1 # This file documents the revision history for Perl extension Catalyst.
3 - Throw an exception rather than loading an app if an action
4 tries to chain to itself (t0m)
6 - Change the $c->visit and $c->go methods to optionally take
7 CaptureArgs, making them useful to call ActionChains with (t0m)
8 - Tests for this (radek)
9 - Fix _invoke_as_component method to find the proper action instance
10 for dispatchable actions so that ->visit or ->going to ActionChains
11 with qw/Class::Name method_name/ works correctly (t0m)
12 - Tests for this (radek)
13 - Added Catalyst::Test::ctx_request to be able to inspect
14 the context object after a request is made (Jos Boumans)
15 - debug() POD rewrite (jhannah)
16 - Change the warning when you have conflicting components to
18 - Move NEXT use and testing deprecated features out to its own
19 test application so that the main TestApp isn't polluted with
20 spurious warnings (t0m)
21 - Add a warning for the old ::[MVC]:: style naming scheme (t0m)
23 - Kill Class::C3::Adopt::NEXT warnings for the Catalyst:: namespace
24 in production versions (t0m)
25 - Make MyApp.pm restartable by unsetting setup_finished in
26 the restarter process (t0m)
27 - Non-naive implementation of making mutable on restart using
28 B::Hooks::OP::Check::StashChange if installed (t0m)
29 - Tests for this (t0m)
30 - Naive implementation of making all components mutable in the
31 forked restart watcher process so native Moose apps using
32 immutable restart correctly. (t0m)
33 - Tests for this (t0m)
34 - Bump Moose dependency to 0.70 so that we avoid nasty surprises
35 with is_class_loaded and perl 5.80 when you Moosify MyApp.pm (t0m)
36 - Clarify that request arguments aren't unescaped automatically
37 (Simon Bertrang) (Closes RT#41153)
38 - Don't require C3 for the MRO test (rafl)
39 - Bump MX::Emulate::CAF prereq to support list assignment (rafl)
40 - Remove useless column in chained action debug table. (rafl)
41 - namespace::clean related cleanups (rafl)
42 - Import related cleanups and consistency fixes (rafl)
43 - Fix test suite TestApp /dump/env action (t0m)
45 5.8000_06 2009-02-04 21:00
46 - Disallow writing to config after setup (rafl)
47 - Disallow calling setup more than once (rafl)
48 - Documentation fix regarding overloading of Engine and Dispatcher
50 - Several documentation typo fixes (rafl)
51 - Stop Makefile.PL from warning about versions that fixed a conflict
53 - Improved upgrading documentation (t0m, rafl)
54 - Seed the RNG in each FastCGI child process (Andrew Rodland)
55 - Properly report dynamic bind port for the development server (rafl)
57 - Use the way documented by IO::Socket::INET to get the error message
58 after trying to create a listening socket (rafl) (Closes RT#41828)
59 - Don't ignore SIGCHLD while handling requests with the dev server
60 (rafl) (Closes RT#42962)
62 5.8000_05 2008-29-01 00:00
63 - Text::SimpleTable's go as wide as $ENV{COLUMNS} (jhannah)
64 Patch written by Oleg Kostyuk <cub.uanic@gmail.com>
65 - Improve docs for visit (mateu)
66 - Add docs for finalize hook (dhoss)
67 - Added ru/ua translations to error page
68 - Improve the clarity and verbosity of the warning when component
69 resolution uses regex fallback. (jhannah)
70 - Handle leading CRLF in HTTP requests sometimes sent by IE6 in
71 keep-alive requests. (andyg)
72 - Fixes for FastCGI with IIS 6.0 (janus)
73 - Passing request method exported by Catalyst::Test an extra
74 parameter used to be ignored, but started breaking if the parameter
75 was not a hash in 5.8000_04. Extra parameter is now ignored if
76 it isn't a hashref (t0m)
77 - Fix request argumentss getting corrupted if you override the
78 dispatcher and call an action which detaches (for
79 Catalyst::Plugin::Authorization::ACL) (t0m)
80 - Fix calling use Catalyst::Test 'MyApp' 'foo' which used to work,
81 but stopped as the 2nd parameter can be an options hash now (t0m)
82 - Bump Moose dependency to fix make_immutable bug (t0m)
83 - Use compile time extends in Catalyst::Controller (t0m)
84 - Make Catalyst::Request::uploads attribute non-lazy, to fix
85 test for Catalyst-Engine-Apache (t0m)
86 - Bump version of MooseX::Emulate::Class::Accessor::Fast (t0m)
87 - Stop using MooseX::Adopt::Class::Accessor::Fast by default, to stop
88 breaking other packages which use Class::Accessor::Fast
89 - Remove unused action_container_class attribute from
90 Catalyst::Dispatcher (t0m)
91 - Replace {_body} instance access with calls to _body accessors (t0m)
92 - Add backwards compatibility alias methods for private attributes on
93 Catalyst::Dispatcher which used to be public. Needed by
94 Catalyst::Plugin::Server and Catalyst::Plugin::Authorization::ACL
96 - Fix return value of $c->req->body, which delegates to the body
97 method on the requests HTTP::Body instance (t0m)
99 - Fix calling $c->req->body from inside an overridden prepare_action
100 method in a plugin, as used by Catalyst::Plugin::Server (t0m)
101 - Test for this (t0m)
102 - Fix assignment to Catalyst::Dispatcher's preload_dispatch_types and
103 postload_dispatch_types attributes - assigning a list should later
104 return a listref. Fixes Catalyst::Plugin::Server. (t0m)
105 - Tests for this (t0m)
106 - Change streaming test to serve itself rather than 01use.t, making
107 test sync for engines easier (t0m)
108 - Refactor capturing of $app from Catalyst::Controller into
109 Catalyst::Component::ApplicationAttribute for easier reuse in other
110 components (Florian Ragwitz)
111 - Make the test suites YAML dependency optional (Florian Ragwitz)
112 - Make debug output show class name for the engine and dispatcher
113 rather than the stringified ref. (t0m)
114 - Make MyApp immutable at the end of the scope after the setup
115 method is called, fixing issues with plugins which have their
116 own new methods by inlining a constructor on MyApp (t0m)
117 - Test for this and method modifiers in MyApp (t0m)
118 - Fix bug causing Catalyst::Request::Upload's basename method
119 to return undef (t0m)
120 - Test for this (Carl Franks)
121 - Fix loading of classes which do not define any symbols to not
122 die, as it didn't in 5.70 (t0m)
123 - Test for this (t0m)
124 - Bump MooseX::Emulate::Class::Accessor::Fast dependency
125 to force new version which fixes a lot of plugins (t0m)
126 - Make log levels additive, and add documentation and tests
127 for the setup_log method, which previously had none.
128 Sewn together by t0m from two patches provided by David E. Wheeler
129 - Switch an around 'new' in Catalyst::Controller to a BUILDARGS
130 method as it's much neater and more obvious what is going on (t0m)
131 - Add a clearer method on request and response _context
132 attributes, and use if from ::Engine rather than deleting
133 the key from the instance hash (t0m)
134 - Use handles on tree attribute of Catalyst::Stats to replace
135 trivial delegation methods (t0m)
136 - Change the following direct hash accesses into attributes:
137 Catalyst::Engine: _prepared_write
138 Catalyst::Engine::CGI: _header_buf
139 Catalyst::Engine::HTTP: options, _keepalive, _write_error
140 Catalyst::Request: _path
141 Catalyst::Stats: tree
143 - Fix issues in Catalyst::Controller::WrapCGI
144 and any other components which import (or define) their
145 own meta method by always explicitly calling
146 Class::MOP::Object->meta inside Catalyst (t0m)
147 - Add test for this (t0m)
148 - Add test case for the bug which is causing the
149 Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication tests to fail (t0m)
150 - Fix a bug in uri_for which could cause it to generate paths
151 with multiple slashes in them. (t0m)
152 - Add test for this (t0m)
153 - Fix SKIP block name in t/optional_http-server-restart.t,
154 stopping 'Label not found for "last SKIP"' error from
156 - Workaround max_redirect 0 bug in LWP (andyg)
157 - Move live_engine_response_print into aggregate (andyg)
158 - Fix dependency bug, s/parent/base/ in new test (rafl)
159 - Fix optional tests to run the live tests in the aggregate
161 - Fix Catalyst->go error in remote tests (andyg)
162 - Fix upload test to work with remote servers, don't check for
163 deleted files (andyg)
164 - Fix engine_request_uri tests to work on remote server with
165 different URI (andyg)
167 5.8000_04 2008-12-05 12:15:00
168 - Silence Class::C3::Adopt::NEXT warnings in the test suite (rafl)
169 - Fix loads of 'used once, possible typo' warnings (rafl)
170 - Additional tests to ensure upload temp files are deleted (andyg)
171 - Remove use of NEXT from the test suite, except for one case
172 which tests if Class::C3::Adopt::NEXT is working (t0m)
173 - Use a predicate to avoid recursion in cases where the uri
174 method is overridden by a plugin, and calls the base method,
175 for example Catalyst::Plugin::SmartURI (t0m)
176 - Test for this (caelum)
177 - Compose the MooseX::Emulate::Class::Accessor::Fast role to
178 Catalyst::Action, Catalyst::Request, and all other modules which
179 inherit from Class::Accessor::Fast in 5.70.
181 - Catalyst::Controller::HTML::FormFu (zamolxes)
182 - Catalyst::Request::REST (t0m)
183 - Test for this (t0m)
184 - Make hostname resolution lazy (Marc Mims)
185 - Support mocking virtualhosts in test suite (Jason Gottshall)
186 - Add README (marcus)
187 - Fix TODO list (t0m)
188 - Use Class::C3::Adopt::NEXT (rafl)
189 - Ignore C3 warnings on 5.10 when testing ensure_class_loaded (rafl)
190 - Add TODO test for chained bug (gbjk)
191 - Fix list address in documentation (zarquon)
192 - Fix ACCEPT_CONTEXT on MyApp, called as a class method (marcus)
193 - Test for this (marcus)
194 - Bump MooseX::Emulate::Class::Accessor::Fast version requirement to
195 get more back compatibility (t0m)
196 - Improve documentation for $req->captures (caelum)
197 - Fix a bug in Catalyst::Stats, stopping garbage being inserted into
198 the stats if a user calls begin => but no end => (jhannah)
199 - Test for this (jhannah)
200 - Trim lines sooner in stats to avoid ugly Text::SimpleTable wrapping
202 - Change Catalyst::ClassData to tweak the symbol table inline for
203 performance after profiling (mst)
204 - Fix POD typo in finalize_error (jhannah)
205 - Add tests to ensure that we delete the temp files created by
206 HTTP::Body's OctetStream parser (t0m)
208 5.8000_03 2008-10-14 14:13:00
209 - Fix forwarding to Catalyst::Action objects (Rafael Kitover).
210 - Fix links to the mailing lists (RT #39754 and Florian Ragwitz).
211 - Use Class::MOP instead of Class::Inspector (Florian Ragwitz).
212 - Change Catalyst::Test to use Sub::Exporter (Florian Ragwitz).
213 - Fixed typo in Engine::HTTP::Restarter::Watcher causing -r to complain.
215 5.8000_02 2008-10-14 07:59:00
218 5.8000_01 2008-10-13 22:52:00
220 - Added test for action stringify
221 - Added test for component instances getting $self->{value} from config.
222 - Add Catalyst::Response->print() method (ilmari)
223 - Optionally aggregate tests using Test::Aggregate (Florian Ragwitz).
224 - Additional docs for uri_for to mention how to use $c->action and
225 $c->req->captures (jhannah)
226 - List unattached chained actions in Debug mode (Florian Ragwitz).
227 - Pod formatting fix for Engine::FastCGI (Oleg Kostyuk).
228 - Add visit, a returning ->go
231 - Workaround change in LWP that broke a cookie test (RT #40037)
232 - Back out go() since that feature's been pushed to 5.80
233 - Fix some Win32 test failures
234 - Add pt translation of error message (wreis)
235 - Make :Chained('../action') work (Florian Ragwitz)
237 - Chained doc improvements (rev 8326-8328)
239 5.7099_03 2008-07-20 10:10:00
240 - Fix regressions for regexp fallback in model(), view() and controller()
241 - Added the supplied argument to the regexp fallback warning for easier
243 - Ensure ACCEPT_CONTEXT is called for results from component()
245 5.7099_02 2008-07-16 19:10:00
246 - Added PathPrefix attribute
247 - Removed Catalyst::Build; we've long since moved to Module::Install
248 - Updated Catalyst::Test docs to mention the use of HTTP::Request
249 objects (Rafael Kitover)
251 5.7099_01 2008-06-25 22:36:00
252 - Refactored component resolution (component(), models(), model(), et al). We now
253 throw warnings for two reasons:
254 1) model() or view() was called with no arguments, and two results are returned
255 -- set default_(model|view), current_(model|view) or current_(model|view)_instance
257 2) you call a component resolution method with a string, and it resorts to a regexp
258 fallback wherein a result is returned -- if you really want to search, call the
259 method with a regex as the argument
260 - remove 0-length query string components so warnings aren't thrown (RT #36428)
261 - Update HTTP::Body dep so that the uploadtmp config value will work (RT #22540)
262 - Fix for LocalRegex when used in the Root controller
263 - Get some of the optional_* tests working from dirs with spaces (RT #26455)
264 - Fix Catalyst::Utils::home() when application .pm is in the current dir (RT #34437)
265 - Added the ability to remove parameters in req->uri_with() by passing in
266 an undef value (RT #34782)
267 - Added $c->go, to do an internal redispatch to another action, while retaining the
268 contents of the stash
270 5.7014 2008-05-25 15:26:00
271 - Addition of .conf in restart regex in Catalyst::Engine::HTTP::Restarter::Watcher
272 - Fix regression for relative uri_for arguments after a forward()
273 introduced in 5.7013 (Peter Karman)
274 - Fix regression for "sub foo : Path {}" in the root controller which
275 was introduced when attempting to allow "0" as a Path.
277 5.7013 2008-05-16 18:20:00
278 - Provide backwards compatability methods in Catalyst::Stats
279 - Fix subdirs for scripts that run in subdirs more than one level deep.
280 - Added test and updated docs for handling the Authorization header
281 under mod_fastcgi/mod_cgi.
282 - Fixed bug in HTTP engine where the connection was not closed properly if the
283 client disconnected before sending any headers. (Ton Voon)
284 - POD fix, IO::FileHandle => IO::Handle (RT #35690)
285 - Fix grammar on welcome page (RT #33236)
286 - Fix for Path('0') handling (RT #29334)
287 - Workaround for Win32 and c3_mro.t (RT #26452, tested by Kenichi Ishigaki)
288 - Fix for encoding query parameters (edenc)
289 - Fix Chained multiple test (t0m)
291 5.7012 2007-12-16 23:44:00
292 - Fix uri_for()'s and uri_with()'s handling of multibyte chars
294 - Fix __PACKAGE__->config->{foo} = 'bar' case with subclassing
295 - Add Catalyst::Stats (Jon Schutz)
296 - Fixed a bug where ?q=bar=baz is decoded as q=>'bar', not 'bar=baz'.
297 (Tatsuhiko Miyagawa, Masahiro Nagano)
298 - Fixed a bug where -rr (restart regex) command line option could cause
299 shell errors. (Aristotle Pagaltzis, Chisel Wright)
301 5.7011 2007-10-18 20:40:00
302 - Allow multiple restart directories and added option to follow
303 symlinks in the HTTP::Restarter engine (Sebastian Willert)
304 - Fixed t/optional_http-server-restart.t so it actually tests
305 if the server restarted or notified of an error (Sebastian Willert)
306 - Return child PID from the HTTP engine when run with the 'background' option.
308 - Fixed bug in HTTP engine where writes could fail with
309 'Resource temporarily unavailable'.
310 - Fixed bug where %2b in query parameter is doubly decoded to ' ', instead of '+'
311 (RT #30087, Gavin Henry, Tatsuhiko Miyagawa, Oleg Pronin)
312 - Fixed bug where req->base and req->uri would include a port number when running
314 - Removed unnecessary sprintf in debug mode that caused warnings on locales where
315 commas are used for decimal markers.
316 - Improved error message for case when server picks up editor save
317 files as module names. (James Mastros)
319 5.7010 2007-08-22 07:41:00
320 - Resource forks in 5.7009
322 5.7009 2007-08-22 00:14:00
323 - Moved Manual.pod to Manual.pm and clarified status of
325 - Doc patches to Catalyst::Controller
326 - remove ignore_loaded from plugin load, commenting why
327 - document the ignore_loaded feature in Catalyst::Utils
328 - Add testing of inline plugins.
330 5.7008 2007-08-13 08:40:00
331 - Added $c->request->query_keywords for getting the keywords
332 (a query string with no parameters).
333 - Add undef warning for uri_for.
334 - Fix bug where a nested component would be setup twice.
335 - Make ensure_class_loaded behave better with malformed class name.
336 - Make _register_plugin use ensure_class_loaded.
337 - Remove 'Argument "??" isn't numeric in sprintf' warning.
339 - Fixed a bug where Content-Length could be set to 0 if a filehandle
340 object in $c->response->body did not report a size.
341 - Fixed issue where development server running in fork mode did not
342 properly exit after a write error.
343 (http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27135)
344 - Remove warning for captures that are undef.
345 - Fixed $c->read and parse_on_demand mode.
346 - Fixed a bug with the HTTP engine where very large response bodies
347 would not be sent properly.
349 5.7007 2007-03-13 14:18:00
350 - Many performance improvements by not using URI.pm:
351 * $c->uri_for (approx. 8x faster)
352 * $c->engine->prepare_path (approx. 27x faster)
353 * $c->engine->prepare_query_parameters (approx. 5x faster)
354 - Updated HTTP::Body dependency to 0.9 which fixes the following issues:
355 * Handle when IE sometimes sends an extra CRLF after the POST body.
356 * Empty fields in multipart/form-data POSTs are no longer ignored.
357 * Uploaded files with the name "0" are no longer ignored.
358 - Sending SIGHUP to the dev server will now cause it to restart.
359 - Allow "0" for a path in uri_for.
360 - Performance and stability improvements to the built-in HTTP server.
361 - Don't ignore file uploads if form contains a text field with the same name.
363 - Support restart_delay of 0 (for use in the POE engine).
364 - Skip body processing if we don't have a Content-Length header.
365 Results in about a 9% performance increase when handling GET/HEAD
367 - Add a default body to redirect responses.
368 - MyApp->model/view now looks at MyApp->config->{default_view/model}
371 5.7006 2006-11-15 14.18
373 - Fix Slurp dependency
374 - Updated HTTP::Body dependency to 0.6, 0.5 can break on large POST
376 - Skip utf8 fix for undef values in uri_with() and uri_for()
378 5.7005 2006-11-07 19:37:35
379 - Fixed lighttpd tests to be properly skipped.
380 - Moved IE workarounds to exist only in the HTTP engine.
381 - Added installation instructions (from Catalyst-Manual dist)
383 5.7004 2006-11-06 20:48:35
384 - Fix Engine::HTTP crash when using IE. (Jesper Krogh, Peter Edwards)
385 - clean up Catalyst::Utils to handle some edge cases
386 - Properly work around lighttpd PATH_INFO vs. SCRIPT_NAME bug
388 - add _application accessor to Catalyst::Base
389 - Support current_view
390 - Allow use of Catalyst::Test without app name (Ton Voon, Altinity)
391 - Catalyst::Manual moved to its own package
392 - Add option to FastCGI engine to send errors to stdout, not the web server
393 - Use Module::Install's auto_install to install prerequisite modules
394 - various documentation fixes and improvements
396 5.7003 2006-09-21 16:29:45
397 - Additions and updates to tutorial
399 5.7002 2006-09-17 19:35:32
400 - unescape captures to match args
401 - fix for relative Chained under namespace '' (root)
402 - fix for hashrefs in action attributes from config
403 - fix for Chained to require correct number of CaptureArgs
405 5.7001 2006-07-19 23:46:54
406 - fix for component loading
407 - uri_for and uri_with now behave as they used to with non-
410 5.7000 2006-07-07 08:08:08
411 - fix FCGI.pm warning message with FastCGI engine
412 - bumped inc::Module::Install to 0.63 in Makefile.PL
413 - fixes to uri_for_action for DispatchType::Chained
415 - Minor code cleanups
416 - Changed catalyst.pl to depend on Catalyst::Devel
418 5.70_03 2006-06-28 16:42:00
419 - fixup to registered plugins debug at app startup
420 - refactored Catalyst::Utils::home
422 5.70_02 2006-06-27 11:51:00
425 5.70_01 2006-06-26 10:49:00
427 - fixed a Catalyst::Base bug causing duplicate action registrations
428 - modified DispatchTypes to support multiple registrations
429 - added Catalyst::Runtime module as dist marker
430 - added Catalyst::ActionChain and Chained DispatchType
431 - removed retarded registration requirement in dispatcher
432 - removed Module::Pluggable::Fast hack in favor of
433 Module::Pluggable::Object
434 - extended uri_for, added dispatcher->uri_for_action
435 - added Catalyst::Base->action_for('methodname')
436 - checked and tested :Args multimethod dispatch
437 - added ability to set action attributes from controller config
438 - added merge_config_hashes() as a convenience method
439 - Swapped out CGI::Cookie in favour of CGI::Simple::Cookie
440 - Removed test dependencies on Test::NoWarnings, Test::MockObject
441 - Removed dependency on UNIVERSAL::require
442 - Split out Catalyst::Helper into a new distribution
443 - un-bundled the plugins as they are now pre-reqs for Catalyst::Helper
444 - nuked each() out of core with prejudice (due to lurking buglets)
445 - Added tests from phaylon for dispatcher precedence
446 - Use Class::Inspector->loaded($class) instead of $class->can('can')
447 - Added ActionClass attribute
448 - Removed Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst from Makefile.PL (circular dep)
449 - Updated docs for Catalyst::Component
450 - Separated execute and dispatch on Catalyst::Action
451 - cleaned up logging and debug output
452 - significant documentation revisions
453 - Added warning for setup being called twice
454 - Fix pod to use DBIC::Schema instead of DBIC model
455 - Fix ->config failing to copy _config for subclassing
459 5.6902 2006-05-04 13:00:00
460 - Remove tarballs and OSX metadata files.
462 5.6901 2006-05-03 11.17:00
463 - Module::Install didn't overwrite META.yml.
465 5.6900 2006-05-03 11.17:00
466 - Stupid pause indexer can't count.
467 - Better fix for Catalyst::Test
470 5.682 2006-04-27 13:51:00
471 - Damn OSX attributes again :(
473 5.681 2006-04-27 08:47:00
475 - Add basename to core . (Deprecates Catalyst::Plugin::Basename)
477 5.68 2006-04-26 12:23:00
478 - ConfigLoader: Updated to version 0.06
479 - fixed undef warnings in uri_for() and uri_with()
480 - Fixed Catalyst::Test to report errors on failed Class load
482 5.678 2006-04-24 12:30:00
483 - Re-release of 5.67 without OSX metadata files.
485 5.67 2006-04-23 08:50:00
486 - Added $c->req->uri_with() helper
487 - ConfigLoader: Updated to version 0.05
488 - Fix up Engine to avoid a new 5.8.8 warning
489 - Added app name with :: support for PAR
490 - Added $c->models/views/controllers
491 - Static::Simple: Unescape the URI path before looking for the file.
492 This fixes issues with files that have spaces.
493 - Looping and recursion tests plus a fix
494 - Added lots of API documentation. Refactored main pod.
495 - Changed default behaviors for $c->model/$c->controller/$c->view
496 to more sane settings.
497 - added the clear_errors method - an alias for error(0)
498 - Added tmpdir option for uploads (woremacx)
499 - Applied patch from GEOFFR to allow normal filehandles.
500 - Refactored Dispatcher internals for better readability and speedup
501 (stress tests run 12% faster)
502 - Allow $c->error to run as a class method
504 5.66 2006-03-10 17:48:00
505 - Added Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst support
506 - Cleaned generated tests
507 - Added Root controller concept
508 - Updated ConfigLoader plugin to version 0.04
510 5.65 2006-02-21 10:34:00
511 - Added plugin introspection.
512 - Support optional hashref as last param for parameters in uri_for.
513 - Updated tutorial to be more complete.
514 - Applied args patch from antirice (Fixes Ticket #67)
516 5.64 2006-02-07 20:29:00
517 - Fixed bug in FastCGI proc manager mode where pm_post_dispatch
518 was not run. (Eric Wong)
519 - Cleaned up generated tests
520 - Updated YAML support to use ConfigLoader
521 - Fixed path dispatch to canonicalise correctly
522 (see http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/ticket/62)
523 - Added Catalyst::Manual::About
525 5.63 2006-01-22 00:00:00
526 - Updated prereq versions
528 5.62 2006-01-17 16:30:00
529 - Large update to the tutorial (castaway)
530 - Added YAML config support
531 - Added COMPONENT() and ACCEPT_CONTEXT() support
532 - Action list in debug mode is now displayed as a tree in the
533 correct execution order.
534 - Fixed engine detection to allow custom mod_perl engines.
535 - Static::Simple: Fixed bug in ignore_dirs under win32.
536 - Display version numbers of loaded plugins. (Curtis Poe)
537 - Added class and method for caught exception messages.
538 - Updated PAR support to use "make catalyst_par",
539 packages are no longer written by Makefile.PL.
540 - Automatically determine Content-Length when serving a
542 - Exceptions now return status 500.
543 - Updated for Module::Install 0.44.
544 - Fixed additional file installation for multi level app names.
545 - Added REDIRECT_URL support for applications running behind
546 a RewriteRule in Apache. (Carl Franks)
547 - Fixed FastCGI engine under win32. (Carl Franks)
548 - FastCGI doc updates (Bill Moseley)
549 - Bugfix for $c->model and friends (defined).
551 5.61 2005-12-02 00:00:00
552 - Fixed ExtUtils::AutoInstall Bootstrap Code in Makefile.PL
554 5.60 2005-12-01 22:15:00
555 - Fixed Path and index actions in the appclass,
556 including those that attach to /
557 - Index is now weighted higher than Path
558 - Fixed restarter and -d debug switch in server.pl.
559 - Added a warning if you attempt to retrieve a parameter
560 using $c->req->params('foo').
561 - Fixed the Module::Install::Catalyst @ISA bug
563 5.59 2005-11-30 13:25:00
564 - Fixed shebang line for generated scripts
565 - Fixed forward to classes ($c->forward(qw/MyApp foo/))
566 - Wrap use block in begin to quelch C:C3 warnings
567 - Removed scrollbar from debug output
568 - Fixed catalyst_par_core() and catalyst_par_multiarch()
570 5.58 2005-11-24 10:51:00
571 - Added ExtUtils::AutoInstall support
572 - Allow overriding path in Catalyst::Helper.
573 - Added -makefile to catalyst.pl to generate a new Makefile.PL.
574 - Restored Catalyst::Build with a deprecation notice.
575 - Improved PAR support
576 - Replaced -short with auto-detection
577 - Fixed prereqs, added File::Copy::Recursive
578 - Static::Simple changes:
579 - Made prepare_action play nice with other plugins by not short-
581 - Added tmpl to the ignored extensions.
582 - Fixed security problem if req->path contained '..'.
584 5.57 2005-11-20 22:45:00
585 - Updated uri_for to accept undef actions
586 - Switched to Module::Install
587 - Renamed tests for easier editing
588 - Reformatted documentation
589 - Renamed -nonew to -force
591 - Added keep-alive support and bug fixes to HTTP engine.
593 - Added daemonize option to FastCGI engine. (Sam Vilain)
595 5.56 2005-11-16 10:33:00
596 - Fixed FastCGI engine to not clobber the global %ENV on each
597 request. (Sam Vilain)
598 - Updated benchmarking to work with detach
599 - Fixed dispatcher, so $c->req->action(undef) works again
600 - Updated Catalyst::Test to use HTTP::Request::AsCGI
601 - Added -pidfile to external FastCGI server.
603 5.55 2005-11-15 12:55:00
604 - Fixed multiple cookie handling
606 5.54 2005-11-14 22:55:00
607 - Fixed a Module::Pluggable::Fast related bug
609 5.53 2005-11-14 15:55:00
610 - Removed t/04prereq.t that was testing for non-required
613 5.52 2005-11-14 10:57:00
614 - Strip '..'s in static urls to fix security issue.
616 5.51 2005-11-14 00:45:00
617 - Changed uri_for to use namespace instead of match.
619 5.50 2005-11-13 20:45:00
623 5.49_05 2005-11-12 20:45:00
624 - Large update to the documentation. (David Kamholz)
625 - Fixed args handling in forward()
626 - Fixed forwarding to classes
627 - Fixed catalyst.pl-generated Build.PL Makefile section.
628 - Fixed relative forwarding
629 - Fixed forward arrows in debug output
631 5.49_04 2005-11-09 23:00:00
632 - Made context, dispatcher, engine, request and response classes
635 - Fixed dispatcher to ignore unknown attributes.
636 - Improved format of startup debug log.
637 - Updated built in server to restart on win32. (Will Hawes)
638 - Fixed streaming write from a filehandle to stop writing
639 if the browser is closed.
640 - Added $c->controller, $c->model and $c->view shortcuts.
641 - Switched to Text::SimpleTable.
643 5.49_03 2005-11-03 12:00:00
644 - Fixed $c->req->{path} for backwards-compatibility.
645 - Allow debug to be disabled via ENV as well as enabled.
646 - Added -scripts option to catalyst.pl for script updating
647 - Changed helpers to default to long types, Controller instead of C
648 - Added Catalyst::Controller, Catalyst::Model and Catalyst::View
650 - Added JavaScript to debug screen to show and hide specific dumps
651 - Added _DISPATCH, _BEGIN, _AUTO, _ACTION and _END actions
652 - Added multi process external FastCGI support
653 (see myapp_fastcgi.pl -help) (Sam Vilain)
654 - Restarter process in HTTP engine now properly exits when the
655 parent app is shut down.
656 - Improved performance of restarter loop while watching for
658 - Restarter will now detect new files added to an app on systems
659 that change directory mtimes when new files are created.
660 - Restarter now properly handles modules that are deleted from an
662 - Fixed memory leak in TestApp.
664 5.49_02 2005-10-26 12:39:00
665 - Whole new dispatcher!
667 - Added path_to method
668 - Added support for passing an IO::Handle object to $c->res->body.
670 - Added a new welcome screen.
671 - Included Catalyst buttons and icons in helper.
672 - Added Static::Simple plugin to core.
673 - Added self restarting test server
674 - Added filename to debug output for uploaded files.
675 - Fixed forwarding with embedded arguments.
676 - Fixed handling of escaped query strings.
677 - Added upload parameters back into $c->req->params.
678 - Added multiple paths support to dispatcher
679 - Fixed bug in req->path where changing the path added a trailing
681 - Removed req->handle and res->handle
682 - Added prepare_body_chunk method as a hook for upload progress.
683 - Fixed bug in uri_for method when base has no path.
684 - Added automated tests for HTTP, CGI, and FastCGI servers.
686 5.49_01 2005-10-10 10:15:00
687 - Refactored all internals, should be 99% compatible to previous
689 - *IMPORTANT* The Apache engines have been moved to a separate package
690 for this release. Please install Catalyst::Engine::Apache if you
693 - Added support for calling forward with arguments in the path, i.e.
694 $c->forward('/foo/bar/arg1/arg2')
695 - Made $c->req->uri a URI object, added req->path_info for CGI compat.
696 Raw query string is available as $c->req->uri->query.
697 - Made $c->req->base a URI object.
698 - Parameters with multiple values (?a=1&a=2) now display properly
700 - Semi-colon separators in query strings now work properly.
701 - Expanded documentation of catalyst.pl (Andrew Ford)
702 - Added support for running as a backend server behind a frontend
703 proxy so req->base and req->address are set properly.
704 - Added an 'abort' method to the Log api, so that you can
705 kill loggging for a whole request.
706 - Added $c->uri_for method to simplify url handling.
707 - Added more tests and reorganized the t directory.
708 - Reimplemented core engines, all are now CGI based for better test
709 coverage and maintainability.
710 - Added fork support to built in test server.
711 - Fixed all memory leaks.
712 - Thread-related bug fixes and tests. We now believe the Catalyst
713 core to be thread-safe.
714 - Added streaming IO support through $c->req->read() and
716 - Added MyApp->config->{parse_on_demand} (streaming input)
717 - Added $c->req->handle and $c->res->handle
718 - Improved documentation
719 - Fixed mkpath in Catalyst::Helper (Autrijus Tang)
720 - Fixed bug in dispatcher where an invalid path could call a valid
721 action. (Andy Grundman)
722 - Fixed Helper so it works with CRLF line-endings. (Andy Grundman)
724 5.33 2005-08-10 15:25:00
725 - Now with updated manifest.
727 5.32 2005-08-10 15:10:00
728 - Dispatcher might fail if object returns false. (Florian Ragwitz)
730 5.31 2005-06-04 12:35:00 (never released to CPAN)
732 - helpers now create .new files where files already exist and differ
733 - fixed $Data::Dumper::Terse (Robin Berjon)
734 - added arguments for detach
735 - new credits section in pod
736 - fixed detach to allow relative action names (Matt and Robert)
737 - added the ability to have whitespaces in Path( '' ) and Regex( '' )
739 5.30 2005-06-04 12:35:00
741 - Fixed a bug where it was not possible to $c->forward to a
743 that was not inheriting from Catalyst::Base.
744 - Fix for inheritance bug.
745 - Allow forward with arguments.
747 - Allow overriding home/root in config.
748 - make module build cons README automatically.
749 - prettify home path by resolving '..' (Andy Grundman)
750 - improved helper templates a bit, new naming scheme for tests.
751 - added support for case sensitivity, MyApp->config->{case_sensitive}
752 - added $c->detach for non-returning forwards
753 - added unified error handling, Catalyst::Exception
754 - added section on param handling in Intro.pod
755 - added $c->request->cookie
756 - added Catalyst::Setup
757 - refactored Catalyst::import()
758 - improved rendering of error messages in debug mode
759 - fixed a bug in Catalyst::Helper::mk_dir
760 - further doc changes, esp. to Intro.pod
762 5.23 2005-06-03 02:30:00
763 - added support for non Catalyst::Base components to live in namespace
764 - improved concurrency connections in Catalyst::Engine::HTTP::Daemon
766 5.22 2005-05-26 14:24:00
767 - improved base locating in MP engines
768 - improved error messages in C::E::HTTP::Daemon
769 - hostnames are now resolved on demand unless provided by engine
770 - fixed memory leak in $c->execute (Michael Reece, Matt S Trout)
772 5.21 2005-05-24 14:56:00
773 - fixed a bug in https detection
774 - fixed auto chain finally
775 - added MYAPP_HOME and CATALYST_HOME environment variables
777 5.20 2005-05-18 19:52:00
778 - improved uploads and parameters
779 - added $c->req->protocol and $c->req->secure
780 - added $c->req->user and $c->req->uri
781 - improved error message when forwarding to unknown module
782 - fixed win32 installer
783 - added deep recursion detection
785 - fixed inheritance in dispatcher
786 - allow whitespaces between brackets and quoted string
787 in Path and Regex attributes
788 - new helper templates
789 - installer now supports install_base and destdir
790 - allow multiple Catalyst apps to run on the same mod_perl
791 instance (not the same app!)
793 - removed apreq dependency from all MP engines
794 - added support for MP registry scripts
795 - added support for LocationMatch and ScriptAliasMatch in MP engines
796 - added SpeedyCGI engine
798 5.10 2005-04-23 11:16:00
799 - updated dependencies to require latest module::pluggable::fast
800 - new installer for templates and stuff using Module::Build
801 - scripts are now prefixed, for being installable
802 IMPORTANT: You have to regenerate the script directory,
803 remove Makefile.PL and add Build.PL
804 - Added compat to install Module::Build if required.
805 - Improved: Params handling with MP engines
806 - Fixed: Params handling on POST with CGI engine (Andy Grundman)
807 - Fixed: Helper.pm on Win32 (Matt S Trout)
809 5.03 2005-04-19 20:35:00 (Revision 462)
810 - fixed Test example (Torsten Seeman)
811 - added Plugins chapter to manual
812 - applied doc patch from Robert Boone <robert@rlb3.com>
813 - improved Dispatcher error messages.
814 - refactored so we don't need to include helper from
815 Catalyst.pm - Fixes issues with FindBin
816 - applied HTTP.pm patch from Andy Grundman <andy@hybridized.org>
817 - added plugin() method for instant plugins
818 - FCGI is no more considered experimental
820 5.02 2005-04-18 10:00:00
823 5.01 2005-04-17 23:00:00
824 - some documentation bugs fixed
825 - added Catalyst::Utils
826 - fixed regexp bug (Matt S Trout)
827 - fixed upload bug with MP19
828 - added $c->req->body
829 - aliased $c->res->output to $c->res->body
830 - Read AUTHOR from passwd or $ENV{AUTHOR} when
832 - extended attribute handling
833 - added global config for components
835 5.00 2005-04-15 18:00:00
836 - new core to support inheritance trees
837 - new syntax for action declaration
838 - new helper system using TT2
839 - problems with mod_perl2 fixed
840 - added Test::Pod support
841 - added new server backend with HTTP/1.1 support
842 - added option to run tests against a remote server
843 - renamed errors() to error()
845 - countless minor improvements
846 IMPORTANT: This release is very incompatible to previous ones
847 and you have to regenerate the helper scripts again...
849 4.34 2005-03-23 07:00:00 2005
850 - added some messages to Makefile.PL
851 - added Catalyst::Engine::Test
852 - added Catalyst::Engine::CGI::NPH
853 - simplified Catalyst::Log to be easier to implement/subclass
855 - updated Catalyst::Test to use Catalyst::Engine::Test
856 - updated helper scripts
857 IMPORTANT: this will be the last time you'll have to regenerate
858 the script directory. We promise!
860 4.33 2005-03-23 01:00:00 2005
861 - documented the log() accessor method in Catalyst (Andrew Ford)
862 - added optional arguments to Catalyst::Log methods (Andrew Ford)
863 - removed cgi-server.pl
864 - added fcgi.pl and Catalyst::Engine::FCGI
865 - fixed an undef durng make test (Dan Sully)
866 - new path test (Christian Hansen)
867 IMPORTANT: you have to regenerate the script directory again
869 4.32 2005-03-22 02:10:00 2005
870 - made a damn typo *AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!*
872 4.31 2005-03-22 02:00:00
873 - fixed inheritance (Christian Hansen)
874 - previous release was borked!
875 fixed that, but you have to regenerate the scripts again :(
877 4.30 2005-03-21 23:00:00
878 - more documentation (Andrew Ford)
879 - added connection informations (Christian Hansen)
880 - HTTP::Request support in Catalyst::Test (Christian Hansen)
881 - moved cgi.pl to nph-cgi.pl
882 - added Catalyst::Engine::Server (Christian Hansen)
883 - removed Catalyst::Test::server
884 - updated helper scripts
885 IMPORTANT: note that you have to regenerate script/server.pl,
886 script/cgi-server.pl and script/cgi.pl (now nph-cgi.pl)
888 4.28 2005-03-19 22:00:00
889 - fixed isa tree (Christian Hansen)
890 - added script/cgi-server.pl, so no more server restarting after
892 - reworked documentation (Andrew Ford <A.Ford@ford-mason.co.uk>)
894 4.27 2005-03-19 01:00:00
895 - debug message for parameters
896 - Fix redirects (Christian Hansen <ch@ngmedia.com>)
898 - new helper api for Catalyst::Helper::* support
899 you have to update script/create.pl to use it
901 4.26 2005-03-16 10:00:00
902 - fixed the weird bug that caused regex actions to fail on every
904 - more debug messages
907 4.25 2005-03-12 18:00:00
908 - correct perl pathes for helper generated scripts (Tatsuhiko Miyagawa)
909 - improved cgi engine docs (Christoper Hicks)
911 4.24 2005-03-12 01:00:00
912 - updated cookbook example
913 - fixed base for apache and https (Andrew Ruthven)
915 4.23 2005-03-09 20:00:00
916 - no more regex actions in forward
917 - added support for test directories t/m, t/v and t/c
919 4.22 2005-03-08 20:00:00
920 - catch errors in application class
921 - handle die properly.
923 4.21 2005-03-05 17:00:00
926 4.20 2005-03-04 22:00:00
927 - moved bin to script
929 4.13 2005-03-03 11:00:00
930 - improved documentation
931 - pod coverage test for helper generated apps
934 4.12 2005-03-02 11:00:00 2005
935 - server_base sucks, removed
936 - added $c->log->dump()
938 4.11 2005-03-02 11:00:00 2005
939 - removed some warnings
941 - private prefixed actions override private non prefixed actions
943 - updated Catalyst::Manual::Intro
945 4.10 2005-03-02 10:00:00 2005
946 - improved documentation
948 - fixed prefixed private actions bug
949 - fixed more little bugs
951 4.01 2005-03-01 10:00:00 2005
952 - improved documentation
953 - documentation fixes (Johan Lindstrom)
955 4.00 2005-02-27 22:00:00
956 - more verbose debug messages, especially for forward()
957 - implemented prefixed prvate actions, icluding built in
958 !?default, !?begin and !?end
959 - new Catalyst::Manual::Intro
960 - new helpers, bin/catalyst
963 3.11 2005-02-23 21:00:00
964 - added dependency to UNIVERSAL::require (Marcus Ramberg)
965 - added a little workaround for a warning in Catalyst::Test
967 - improved documentation for actions
969 3.10 2005-02-19 20:00:00
970 - removed roles management from Catalyst::Engine
971 and added it to Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication::CDBI
973 3.04 2005-02-17 21:00:00
974 - error reporting for app class
975 - no more engine debug messages
976 - class->method forwards get resolved now
978 3.03 2005-02-16 23:00:00
979 - friendlier statistics
981 3.02 2005-02-16 22:00:00
982 - fixed unintialized actions (Marcus Ramberg)
984 3.01 2005-02-16 20:30:00
987 3.00 2005-02-16 20:00:00
988 - real version number for CPAN.pm
989 - fixed redirect in CGI engine
990 - more statistics in debug logs
991 - ? prefix for forward()
993 2.99_15 2005-02-02 22:00:00
994 - support for short namespaces, MyApp::M, MyApp::V and MyApp::C
995 - Replaced "Catched" with "Caught" in Catalyst::Engine
997 - replaced _ with ! for private actions
998 - added ? for prefixed actions
1001 2.99_14 2005-01-31 22:00:00 2005
1002 - arguments for _default
1003 - $c->entrance removed for more flexibility
1004 - added $c->req->method
1006 2.99_13 2005-01-30 18:00:00 2005
1007 - POD fixes and improvements
1009 2.99_12 2005-01-28 22:00:00 2005
1010 - first development release