Noteworthy changes
(2021-07-30) junixsocket 2.4.0
- New supported platforms: NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD (AMD64-builds included by default)
- Add support for Datagram sockets
- Add support for non-blocking I/O, Java NIO SocketChannel, DatagramChannel, ByteBuffer, Selector, Pipe, etc.
- Add support for socketpair (with IP-based emulation on Windows)
- Add support for casting FileDescriptors to Socket, etc.
- Add support for Peer Credentials on Solaris/Illumos
- Improved creation and reuse of AFUNIXSocketAddress instances
- Add basic support to wrap an AFUNIXSocketAddress as an InetAddress
- Add fast-path for single-byte read/write
- Significant internal code refactoring and cleanup (both Java and native C code)
- AFUNIXRegistry lookup can now take a timeout parameter (to coordinate between starting processes)
- Replaced the “finalize” logic with a custom Cleaner for Java 9 and above
- Fixed compatibility issue with OkHttpClient, add demo code
- Fixed a race condition when connecting to a registry that’s just starting up.
- More test cases, increased unit test code coverage
- Simplified local compilation on non-macOS/Linux systems.
- Improved selftest
(2021-05-30) junixsocket 2.3.4
- Fix bind/stat on glibc-based Linux on aarch64 and RISC-V (regression from 2.3.2)
(2021-04-15) junixsocket 2.3.3
- Add support for aarch64 on Apple Silicon Macs
- Improved throughput by up to 40% by removing some JNI overhead (now on par with JEP380)
- Fix “undefined symbol: stat” error on older Linux machines
- Fix self-test on Windows; add more system information to selftest
- Fix LICENSE/NOTICE files (no license change, just reorganization)
- Fix build issues with RISC-V (use LLVM 9)
- Fix build issues on macOS
- Improve handling of ancillary receive buffers
- Add a new system property to control what happens when the library override fails to load
- Add an Xcode project to simplify cross-compilation; improved crossclang
(2020-03-08) junixsocket 2.3.2
- Add support for FreeBSD (Intel 64-bit)
- Fix an NPE when junixsocket is on the bootstrap classloader
- Fix AcceptTimeoutTest#testCatchTimeout (selftest would sometimes erroneously fail)
(2020-01-16) junixsocket 2.3.1
- Add support for Java 15
- Increase minimum version requirement for macOS to 10.9 to comply with notarization requirements
- Improved error reporting upon trying to connect an already closed socket
- Improved error reporting when a compiler binary is missing for cross-compilation
(2019-12-26) junixsocket 2.3.0
- Add support for Java 14
- Add support for Java 7 (core/server package only)
- Add support for ppc64le (POWER) Linux
- Add support for RISC-V 64-bit Linux
- Add support for s390x Linux
- Add support for Solaris x86/OpenIndiana (Intel 64-bit)
- Add support to send FileDescriptors (FileInputStream, FileOutputStream) via RMI
- Add support to retrieve peer credentials for RMI connections
- Add new self-test functionality to verify that junixsocket works on a given platform
- New demo code: HTTP Server over Unix sockets (using NanoHTTPD)
- macOS: Use poll for read; fix read timeout not being honored
- musl-libc: Workaround for segmentation fault in CMSG_NXTHDR (ancillary messages).
- Several other bug fixes and improvements
(2019-11-14) junixsocket 2.2.1
- Add support for Java 13
(2019-02-17) junixsocket 2.2.0
- New supported platform: Linux ARM 32-bit and 64-bit (e.g., Raspberry Pi)
- New supported platform: Windows 10 AMD64
- Add support for receiving peer credentials
- Add support for sending and receiving file descriptors
- Add support for the abstract namespace on Linux and Windows
- Add AFUNIXSocketServer, a multi-threaded UNIX domain server implementation
- Introduced AFUNIXSocketCapabilities to check which capabilities are supported on your platform
- AFUNIXServerSocket#setReuseAddress can now control whether reusing an existing socket is permitted
- Exception handling: No longer wrap SocketExceptions, throw SocketTimeoutException upon EAGAIN for read
- Improve handling of closed sockets
- Improved native library loader code, better error handling
- Improved handling of libc alternatives, such as musl (we now build two different libraries, one that’s linked against glibc, and one that isn’t)
- JNI: Fix some missing return-after-throw, use-after-free in bind
- Properly close file descriptors upon errors in native code; unlink before bind
- Ask to not raise SIGPIPE
- Introduced “crossclang”: junixsocket can now be cross-compiled with clang/LLVM
- Improved demo code, new demo client
(2018-12-29) junixsocket 2.1.2
- Add AFUNIXSocketFactory, support for PostgreSQL
- Add support for new MySQL Connector/J SocketFactory
- Prevent a case of file descriptor leakage
- Handle EINTR errors from system calls
(2018-12-26) junixsocket 2.1.1
- Support for Java 8, 9, 10 and 11
- Building junixsocket requires Java 9 or later
- Jigsaw module support
- New Native library loading mechanism
- Validate that socket exists before trying to connect
- Replaced AFUNIXSocketException with SocketException
- Throw InterruptedIOException upon interrupt during write
- Properly discard reference to file descriptor upon close
- Add system property to override the default directory for RMI sockets
- Properly handle timeout during ServerSocket#accept
- Additional range checks for array offsets
- Script to run the demos from the command-line
- Documentation updates
- Updated Maven dependencies
(2014-09-29) junixsocket 2.0.1
- Bugfix: Add byte array bounds checking to read/write methods.
- Fix C compiler warnings
- Remove synchronized byte[] array for single-byte reads/writes.
(2014-09-28) junixsocket 2.0.0
- Move from Google Code to GitHub.
- Use Maven as the build system, code is distributed to the Maven Central repository.
- Build native C code using nar-maven-plugin, and load JNI libraries native-lib-loader
See the commit log for more details.
The changelog for 1.x release is archived on Google Code