junixsocket 2.7.0

Users of junixsocket are strongly advised to upgrade to this version

• New supported platform (out of the box): Android (aarch64, arm-linux-androideabi, x86_64, i686)
• New platforms that can be used when building the native library from source: Haiku, IBM z/TPF
• Add selftest GUI app for Android (“junixsocket-selftest-android”)
• Add ability to get native file descriptor number via FileDescriptorCast
• Add AFSocketCapability for “large port numbers” (larger than 65535)
• Add support to convert UnixDomainSocketAddress to AFUNIXSocketAddress (Java 16+)
• Add support for AF_SYSTEM (macOS), which allows creating your own VPN via utun, for example.
• Add initial support for SOCK_SEQPACKET/SOCK_RDM/SOCK_RAW
• Fix potential data corruption when sending non-direct ByteBuffers larger than 8192 bytes
• Fix potential data corruption when receiving non-direct ByteBuffers with non-zero position
• Fix intermittent hangs when sending datagrams on macOS, BSD
• Fix “org.eclipse.jdt.annotation” JPMS module: no longer required at runtime
• Fix Exception messages from native code being empty in some Linux environments
• Fix selftest failing for vsock in some Linux environments
• Improve JNI library lookup; load from user.home/user.dir if tmpfs is mounted with noexec
• Improve concurrency performance for RMI over Unix domain sockets
• Improve reliability on exotic environments
• Update dependencies, improve tests, selftest, build scripts
• Require Java 16 to build (still supports running on Java 8 and newer)
• Last but not least: junixsocket finally has a logo!

junixsocket 2.6.2

• Add socket connectors for AF_VSOCK, Firecracker
• Add mayStopServerForce to AFSocketServerConnector
• Fix false-positive selftest failure on slow machines
• Fix potential hang in send
• Fix support for TIPC/VSOCK when building GraalVM native images
• Fix serialization of AFSocketAddresses
• Update dependencies, especially use the new mysql.connector.j

junixsocket 2.6.1

• Add AFSocket.checkConnectionClosed to probe connection status
• Fix connection status checks and error handling
• Fix bind behavior on Windows, support re-bind with reuseAddress
• Fix and improve unit tests/selftests, remove several false-positive errors found in the wild (Azure Cloudshell/Microsoft CBL-Mariner 2.0, Amazon EC2, OpenBSD, etc.)
• Fix SimpleTestServer demo, actually counting now to 5, not 6.
• Make builds reproducible, align timestamps with git commit

NOTE: If you're seeing unexpected errors in selftest, please verify with the attached junixsocket-selftest-2.6.1-hotpatch-jar-with-dependencies.jar. There may be false-positive socket timeout issues on very slow machines (e.g., qemu s390).

junixsocket 2.6.0

• Add support for GraalVM native-image
• Add support for native-image selftest
• Add support for AF_VSOCK (on Linux, and some macOS VMs)
• Reintroduce deprecated legacy constructors for AFUNIXSocketAddress that were removed in 2.5.0.
• Parent POM has been renamed from junixsocket-parent to junixsocket

junixsocket 2.5.2

• Fix address handling in the Abstract Namespace
• Fix support for very large datagrams (> 1MB)
• Fix InetAddress-wrapping of long addresses
• Update Xcode support script, crossclang
• Bump postgresql version in demo code
• Fix dependency for custom architecture artifact

junixsocket 2.5.1

• Add support for IBM z/OS (experimental, binary not included)
• Add support for building from source on arm64-Linux
• Add junixsocket support for jetty via junixsocket-jetty
• Fix Selector logic (more bug fixes)
• Documentation updates

junixsocket 2.5.0

• New supported platforms: AIX 7 Power64, IBM i Power64, Windows ARM64, Windows Server 2019 & 2022
• Generic rework to support more than just Unix Domain sockets
• Add support for AF_TIPC (on Linux)
• Add support for using sockets passed as standard input
• Add support for address-specific, non-standard URIs (for example
  unix:// and tipc://), as well as socat addresses
• Add support for using FileDescriptor for ProcessBuilder Redirects (Java 9+)
• Add support for peer credentials (PID) on Windows
• Fix Selector logic
• Fix cross-compilation on Apple Silicon
• Fix a file descriptor leak (regression in 2.4.0)
• Improve behavior on partially unsupported platforms and allow loading of Windows 10 native
  library on other Windows versions (e.g., Windows Server 2022, Windows 8.1).
• Javadoc improvements, Code cleanup
• Deprecate AFUNIXSocketCapability in favor of AFSocketCapability
• Drop support for Java 7

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

junixsocket 2.3.4

Fix bind/stat on glibc-based Linux on aarch64 and RISC-V (regression from 2.3.2)

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