1 This file documents the revision history for Perl extension Catalyst.
4 - Fix up Engine to avoid a new 5.8.8 warning
5 - Added app name with :: support for PAR
6 - Added $c->models/views/controllers
7 - Static::Simple: Unescape the URI path before looking for the file.
8 This fixes issues with files that have spaces.
9 - Looping and recursion tests plus a fix
10 - Added lots of API documentation.
11 - Changed default behaviors for $c->model/$c->controller/$c->view
12 to more sane settings.
13 - added the clear_errors method - an alias for error(0)
14 - Added tmpdir option for uploads (woremacx)
15 - Applied patch from GEOFFR to allow normal filehandles.
16 - Refactored Dispatcher internals for better readability and speedup
17 (stress tests run 12% faster)
18 - Allow $c->error to run as a class method
20 5.66 2006-03-10 17:48:00
21 - Added Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst support
22 - Cleaned generated tests
23 - Added Root controller concept
24 - Updated ConfigLoader plugin to version 0.04
26 5.65 2006-02-21 10:34:00
27 - Added plugin introspection.
28 - Support optional hashref as last param for parameters in uri_for.
29 - Updated tutorial to be more complete.
30 - Applied args patch from antirice (Fixes Ticket #67)
32 5.64 2006-02-07 20:29:00
33 - Fixed bug in FastCGI proc manager mode where pm_post_dispatch
34 was not run. (Eric Wong)
35 - Cleaned up generated tests
36 - Updated YAML support to use ConfigLoader
37 - Fixed path dispatch to canonicalise correctly
38 (see http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/ticket/62)
39 - Added Catalyst::Manual::About
41 5.63 2006-01-22 00:00:00
42 - Updated prereq versions
44 5.62 2006-01-17 16:30:00
45 - Large update to the tutorial (castaway)
46 - Added YAML config support
47 - Added COMPONENT() and ACCEPT_CONTEXT() support
48 - Action list in debug mode is now displayed as a tree in the
49 correct execution order.
50 - Fixed engine detection to allow custom mod_perl engines.
51 - Static::Simple: Fixed bug in ignore_dirs under win32.
52 - Display version numbers of loaded plugins. (Curtis Poe)
53 - Added class and method for caught exception messages.
54 - Updated PAR support to use "make catalyst_par",
55 packages are no longer written by Makefile.PL.
56 - Automatically determine Content-Length when serving a
58 - Exceptions now return status 500.
59 - Updated for Module::Install 0.44.
60 - Fixed additional file installation for multi level app names.
61 - Added REDIRECT_URL support for applications running behind
62 a RewriteRule in Apache. (Carl Franks)
63 - Fixed FastCGI engine under win32. (Carl Franks)
64 - FastCGI doc updates (Bill Moseley)
65 - Bugfix for $c->model and friends (defined).
67 5.61 2005-12-02 00:00:00
68 - Fixed ExtUtils::AutoInstall Bootstrap Code in Makefile.PL
70 5.60 2005-12-01 22:15:00
71 - Fixed Path and index actions in the appclass,
72 including those that attach to /
73 - Index is now weighted higher than Path
74 - Fixed restarter and -d debug switch in server.pl.
75 - Added a warning if you attempt to retrieve a parameter
76 using $c->req->params('foo').
77 - Fixed the Module::Install::Catalyst @ISA bug
79 5.59 2005-11-30 13:25:00
80 - Fixed shebang line for generated scripts
81 - Fixed forward to classes ($c->forward(qw/MyApp foo/))
82 - Wrap use block in begin to quelch C:C3 warnings
83 - Removed scrollbar from debug output
84 - Fixed catalyst_par_core() and catalyst_par_multiarch()
86 5.58 2005-11-24 10:51:00
87 - Added ExtUtils::AutoInstall support
88 - Allow overriding path in Catalyst::Helper.
89 - Added -makefile to catalyst.pl to generate a new Makefile.PL.
90 - Restored Catalyst::Build with a deprecation notice.
91 - Improved PAR support
92 - Replaced -short with auto-detection
93 - Fixed prereqs, added File::Copy::Recursive
94 - Static::Simple changes:
95 - Made prepare_action play nice with other plugins by not short-
97 - Added tmpl to the ignored extensions.
98 - Fixed security problem if req->path contained '..'.
100 5.57 2005-11-20 22:45:00
101 - Updated uri_for to accept undef actions
102 - Switched to Module::Install
103 - Renamed tests for easier editing
104 - Reformatted documentation
105 - Renamed -nonew to -force
107 - Added keep-alive support and bug fixes to HTTP engine.
109 - Added daemonize option to FastCGI engine. (Sam Vilain)
111 5.56 2005-11-16 10:33:00
112 - Fixed FastCGI engine to not clobber the global %ENV on each
113 request. (Sam Vilain)
114 - Updated benchmarking to work with detach
115 - Fixed dispatcher, so $c->req->action(undef) works again
116 - Updated Catalyst::Test to use HTTP::Request::AsCGI
117 - Added -pidfile to external FastCGI server.
119 5.55 2005-11-15 12:55:00
120 - Fixed multiple cookie handling
122 5.54 2005-11-14 22:55:00
123 - Fixed a Module::Pluggable::Fast related bug
125 5.53 2005-11-14 15:55:00
126 - Removed t/04prereq.t that was testing for non-required
129 5.52 2005-11-14 10:57:00
130 - Strip '..'s in static urls to fix security issue.
132 5.51 2005-11-14 00:45:00
133 - Changed uri_for to use namespace instead of match.
135 5.50 2005-11-13 20:45:00
139 5.49_05 2005-11-12 20:45:00
140 - Large update to the documentation. (David Kamholz)
141 - Fixed args handling in forward()
142 - Fixed forwarding to classes
143 - Fixed catalyst.pl-generated Build.PL Makefile section.
144 - Fixed relative forwarding
145 - Fixed forward arrows in debug output
147 5.49_04 2005-11-09 23:00:00
148 - Made context, dispatcher, engine, request and response classes
151 - Fixed dispatcher to ignore unknown attributes.
152 - Improved format of startup debug log.
153 - Updated built in server to restart on win32. (Will Hawes)
154 - Fixed streaming write from a filehandle to stop writing
155 if the browser is closed.
156 - Added $c->controller, $c->model and $c->view shortcuts.
157 - Switched to Text::SimpleTable.
159 5.49_03 2005-11-03 12:00:00
160 - Fixed $c->req->{path} for backwards-compatibility.
161 - Allow debug to be disabled via ENV as well as enabled.
162 - Added -scripts option to catalyst.pl for script updating
163 - Changed helpers to default to long types, Controller instead of C
164 - Added Catalyst::Controller, Catalyst::Model and Catalyst::View
166 - Added JavaScript to debug screen to show and hide specific dumps
167 - Added _DISPATCH, _BEGIN, _AUTO, _ACTION and _END actions
168 - Added multi process external FastCGI support
169 (see myapp_fastcgi.pl -help) (Sam Vilain)
170 - Restarter process in HTTP engine now properly exits when the
171 parent app is shut down.
172 - Improved performance of restarter loop while watching for
174 - Restarter will now detect new files added to an app on systems
175 that change directory mtimes when new files are created.
176 - Restarter now properly handles modules that are deleted from an
178 - Fixed memory leak in TestApp.
180 5.49_02 2005-10-26 12:39:00
181 - Whole new dispatcher!
183 - Added path_to method
184 - Added support for passing an IO::Handle object to $c->res->body.
186 - Added a new welcome screen.
187 - Included Catalyst buttons and icons in helper.
188 - Added Static::Simple plugin to core.
189 - Added self restarting test server
190 - Added filename to debug output for uploaded files.
191 - Fixed forwarding with embedded arguments.
192 - Fixed handling of escaped query strings.
193 - Added upload parameters back into $c->req->params.
194 - Added multiple paths support to dispatcher
195 - Fixed bug in req->path where changing the path added a trailing
197 - Removed req->handle and res->handle
198 - Added prepare_body_chunk method as a hook for upload progress.
199 - Fixed bug in uri_for method when base has no path.
200 - Added automated tests for HTTP, CGI, and FastCGI servers.
202 5.49_01 2005-10-10 10:15:00
203 - Refactored all internals, should be 99% compatible to previous
205 - *IMPORTANT* The Apache engines have been moved to a separate package
206 for this release. Please install Catalyst::Engine::Apache if you
209 - Added support for calling forward with arguments in the path, i.e.
210 $c->forward('/foo/bar/arg1/arg2')
211 - Made $c->req->uri a URI object, added req->path_info for CGI compat.
212 Raw query string is available as $c->req->uri->query.
213 - Made $c->req->base a URI object.
214 - Parameters with multiple values (?a=1&a=2) now display properly
216 - Semi-colon separators in query strings now work properly.
217 - Expanded documentation of catalyst.pl (Andrew Ford)
218 - Added support for running as a backend server behind a frontend
219 proxy so req->base and req->address are set properly.
220 - Added an 'abort' method to the Log api, so that you can
221 kill loggging for a whole request.
222 - Added $c->uri_for method to simplify url handling.
223 - Added more tests and reorganized the t directory.
224 - Reimplemented core engines, all are now CGI based for better test
225 coverage and maintainability.
226 - Added fork support to built in test server.
227 - Fixed all memory leaks.
228 - Thread-related bug fixes and tests. We now believe the Catalyst
229 core to be thread-safe.
230 - Added streaming IO support through $c->req->read() and
232 - Added MyApp->config->{parse_on_demand} (streaming input)
233 - Added $c->req->handle and $c->res->handle
234 - Improved documentation
235 - Fixed mkpath in Catalyst::Helper (Autrijus Tang)
236 - Fixed bug in dispatcher where an invalid path could call a valid
237 action. (Andy Grundman)
238 - Fixed Helper so it works with CRLF line-endings. (Andy Grundman)
240 5.33 2005-08-10 15:25:00
241 - Now with updated manifest.
243 5.32 2005-08-10 15:10:00
244 - Dispatcher might fail if object returns false. (Florian Ragwitz)
246 5.31 2005-06-04 12:35:00 (never released to CPAN)
248 - helpers now create .new files where files already exist and differ
249 - fixed $Data::Dumper::Terse (Robin Berjon)
250 - added arguments for detach
251 - new credits section in pod
252 - fixed detach to allow relative action names (Matt and Robert)
253 - added the ability to have whitespaces in Path( '' ) and Regex( '' )
255 5.30 2005-06-04 12:35:00
257 - Fixed a bug where it was not possible to $c->forward to a
259 that was not inheriting from Catalyst::Base.
260 - Fix for inheritance bug.
261 - Allow forward with arguments.
263 - Allow overriding home/root in config.
264 - make module build cons README automatically.
265 - prettify home path by resolving '..' (Andy Grundman)
266 - improved helper templates a bit, new naming scheme for tests.
267 - added support for case sensitivity, MyApp->config->{case_sensitive}
268 - added $c->detach for non-returning forwards
269 - added unified error handling, Catalyst::Exception
270 - added section on param handling in Intro.pod
271 - added $c->request->cookie
272 - added Catalyst::Setup
273 - refactored Catalyst::import()
274 - improved rendering of error messages in debug mode
275 - fixed a bug in Catalyst::Helper::mk_dir
276 - further doc changes, esp. to Intro.pod
278 5.23 2005-06-03 02:30:00
279 - added support for non Catalyst::Base components to live in namespace
280 - improved concurrency connections in Catalyst::Engine::HTTP::Daemon
282 5.22 2005-05-26 14:24:00
283 - improved base locating in MP engines
284 - improved error messages in C::E::HTTP::Daemon
285 - hostnames are now resolved on demand unless provided by engine
286 - fixed memory leak in $c->execute (Michael Reece, Matt S Trout)
288 5.21 2005-05-24 14:56:00
289 - fixed a bug in https detection
290 - fixed auto chain finally
291 - added MYAPP_HOME and CATALYST_HOME environment variables
293 5.20 2005-05-18 19:52:00
294 - improved uploads and parameters
295 - added $c->req->protocol and $c->req->secure
296 - added $c->req->user and $c->req->uri
297 - improved error message when forwarding to unknown module
298 - fixed win32 installer
299 - added deep recursion detection
301 - fixed inheritance in dispatcher
302 - allow whitespaces between brackets and quoted string
303 in Path and Regex attributes
304 - new helper templates
305 - installer now supports install_base and destdir
306 - allow multiple Catalyst apps to run on the same mod_perl
307 instance (not the same app!)
309 - removed apreq dependency from all MP engines
310 - added support for MP registry scripts
311 - added support for LocationMatch and ScriptAliasMatch in MP engines
312 - added SpeedyCGI engine
314 5.10 2005-04-23 11:16:00
315 - updated dependencies to require latest module::pluggable::fast
316 - new installer for templates and stuff using Module::Build
317 - scripts are now prefixed, for being installable
318 IMPORTANT: You have to regenerate the script directory,
319 remove Makefile.PL and add Build.PL
320 - Added compat to install Module::Build if required.
321 - Improved: Params handling with MP engines
322 - Fixed: Params handling on POST with CGI engine (Andy Grundman)
323 - Fixed: Helper.pm on Win32 (Matt S Trout)
325 5.03 2005-04-19 20:35:00 (Revision 462)
326 - fixed Test example (Torsten Seeman)
327 - added Plugins chapter to manual
328 - applied doc patch from Robert Boone <robert@rlb3.com>
329 - improved Dispatcher error messages.
330 - refactored so we don't need to include helper from
331 Catalyst.pm - Fixes issues with FindBin
332 - applied HTTP.pm patch from Andy Grundman <andy@hybridized.org>
333 - added plugin() method for instant plugins
334 - FCGI is no more considered experimental
336 5.02 2005-04-18 10:00:00
339 5.01 2005-04-17 23:00:00
340 - some documentation bugs fixed
341 - added Catalyst::Utils
342 - fixed regexp bug (Matt S Trout)
343 - fixed upload bug with MP19
344 - added $c->req->body
345 - aliased $c->res->output to $c->res->body
346 - Read AUTHOR from passwd or $ENV{AUTHOR} when
348 - extended attribute handling
349 - added global config for components
351 5.00 2005-04-15 18:00:00
352 - new core to support inheritance trees
353 - new syntax for action declaration
354 - new helper system using TT2
355 - problems with mod_perl2 fixed
356 - added Test::Pod support
357 - added new server backend with HTTP/1.1 support
358 - added option to run tests against a remote server
359 - renamed errors() to error()
361 - countless minor improvements
362 IMPORTANT: This release is very incompatible to previous ones
363 and you have to regenerate the helper scripts again...
365 4.34 2005-03-23 07:00:00 2005
366 - added some messages to Makefile.PL
367 - added Catalyst::Engine::Test
368 - added Catalyst::Engine::CGI::NPH
369 - simplified Catalyst::Log to be easier to implement/subclass
371 - updated Catalyst::Test to use Catalyst::Engine::Test
372 - updated helper scripts
373 IMPORTANT: this will be the last time you'll have to regenerate
374 the script directory. We promise!
376 4.33 2005-03-23 01:00:00 2005
377 - documented the log() accessor method in Catalyst (Andrew Ford)
378 - added optional arguments to Catalyst::Log methods (Andrew Ford)
379 - removed cgi-server.pl
380 - added fcgi.pl and Catalyst::Engine::FCGI
381 - fixed an undef durng make test (Dan Sully)
382 - new path test (Christian Hansen)
383 IMPORTANT: you have to regenerate the script directory again
385 4.32 2005-03-22 02:10:00 2005
386 - made a damn typo *AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!*
388 4.31 2005-03-22 02:00:00
389 - fixed inheritance (Christian Hansen)
390 - previous release was borked!
391 fixed that, but you have to regenerate the scripts again :(
393 4.30 2005-03-21 23:00:00
394 - more documentation (Andrew Ford)
395 - added connection informations (Christian Hansen)
396 - HTTP::Request support in Catalyst::Test (Christian Hansen)
397 - moved cgi.pl to nph-cgi.pl
398 - added Catalyst::Engine::Server (Christian Hansen)
399 - removed Catalyst::Test::server
400 - updated helper scripts
401 IMPORTANT: note that you have to regenerate script/server.pl,
402 script/cgi-server.pl and script/cgi.pl (now nph-cgi.pl)
404 4.28 2005-03-19 22:00:00
405 - fixed isa tree (Christian Hansen)
406 - added script/cgi-server.pl, so no more server restarting after
408 - reworked documentation (Andrew Ford <A.Ford@ford-mason.co.uk>)
410 4.27 2005-03-19 01:00:00
411 - debug message for parameters
412 - Fix redirects (Christian Hansen <ch@ngmedia.com>)
414 - new helper api for Catalyst::Helper::* support
415 you have to update script/create.pl to use it
417 4.26 2005-03-16 10:00:00
418 - fixed the weird bug that caused regex actions to fail on every
420 - more debug messages
423 4.25 2005-03-12 18:00:00
424 - correct perl pathes for helper generated scripts (Tatsuhiko Miyagawa)
425 - improved cgi engine docs (Christoper Hicks)
427 4.24 2005-03-12 01:00:00
428 - updated cookbook example
429 - fixed base for apache and https (Andrew Ruthven)
431 4.23 2005-03-09 20:00:00
432 - no more regex actions in forward
433 - added support for test directories t/m, t/v and t/c
435 4.22 2005-03-08 20:00:00
436 - catch errors in application class
437 - handle die properly.
439 4.21 2005-03-05 17:00:00
442 4.20 2005-03-04 22:00:00
443 - moved bin to script
445 4.13 2005-03-03 11:00:00
446 - improved documentation
447 - pod coverage test for helper generated apps
450 4.12 2005-03-02 11:00:00 2005
451 - server_base sucks, removed
452 - added $c->log->dump()
454 4.11 2005-03-02 11:00:00 2005
455 - removed some warnings
457 - private prefixed actions override private non prefixed actions
459 - updated Catalyst::Manual::Intro
461 4.10 2005-03-02 10:00:00 2005
462 - improved documentation
464 - fixed prefixed private actions bug
465 - fixed more little bugs
467 4.01 2005-03-01 10:00:00 2005
468 - improved documentation
469 - documentation fixes (Johan Lindstrom)
471 4.00 2005-02-27 22:00:00
472 - more verbose debug messages, especially for forward()
473 - implemented prefixed prvate actions, icluding built in
474 !?default, !?begin and !?end
475 - new Catalyst::Manual::Intro
476 - new helpers, bin/catalyst
479 3.11 2005-02-23 21:00:00
480 - added dependency to UNIVERSAL::require (Marcus Ramberg)
481 - added a little workaround for a warning in Catalyst::Test
483 - improved documentation for actions
485 3.10 2005-02-19 20:00:00
486 - removed roles management from Catalyst::Engine
487 and added it to Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication::CDBI
489 3.04 2005-02-17 21:00:00
490 - error reporting for app class
491 - no more engine debug messages
492 - class->method forwards get resolved now
494 3.03 2005-02-16 23:00:00
495 - friendlier statistics
497 3.02 2005-02-16 22:00:00
498 - fixed unintialized actions (Marcus Ramberg)
500 3.01 2005-02-16 20:30:00
503 3.00 2005-02-16 20:00:00
504 - real version number for CPAN.pm
505 - fixed redirect in CGI engine
506 - more statistics in debug logs
507 - ? prefix for forward()
509 2.99_15 2005-02-02 22:00:00
510 - support for short namespaces, MyApp::M, MyApp::V and MyApp::C
511 - Replaced "Catched" with "Caught" in Catalyst::Engine
513 - replaced _ with ! for private actions
514 - added ? for prefixed actions
517 2.99_14 2005-01-31 22:00:00 2005
518 - arguments for _default
519 - $c->entrance removed for more flexibility
520 - added $c->req->method
522 2.99_13 2005-01-30 18:00:00 2005
523 - POD fixes and improvements
525 2.99_12 2005-01-28 22:00:00 2005
526 - first development release