network

Low-level networking interface

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

Network
- Network.BSD
- Network.Socket
  - Network.Socket.ByteString
    - Network.Socket.ByteString.Lazy
  - Network.Socket.Internal

Depends on 3 packages(full list with versions):

base, bytestring, unix

Used by 116 packages in lts-12.14(full list with versions):

amqp, atom-basic, bitx-bitcoin, bson, cabal-install, conduit-extra, connection, connection-pool, consul-haskell, courier, cql, cql-io, darcs, datadog, DAV, dbus, dns, docker, ekg, ekg-statsd, ekg-wai, graylog, hackage-security, HandsomeSoup, happstack-server, hasbolt, HaskellNet, HaskellNet-SSL, hbeanstalk, hedis, hoogle, hsdns, hslogger, HsOpenSSL, hstatsd, hsyslog-udp, HTTP, http-client, http-client-openssl, http-client-tls, and many more

`network`

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.