1 Revision history for DBM::Deep.
3 0.99_01 ??? ?? ??;??:?? 2006 Pacific
4 - Removed error()/clear_error()
6 0.98 Feb 28 11:00:00 2006 Pacific
7 - Added in patch by David Cantrell to allow use of DATA filehandle
8 - Fixed bug where attempting to export() a structure that used autobless would die
9 - Fixed arraytest slowness by localizing $SIG{__DIE__} to prevent Test::Builder's
10 $SIG{__DIE__} from being called. (q.v. http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/eval.html)
11 - More methods have been made private:
12 - root() is now _root()
13 - base_offset() is now _base_offset()
15 - type() is now _type()
16 - precalc_sizes() is now _precalc_sizes()
18 0.97 Feb 24 10:00:00 2006 Pacific
19 - Reorganization of distribution to a more standard layout
20 - Migration to Module::Build with EU::MM backwards compatibility
21 - Migration of all tests to use Test::More and Test::Exception
22 - Added Devel::Cover report to DBM::Deep POD
23 - Test coverage improved to 89.6% (and climbing)
24 - The following methods have been renamed to reflect their private nature:
25 - init() is now _init()
26 - open() is now _open()
27 - close() is now _close()
28 - load_tag() is now _load_tag()
29 - index_lookup() is now _index_lookup()
30 - add_bucket() is now _add_bucket()
31 - get_bucket_value() is now _get_bucket_value()
32 - delete_bucket() is now _delete_bucket()
33 - bucket_exists() is now _bucket_exists()
34 - find_bucket_list() is now _find_bucket_list()
35 - traverse_index() is now _traverse_index()
36 - get_next_key() is now _get_next_key()
37 - copy_node() is now _copy_node()
38 - throw_error() is now _throw_error()
39 - The various tied classes have been broken out. This means that testing
40 "ref( $obj ) eq 'DBM::Deep'" will now fail. The correct test is
41 "eval { $obj->isa( 'DBM::Deep' ) }".
42 - The various methods like push and delete now have the same return values as
43 the standard builtins.
44 - TIEARRAY and TIEHASH now check their parameters more thoroughly
45 - Negative indices for arrays works as expected, including throwing the appropriate
47 - RT #16877 is fixed (DBM::Deep broken with Perl 5.9.3+).
48 - RT #14893 is fixed (tie() and new() use different parameter lists).
49 - A bug with optimize and threading is fixed.
50 - autobless has received some attention, resulting in a number of bugs fixed.
51 - Removed mode option as it just caused confusion.
52 - Removed volatile option as it is pretty useless (use locking instead)
53 - Locking now implicitly enables autoflush
55 0.96 Oct 14 09:55:00 2005 Pacific
56 - Fixed build (OS X hidden files killed it)
57 - You can now pass in an optional filehandle to the constructor
59 0.95 Oct 12 13:58:00 2005 Pacific
60 - Added optional autobless flag to preserve and restore blessed hashes
61 - Fixed bug where 0 could not be fetched using get_next_key
62 - Fixed bug where tie() constructor didn't accept a hash ref for args
63 - optimize() now preserves user/group/permissions
64 - Errors are now FATAL (meaning it calls die()), unless you set debug flag
66 0.94 Apr 13 19:00:26 2004 Pacific
67 - Fixed bug reported by John Cardenas (corruption at key level when
68 replace of less data was done on bucket)
70 0.93 Feb 15 19:53:17 2004 Pacific
71 - Fixed optmize() on Win32 where orig file couldn't be overwritten unless
72 filehandle was closed first. This change introduces a potential race
73 condition when using locking and optmize() on Win32, but it can be
74 fixed in the future using a soft copy instead of Perl's rename().
76 0.92 Feb 12 19:10:22 2004 Pacific
77 - Fixed bug where passing a reference to a different DBM::Deep object
78 would still result in an internal reference.
79 - Added export() method for recursively extracting hashes/arrays into
80 standard in-memory Perl structures.
81 - Added import() method for recursively importing existing Perl hash/
83 - Fixed bug where optimize() wouldn't work if base level of DB was
84 an array instead of a hash.
86 0.91 Feb 12 02:30:22 2004 Pacific
87 - Fixed bug with splice() when length of removed section was 0
88 - Updated POD re: circular refs and optimize()
89 - Had to jump version numbers to 0.91 because in previous releases
90 I used only a single digit after the decimal which was confusing
93 0.10 Feb 11 08:58:35 2004 Pacific
94 - Fixed bug where default file mode was CLEARING files (Thanks Rich!)
95 - Added experimental support for circular references
96 - Fixed bugs in shift(), unshift() and splice() where nested objects
97 in array would be recursively re-stored as basic hashes/arrays
98 - Fixed typos in POD docs
100 0.9 Feb 10 03:25:48 2004 Pacific
101 - Added Filters for storing/fetching keys/values
102 - Added hook for supplying own hashing algorithm
103 - FIxed some typos in POD docs, added new sections
105 0.8 Feb 8 02:38:22 2004 Pacific
106 - Renamed to DBM::Deep for CPAN
107 - Added optimize() method for rekindling unused space
108 - Now returning hybrid tie()/OO object from new()
109 - Basic error handling introduced
110 - Added debug mode for printing errors to STDERR
111 - Added TYPE_HASH and TYPE_ARRAY constants for "type" param
112 - Added clone() method for safe copying of objects
113 - Wrote POD documentation
114 - Added set_pack() function for manipulating LONG_SIZE / LONG_PACK
115 - Added aliases for most tied functions for public use
116 - Now setting binmode() on FileHandle for Win32
117 - Added 45 unit tests
119 0.7 Jan 4 11:31:50 2003 UTC
121 - Changed file signature to DPDB (not compatible with older versions)
122 - Converted array length to packed long instead of sprintf()ed string
124 0.6 Dec 31 15:12:03 2002 UTC
125 - Some misc optimizations for speed
127 0.5 Oct 18 08:55:29 2002 UTC
128 - support for force_return_next parameter in traverse_index() method for
129 ultra-fast combined key search/removal
131 0.4 Oct 15 20:07:47 2002 UTC
132 - now making sure filehandle is open for all DB calls
134 0.3 Oct 3 19:04:13 2002 UTC
135 - fixed bug that could cause corrupted data when using locking
137 0.2 Aug 6 16:37:32 2002 UTC
138 - Removed base index caching, as it can cause problems when two processes
139 are populating the db at the same time (even with locking)
141 0.1 Jun 3 08:06:26 2002 UTC