Version 1.0.0

The v0.8.x line is released as v1.0

Version 0.8.3

Cherry-picked the upcoming v0.9 support for Catch2 v3.x back into the v0.8.x line of code.

• #64 Added support for Catch2 v3.x for unit tests. (v2.x still supported)
• Fixed a Connector unit test on windows

Version 0.8.2

Minor bug fixes.

• #89 Fixed generator expression for older CMake
• #91 Fixed uniform_int_distribution<> in UNIX socket example

Version 0.8.1

This release attempts to fix some of the outstanding build issues on Windows with MSVC and resolve some old issues and PR commits.

• Cherry picked most of the non-TLS commits in PR #17
  • Connector timeouts
  • Stateless reads & writes for streaming sockets w/ functions returning ioresult
  • Some small bug fixes
  • No shutdown on invalid sockets
• #38 Made system libs public for static builds to fix Windows
• #73 Clone a datagram (UDP) socket
• #74 Added <sys/time.h> to properly get timeval in *nix builds.
• #56 handling unix paths with maximum length (no NUL term)
• Fixed outstanding build warnings on Windows when using MSVC

Version 0.8.0 - CMake Updates

• [Breaking] Library initializer now uses a static singleton created via socket_initializer::initialize() call, which can be called repeatedly with no ill effect. Also added global socketpp::initialize() function as shortcut.
• Improvements to CMake to better follow modern standards.
  • CMake required version bumped up to 3.12
  • Generating CMake files for downstream projects (config, target, version)
  • Windows builds default to shared DLL, not static library
  • Lots of cleanup

Version 0.7.1 - Minor fixes and start of SocketCAN

This is a minor update to merge in a number of long-standing Pull Requests and other fixes. It also contains some new, experimental, support for SocketCAN on Linux.

• [Experimental] SocketCAN, CAN bus support on Linux
• #37 socket::get_option() not returning length on Windows
• #39 Using SSIZE_T for ssize_t in Windows
• #53 Add Conan support
• #55 Fix Android strerror
• #60 Add missing move constructor for connector template.
• Now acceptor::open() uses the SO_REUSEPORT option instead of SO_REUSEADDR on non-Windows systems. Also made reuse optional.

Version 0.7 - Non-blocking and Scatter/Gather I/O

Version 0.7

• Base socket class
  • shutdown() added
  • create() added
  • bind() moved into base socket (from acceptor)
• Unix-domain socket pairs (stream and datagram)
• Non-blocking I/O
• Scatter/Gather I/O
• stream_socket cloning.
• Set and get socket options using template types.
• stream_socket::read_n() and write_n() now properly handle EINTR return.
• to_timeval() can convert from any std::chrono::duration type.
• socket::close() and shutdown() check for errors, set last error, and return a bool.
• tcpechomt.cpp: Example of a client sharing a socket between read and write threads - using clone().
• Windows enhancements:
  • Implemented socket timeouts on Windows
  • Fixed bug in Windows socket cloning.
  • Fixed bug in Windows socket::last_error_string.
  • Unit tests working on Windows
• More unit tests

Version 0.6 - UDP/datagram support

Added improved support for UDP, including implementation on Windows.

• UDP support
  • The base datagram_socket added to the Windows build
  • The datagram_socket cleaned up for proper parameter and return types.
  • New datagram_socket_tmpl template class for defining UDP sockets for the different address families.
  • New datagram classes for IPv4 (udp_socket), IPv6 (udp6_socket), and Unix-domain (unix_dgram_socket)
• Windows support
  • Windows support was broken in release v0.5. It is now fixed, and includes the UDP features.
• Proper move semantics for stream sockets and connectors.
• Separate tcp socket header files for each address family (tcp_socket.h, tcp6_socket.h, etc).
• Proper implementation of Unix-domain streaming socket.
• CMake auto-generates a version header file, version.h
• CI dropped tests for gcc-4.9, and added support for clang-7 and 8.

Version 0.5 - Refactored network address classes

Version 0.5 refactored the network address classes with an abstract base class and reduced redundant code with templates to create implementations for the different address families.

• (Breaking change) Updated the hierarchy of network address classes, now derived from a common base class.
  • Removed sock_address_ref class. Now a C++ reference to sock_address will replace it (i.e. sock_address&).
  • sock_address is now an abstract base class.
  • All the network address classes now derive from sock_address
  • Consolidates a number of overloaded functions that took different forms of addresses to just take a const sock_address&
  • Adds a new sock_address_any class that can contain any address, and is used by base classes that need a generic address.
• The acceptor and connector classes are still concrete, generic classes, but now a template derives from each of them to specialize.
• The connector and acceptor classes for each address family (tcp_connector, tcp_acceptor, tcp6_connector, etc) are now typedef'ed to template specializations.
• The acceptor::bind() and acceptor::listen() methods are now public.
• CMake build now honors the CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE flag.

Version 0.4 - IPv6

Version 0.4 added support for IPv6 and refactored the class hierarchies to better support the different address families without so much redundant code.

• IPv6 support: inet6_address, tcp6_acceptor, tcp_connector, etc.
• (Breaking change) The sock_address class is now contains storage for any type of address and follows copy semantics. Previously it was a non-owning reference class. That reference class now exists as sock_addresss_ref.
• Generic base classses are being re-implemented to use sock_address and sock_address_ref as generic addresses.
• (Breaking change) In the socket class(es) the bool address(address&) and bool peer_address(addr&) forms of getting the socket addresses have been removed in favor of the ones that simply return the address.
  Added get_option() and set_option() methods to the base socketclass.
• The GNU Make build system (Makefile) was deprecated and removed.