3 HISTORY - public release history for Data::Dumper
9 =item 2.125 (Aug 8 2009)
11 CPAN distribution fixes (meta information for META.yml).
13 =item 2.124 (Jun 13 2009)
15 Add three missing test files.
17 =item 2.123 (Jun 11 2009)
19 Re-add the INSTALLDIRS => 'perl' directive to Makefile.PL
22 =item 2.122 (Jun 9 2009)
24 Promote previous developer release to stable release.
26 =item 2.121_20 (Jun 6 2009)
28 A host of bug fixes and improvements that have
29 accumulated in the perl core
31 Updated backport to 5.6.1 by Steffen Mueller <smueller@cpan.org>.
33 =item 2.121 (Aug 24 2003)
35 Backport to 5.6.1 by Ilya Martynov <ilya@martynov.org>.
37 =item 2.11 (unreleased)
39 C<0> is now dumped as such, not as C<'0'>.
41 qr// objects are now dumped correctly (provided a post-5.005_58)
44 Implemented $Data::Dumper::Maxdepth, which was on the Todo list.
45 Thanks to John Nolan <jpnolan@Op.Net>.
47 =item 2.101 (30 Apr 1999)
49 Minor release to sync with version in 5.005_03. Fixes dump of
52 =item 2.10 (31 Oct 1998)
54 Bugfixes for dumping related undef values, globs, and better double
55 quoting: three patches suggested by Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>.
57 Escaping of single quotes in the XS version could get tripped up
58 by the presence of nulls in the string. Fix suggested by
59 Slaven Rezic <eserte@cs.tu-berlin.de>.
61 Rather large scale reworking of the logic in how seen values
62 are stashed. Anonymous scalars that may be encountered while
63 traversing the structure are properly tracked, in case they become
64 used in data dumped in a later pass. There used to be a problem
65 with the previous logic that prevented such structures from being
68 Various additions to the testsuite.
70 =item 2.09 (9 July 1998)
72 Implement $Data::Dumper::Bless, suggested by Mark Daku <daku@nortel.ca>.
74 =item 2.081 (15 January 1998)
76 Minor release to fix Makefile.PL not accepting MakeMaker args.
78 =item 2.08 (7 December 1997)
80 Glob dumps don't output superflous 'undef' anymore.
82 Fixes from Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no> to make Dumper() work with
83 overloaded strings in recent perls, and his new testsuite.
87 A separate flag to always quote hash keys (on by default).
89 Recreating known CODE refs is now better supported.
91 Changed flawed constant SCALAR bless workaround.
93 =item 2.07 (7 December 1996)
95 Dumpxs output is now exactly the same as Dump. It still doesn't
96 honor C<Useqq> though.
98 Regression tests test for identical output and C<eval>-ability.
100 Bug in *GLOB{THING} output fixed.
102 Other small enhancements.
104 =item 2.06 (2 December 1996)
106 Bugfix that was serious enough for new release--the bug cripples
107 MLDBM. Problem was "Attempt to modify readonly value..." failures
108 that stemmed for a misguided SvPV_force() instead of a SvPV().)
110 =item 2.05 (2 December 1996)
112 Fixed the type mismatch that was causing Dumpxs test to fail
115 GLOB elements are dumped now when C<Purity> is set (using the
116 *GLOB{THING} syntax).
118 The C<Freezer> option can be set to a method name to call
119 before probing objects for dumping. Some applications: objects with
120 external data, can re-bless themselves into a transitional package;
121 Objects the maintain ephemeral state (like open files) can put
122 additional information in the object to facilitate persistence.
124 The corresponding C<Toaster> option, if set, specifies
125 the method call that will revive the frozen object.
127 The C<Deepcopy> flag has been added to do just that.
129 Dumper does more aggressive cataloging of SCALARs encountered
130 within ARRAY/HASH structures. Thanks to Norman Gaywood
131 <norm@godel.une.edu.au> for reporting the problem.
133 Objects that C<overload> the '""' operator are now handled
134 properly by the C<Dump> method.
136 Significant additions to the testsuite.
140 =item 2.04beta (28 August 1996)
142 Made dump of glob names respect C<Useqq> setting.
144 [@$%] are now escaped now when in double quotes.
146 =item 2.03beta (26 August 1996)
148 Fixed Dumpxs. It was appending trailing nulls to globnames.
149 (reported by Randal Schwartz <merlyn@teleport.com>).
151 Calling the C<Indent()> method on a dumper object now correctly
152 resets the internal separator (reported by Curt Tilmes
153 <curt@ltpmail.gsfc.nasa.gov>).
155 New C<Terse> option to suppress the 'C<VARI<n> = >' prefix
156 introduced. If the option is set, they are output only when
157 absolutely essential.
159 The C<Useqq> flag is supported (but not by the XSUB version
162 Embedded nulls in keys are now handled properly by Dumpxs.
164 Dumper.xs now use various integer types in perl.h (should
165 make it compile without noises on 64 bit platforms, although
166 I haven't been able to test this).
168 All the dump methods now return a list of strings in a list
172 =item 2.02beta (13 April 1996)
174 Non portable sprintf usage in XS code fixed (thanks to
175 Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>).
178 =item 2.01beta (10 April 1996)
180 Minor bugfix (single digit numbers were always getting quoted).
183 =item 2.00beta (9 April 1996)
185 C<Dumpxs> is now the exact XSUB equivalent of C<Dump>. The XS version
190 MLDBM example removed (as its own module, it has a separate CPAN
193 Fixed bugs in handling keys with wierd characters. Perl can be
194 tripped up in its implicit quoting of the word before '=>'. The
195 fix: C<Data::Dumper::Purity>, when set, always triggers quotes
198 Andreas Koenig <k@anna.in-berlin.de> pointed out that handling octals
199 is busted. His patch added.
201 Dead code removed, other minor documentation fixes.
204 =item 1.23 (3 Dec 1995)
208 Several folks pointed out that quoting of ticks and backslashes
209 in strings is missing. Added.
211 Ian Phillipps <ian@pipex.net> pointed out that numerics may lose
212 precision without quotes. Fixed.
215 =item 1.21 (20 Nov 1995)
217 Last stable version I can remember.