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• Fix ignored timeouts for Mysql-specific AFUNIXDatabaseSocketFactoryCJ
• Fix GraalVM configuration, support AFUNIXSocketFactory for native-image
• Fix compatibility with jetty 12.0.7
• Fix unnecessary failures in some tests, error handling in selftest
• Improve SocketException handling (throw SocketClosedException subclass upon accept error)
• Make native library code compile on Minix
• Add availability check of abstract namespace on emulated Linux environments (BSD)
• Add junixsocket-demo-jpackagejlink artifact to show how to use jpackage/jlink with junixsocket
• Update crossclang scripts, fix compatibility with Xcode 15.3
• Code cleanup

• Add generic socket fallback for FileDescriptors received from other processes
• Add "dup"/"dup2" support via FileDescriptorCast.duplicating
• Add listen/accept support to AFDatagramSocket, so we can serve SEQPACKETs
• Add more SocketException subclasses (such as BrokenPipe-/ConnectionResetSocketException)
• Add support to make shutdown-upon-close configurable
• Add support for undocumented "ECLOSED" (errno 3417) condition on IBM i PASE
• Add test for the "close-during-accept" condition
• Fix native library loading for AIX/IBM i on Java 15 and newer
• Fix blocking state when using FileDescriptorCast
• Fix module-info.java: Don't mark requirements transient (annotations, mysql connector)
• Fix TIPC tests on some old environments (which didn't time out)
• Fix compilation for z/OS 32-bit
• Fix AFServerSocketChannel.getLocalAddress to return AFSocketAddress subclass
• Fix unnecessary failures in some tests, error handling in selftest
• Fix "force override" path parsing for native library on Windows
• Update build/plugin/test/demo dependencies
• Update crossclang scripts; no longer requires root to install Xcode components
• Improve error handling on broken Java VMs (e.g., IBM Semeru 8.0.7 and older)
• Improve demo code, use slf4j-simple for logging
• Code cleanup

Backwards-incompatible change: Some AFSocket classes are now final or no longer declare constructor exceptions.

• Fix concurrency issue with AFSocketServerConnector, AFSelectionKey; take two
• Fix regression introduced in 2.8.2 that leaked FileDescriptors
• Reduce allocation overhead during select

Fix concurrency issue with AFSocketServerConnector, AFSelectionKey

• Fix UnsatisfiedLinkError with noexec temporary directory on RHEL 9 and others

• Java 7 support is back! (junixsocket-common only, as it was before version 2.5.0)
• Fix AFSocket shutdown to ignore InvalidSocketException upon setTimeout
• Fix two potential hangs in selftest
• Fix loading of the native library when running under macOS Rosetta 2
• Fix a potential exception when trying to serialize an AFRMISocketFactory
• Fix a potential race condition when working with native addresses
• Fix a potential crash in TIPC code when compiling the native library against an old Linux SDK
• Improve AFSocketServer, add new methods
• Improve crossclang to support Xcode 15
• Enable RMI support for GraalVM native-image; selftest now passes without issues
• Add junixsocket-ssl, to simplify securing junixsocket connections
• Requires Java 17 to build (and JDK 8 if Java 7 support is desired); build instructions have changed

• Fix SelectionKey logic (regression introduced in 2.7.1)
• Fix selftest-android dependency (some tests would always fail)
• Improve AFSocketAddress creation, skip DNS resolution on Android
• Add demo code for interacting with Apache Mina and Netty
• Code cleanup

• Fix openDatagramChannelPair (was using STREAM instead of DGRAM), add AFSocketType support
• Fix availability of AF_SYSTEM capability on Darwin
• Improve exception handling for "EPROTOTYPE" error on z/OS
• Improve SelectionKey logic, reduce locking/GC overhead
• Improve "unsupported operation" handling in native code
• Improve handling of "test aborted, but not really an issue"
• Add unit tests for Jetty 12
• Code cleanup, update dependencies

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!

• 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