Netty 3.1.0.BETA2 released - A New Chapter in the User Guide and Dead Lock Auto-detection

[Virat Gohil]

Hi Trustin,

Congratulations to Netty for reaching another milestone :). R 3.1 is
coming together really well. You have been doing excellent stuff and
at an exceptional pace. Its a pleasure working with Netty.

Cheers!

Virat


On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Trustin Lee <tlee at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Netty 3.1.0.BETA2, the second beta release of 3.1 branch, has been released.
>
> The Netty project is an effort to provide an asynchronous,
> event-driven network application framework and tools for rapid
> development of maintainable, high-performance, high-scalability
> protocol servers and clients.
>
> In other words, Netty is a NIO client server framework that enables
> quick and easy development of network applications such as protocol
> servers and clients. It simplifies and streamlines network programming
> such as TCP and UDP socket servers.
>
> Please visit our web site to download it:
>
>   * http://www.jboss.org/netty/
>
> As always, your feed back is more than appreciated.  Please visit the
> discussion forum and leave some comments and questions:
>
>   * http://www.jboss.org/netty/community.html
>
> A New Chapter in the User Guide
> ===============================
> If you were following us at Twitter ( http://twitter.com/netty_project
> ), you might already have noticed that we updated the user guide to
> reflect the feed back from the community.  Please check it out; it
> worths a read! - http://tinyurl.com/b2snx4
>
> Dead Lock Auto-detection
> ========================
> It is a common mistake for a Netty beginner to call
> ChannelFuture.await*() method when a ChannelHandler is running in an
> I/O worker thread.  The ChannelFuture implementation now throws an
> IllegalStateException if a user called ChannelFuture.await*() from an
> I/O worker thread.  Just in case you didn't know about this, please
> read the updated Javadoc of ChannelFuture: http://tinyurl.com/dyooey
>
> SSL Bug Fixes
> =============
> A couple issues related with SslHandler were found by community
> members, and they were all fixed thanks to the detailed bug report
> from them.  I'd like to say thank you again to Virat Gohil, Bryan
> Wagner, and Huican Ping, in no particular order.
>
> Upcoming Releases
> =================
> If there's no noticeable bugs and I have done enough documentation and
> testing, the next release will be 3.1.0.CR1 (Candidate Release).
> Otherwise, it will be 3.1.0.BETA3.  Please keep us updated with any
> bugs, design issues, API usability feed back, and questions.
>
> Miscellaneous
> =============
> For the full changelog, please visit here:
>
>   * http://tinyurl.com/cnz2wm
>
> Again, as always, your feed back is more than appreciated.  Please
> visit the discussion forum and feel free to leave some comments and
> questions:
>
>   * http://www.jboss.org/netty/community.html
>
> Cheers,
>
> — Trustin Lee, http://gleamynode.net/
>
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