extern "C"
thread entry point function (#3809).
-
In
getaddrinfo emulation,
only check the socket type (SOCK_STREAM
or SOCK_DGRAM) if a service
name has been specified. This should allow the emulation to work with raw
sockets.
-
Added a workaround for some broken Windows firewalls that make a socket appear
bound to 0.0.0.0 when it is in fact bound to 127.0.0.1.
-
Applied a fix for reported excessive CPU usage under Solaris (#3670).
-
Added some support for platforms that use older compilers such as g++ 2.95
(#3743).
-
Added a new ping example to illustrate the use of ICMP sockets.
-
Changed the
buffered*_stream<>
templates to treat 0-byte reads and writes as no-ops, to comply with the
documented type requirements for SyncReadStream,
AsyncReadStream, SyncWriteStream and AsyncWriteStream.
-
Changed some instances of the
throw
keyword to boost::throw_exception()
to allow Asio to be used when exception support is disabled. Note that the
SSL wrappers still require exception support (#2754).
-
Made Asio compatible with the OpenSSL 1.0 beta (#3256).
-
Eliminated a redundant system call in the Solaris
/dev/poll
backend.
-
Fixed a bug in resizing of the bucket array in the internal hash maps (#3095).
-
Ensured correct propagation of the error code when a synchronous accept fails
(#3216).
-
Ensured correct propagation of the error code when a synchronous read or
write on a Windows HANDLE fails.
-
Fixed failures reported when
_GLIBCXX_DEBUG
is defined (#3098).
-
Fixed custom memory allocation support for timers (#3107).
-
Tidied up various warnings reported by g++ (#1341,
#2618).
-
Various documentation improvements, including more obvious hyperlinks to
function overloads, header file information, examples for the handler type
requirements, and adding enum values to the index (#3157,
#2620).
-
Implement automatic resizing of the bucket array in the internal hash maps.
This is to improve performance for very large numbers of asynchronous operations
and also to reduce memory usage for very small numbers. A new macro
BOOST_ASIO_HASH_MAP_BUCKETS may be used
to tweak the sizes used for the bucket arrays. (N.B. this feature introduced
a bug which was fixed in Asio 1.4.3 / Boost 1.40.)
-
Add performance optimisation for the Windows IOCP backend for when no timers
are used.
-
Prevent locale settings from affecting formatting of TCP and UDP endpoints
(#2682).
-
Fix a memory leak that occurred when an asynchronous SSL operation's completion
handler threw an exception (#2910).
-
Fix the implementation of
io_control() so that it adheres to the documented type
requirements for IoControlCommand (#2820).
-
Fix incompatibility between Asio and ncurses.h (#2156).
-
On Windows, specifically handle the case when an overlapped
ReadFile call fails with ERROR_MORE_DATA. This enables a hack where
a windows::stream_handle can be used with a message-oriented
named pipe (#2936).
-
Fix system call wrappers to always clear the error on success, as POSIX allows
successful system calls to modify errno (#2953).
-
Don't include termios.h if
BOOST_ASIO_DISABLE_SERIAL_PORT
is defined (#2917).
-
Cleaned up some more MSVC level 4 warnings (#2828).
-
Various documentation fixes (#2871).
-
Improved compatibility with some Windows firewall software.
-
Ensured arguments to
windows::overlapped_ptr::complete() are correctly passed to the completion
handler (#2614).
-
Fixed a link problem and multicast failure on QNX (#2504,
#2530).
-
Fixed a compile error in SSL support on MinGW / g++ 3.4.5.
-
Drop back to using a pipe for notification if eventfd is not available at
runtime on Linux (#2683).
-
Various minor bug and documentation fixes (#2534,
#2541,
#2607,
#2617,
#2619).
-
Enhanced CompletionCondition concept with the signature
size_t
CompletionCondition(error_code ec, size_t total),
where the return value indicates the maximum number of bytes to be transferred
on the next read or write operation. (The old CompletionCondition signature
is still supported for backwards compatibility).
-
New windows::overlapped_ptr class to allow arbitrary overlapped I/O functions
(such as TransmitFile) to be used with Asio.
-
On recent versions of Linux, an eventfd descriptor is now used (rather than
a pipe) to interrupt a blocked select/epoll reactor.
-
Added const overloads of lowest_layer().
-
Synchronous read, write, accept and connect operations are now thread safe
(meaning that it is now permitted to perform concurrent synchronous operations
on an individual socket, if supported by the OS).
-
Reactor-based io_service implementations now use lazy initialisation to reduce
the memory usage of an io_service object used only as a message queue.
-
Added support for serial ports.
-
Added support for UNIX domain sockets.
-
Added support for raw sockets and ICMP.
-
Added wrappers for POSIX stream-oriented file descriptors (excluding regular
files).
-
Added wrappers for Windows stream-oriented
HANDLEs
such as named pipes (requires HANDLEs
that work with I/O completion ports).
-
Added wrappers for Windows random-access
HANDLEs
such as files (requires HANDLEs
that work with I/O completion ports).
-
Added support for reactor-style operations (i.e. they report readiness but
perform no I/O) using a new
null_buffers
type.
-
Added an iterator type for bytewise traversal of buffer sequences.
-
Added new
read_until()
and async_read_until()
overloads that take a user-defined function object for locating message boundaries.
-
Added an experimental two-lock queue (enabled by defining
BOOST_ASIO_ENABLE_TWO_LOCK_QUEUE)
that may provide better io_service
scalability across many processors.
-
Various fixes, performance improvements, and more complete coverage of the
custom memory allocation support.
First release of Asio as part of Boost.
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