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2605937c 30.26 -- 2008.06.16 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
4 [BUGFIX] Make Sys::Syslog works with Perl 5.10.0 (because of
5 ExtUtils::Constant::ProxySubs).
6 [CODE] setlogsock() is now a little more strict about its arguments.
7
f93f88eb 80.25 -- 2008.05.17 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
9 [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#34691: Fixed an incorrect call to sysopen() which
10 prevented Sys::Syslog from working on some Solaris systems.
11 Thanks to Paul Townsend.
12 [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#34753: Fixed a slowness introduced in v0.19 (which
13 was to work around OSX syslog own slowness). Thanks to Alex Efros.
14 [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#35952: Fixed a bug with the "nofatal" option.
2605937c 15 [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#35189: Fixed a bug in xlate().
f93f88eb 16 [BUGFIX] Fixed build on Win32, thanks to Adam Kennedy.
17 [FEATURE] setlogsock() now interprets the second argument as the
18 hostname for network mechanisms.
19 [DIST] Add AUTHOR to WriteMakefile() in order to fix the META.yml
20 generated by ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
21 [TESTS] Improved t/pod.t with Pod::Checker.
22
230.24 -- 2007.12.31 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
24 [BUGFIX] CPANT-RT#32001: Skip the setlogsock('stream') tests when
25 /dev/log is unavailable (Brendan O'Dea).
26
270.23 -- 2007.11.12 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
28 [BUGFIX] Fixed a too liberal test in the "pipe" mechanism, thanks
29 to Jan Dubois.
30 [DIST] fallback/syslog.h was missing from MANIFEST (thanks to CPAN
31 Tester Matthew Musgrove).
32 [TESTS] Better handling of Perl 5.005, thanks to CPAN Tester Slaven Rezic.
33
46eb16f1 340.22 -- 2007.11.08 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
26f266f7 35 [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#29875: Added workaround SpamAssassin overzealous
36 logging features.
35a209d1 37 [FEATURE] Added support for PERROR option.
38 [FEATURE] Support for SYSLOG on z/OS, thanks to Chun Bing Ge.
39 [CODE] Prevent $@ from being visible outside the module, in trying
40 to address the problem reported in CPAN-RT#29875.
41 [DOC] CPAN-RT#29451: Add Copyright notice. Thanks to Allison Randal
42 for her advice.
43 [DOC] New speaking about Win32 API instead of Win32 operating system.
44
d329efa2 450.21 -- 2007.09.14 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
46 [BUGFIX] setlogsock(eventlog) returned true even when it shouldn't have.
35a209d1 47 [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#24431: Added workaround for Mac OS X syslogd.
d329efa2 48 [FEATURE] Added "pipe" mechanism in order to support HP-UX named pipe.
49 Thanks to H.Merijn Brand and PROCURA.
50 [CODE] Sys::Syslog works again on Perl 5.005, thanks to Nicholas Clark.
51
47ebfcbb 520.20 -- 2007.09.05 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
53 [DOC] Added README.win32 which was missing in MANIFEST.
54
550.19 -- 2007.09.05 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
a650b841 56 [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#20635: Fix tests to avoid problems related to the
57 "stream" mechanism which occured on Debian and Cygwin.
58 [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#20780: Facility could not be temporarily changed.
59 Also fixes the syslog() before openlog() bug.
60 [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#21333: Makefile.PL now creates a typemap for Perl 5.6.1
61 [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#21516: disconnect_log() now correctly calls closelog_xs().
62 [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#21866: Silence warnings in openlog().
63 [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#25488: Silence warnings in disconnect_log().
64 via syslog().
65 [BUGFIX] Rewrote the constants generation code in order to provide
66 fallback value for non-standard macros.
f93f88eb 67 [BUGFIX] Mark Blackman and Edmund von der Burg identified and fixed the
68 random failures appearing on OSX, caused by a UDP timeout.
a650b841 69 [FEATURE] Added Win32 event log support thanks to Yves Orton.
70 [FEATURE] Added new macros from modern BSD and IRIX.
71 [FEATURE] Each non-standard macro now fall backs to a standard macro.
72 [CODE] Merged changes from Jerry D. Hedden to use ppport.h only when not
73 built from core distribution (blead@30657).
74 [TESTS] t/syslog.t now generates a more detailled TAP output.
75 [TESTS] Merged change blead@29176: suppress taint mode from t/constants.t
76 [TESTS] Added regression tests for CPAN-RT#21866 and #25488.
77 [EG] Added example script eg/syslog.pl
d329efa2 78 [DOC] CPAN-RT#26097: man pages were not installed.
a650b841 79 [DOC] Added the Sys::Syslog Rules.
80
07b7e4bc 810.18 -- 2006.08.28 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
82 [BUGFIX] Rewrote the way the default identifiant is constructed.
83 [TESTS] CPAN-RT#20946: Removed the console mechanism from the main
84 test loop because writing to the console hangs on several systems.
85 [DOC] Added a note discouraging the use of setlogsock().
86
74c4de31 870.17 -- 2006.07.23 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
88 [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#20622, #20164: Fixed path handling in connect_unix().
89 [CODE] Renamed some variables ($that is not a valid name), and removed
90 some dead code.
07b7e4bc 91 [CODE] Actually added the macros from Mac OS X that were announced in
74c4de31 92 the 0.14 version.
a650b841 93 [DOC] CPAN-RT#20545: Rewrote the documentation about setlogsock().
74c4de31 94
8edeb3ad 950.16 -- 2006.06.20 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
96 [BUGFIX] Perl-RT#20557: Save errno before trying to connect.
97 [FEATURE] Perl-RT#35406: Applied the patch proposed by Keisuke Hirata
98 for a more lax handling of "stream" or "unix" path.
99 [FEATURE] Now try the "native" mechanism first.
100 [TESTS] Silence warnings generated by t/syslog.t in Perl 5.8.8 and
101 later.
102 [DOC] Added documentation about the "native" mechanism.
103 [DOC] Now indicates whether tickets are from CPAN or Perl RT.
104
89c3c464 1050.15 -- 2006.06.10 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
8edeb3ad 106 [FEATURE] CPAN-RT#17316: Added a "nofatal" option to openlog().
89c3c464 107 [FEATURE] Sys::Syslog warnings can now be controled by the warnings
108 category of the same name.
109 [FEATURE] Added support for using the native C syslog(3) functions.
110 [CODE] Removed most "our" variables.
111 [CODE] Improved readability by removing cargo-cult brackets and
112 parentheses.
113
6e4ef777 1140.14 -- 2006.05.25 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
8edeb3ad 115 [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#19259, #17518: Now allowing all levels and facilities.
6e4ef777 116 [CODE] Removed useless "&".
117 [CODE] Improved readability by adding empty lines and reworking the
118 code here and there.
119 [CODE] Added new macros from Mac OS X.
120 [TESTS] Added more tests in order to increase coverage.
8edeb3ad 121 [DOC] CPAN-RT#19085: Corrected errors in the documentation for setlogmask().
6e4ef777 122 [DOC] Added several links to online manual pages, RFCs and articles.
123 [DOC] Corrected minor things in Changes.
124
1250.13 -- 2006.01.11 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
126 [CODE] Applied Gisle Aas patch for a better handling of error messages,
127 then optimized it.
5f9a320f 128 [CODE] Merged blead@26768: If getservbyname fails tell what service
129 the lookup attempt tried to use.
130 [CODE] Merged blead@26769: suppress Sys::Hostname usage and directly
131 use INADDR_LOOPBACK.
132 [CODE] Merged blead@26772: $host needs to stay in case the user sets it.
133 [CODE] Merged blead@26773: check that $syslog_path is a socket.
74c4de31 134 [TESTS] CPAN-RT#16980: Sys::Syslog blows up rather spectacularly on
135 Solaris. Corrected by previous patches.
8edeb3ad 136 [TESTS] CPAN-RT#16974: Failed test in t/podspell. This test is now skipped.
5f9a320f 137
6e4ef777 1380.12 -- 2006.01.07 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
04f98b29 139 [DOC] Added a link to an article about Sys::Syslog.
6e4ef777 140 [TESTS] Merged some modifications from bleadperl.
04f98b29 141 [TESTS] Removed optional dependency on Test::Exception.
142 [TESTS] Improved t/constant.t
143 [TESTS] Rewrote t/constants.t because future versions of
144 ExtUtils::Constant will prevent the constant() function from
145 being directly called.
146
6e4ef777 1470.11 -- 2005.12.28 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
04f98b29 148 [BUGFIX] setlogmask() now behaves like its C counterpart.
6e4ef777 149 [FEATURE] Can now export and use the macros.
150 [FEATURE] Support for three Exporter tags.
151 [FEATURE] XSLoader is now optional.
942974c1 152 [CODE] No longer "use"s Sys::Hostname as it was "require"d where needed.
8edeb3ad 153 [CODE] CPAN-RT#16604: Use local timestamp.
6e4ef777 154 [DIST] Merged blead@26343: Fix realclean target.
942974c1 155 [DOC] Improved documentation.
156 [TESTS] Added more tests to t/syslog.t in order to increase code coverage.
157
6e4ef777 1580.10 -- 2005.12.08 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
8168e71f 159 [DOC] Improved documentation.
160 [TESTS] Added -T to t/syslog.t
161 [TESTS] Added t/constants.t to check the macros.
162 [TESTS] Added t/distchk.t, t/podspell.t, t/podcover.t, t/portfs.t
163
6e4ef777 1640.09 -- 2005.12.06 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
8168e71f 165 [CODE] Now setlogsock() really croak(), as documented.
166 [DIST] CPANized from blead@26281.
167 [DIST] Modified Makefile.PL so that ExtUtils::Constant is conditionaly
168 used, with a fallback in the case it's not available.
169 [DIST] Bumped version to 0.09
170 [DOC] Added support and license information.
171 [TESTS] Rewrote and ported t/syslog.t to Test::More
172