What's New

There is no big change for the 2.0 (final) release. It is
basically a bug fix release. The main improvement is in the
non-blocking support. 

  * New: sample module dispatch.lua implements a coroutine
    based dispatcher; 
  * New: sample check-links.lua works both in blocking and
    non-blocking mode using coroutines (using the new
    dispatcher);
  * New: sample forward.lua implements a coroutine based
    forward server (using the new dispatcher);
  * Improved: tcp:send(data, i, j) to return (i+sent-1).  This
    is great for non-blocking I/O, but might break some code;
  * Improved: HTTP, SMTP, and FTP functions to accept a new
    field create that overrides the function used to create
    socket objects;
  * Improved: smtp.message now supports multipart/alternative
    (for the HTML messages we all love so much); 
  * Fixed: smtp.send was hanging on errors returned by LTN12
    sources;
  * Fixed: url.absolute() to work when base_url is in parsed
    form;
  * Fixed: http.request() not to redirect when the location
    header is empty (naughty servers...);
  * Fixed: tcp{client}:shutdown() to check for class instead
    of group;
  * Fixed: The manual to stop using socket.try() in place of
    assert(), since it can't; 
  * Improved: Got rid of package.loaded.base = _G kludge;
  * Fixed: Parts of the manual referred to require("http")
    instead of require("socket.http");
  * Improved: Socket and MIME binaries are called 'core' each
    inside their directory (ex. "socket/core.dll"). The 'l'
    prefix was just a bad idea;
  * Improved: Using bundles in Mac OS X, instead of dylibs; 
  * Fixed: luasocket.h to export luaopen_socket_core;
  * Fixed: udp:setpeername() so you can "disconnect" an UDP
    socket;
  * Fixed: A weird bug in HTTP support that caused some
    requests to fail (Florian Berger);
  * Fixed: Bug in socket.select() that caused sockets with
    descriptor 0 to be ignored (Renato Maia);
  * Fixed: "Bug" that caused dns.toip() to crash under uLinux
    (William Trenker);
  * Fixed: "Bug" that caused gethostbyname to crash under VMS
    (Renato Maia);
  * Fixed: tcp:send("") to return 0 bytes sent (Alexander
    Marinov);
  * Improved: socket.DEBUG and socket.VERSION became
    socket._DEBUGs and socket._VERSION for uniformity with other
    libraries;
  * Improved: socket.select now works on empty sets on Windows.