1 # This file documents the revision history for Perl extension Catalyst.
4 - Fixed a regression introduced in the last release which caused test
5 case failure when using a version of Perl 5.14 or older.
8 - Document using namespace::autoclean with controllers that have actions
10 - Look for type constraints in super classes and consumed roles.
11 - Change the way the stash middleware works to no longer localize $psgi_env.
12 - If you delegate control to a sub Catalyst application, that application
13 may now return information to the parent application via the stash.
14 - Fix for RT#106373 (Issue when you try to install and also have an old
15 version of Test::Mechanize::WWW::Catalyst)
18 - $c->uri_for now defines a final argument for setting the URL fragment
19 /URL anchor. This is now the canonical approach to setting a fragment
21 - Reverted how we treat $c->uri_for($path) where $path is a string. When
22 we introduced the UTF-8 work we started encoding stringy paths, which
23 breaks code that did not expect that. We now consider stringy $path to
24 be 'expert' mode and you are expected to perform all nessary encoding.
27 - Fixed regression introduced in previous release that prevented a URI
28 fragment from getting properly encoded. Added more tests around this
29 to define behavior better.
32 - Minor test case tweak that I hope solve some minor hiesenfails reported
34 - (https://github.com/perl-catalyst/catalyst-runtime/pull/109) added som
35 additional directions to how to setup a development sandbox
36 - (https://github.com/perl-catalyst/catalyst-runtime/pull/108) fix bug in
37 encoding where URI fragment seperator '#' in ->uri_for would get encoded.
40 - When there is a multipart POST request and the parts have extended
41 HTTP headers, try harder to decode and squeeze a meaningful value
42 out of it before giving up and crying. Updated docs and tests to
43 reflect this change. This should solve problems when your clients
44 are posting multipart form values with special character sets.
45 - Fixed issue where last_error actually returned the first error. Took
46 the change to add a 'pop_errors' to give the inverse of shift_errors.
47 - Merged Pull Requests:
48 - https://github.com/perl-catalyst/catalyst-runtime/pull/95
49 - https://github.com/perl-catalyst/catalyst-runtime/pull/96
50 - https://github.com/perl-catalyst/catalyst-runtime/pull/97
51 - https://github.com/perl-catalyst/catalyst-runtime/pull/98
52 - https://github.com/perl-catalyst/catalyst-runtime/pull/106
53 - https://github.com/perl-catalyst/catalyst-runtime/pull/107
56 - Fixed a bug where if you used $res->write and then $res->body, the
57 contents of body would be double encoded (gshank++).
60 - Allows you to use a namespace suffix for request, response and stats
61 class traits. Docs and tests for this.
62 - Refactor the change introduced in 5.90091 to solve reported issues (for
63 example Catalyst::Controller::DBIC::API fails its tests) and to be a more
64 conservative refactor (new code more closely resembles the orginal code
65 that has proven to work for years.)
68 - Fixed a bug where if an injected component expanded sub components, those
69 sub components would not show up in the startup debug dev console (
70 even though they were actually created).
73 - Updated some documention in Catalyst::Request::Upload to clarify behavior
74 that RT ticket reported as confusing or unexpected
75 - Merged all changes from 5.90089_XXX development cycle.
76 - removed a mistaken use of Test::Most, which is not a core Catalyst
77 dependency. Used Test::More instead.
79 5.90089_004 - 2015-04-28
80 - Added swanky github badges.
81 - Reverted a change to how the stats engine is setup that was incorrect.
82 - New application setup hook 'config_for' which allows one to get the
83 canonical application configuration for a controller, view or model, or
84 a plugin. Can also be used to override and adapt what configuration is
87 5.90089_003 - 2015-04-27
88 - Fixed an issue where a delayed controller that did ACCEPT_CONTEXT would
89 raise an error when registering its actions.
90 - Updated some documentation around route matching.
91 - refactored the setup of injected components to allow you to hook into
92 the injection and do custom injection types.
94 5.90089_002 - 2015-04-17
95 - Changed the way we check for presence of Type::Tiny in a test case to be
96 more explicit in the version requirement. Hopefully a fix for reported
98 - When declaring type constraints in Args and CaptureArgs, if you want to
99 use a Moose builtin type (or a custom stringy type that you've already
100 defined and associated with the Moose::TypeRegistry) you must now quote
101 the type name. This is to clearly disambiguate between Moose stringy types
103 - Additional changes to type constraint detection to between determine when a
104 type constraint for reference types have a measured number of arguments or
105 not. clarify restriction on reference type constraints.
106 - Several bugs with type constraints and uri_for squashed. More test cases
107 around all the argument type constraints to tighten scope of action.
108 - NEW FEATURE: New method in Catalyst::Utils 'inject_component', which is a core
109 version of the previously external addon 'CatalystX::InjectComponent'. You should
110 start to convert your existing code which uses the stand alone version, since
111 going forward only the core version will be supported. Also the core version in
112 Catalyst::Utils has an additional feature to compose roles into the injected
114 - NEW FEATURE: Concepts from 'CatalystX::RoleApplicator' have been moved to core
115 so we now have the follow application attributes 'request_class_traits',
116 'response_class_traits' and 'stats_class_traits' which allow you to compose
117 traits for these core Catalyst classes without needing to create subclasses. So
118 in general any request or response trait on CPAN that used 'CatalystX::RoleApplicator'
119 should now just work with this core feature. Note that can also set thse roles
120 via new configuration keys, 'request_class_traits', 'response_class_traits'
121 and 'stats_class_traits'. If you use both configuration and application class methods,
123 - NEW FEATURE: Core concepts from 'CatalystX::ComponentsFromConfig'. You can now
124 setup components directly from configuration. This could save you some effort and
125 creating 'empty' base classes in your Model/View and Controller directories. This
126 feature is currently limited in that you can only configure components that are
127 'true' Catalyst components (but you may use Catalyst::Model::Adaptor to proxy
128 stand alone classes...).
129 - Only create a stats object if you are using stats. This is a minor performance
130 optimization, but there's a small chance it is a breaking change, so please
131 report any stats related issues.
132 - Added a developer mode warning if you call a component with arguments that does not
133 expect arguments (for example calling $c->model('Foo', 1,2,3,4) where Myapp::Model::Foo
134 does not ACCEPT_CONTEXT. Only components that ACCEPT_CONTEXT do anything with
135 passed arguments in $c->controller/view/model.
136 - Change the way components are setup so that you can now rely on all components
137 when setting up a component. Previously application scoped components could not
138 reliably use an existing application scoped component as a dependecy for initialization.
140 5.90089_001 - 2015-03-26
141 - New development branch synched with 5.90085.
142 - NEW FEATURE: Type Constraints on Args/CaptureArgs. Allows you to declare
143 a Moose, MooseX::Types or Type::Tiny named constraint on your Arg or
145 - When using $c->uri_for (or the derived $c->uri_for_action) and the target
146 action has type constrainted args (or captures), verify that the proposed
147 URL matches the defined args. In general $c->uri_for will be a bit more
148 noisy if the supplied arguments are not correct.
149 - New top level document on Route matching. (Catalyst::RouteMatching). This
150 document is still in development, but is worth review and comments.
153 - Small change to Catalyst::Action to prevent autovivication of Args value (dim1++)
154 - Minor typo fixes (Abraxxa++)
155 - Make sure than when using chained actions and when more than one action
156 matches the same path specification AND has Args(0), that we follow the
157 "in a tie, the last action defined wins" rule. There is a small chance
158 this is a breaking change for you. See Catalyst::Upgrading for more.
159 You may use the application configuration setting "use_chained_args_0_special_case"
160 to disable this new behavior, if you must for back-compat reasons.
161 - Added PATCH HTTP Method action attribute shortcut.
162 - Several new configuration options aimed to give improved backwards compatibility
163 for when your URL query parameters or keywords have non UTF-8 encodings.
164 See Catalyst::Upgrading.
167 - Small change to the way body parameters are created in order to prevent
168 trying to create parameters twice.
169 - Use new HTTP::Body and code updates to fix issue when POSTed params have
170 non UTF-8 charset encodings or otherwise complex upload parts that are not
171 file uploads. In these cases when Catalyst can't determine what the value of
172 a form upload is, will return an instance of Catalyst::Request::PartData with
173 all the information need to figure it out. Documentation about this corner
174 case. For RT https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=101556
175 - Two new application configuration parameters 'skip_body_param_unicode_decoding'
176 and 'skip_complex_post_part_handling' to assist you with any backward
177 compatibility issues with all the new UTF8 work in the most recent stable
178 Catalyst. You may use these settings to TEMPORARILY disable certain new
179 features while you are seeking a long term fix.
182 - Fixed typo in support for OPTIONS method matching (andre++)
183 - Stop using $env->{'plack.request.query'} as a query parsing optimization
184 since 1) it doesn't belong to us and 2) there's subtle differences in the
185 way plack parses parameters and catalyst does. This fixes a bug when you
186 are using middleware that uses Plack::Request to do its thing. This change
187 might have subtle impact on query parsing. Please test this change!
190 - Fixed a regression created in $response->from_psgi_response and test case
191 to prevent it happening again.
194 - created class attribute 'finalized_default_middleware' which determines
195 if the default middleware has been added to the stack yet or not. This
196 removes a horrible hack that polluted the configuration hash. Added
197 test case to prevent regressions.
200 - Minor documentation corrections
201 - Make the '79 development series stable
203 5.90079_008 - 2015-01-07
204 - If we get a response set from $res->from_psgi_response and that response
205 has a charset for the content type, we clear encoding for the rest of the
206 response (avoid double encoding). Added more documentation around this.
207 - Documentation updates and typo fixes across various UTF8 docs (Mark Ellis++)
209 5.90079_007 - 2015-01-07
210 - Merged from Stable (5.90079)
211 - reviewed and cleaned up UTF8 related docs
212 - replace missing utf8 pragma in Catalyst::Engine
213 - Cleaned up spelling errors in various docs (abbraxxa++)
214 - New document Catalyst::UTF8 which attempts to summarize UTF8 and encoding
215 changes introduced in v5.90080.
217 5.90079_006 - 2015-01-02
218 - Removed unneeded dependency on RenderView in new test case that was causing fails
219 on CPAN testers that did not just happen to have that dependency already installed
220 - Updated copyright notices to 2015
221 - Documentation patches around the setup methods and clarification on on security
222 note posted a few months ago.
223 - Added my name to the contributors list
225 5.90079_005 - 2014-12-31
226 - Merged changes from 5.90078
227 - If configuration 'using_frontend_proxy' is set, we add the correct middleware
228 to the default middleware list. This way you get the correct and expected
229 behavior if you are starting your application via one of the generated scripts
230 or if you are calling MyApp->psgi_app. Previously if you started the application
231 with ->psgi_app (or to_app) we ignored this configuration option
232 - New configuration option 'using_frontend_proxy_path' which enables
233 Plack::Middleware::ReverseProxyPath on your application easily. Please note that
234 Plack::Middleware::ReverseProxyPath is not an automatic dependency of Catalyst at
235 this time, so if you want this feature you should add it to your project dependency
236 list. This is done to avoid continued growth of Catalyst dependencies.
237 - Tweaks encoding docs a bit to get closer to final.
239 5.90079_004 - 2014-12-26
240 - Starting adding some docs around the new encoding stuff
241 - Exposed the reqexp we use to match content types that need encoding via a
243 - Added some test cases for JSON utf8 and tested file uploads with utf8.
244 - Fixes to decoding on file upload filenames and related methods
245 - new methods on upload object that tries to do the right thing if we find
246 a character set on the upload and its UTF8.
247 - new additional helper methods on the file upload object.
248 - new helper methods has_encoding and clear_encoding on context.
249 - Method on Catalyst::Response to determine if the response should be encoded.
250 - Warn if changing headers only if headers are finalized AND the response callback
251 has already been called (and headers already sent).
252 - Centralized rules about detecting if we need to automatically encode or not and
253 added tests around cases when you choose to skip auto encoding.
255 5.90079_003 - 2014-12-03
256 - Make sure all tests run even if debug mode is enabled.
257 - Fixed issue with middleware stash test case that failed on older Perls
259 5.90079_002 - 2014-12-02
260 - Fixed typo in Makefile.PL which borked the previous distribution. No other
263 5.90079_001 - 2014-12-02
264 - MyApp->to_app is now an alias for MyApp->psgi_app in order to better support
265 existing Plack conventions.
266 - Modify Catalyst::Response->from_psgi_response to allow the first argument to
267 be an object that does ->as_psgi.
268 - Modified Catalyst::Middleware::Stash to be a shallow copy in $env. Added some
269 docs. Added a test case to make sure stash keys added in a child application
270 don't bubble back up to the main application.
271 - We no longer use Encode::is_utf8 since it doesn't work the way we think it
272 does... This required some UTF-8 changes. If your application is UTF-8 aware
273 I highly suggest you test this release.
274 - We always do utf8 decoding on incoming URLs (before we only did so if the server
275 encoding was utf8. I believe this is correct as per the w3c spec, but please
276 correct if incorrect :)
277 - Debug output now shows utf8 characters if those are incoming via Args or as
278 path or pathparts in your actions. query and body parameter keys are now also
279 subject to utf8 decoding (or as specified via the encoding configuration value).
280 - lots of UTF8 changes. Again we think this is now more correct but please test.
281 - Allow $c->res->redirect($url) to accept $url as an object that does ->as_string
282 which I think will ease a common case (and common bug) and added documentation.
283 - !!! UTF-8 is now the default encoding (there used to be none...). You can disable
284 this if you need to with MyApp->config(encoding => undef) if it causes you trouble.
285 - Calling $c->res->write($data) now encodes $data based on the configured encoding
287 - $c->res->writer_fh now returns Catalyst::Response::Writer which is a decorator
288 over the PSGI writer and provides an additional method 'write_encoded' that just
289 does the right thing for encoding your responses. This is probably the method
291 - New dispatch matching attribute: Scheme. This lets you match a route based on
292 the incoming URI scheme (http, https, ws, wss).
293 - If $c->uri_for targets an action or action chain that defines Scheme, use that
294 scheme for the generated URI object instead of just using whatever the incoming
298 - Removed dependency from test case that we don't install for testing (
300 - updated year in copyright notices
303 - POD corrections (sergey++)
304 - New configuration option to disable the HTTP Exception passthrough feature
305 introduced in 5.90060. You can use this if that feature is causing you
306 trouble. (davewood++);
307 - Some additional helper methods for dealing with errors.
308 - More clear exception when $request->body_data tries to parse malformed POSTed
309 data. Added documentation and tests around this.
312 - We store the PSGI $env in Catalyst::Engine for backcompat reasons. Changed
313 this so that the storage is a weak reference, so that it goes out of scope
314 with the request. This solves an issue where items in the stash (now in the
315 PSGI env) would not get closed at the end of the request. This caused some
316 regression, primarily in custom testing classes.
319 - If throwing an exception object that does the code method, make sure that
320 method returns an expected HTTP status code before passing it on to the
321 HTTP Exception middleware.
324 - Documentation patch for $c->req->param to point out the recently discovered
325 potential security issues: http://blog.gerv.net/2014/10/new-class-of-vulnerability-in-perl-web-applications/
326 - You don't need to install this update, but you should read about the exploit
327 and review if your code is vulnerable. If you use the $c->req->param interface
328 you really need to review this exploit.
331 - Specify Carp minimum version to avoid pointless test fails (valy++)
334 - Fixed a regression caused by the last release where we broke what happened
335 when you tried to set request parameters via $c->req->param('foo', 'bar').
336 You shouldn't do this, but I guess I shouldn't have busted it either :)
337 - Allow the term_width to be regenerated (see Catalyst::Utils::term_width,
339 - More aggressive skipping of value decoding if the value is undefined.
342 - In the case where you call $c->req->param(undef), warn with a more useful
343 warning (now gives the line of your code that called param with the undef,
344 so you can go to hunt it out.
347 - Travis config now performs basic reverse dependency testing.
348 - Restored deprecated 'env' code in Engine.pm b/c it is still being used out
349 in the wild (Catalyst-Plugin-Authentication-0.10023) - (removed in 5.90070)
350 - Reverted changes to debug log/handling (5.90069_003) to fix
351 rev dep Catalyst-Plugin-Static-Simple-0.32 test suite.
352 - Added Italian translation of default error.
355 - Retagged previous release as stable; no changes
358 - Fixed typo in middleware stash that was causing older Perls to fail
359 certain tests. No other changes.
362 - The default log level is now 'info', not 'debug'.
363 - Finished merging all the encoding plugin code to core code. The encoding
364 plugin is now just an empty package. Also tried to improve encoding docs
366 - Some additional changes to the stash middleware that should not break
368 - Documentation around using Sendfile type http headers with a filehandle
370 - Merged from master branch to pick up some additional fixes and documentation
374 - Catalyst stash functionality has been moved to Middleware. It should
375 work entirely the same when used as a context method, please report
376 questions or problems!
377 - Removed code related to supporting the long deprecated stand alone
378 PSGI Engine. If you are still using this you code is now broken.
379 Luckily you can just stop using it and likely everything will work
380 under the new PSGI support built into Catalyst for several years.
381 - 'abort_chain_on_error_fix' now defaults to true. If this behavior
382 causes you issues, you can explicitly turn it off by setting it to a
383 non true defined value (0 is a good option here).
384 - When throwing an http style exception, make sure we properly flush the
385 existing log and report other errors in the error stack.
388 - Set encoding on STDERR when encoding is set in config
389 - documentation and test fixes
392 - The Catalyst::Log object now has 'autoflush' (which defaults to true) and
393 causes log messages to be written out in real-time. This is helpful for the
394 test/dev server to be able to see messages during startup as well as before
395 the end of the request when the log is flushed.
396 - Fix spelling, grammar and structural errors in POD
397 - Remove redundant ->setup call in t/head_middleware.t RT#95361
398 - Fix test failures when running under CATALYST_DEBUG. RT#95358
401 - Fix for mindless broken tests on Win32 (Haarg++).
402 - Happy Cinco de Mayo!
405 - 'end' and other special actions won't catch HTTP style exceptions anymore.
406 - Fix bug where Catalyst did not properly detect the terminal width when in
407 debug mode and thus making the debug output narrow and hard to read.
408 - Documentation corrections for Util methods around localized PSGI $env.
409 - Improvements to auto detection of terminal width.
410 - Updating deprecation list to include Class::Load and ensure_class_loaded
411 - Added a few docs around middleware and corrected the order that middleware
412 is loaded when registering it via ->setup_middleware instead of via
414 - Added a test case to make sure default middleware order is correct.
417 - HTTP::Exception objects were not properly bubbled up to middleware since
418 there was some code in Catalyst that was triggering stringification.
421 - Reverted a change related to how plugins get initialized that was
422 introduced by a change in December.
425 - Same as 5.90059_006, just marking it as stable, no functional changes.
428 5.90059_006 - 2014-02-06
429 - MyApp->setup now returns $app to allow class method chaining.
430 - New Util helper functional localize $env to make it easier to mount PSGI
431 applications under controllers and actions. See Catalyst::Utils/PSGI Helpers.
432 - NOTICE: Final Development release for Runner, unless significant issues are
435 5.90059_005 - 2014-01-28
436 - Specify newest versions of some middleware in attempt to solve test errors
437 reported while installing.
438 5.90059_004 - 2014-01-27
439 - Make sure IO handle objects do 'getline' before sending them to the
440 response callback, to properly support the PSGI specification.
441 - Added some backcompat code when setting a response body to an object
442 that does 'read' but not 'getline'. Added deprecation notice for this
443 case. Added docs to Catalyst::Delta.
444 - Catalyst::Delta contains a list of behaviors which will be considered
445 deprecated immediately. Most items have workarounds and tweaks you can
446 make to avoid issues. These deprecations are targeted for removal/enforcement
447 in the Catalyst 6 release. Please review and give your feedback.
448 - More middleware to replace inline code (upasana++)
449 - Documentation around Exceptions and how we handle them.
450 - update copyright notices.
452 5.90059_003 - 2013-12-24
453 - More documentation about alternative ways to setup middleware.
454 - removed unneeded use of Devel::Dwarn in test case that was causing
455 fails to install (sorry).
456 - When finalizing caught errors, if the error conforms to the interface as
457 described by Plack::Middleware::HTTPExceptions, rethrow it and let the
458 middleware deal with it.
460 5.90059_002 - 2013-12-21
461 - We now pass a scalar or filehandle directly to you Plack handler, rather
462 than always use the streaming interface (we are still always using a
463 delayed response callback). This means that you can make use of Plack
464 middleware like Plack::Middleware::XSendfile and we expect better use of
465 server features (when they exist) like correct use of chunked encoding or
466 properly non blocking streaming when running under a supporting server like
467 Twiggy. See Catalyst::Delta for more. This change might cause issues if
468 you are making heaving use of streaming (although in general we expect things
470 - In the case when we remove a content body from the response because you set
471 an information status or a no content type status, warn that we are doing so
472 when in debug mode. You might see additional debugging information to help
473 you find and remove unneeded response bodies.
474 - Updated the code where Catalyst tries to guess a content length when you
475 fail to provide one. This should cause less issues when trying to guess the
476 length of a funky filehandle. This now uses Plack::Middleware::ContentLength
477 - Removed custom code to remove body content when the request is HEAD and
478 swapped it for Plack::Middleware::Head
479 - Merged fix for regressions from stable..
481 5.90059_001 - 2013-12-19
482 - Removed deprecated Regexp dispatch type from dependency list. If you are
483 using Regex[p] type dispatching you need to add the standalone distribution
484 'Catalyst::DispatchType::Regex' to you build system NOW or you application
488 - Reverted a change in the previous release that moved the setup_log phase
489 to after setup_config. This change was made to allow people to use
490 configuration that is late loaded (such as via the ConfigLoader Plugin)
491 to setup the plugin. However it also broke the ability to use the log
492 during plugin setup (ie, it breaks lots of plugins). Reverting the
493 change. See Catalyst::Delta for workarounds.
497 - Fixed first block of startup debug messages missing when using a custom
498 logger that gets set at runtime, for example by overriding finalize_config
499 - Give a more descriptive error message when trying to load middleware that
501 - Change the way we initialize plugins to fix a bug where when using the
502 popular ConfigLoader plugin, configs merged are not available for setting
503 up middleware and data handlers (and probably other things as well).
505 NOTE: This change might cause issues if you had code that was relying on the
506 broken behavior. For example external configuration that was being loaded to
507 late to have effect might now take effect. Please test you code carefully and
508 be aware of this possible issue </NOTE>.
510 - You may now also call 'setup_middleware' as a package method if you think
511 that loading middleware via configuration is a weird or broken idea.
512 - Various POD formatting fixed.
513 - Improved some documentation about what type of filehandles that ->body can
514 accept and issues that might arise.
517 - Be more skeptical of the existence of $request->env to fix a regression
518 introduced in Catalyst::Action::REST by the previous release
521 - Previously public predicates on the following attributes are now considered
522 private and their method names have been changed to follow Perl convention
523 for internal methods:
525 -- Catalyst::Request->has_io_fh ==> _has_io_fh
526 -- Catalyst::Request->has_env ==> _has_env
527 -- Catalyst::Response->has_write_fh ==> _has_write_fh
529 These are breaking changes but these methods were never documented and serve
530 no use for external code. If you are using thing, you need to make the noted
531 change (but please consider finding another way to do what you are trying to
532 do). t0m++ for code review of Hamburg branch.
534 5.90049_006 - 2013-11-04
535 - Fixed case where test could fail when Starman was partly installed (n0body++)
536 - Fixed missing date information in previous release
538 5.90049_005 - 2013-10-31
539 - NEW FEATURE: New Controller action attribute 'Consumes', which allows you
540 to specify the content type of the incoming request. This makes it easier
541 to create actions that only handle certain content type POST or PUT, such
542 as actions that only handle JSON or actions that only understand classic
544 - NEW FEATURE: Request->body_data is now also populated from classic HTML
545 Forms using CGI::Struct to support nested data. For non nested data you
546 should use the classic ->body_parameters method.
547 - Removed PSGI $env keys that are added on the 'plack.request.*' namespace
548 since after discussion it was clear those keys are not part of the public
549 API. Keys removed: 'plack.request.query', 'plack.request.body',
550 'plack.request.merged' and 'plack.request.http.body'. Altered some test
551 cases to reflect this change.
553 5.90049_004 - 2013-10-18
554 - JSON Data handler looks for both JSON::MaybeXS and JSON, and uses
555 whichever is first (preferring to find JSON::MaybeXS). This should
556 improve compatibility as you likely already have one installed.
557 - Fixed a warning in the server script (bokutin++)
558 - We now populate various Plack $env keys in order to play nice with
559 downstream middleware or plack apps (and to reduce processing if
560 those keys already exist). Keys added:
561 - plack.request.query
563 - plack.request.merged
564 - plack.request.http.body
565 (NOTE: REMOVED IN 5.90049_005)
566 - If incoming input (from a POST or PUT) is not buffered, create the
567 buffer and set the correct psgi env keys to note this for downstream
568 psgi apps / middleware. This should solve some issues where Catalyst
569 sucks up the body input but its not buffered so downstream apps can't
570 read it (for example FCGI does not buffer). We now also try to make
571 sure the body content input is reset to the start of the filehandle
572 so that we are polite to downstream middleware /apps.
573 - NEW FEATURE: Catalyst::Response can now pull response from a PSGI
574 specification response. This makes it easier to host external Plack
575 applications under Catalyst. See Catalyst::Response->from_psgi_response
576 - NEW FEATURE: New configuration option 'use_hash_multivalue_in_request'
577 will populate $request methods 'parameters', 'body_parameters' and
578 'query_parameters' with an instance of Hash::MultiValue instead of a
579 HashRef. This is used by Plack and is intended to reduce the need to
580 write defensive logic since you are never sure if an incoming parameter
581 is a scalar or arrayref.
582 - NEW FEATURE: We now experimentally support Net::Async::HTTP::Server
583 and IO-Async based event loops. Examples will follow.
585 5.90049_003 - 2013-09-20
586 - Documented the new body_data method added in the previous release
587 - Merged from master many important bugfixes and forward compatibility
589 - Use modern preferred method for Moose metaclass access and many other
590 small changes to how we use Moose for better forward compat (ether++)
591 - Killed some evil use of $@ (ether++)
592 - spelling fixes and documentation updates (ether++), (gerda++)
593 - use Test::Fatal over Test::Exception (ether++)
594 - Misc. test case fixes to modernize code (ether++)
595 - Added a first pass cpanfile, to try and make it easier to bootstrap
596 a development setup (ether++)
598 5.90049_002 - 2013-08-20
599 - Fixed loading middleware from project directory
600 - Fixed some pointless warnings when middleware class lacked VERSION
601 - NEW FEATURE: Declare global 'data_handlers' for parsing HTTP POST/PUT
602 alternative content, and created default JSON handler. Yes, now Catalyst
603 handles JSON request content out of the box! More docs eventually but
604 for now see the DATA HANDLERS section in Catalyst.pm (or review the test
605 case t/data_handler.t
607 5.90049_001 - 2013-07-26
608 - Declare PSGI compliant Middleware as part of your Catalyst Application via
609 a new configuration key, "psgi_middleware".
610 - Increased lowest allowed module version for Module::Pluggable to be 4.7 (up
611 from 3.4) to solve the fact this is no longer bundled with Perl in v5.18.
614 - Removed more places where an optional dependency shows up in the test
615 suite. Hopefully really fixed the unicode regression introduced in 5.90040
616 - reverted the change we introduced in 5.90040 where a unicode conversion
617 error warned instead of died. Now it dies again, like in the stand alone
619 - More work to make sure nothing happens with encoding unless you explicitly
621 - Code to hopefully fix an issue where file uploads using the unicode plugin
625 - Bug fix release to fix regressions introduced in previous. I would consider
626 this a likely upgrade and if you are having trouble with the previous I hope
627 this fixes all of them.
628 - Fix regression with the cored Unicode plugin that broke systems where you are
629 setting encoding type in an external configuration file
630 - Fixed circular dependency introduced when we cored the unicode plugin tests
631 - Fixed a longstanding problem with stats when locale uses , instead of . for
633 - Fixed some docs that didn't properly date the previous release.
636 ! Stricter checking of attributes in Catalyst::DispatchType::Chained:
637 1) Only allow one of either :CaptureArgs or :Args
638 2) :CaptureArgs() argument must be numeric
639 3) :CaptureArgs() and :Args() arguments cannot be negative
640 - Add Devel::InnerPackage to dependencies, fixing tests on Perl 5.17.11
641 as it's been removed from core. RT#84787
642 - New support for closing over the PSGI $writer object, useful for working
644 - lets you access a psgix.io socket, if your server supports it, for manual
645 handling of the client - server communication, such as for websockets.
646 - Fix waiting for the server to start in t/author/http-server.t
647 - new config flag 'abort_chain_on_error_fix' that exits immediately when a
648 action in an action chain throws and error (fixes issues where currently
649 the remaining actions are processed and the error is handled at chain
651 - Cored the Encoding plugin. Now get unicode out of the box by just setting
652 $c->config->{encoding} = 'UTF-8'. BACKCOMPAT WARNING: If you are using
653 the Encoding plugin on CPAN, we skip it to avoid double encoding issues, so
654 you should remove it from your plugin list, HOWEVER the 'encoding' config
655 setting is now undef, rather than 'UTF-8' (this was done to avoid breaking
656 people's existing applications) so you should add the encoding setting to
657 you global config. There's some other changes between the stand alone
658 plugin and the cored version, if you use it be sure to see Catalyst::Upgrading
660 - minor documentation typo fixes and updates
663 ! POSSIBLE BREAKING CHANGE: Removed Regexp dispatch type from core, and put
664 it in an external package. If you need Regexp dispatch types you should
665 add "Catalyst-DispatchType-Regex" as a distribution to your build system.
666 - make $app->uri_for and related methods return something sane, when called
667 as an application method, instead of a context method. Now if you call
668 MyApp::Web->uri_for(...) you will get a generic URI object that you need to
670 - documentation updates around forwarding to chained actions.
671 - Fixed bug when a PSGI engine need to use psgix logger.
672 - Added cpanfile as a way to notice we are a dev checkout.
673 - Added 'x-tunneled-method' HTTP Header method override to match features in
674 Catalyst::Action::REST and in other similar systems on CPAN.
675 - smarter validation around action attributes.
678 ! Catalyst::Action now defines 'match_captures' so it is no long considered
679 an optional method. This might break you code if you have made custom
680 action roles/classes where you define 'match_captures'. You must change
681 your code to use a method modifier (such as 'around').
682 - New match method "Method($HTTP_METHOD)" where $HTTP_METHOD in (GET, POST,
683 PUT, HEAD, DELETE, OPTION) and shortcuts in controllers called "GET, POST
684 PUT, HEAD, DELETE, OPTION"). Tests and documentation. Please note if you
685 are currently using Catalyst::ActionRole::MatchRequestMethods there may
686 be compatibility issues. You should remove that actionrole since the built
687 in behavior is compatible on its own.
688 - Initial debug screen now shows HTTP Method Match info
689 - security fixes in the way we handle redirects
690 - Make Catalyst::Engine and Catalyst::Base immutable
691 - Some test and documentation improvements
693 5.90019 - 2012-12-04 21:31:00
694 - Fix for Perl 5.17.6 (commit g7dc8663). RT#81601
695 - Fix for Perl 5.8. RT#61122
696 - Remove use of MooseX::Types as MooseX::Types is broken on Perl 5.8
699 5.90018 - 2012-10-23 20:55:00
700 - Changed code in test suite so it no longer trips up on recent changes to
703 5.90017 - 2012-10-19 22:33:00
704 - Change Catalyst _parse_attrs so that when sub attr handlers:
706 1) Can return multiple pairs of new attributes.
707 2) Get their returned attributes passed through the correct attribute handler.
709 e.g sub _parse_Whatever_attr { return Chained => 'foo', PathPart => 'bar' }
711 Will now work because both new attributes are respected, and the Chained
712 attribute is passed to _parse_Chained_attr and fixed up correctly by that.
714 - In Catalyst::Test, don't mangle headers of non-HTML responses. RT#79043
716 - Refactor request and response class construction to add methods
717 that roles can hook to feed extra parameters into the constructor
718 of request or response classes.
720 5.90016 - 2012-08-16 15:35:00
721 - prepare_parameters is no longer an attribute builder. It is now a method
722 that calls the correct underlying functionality (Bill Moseley++)
723 - Updated Makefile.PL to handle MacOSX tar
724 - Fix uri_for to handle a stringifiable object
725 - Fix model/view/controller methods to handle stringifiable objects
726 - Fix RT#78377 - IIS7 ignores response body for 3xx requests, which
727 causes (a different) response to be broken when using keepalive.
728 Fixed by applying Middleware which removes the response body and
729 content length that Catalyst supplies with redirects.
731 5.90015 - 2012-06-30 16:57:00
732 - Fix $c->finalize_headers getting called twice. RT#78090
733 - Fix test fails in Catalyst-Plugin-Session-State-Cookie. RT#76179
734 - Fix test fails in Catalyst-Plugin-StackTrace
735 - Fix test fails in Test-WWW-Mechanize-Catalyst
737 5.90014 - 2012-06-26 10:00:00
739 - Fix calling finalize_headers before writing body when using $c->write /
740 $c->res->write (fixes RT#76179).
742 5.90013 - 2012-06-21 10:40:00
744 - Release previous TRIAL as stable.
745 - We failed to note in the previous changelog that the Makefile.PL has been
746 improved to make it easier for authors to bootstrap a developer install
749 5.90013 - TRIAL 2012-06-07 20:21:00
752 - Merge Catalyst::Controller::ActionRole into Catalyst::Controller.
755 - Fix warnings in some matching cases for Action methods with
756 Args(), when using Catalyst::DispatchType::Chained
758 - Fix request body parameters to not be undef if no parameters
761 - Fix action_args config so that it can be specified in the
764 - Fix t/author/http-server.t on Win32
766 - Fix use of Test::Aggregate to make tests faster.
768 5.90012 - 2012-05-16 09:59:00
770 Distribution META.yml changes:
771 - author key is now correct, rather than what Module::Install
772 mis-parses from the documentation.
773 - x_authority key added.
776 - Fix request body parameters being multiply rebuilt. Fixes both
777 RT#75607 and CatalystX::DebugFilter
779 - Make plugin de-duplication work as intended originally, as whilst
780 duplicate plugins are totally unwise, the C3 error given to the user
781 is less than helpful.
783 - Remove dependence on obscure behaviour in B::Hooks::EndOfScope
784 for backward compatibility. This fixes issues with behaviour changes
785 in bleadperl. RT#76437
787 - Work around Moose bug RT#75367 which breaks
788 Catalyst::Controller::DBIC::API.
791 - Fix documentation in Catalyst::Component to show attributes and
792 calling readers, rather than accessing elements in the $self->{} hash
794 - Add note in Catalyst::Component to strongly disrecommend $self->config
795 - Fix vague 'checkout' wording in Catalyst::Utils. RT#77000
796 - Fix documentation for the 'secure' method in Catalyst:Request. RT#76710
798 5.90011 - 2012-03-08 16:43:00
801 - Simplification of the previous changes to Catalyst::ScriptRunner
802 We now just push $FindBin::Bin/../lib to the @INC path again, but
803 only if one of the dist indicator files (Makefile.PL Build.PL or
804 dist.ini) can be found in $FindBin::Bin/../$_
805 This avoids heuristics when the app is unloaded and therefore
806 works better for extensions which have entire applications in
808 - Bug fix to again correctly detect checkouts in dist zilla using
810 - --background option for the server script now only closes
811 STDIN, STDOUT and STDERR. This fixes issues with Log::Dispatch
812 and other loggers which open a file handle when
813 - Change incorrect use of File::Spec->catdir to File::Spec->catfile
814 so that we work on platforms which care about this (VMS?)
815 - Make it more obvious if our PSGI server doesn't pass in a response
818 5.90010 - 2012-02-18 00:01:00
821 - Fix the previous fix to Catalyst::ScriptRunner which was resulting
822 in the lib directory not being pushed onto @INC.
823 This meant perl ./script/myapp_server.pl failed, however
824 perl -Ilib ./script/myapp_server.pl would succeed.
826 5.90009 - 2012-02-16 09:06:00
829 - Fix the debug page so that it works as expected with the latest
832 - The Catalyst::Utils::home function is used to find if the application
833 is a checkout in Catalyst::ScriptRunner. This means that a non-existent
834 lib directory that is relative to the script install location is not
835 included when not running from a checkout.
837 - Fix dead links to cpansearch.perl.org to point to metacpan.org.
839 - Require the latest version of B::Hooks::EndOfScope (0.10) to avoid an
840 issue with new versions of Module::Runtime (0.012) on perl 5.10
841 which stopped Catalyst::Controller from compiling.
843 - In Catalyst::Test, don't mangle headers of non-HTML responses. RT#79043
845 5.90008 - TRIAL 2012-02-06 20:49:00
847 New features and refactoring:
848 - Much of the Catalyst::Engine code has been moved into Catalyst::Request
849 and Catalyst::Response, to be able to better support asynchronous web
850 servers such as Twiggy, by making the application engine more reenterant.
852 This change is as a prequel to full asynchronous support inside Catalyst
853 for AnyEvent and IO::Async backends, which allow highly scaleable streaming
854 (for applications such as multi-part XML HTTPRequests, and Websockets).
857 - This means that the $c->engine->env method to access the PSGI environment
858 is now deprecated. The accessor for the PSGI env is now on Catalyst::Request
859 as per applications which were using Catalyst::Engine::PSGI
861 Catalyst::Engine::PSGI is now considered fully deprecated.
863 - The private _dump method in Catalyst::Log is now deprecated. The dumper is
864 not pluggable and which dumper to use should be a user choice. Using
865 an imported Dump() or Dumper() function is less typing than $c->log->_dump
866 and as this method is unused anywhere else in Catalyst, it has been scheduled
867 for removal as a cleanup. Calling this method will now emit a stack trace
868 on first call (but not on subsequent calls).
870 Back compatibility fixes:
871 - Applications still using Catalyst::Engine::PSGI as they rely on
872 $c->request->env - this is now the provided (and recommended) way of
873 accessing the raw PSGI environment.
876 - Spurious warnings have been removed from the test suite
879 - Fix the display of PROJECT FOUNDER and CONTRIBUTORS sections in the
880 documentation. These were erroneously being emitted when the Pod
881 was converted to HTML for search.cpan.org
883 - Fix documentation for the build_psgi_app app method. Previously the
884 documentation advised that it provided the psgi app already wrapped
885 in default middleware. This is not the case - it is the raw app psgi
887 5.90007 - 2011-11-22 20:35:00
890 - Implement a match_captures hook which, if it exists on an action,
891 is called with the $ctx and \@captures and is expected to return
892 true to continue the chain matching and false to stop matching.
893 This can be used to implement action classes or roles which match
894 conditionally (for example only matching captures which are integers).
897 - Lighttpd script name fix is only applied for lighttpd versions
898 < 1.4.23. This should fix non-root installs of lighttpd in versions
900 - Prepare_action is now inside a try {} block, so that requests containing
901 bad unicode can be appropriately trapped by
902 Catalyst::Plugin::Unicode::Encoding
904 5.90006 - 2011-10-25 09:18:00
907 - A new 'run_options' class data method has been added to Catalyst.pm
908 This is used to store all the options passed by scripts, allowing
909 application authors to add custom options to their scripts then
910 get them passed through to the application.
913 - Clarify that if you manually write your own .psgi file, then optional
914 proxy support (via the using_frontend_proxy config value) will not be
915 enabled unless you explicitly apply the default middlewares from
916 Catalyst, or you apply the middleware manually.
919 - Fix issue due to perl internals bugs in 5.8 and 5.10 (not present in
920 other perl versions) require can pass the context inappropriately,
921 meaning that some methods of loading classes can fail due to void
922 context being passed through to make_immutable, causing it to not return
924 This bug caused loading Catalyst::Script::XXX to fail and is fixed
925 both by bumping the Class::Load dependency, and also adding an explicit
926 '1;' to the end of the classes, avoiding the context issue.
928 - Fix using_frontend_proxy support in mod_perl by using the psgi wrapped
929 in default middleware in mod_perl context, rather than the raw psgi.
931 5.90005 - 2011-10-22 13:35:00
935 - $c->uri_for_action can now take an array of CaptureArgs and Args
936 If you have an action which has both, then you can now say:
937 $c->uri_for_action('/myaction', [@captures, @args]);
938 whereas before you had to say:
939 $c->uri_for_action('/myaction', [@captures], @args);
940 The previous form is still supported, however in many cases it is
941 easier for the application code to not have to differentiate between
944 - Catalyst::ScriptRunner has been enhanced so that it will now
945 load and apply traits, making it easier to customise.
946 - MyApp::TraitFor::Script (if it exists) will be applied to all
947 scripts in the application.
948 - MyApp::TraitFor::Script::XXXX will be applied to the relevant script
949 (for example MyApp::TraitFor::Script::Server will be applied to
950 MyApp::Script::Server if it exists, or Catalyst::Script::Server
955 - Document how to get the vhost of the request in $c->req->hostname
957 - Remove documentation showing Global / Regex / Private actions
958 as whilst these still exist (and work), they are not recommended.
959 - Remove references to the -Engine flag.
960 - Remove references to the deprecated Catalyst->plugin method
961 - Spelling fixed (and tested) throughout the documentation
962 - Note that wrapping the setup method will not work with method modifiers
963 and provide an alternative.
965 5.90004 - 2011-10-11 17:12:00
969 - Don't guess engine class names when setting an engine through
972 5.90003 - 2011-10-05 08:32:00
975 - Make default body responses for 302s W3C compliant. RT#71237
977 - Fix issue where groups of attributes to override controller actions
978 in config would be (incorrectly) overwritten, if the parser for that
979 attribute mangled the contents of the attribute. This was found
980 with Catalyst::Controller::ActionRole, where Does => [ '+Foo' ]
981 would be transformed to Does => [ 'Foo' ] and written back to config,
982 whereas Does => '+Foo' would not be changed in config. RT#65463
986 - Set a matching Content-type for the redirect if Catalyst sets the
987 body. This is for compatibility with a WatchGuard Firewall.
989 Backward compatibility fixes:
991 - Restore (an almost empty) Catalyst::Engine::HTTP to the dist for old
992 scripts which explicitly require Catalyst::Engine::HTTP
996 - Document Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication fails tests unless
997 you use the latest version with Catalyst 5.9
999 - Clarify that prepare is called as a class method
1001 - Clarify use of uri_for further. RT#57011
1003 5.90002 - 2011-08-22 21:44:00
1004 Backward compatibility fixes:
1006 - Deploying via mod_perl in some cases is fixed by making
1007 Catalyst::EngineLoader detect mod_perl in more generic
1009 https://github.com/miyagawa/Plack/issues/239
1011 Documentation fixes:
1013 - Fix incorrect example in Catalyst::PSGI.
1014 - Add note that if you are using the PSGI engine, then $c->req->env
1015 needs to become $c->engine->env when you upgrade.
1017 5.90001 - 2011-08-15 22:42
1019 Realise that we accidentally chopped a digit off the versioning scheme
1020 without anyone noticing, which is a bad thing.
1022 Feel like a fool. Well done t0m.
1024 Cut another release.
1026 5.9000 - 2011-08-15 22:18
1028 See Catalyst::Delta for the major changes in this release.
1030 Changelog since the last TRIAL release:
1032 Backward compatibility fixes:
1034 - Fix calling MyApp->engine_class to set the engine class manually.
1036 - Re-add a $res->headers->{status} field to Catalyst::Test responses.
1037 This _should_ be accessed with $c->res->code instead, but is here
1038 for backward compatibility.
1042 - Documentation which was in the now removed Catalyst::Engine::* classes
1043 has been moved to Catalyst::Manual::Deployment
1047 - nginx specific behaviour is removed as it is not needed with any
1048 web server configuration I can come up with (recommended config is
1049 documented in Catalyst::Manual::Deployment::nginx::FastCGI)
1051 5.89003 2011-07-28 20:11:50 (TRIAL release)
1053 Backward compatibility fixes:
1055 - Application scripts which have not been upgraded to newer
1056 Catalyst::Script::XXX style scripts have been fixed
1060 - mod_perl handler fixed to work with application classes which have manually
1061 been made immutable.
1063 - Scripts now force the Plack engine choice manually, rather than relying
1064 on auto-detection, as the automatic mechanism gets it wrong if (for
1065 example) Coro is loaded.
1067 - Server script option for --fork --keepalive are now handled by loading
1068 the Starman server, rather than silently ignored.
1070 - Server script options for --background and --pid are now fixed by
1071 using MooseX::Deamonize
1073 - Plack middlewares to deal with issues in Lighttpd and IIS6 are now
1074 automatically applied to applications and deployments which need them
1075 (when there is not a user written .psgi script available).
1076 This fixes compatibility with previous stable releases for applications
1077 deployed in these environments.
1081 - Catalyst::Test's remote_request method not uses Plack::Test to perform
1085 - Added a Catalyst::PSGI manual page with information about writing a .psgi
1086 file for your application.
1088 - Catalyst::Upgrading has been improved, and the status of old Catalyst
1092 - Catalyst::Test's local_request function is now deprecated. You should just
1093 use the normal request function against a local server instead.
1095 5.80033 2011-07-24 16:09:00
1098 - Fix Catalyst::Request so that the hostname accessor is not incorrectly
1099 populated with 'localhost' if a reverse DNS lookup fails.
1101 - Fix Path actions debug screen to display number of arguments
1103 - Fix a regression that prevented configuring attributes for all actions using
1104 ->config(actions => { '*' => \%attrs }) from working
1106 - Append $\ in Catalyst::Response->print to more closely match
1107 IO::Handle's behaviour.
1109 - Fixed situation where a detach($action) from a forward within auto
1110 was not breaking out correctly
1112 - Fix the disable_component_resolution_regex_fallback config setting
1113 to also work in the $c->component method.
1115 - Handle users setting cookies with an undef value by not trying to
1116 output that cookie (rather than trying to do so and causing an exception
1117 as previously happened). A warning is logged if this occurs in debug
1119 - Update tests to ignore $ENV{CATALYST_HOME} where required
1121 - Change repository metadata to point at git.
1123 - Clean namespaces in Catalyst::Request::Upload
1125 - Catalyst::Test: Fixes to action_ok, action_redirect and action_notfound
1126 test functions to be better documented, and have better default test
1129 - Update tests to ignore CATALYST_HOME env var.
1131 5.89002 2011-03-02 11:30:00 (TRIAL release)
1134 - Fix a couple of test failures caused by optional dependencies such as FCGI
1135 not being installed.
1138 - Simplified the API for getting a PSGI application code reference for a
1139 Catalyst application for use in, for example, .psgi files. See
1140 Catalyst::Upgrading for details.
1142 5.89001 2011-03-01 15:27:00 (TRIAL release)
1145 - Fixed command-line argument passing in Catalyst::Script::FastCGI.
1147 - Fixed Catalyst::Engine::Stomp compatibility. Applications using
1148 Catalyst::Engine::Stomp are believed to continue working without
1149 any changes with the new Catalyst major version.
1151 - Fixed issues auto-loading engine with older scripts.
1154 - Catalyst::Engine::Wx is officially unsupported and BROKEN. If you
1155 are using this engine then please get in touch with us and we'll
1156 be happy to help with the changes it needs to be compatible with
1157 the new major version of Catalyst.
1160 - The section of Catalyst::Upgrading describing how to upgrade to version 5.90
1161 of Catalyst has been much improved.
1163 5.80032 2011-02-23 01:10:00
1166 - Fix compatibility issue with code which was testing the value of
1167 $c->res->body multiple times. Previously this would cause the value
1168 to be built, and ergo cause the $c->res->has_body predicate to start
1170 Having a response body is indicated by $c->res->body being defined.
1172 - Fix bug with calling $upload->slurp multiple times in one request
1173 not working as expected as the file handle wasn't returned to
1174 the zero position. (Adam Sjøgren)
1176 - Fix some weird perl 5.8 situations where $c can get squashed unexpectedly
1177 in Catalyst::execute
1179 - Fix chained dispatch where chains were being compared for length (number
1180 of private parts in the chain) vs where they are being compared for
1181 PathPart length (i.e. number of non-capturing URI elements in your path).
1183 This bug meant that sometimes multiple Args or CaptureArgs (e.g. /*/*)
1184 type paths would be preferred to those with fixed path elements
1188 - Add MYAPP_RESTARTER and CATALYST_RESTARTER environment variables to
1189 allow the restarter class to be chosen per application or generally.
1191 This feature was added to enable GUI restarters (such as the soon to
1192 be released CatalystX::Restarter::GTK to be enabled more easily by
1193 developers without changing their application code.
1195 5.80031 2011-01-31 08:13:02
1198 - Update dependency on MooseX::Role::WithOverloading to ensure that
1199 a version which can deal with / depends on a new Package::Stash
1200 is installed. (As if some other dependency is pulled in during upgrading
1201 which results in new Package::Stash, then it can leave you with a broken
1202 version of MooseX::Role::WithOverloading.
1204 - Fix undef warning in Catalyst::Engine::FastCGI when writing an empty
1205 body (e.g. doing a redirect)
1207 5.89000 2011-01-24 09:28:45 (TRIAL release)
1209 This is a development release from psgi branch of Catalyst-Runtime.
1213 - All of the Catalyst::Engine::* namespace is now gone. Instead we only have
1214 one Catalyst::Engine class speaking the PSGI protocol natively. Everything
1215 the various Catalyst::Engine:: classes did before is now supposed to happen
1216 through PSGI handlers such as Plack::Handler::FCGI,
1217 Plack::Handler::HTTP::Server::PSGI, Plack::Handler::Apache2, and so
1218 on. However, deployment can still work the same as it did before. The
1219 catalyst scripts still exist and continue to work.
1221 If you find anything that either doesn't work anymore as it did before or
1222 anything that could be done before with the various Catalyst::Engine::
1223 classes, but can't be done anymore with the single PSGI Catalyst::Engine
1224 class, please tell us *now*.
1226 5.80030 2011-01-04 13:13:02
1229 - Add a --proc_title option to the FCGI script to set the process
1231 - Allow the response body to be set to `undef' explicitly to indicate the
1232 absence of a body. It can be used to indicate that no body should be sent at
1233 all and processing of views should be skipped. This is especially useful for
1234 things like X-Sendfile, which now no longer require providing fake response
1235 bodies to suppress view processing. In order for this to work, you will also
1236 have upgrade Catalyst::Action::RenderView to at least version 0.15.
1239 - Deal correctly with GLOB file handles in the response body (setting
1240 the Content-Length header appropriately)
1241 - Chained dispatch has been fixed to always prefer paths
1242 with the minimum number of captures (rather than the
1243 maximum number of actions). This means that (for example)
1244 a URI path /foo/* made out of 2 actions will take preference
1245 to a URI path /*/* made out of 3 actions. Please check your applications
1246 if you are using chained action and please write new test to report
1248 - Stop relying on bugs in the pure-perl version of Package::Stash. New
1249 versions of Package::Stash load Package::Stash::XS if
1250 available. Package::Stash::XS fixes some of the bugs of the pure-perl
1251 version, exposing our faulty assumption and breaking things. We now work
1252 with both old and new versions of Package::Stash, both with and without
1253 Package::Stash::XS being installed. Older versions of Catalyst-Runtime also
1254 work with both old and new versions of Package::Stash, but only if
1255 Package::Stash::XS is *not* installed.
1258 - Clarify that when forwarding or detaching, the end action associated
1259 with the original dispatched action will be run afterwards (fallen)
1261 5.80029 2010-10-03 16:39:00
1264 - Add a warning when $c->view is called and cannot locate a default_view
1265 or current_view. This clarifies the logging when ::RenderView gets
1269 - Deal warning in with Moose >= 1.15 if you add a method called 'meta' to a
1270 class which already has one by using _add_meta_method.
1272 5.80028 2010-09-28 20:49:00
1275 - use Class::MOP in Catalyst::Utils.
1277 - Do not keep a reference to a closed over context in ctx_request, allowing
1278 the caller to dispose of the request context at their leisure.
1280 - Changes to be compatible with bleadperl
1282 5.80027 2010-09-01 22:14:00
1285 - Fix an issue with newly added test cases which depended on Catalyst::Action::RenderView
1287 5.80026 2010-09-01 15:14:00
1290 - Fix so that CATALYST_EXCEPTION_CLASS in MyApp is always respected by
1291 not loading Catalyst::Exception in Utils.pm BEGIN, because some Scripts::*
1292 load Utils before MyApp.pm
1294 - Fix warnings with new Moose versions about "excludes" during role
1297 - Fix warning from MooseX::Getopt regarding duplicate "help" aliases.
1299 - parse_on_demand fixed when used in conjunction with debug mode.
1300 A regression was introduced in 5.80022 which would cause the body
1301 to always be parsed for logging at the end of the request when in
1302 debug mode. This has been fixed so that if the body has not been parsed
1303 by the time the request is logged, then the body is omitted.
1305 - Fix show_internal_actions config setting producing warnings in debug
1308 - Make Catalyst::Test::local_request() set the response base from base href
1309 in the returned document so that links can be resolved correctly by
1310 Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst
1313 - moved component name sort that happens in setup_components to
1314 locate_components to allow methods to wrap around locate_components
1319 - Advertise Catalyst::Plugin::SmartURI
1322 5.80025 2010-07-29 01:50:00
1325 - An 'action_class' method has been added to Catalyst::Controller to
1326 allow controller base classes, roles or traits
1327 (e.g. Catalyst::Controller::ActionRole) to more easily override
1328 the default action creation.
1331 - Fix the --mech and --mechanize options to the myapp_create.pl script
1332 to operate correctly by fixing the options passed down into the script.
1333 - Fix controllers with no method attributes (where the action definitions
1334 are entirely contained in config). RT#58057
1335 - Fix running as a CGI under IIS at non-root locations.
1336 - Fix warning about "excludes" during role application
1337 - Fix warning from MooseX::Getopt regarding duplicate "help" aliases
1340 - Fix missing - in the docs when describing the --mechanize option at one
1342 - Explained the common practice how to access the component's config
1344 - Fixed typo in Catalyst/Script/Server.pm (RT #58474)
1346 5.80024 2010-05-15 11:55:44
1349 - Revert the path resolution behaviour to how it used to work before
1350 Catalyst 5.80014_02, so that application paths are (by default)
1351 resolved from $ENV{PATH_INFO} and $ENV{SCRIPT_NAME}. This fixes backward
1352 compatibility breakage seen by a number of people since that release
1353 with mod_rewrite and SSI.
1356 - Add a use_request_uri_for_path config setting to optionally
1357 use the (more correct) $ENV{REQUEST_URI} path resolution behaviour.
1360 - Clarify the documentation for the Catalyst::Stats interface.
1361 - Copious documentation about the use_request_uri_for_path feature
1362 and the implications of setting this to true/false in
1363 Catalyst::Engine::CGI
1365 5.80023 2010-05-07 23:50:27
1368 - Ensure to always cleanup temporary uploaded files in all cases, even
1369 when exceptions occur during request processing, using HTTP::Body's
1370 ->cleanup feature. (RT#41442)
1371 - Ensure that Catalyst::Engine::HTTP's options hash is defined before
1372 dereferencing it. (RT#49267)
1373 - Fix regex special characters in REDIRECT_URL variable breaking
1374 the request base. (2nd part of RT#24951)
1375 - Fix not stripping backslashes in DispatchType::Regex::uri_for_action
1378 - Setting __PACKAGE__->config(enable_catalyst_header => 1); in your MyApp.pm
1379 now enables the X-Catalyst header being printed when not in debug mode.
1380 - Require CGI::Simple::Cookie version 1.109 to ensure support for the
1382 - Allow the myapp_test.pl script to be given a list of paths which it
1383 will retrieve all of. (RT#53653)
1384 - Allow parameterized roles to be applied as plugins.
1385 - Allow requiring minimum versions of plugins when loading them.
1388 - The Catalyst::Test::get method is documented as returning the raw
1389 response bytes without any character decoding (RT#53678)
1392 - Removal of $Catalyst::PRETTY_VERSION. Future releases will always have the
1393 full and unmangled version number, including trailing zeroes, in
1396 5.80022 2010-03-28 19:43:01
1399 - Log an extra line in debug mode with the response status code,
1400 the content type and content length if available.
1402 Refactoring / optimizations:
1403 - Display of the end of hit debug messages has been factored out into
1404 log_headers, log_request, log_request_headers, log_response,
1405 log_response_status_line and log_response_headers methods so that
1406 plugins which customise how much information is shown on the debug
1407 screen as easy to write.
1408 - Make all logging of request and response state get the information from
1409 $c->dump_these so that there is a unified point from which to hook
1410 in parameter filtering (for example).
1411 - $c->model/view/controller have become a lot faster for non-regexp names
1412 by using direct hash lookup instead of looping.
1413 - IP address => hostname mapping for the server is only done once and cached
1414 by Catalyst::Engine::HTTP to somewhat mitigate the problem of people
1415 developing on machines pointed at slow DNS servers.
1418 - DispatchType::Index's uri_for_action only returns for actions registered
1419 with it (prevents 'index :Path' or similar resolving to the wrong URI)
1420 - Make sure to construct Upload objects properly, even if there are
1421 multiple Content-Type headers (Closes RT#55976).
1423 5.80021 2010-03-03 23:02:01
1426 - $c->uri_for will now escape unsafe characters in captures
1427 ($c->request->captures) and correctly encode utf8 characters.
1429 5.80020 2010-02-04 06:51:18
1432 - Allow components to specify additional components to be set up by
1433 overriding the expand_modules method. (Oliver Charles)
1435 5.80019 2010-01-29 01:04:09
1438 - Calls to $c->uri_for with private paths as strings (e.g.
1439 $c->uri_for('controller/action', 'arg1', 'arg2') ) no longer have
1440 / encoded to %2F. This is due to $c->uri_for('static', 'css/foo', $bar)
1441 which should not be encoded.
1442 Calls with an action object (rather than a string), or uri_for action
1443 will still encode / in args and captures to %2F
1445 - The above noted / => %2F encoding in uri_for_action or uri_for with
1446 an action object has been fixed to not just encode the first slash in
1447 any set of args/captures.
1449 - nginx and lighttpd FCGI requests with URI encoded sections as the first
1450 path part have been fixed to operate correctly.
1452 - A source of bogus warnings in Catalyst::Component::BUILDARGS has been
1456 - Improve the documentation about -Home and how Catalyst finds the home path
1458 - Various minor typo fixes.
1461 - Allow passing additional arguments to action constructors.
1463 5.80018 2010-01-12 22:24:20
1466 - Call ->canonical on URI derived from $ENV{REQUEST_URI} to get
1467 paths correctly decoded. This bug was previously hidden by a bug
1468 in HTTP::Request::AsCGI.
1471 - Clarify that uri_for_action works on private paths, with example.
1472 - Clarify documentation about debug
1475 - Saying use Catalyst::Test; (without an application name or () to stop
1476 the importer running is now deprecated and will issue a warning.
1477 You should be saying use Catalyst::Test ();
1479 5.80017 2010-01-10 02:27:29
1482 - Fix docs for ->forward method when passed a class name - this should
1483 be a component name (e.g. View::HTML, not a full class name, like
1487 - --daemon and -d options to Catalyst::Script::FastCGI are fixed.
1488 - Fix the debug dump for applications which use Catalyst::Plugin::Session
1490 - Fix regression in the case where mod_rewrite is being used to rewrite
1491 requests into a path below your application base introduced with the
1492 %2F related fixes in 5.80014_02.
1493 - Do not crash on SIGHUP if Catalyst::Engine::HTTP->run is not passed the
1494 argv key in the options hash.
1495 - Correctly pass the arguments to Catalyst::Script::Server through to
1496 Catalyst::Engine::HTTP->run so that the server can restart itself
1497 with the correct options on SIGHUP.
1498 - Require new MooseX::MethodAttributes to be compatible with Moose
1500 - Require new MooseX::Role::WithOverloading to be compatible with Moose
1504 - Stop suppressing warnings from Class::C3::Adopt::NEXT now that most plugins
1505 have been updated to not use NEXT. If you get warnings then please upgrade
1506 your components or log a bug with the component author if an upgrade is
1507 not available. The Class::C3::Adopt::NEXT documentation contains information
1508 about how to suppress the warnings in your application if you need to.
1510 5.80016 2009-12-11 23:23:33
1514 - Fix slurping a file to work correctly with binary on Win32 in the
1515 encoding test controller.
1517 Bug fixes in the new scripts (for applications which have been upgraded):
1519 - Allow --restartdirectory as an option for the Server script, for
1520 backwards compatibility. (Dave Rolsky)
1521 - The --host option for the server script defaulted to localhost, rather
1522 than listening on all interfaces, which was the previous default. (Dave
1524 - Restore -p option for pid file in the FastCGI server script.
1525 - Fix the script environment variables MYAPP_PORT and MYAPP_RELOAD RT#52604
1526 - Fix aliasing applications under non-root paths with mod_rewrite in
1527 some Apache versions where %ENV{SCRIPT_NAME} is set to the real name of
1528 the script, by using $ENV{REDIRECT_URL} which contains the non-rewritten
1530 - Fix usage display when myapp_create.pl is run with no arguments. RT#52630
1534 - The __MOP__ hash element is suppressed from being dumped fully
1535 (and instead stringified) when dumping the error screen to be
1536 less packed with information of no use.
1540 - Fix Pod nits (RT#52370)
1542 5.80015 2009-12-02 15:13:54
1544 - Fix bug in Catalyst::Engine which would cause a request parsing to end
1545 prematurely in the hypothetical case where calling $engine->read returned
1546 the single character '0'.
1547 - Fix failing tests when combined with new HTTP::Request::AsCGI
1550 - Improved documentation on read and read_chunk methods in Catalyst::Engine.
1551 - Fix reversal of SCRIPT_NAME and PATH_INFO in previously correct nginx
1552 FastCGI documentation introduced in _02.
1554 5.80014_02 2009-12-01 00:55:23
1556 - Fix reporting the wrong Content-Length if the response body is an
1557 upgraded string. Strings mean the same thing whether or not they are
1558 upgraded, may get upgraded even after they are encoded, and will
1559 produce the same output either way, but bytes::length returns too big
1560 values for upgraded strings containing characters >127
1561 - Fix t/live_fork.t with bleadperl (RT#52100)
1562 - Set $ENV{PATH_INFO} from $ENV{REQUEST_URI} combined with
1563 $ENV{SCRIPT_NAME} if possible. This is many web servers always fully
1564 decode PATH_INFO including URI reserved characters. This allows us to
1565 tell foo%2cbar from foo%252cbar, and fixes issues with %2F in paths
1566 being incorrectly decoded, resulting in too many path parts (rather
1567 than 1 path part containing a /, on some web servers (at least nginx).
1569 - Require new HTTP::Request::AsCGI so that it fully decodes $ENV{PATH_INFO}
1570 in non CGI contexts. (RT#50082)
1572 Refactoring / cleanups:
1573 - NoTabs and Pod tests moved to t/author so that they're not run
1574 (and then skipped) normally.
1577 - Fix Pod nits in Catalyst::Response (RT#51818)
1579 5.80014_01 2009-11-22 20:01:23
1582 - Filehandle now forced to binmode in CGI and FastCGI engines. This appears
1583 to correct some UTF-8 issues, but may break people's code which relies
1584 on the old behaviour.
1586 Refactoring / cleanups:
1587 - Plugins which inherit from Catalyst::Controller or Catalyst::Component
1588 are deprecated and now issue warnings.
1590 5.80014 2009-11-21 02:51:14
1593 - Require MooseX::MethodAttributes 0.17. This in turn requires new
1594 MooseX::Types to stop warnings in Moose 0.91, and correctly supports
1595 role combination of roles containing attributed methods.
1596 - Catalyst::Dispatcher::dispatch_types no longer throws deprecated warnings
1597 as there is no recommended alternative.
1598 - Improved the suggested fix warning when component resolution uses regex
1599 fallback for fully qualified component names.
1600 - Catalyst::Test::local_request sets ->request on the response.
1601 - Log flush moved to the end of setup so that roles and plugins which
1602 hook setup_finalize can log things and have them appear in application
1603 startup, rather than with the first hit.
1604 - Require a newer version of LWP to avoid failing tests.
1605 - Stop warnings when actions are forwarded to during dispatch.
1606 - Remove warnings for using Catalyst::Dispatcher->dispatch_types as this is a
1607 valid method to publicly call on the dispatcher.
1608 - Args ($c->request->args) and CaptureArgs ($c->request->captures)
1609 passed to $c->uri_for with an action object ($c->action) will now
1610 correctly round-trip when args or captures contain / as it is now
1611 correctly uri encoded to %2F.
1614 - Document no-args call to $c->uri_for.
1615 - Document all top level application configuration parameters.
1616 - Clarify how to fix actions in your application class (which is
1617 deprecated and causes warnings).
1618 - Pod fixes for ContextClosure.
1619 - Fix documentation for go/visit to reference captures and arguments
1620 in the correct order.
1621 - Update $c->forward and $c->state documentation to address scalar
1623 - Pod fix in Catalyst::Request (RT#51490)
1624 - Pod fixes to refer to ::Controller:: rather than ::C:: as the latter
1625 is deprecated (RT#51489)
1628 - Added disable_component_resolution_regex_fallback config option to
1629 switch off (deprecated) regex fallback for component resolution.
1630 - Added an nginx-specific behavior to the FastCGI engine to allow
1631 proper PATH_INFO and SCRIPT_NAME processing for non-root applications
1632 - Enable Catalyst::Utils::home() to find home within Dist::Zilla built
1634 - Added the Catalyst::Exception::Interface role defining the interface
1635 exception classes need to implement.
1636 - Added Catalyst::Exception::Basic as a basic implementation of
1637 Catalyst::Exception::Interface and made the existing exception classes
1640 Refactoring / cleanups:
1641 - Remove documentation for the case_sensitive setting
1642 - Warning is now emitted at application startup if the case_sensitive
1643 setting is turned on. This setting is not used by anyone, not
1644 believed to be useful and adds unnecessary complexity to controllers
1645 and the dispatcher. If you are using this setting and have good reasons
1646 why it should stay then you need to be shouting, now.
1647 - Writing to $c->req->body now fails as doing this never makes sense.
1649 5.80013 2009-09-17 11:07:04
1652 - Preserve immutable_options when temporarily making a class mutable in
1653 Catalyst::ClassData as this is needed by new Class::MOP.
1654 This could have potentially caused issues when using the deprecated runtime
1655 plugins feature in an application with plugins which define their own new
1657 - Require new Moose version and new versions of various dependencies
1658 to avoid warnings from newest Moose release.
1659 - Fix go / visit expecting captures and arguments in reverse order.
1662 - Rework the $c->go documentation to make it more clear.
1663 - Additional documentation in Catalyst::Upgrading covering more deprecation
1666 Refactoring / cleanups:
1667 - Action methods in the application class are deprecated and applications
1668 using them will now generate a warning at startup.
1669 - The -short option has been removed from catalyst.pl, stopping new
1670 applications from being generated using the ::[MVC]:: naming scheme as
1671 this is deprecated and generates warnings. RT#49771
1673 5.80012 2009-09-09 19:09:09
1676 - Fix t/optional_http-server.t test.
1677 - Fix t/optional_http-server-restart.t test.
1678 - Fix duplicate components being loaded at setup time, each component is
1679 now loaded at most once + tests.
1680 - Fix backward compatibility - hash key configured actions are stored in
1681 is returned to 'actions'.
1682 - Fix get_action_methods returning duplicate methods when a method is both
1683 decorated with method attributes and set as an action in config.
1685 Refactoring / cleanups:
1686 - Reduce minimum supported perl version from 5.8.6 to 5.8.4 as there are
1687 many people still running/testing this version with no known issues.
1690 - Make the optional_http_server.t test an author only test which must be
1691 run by authors to stop it being broken again.
1692 - Fix recursion warnings in the test suites.
1694 5.80011 2009-08-23 13:48:15
1697 - Remove leftovers of the restarter engine. The removed code caused test
1698 failures, which weren't apparent for anyone still having an old version
1701 5.80010 2009-08-21 23:32:15
1704 - Fix and add tests for a regression introduced by 5.80008.
1705 Catalyst::Engine is now able to send out data from filehandles larger
1706 than the default chunksize of 64k again.
1708 5.80009 2009-08-21 22:21:08
1711 - Fix and add tests for generating inner packages inside the COMPONENT
1712 method, and those packages being correctly registered as components.
1713 This fixes Catalyst::Model::DBIC among others.
1715 5.80008 2009-08-21 17:47:30
1718 - Fix replace_constructor warning to actually work if you make your
1719 application class immutable without that option.
1720 - Depend on Module::Pluggable 3.9 to prevent a bug wherein components
1721 in inner packages might not be registered. This especially affected
1723 - Catalyst::Engine::FastCGI - relax the check for versions of Microsoft
1724 IIS. Provides compatibility with Windows 2008 R2 as well as
1725 (hopefully) future versions.
1726 - In tests which depend on the values of environment variables,
1727 localise the environment, then delete only relevant environment
1728 variables (RT#48555)
1729 - Fix issue with Engine::HTTP not sending headers properly in some cases
1731 - Make Catalyst::Engine write at least once when finalizing the response
1732 body from a filehandle, even if the write is empty. This avoids fail
1733 when trying to send out an empty response body from a filehandle.
1734 - Catalyst::Engine::HTTP - Accept a fully qualified absolute URI in the
1735 Request-URI of the Request-Line
1737 Refactoring / cleanups:
1738 - Deleted the Restarter engine and its Watcher code. Use the
1739 new Catalyst::Restarter in a recent Catalyst::Devel instead.
1740 - New unit test for Catalyst::Action 'unit_core_action.t'
1741 - Bump minimum supported perl version from 5.8.1 to 5.8.6 as there are
1742 known issues with 5.8.3.
1743 - Debug output uses dynamic column sizing to create more readable output
1744 when using a larger $ENV{COLUMNS} setting. (groditi)
1747 - Added private_path method for Catalyst::Action
1748 - Allow uri_for($controller_instance) which will produce a URI
1749 for the controller namespace
1750 - Break setup_components into two more parts: locate_components and
1751 expand_component_module (rjbs)
1752 - Allow Components to return anon classed from their COMPONENT method
1753 correctly, and have action registration work on Controllers returned
1754 as such by adding a catalyst_component_name accessor for all components
1755 which returns the component instance's name to be used when building
1757 - Adding X-Forwarded-Port to allow the frontend proxy to dictate the
1758 frontend port (jshirley)
1759 - Added Catalyst::Stats->created accessor for the time at the start of
1763 - Fix POD to refer to ->config(key => $val), rather than
1764 ->config->{key} = $val, as the latter form is deprecated.
1765 - Clearer docs for the 'uri_for' method.
1766 - Fix POD referring to CGI::Cookie. We're using CGI::Simple::Cookie.
1769 5.80007 2009-06-30 23:54:34
1772 - Don't mangle query parameters passed to uri_for
1773 - Tests for this (Byron Young + Amir Sadoughi)
1774 - Inherited controller methods can now be specified in
1776 - Assigning an undef response body no longer produces warnings
1777 - Fix C3 incompatibility bug caused if you use Moose in MyApp.pm and
1778 add Catalyst to the right hand side of this in @ISA.
1779 - Make Catalyst.pm implement the Component::ApplicationAttribute
1780 interface so defining actions in MyApp.pm works again, if the
1781 actions have attributes that cause $self->_application to be used
1785 - Add optional second argument to uri_with which appends to existing
1786 params rather than replacing them. (foo=1 becomes foo=1&foo=2 when
1787 uri_with({ foo => 2 }, { mode => 'append' }) is called on a foo=1
1790 5.80006 2009-06-29 23:37:47
1793 - Revert change to URL encode things passed into $c->uri_for
1794 Args and CaptureArgs as this causes breakage to pre-existing
1796 - Remove use of Test::MockObject as it doesn't install from CPAN
1797 in some environments.
1798 - Remove use of dclone to deep copy configs and replace with
1799 Catalyst::Utils::merge_hashes which has the same effect, of
1800 ensuring child classes don't inherit their parent's config,
1801 except works correctly with closures.
1802 - Add Class::C3::reinitialize into Catalyst::Test to avoid weird
1803 bugs in ctx_request (bokutin in RT#46459)
1804 - Fix issues with _parse_PathPrefix_attr method in Catalyst::Controller
1805 (jasonk in RT#42816)
1806 - Fix bugs with action sorting:
1807 - Path actions sorted so that the most specific wins.
1808 - Action methods named default and index fixed.
1811 - Use ~ as prefix for plugins or action classes which are located in
1812 MyApp::Plugin / MyApp::Action (mo)
1813 - Controller methods without attributes are now considered actions if
1814 they are specified in config->{action(s)} (mo)
1815 - Add Catalyst::Component::ContextClosure as an easy way to create code
1816 references, that close over the context, without creating leaks.
1818 Refactoring / cleanups:
1819 - Clean namespaces in Catalyst::Exception*.
1820 - Turn Catalyst::Exception into an actual class and make the throw
1821 method create instances of it. They can still be used as normal
1822 strings, as before, as they are overloaded to stringify to their
1824 - Add a rethrow method to Catalyst::Exception.
1825 - Add Catalyst::Exception::Detach and ::Go, and refactor detach() and
1826 go() to use them instead of magic, global strings.
1828 - Clean up getting metaclass instance and making app class immutable
1829 again in Catalyst::Test
1831 5.80005 2009-06-06 14:40:00
1834 - Arguments ($c->req->args) in Chained dispatch are now automatically
1835 URL decoded to be consistent with Local/Path dispatch
1838 - Clarify correct techniques for Moose controllers (domm)
1841 - Further change pushing 'env' attribute down into Catalyst::Engine
1842 to make $c->engine->env work in all cases (kmx)
1843 - Also fix $c->engine->env in Catalyst::Test tests (kmx)
1845 - Fix Catalyst failing to start if any plugin changed $_ whilst
1848 - Be stricter about arguments to Args attributes for Chained actions,
1849 so that they blow up on load instead of causing undefined behavior
1852 - Prefer Path actions with a smaller (or set) number of Args (caelum)
1853 Bug reported here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/931653/catalyst-action-that-matches-a-single-file-in-the-root-directory/933181#933181
1857 - Add $c->req->remote_user to disambiguate from $c->req->user (dwc)
1858 - Require MooseX::MethodAttributes 0.12 so that action methods
1859 (with attributes) can be used in / composed from Moose roles.
1860 - Allow the generation of cookies with the HTTPOnly flag set
1861 in Catalyst::Engine (kmx)
1863 5.80004 2009-05-18 17:03:23
1864 - Rename the actions attribute in Catalyst::Controller to
1865 _controller_actions to avoid name clashes with application
1866 controller naming. (random)
1867 - Test for using Moose in components which have a non-Moose base class
1868 Fixed by 349cda in Moose 0.78
1869 - Fix deprecation message for Catalyst::Dispatcher to refer
1870 to the class actually calling the deprecated method. RT#45741
1871 - Clarify limitations of $request->base and $request->secure.
1873 - Add 'use Catalyst' to documentation for a Moose MyApp class as
1875 - Fix so that / (and other special characters) are URL encoded when
1876 passed into $c->uri_for as Args/CaptureArgs
1877 - Fix development server so that $c->engine->env returns the correct
1879 - Require Moose 0.78 to fix metaclass incompatibility issues
1880 - Require MooseX::MethodAttributes 0.10 and use
1881 Moose::Meta::Class->initialize rather than Moose->init_meta to fix
1882 bugs related to having a 'meta' method in your controller
1883 - Fix cases where your application failing to compile could cause perl
1884 to report 'Unknown Error'
1885 - Support adding Moose::Roles to the plugin list. These are applied to
1886 MyApp after plugins have been pushed onto @ISA
1887 - Fix calling $c->req->parameters as the first thing you do when
1888 parse_on_demand is on
1890 5.80003 2009-04-29 16:23:53
1891 - Various POD tweaks. (hdp, dandv)
1892 - Fix formatting error in the regex fallback warning.
1893 - Convert the dispatcher's and restarter engine's BUILD method to
1894 attribute builders to not override the BUILD method from
1895 MooseX::Emulate::Class::Accessor::Fast.
1896 - Fix classes without metaclasses restarting, when not using
1897 B::Hooks::OP::Check::StashChange
1898 - Fix the unattached chain debug table for endpoints with no
1900 - Turn off test aggregation by default. Only aggregate if the
1901 AGGREGATE_TESTS environment variable is set and a recent
1902 Test::Aggregate is available.
1903 - Bump to MooseX::MethodAttributes 0.09, to gain the
1904 get_nearest_methods_with_attributes method allowing methods without
1905 attributes in a subclass to override those with attributes in a
1906 superclass. This fixes CatalystX::CRUD's method of overriding /
1907 disabling functionality from base controllers.
1908 - Bump HTTP::Request::AsCGI dependency to avoid broken version
1909 - Bump Moose dependency to latest version to fix metaclass
1910 incompatibility issues in some cases.
1911 - Additional tests for setup_stats method.
1912 - Fix log levels in Catalyst::Log to be properly additive.
1913 - Fix RT#43375 by sorting results before testing them
1914 - Fixes for uri_for_action when using Catalyst::DispatchType::Regex
1915 + tests from RT#39369 (norbi)
1916 - Partial rewrite and reorganization of the C3 docs in
1917 Catalyst::Upgrading based on feedback from kiffin
1918 - If you make your application class immutable and turn off
1919 constructor inlining, Catalyst will die and tell you pass
1920 the (replace_constructor => 1) argument to
1921 make_immutable. (Dave Rolsky)
1923 5.80002 2009-04-22 01:28:36
1924 - Fix CATALYST_DEBUG and MYAPP_DEBUG environment variables
1925 turning debugging on if defined, rather than if set.
1926 They now force debugging on or off, taking precedence over
1927 configuration in your application.
1929 - pass replace_constructor to the immutable call to ensure
1930 applications get a Moose constructor rather than a C::A one
1931 - Fix issues with restarting the application class due to C3 failures
1933 - Work around issues in Moose with initialization order of multiple
1934 levels of non-Moose classes inheriting from a Moose class
1936 - Add backwards compatibility method for Catalyst::Log->body, which
1937 has been made private
1938 - Fix so that calling $c->req->parameters(undef) does not flatten
1939 the request parameters with undef + test
1940 - Fix so that width of table of unattached actions for debugging
1941 ::DispatchType::Chained varies according to your terminal width
1943 - Fix warning message about linearized @ISA in Catalyst::Component
1945 - Require MX::MethodAttributes 0.06 to avoid issues with saying
1946 use base 'Catalyst::Controller'; use Moose; losing actions
1947 - Fix all of's typos in ::Upgrading and ::Delta (hobbs)
1949 5.80001 2009-04-18 22:18
1950 - Don't inline the constructor for Catalyst::Log to avoid a
1951 warning on recent Moose versions.
1952 - Add delta documentation
1953 - Clean up recursion errors
1954 - Extra cross links in dispatch types POD (Ian Wells)
1955 - Test uri_with clears query params when they are set to undef
1957 - Complain about old Catalyst::Devel versions which generated
1958 ->setup(qw/-Debug... etc. as this is not recommended
1960 5.8000_07 2009-04-12 13:37
1961 - Add the Catalyst::Dispatcher->dispatch_type method (ash)
1962 - Throw an exception rather than loading an app if an action
1963 tries to chain to itself
1965 - Change the $c->visit and $c->go methods to optionally take
1966 CaptureArgs, making them useful to call ActionChains with
1967 - Tests for this (radek)
1968 - Fix _invoke_as_component method to find the proper action instance
1969 for dispatchable actions so that ->visit or ->going to ActionChains
1970 with qw/Class::Name method_name/ works correctly
1971 - Tests for this (radek)
1972 - Added Catalyst::Test::ctx_request to be able to inspect
1973 the context object after a request is made (Jos Boumans)
1974 - debug() POD rewrite (jhannah)
1975 - Change the warning when you have conflicting components to
1977 - Move NEXT use and testing deprecated features out to its own
1978 test application so that the main TestApp isn't polluted with
1980 - Add a warning for the old ::[MVC]:: style naming scheme
1982 - Kill Class::C3::Adopt::NEXT warnings for the Catalyst:: namespace
1983 in production versions
1984 - Tidy up Catalyst::ClassData to ensure that all components get
1985 the correct metaclass
1986 - Make MyApp.pm restartable by unsetting setup_finished in
1987 the restarter process
1988 - Non-naive implementation of making mutable on restart using
1989 B::Hooks::OP::Check::StashChange if installed
1991 - Naive implementation of making all components mutable in the
1992 forked restart watcher process so native Moose apps using
1993 immutable restart correctly.
1995 - Bump Moose dependency to 0.70 so that we avoid nasty surprises
1996 with is_class_loaded and perl 5.80 when you Moosify MyApp.pm
1997 - Clarify that request arguments aren't unescaped automatically
1998 (Simon Bertrang) (Closes RT#41153)
1999 - Don't require C3 for the MRO test
2000 - Bump MX::Emulate::CAF prereq to support list assignment
2001 - Remove useless column in chained action debug table.
2002 - namespace::clean related cleanups
2003 - Import related cleanups and consistency fixes
2004 - Fix test suite TestApp /dump/env action
2005 - Add $res->code as alias for $res->status
2006 - Make Catalyst::ClassData compatible with the latest Class::MOP::Class
2007 changes. Also depend on the latest Class::MOP.
2008 - Add $c->uri_for_action method.
2009 - Don't stringify the meta method. Use its name instead.
2010 - Use MooseX::MethodAttributes::Inheritable to contain action
2011 attributes. This means that attributes are now represented in the MOP,
2012 allowing method modifiers on actions to work as expected.
2013 - Provide a reasonable API in Catalyst::Controller for working with
2014 and registering actions, allowing a controller sub-class to replace
2015 subroutine attributes for action declarations with an alternate
2017 - Instantiate correct sub-class of Moose::Meta::Class for non-Moose
2018 components where Catalyst forces the creation of a metaclass instance.
2019 This is more correct, and avoids metaclass incompatibility in complex
2022 - Use of deprecated Catalyst::Base now warns.
2023 - Add uri_with tests
2025 5.8000_06 2009-02-04 21:00
2026 - Disallow writing to config after setup
2027 - Disallow calling setup more than once
2028 - Documentation fix regarding overloading of Engine and Dispatcher
2030 - Several documentation typo fixes
2031 - Stop Makefile.PL from warning about versions that fixed a conflict
2032 - Improved upgrading documentation
2033 - Seed the RNG in each FastCGI child process (Andrew Rodland)
2034 - Properly report dynamic bind port for the development server
2036 - Use the way documented by IO::Socket::INET to get the error message
2037 after trying to create a listening socket (Closes RT#41828)
2038 - Don't ignore SIGCHLD while handling requests with the dev server
2041 5.8000_05 2008-29-01 00:00
2042 - Text::SimpleTable's go as wide as $ENV{COLUMNS} (jhannah)
2043 Patch written by Oleg Kostyuk <cub.uanic@gmail.com>
2044 - Improve docs for visit (mateu)
2045 - Add docs for finalize hook (dhoss)
2046 - Added ru/ua translations to error page
2047 - Improve the clarity and verbosity of the warning when component
2048 resolution uses regex fallback. (jhannah)
2049 - Handle leading CRLF in HTTP requests sometimes sent by IE6 in
2050 keep-alive requests.
2051 - Fixes for FastCGI with IIS 6.0 (janus)
2052 - Passing request method exported by Catalyst::Test an extra
2053 parameter used to be ignored, but started breaking if the parameter
2054 was not a hash in 5.8000_04. Extra parameter is now ignored if
2056 - Fix request arguments getting corrupted if you override the
2057 dispatcher and call an action which detaches (for
2058 Catalyst::Plugin::Authorization::ACL)
2059 - Fix calling use Catalyst::Test 'MyApp' 'foo' which used to work,
2060 but stopped as the 2nd parameter can be an options hash now
2061 - Bump Moose dependency to fix make_immutable bug
2062 - Use compile time extends in Catalyst::Controller
2063 - Make Catalyst::Request::uploads attribute non-lazy, to fix
2064 test for Catalyst-Engine-Apache
2065 - Bump version of MooseX::Emulate::Class::Accessor::Fast
2066 - Stop using MooseX::Adopt::Class::Accessor::Fast by default, to stop
2067 breaking other packages which use Class::Accessor::Fast
2068 - Remove unused action_container_class attribute from
2069 Catalyst::Dispatcher
2070 - Replace {_body} instance access with calls to _body accessors
2071 - Add backwards compatibility alias methods for private attributes on
2072 Catalyst::Dispatcher which used to be public. Needed by
2073 Catalyst::Plugin::Server and Catalyst::Plugin::Authorization::ACL
2074 - Fix return value of $c->req->body, which delegates to the body
2075 method on the requests HTTP::Body instance
2077 - Fix calling $c->req->body from inside an overridden prepare_action
2078 method in a plugin, as used by Catalyst::Plugin::Server
2080 - Fix assignment to Catalyst::Dispatcher's preload_dispatch_types and
2081 postload_dispatch_types attributes - assigning a list should later
2082 return a listref. Fixes Catalyst::Plugin::Server.
2084 - Change streaming test to serve itself rather than 01use.t, making
2085 test sync for engines easier
2086 - Refactor capturing of $app from Catalyst::Controller into
2087 Catalyst::Component::ApplicationAttribute for easier reuse in other
2089 - Make the test suites YAML dependency optional
2090 - Make debug output show class name for the engine and dispatcher
2091 rather than the stringified ref.
2092 - Make MyApp immutable at the end of the scope after the setup
2093 method is called, fixing issues with plugins which have their
2094 own new methods by inlining a constructor on MyApp
2095 - Test for this and method modifiers in MyApp
2096 - Fix bug causing Catalyst::Request::Upload's basename method
2098 - Test for this (Carl Franks)
2099 - Fix loading of classes which do not define any symbols to not
2100 die, as it didn't in 5.70
2102 - Bump MooseX::Emulate::Class::Accessor::Fast dependency
2103 to force new version which fixes a lot of plugins
2104 - Make log levels additive, and add documentation and tests
2105 for the setup_log method, which previously had none.
2106 Sewn together by from two patches provided by David E. Wheeler
2107 - Switch an around 'new' in Catalyst::Controller to a BUILDARGS
2108 method as it's much neater and more obvious what is going on
2109 - Add a clearer method on request and response _context
2110 attributes, and use if from ::Engine rather than deleting
2111 the key from the instance hash
2112 - Use handles on tree attribute of Catalyst::Stats to replace
2113 trivial delegation methods
2114 - Change the following direct hash accesses into attributes:
2115 Catalyst::Engine: _prepared_write
2116 Catalyst::Engine::CGI: _header_buf
2117 Catalyst::Engine::HTTP: options, _keepalive, _write_error
2118 Catalyst::Request: _path
2119 Catalyst::Stats: tree
2120 - Fix issues in Catalyst::Controller::WrapCGI
2121 and any other components which import (or define) their
2122 own meta method by always explicitly calling
2123 Class::MOP::Object->meta inside Catalyst
2125 - Add test case for the bug which is causing the
2126 Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication tests to fail
2127 - Fix a bug in uri_for which could cause it to generate paths
2128 with multiple slashes in them.
2130 - Fix SKIP block name in t/optional_http-server-restart.t,
2131 stopping 'Label not found for "last SKIP"' error from
2133 - Workaround max_redirect 0 bug in LWP
2134 - Move live_engine_response_print into aggregate
2135 - Fix dependency bug, s/parent/base/ in new test
2136 - Fix optional tests to run the live tests in the aggregate
2138 - Fix Catalyst->go error in remote tests
2139 - Fix upload test to work with remote servers, don't check for
2141 - Fix engine_request_uri tests to work on remote server with
2144 5.8000_04 2008-12-05 12:15:00
2145 - Silence Class::C3::Adopt::NEXT warnings in the test suite
2146 - Fix loads of 'used once, possible typo' warnings
2147 - Additional tests to ensure upload temp files are deleted
2148 - Remove use of NEXT from the test suite, except for one case
2149 which tests if Class::C3::Adopt::NEXT is working
2150 - Use a predicate to avoid recursion in cases where the uri
2151 method is overridden by a plugin, and calls the base method,
2152 for example Catalyst::Plugin::SmartURI
2153 - Test for this (caelum)
2154 - Compose the MooseX::Emulate::Class::Accessor::Fast role to
2155 Catalyst::Action, Catalyst::Request, and all other modules which
2156 inherit from Class::Accessor::Fast in 5.70.
2158 - Catalyst::Controller::HTML::FormFu (zamolxes)
2159 - Catalyst::Request::REST
2161 - Make hostname resolution lazy (Marc Mims)
2162 - Support mocking virtualhosts in test suite (Jason Gottshall)
2165 - Use Class::C3::Adopt::NEXT
2166 - Ignore C3 warnings on 5.10 when testing ensure_class_loaded
2167 - Add TODO test for chained bug (gbjk)
2168 - Fix list address in documentation (zarquon)
2169 - Fix ACCEPT_CONTEXT on MyApp, called as a class method
2171 - Bump MooseX::Emulate::Class::Accessor::Fast version requirement to
2172 get more back compatibility
2173 - Improve documentation for $req->captures (caelum)
2174 - Fix a bug in Catalyst::Stats, stopping garbage being inserted into
2175 the stats if a user calls begin => but no end => (jhannah)
2176 - Test for this (jhannah)
2177 - Trim lines sooner in stats to avoid ugly Text::SimpleTable wrapping
2179 - Change Catalyst::ClassData to tweak the symbol table inline for
2180 performance after profiling
2181 - Fix POD typo in finalize_error (jhannah)
2182 - Add tests to ensure that we delete the temp files created by
2183 HTTP::Body's OctetStream parser
2185 5.8000_03 2008-10-14 14:13:00
2186 - Fix forwarding to Catalyst::Action objects.
2187 - Fix links to the mailing lists (RT #39754 and Florian Ragwitz).
2188 - Use Class::MOP instead of Class::Inspector.
2189 - Change Catalyst::Test to use Sub::Exporter.
2190 - Fixed typo in Engine::HTTP::Restarter::Watcher causing -r to complain.
2192 5.8000_02 2008-10-14 07:59:00
2195 5.8000_01 2008-10-13 22:52:00
2197 - Added test for action stringify
2198 - Added test for component instances getting $self->{value} from config.
2199 - Add Catalyst::Response->print() method
2200 - Optionally aggregate tests using Test::Aggregate.
2201 - Additional docs for uri_for to mention how to use $c->action and
2202 $c->req->captures (jhannah)
2203 - List unattached chained actions in Debug mode.
2204 - Pod formatting fix for Engine::FastCGI (Oleg Kostyuk).
2205 - Add visit, a returning ->go
2208 - Workaround change in LWP that broke a cookie test (RT #40037)
2209 - Back out go() since that feature's been pushed to 5.80
2210 - Fix some Win32 test failures
2211 - Add pt translation of error message (wreis)
2212 - Make :Chained('../action') work
2214 - Chained doc improvements (rev 8326-8328)
2216 5.7099_03 2008-07-20 10:10:00
2217 - Fix regressions for regexp fallback in model(), view() and controller()
2218 - Added the supplied argument to the regexp fallback warning for easier
2220 - Ensure ACCEPT_CONTEXT is called for results from component()
2222 5.7099_02 2008-07-16 19:10:00
2223 - Added PathPrefix attribute
2224 - Removed Catalyst::Build; we've long since moved to Module::Install
2225 - Updated Catalyst::Test docs to mention the use of HTTP::Request
2228 5.7099_01 2008-06-25 22:36:00
2229 - Refactored component resolution (component(), models(), model(), et al). We now
2230 throw warnings for two reasons:
2231 1) model() or view() was called with no arguments, and two results are returned
2232 -- set default_(model|view), current_(model|view) or current_(model|view)_instance
2234 2) you call a component resolution method with a string, and it resorts to a regexp
2235 fallback wherein a result is returned -- if you really want to search, call the
2236 method with a regex as the argument
2237 - remove 0-length query string components so warnings aren't thrown (RT #36428)
2238 - Update HTTP::Body dep so that the uploadtmp config value will work (RT #22540)
2239 - Fix for LocalRegex when used in the Root controller
2240 - Get some of the optional_* tests working from dirs with spaces (RT #26455)
2241 - Fix Catalyst::Utils::home() when application .pm is in the current dir (RT #34437)
2242 - Added the ability to remove parameters in req->uri_with() by passing in
2243 an undef value (RT #34782)
2244 - Added $c->go, to do an internal redispatch to another action, while retaining the
2245 contents of the stash
2247 5.7014 2008-05-25 15:26:00
2248 - Addition of .conf in restart regex in Catalyst::Engine::HTTP::Restarter::Watcher
2249 - Fix regression for relative uri_for arguments after a forward()
2250 introduced in 5.7013 (Peter Karman)
2251 - Fix regression for "sub foo : Path {}" in the root controller which
2252 was introduced when attempting to allow "0" as a Path.
2254 5.7013 2008-05-16 18:20:00
2255 - Provide backwards compatibility methods in Catalyst::Stats
2256 - Fix subdirs for scripts that run in subdirs more than one level deep.
2257 - Added test and updated docs for handling the Authorization header
2258 under mod_fastcgi/mod_cgi.
2259 - Fixed bug in HTTP engine where the connection was not closed properly if the
2260 client disconnected before sending any headers. (Ton Voon)
2261 - POD fix, IO::FileHandle => IO::Handle (RT #35690)
2262 - Fix grammar on welcome page (RT #33236)
2263 - Fix for Path('0') handling (RT #29334)
2264 - Workaround for Win32 and c3_mro.t (RT #26452, tested by Kenichi Ishigaki)
2265 - Fix for encoding query parameters
2266 - Fix Chained multiple test
2268 5.7012 2007-12-16 23:44:00
2269 - Fix uri_for()'s and uri_with()'s handling of multibyte chars
2271 - Fix __PACKAGE__->config->{foo} = 'bar' case with subclassing
2272 - Add Catalyst::Stats (Jon Schutz)
2273 - Fixed a bug where ?q=bar=baz is decoded as q=>'bar', not 'bar=baz'.
2274 (Tatsuhiko Miyagawa, Masahiro Nagano)
2275 - Fixed a bug where -rr (restart regex) command line option could cause
2276 shell errors. (Aristotle Pagaltzis, Chisel Wright)
2278 5.7011 2007-10-18 20:40:00
2279 - Allow multiple restart directories and added option to follow
2280 symlinks in the HTTP::Restarter engine (Sebastian Willert)
2281 - Fixed t/optional_http-server-restart.t so it actually tests
2282 if the server restarted or notified of an error (Sebastian Willert)
2283 - Return child PID from the HTTP engine when run with the 'background' option.
2285 - Fixed bug in HTTP engine where writes could fail with
2286 'Resource temporarily unavailable'.
2287 - Fixed bug where %2b in query parameter is doubly decoded to ' ', instead of '+'
2288 (RT #30087, Gavin Henry, Tatsuhiko Miyagawa, Oleg Pronin)
2289 - Fixed bug where req->base and req->uri would include a port number when running
2291 - Removed unnecessary sprintf in debug mode that caused warnings on locales where
2292 commas are used for decimal markers.
2293 - Improved error message for case when server picks up editor save
2294 files as module names. (James Mastros)
2296 5.7010 2007-08-22 07:41:00
2297 - Resource forks in 5.7009
2299 5.7009 2007-08-22 00:14:00
2300 - Moved Manual.pod to Manual.pm and clarified status of
2301 Catalyst-Manual dist
2302 - Doc patches to Catalyst::Controller
2303 - remove ignore_loaded from plugin load, commenting why
2304 - document the ignore_loaded feature in Catalyst::Utils
2305 - Add testing of inline plugins.
2307 5.7008 2007-08-13 08:40:00
2308 - Added $c->request->query_keywords for getting the keywords
2309 (a query string with no parameters).
2310 - Add undef warning for uri_for.
2311 - Fix bug where a nested component would be setup twice.
2312 - Make ensure_class_loaded behave better with malformed class name.
2313 - Make _register_plugin use ensure_class_loaded.
2314 - Remove 'Argument "??" isn't numeric in sprintf' warning.
2316 - Fixed a bug where Content-Length could be set to 0 if a filehandle
2317 object in $c->response->body did not report a size.
2318 - Fixed issue where development server running in fork mode did not
2319 properly exit after a write error.
2320 (http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27135)
2321 - Remove warning for captures that are undef.
2322 - Fixed $c->read and parse_on_demand mode.
2323 - Fixed a bug with the HTTP engine where very large response bodies
2324 would not be sent properly.
2326 5.7007 2007-03-13 14:18:00
2327 - Many performance improvements by not using URI.pm:
2328 * $c->uri_for (approx. 8x faster)
2329 * $c->engine->prepare_path (approx. 27x faster)
2330 * $c->engine->prepare_query_parameters (approx. 5x faster)
2331 - Updated HTTP::Body dependency to 0.9 which fixes the following issues:
2332 * Handle when IE sometimes sends an extra CRLF after the POST body.
2333 * Empty fields in multipart/form-data POSTs are no longer ignored.
2334 * Uploaded files with the name "0" are no longer ignored.
2335 - Sending SIGHUP to the dev server will now cause it to restart.
2336 - Allow "0" for a path in uri_for.
2337 - Performance and stability improvements to the built-in HTTP server.
2338 - Don't ignore file uploads if form contains a text field with the same name.
2340 - Support restart_delay of 0 (for use in the POE engine).
2341 - Skip body processing if we don't have a Content-Length header.
2342 Results in about a 9% performance increase when handling GET/HEAD
2344 - Add a default body to redirect responses.
2345 - MyApp->model/view now looks at MyApp->config->{default_view/model}
2348 5.7006 2006-11-15 14.18
2350 - Fix Slurp dependency
2351 - Updated HTTP::Body dependency to 0.6, 0.5 can break on large POST
2353 - Skip utf8 fix for undef values in uri_with() and uri_for()
2355 5.7005 2006-11-07 19:37:35
2356 - Fixed lighttpd tests to be properly skipped.
2357 - Moved IE workarounds to exist only in the HTTP engine.
2358 - Added installation instructions (from Catalyst-Manual dist)
2360 5.7004 2006-11-06 20:48:35
2361 - Fix Engine::HTTP crash when using IE. (Jesper Krogh, Peter Edwards)
2362 - clean up Catalyst::Utils to handle some edge cases
2363 - Properly work around lighttpd PATH_INFO vs. SCRIPT_NAME bug
2365 - add _application accessor to Catalyst::Base
2366 - Support current_view
2367 - Allow use of Catalyst::Test without app name (Ton Voon, Altinity)
2368 - Catalyst::Manual moved to its own package
2369 - Add option to FastCGI engine to send errors to stdout, not the web server
2370 - Use Module::Install's auto_install to install prerequisite modules
2371 - various documentation fixes and improvements
2373 5.7003 2006-09-21 16:29:45
2374 - Additions and updates to tutorial
2376 5.7002 2006-09-17 19:35:32
2377 - unescape captures to match args
2378 - fix for relative Chained under namespace '' (root)
2379 - fix for hashrefs in action attributes from config
2380 - fix for Chained to require correct number of CaptureArgs
2382 5.7001 2006-07-19 23:46:54
2383 - fix for component loading
2384 - uri_for and uri_with now behave as they used to with non-
2387 5.7000 2006-07-07 08:08:08
2388 - fix FCGI.pm warning message with FastCGI engine
2389 - bumped inc::Module::Install to 0.63 in Makefile.PL
2390 - fixes to uri_for_action for DispatchType::Chained
2392 - Minor code cleanups
2393 - Changed catalyst.pl to depend on Catalyst::Devel
2395 5.70_03 2006-06-28 16:42:00
2396 - fixup to registered plugins debug at app startup
2397 - refactored Catalyst::Utils::home
2399 5.70_02 2006-06-27 11:51:00
2402 5.70_01 2006-06-26 10:49:00
2404 - fixed a Catalyst::Base bug causing duplicate action registrations
2405 - modified DispatchTypes to support multiple registrations
2406 - added Catalyst::Runtime module as dist marker
2407 - added Catalyst::ActionChain and Chained DispatchType
2408 - removed retarded registration requirement in dispatcher
2409 - removed Module::Pluggable::Fast hack in favor of
2410 Module::Pluggable::Object
2411 - extended uri_for, added dispatcher->uri_for_action
2412 - added Catalyst::Base->action_for('methodname')
2413 - checked and tested :Args multimethod dispatch
2414 - added ability to set action attributes from controller config
2415 - added merge_config_hashes() as a convenience method
2416 - Swapped out CGI::Cookie in favour of CGI::Simple::Cookie
2417 - Removed test dependencies on Test::NoWarnings, Test::MockObject
2418 - Removed dependency on UNIVERSAL::require
2419 - Split out Catalyst::Helper into a new distribution
2420 - un-bundled the plugins as they are now pre-reqs for Catalyst::Helper
2421 - nuked each() out of core with prejudice (due to lurking buglets)
2422 - Added tests from phaylon for dispatcher precedence
2423 - Use Class::Inspector->loaded($class) instead of $class->can('can')
2424 - Added ActionClass attribute
2425 - Removed Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst from Makefile.PL (circular dep)
2426 - Updated docs for Catalyst::Component
2427 - Separated execute and dispatch on Catalyst::Action
2428 - cleaned up logging and debug output
2429 - significant documentation revisions
2430 - Added warning for setup being called twice
2431 - Fix pod to use DBIC::Schema instead of DBIC model
2432 - Fix ->config failing to copy _config for subclassing
2433 - Updated log format
2434 - Updated debug dump
2436 5.6902 2006-05-04 13:00:00
2437 - Remove tarballs and OSX metadata files.
2439 5.6901 2006-05-03 11.17:00
2440 - Module::Install didn't overwrite META.yml.
2442 5.6900 2006-05-03 11.17:00
2443 - Stupid pause indexer can't count.
2444 - Better fix for Catalyst::Test
2447 5.682 2006-04-27 13:51:00
2448 - Damn OSX attributes again :(
2450 5.681 2006-04-27 08:47:00
2452 - Add basename to core . (Deprecates Catalyst::Plugin::Basename)
2454 5.68 2006-04-26 12:23:00
2455 - ConfigLoader: Updated to version 0.06
2456 - fixed undef warnings in uri_for() and uri_with()
2457 - Fixed Catalyst::Test to report errors on failed Class load
2459 5.678 2006-04-24 12:30:00
2460 - Re-release of 5.67 without OSX metadata files.
2462 5.67 2006-04-23 08:50:00
2463 - Added $c->req->uri_with() helper
2464 - ConfigLoader: Updated to version 0.05
2465 - Fix up Engine to avoid a new 5.8.8 warning
2466 - Added app name with :: support for PAR
2467 - Added $c->models/views/controllers
2468 - Static::Simple: Unescape the URI path before looking for the file.
2469 This fixes issues with files that have spaces.
2470 - Looping and recursion tests plus a fix
2471 - Added lots of API documentation. Refactored main pod.
2472 - Changed default behaviors for $c->model/$c->controller/$c->view
2473 to more sane settings.
2474 - added the clear_errors method - an alias for error(0)
2475 - Added tmpdir option for uploads (woremacx)
2476 - Applied patch from GEOFFR to allow normal filehandles.
2477 - Refactored Dispatcher internals for better readability and speedup
2478 (stress tests run 12% faster)
2479 - Allow $c->error to run as a class method
2481 5.66 2006-03-10 17:48:00
2482 - Added Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst support
2483 - Cleaned generated tests
2484 - Added Root controller concept
2485 - Updated ConfigLoader plugin to version 0.04
2487 5.65 2006-02-21 10:34:00
2488 - Added plugin introspection.
2489 - Support optional hashref as last param for parameters in uri_for.
2490 - Updated tutorial to be more complete.
2491 - Applied args patch from antirice (Fixes Ticket #67)
2493 5.64 2006-02-07 20:29:00
2494 - Fixed bug in FastCGI proc manager mode where pm_post_dispatch
2495 was not run. (Eric Wong)
2496 - Cleaned up generated tests
2497 - Updated YAML support to use ConfigLoader
2498 - Fixed path dispatch to canonicalise correctly
2499 (see http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/ticket/62)
2500 - Added Catalyst::Manual::About
2502 5.63 2006-01-22 00:00:00
2503 - Updated prereq versions
2505 5.62 2006-01-17 16:30:00
2506 - Large update to the tutorial (castaway)
2507 - Added YAML config support
2508 - Added COMPONENT() and ACCEPT_CONTEXT() support
2509 - Action list in debug mode is now displayed as a tree in the
2510 correct execution order.
2511 - Fixed engine detection to allow custom mod_perl engines.
2512 - Static::Simple: Fixed bug in ignore_dirs under win32.
2513 - Display version numbers of loaded plugins. (Curtis Poe)
2514 - Added class and method for caught exception messages.
2515 - Updated PAR support to use "make catalyst_par",
2516 packages are no longer written by Makefile.PL.
2517 - Automatically determine Content-Length when serving a
2519 - Exceptions now return status 500.
2520 - Updated for Module::Install 0.44.
2521 - Fixed additional file installation for multi level app names.
2522 - Added REDIRECT_URL support for applications running behind
2523 a RewriteRule in Apache. (Carl Franks)
2524 - Fixed FastCGI engine under win32. (Carl Franks)
2525 - FastCGI doc updates (Bill Moseley)
2526 - Bugfix for $c->model and friends (defined).
2528 5.61 2005-12-02 00:00:00
2529 - Fixed ExtUtils::AutoInstall Bootstrap Code in Makefile.PL
2531 5.60 2005-12-01 22:15:00
2532 - Fixed Path and index actions in the appclass,
2533 including those that attach to /
2534 - Index is now weighted higher than Path
2535 - Fixed restarter and -d debug switch in server.pl.
2536 - Added a warning if you attempt to retrieve a parameter
2537 using $c->req->params('foo').
2538 - Fixed the Module::Install::Catalyst @ISA bug
2540 5.59 2005-11-30 13:25:00
2541 - Fixed shebang line for generated scripts
2542 - Fixed forward to classes ($c->forward(qw/MyApp foo/))
2543 - Wrap use block in begin to quelch C:C3 warnings
2544 - Removed scrollbar from debug output
2545 - Fixed catalyst_par_core() and catalyst_par_multiarch()
2547 5.58 2005-11-24 10:51:00
2548 - Added ExtUtils::AutoInstall support
2549 - Allow overriding path in Catalyst::Helper.
2550 - Added -makefile to catalyst.pl to generate a new Makefile.PL.
2551 - Restored Catalyst::Build with a deprecation notice.
2552 - Improved PAR support
2553 - Replaced -short with auto-detection
2554 - Fixed prereqs, added File::Copy::Recursive
2555 - Static::Simple changes:
2556 - Made prepare_action play nice with other plugins by not short-
2558 - Added tmpl to the ignored extensions.
2559 - Fixed security problem if req->path contained '..'.
2561 5.57 2005-11-20 22:45:00
2562 - Updated uri_for to accept undef actions
2563 - Switched to Module::Install
2564 - Renamed tests for easier editing
2565 - Reformatted documentation
2566 - Renamed -nonew to -force
2568 - Added keep-alive support and bug fixes to HTTP engine.
2570 - Added daemonize option to FastCGI engine. (Sam Vilain)
2572 5.56 2005-11-16 10:33:00
2573 - Fixed FastCGI engine to not clobber the global %ENV on each
2574 request. (Sam Vilain)
2575 - Updated benchmarking to work with detach
2576 - Fixed dispatcher, so $c->req->action(undef) works again
2577 - Updated Catalyst::Test to use HTTP::Request::AsCGI
2578 - Added -pidfile to external FastCGI server.
2580 5.55 2005-11-15 12:55:00
2581 - Fixed multiple cookie handling
2583 5.54 2005-11-14 22:55:00
2584 - Fixed a Module::Pluggable::Fast related bug
2586 5.53 2005-11-14 15:55:00
2587 - Removed t/04prereq.t that was testing for non-required
2590 5.52 2005-11-14 10:57:00
2591 - Strip '..'s in static urls to fix security issue.
2593 5.51 2005-11-14 00:45:00
2594 - Changed uri_for to use namespace instead of match.
2596 5.50 2005-11-13 20:45:00
2600 5.49_05 2005-11-12 20:45:00
2601 - Large update to the documentation. (David Kamholz)
2602 - Fixed args handling in forward()
2603 - Fixed forwarding to classes
2604 - Fixed catalyst.pl-generated Build.PL Makefile section.
2605 - Fixed relative forwarding
2606 - Fixed forward arrows in debug output
2608 5.49_04 2005-11-09 23:00:00
2609 - Made context, dispatcher, engine, request and response classes
2612 - Fixed dispatcher to ignore unknown attributes.
2613 - Improved format of startup debug log.
2614 - Updated built in server to restart on win32. (Will Hawes)
2615 - Fixed streaming write from a filehandle to stop writing
2616 if the browser is closed.
2617 - Added $c->controller, $c->model and $c->view shortcuts.
2618 - Switched to Text::SimpleTable.
2620 5.49_03 2005-11-03 12:00:00
2621 - Fixed $c->req->{path} for backwards-compatibility.
2622 - Allow debug to be disabled via ENV as well as enabled.
2623 - Added -scripts option to catalyst.pl for script updating
2624 - Changed helpers to default to long types, Controller instead of C
2625 - Added Catalyst::Controller, Catalyst::Model and Catalyst::View
2627 - Added JavaScript to debug screen to show and hide specific dumps
2628 - Added _DISPATCH, _BEGIN, _AUTO, _ACTION and _END actions
2629 - Added multi process external FastCGI support
2630 (see myapp_fastcgi.pl -help) (Sam Vilain)
2631 - Restarter process in HTTP engine now properly exits when the
2632 parent app is shut down.
2633 - Improved performance of restarter loop while watching for
2635 - Restarter will now detect new files added to an app on systems
2636 that change directory mtimes when new files are created.
2637 - Restarter now properly handles modules that are deleted from an
2639 - Fixed memory leak in TestApp.
2641 5.49_02 2005-10-26 12:39:00
2642 - Whole new dispatcher!
2643 - Added index action
2644 - Added path_to method
2645 - Added support for passing an IO::Handle object to $c->res->body.
2647 - Added a new welcome screen.
2648 - Included Catalyst buttons and icons in helper.
2649 - Added Static::Simple plugin to core.
2650 - Added self restarting test server
2651 - Added filename to debug output for uploaded files.
2652 - Fixed forwarding with embedded arguments.
2653 - Fixed handling of escaped query strings.
2654 - Added upload parameters back into $c->req->params.
2655 - Added multiple paths support to dispatcher
2656 - Fixed bug in req->path where changing the path added a trailing
2658 - Removed req->handle and res->handle
2659 - Added prepare_body_chunk method as a hook for upload progress.
2660 - Fixed bug in uri_for method when base has no path.
2661 - Added automated tests for HTTP, CGI, and FastCGI servers.
2663 5.49_01 2005-10-10 10:15:00
2664 - Refactored all internals, should be 99% compatible to previous
2666 - *IMPORTANT* The Apache engines have been moved to a separate package
2667 for this release. Please install Catalyst::Engine::Apache if you
2668 need Apache support.
2670 - Added support for calling forward with arguments in the path, i.e.
2671 $c->forward('/foo/bar/arg1/arg2')
2672 - Made $c->req->uri a URI object, added req->path_info for CGI compat.
2673 Raw query string is available as $c->req->uri->query.
2674 - Made $c->req->base a URI object.
2675 - Parameters with multiple values (?a=1&a=2) now display properly
2676 in the debug output.
2677 - Semi-colon separators in query strings now work properly.
2678 - Expanded documentation of catalyst.pl (Andrew Ford)
2679 - Added support for running as a backend server behind a frontend
2680 proxy so req->base and req->address are set properly.
2681 - Added an 'abort' method to the Log api, so that you can
2682 kill loggging for a whole request.
2683 - Added $c->uri_for method to simplify url handling.
2684 - Added more tests and reorganized the t directory.
2685 - Reimplemented core engines, all are now CGI based for better test
2686 coverage and maintainability.
2687 - Added fork support to built in test server.
2688 - Fixed all memory leaks.
2689 - Thread-related bug fixes and tests. We now believe the Catalyst
2690 core to be thread-safe.
2691 - Added streaming IO support through $c->req->read() and
2693 - Added MyApp->config->{parse_on_demand} (streaming input)
2694 - Added $c->req->handle and $c->res->handle
2695 - Improved documentation
2696 - Fixed mkpath in Catalyst::Helper (Autrijus Tang)
2697 - Fixed bug in dispatcher where an invalid path could call a valid
2698 action. (Andy Grundman)
2699 - Fixed Helper so it works with CRLF line-endings. (Andy Grundman)
2701 5.33 2005-08-10 15:25:00
2702 - Now with updated manifest.
2704 5.32 2005-08-10 15:10:00
2705 - Dispatcher might fail if object returns false.
2707 5.31 2005-06-04 12:35:00 (never released to CPAN)
2709 - helpers now create .new files where files already exist and differ
2710 - fixed $Data::Dumper::Terse (Robin Berjon)
2711 - added arguments for detach
2712 - new credits section in POD
2713 - fixed detach to allow relative action names (Matt and Robert)
2714 - added the ability to have whitespaces in Path( '' ) and Regex( '' )
2716 5.30 2005-06-04 12:35:00
2718 - Fixed a bug where it was not possible to $c->forward to a
2720 that was not inheriting from Catalyst::Base.
2721 - Fix for inheritance bug.
2722 - Allow forward with arguments.
2724 - Allow overriding home/root in config.
2725 - make module build cons README automatically.
2726 - prettify home path by resolving '..' (Andy Grundman)
2727 - improved helper templates a bit, new naming scheme for tests.
2728 - added support for case sensitivity, MyApp->config->{case_sensitive}
2729 - added $c->detach for non-returning forwards
2730 - added unified error handling, Catalyst::Exception
2731 - added section on param handling in Intro.pod
2732 - added $c->request->cookie
2733 - added Catalyst::Setup
2734 - refactored Catalyst::import()
2735 - improved rendering of error messages in debug mode
2736 - fixed a bug in Catalyst::Helper::mk_dir
2737 - further doc changes, esp. to Intro.pod
2739 5.23 2005-06-03 02:30:00
2740 - added support for non Catalyst::Base components to live in namespace
2741 - improved concurrency connections in Catalyst::Engine::HTTP::Daemon
2743 5.22 2005-05-26 14:24:00
2744 - improved base locating in MP engines
2745 - improved error messages in C::E::HTTP::Daemon
2746 - hostnames are now resolved on demand unless provided by engine
2747 - fixed memory leak in $c->execute (Michael Reece, Matt S Trout)
2749 5.21 2005-05-24 14:56:00
2750 - fixed a bug in https detection
2751 - fixed auto chain finally
2752 - added MYAPP_HOME and CATALYST_HOME environment variables
2754 5.20 2005-05-18 19:52:00
2755 - improved uploads and parameters
2756 - added $c->req->protocol and $c->req->secure
2757 - added $c->req->user and $c->req->uri
2758 - improved error message when forwarding to unknown module
2759 - fixed win32 installer
2760 - added deep recursion detection
2761 - fixed auto actions
2762 - fixed inheritance in dispatcher
2763 - allow whitespaces between brackets and quoted string
2764 in Path and Regex attributes
2765 - new helper templates
2766 - installer now supports install_base and destdir
2767 - allow multiple Catalyst apps to run on the same mod_perl
2768 instance (not the same app!)
2770 - removed apreq dependency from all MP engines
2771 - added support for MP registry scripts
2772 - added support for LocationMatch and ScriptAliasMatch in MP engines
2773 - added SpeedyCGI engine
2775 5.10 2005-04-23 11:16:00
2776 - updated dependencies to require latest module::pluggable::fast
2777 - new installer for templates and stuff using Module::Build
2778 - scripts are now prefixed, for being installable
2779 IMPORTANT: You have to regenerate the script directory,
2780 remove Makefile.PL and add Build.PL
2781 - Added compat to install Module::Build if required.
2782 - Improved: Params handling with MP engines
2783 - Fixed: Params handling on POST with CGI engine (Andy Grundman)
2784 - Fixed: Helper.pm on Win32 (Matt S Trout)
2786 5.03 2005-04-19 20:35:00 (Revision 462)
2787 - fixed Test example (Torsten Seeman)
2788 - added Plugins chapter to manual
2789 - applied doc patch from Robert Boone <robert@rlb3.com>
2790 - improved Dispatcher error messages.
2791 - refactored so we don't need to include helper from
2792 Catalyst.pm - Fixes issues with FindBin
2793 - applied HTTP.pm patch from Andy Grundman <andy@hybridized.org>
2794 - added plugin() method for instant plugins
2795 - FCGI is no more considered experimental
2797 5.02 2005-04-18 10:00:00
2800 5.01 2005-04-17 23:00:00
2801 - some documentation bugs fixed
2802 - added Catalyst::Utils
2803 - fixed regexp bug (Matt S Trout)
2804 - fixed upload bug with MP19
2805 - added $c->req->body
2806 - aliased $c->res->output to $c->res->body
2807 - Read AUTHOR from passwd or $ENV{AUTHOR} when
2809 - extended attribute handling
2810 - added global config for components
2812 5.00 2005-04-15 18:00:00
2813 - new core to support inheritance trees
2814 - new syntax for action declaration
2815 - new helper system using TT2
2816 - problems with mod_perl2 fixed
2817 - added Test::Pod support
2818 - added new server backend with HTTP/1.1 support
2819 - added option to run tests against a remote server
2820 - renamed errors() to error()
2822 - countless minor improvements
2823 IMPORTANT: This release is very incompatible to previous ones
2824 and you have to regenerate the helper scripts again...
2826 4.34 2005-03-23 07:00:00 2005
2827 - added some messages to Makefile.PL
2828 - added Catalyst::Engine::Test
2829 - added Catalyst::Engine::CGI::NPH
2830 - simplified Catalyst::Log to be easier to implement/subclass
2832 - updated Catalyst::Test to use Catalyst::Engine::Test
2833 - updated helper scripts
2834 IMPORTANT: this will be the last time you'll have to regenerate
2835 the script directory. We promise!
2837 4.33 2005-03-23 01:00:00 2005
2838 - documented the log() accessor method in Catalyst (Andrew Ford)
2839 - added optional arguments to Catalyst::Log methods (Andrew Ford)
2840 - removed cgi-server.pl
2841 - added fcgi.pl and Catalyst::Engine::FCGI
2842 - fixed an undef durng make test (Dan Sully)
2843 - new path test (Christian Hansen)
2844 IMPORTANT: you have to regenerate the script directory again
2846 4.32 2005-03-22 02:10:00 2005
2847 - made a damn typo *AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!*
2849 4.31 2005-03-22 02:00:00
2850 - fixed inheritance (Christian Hansen)
2851 - previous release was borked!
2852 fixed that, but you have to regenerate the scripts again :(
2854 4.30 2005-03-21 23:00:00
2855 - more documentation (Andrew Ford)
2856 - added connection informations (Christian Hansen)
2857 - HTTP::Request support in Catalyst::Test (Christian Hansen)
2858 - moved cgi.pl to nph-cgi.pl
2859 - added Catalyst::Engine::Server (Christian Hansen)
2860 - removed Catalyst::Test::server
2861 - updated helper scripts
2862 IMPORTANT: note that you have to regenerate script/server.pl,
2863 script/cgi-server.pl and script/cgi.pl (now nph-cgi.pl)
2865 4.28 2005-03-19 22:00:00
2866 - fixed isa tree (Christian Hansen)
2867 - added script/cgi-server.pl, so no more server restarting after
2869 - reworked documentation (Andrew Ford <A.Ford@ford-mason.co.uk>)
2871 4.27 2005-03-19 01:00:00
2872 - debug message for parameters
2873 - Fix redirects (Christian Hansen <ch@ngmedia.com>)
2875 - new helper api for Catalyst::Helper::* support
2876 you have to update script/create.pl to use it
2878 4.26 2005-03-16 10:00:00
2879 - fixed the weird bug that caused regex actions to fail on every
2881 - more debug messages
2882 - 100% pod coverage.
2884 4.25 2005-03-12 18:00:00
2885 - correct perl pathes for helper generated scripts (Tatsuhiko Miyagawa)
2886 - improved cgi engine docs (Christoper Hicks)
2888 4.24 2005-03-12 01:00:00
2889 - updated cookbook example
2890 - fixed base for apache and https (Andrew Ruthven)
2892 4.23 2005-03-09 20:00:00
2893 - no more regex actions in forward
2894 - added support for test directories t/m, t/v and t/c
2896 4.22 2005-03-08 20:00:00
2897 - catch errors in application class
2898 - handle die properly.
2900 4.21 2005-03-05 17:00:00
2903 4.20 2005-03-04 22:00:00
2904 - moved bin to script
2906 4.13 2005-03-03 11:00:00
2907 - improved documentation
2908 - pod coverage test for helper generated apps
2911 4.12 2005-03-02 11:00:00 2005
2912 - server_base sucks, removed
2913 - added $c->log->dump()
2915 4.11 2005-03-02 11:00:00 2005
2916 - removed some warnings
2918 - private prefixed actions override private non prefixed actions
2920 - updated Catalyst::Manual::Intro
2922 4.10 2005-03-02 10:00:00 2005
2923 - improved documentation
2925 - fixed prefixed private actions bug
2926 - fixed more little bugs
2928 4.01 2005-03-01 10:00:00 2005
2929 - improved documentation
2930 - documentation fixes (Johan Lindstrom)
2932 4.00 2005-02-27 22:00:00
2933 - more verbose debug messages, especially for forward()
2934 - implemented prefixed prvate actions, icluding built in
2935 !?default, !?begin and !?end
2936 - new Catalyst::Manual::Intro
2937 - new helpers, bin/catalyst
2940 3.11 2005-02-23 21:00:00
2941 - added dependency to UNIVERSAL::require (Marcus Ramberg)
2942 - added a little workaround for a warning in Catalyst::Test
2944 - improved documentation for actions
2946 3.10 2005-02-19 20:00:00
2947 - removed roles management from Catalyst::Engine
2948 and added it to Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication::CDBI
2950 3.04 2005-02-17 21:00:00
2951 - error reporting for app class
2952 - no more engine debug messages
2953 - class->method forwards get resolved now
2955 3.03 2005-02-16 23:00:00
2956 - friendlier statistics
2958 3.02 2005-02-16 22:00:00
2959 - fixed unintialized actions (Marcus Ramberg)
2961 3.01 2005-02-16 20:30:00
2964 3.00 2005-02-16 20:00:00
2965 - real version number for CPAN.pm
2966 - fixed redirect in CGI engine
2967 - more statistics in debug logs
2968 - ? prefix for forward()
2970 2.99_15 2005-02-02 22:00:00
2971 - support for short namespaces, MyApp::M, MyApp::V and MyApp::C
2972 - Replaced "Catched" with "Caught" in Catalyst::Engine
2974 - replaced _ with ! for private actions
2975 - added ? for prefixed actions
2978 2.99_14 2005-01-31 22:00:00 2005
2979 - arguments for _default
2980 - $c->entrance removed for more flexibility
2981 - added $c->req->method
2983 2.99_13 2005-01-30 18:00:00 2005
2984 - POD fixes and improvements
2986 2.99_12 2005-01-28 22:00:00 2005
2987 - first development release