1 # This file documents the revision history for Perl extension Catalyst.
3 5.80022 2010-03-28 19:43:01
6 - Log an extra line in debug mode with the response status code,
7 the content type and content length if available.
9 Refactoring / optimizations:
10 - Display of the end of hit debug messages has been factored out into
11 log_headers, log_request, log_request_headers, log_response,
12 log_response_status_line and log_response_headers methods so that
13 plugins which customise how much information is shown on the debug
14 screen as easy to write.
15 - Make all logging of request and response state get the information from
16 $c->dump_these so that there is a unified point from which to hook
17 in parameter filtering (for example).
18 - $c->model/view/controller have become a lot faster for non-regexp names
19 by using direct hash lookup instead of looping.
20 - IP address => hostname mapping for the server is only done once and cached
21 by Catalyst::Engine::HTTP to somewhat mitigate the problem of people
22 developing on machines pointed at slow DNS servers.
25 - DispatchType::Index's uri_for_action only returns for actions registered
26 with it (prevents 'index :Path' or similar resolving to the wrong URI)
27 - Make sure to construct Upload objects properly, even if there are
28 multiple Content-Type headers (Closes RT#55976).
30 5.80021 2010-03-03 23:02:01
33 - $c->uri_for will now escape unsafe characterss in captures
34 ($c->request->captures) and correctly encode utf8 charracters.
36 5.80020 2010-02-04 06:51:18
39 - Allow components to specify additional components to be set up by
40 overriding the expand_modules method. (Oliver Charles)
42 5.80019 2010-01-29 01:04:09
45 - Calls to $c->uri_for with private paths as strings (e.g.
46 $c->uri_for('controller/action', 'arg1', 'arg2') ) no longer have
47 / encoded to %2F. This is due to $c->uri_for('static', 'css/foo', $bar)
48 which should not be encoded.
49 Calls with an action object (rather than a string), or uri_for action
50 will still encode / in args and captures to %2F
52 - The above noted / => %2F encoding in uri_for_action or uri_for with
53 an action object has been fixed to not just encode the first slash in
54 any set of args/captures.
56 - nginx and lighttpd FCGI requests with URI encoded sections as the first
57 path part have been fixed to operate correctly.
59 - A source of bogus warnings in Catalyst::Component::BUILDARGS has been
63 - Improve the documentation about -Home and how Catalyst finds the home path
65 - Various minor typo fixes.
68 - Allow passing additional arguments to action constructors.
70 5.80018 2010-01-12 22:24:20
73 - Call ->canonical on URI derived from $ENV{REQUEST_URI} to get
74 paths correctly decoded. This bug was previously hidden by a bug
75 in HTTP::Request::AsCGI.
78 - Clarify that uri_for_action works on private paths, with example.
79 - Clarify documentation about debug
82 - Saying use Catalyst::Test; (without an application name or () to stop
83 the importer running is now deprecated and will issue a warning.
84 You should be saying use Catalyst::Test ();
86 5.80017 2010-01-10 02:27:29
89 - Fix docs for ->forward method when passed a class name - this should
90 be a component name (e.g. View::HTML, not a full class name, like
94 - --daemon and -d options to Catalyst::Script::FastCGI are fixed.
95 - Fix the debug dump for applications which use Catalyst::Plugin::Session
97 - Fix regression in the case where mod_rewrite is being used to rewrite
98 requests into a path below your application base introduced with the
99 %2F related fixes in 5.80014_02.
100 - Do not crash on SIGHUP if Catalyst::Engine::HTTP->run is not passed the
101 argv key in the options hash.
102 - Correctly pass the arguments to Catalyst::Script::Server through to
103 Catalyst::Engine::HTTP->run so that the server can restart itself
104 with the correct options on SIGHUP.
105 - Require new MooseX::MethodAttributes to be compatible with Moose
107 - Require new MooseX::Role::WithOverloading to be compatible with Moose
111 - Stop suppressing warnings from Class::C3::Adopt::NEXT now that most plugins
112 have been updated to not use NEXT. If you get warnings then please upgrade
113 your components or log a bug with the component author if an upgrade is
114 not available. The Class::C3::Adopt::NEXT documentation contains information
115 about how to suppress the warnings in your application if you need to.
117 5.80016 2009-12-11 23:23:33
121 - Fix slurping a file to work correctly with binary on Win32 in the
122 encoding test controller.
124 Bug fixes in the new scripts (for applications which have been upgraded):
126 - Allow --restartdirectory as an option for the Server script, for
127 backwards compatibility. (Dave Rolsky)
128 - The --host option for the server script defaulted to localhost, rather
129 than listening on all interfaces, which was the previous default. (Dave
131 - Restore -p option for pid file in the FastCGI server script.
132 - Fix the script environment variables MYAPP_PORT and MYAPP_RELOAD RT#52604
133 - Fix aliasing applications under non-root paths with mod_rewrite in
134 some apache versions where %ENV{SCRIPT_NAME} is set to the real name of
135 the script, by using $ENV{REDIRECT_URL} which contains the non-rewritten
137 - Fix usage display when myapp_create.pl is run with no arguments. RT#52630
141 - The __MOP__ hash element is suppressed from being dumped fully
142 (and instead stringified) when dumping the error screen to be
143 less packed with information of no use.
147 - Fix Pod nits (RT#52370)
149 5.80015 2009-12-02 15:13:54
151 - Fix bug in Catalyst::Engine which would cause a request parsing to end
152 prematurely in the hypothetical case where calling $engine->read returned
153 the single character '0'.
154 - Fix failing tests when combined with new HTTP::Request::AsCGI
157 - Improved documentation on read and read_chunk methods in Catalyst::Engine.
158 - Fix reversal of SCRIPT_NAME and PATH_INFO in previously correct nginx
159 FastCGI documentation introduced in _02.
161 5.80014_02 2009-12-01 00:55:23
163 - Fix reporting the wrong Content-Length if the response body is an
164 upgraded string. Strings mean the same thing whether or not they are
165 upgraded, may get upgraded even after they are encoded, and will
166 produce the same output either way, but bytes::length returns too big
167 values for upgraded strings containing characters >127
168 - Fix t/live_fork.t with bleadperl (RT#52100)
169 - Set $ENV{PATH_INFO} from $ENV{REQUEST_URI} combined with
170 $ENV{SCRIPT_NAME} if possible. This is many web servers always fully
171 decode PATH_INFO including URI reserved characters. This allows us to
172 tell foo%2cbar from foo%252cbar, and fixes issues with %2F in paths
173 being incorrectly decoded, resulting in too many path parts (rather
174 than 1 path part containing a /, on some web servers (at least nginx).
176 - Require new HTTP::Request::AsCGI so that it fully decodes $ENV{PATH_INFO}
177 in non CGI contexts. (RT#50082)
179 Refactoring / cleanups:
180 - NoTabs and Pod tests moved to t/author so that they're not run
181 (and then skipped) normally.
184 - Fix Pod nits in Catalyst::Response (RT#51818)
186 5.80014_01 2009-11-22 20:01:23
189 - Filehandle now forced to binmode in CGI and FastCGI engines. This appears
190 to correct some UTF-8 issues, but may break people's code which relies
191 on the old behaviour.
193 Refactoring / cleanups:
194 - Plugins which inherit from Catalyst::Controller or Catalyst::Component
195 are deprecated and now issue warnings.
197 5.80014 2009-11-21 02:51:14
200 - Require MooseX::MethodAttributes 0.17. This in turn requires new
201 MooseX::Types to stop warnings in Moose 0.91, and correctly supports
202 role combination of roles containing attributed methods.
203 - Catalyst::Dispatcher::dispatch_types no longer throws deprecated warnings
204 as there is no recommended alternative.
205 - Improved the suggested fix warning when component resolution uses regex
206 fallback for fully qualified component names.
207 - Catalyst::Test::local_request sets ->request on the response.
208 - Log flush moved to the end of setup so that roles and plugins which
209 hook setup_finalize can log things and have them appear in application
210 startup, rather than with the first hit.
211 - Require a newer version of LWP to avoid failing tests.
212 - Stop warnings when actions are forwarded to during dispatch.
213 - Remove warnings for using Catalyst::Dispatcher->dispatch_types as this is a
214 valid method to publicly call on the dispatcher.
215 - Args ($c->request->args) and CaptureArgs ($c->request->captrues)
216 passed to $c->uri_for with an action object ($c->action) will now
217 correctly round-trip when args or captures contain / as it is now
218 correctly uri encoded to %2F.
221 - Document no-args call to $c->uri_for.
222 - Document all top level application configuration parameters.
223 - Clarify how to fix actions in your application class (which is
224 deprecated and causes warnings).
225 - Pod fixes for ContextClosure.
226 - Fix documentation for go/visit to reference captures and arguments
227 in the correct order.
228 - Update $c->forward and $c->state documentation to address scalar
230 - Pod fix in Catalyst::Request (RT#51490)
231 - Pod fixes to refer to ::Controller:: rather than ::C:: as the latter
232 is deprecated (RT#51489)
235 - Added disable_component_resolution_regex_fallback config option to
236 switch off (deprecated) regex fallback for component resolution.
237 - Added an nginx-specific behavior to the FastCGI engine to allow
238 proper PATH_INFO and SCRIPT_NAME processing for non-root applications
239 - Enable Catalyst::Utils::home() to find home within Dist::Zilla built
241 - Added the Catalyst::Exception::Interface role defining the interface
242 exception classes need to implement.
243 - Added Catalyst::Exception::Basic as a basic implementation of
244 Catalyst::Exception::Interface and made the existing exception classes
247 Refactoring / cleanups:
248 - Remove documentation for the case_sensitive setting
249 - Warning is now emitted at application startup if the case_sensitive
250 setting is turned on. This setting is not used by anyone, not
251 believed to be useful and adds unnecessary complexity to controllers
252 and the dispatcher. If you are using this setting and have good reasons
253 why it should stay then you need to be shouting, now.
254 - Writing to $c->req->body now fails as doing this never makes sense.
256 5.80013 2009-09-17 11:07:04
259 - Preserve immutable_options when temporarily making a class mutable in
260 Catalyst::ClassData as this is needed by new Class::MOP.
261 This could have potentially caused issues when using the deprecated runtime
262 plugins feature in an application with plugins which define their own new
264 - Require new Moose version and new versions of various dependencies
265 to avoid warnings from newest Moose release.
266 - Fix go / visit expecting captures and arguments in reverse order.
269 - Rework the $c->go documentation to make it more clear.
270 - Additional documentation in Catalyst::Upgrading covering more deprecation
273 Refactoring / cleanups:
274 - Action methods in the application class are deprecated and applications
275 using them will now generate a warning at startup.
276 - The -short option has been removed from catalyst.pl, stopping new
277 applications from being generated using the ::[MVC]:: naming scheme as
278 this is deprecated and generates warnings. RT#49771
280 5.80012 2009-09-09 19:09:09
283 - Fix t/optional_http-server.t test.
284 - Fix t/optional_http-server-restart.t test.
285 - Fix duplicate components being loaded at setup time, each component is
286 now loaded at most once + tests.
287 - Fix backward compatibility - hash key configured actions are stored in
288 is returned to 'actions'.
289 - Fix get_action_methods returning duplicate methods when a method is both
290 decorated with method attributes and set as an action in config.
292 Refactoring / cleanups:
293 - Reduce minimum supported perl version from 5.8.6 to 5.8.4 as there are
294 many people still running/testing this version with no known issues.
297 - Make the optional_http_server.t test an author only test which must be
298 run by authors to stop it being broken again.
299 - Fix recursion warnings in the test suites.
301 5.80011 2009-08-23 13:48:15
304 - Remove leftovers of the restarter engine. The removed code caused test
305 failures, which weren't apparent for anyone still having an old version
308 5.80010 2009-08-21 23:32:15
311 - Fix and add tests for a regression introduced by 5.80008.
312 Catalyst::Engine is now able to send out data from filehandles larger
313 than the default chunksize of 64k again.
315 5.80009 2009-08-21 22:21:08
318 - Fix and add tests for generating inner packages inside the COMPONENT
319 method, and those packages being correctly registered as components.
320 This fixes Catalyst::Model::DBIC among others.
322 5.80008 2009-08-21 17:47:30
325 - Fix replace_constructor warning to actually work if you make your
326 application class immutable without that option.
327 - Depend on Module::Pluggable 3.9 to prevent a bug wherein components
328 in inner packages might not be registered. This especially affected
330 - Catalyst::Engine::FastCGI - relax the check for versions of Microsoft
331 IIS. Provides compatibility with Windows 2008 R2 as well as
332 (hopefully) future versions.
333 - In tests which depend on the values of environment variables,
334 localise the environment, then delete only relevant environment
336 - Fix issue with Engine::HTTP not sending headers properly in some cases
338 - Make Catalyst::Engine write at least once when finalizing the response
339 body from a filehandle, even if the write is empty. This avoids fail
340 when trying to send out an empty response body from a filehandle.
341 - Catalyst::Engine::HTTP - Accept a fully qualified absolute URI in the
342 Request-URI of the Request-Line
344 Refactoring / cleanups:
345 - Deleted the Restarter engine and its Watcher code. Use the
346 new Catalyst::Restarter in a recent Catalyst::Devel instead.
347 - New unit test for Catalyst::Action 'unit_core_action.t'
348 - Bump minimum supported perl version from 5.8.1 to 5.8.6 as there are
349 known issues with 5.8.3.
350 - Debug output uses dynamic column sizing to create more readable output
351 when using a larger $ENV{COLUMNS} setting. (groditi)
354 - Added private_path method for Catalyst::Action
355 - Allow uri_for($controller_instance) which will produce a URI
356 for the controller namespace
357 - Break setup_components into two more parts: locate_components and
358 expand_component_module (rjbs)
359 - Allow Components to return anon classed from their COMPONENT method
360 correctly, and have action registration work on Controllers returned
361 as such by adding a catalyst_component_name accessor for all components
362 which returns the component instance's name to be used when building
364 - Adding X-Forwarded-Port to allow the frontend proxy to dictate the
365 frontend port (jshirley)
366 - Added Catalyst::Stats->created accessor for the time at the start of
370 - Fix POD to refer to ->config(key => $val), rather than
371 ->config->{key} = $val, as the latter form is deprecated.
372 - Clearer docs for the 'uri_for' method.
373 - Fix POD refering to CGI::Cookie. We're using CGI::Simple::Cookie.
376 5.80007 2009-06-30 23:54:34
379 - Don't mangle query parameters passed to uri_for
380 - Tests for this (Byron Young + Amir Sadoughi)
381 - Inherited controller methods can now be specified in
383 - Assigning an undef response body no longer produces warnings
384 - Fix C3 incompatibility bug caused if you use Moose in MyApp.pm and
385 add Catalyst to the right hand side of this in @ISA.
386 - Make Catalyst.pm implement the Component::ApplicationAttribute
387 interface so defining actions in MyApp.pm works again, if the
388 actions have attributes that cause $self->_application to be used
392 - Add optional second argument to uri_with which appends to existing
393 params rather than replacing them. (foo=1 becomes foo=1&foo=2 when
394 uri_with({ foo => 2 }, { mode => 'append' }) is called on a foo=1
397 5.80006 2009-06-29 23:37:47
400 - Revert change to URL encode things passed into $c->uri_for
401 Args and CaptureArgs as this causes breakage to pre-existing
403 - Remove use of Test::MockObject as it doesn't install from CPAN
404 in some environments.
405 - Remove use of dclone to deep copy configs and replace with
406 Catalyst::Utils::merge_hashes which has the same effect, of
407 ensuring child classes don't inherit their parent's config,
408 except works correctly with closures.
409 - Add Class::C3::reinitialize into Catalyst::Test to avoid weird
410 bugs in ctx_request (bokutin in RT#46459)
411 - Fix issues with _parse_PathPrefix_attr method in Catalyst::Controller
413 - Fix bugs with action sorting:
414 - Path actions sorted so that the most specific wins.
415 - Action methods named default and index fixed.
418 - Use ~ as prefix for plugins or action classes which are located in
419 MyApp::Plugin / MyApp::Action (mo)
420 - Controller methods without attributes are now considered actions if
421 they are specified in config->{action(s)} (mo)
422 - Add Catalyst::Component::ContextClosure as an easy way to create code
423 references, that close over the context, without creating leaks.
425 Refactoring / cleanups:
426 - Clean namespaces in Catalyst::Exception*.
427 - Turn Catalyst::Exception into an actual class and make the throw
428 method create instances of it. They can still be used as normal
429 strings, as before, as they are overloaded to stringify to their
431 - Add a rethrow method to Catalyst::Exception.
432 - Add Catalyst::Exception::Detach and ::Go, and refactor detach() and
433 go() to use them instead of magic, global strings.
435 - Clean up getting metaclass instance and making app class immutable
436 again in Catalyst::Test
438 5.80005 2009-06-06 14:40:00
441 - Arguments ($c->req->args) in Chained dispatch are now automatically
442 URL decoded to be consistent with Local/Path dispatch
445 - Clarify correct techniques for Moose controllers (domm)
448 - Further change pushing 'env' attribute down into Catalyst::Engine
449 to make $c->engine->env work in all cases (kmx)
450 - Also fix $c->engine->env in Catalyst::Test tests (kmx)
452 - Fix Catalyst failing to start if any plugin changed $_ whilst
455 - Be stricter about arguments to Args attributes for Chained actions,
456 so that they blow up on load instead of causing undefined behavior
459 - Prefer Path actions with a smaller (or set) number of Args (caelum)
460 Bug reported here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/931653/catalyst-action-that-matches-a-single-file-in-the-root-directory/933181#933181
464 - Add $c->req->remote_user to disambiguate from $c->req->user (dwc)
465 - Require MooseX::MethodAttributes 0.12 so that action methods
466 (with attributes) can be used in / composed from Moose roles.
467 - Allow the generation of cookies with the HTTPOnly flag set
468 in Catalyst::Engine (kmx)
470 5.80004 2009-05-18 17:03:23
471 - Rename the actions attribute in Catalyt::Controller to
472 _controller_actions to avoid name clashes with application
473 controller naming. (random)
474 - Test for using Moose in components which have a non-Moose base class
475 Fixed by 349cda in Moose 0.78
476 - Fix deprecation message for Catalyst::Dispatcher to refer
477 to the class actually calling the deprecated method. RT#45741
478 - Clarify limitations of $request->base and $request->secure.
480 - Add 'use Catalyst' to documentation for a Moose MyApp class as
482 - Fix so that / (and other special characters) are URL encoded when
483 passed into $c->uri_for as Args/CaptureArgs
484 - Fix development server so that $c->engine->env returns the correct
486 - Require Moose 0.78 to fix metaclass incompatibility issues
487 - Require MooseX::MethodAttributes 0.10 and use
488 Moose::Meta::Class->initialize rather than Moose->init_meta to fix
489 bugs related to having a 'meta' method in your controller
490 - Fix cases where your application failing to compile could cause perl
491 to report 'Unknown Error'
492 - Support adding Moose::Roles to the plugin list. These are applied to
493 MyApp after plugins have been pushed onto @ISA
494 - Fix calling $c->req->parameters as the first thing you do when
495 parse_on_demand is on
497 5.80003 2009-04-29 16:23:53
498 - Various POD tweaks. (hdp, dandv)
499 - Fix formatting error in the regex fallback warning.
500 - Convert the dispatcher's and restarter engine's BUILD method to
501 attribute builders to not override the BUILD method from
502 MooseX::Emulate::Class::Accessor::Fast.
503 - Fix classes without metaclasses restarting, when not using
504 B::Hooks::OP::Check::StashChange
505 - Fix the unattached chain debug table for endpoints with no
507 - Turn off test aggregation by default. Only aggregate if the
508 AGGREGATE_TESTS environment variable is set and a recent
509 Test::Aggregate is available.
510 - Bump to MooseX::MethodAttributes 0.09, to gain the
511 get_nearest_methods_with_attributes method allowing methods without
512 attributes in a subclass to override those with attributes in a
513 superclass. This fixes CatalystX::CRUD's method of overriding /
514 disabling functionality from base controllers.
515 - Bump HTTP::Request::AsCGI dependency to avoid broken version
516 - Bump Moose dependency to latest version to fix metaclass
517 incompatibility issues in some cases.
518 - Additional tests for setup_stats method.
519 - Fix log levels in Catalyst::Log to be properly additive.
520 - Fix RT#43375 by sorting results before testing them
521 - Fixes for uri_for_action when using Catalyst::DispatchType::Regex
522 + tests from RT#39369 (norbi)
523 - Partial rewrite and reoganisation of the C3 docs in
524 Catalyst::Upgrading based on feedback from kiffin
525 - If you make your application class immutable and turn off
526 constructor inlining, Catalyst will die and tell you pass
527 the (replace_constructor => 1) argument to
528 make_immutable. (Dave Rolsky)
530 5.80002 2009-04-22 01:28:36
531 - Fix CATALYST_DEBUG and MYAPP_DEBUG environment variables
532 turning debuging on if defined, rather than if set.
533 They now force debugging on or off, taking precedence over
534 configuration in your application.
536 - pass replace_constructor to the immutable call to ensure
537 applications get a Moose constructor rather than a C::A one
538 - Fix issues with restarting the application class due to C3 failures
540 - Work around issues in Moose with initialization order of multiple
541 levels of non-Moose classes inheriting from a Moose class
543 - Add backwards compatibility method for Catalyst::Log->body, which
544 has been made private
545 - Fix so that calling $c->req->parameters(undef) does not flatten
546 the request parameters with undef + test
547 - Fix so that width of table of unattached actions for debugging
548 ::DispatchType::Chained varies according to your terminal width
550 - Fix warning message about linearized @ISA in Catalyst::Component
552 - Require MX::MethodAttributes 0.06 to avoid issues with saying
553 use base 'Catalyst::Controller'; use Moose; losing actions
554 - Fix all of's typos in ::Upgrading and ::Delta (hobbs)
556 5.80001 2009-04-18 22:18
557 - Don't inline the constructor for Catalyst::Log to avoid a
558 warning on recent Moose versions.
559 - Add delta documentation
560 - Clean up recursion errors
561 - Extra cross links in dispatch types POD (Ian Wells)
562 - Test uri_with clears query params when they are set to undef
564 - Complain about old Catalyst::Devel versions which generated
565 ->setup(qw/-Debug... etc. as this is not recommended
567 5.8000_07 2009-04-12 13:37
568 - Add the Catalyst::Dispatcher->dispatch_type method (ash)
569 - Throw an exception rather than loading an app if an action
570 tries to chain to itself
572 - Change the $c->visit and $c->go methods to optionally take
573 CaptureArgs, making them useful to call ActionChains with
574 - Tests for this (radek)
575 - Fix _invoke_as_component method to find the proper action instance
576 for dispatchable actions so that ->visit or ->going to ActionChains
577 with qw/Class::Name method_name/ works correctly
578 - Tests for this (radek)
579 - Added Catalyst::Test::ctx_request to be able to inspect
580 the context object after a request is made (Jos Boumans)
581 - debug() POD rewrite (jhannah)
582 - Change the warning when you have conflicting components to
584 - Move NEXT use and testing deprecated features out to its own
585 test application so that the main TestApp isn't polluted with
587 - Add a warning for the old ::[MVC]:: style naming scheme
589 - Kill Class::C3::Adopt::NEXT warnings for the Catalyst:: namespace
590 in production versions
591 - Tidy up Catalyst::ClassData to ensure that all components get
592 the correct metaclass
593 - Make MyApp.pm restartable by unsetting setup_finished in
594 the restarter process
595 - Non-naive implementation of making mutable on restart using
596 B::Hooks::OP::Check::StashChange if installed
598 - Naive implementation of making all components mutable in the
599 forked restart watcher process so native Moose apps using
600 immutable restart correctly.
602 - Bump Moose dependency to 0.70 so that we avoid nasty surprises
603 with is_class_loaded and perl 5.80 when you Moosify MyApp.pm
604 - Clarify that request arguments aren't unescaped automatically
605 (Simon Bertrang) (Closes RT#41153)
606 - Don't require C3 for the MRO test
607 - Bump MX::Emulate::CAF prereq to support list assignment
608 - Remove useless column in chained action debug table.
609 - namespace::clean related cleanups
610 - Import related cleanups and consistency fixes
611 - Fix test suite TestApp /dump/env action
612 - Add $res->code as alias for $res->status
613 - Make Catalyst::ClassData compatible with the latest Class::MOP::Class
614 changes. Also depend on the latest Class::MOP.
615 - Add $c->uri_for_action method.
616 - Don't stringify the meta method. Use its name instead.
617 - Use MooseX::MethodAttributes::Inheritable to contain action
618 attributes. This means that attributes are now represented in the MOP,
619 allowing method modifiers on actions to work as expected.
620 - Provide a reasonable API in Catalyst::Controller for working with
621 and registering actions, allowing a controller sub-class to replace
622 subroutine attributes for action declerations with an alternate
624 - Instantiate correct sub-class of Moose::Meta::Class for non-Moose
625 components where Catalyst forces the creation of a metaclass instance.
626 This is more correct, and avoids metaclass incompatibility in complex
629 - Use of deprecated Catalyst::Base now warns.
632 5.8000_06 2009-02-04 21:00
633 - Disallow writing to config after setup
634 - Disallow calling setup more than once
635 - Documentation fix regarding overloading of Engine and Dispatcher
637 - Several documentation typo fixes
638 - Stop Makefile.PL from warning about versions that fixed a conflict
639 - Improved upgrading documentation
640 - Seed the RNG in each FastCGI child process (Andrew Rodland)
641 - Properly report dynamic bind port for the development server
643 - Use the way documented by IO::Socket::INET to get the error message
644 after trying to create a listening socket (Closes RT#41828)
645 - Don't ignore SIGCHLD while handling requests with the dev server
648 5.8000_05 2008-29-01 00:00
649 - Text::SimpleTable's go as wide as $ENV{COLUMNS} (jhannah)
650 Patch written by Oleg Kostyuk <cub.uanic@gmail.com>
651 - Improve docs for visit (mateu)
652 - Add docs for finalize hook (dhoss)
653 - Added ru/ua translations to error page
654 - Improve the clarity and verbosity of the warning when component
655 resolution uses regex fallback. (jhannah)
656 - Handle leading CRLF in HTTP requests sometimes sent by IE6 in
658 - Fixes for FastCGI with IIS 6.0 (janus)
659 - Passing request method exported by Catalyst::Test an extra
660 parameter used to be ignored, but started breaking if the parameter
661 was not a hash in 5.8000_04. Extra parameter is now ignored if
663 - Fix request argumentss getting corrupted if you override the
664 dispatcher and call an action which detaches (for
665 Catalyst::Plugin::Authorization::ACL)
666 - Fix calling use Catalyst::Test 'MyApp' 'foo' which used to work,
667 but stopped as the 2nd parameter can be an options hash now
668 - Bump Moose dependency to fix make_immutable bug
669 - Use compile time extends in Catalyst::Controller
670 - Make Catalyst::Request::uploads attribute non-lazy, to fix
671 test for Catalyst-Engine-Apache
672 - Bump version of MooseX::Emulate::Class::Accessor::Fast
673 - Stop using MooseX::Adopt::Class::Accessor::Fast by default, to stop
674 breaking other packages which use Class::Accessor::Fast
675 - Remove unused action_container_class attribute from
677 - Replace {_body} instance access with calls to _body accessors
678 - Add backwards compatibility alias methods for private attributes on
679 Catalyst::Dispatcher which used to be public. Needed by
680 Catalyst::Plugin::Server and Catalyst::Plugin::Authorization::ACL
681 - Fix return value of $c->req->body, which delegates to the body
682 method on the requests HTTP::Body instance
684 - Fix calling $c->req->body from inside an overridden prepare_action
685 method in a plugin, as used by Catalyst::Plugin::Server
687 - Fix assignment to Catalyst::Dispatcher's preload_dispatch_types and
688 postload_dispatch_types attributes - assigning a list should later
689 return a listref. Fixes Catalyst::Plugin::Server.
691 - Change streaming test to serve itself rather than 01use.t, making
692 test sync for engines easier
693 - Refactor capturing of $app from Catalyst::Controller into
694 Catalyst::Component::ApplicationAttribute for easier reuse in other
696 - Make the test suites YAML dependency optional
697 - Make debug output show class name for the engine and dispatcher
698 rather than the stringified ref.
699 - Make MyApp immutable at the end of the scope after the setup
700 method is called, fixing issues with plugins which have their
701 own new methods by inlining a constructor on MyApp
702 - Test for this and method modifiers in MyApp
703 - Fix bug causing Catalyst::Request::Upload's basename method
705 - Test for this (Carl Franks)
706 - Fix loading of classes which do not define any symbols to not
707 die, as it didn't in 5.70
709 - Bump MooseX::Emulate::Class::Accessor::Fast dependency
710 to force new version which fixes a lot of plugins
711 - Make log levels additive, and add documentation and tests
712 for the setup_log method, which previously had none.
713 Sewn together by from two patches provided by David E. Wheeler
714 - Switch an around 'new' in Catalyst::Controller to a BUILDARGS
715 method as it's much neater and more obvious what is going on
716 - Add a clearer method on request and response _context
717 attributes, and use if from ::Engine rather than deleting
718 the key from the instance hash
719 - Use handles on tree attribute of Catalyst::Stats to replace
720 trivial delegation methods
721 - Change the following direct hash accesses into attributes:
722 Catalyst::Engine: _prepared_write
723 Catalyst::Engine::CGI: _header_buf
724 Catalyst::Engine::HTTP: options, _keepalive, _write_error
725 Catalyst::Request: _path
726 Catalyst::Stats: tree
727 - Fix issues in Catalyst::Controller::WrapCGI
728 and any other components which import (or define) their
729 own meta method by always explicitly calling
730 Class::MOP::Object->meta inside Catalyst
732 - Add test case for the bug which is causing the
733 Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication tests to fail
734 - Fix a bug in uri_for which could cause it to generate paths
735 with multiple slashes in them.
737 - Fix SKIP block name in t/optional_http-server-restart.t,
738 stopping 'Label not found for "last SKIP"' error from
740 - Workaround max_redirect 0 bug in LWP
741 - Move live_engine_response_print into aggregate
742 - Fix dependency bug, s/parent/base/ in new test
743 - Fix optional tests to run the live tests in the aggregate
745 - Fix Catalyst->go error in remote tests
746 - Fix upload test to work with remote servers, don't check for
748 - Fix engine_request_uri tests to work on remote server with
751 5.8000_04 2008-12-05 12:15:00
752 - Silence Class::C3::Adopt::NEXT warnings in the test suite
753 - Fix loads of 'used once, possible typo' warnings
754 - Additional tests to ensure upload temp files are deleted
755 - Remove use of NEXT from the test suite, except for one case
756 which tests if Class::C3::Adopt::NEXT is working
757 - Use a predicate to avoid recursion in cases where the uri
758 method is overridden by a plugin, and calls the base method,
759 for example Catalyst::Plugin::SmartURI
760 - Test for this (caelum)
761 - Compose the MooseX::Emulate::Class::Accessor::Fast role to
762 Catalyst::Action, Catalyst::Request, and all other modules which
763 inherit from Class::Accessor::Fast in 5.70.
765 - Catalyst::Controller::HTML::FormFu (zamolxes)
766 - Catalyst::Request::REST
768 - Make hostname resolution lazy (Marc Mims)
769 - Support mocking virtualhosts in test suite (Jason Gottshall)
772 - Use Class::C3::Adopt::NEXT
773 - Ignore C3 warnings on 5.10 when testing ensure_class_loaded
774 - Add TODO test for chained bug (gbjk)
775 - Fix list address in documentation (zarquon)
776 - Fix ACCEPT_CONTEXT on MyApp, called as a class method
778 - Bump MooseX::Emulate::Class::Accessor::Fast version requirement to
779 get more back compatibility
780 - Improve documentation for $req->captures (caelum)
781 - Fix a bug in Catalyst::Stats, stopping garbage being inserted into
782 the stats if a user calls begin => but no end => (jhannah)
783 - Test for this (jhannah)
784 - Trim lines sooner in stats to avoid ugly Text::SimpleTable wrapping
786 - Change Catalyst::ClassData to tweak the symbol table inline for
787 performance after profiling
788 - Fix POD typo in finalize_error (jhannah)
789 - Add tests to ensure that we delete the temp files created by
790 HTTP::Body's OctetStream parser
792 5.8000_03 2008-10-14 14:13:00
793 - Fix forwarding to Catalyst::Action objects.
794 - Fix links to the mailing lists (RT #39754 and Florian Ragwitz).
795 - Use Class::MOP instead of Class::Inspector.
796 - Change Catalyst::Test to use Sub::Exporter.
797 - Fixed typo in Engine::HTTP::Restarter::Watcher causing -r to complain.
799 5.8000_02 2008-10-14 07:59:00
802 5.8000_01 2008-10-13 22:52:00
804 - Added test for action stringify
805 - Added test for component instances getting $self->{value} from config.
806 - Add Catalyst::Response->print() method
807 - Optionally aggregate tests using Test::Aggregate.
808 - Additional docs for uri_for to mention how to use $c->action and
809 $c->req->captures (jhannah)
810 - List unattached chained actions in Debug mode.
811 - Pod formatting fix for Engine::FastCGI (Oleg Kostyuk).
812 - Add visit, a returning ->go
815 - Workaround change in LWP that broke a cookie test (RT #40037)
816 - Back out go() since that feature's been pushed to 5.80
817 - Fix some Win32 test failures
818 - Add pt translation of error message (wreis)
819 - Make :Chained('../action') work
821 - Chained doc improvements (rev 8326-8328)
823 5.7099_03 2008-07-20 10:10:00
824 - Fix regressions for regexp fallback in model(), view() and controller()
825 - Added the supplied argument to the regexp fallback warning for easier
827 - Ensure ACCEPT_CONTEXT is called for results from component()
829 5.7099_02 2008-07-16 19:10:00
830 - Added PathPrefix attribute
831 - Removed Catalyst::Build; we've long since moved to Module::Install
832 - Updated Catalyst::Test docs to mention the use of HTTP::Request
835 5.7099_01 2008-06-25 22:36:00
836 - Refactored component resolution (component(), models(), model(), et al). We now
837 throw warnings for two reasons:
838 1) model() or view() was called with no arguments, and two results are returned
839 -- set default_(model|view), current_(model|view) or current_(model|view)_instance
841 2) you call a component resolution method with a string, and it resorts to a regexp
842 fallback wherein a result is returned -- if you really want to search, call the
843 method with a regex as the argument
844 - remove 0-length query string components so warnings aren't thrown (RT #36428)
845 - Update HTTP::Body dep so that the uploadtmp config value will work (RT #22540)
846 - Fix for LocalRegex when used in the Root controller
847 - Get some of the optional_* tests working from dirs with spaces (RT #26455)
848 - Fix Catalyst::Utils::home() when application .pm is in the current dir (RT #34437)
849 - Added the ability to remove parameters in req->uri_with() by passing in
850 an undef value (RT #34782)
851 - Added $c->go, to do an internal redispatch to another action, while retaining the
852 contents of the stash
854 5.7014 2008-05-25 15:26:00
855 - Addition of .conf in restart regex in Catalyst::Engine::HTTP::Restarter::Watcher
856 - Fix regression for relative uri_for arguments after a forward()
857 introduced in 5.7013 (Peter Karman)
858 - Fix regression for "sub foo : Path {}" in the root controller which
859 was introduced when attempting to allow "0" as a Path.
861 5.7013 2008-05-16 18:20:00
862 - Provide backwards compatability methods in Catalyst::Stats
863 - Fix subdirs for scripts that run in subdirs more than one level deep.
864 - Added test and updated docs for handling the Authorization header
865 under mod_fastcgi/mod_cgi.
866 - Fixed bug in HTTP engine where the connection was not closed properly if the
867 client disconnected before sending any headers. (Ton Voon)
868 - POD fix, IO::FileHandle => IO::Handle (RT #35690)
869 - Fix grammar on welcome page (RT #33236)
870 - Fix for Path('0') handling (RT #29334)
871 - Workaround for Win32 and c3_mro.t (RT #26452, tested by Kenichi Ishigaki)
872 - Fix for encoding query parameters
873 - Fix Chained multiple test
875 5.7012 2007-12-16 23:44:00
876 - Fix uri_for()'s and uri_with()'s handling of multibyte chars
878 - Fix __PACKAGE__->config->{foo} = 'bar' case with subclassing
879 - Add Catalyst::Stats (Jon Schutz)
880 - Fixed a bug where ?q=bar=baz is decoded as q=>'bar', not 'bar=baz'.
881 (Tatsuhiko Miyagawa, Masahiro Nagano)
882 - Fixed a bug where -rr (restart regex) command line option could cause
883 shell errors. (Aristotle Pagaltzis, Chisel Wright)
885 5.7011 2007-10-18 20:40:00
886 - Allow multiple restart directories and added option to follow
887 symlinks in the HTTP::Restarter engine (Sebastian Willert)
888 - Fixed t/optional_http-server-restart.t so it actually tests
889 if the server restarted or notified of an error (Sebastian Willert)
890 - Return child PID from the HTTP engine when run with the 'background' option.
892 - Fixed bug in HTTP engine where writes could fail with
893 'Resource temporarily unavailable'.
894 - Fixed bug where %2b in query parameter is doubly decoded to ' ', instead of '+'
895 (RT #30087, Gavin Henry, Tatsuhiko Miyagawa, Oleg Pronin)
896 - Fixed bug where req->base and req->uri would include a port number when running
898 - Removed unnecessary sprintf in debug mode that caused warnings on locales where
899 commas are used for decimal markers.
900 - Improved error message for case when server picks up editor save
901 files as module names. (James Mastros)
903 5.7010 2007-08-22 07:41:00
904 - Resource forks in 5.7009
906 5.7009 2007-08-22 00:14:00
907 - Moved Manual.pod to Manual.pm and clarified status of
909 - Doc patches to Catalyst::Controller
910 - remove ignore_loaded from plugin load, commenting why
911 - document the ignore_loaded feature in Catalyst::Utils
912 - Add testing of inline plugins.
914 5.7008 2007-08-13 08:40:00
915 - Added $c->request->query_keywords for getting the keywords
916 (a query string with no parameters).
917 - Add undef warning for uri_for.
918 - Fix bug where a nested component would be setup twice.
919 - Make ensure_class_loaded behave better with malformed class name.
920 - Make _register_plugin use ensure_class_loaded.
921 - Remove 'Argument "??" isn't numeric in sprintf' warning.
923 - Fixed a bug where Content-Length could be set to 0 if a filehandle
924 object in $c->response->body did not report a size.
925 - Fixed issue where development server running in fork mode did not
926 properly exit after a write error.
927 (http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27135)
928 - Remove warning for captures that are undef.
929 - Fixed $c->read and parse_on_demand mode.
930 - Fixed a bug with the HTTP engine where very large response bodies
931 would not be sent properly.
933 5.7007 2007-03-13 14:18:00
934 - Many performance improvements by not using URI.pm:
935 * $c->uri_for (approx. 8x faster)
936 * $c->engine->prepare_path (approx. 27x faster)
937 * $c->engine->prepare_query_parameters (approx. 5x faster)
938 - Updated HTTP::Body dependency to 0.9 which fixes the following issues:
939 * Handle when IE sometimes sends an extra CRLF after the POST body.
940 * Empty fields in multipart/form-data POSTs are no longer ignored.
941 * Uploaded files with the name "0" are no longer ignored.
942 - Sending SIGHUP to the dev server will now cause it to restart.
943 - Allow "0" for a path in uri_for.
944 - Performance and stability improvements to the built-in HTTP server.
945 - Don't ignore file uploads if form contains a text field with the same name.
947 - Support restart_delay of 0 (for use in the POE engine).
948 - Skip body processing if we don't have a Content-Length header.
949 Results in about a 9% performance increase when handling GET/HEAD
951 - Add a default body to redirect responses.
952 - MyApp->model/view now looks at MyApp->config->{default_view/model}
955 5.7006 2006-11-15 14.18
957 - Fix Slurp dependency
958 - Updated HTTP::Body dependency to 0.6, 0.5 can break on large POST
960 - Skip utf8 fix for undef values in uri_with() and uri_for()
962 5.7005 2006-11-07 19:37:35
963 - Fixed lighttpd tests to be properly skipped.
964 - Moved IE workarounds to exist only in the HTTP engine.
965 - Added installation instructions (from Catalyst-Manual dist)
967 5.7004 2006-11-06 20:48:35
968 - Fix Engine::HTTP crash when using IE. (Jesper Krogh, Peter Edwards)
969 - clean up Catalyst::Utils to handle some edge cases
970 - Properly work around lighttpd PATH_INFO vs. SCRIPT_NAME bug
972 - add _application accessor to Catalyst::Base
973 - Support current_view
974 - Allow use of Catalyst::Test without app name (Ton Voon, Altinity)
975 - Catalyst::Manual moved to its own package
976 - Add option to FastCGI engine to send errors to stdout, not the web server
977 - Use Module::Install's auto_install to install prerequisite modules
978 - various documentation fixes and improvements
980 5.7003 2006-09-21 16:29:45
981 - Additions and updates to tutorial
983 5.7002 2006-09-17 19:35:32
984 - unescape captures to match args
985 - fix for relative Chained under namespace '' (root)
986 - fix for hashrefs in action attributes from config
987 - fix for Chained to require correct number of CaptureArgs
989 5.7001 2006-07-19 23:46:54
990 - fix for component loading
991 - uri_for and uri_with now behave as they used to with non-
994 5.7000 2006-07-07 08:08:08
995 - fix FCGI.pm warning message with FastCGI engine
996 - bumped inc::Module::Install to 0.63 in Makefile.PL
997 - fixes to uri_for_action for DispatchType::Chained
999 - Minor code cleanups
1000 - Changed catalyst.pl to depend on Catalyst::Devel
1002 5.70_03 2006-06-28 16:42:00
1003 - fixup to registered plugins debug at app startup
1004 - refactored Catalyst::Utils::home
1006 5.70_02 2006-06-27 11:51:00
1009 5.70_01 2006-06-26 10:49:00
1011 - fixed a Catalyst::Base bug causing duplicate action registrations
1012 - modified DispatchTypes to support multiple registrations
1013 - added Catalyst::Runtime module as dist marker
1014 - added Catalyst::ActionChain and Chained DispatchType
1015 - removed retarded registration requirement in dispatcher
1016 - removed Module::Pluggable::Fast hack in favor of
1017 Module::Pluggable::Object
1018 - extended uri_for, added dispatcher->uri_for_action
1019 - added Catalyst::Base->action_for('methodname')
1020 - checked and tested :Args multimethod dispatch
1021 - added ability to set action attributes from controller config
1022 - added merge_config_hashes() as a convenience method
1023 - Swapped out CGI::Cookie in favour of CGI::Simple::Cookie
1024 - Removed test dependencies on Test::NoWarnings, Test::MockObject
1025 - Removed dependency on UNIVERSAL::require
1026 - Split out Catalyst::Helper into a new distribution
1027 - un-bundled the plugins as they are now pre-reqs for Catalyst::Helper
1028 - nuked each() out of core with prejudice (due to lurking buglets)
1029 - Added tests from phaylon for dispatcher precedence
1030 - Use Class::Inspector->loaded($class) instead of $class->can('can')
1031 - Added ActionClass attribute
1032 - Removed Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst from Makefile.PL (circular dep)
1033 - Updated docs for Catalyst::Component
1034 - Separated execute and dispatch on Catalyst::Action
1035 - cleaned up logging and debug output
1036 - significant documentation revisions
1037 - Added warning for setup being called twice
1038 - Fix pod to use DBIC::Schema instead of DBIC model
1039 - Fix ->config failing to copy _config for subclassing
1040 - Updated log format
1041 - Updated debug dump
1043 5.6902 2006-05-04 13:00:00
1044 - Remove tarballs and OSX metadata files.
1046 5.6901 2006-05-03 11.17:00
1047 - Module::Install didn't overwrite META.yml.
1049 5.6900 2006-05-03 11.17:00
1050 - Stupid pause indexer can't count.
1051 - Better fix for Catalyst::Test
1054 5.682 2006-04-27 13:51:00
1055 - Damn OSX attributes again :(
1057 5.681 2006-04-27 08:47:00
1059 - Add basename to core . (Deprecates Catalyst::Plugin::Basename)
1061 5.68 2006-04-26 12:23:00
1062 - ConfigLoader: Updated to version 0.06
1063 - fixed undef warnings in uri_for() and uri_with()
1064 - Fixed Catalyst::Test to report errors on failed Class load
1066 5.678 2006-04-24 12:30:00
1067 - Re-release of 5.67 without OSX metadata files.
1069 5.67 2006-04-23 08:50:00
1070 - Added $c->req->uri_with() helper
1071 - ConfigLoader: Updated to version 0.05
1072 - Fix up Engine to avoid a new 5.8.8 warning
1073 - Added app name with :: support for PAR
1074 - Added $c->models/views/controllers
1075 - Static::Simple: Unescape the URI path before looking for the file.
1076 This fixes issues with files that have spaces.
1077 - Looping and recursion tests plus a fix
1078 - Added lots of API documentation. Refactored main pod.
1079 - Changed default behaviors for $c->model/$c->controller/$c->view
1080 to more sane settings.
1081 - added the clear_errors method - an alias for error(0)
1082 - Added tmpdir option for uploads (woremacx)
1083 - Applied patch from GEOFFR to allow normal filehandles.
1084 - Refactored Dispatcher internals for better readability and speedup
1085 (stress tests run 12% faster)
1086 - Allow $c->error to run as a class method
1088 5.66 2006-03-10 17:48:00
1089 - Added Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst support
1090 - Cleaned generated tests
1091 - Added Root controller concept
1092 - Updated ConfigLoader plugin to version 0.04
1094 5.65 2006-02-21 10:34:00
1095 - Added plugin introspection.
1096 - Support optional hashref as last param for parameters in uri_for.
1097 - Updated tutorial to be more complete.
1098 - Applied args patch from antirice (Fixes Ticket #67)
1100 5.64 2006-02-07 20:29:00
1101 - Fixed bug in FastCGI proc manager mode where pm_post_dispatch
1102 was not run. (Eric Wong)
1103 - Cleaned up generated tests
1104 - Updated YAML support to use ConfigLoader
1105 - Fixed path dispatch to canonicalise correctly
1106 (see http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/ticket/62)
1107 - Added Catalyst::Manual::About
1109 5.63 2006-01-22 00:00:00
1110 - Updated prereq versions
1112 5.62 2006-01-17 16:30:00
1113 - Large update to the tutorial (castaway)
1114 - Added YAML config support
1115 - Added COMPONENT() and ACCEPT_CONTEXT() support
1116 - Action list in debug mode is now displayed as a tree in the
1117 correct execution order.
1118 - Fixed engine detection to allow custom mod_perl engines.
1119 - Static::Simple: Fixed bug in ignore_dirs under win32.
1120 - Display version numbers of loaded plugins. (Curtis Poe)
1121 - Added class and method for caught exception messages.
1122 - Updated PAR support to use "make catalyst_par",
1123 packages are no longer written by Makefile.PL.
1124 - Automatically determine Content-Length when serving a
1126 - Exceptions now return status 500.
1127 - Updated for Module::Install 0.44.
1128 - Fixed additional file installation for multi level app names.
1129 - Added REDIRECT_URL support for applications running behind
1130 a RewriteRule in Apache. (Carl Franks)
1131 - Fixed FastCGI engine under win32. (Carl Franks)
1132 - FastCGI doc updates (Bill Moseley)
1133 - Bugfix for $c->model and friends (defined).
1135 5.61 2005-12-02 00:00:00
1136 - Fixed ExtUtils::AutoInstall Bootstrap Code in Makefile.PL
1138 5.60 2005-12-01 22:15:00
1139 - Fixed Path and index actions in the appclass,
1140 including those that attach to /
1141 - Index is now weighted higher than Path
1142 - Fixed restarter and -d debug switch in server.pl.
1143 - Added a warning if you attempt to retrieve a parameter
1144 using $c->req->params('foo').
1145 - Fixed the Module::Install::Catalyst @ISA bug
1147 5.59 2005-11-30 13:25:00
1148 - Fixed shebang line for generated scripts
1149 - Fixed forward to classes ($c->forward(qw/MyApp foo/))
1150 - Wrap use block in begin to quelch C:C3 warnings
1151 - Removed scrollbar from debug output
1152 - Fixed catalyst_par_core() and catalyst_par_multiarch()
1154 5.58 2005-11-24 10:51:00
1155 - Added ExtUtils::AutoInstall support
1156 - Allow overriding path in Catalyst::Helper.
1157 - Added -makefile to catalyst.pl to generate a new Makefile.PL.
1158 - Restored Catalyst::Build with a deprecation notice.
1159 - Improved PAR support
1160 - Replaced -short with auto-detection
1161 - Fixed prereqs, added File::Copy::Recursive
1162 - Static::Simple changes:
1163 - Made prepare_action play nice with other plugins by not short-
1165 - Added tmpl to the ignored extensions.
1166 - Fixed security problem if req->path contained '..'.
1168 5.57 2005-11-20 22:45:00
1169 - Updated uri_for to accept undef actions
1170 - Switched to Module::Install
1171 - Renamed tests for easier editing
1172 - Reformatted documentation
1173 - Renamed -nonew to -force
1175 - Added keep-alive support and bug fixes to HTTP engine.
1177 - Added daemonize option to FastCGI engine. (Sam Vilain)
1179 5.56 2005-11-16 10:33:00
1180 - Fixed FastCGI engine to not clobber the global %ENV on each
1181 request. (Sam Vilain)
1182 - Updated benchmarking to work with detach
1183 - Fixed dispatcher, so $c->req->action(undef) works again
1184 - Updated Catalyst::Test to use HTTP::Request::AsCGI
1185 - Added -pidfile to external FastCGI server.
1187 5.55 2005-11-15 12:55:00
1188 - Fixed multiple cookie handling
1190 5.54 2005-11-14 22:55:00
1191 - Fixed a Module::Pluggable::Fast related bug
1193 5.53 2005-11-14 15:55:00
1194 - Removed t/04prereq.t that was testing for non-required
1197 5.52 2005-11-14 10:57:00
1198 - Strip '..'s in static urls to fix security issue.
1200 5.51 2005-11-14 00:45:00
1201 - Changed uri_for to use namespace instead of match.
1203 5.50 2005-11-13 20:45:00
1207 5.49_05 2005-11-12 20:45:00
1208 - Large update to the documentation. (David Kamholz)
1209 - Fixed args handling in forward()
1210 - Fixed forwarding to classes
1211 - Fixed catalyst.pl-generated Build.PL Makefile section.
1212 - Fixed relative forwarding
1213 - Fixed forward arrows in debug output
1215 5.49_04 2005-11-09 23:00:00
1216 - Made context, dispatcher, engine, request and response classes
1219 - Fixed dispatcher to ignore unknown attributes.
1220 - Improved format of startup debug log.
1221 - Updated built in server to restart on win32. (Will Hawes)
1222 - Fixed streaming write from a filehandle to stop writing
1223 if the browser is closed.
1224 - Added $c->controller, $c->model and $c->view shortcuts.
1225 - Switched to Text::SimpleTable.
1227 5.49_03 2005-11-03 12:00:00
1228 - Fixed $c->req->{path} for backwards-compatibility.
1229 - Allow debug to be disabled via ENV as well as enabled.
1230 - Added -scripts option to catalyst.pl for script updating
1231 - Changed helpers to default to long types, Controller instead of C
1232 - Added Catalyst::Controller, Catalyst::Model and Catalyst::View
1234 - Added JavaScript to debug screen to show and hide specific dumps
1235 - Added _DISPATCH, _BEGIN, _AUTO, _ACTION and _END actions
1236 - Added multi process external FastCGI support
1237 (see myapp_fastcgi.pl -help) (Sam Vilain)
1238 - Restarter process in HTTP engine now properly exits when the
1239 parent app is shut down.
1240 - Improved performance of restarter loop while watching for
1242 - Restarter will now detect new files added to an app on systems
1243 that change directory mtimes when new files are created.
1244 - Restarter now properly handles modules that are deleted from an
1246 - Fixed memory leak in TestApp.
1248 5.49_02 2005-10-26 12:39:00
1249 - Whole new dispatcher!
1250 - Added index action
1251 - Added path_to method
1252 - Added support for passing an IO::Handle object to $c->res->body.
1254 - Added a new welcome screen.
1255 - Included Catalyst buttons and icons in helper.
1256 - Added Static::Simple plugin to core.
1257 - Added self restarting test server
1258 - Added filename to debug output for uploaded files.
1259 - Fixed forwarding with embedded arguments.
1260 - Fixed handling of escaped query strings.
1261 - Added upload parameters back into $c->req->params.
1262 - Added multiple paths support to dispatcher
1263 - Fixed bug in req->path where changing the path added a trailing
1265 - Removed req->handle and res->handle
1266 - Added prepare_body_chunk method as a hook for upload progress.
1267 - Fixed bug in uri_for method when base has no path.
1268 - Added automated tests for HTTP, CGI, and FastCGI servers.
1270 5.49_01 2005-10-10 10:15:00
1271 - Refactored all internals, should be 99% compatible to previous
1273 - *IMPORTANT* The Apache engines have been moved to a separate package
1274 for this release. Please install Catalyst::Engine::Apache if you
1275 need Apache support.
1277 - Added support for calling forward with arguments in the path, i.e.
1278 $c->forward('/foo/bar/arg1/arg2')
1279 - Made $c->req->uri a URI object, added req->path_info for CGI compat.
1280 Raw query string is available as $c->req->uri->query.
1281 - Made $c->req->base a URI object.
1282 - Parameters with multiple values (?a=1&a=2) now display properly
1283 in the debug output.
1284 - Semi-colon separators in query strings now work properly.
1285 - Expanded documentation of catalyst.pl (Andrew Ford)
1286 - Added support for running as a backend server behind a frontend
1287 proxy so req->base and req->address are set properly.
1288 - Added an 'abort' method to the Log api, so that you can
1289 kill loggging for a whole request.
1290 - Added $c->uri_for method to simplify url handling.
1291 - Added more tests and reorganized the t directory.
1292 - Reimplemented core engines, all are now CGI based for better test
1293 coverage and maintainability.
1294 - Added fork support to built in test server.
1295 - Fixed all memory leaks.
1296 - Thread-related bug fixes and tests. We now believe the Catalyst
1297 core to be thread-safe.
1298 - Added streaming IO support through $c->req->read() and
1300 - Added MyApp->config->{parse_on_demand} (streaming input)
1301 - Added $c->req->handle and $c->res->handle
1302 - Improved documentation
1303 - Fixed mkpath in Catalyst::Helper (Autrijus Tang)
1304 - Fixed bug in dispatcher where an invalid path could call a valid
1305 action. (Andy Grundman)
1306 - Fixed Helper so it works with CRLF line-endings. (Andy Grundman)
1308 5.33 2005-08-10 15:25:00
1309 - Now with updated manifest.
1311 5.32 2005-08-10 15:10:00
1312 - Dispatcher might fail if object returns false.
1314 5.31 2005-06-04 12:35:00 (never released to CPAN)
1316 - helpers now create .new files where files already exist and differ
1317 - fixed $Data::Dumper::Terse (Robin Berjon)
1318 - added arguments for detach
1319 - new credits section in POD
1320 - fixed detach to allow relative action names (Matt and Robert)
1321 - added the ability to have whitespaces in Path( '' ) and Regex( '' )
1323 5.30 2005-06-04 12:35:00
1325 - Fixed a bug where it was not possible to $c->forward to a
1327 that was not inheriting from Catalyst::Base.
1328 - Fix for inheritance bug.
1329 - Allow forward with arguments.
1331 - Allow overriding home/root in config.
1332 - make module build cons README automatically.
1333 - prettify home path by resolving '..' (Andy Grundman)
1334 - improved helper templates a bit, new naming scheme for tests.
1335 - added support for case sensitivity, MyApp->config->{case_sensitive}
1336 - added $c->detach for non-returning forwards
1337 - added unified error handling, Catalyst::Exception
1338 - added section on param handling in Intro.pod
1339 - added $c->request->cookie
1340 - added Catalyst::Setup
1341 - refactored Catalyst::import()
1342 - improved rendering of error messages in debug mode
1343 - fixed a bug in Catalyst::Helper::mk_dir
1344 - further doc changes, esp. to Intro.pod
1346 5.23 2005-06-03 02:30:00
1347 - added support for non Catalyst::Base components to live in namespace
1348 - improved concurrency connections in Catalyst::Engine::HTTP::Daemon
1350 5.22 2005-05-26 14:24:00
1351 - improved base locating in MP engines
1352 - improved error messages in C::E::HTTP::Daemon
1353 - hostnames are now resolved on demand unless provided by engine
1354 - fixed memory leak in $c->execute (Michael Reece, Matt S Trout)
1356 5.21 2005-05-24 14:56:00
1357 - fixed a bug in https detection
1358 - fixed auto chain finally
1359 - added MYAPP_HOME and CATALYST_HOME environment variables
1361 5.20 2005-05-18 19:52:00
1362 - improved uploads and parameters
1363 - added $c->req->protocol and $c->req->secure
1364 - added $c->req->user and $c->req->uri
1365 - improved error message when forwarding to unknown module
1366 - fixed win32 installer
1367 - added deep recursion detection
1368 - fixed auto actions
1369 - fixed inheritance in dispatcher
1370 - allow whitespaces between brackets and quoted string
1371 in Path and Regex attributes
1372 - new helper templates
1373 - installer now supports install_base and destdir
1374 - allow multiple Catalyst apps to run on the same mod_perl
1375 instance (not the same app!)
1377 - removed apreq dependency from all MP engines
1378 - added support for MP registry scripts
1379 - added support for LocationMatch and ScriptAliasMatch in MP engines
1380 - added SpeedyCGI engine
1382 5.10 2005-04-23 11:16:00
1383 - updated dependencies to require latest module::pluggable::fast
1384 - new installer for templates and stuff using Module::Build
1385 - scripts are now prefixed, for being installable
1386 IMPORTANT: You have to regenerate the script directory,
1387 remove Makefile.PL and add Build.PL
1388 - Added compat to install Module::Build if required.
1389 - Improved: Params handling with MP engines
1390 - Fixed: Params handling on POST with CGI engine (Andy Grundman)
1391 - Fixed: Helper.pm on Win32 (Matt S Trout)
1393 5.03 2005-04-19 20:35:00 (Revision 462)
1394 - fixed Test example (Torsten Seeman)
1395 - added Plugins chapter to manual
1396 - applied doc patch from Robert Boone <robert@rlb3.com>
1397 - improved Dispatcher error messages.
1398 - refactored so we don't need to include helper from
1399 Catalyst.pm - Fixes issues with FindBin
1400 - applied HTTP.pm patch from Andy Grundman <andy@hybridized.org>
1401 - added plugin() method for instant plugins
1402 - FCGI is no more considered experimental
1404 5.02 2005-04-18 10:00:00
1407 5.01 2005-04-17 23:00:00
1408 - some documentation bugs fixed
1409 - added Catalyst::Utils
1410 - fixed regexp bug (Matt S Trout)
1411 - fixed upload bug with MP19
1412 - added $c->req->body
1413 - aliased $c->res->output to $c->res->body
1414 - Read AUTHOR from passwd or $ENV{AUTHOR} when
1416 - extended attribute handling
1417 - added global config for components
1419 5.00 2005-04-15 18:00:00
1420 - new core to support inheritance trees
1421 - new syntax for action declaration
1422 - new helper system using TT2
1423 - problems with mod_perl2 fixed
1424 - added Test::Pod support
1425 - added new server backend with HTTP/1.1 support
1426 - added option to run tests against a remote server
1427 - renamed errors() to error()
1429 - countless minor improvements
1430 IMPORTANT: This release is very incompatible to previous ones
1431 and you have to regenerate the helper scripts again...
1433 4.34 2005-03-23 07:00:00 2005
1434 - added some messages to Makefile.PL
1435 - added Catalyst::Engine::Test
1436 - added Catalyst::Engine::CGI::NPH
1437 - simplified Catalyst::Log to be easier to implement/subclass
1439 - updated Catalyst::Test to use Catalyst::Engine::Test
1440 - updated helper scripts
1441 IMPORTANT: this will be the last time you'll have to regenerate
1442 the script directory. We promise!
1444 4.33 2005-03-23 01:00:00 2005
1445 - documented the log() accessor method in Catalyst (Andrew Ford)
1446 - added optional arguments to Catalyst::Log methods (Andrew Ford)
1447 - removed cgi-server.pl
1448 - added fcgi.pl and Catalyst::Engine::FCGI
1449 - fixed an undef durng make test (Dan Sully)
1450 - new path test (Christian Hansen)
1451 IMPORTANT: you have to regenerate the script directory again
1453 4.32 2005-03-22 02:10:00 2005
1454 - made a damn typo *AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!*
1456 4.31 2005-03-22 02:00:00
1457 - fixed inheritance (Christian Hansen)
1458 - previous release was borked!
1459 fixed that, but you have to regenerate the scripts again :(
1461 4.30 2005-03-21 23:00:00
1462 - more documentation (Andrew Ford)
1463 - added connection informations (Christian Hansen)
1464 - HTTP::Request support in Catalyst::Test (Christian Hansen)
1465 - moved cgi.pl to nph-cgi.pl
1466 - added Catalyst::Engine::Server (Christian Hansen)
1467 - removed Catalyst::Test::server
1468 - updated helper scripts
1469 IMPORTANT: note that you have to regenerate script/server.pl,
1470 script/cgi-server.pl and script/cgi.pl (now nph-cgi.pl)
1472 4.28 2005-03-19 22:00:00
1473 - fixed isa tree (Christian Hansen)
1474 - added script/cgi-server.pl, so no more server restarting after
1476 - reworked documentation (Andrew Ford <A.Ford@ford-mason.co.uk>)
1478 4.27 2005-03-19 01:00:00
1479 - debug message for parameters
1480 - Fix redirects (Christian Hansen <ch@ngmedia.com>)
1482 - new helper api for Catalyst::Helper::* support
1483 you have to update script/create.pl to use it
1485 4.26 2005-03-16 10:00:00
1486 - fixed the weird bug that caused regex actions to fail on every
1488 - more debug messages
1489 - 100% pod coverage.
1491 4.25 2005-03-12 18:00:00
1492 - correct perl pathes for helper generated scripts (Tatsuhiko Miyagawa)
1493 - improved cgi engine docs (Christoper Hicks)
1495 4.24 2005-03-12 01:00:00
1496 - updated cookbook example
1497 - fixed base for apache and https (Andrew Ruthven)
1499 4.23 2005-03-09 20:00:00
1500 - no more regex actions in forward
1501 - added support for test directories t/m, t/v and t/c
1503 4.22 2005-03-08 20:00:00
1504 - catch errors in application class
1505 - handle die properly.
1507 4.21 2005-03-05 17:00:00
1510 4.20 2005-03-04 22:00:00
1511 - moved bin to script
1513 4.13 2005-03-03 11:00:00
1514 - improved documentation
1515 - pod coverage test for helper generated apps
1518 4.12 2005-03-02 11:00:00 2005
1519 - server_base sucks, removed
1520 - added $c->log->dump()
1522 4.11 2005-03-02 11:00:00 2005
1523 - removed some warnings
1525 - private prefixed actions override private non prefixed actions
1527 - updated Catalyst::Manual::Intro
1529 4.10 2005-03-02 10:00:00 2005
1530 - improved documentation
1532 - fixed prefixed private actions bug
1533 - fixed more little bugs
1535 4.01 2005-03-01 10:00:00 2005
1536 - improved documentation
1537 - documentation fixes (Johan Lindstrom)
1539 4.00 2005-02-27 22:00:00
1540 - more verbose debug messages, especially for forward()
1541 - implemented prefixed prvate actions, icluding built in
1542 !?default, !?begin and !?end
1543 - new Catalyst::Manual::Intro
1544 - new helpers, bin/catalyst
1547 3.11 2005-02-23 21:00:00
1548 - added dependency to UNIVERSAL::require (Marcus Ramberg)
1549 - added a little workaround for a warning in Catalyst::Test
1551 - improved documentation for actions
1553 3.10 2005-02-19 20:00:00
1554 - removed roles management from Catalyst::Engine
1555 and added it to Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication::CDBI
1557 3.04 2005-02-17 21:00:00
1558 - error reporting for app class
1559 - no more engine debug messages
1560 - class->method forwards get resolved now
1562 3.03 2005-02-16 23:00:00
1563 - friendlier statistics
1565 3.02 2005-02-16 22:00:00
1566 - fixed unintialized actions (Marcus Ramberg)
1568 3.01 2005-02-16 20:30:00
1571 3.00 2005-02-16 20:00:00
1572 - real version number for CPAN.pm
1573 - fixed redirect in CGI engine
1574 - more statistics in debug logs
1575 - ? prefix for forward()
1577 2.99_15 2005-02-02 22:00:00
1578 - support for short namespaces, MyApp::M, MyApp::V and MyApp::C
1579 - Replaced "Catched" with "Caught" in Catalyst::Engine
1581 - replaced _ with ! for private actions
1582 - added ? for prefixed actions
1585 2.99_14 2005-01-31 22:00:00 2005
1586 - arguments for _default
1587 - $c->entrance removed for more flexibility
1588 - added $c->req->method
1590 2.99_13 2005-01-30 18:00:00 2005
1591 - POD fixes and improvements
1593 2.99_12 2005-01-28 22:00:00 2005
1594 - first development release