Motivation:
This is a regression that was introduced as part of 6b941e9bdb. The regression could produce an "infinity" triggering of IllegalStateException if a channel goes inactive while process the events for it.
Modifications:
Correctly check if the channel is still active before trigger the callbacks.
Result:
No more IllegalStateException
If you are on Linux, you need additional development packages installed on your system, because you'll build the native transport.
Note that this is build-time requirement. JDK 5 (for 3.x) or 6 (for 4.0+) is enough to run your Netty-based application.
Branches to look
The 'master' branch is where the development of the latest major version lives on. The development of all other versions takes place in each branch whose name is identical to <majorVersion>.<minorVersion>. For example, the development of 3.9 and 4.0 resides in the branch '3.9' and the branch '4.0' respectively.
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