rotor v0.12 Release Notes

Release Date: 2020-12-08 // over 5 years ago

• • [improvement] added std::thread backend (supervisor)
  • 🛠 [bugfix] active timers, if any, are cancelled upon actor shutdown finish
  • 🛠 [bugfix] supervisor shutdown message is lost in rare cases right after
    child actor start
  • [example] examples/thread/sha512.cpp (new)
  • 📚 [documentation] updated Event loops & platforms
  • 📚 [documentation] updated Patterns with Blocking I/O multiplexing
  • [deprecated] state_response_t, state_request_t will be removed in v0.13

Previous changes from v0.11

• • [improvement] when supervisor shuts self down due to child init failure,
    the supervisor init error code is "failure escalation"
  • 📚 [documentation] updated Advanced examples,
  • 🛠 [bugfix] when actor shuts self down all its timers are properly
    cancelled
  • 🛠 [bugfix] in rare case supervisor starts, event if child failed to init
  • 🛠 [bugfix] asio: more correct timers cancellation implementation
  • 🛠 [bugfix] ev: more correct shutdown (avoid memory leaks in rare cases)

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• Previous v0.11