[Vortex] [ANN] Vortex Library 1.1.13 "Jumping like Dick Fosbury!" is ready!

Francis Brosnan Blazquez francis at aspl.es
Wed Nov 6 20:35:20 CET 2013


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Release note
~~~~~~~~~~~~

  Advanced Software Production Line is proud to announce Vortex
  Library 1.1.13 "Jumping like Dick Fosbury!" release availability: an
  open source "BEEP Core" protocol implementation written in C, mapped
  onto TCP/IP.

  Vortex Library is a stable and robust application protocol
  development toolkit, with active support for Microsoft Windows and
  GNU/Linux platforms.

  Check out the following links to get ready with Vortex Library:

    - http://www.aspl.es/vortex
      [Vortex Library homepage]

    - http://www.core-admin.com
      [Feature product: Core-Admin]
      
    
This release in short
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

   - CORE-ADMIN: first release supporting all features required by
     this project (http://www.core-admin.com), a server administration
     platform with a web-client interface that integrates BEEP and
     WebSocket!

   - BEEP over WEBSOCKET: VortexLibrary now support providing BEEP
     services over WebSocket, through noPoll library:
   
           http://www.aspl.es/nopoll

   - PORT SHARING: added new generic support that allows the library
     to support running BEEP, BEEP over WebSocket (ws://) and BEEP
     over TLS WebSocket (wss://) under the same port, allowing easy
     and transparent support for native BEEP and websocket
     applications!

   - ENGINE: several fixings, additional regression tests and new API
     functions were added.

   - PYVORTEX: several improvements into this binding making it more
     stable and more usable from Turbulence.

   - SECURITY: now by default SSP is used for compilation and official
     packages uses it.

Change notifications
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  None

Thanks to..
~~~~~~~~~~~

  - Étienne Dupuis (reported and provided a path to ensure proper
    ascii handling of environment variables; reported unfortunate
    strlen declaration).

  - Michael Sola (reported a failure inside vortex tls post action,
    with a nice test case).

  - Mark Fowler (reported missing listener and client at
    documentation).

Changes since 1.1.12
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* [fix] Updated pyvortex conn.remove_on_close handler to check that
  value received is a handle to avoid a segfault when None or other
  complex object is received.

* [new] Updated PyVortex API to include a new API that will allow
  python space code to enable too long notifications (handlers that
  are taking too long to finish) into a file. API added:

   - vortex.ctx.enable_too_long_notify_to_file

* [fix] Removed debug messages from vortex_init_check.

* [fix] Fixed unnecessary VortexCtx * ctx declaration inside
  vortex_channel_remove_first_pending_msg_no which cause the build to
  fail when log support is disabled. Bug reported by Dan Moore.

* [new] Updated PyVortex API to include vortex.unlock_listeners...

* [fix] Adding missing simple listener and simple client and fixed
  documentation that was out of date. Problem reported by Mark Fowler.

* [fix] Fixed debian declaration for python-vortex-* packages
  to depend on python-vortex..

* [fix] Adding instructions to run regression test before sending a
  patch..

* [fix] Fixed wrong reference handler at vortex tls post action
  causing to return a reference that was finished because automatic
  tls failed. Bug reported with a nice test case by Michael Sola.

* [fix] Updated python-vortex package installation to rename
  /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/vortex folder when found squeeze
  installation being upgraded from lenny.

* [new] Added new extension library (libvortex-websocket-1.1) to
  support providing BEEP over WebSocket through noPoll library. Nice!!
  Added initial regression test (test-17) to test support.

* [fix] Updated connection creation waiting code to detect Bad File
  Descriptor error code to stop waiting while connecting.

* [new] Added new functions to allow storing and getting a hook
  pointer associated to a connection to avoid having to use
  vortex_connection_set_data and its getters which its computational
  expensive in cases where lots of calls are required. API added:

  - vortex_connection_get_hook
  - vortex_connection_set_hook

* [fix] Updated reading code to track the number of "no data
  available" operations found for a particular connection to shutdown
  it when a certain amount is reached.

* [fix] Updated reading code to execute preread handler (if defined)
  for VortexRoleMasterListener connections.

* [fix] Several updates to ensure libvortex-1.1 is compilable when
  web-sockets isn't available.

* [fix] Updated libvortex-websocket library to support having BEEP
  running on top of a TLS Websocket (wss). Nice! Added new API and
  regression test test_18 and test_19. API added:

  - vortex_websocket_connection_is_tls_running
  - VORTEX_WEBSOCKET_CONF_ITEM_ENABLE_TLS (configuration item)

* [fix] Minor change to vortex_websocket.c transport..

* [fix] Updated vortex_support.c to replace GetEnvironmentVariable and
  SetEnvironmentVariable with they "A" implementations to ensure ascii
  version is used even when those functions are used with Unicode
  build enabled. Bug reported and fix proposed by Étienne Dupuis
  (Thanks!)  More information at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd317766(v=vs.85).aspx

* [fix] Making channel start notification to detect and fix serverName
  value provided by the requester in the case serverName value was
  already configured on the BEEP session by a previous request.

* [fix] Updated vortex-websocket extension library to setup the
  serverName value associated to the BEEP session according to the
  Host header received over the WebSocket connection (if
  provided). Also updated the module to flag the connection as "having
  TLS on" when received a successful TLS WebSocket connection
  (wss://). This way turbulence is able to handle BEEP sessions with
  TLS profile and BEEP session over wss:// with the same profile path
  declaration. Fixed vortex-websocket-1.1.pc to also require nopoll
  module.
  

* [new] Updated vortex support module API to include a new function to
  create a portable pipe. Moved this code from lua code which now uses
  this public and cleaned definition. API added:

   - vortex_support_pipe

* [new] Updated vortex connection API to include a new function to
  return the internal data hash associated to each connection. API
  added:

  - vortex_connection_get_data_hash

* [fix] Fixed some debug logs that should be critical at vortex
  connection module.

* [fix] Fixed memory leak inside vortex_channel when caller requested
  a new serverName value over a connection with that value set.

* [fix] Updated vortex frame factory to only drop an error log when
  errno != 0 and and raw read error was found.

* [fix] Making websocket module to get Host: header value up until the
  ":" value.

* [fix] Making vortex_connection_set_server_name to find hostname
  declarations with port part and take away it from the final
  serverName configured.

* [fix] Making vortex channel pool to not print the status unless
  explicitly called by the client.

* [fix] Added new regression test to check if it is possible to flood
  a vortex BEEP listener by sending a greetings initial message formed
  by infinite frames with more flag on.

* [new] Added initial support for port share support that will allow
  running BEEP and BEEP over WebSocket (with TLS variation) on the same
  port without having to have especial configurations from library
  users. API added:
 
  - vortex_listener_set_port_sharing_handling
  - VortexPortShareHandler

  Added initial regression test (test_20). Still more work required.
  Looks really promising.

* [fix] More updates on port sharing code used by web-socket extension
  library.  Now regtest (test-20) finishes properly. Still more work
  required.

* [fix] More cleanups on port share code. Updated code to release
  pending code at the listener side. Updated test_20 to ensure the
  connection is really working..

* [fix] Completed working and tested implementation for Websocket port
  sharing including support to run on the same port BEEP, BEEP over
  WebSocket and BEEP over TLS websocket..

* [fix] Fixed transport detection (port-sharing) at web-socket
  extension library when receiving TLS connections. Updated module to
  acquire references to noPollCtx object when enabled port-sharing.

* [fix] Updated web-socket extension library to run post action
  functions that setups Host: WebSocket header into BEEP serverName
  value.

* [fix] Updated vortex web-socket module to install thread safety
  handlers used by noPoll to protect critical sections.

* [fix] Making vortex reader engine to shutdown connections before
  calling vortex_connection_unref on finishing operations.

* [fix] Updated web-socket extension library to include a new setup
  options to enable noPoll Debug. API added:

  - VORTEX_WEBSOCKET_ENABLE_DEBUG

* [fix] Several updates to fix various debug log calls with wrong or
  poorly configured arguments.

* [fix] Added additional logging into web-socket extension library.

* [fix] Renamed VORTEX_WEBSOCKET_ENABLE_DEBUG into
  VORTEX_WEBSOCKET_CONF_ITEM_ENABLE_DEBUG.

* [fix] Added new function to setup manually host and port value
  returned by vortex_connection_get_host and
  vortex_connection_get_port for a given connection. API added:

  - vortex_connection_set_host_and_port

* [fix] Engine update to detect bad file socket descriptors that may
  have been closed by other means not controlled by vortex to drop
  those connections as soon as possible. Added regression test to
  reproduce the bug and check the fix introduced (test-01y).

* [fix] Updated vortex reader loop to do the wrong connection check
  after the stopping code. Upps.

* [fix] Updated regression test code to allow enabling websocket debug
when
  received --enable-websocket-debug

* [fix] Updated vortex reader to unset socket associated to a
  connection that is showing EBADF error.

* [fix] Removed unfortunate strlen declaration (reported by Étienne
  Dupuis).

* [fix] Updated PyVortex regression test to check connection close
  after send operation.

* [fix] Updated PyVortex to use Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS and
  Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS around exception notification and calls to
  vortex_async_queue_push.

* [fix] Updated PyVortex to add missing GIL release calls on tls
  module when failure happens.

* [fix] Updated regression test (test_12) to remove parts of the code
  that were causing problems..

* [fix] Updated regression client to show connection errors when
  test_15 fails to send block message.

* [fix] Updated vortex_tls module to include support for easy peer
  certificate verification (avoids forcing to use SSL post
  checks). API added:

   - vortex_tls_verify_cert

* [fix] Additional fixings to vortex_tls_verify_cert to detect more
  cases.

* [fix] Updated vortex_tls (added some additional debug logs when
  certificate fails to be loaded).

* [fix] Updated vortex connection logging to also state what socket is
  being closed. Updated vortex frame factory to avoid issuing an
  additional connection close during frame reading if the connection
  is already broken.

* [fix] Updated web-socket module to use new nopoll_conn_set_on_close
  call to control when socket is closed at the noPoll layer to avoid
  closing it after at the vortex layer with the risk of closing a
  different socket but with the same value.

* [fix] Updated WebSocket connection API to include a new function to
  get noPollCtx. API added:

  - vortex_websocket_connection_get_ctx

* [fix] Updated regression test to limit wait timeouts while waiting
  for replies at test 04-ab.

* [fix] Removed wrong memory access inside vortex_tunnel.c
  implementation while passing data from and to connected sessions.

* [fix] Updated vortex reader's
  detect-and-cleanup-wrong-file-descriptors to reset to 0 errno value
  before checking the fd, to avoid confusions about what of them is
  wrong indeed (fixes interaction between test_01y and test_02 under
  pressure).

* [fix] Updated compilation process to include SSP by default (on
  linux, gcc compatible platforms..).

* [fix] Added new regression test to check header overflow (nothing
  found), but test remains (test_01x).

* [fix] Fixed unused variable error raised by newer gcc compilers..

* [fix] Adding files to have libvortex-1.1 packages for wheezy.

* [fix] Making vortex_channel_free to internally acquire the look
  associated to waiting msgno queue to release pending items inside
  it.

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~~~~~~~~

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  Enjoy Vortex Library!  

--
Francis Brosnan Blázquez           - francis at aspl.es
Advanced Software Production Line  - http://www.aspl.es
6th nov 2013, Madrid (Spain)



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