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1 | =head1 NAME |
2 | |
3 | HISTORY - public release history for Data::Dumper |
4 | |
5 | =head1 DESCRIPTION |
6 | |
7 | =over 8 |
8 | |
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9 | =item 2.122 (Jun 9 2009) |
10 | |
11 | Promote previous developer release to stable release. |
12 | |
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13 | =item 2.121_20 (Jun 6 2009) |
14 | |
15 | - A host of bug fixes and improvements that have |
16 | accumulated in the perl core |
17 | |
18 | - Updated backport to 5.6.1 by Steffen Mueller <smueller@cpan.org>. |
19 | |
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20 | =item 2.121 (Aug 24 2003) |
21 | |
22 | Backport to 5.6.1 by Ilya Martynov <ilya@martynov.org>. |
23 | |
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24 | =item 2.11 (unreleased) |
25 | |
26 | C<0> is now dumped as such, not as C<'0'>. |
27 | |
28 | qr// objects are now dumped correctly (provided a post-5.005_58) |
29 | overload.pm exists). |
30 | |
31 | Implemented $Data::Dumper::Maxdepth, which was on the Todo list. |
32 | Thanks to John Nolan <jpnolan@Op.Net>. |
33 | |
34 | =item 2.101 (30 Apr 1999) |
35 | |
36 | Minor release to sync with version in 5.005_03. Fixes dump of |
37 | dummy coderefs. |
38 | |
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39 | =item 2.10 (31 Oct 1998) |
40 | |
41 | Bugfixes for dumping related undef values, globs, and better double |
42 | quoting: three patches suggested by Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>. |
43 | |
44 | Escaping of single quotes in the XS version could get tripped up |
45 | by the presence of nulls in the string. Fix suggested by |
46 | Slaven Rezic <eserte@cs.tu-berlin.de>. |
47 | |
48 | Rather large scale reworking of the logic in how seen values |
49 | are stashed. Anonymous scalars that may be encountered while |
50 | traversing the structure are properly tracked, in case they become |
51 | used in data dumped in a later pass. There used to be a problem |
52 | with the previous logic that prevented such structures from being |
53 | dumped correctly. |
54 | |
55 | Various additions to the testsuite. |
56 | |
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57 | =item 2.09 (9 July 1998) |
58 | |
59 | Implement $Data::Dumper::Bless, suggested by Mark Daku <daku@nortel.ca>. |
60 | |
61 | =item 2.081 (15 January 1998) |
62 | |
63 | Minor release to fix Makefile.PL not accepting MakeMaker args. |
64 | |
65 | =item 2.08 (7 December 1997) |
66 | |
67 | Glob dumps don't output superflous 'undef' anymore. |
68 | |
69 | Fixes from Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no> to make Dumper() work with |
70 | overloaded strings in recent perls, and his new testsuite. |
71 | |
72 | require 5.004. |
73 | |
74 | A separate flag to always quote hash keys (on by default). |
75 | |
76 | Recreating known CODE refs is now better supported. |
77 | |
78 | Changed flawed constant SCALAR bless workaround. |
79 | |
80 | =item 2.07 (7 December 1996) |
81 | |
82 | Dumpxs output is now exactly the same as Dump. It still doesn't |
83 | honor C<Useqq> though. |
84 | |
85 | Regression tests test for identical output and C<eval>-ability. |
86 | |
87 | Bug in *GLOB{THING} output fixed. |
88 | |
89 | Other small enhancements. |
90 | |
91 | =item 2.06 (2 December 1996) |
92 | |
93 | Bugfix that was serious enough for new release--the bug cripples |
94 | MLDBM. Problem was "Attempt to modify readonly value..." failures |
95 | that stemmed for a misguided SvPV_force() instead of a SvPV().) |
96 | |
97 | =item 2.05 (2 December 1996) |
98 | |
99 | Fixed the type mismatch that was causing Dumpxs test to fail |
100 | on 64-bit platforms. |
101 | |
102 | GLOB elements are dumped now when C<Purity> is set (using the |
103 | *GLOB{THING} syntax). |
104 | |
105 | The C<Freezer> option can be set to a method name to call |
106 | before probing objects for dumping. Some applications: objects with |
107 | external data, can re-bless themselves into a transitional package; |
108 | Objects the maintain ephemeral state (like open files) can put |
109 | additional information in the object to facilitate persistence. |
110 | |
111 | The corresponding C<Toaster> option, if set, specifies |
112 | the method call that will revive the frozen object. |
113 | |
114 | The C<Deepcopy> flag has been added to do just that. |
115 | |
116 | Dumper does more aggressive cataloging of SCALARs encountered |
117 | within ARRAY/HASH structures. Thanks to Norman Gaywood |
118 | <norm@godel.une.edu.au> for reporting the problem. |
119 | |
120 | Objects that C<overload> the '""' operator are now handled |
121 | properly by the C<Dump> method. |
122 | |
123 | Significant additions to the testsuite. |
124 | |
125 | More documentation. |
126 | |
127 | =item 2.04beta (28 August 1996) |
128 | |
129 | Made dump of glob names respect C<Useqq> setting. |
130 | |
131 | [@$%] are now escaped now when in double quotes. |
132 | |
133 | =item 2.03beta (26 August 1996) |
134 | |
135 | Fixed Dumpxs. It was appending trailing nulls to globnames. |
136 | (reported by Randal Schwartz <merlyn@teleport.com>). |
137 | |
138 | Calling the C<Indent()> method on a dumper object now correctly |
139 | resets the internal separator (reported by Curt Tilmes |
140 | <curt@ltpmail.gsfc.nasa.gov>). |
141 | |
142 | New C<Terse> option to suppress the 'C<VARI<n> = >' prefix |
143 | introduced. If the option is set, they are output only when |
144 | absolutely essential. |
145 | |
146 | The C<Useqq> flag is supported (but not by the XSUB version |
147 | yet). |
148 | |
149 | Embedded nulls in keys are now handled properly by Dumpxs. |
150 | |
151 | Dumper.xs now use various integer types in perl.h (should |
152 | make it compile without noises on 64 bit platforms, although |
153 | I haven't been able to test this). |
154 | |
155 | All the dump methods now return a list of strings in a list |
156 | context. |
157 | |
158 | |
159 | =item 2.02beta (13 April 1996) |
160 | |
161 | Non portable sprintf usage in XS code fixed (thanks to |
162 | Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>). |
163 | |
164 | |
165 | =item 2.01beta (10 April 1996) |
166 | |
167 | Minor bugfix (single digit numbers were always getting quoted). |
168 | |
169 | |
170 | =item 2.00beta (9 April 1996) |
171 | |
172 | C<Dumpxs> is now the exact XSUB equivalent of C<Dump>. The XS version |
173 | is 4-5 times faster. |
174 | |
175 | C<require 5.002>. |
176 | |
177 | MLDBM example removed (as its own module, it has a separate CPAN |
178 | reality now). |
179 | |
180 | Fixed bugs in handling keys with wierd characters. Perl can be |
181 | tripped up in its implicit quoting of the word before '=>'. The |
182 | fix: C<Data::Dumper::Purity>, when set, always triggers quotes |
183 | around hash keys. |
184 | |
185 | Andreas Koenig <k@anna.in-berlin.de> pointed out that handling octals |
186 | is busted. His patch added. |
187 | |
188 | Dead code removed, other minor documentation fixes. |
189 | |
190 | |
191 | =item 1.23 (3 Dec 1995) |
192 | |
193 | MLDBM example added. |
194 | |
195 | Several folks pointed out that quoting of ticks and backslashes |
196 | in strings is missing. Added. |
197 | |
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198 | Ian Phillipps <ian@pipex.net> pointed out that numerics may lose |
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199 | precision without quotes. Fixed. |
200 | |
201 | |
202 | =item 1.21 (20 Nov 1995) |
203 | |
204 | Last stable version I can remember. |
205 | |
206 | =back |
207 | |
208 | =cut |