From: Aman Gupta <rubytalk@...1.net>
Date: 2009-10-26T10:34:38+09:00
Subject: [ANN] eventmachine 0.12.10

I am happy to announce the release of eventmachine 0.12.10. Gems (including
binary builds for win32 and jruby) have been uploaded to rubyforge and should
be available via `gem install` shortly.

Since 0.12.8, we've had over 130 patches with numerous bug fixes, improvements
and several new features. Highlights include:

 - Improved Performance
   - subclasses of EM::Connection are not created unless necessary
   - prevent unnecessary system calls to epoll_ctl/kevent
   - the reactor uses numeric signatures instead of strings,
     resulting in a ~15% overall performance boost

 - API Changes
   - EM.reactor_thread accessor for the reactor's thread
   - EM.next_tick and EM.schedule are now thread-safe
   - EM::connect will raise a more better EM::ConnectionError with details
   - EM.epoll=/kqueue= will raise EM::Unsupported when unavailable
   - improved the cryptic "no timer" exception and increased the
     default limit to 10k timers
   - bugfix and improved performance for EM.current_time
   - EM.add_periodic_timer returns PeriodicTimer object
   - EM::Connection#get_sock_opt wrapper for getsockopt()
   - added EM.watch for notifications about file descriptors
       for notify_read/writable events, you cannot use EM.attach
       EM.watch(fd, Watcher){ |c| c.notify_readable = true }
   - EM::Connection#pending_connect_timeout= setter (defaults to 20s)
   - EM.bind_connect can bind to random source port using nil
       EM.bind_connect('local.ip', nil, 'remote.ip', 1234)
   - added EM::Connection#pause/resume/paused? to pause and resume I/O
   - EM::Connection#proxy_incoming_to takes an optional buffer size for
     limiting RAM usage when dealing with slow clients

 - Protocol Additions
   - allow overriding the serializer used for ObjectProtocol
   - basic SOCKS v4 client protocol implementation

 - Platform Support
     AIX, OpenBSD, Solaris
       - minor fixes to support these platforms
     Windows
       - fix missing unbind events on refused outbound connections
       - fix issues with ruby 1.9 on windows

 - Ruby Support
     JRuby
       - major overhaul of the jruby reactor for better compat and performance
       - basic EM.attach/watch support on the Sun JVM
       - fully compatible with JRuby 1.4
     Ruby 1.9
       - fix bugs trying to kill the EM.defer threadpool
       - fix signal handling to catch ctrl+c and other signals gracefully
     Rubinius
       - minor changes to build a compatible C extension

Special thanks to the following people for making this release possible:
 - Bernd Ahlers
 - Chris Turner
 - Dan Mayer
 - Perry Smith
 - Bill 'spatulasnout' Kelly
 - Hemant 'gnufied' Kumar
 - Jake 'yakischloba' Douglas
 - James 'raggi' Tucker
 - coderrr

The rdoc has been updated and is available at http://eventmachine.rubyforge.org

 Aman