luasocket/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

v3.0-rc1 — 2013-06-14

Main changes for LuaSocket 3.0-rc1 are IPv6 support and Lua 5.2 compatibility.

• Added: Compatible with Lua 5.2
  • Note that unless you define LUA_COMPAT_MODULE, package tables will not be exported as globals!
• Added: IPv6 support;
  • Socket.connect and socket.bind support IPv6 addresses;
  • Getpeername and getsockname support IPv6 addresses, and return the socket family as a third value;
  • URL module updated to support IPv6 host names;
  • New socket.tcp6 and socket.udp6 functions;
  • New socket.dns.getaddrinfo and socket.dns.getnameinfo functions;
• Added: getoption method;
• Fixed: url.unescape was returning additional values;
• Fixed: mime.qp, mime.unqp, mime.b64, and mime.unb64 could mistaking their own stack slots for functions arguments;
• Fixed: Receiving zero-length datagram is now possible;
• Improved: Hidden all internal library symbols;
• Improved: Better error messages;
• Improved: Better documentation of socket options.
• Fixed: manual sample of HTTP authentication now uses correct "authorization" header (Alexandre Ittner);
• Fixed: failure on bind() was destroying the socket (Sam Roberts);
• Fixed: receive() returns immediatelly if prefix can satisfy bytes requested (M Joonas Pihlaja);
• Fixed: multicast didn't work on Windows, or anywhere else for that matter (Herbert Leuwer, Adrian Sietsma);
• Fixed: select() now reports an error when called with more sockets than FD_SETSIZE (Lorenzo Leonini);
• Fixed: manual links to home.html changed to index.html (Robert Hahn);
• Fixed: mime.unb64() would return an empty string on results that started with a null character (Robert Raschke);
• Fixed: HTTP now automatically redirects on 303 and 307 (Jonathan Gray);
• Fixed: calling sleep() with negative numbers could block forever, wasting CPU. Now it returns immediately (MPB);
• Improved: FTP commands are now sent in upper case to help buggy servers (Anders Eurenius);
• Improved: known headers now sent in canonic capitalization to help buggy servers (Joseph Stewart);
• Improved: Clarified tcp:receive() in the manual (MPB);
• Improved: Decent makefiles (LHF).
• Fixed: RFC links in documentation now point to IETF (Cosmin Apreutesei).