1 Revision history for Sys-Syslog
3 0.22 -- 2007.11.08 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
4 [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#29875: Added workaround SpamAssassin overzealous
6 [FEATURE] Added support for PERROR option.
7 [FEATURE] Support for SYSLOG on z/OS, thanks to Chun Bing Ge.
8 [CODE] Prevent $@ from being visible outside the module, in trying
9 to address the problem reported in CPAN-RT#29875.
10 [DOC] CPAN-RT#29451: Add Copyright notice. Thanks to Allison Randal
12 [DOC] New speaking about Win32 API instead of Win32 operating system.
14 0.21 -- 2007.09.14 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
15 [BUGFIX] setlogsock(eventlog) returned true even when it shouldn't have.
16 [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#24431: Added workaround for Mac OS X syslogd.
17 [FEATURE] Added "pipe" mechanism in order to support HP-UX named pipe.
18 Thanks to H.Merijn Brand and PROCURA.
19 [CODE] Sys::Syslog works again on Perl 5.005, thanks to Nicholas Clark.
21 0.20 -- 2007.09.05 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
22 [DOC] Added README.win32 which was missing in MANIFEST.
24 0.19 -- 2007.09.05 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
25 [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#20635: Fix tests to avoid problems related to the
26 "stream" mechanism which occured on Debian and Cygwin.
27 [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#20780: Facility could not be temporarily changed.
28 Also fixes the syslog() before openlog() bug.
29 [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#21333: Makefile.PL now creates a typemap for Perl 5.6.1
30 [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#21516: disconnect_log() now correctly calls closelog_xs().
31 [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#21866: Silence warnings in openlog().
32 [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#25488: Silence warnings in disconnect_log().
34 [BUGFIX] Rewrote the constants generation code in order to provide
35 fallback value for non-standard macros.
36 [FEATURE] Added Win32 event log support thanks to Yves Orton.
37 [FEATURE] Added new macros from modern BSD and IRIX.
38 [FEATURE] Each non-standard macro now fall backs to a standard macro.
39 [CODE] Merged changes from Jerry D. Hedden to use ppport.h only when not
40 built from core distribution (blead@30657).
41 [TESTS] t/syslog.t now generates a more detailled TAP output.
42 [TESTS] Merged change blead@29176: suppress taint mode from t/constants.t
43 [TESTS] Added regression tests for CPAN-RT#21866 and #25488.
44 [EG] Added example script eg/syslog.pl
45 [DOC] CPAN-RT#26097: man pages were not installed.
46 [DOC] Added the Sys::Syslog Rules.
48 0.18 -- 2006.08.28 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
49 [BUGFIX] Rewrote the way the default identifiant is constructed.
50 [TESTS] CPAN-RT#20946: Removed the console mechanism from the main
51 test loop because writing to the console hangs on several systems.
52 [DOC] Added a note discouraging the use of setlogsock().
54 0.17 -- 2006.07.23 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
55 [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#20622, #20164: Fixed path handling in connect_unix().
56 [CODE] Renamed some variables ($that is not a valid name), and removed
58 [CODE] Actually added the macros from Mac OS X that were announced in
60 [DOC] CPAN-RT#20545: Rewrote the documentation about setlogsock().
62 0.16 -- 2006.06.20 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
63 [BUGFIX] Perl-RT#20557: Save errno before trying to connect.
64 [FEATURE] Perl-RT#35406: Applied the patch proposed by Keisuke Hirata
65 for a more lax handling of "stream" or "unix" path.
66 [FEATURE] Now try the "native" mechanism first.
67 [TESTS] Silence warnings generated by t/syslog.t in Perl 5.8.8 and
69 [DOC] Added documentation about the "native" mechanism.
70 [DOC] Now indicates whether tickets are from CPAN or Perl RT.
72 0.15 -- 2006.06.10 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
73 [FEATURE] CPAN-RT#17316: Added a "nofatal" option to openlog().
74 [FEATURE] Sys::Syslog warnings can now be controled by the warnings
75 category of the same name.
76 [FEATURE] Added support for using the native C syslog(3) functions.
77 [CODE] Removed most "our" variables.
78 [CODE] Improved readability by removing cargo-cult brackets and
81 0.14 -- 2006.05.25 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
82 [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#19259, #17518: Now allowing all levels and facilities.
83 [CODE] Removed useless "&".
84 [CODE] Improved readability by adding empty lines and reworking the
86 [CODE] Added new macros from Mac OS X.
87 [TESTS] Added more tests in order to increase coverage.
88 [DOC] CPAN-RT#19085: Corrected errors in the documentation for setlogmask().
89 [DOC] Added several links to online manual pages, RFCs and articles.
90 [DOC] Corrected minor things in Changes.
92 0.13 -- 2006.01.11 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
93 [CODE] Applied Gisle Aas patch for a better handling of error messages,
95 [CODE] Merged blead@26768: If getservbyname fails tell what service
96 the lookup attempt tried to use.
97 [CODE] Merged blead@26769: suppress Sys::Hostname usage and directly
99 [CODE] Merged blead@26772: $host needs to stay in case the user sets it.
100 [CODE] Merged blead@26773: check that $syslog_path is a socket.
101 [TESTS] CPAN-RT#16980: Sys::Syslog blows up rather spectacularly on
102 Solaris. Corrected by previous patches.
103 [TESTS] CPAN-RT#16974: Failed test in t/podspell. This test is now skipped.
105 0.12 -- 2006.01.07 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
106 [DOC] Added a link to an article about Sys::Syslog.
107 [TESTS] Merged some modifications from bleadperl.
108 [TESTS] Removed optional dependency on Test::Exception.
109 [TESTS] Improved t/constant.t
110 [TESTS] Rewrote t/constants.t because future versions of
111 ExtUtils::Constant will prevent the constant() function from
112 being directly called.
114 0.11 -- 2005.12.28 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
115 [BUGFIX] setlogmask() now behaves like its C counterpart.
116 [FEATURE] Can now export and use the macros.
117 [FEATURE] Support for three Exporter tags.
118 [FEATURE] XSLoader is now optional.
119 [CODE] No longer "use"s Sys::Hostname as it was "require"d where needed.
120 [CODE] CPAN-RT#16604: Use local timestamp.
121 [DIST] Merged blead@26343: Fix realclean target.
122 [DOC] Improved documentation.
123 [TESTS] Added more tests to t/syslog.t in order to increase code coverage.
125 0.10 -- 2005.12.08 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
126 [DOC] Improved documentation.
127 [TESTS] Added -T to t/syslog.t
128 [TESTS] Added t/constants.t to check the macros.
129 [TESTS] Added t/distchk.t, t/podspell.t, t/podcover.t, t/portfs.t
131 0.09 -- 2005.12.06 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
132 [CODE] Now setlogsock() really croak(), as documented.
133 [DIST] CPANized from blead@26281.
134 [DIST] Modified Makefile.PL so that ExtUtils::Constant is conditionaly
135 used, with a fallback in the case it's not available.
136 [DIST] Bumped version to 0.09
137 [DOC] Added support and license information.
138 [TESTS] Rewrote and ported t/syslog.t to Test::More