network

Low-level networking interface

https://github.com/haskell/network

Version on this page:2.6.3.6
LTS Haskell 23.19:3.2.7.0
Stackage Nightly 2025-04-30:3.2.7.0
Latest on Hackage:3.2.7.0

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BSD-3-Clause licensed
Maintained by Kazu Yamamoto, Evan Borden
This version can be pinned in stack with:network-2.6.3.6@sha256:1ca79d81af02d7acd6032d5e6c9bde4618a8fdcfbe19bd42b49d420183975df0,2666

Module documentation for 2.6.3.6

Depends on 3 packages(full list with versions):
base, bytestring, unix

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To build this package using Cabal directly from git, you must run autoreconf before the usual Cabal build steps (configure/build/install). autoreconf is included in the GNU Autoconf tools. There is no need to run the configure script: the setup configure step will do this for you.

Support Policy

GHC

network’s GHC policy supports 3 stable versions. The current stable version and two previous stable versions are supported.

Hugs, JHC, UHC

network does not officially support these compilers.

Changes

Version 2.6.3.6

  • Removed unnecessary withMVar, which caused locking on close. #330

Version 2.6.3.5

  • Reverting “Do not closeFd within sendFd” #271

Version 2.6.3.4

  • Don’t touch IPv6Only when running on OpenBSD #227
  • Do not closeFd within sendFd #271
  • Updating examples and docs.

Version 2.6.3.3

  • Adds a function to show the defaultHints without reading their undefined fields #291
  • Improve exception error messages for getAddrInfo and getNameInfo #289
  • Deprecating SockAddrCan.

Version 2.6.3.2

  • Zero memory of sockaddr_un if abstract socket #220

  • Improving error messages #232

  • Allow non-blocking file descriptors via setNonBlockIfNeeded #242

  • Update config.{guess,sub} to latest version #244

  • Rename my_inet_ntoa to avoid symbol conflicts #228

  • Test infrastructure improvements #219 #217 #218

  • House keeping and cleanup #238 #237

Version 2.6.3.1

  • Reverse breaking exception change in Network.Socket.ByteString.recv #215

Version 2.6.3.0

  • New maintainers: Evan Borden (@eborden) and Kazu Yamamoto (@kazu-yamamoto). The maintainer for a long period, Johan Tibell (@tibbe) stepped down. Thank you, Johan, for your hard work for a long time.

  • New APIs: ntohl, htonl,hostAddressToTuple{,6} and tupleToHostAddress{,6}. #210

  • Added a Read instance for PortNumber. #145

  • We only set the IPV6_V6ONLY flag to 0 for stream and datagram socket types, as opposed to all of them. This makes it possible to use ICMPv6. #180 #181

  • Work around GHC bug #12020. Socket errors no longer cause segfaults or hangs on Windows. #192

  • Various documentation improvements and the deprecated pragmas. #186 #201 #205 #206 #211

  • Various internal improvements. #193 #200

Version 2.6.2.1

  • Regenerate configure and HsNetworkConfig.h.in.

  • Better detection of CAN sockets.

Version 2.6.2.0

  • Add support for TCP_USER_TIMEOUT.

  • Don’t conditionally export the SockAddr constructors.

  • Add isSupportSockAddr to allow checking for supported address types at runtime.