1 # This file documents the revision history for Perl extension Catalyst.
3 - Change the $c->visit and $c->go methods to optionally take
4 CaptureArgs, making them useful to call ActionChains with (t0m)
5 - Tests for this (radek)
6 - Fix _invoke_as_component method to find the proper action instance
7 for dispatchable actions so that ->visit or ->going to ActionChains
8 with qw/Class::Name method_name/ works correctly (t0m)
9 - Tests for this (radek)
10 - Added Catalyst::Test::ctx_request to be able to inspect
11 the context object after a request is made (Jos Boumans)
12 - debug() POD rewrite (jhannah)
13 - Change the warning when you have conflicting components to
15 - Move NEXT use and testing deprecated features out to its own
16 test application so that the main TestApp isn't polluted with
17 spurious warnings (t0m)
18 - Add a warning for the old ::[MVC]:: style naming scheme (t0m)
20 - Kill Class::C3::Adopt::NEXT warnings for the Catalyst:: namespace
21 in production versions (t0m)
22 - Make MyApp.pm restartable by unsetting setup_finished in
23 the restarter process (t0m)
24 - Non-naive implementation of making mutable on restart using
25 B::Hooks::OP::Check::StashChange if installed (t0m)
26 - Tests for this (t0m)
27 - Naive implementation of making all components mutable in the
28 forked restart watcher process so native Moose apps using
29 immutable restart correctly. (t0m)
30 - Tests for this (t0m)
31 - Bump Moose dependency to 0.70 so that we avoid nasty surprises
32 with is_class_loaded and perl 5.80 when you Moosify MyApp.pm (t0m)
33 - Clarify that request arguments aren't unescaped automatically
34 (Simon Bertrang) (Closes RT#41153)
35 - Don't require C3 for the MRO test (rafl)
36 - Bump MX::Emulate::CAF prereq to support list assignment (rafl)
37 - Remove useless column in chained action debug table. (rafl)
38 - namespace::clean related cleanups (rafl)
39 - Import related cleanups and consistency fixes (rafl)
40 - Fix test suite TestApp /dump/env action (t0m)
42 5.8000_06 2009-02-04 21:00
43 - Disallow writing to config after setup (rafl)
44 - Disallow calling setup more than once (rafl)
45 - Documentation fix regarding overloading of Engine and Dispatcher
47 - Several documentation typo fixes (rafl)
48 - Stop Makefile.PL from warning about versions that fixed a conflict
50 - Improved upgrading documentation (t0m, rafl)
51 - Seed the RNG in each FastCGI child process (Andrew Rodland)
52 - Properly report dynamic bind port for the development server (rafl)
54 - Use the way documented by IO::Socket::INET to get the error message
55 after trying to create a listening socket (rafl) (Closes RT#41828)
56 - Don't ignore SIGCHLD while handling requests with the dev server
57 (rafl) (Closes RT#42962)
59 5.8000_05 2008-29-01 00:00
60 - Text::SimpleTable's go as wide as $ENV{COLUMNS} (jhannah)
61 Patch written by Oleg Kostyuk <cub.uanic@gmail.com>
62 - Improve docs for visit (mateu)
63 - Add docs for finalize hook (dhoss)
64 - Added ru/ua translations to error page
65 - Improve the clarity and verbosity of the warning when component
66 resolution uses regex fallback. (jhannah)
67 - Handle leading CRLF in HTTP requests sometimes sent by IE6 in
68 keep-alive requests. (andyg)
69 - Fixes for FastCGI with IIS 6.0 (janus)
70 - Passing request method exported by Catalyst::Test an extra
71 parameter used to be ignored, but started breaking if the parameter
72 was not a hash in 5.8000_04. Extra parameter is now ignored if
73 it isn't a hashref (t0m)
74 - Fix request argumentss getting corrupted if you override the
75 dispatcher and call an action which detaches (for
76 Catalyst::Plugin::Authorization::ACL) (t0m)
77 - Fix calling use Catalyst::Test 'MyApp' 'foo' which used to work,
78 but stopped as the 2nd parameter can be an options hash now (t0m)
79 - Bump Moose dependency to fix make_immutable bug (t0m)
80 - Use compile time extends in Catalyst::Controller (t0m)
81 - Make Catalyst::Request::uploads attribute non-lazy, to fix
82 test for Catalyst-Engine-Apache (t0m)
83 - Bump version of MooseX::Emulate::Class::Accessor::Fast (t0m)
84 - Stop using MooseX::Adopt::Class::Accessor::Fast by default, to stop
85 breaking other packages which use Class::Accessor::Fast
86 - Remove unused action_container_class attribute from
87 Catalyst::Dispatcher (t0m)
88 - Replace {_body} instance access with calls to _body accessors (t0m)
89 - Add backwards compatibility alias methods for private attributes on
90 Catalyst::Dispatcher which used to be public. Needed by
91 Catalyst::Plugin::Server and Catalyst::Plugin::Authorization::ACL
93 - Fix return value of $c->req->body, which delegates to the body
94 method on the requests HTTP::Body instance (t0m)
96 - Fix calling $c->req->body from inside an overridden prepare_action
97 method in a plugin, as used by Catalyst::Plugin::Server (t0m)
99 - Fix assignment to Catalyst::Dispatcher's preload_dispatch_types and
100 postload_dispatch_types attributes - assigning a list should later
101 return a listref. Fixes Catalyst::Plugin::Server. (t0m)
102 - Tests for this (t0m)
103 - Change streaming test to serve itself rather than 01use.t, making
104 test sync for engines easier (t0m)
105 - Refactor capturing of $app from Catalyst::Controller into
106 Catalyst::Component::ApplicationAttribute for easier reuse in other
107 components (Florian Ragwitz)
108 - Make the test suites YAML dependency optional (Florian Ragwitz)
109 - Make debug output show class name for the engine and dispatcher
110 rather than the stringified ref. (t0m)
111 - Make MyApp immutable at the end of the scope after the setup
112 method is called, fixing issues with plugins which have their
113 own new methods by inlining a constructor on MyApp (t0m)
114 - Test for this and method modifiers in MyApp (t0m)
115 - Fix bug causing Catalyst::Request::Upload's basename method
116 to return undef (t0m)
117 - Test for this (Carl Franks)
118 - Fix loading of classes which do not define any symbols to not
119 die, as it didn't in 5.70 (t0m)
120 - Test for this (t0m)
121 - Bump MooseX::Emulate::Class::Accessor::Fast dependency
122 to force new version which fixes a lot of plugins (t0m)
123 - Make log levels additive, and add documentation and tests
124 for the setup_log method, which previously had none.
125 Sewn together by t0m from two patches provided by David E. Wheeler
126 - Switch an around 'new' in Catalyst::Controller to a BUILDARGS
127 method as it's much neater and more obvious what is going on (t0m)
128 - Add a clearer method on request and response _context
129 attributes, and use if from ::Engine rather than deleting
130 the key from the instance hash (t0m)
131 - Use handles on tree attribute of Catalyst::Stats to replace
132 trivial delegation methods (t0m)
133 - Change the following direct hash accesses into attributes:
134 Catalyst::Engine: _prepared_write
135 Catalyst::Engine::CGI: _header_buf
136 Catalyst::Engine::HTTP: options, _keepalive, _write_error
137 Catalyst::Request: _path
138 Catalyst::Stats: tree
140 - Fix issues in Catalyst::Controller::WrapCGI
141 and any other components which import (or define) their
142 own meta method by always explicitly calling
143 Class::MOP::Object->meta inside Catalyst (t0m)
144 - Add test for this (t0m)
145 - Add test case for the bug which is causing the
146 Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication tests to fail (t0m)
147 - Fix a bug in uri_for which could cause it to generate paths
148 with multiple slashes in them. (t0m)
149 - Add test for this (t0m)
150 - Fix SKIP block name in t/optional_http-server-restart.t,
151 stopping 'Label not found for "last SKIP"' error from
153 - Workaround max_redirect 0 bug in LWP (andyg)
154 - Move live_engine_response_print into aggregate (andyg)
155 - Fix dependency bug, s/parent/base/ in new test (rafl)
156 - Fix optional tests to run the live tests in the aggregate
158 - Fix Catalyst->go error in remote tests (andyg)
159 - Fix upload test to work with remote servers, don't check for
160 deleted files (andyg)
161 - Fix engine_request_uri tests to work on remote server with
162 different URI (andyg)
164 5.8000_04 2008-12-05 12:15:00
165 - Silence Class::C3::Adopt::NEXT warnings in the test suite (rafl)
166 - Fix loads of 'used once, possible typo' warnings (rafl)
167 - Additional tests to ensure upload temp files are deleted (andyg)
168 - Remove use of NEXT from the test suite, except for one case
169 which tests if Class::C3::Adopt::NEXT is working (t0m)
170 - Use a predicate to avoid recursion in cases where the uri
171 method is overridden by a plugin, and calls the base method,
172 for example Catalyst::Plugin::SmartURI (t0m)
173 - Test for this (caelum)
174 - Compose the MooseX::Emulate::Class::Accessor::Fast role to
175 Catalyst::Action, Catalyst::Request, and all other modules which
176 inherit from Class::Accessor::Fast in 5.70.
178 - Catalyst::Controller::HTML::FormFu (zamolxes)
179 - Catalyst::Request::REST (t0m)
180 - Test for this (t0m)
181 - Make hostname resolution lazy (Marc Mims)
182 - Support mocking virtualhosts in test suite (Jason Gottshall)
183 - Add README (marcus)
184 - Fix TODO list (t0m)
185 - Use Class::C3::Adopt::NEXT (rafl)
186 - Ignore C3 warnings on 5.10 when testing ensure_class_loaded (rafl)
187 - Add TODO test for chained bug (gbjk)
188 - Fix list address in documentation (zarquon)
189 - Fix ACCEPT_CONTEXT on MyApp, called as a class method (marcus)
190 - Test for this (marcus)
191 - Bump MooseX::Emulate::Class::Accessor::Fast version requirement to
192 get more back compatibility (t0m)
193 - Improve documentation for $req->captures (caelum)
194 - Fix a bug in Catalyst::Stats, stopping garbage being inserted into
195 the stats if a user calls begin => but no end => (jhannah)
196 - Test for this (jhannah)
197 - Trim lines sooner in stats to avoid ugly Text::SimpleTable wrapping
199 - Change Catalyst::ClassData to tweak the symbol table inline for
200 performance after profiling (mst)
201 - Fix POD typo in finalize_error (jhannah)
202 - Add tests to ensure that we delete the temp files created by
203 HTTP::Body's OctetStream parser (t0m)
205 5.8000_03 2008-10-14 14:13:00
206 - Fix forwarding to Catalyst::Action objects (Rafael Kitover).
207 - Fix links to the mailing lists (RT #39754 and Florian Ragwitz).
208 - Use Class::MOP instead of Class::Inspector (Florian Ragwitz).
209 - Change Catalyst::Test to use Sub::Exporter (Florian Ragwitz).
210 - Fixed typo in Engine::HTTP::Restarter::Watcher causing -r to complain.
212 5.8000_02 2008-10-14 07:59:00
215 5.8000_01 2008-10-13 22:52:00
217 - Added test for action stringify
218 - Added test for component instances getting $self->{value} from config.
219 - Add Catalyst::Response->print() method (ilmari)
220 - Optionally aggregate tests using Test::Aggregate (Florian Ragwitz).
221 - Additional docs for uri_for to mention how to use $c->action and
222 $c->req->captures (jhannah)
223 - List unattached chained actions in Debug mode (Florian Ragwitz).
224 - Pod formatting fix for Engine::FastCGI (Oleg Kostyuk).
225 - Add visit, a returning ->go
228 - Workaround change in LWP that broke a cookie test (RT #40037)
229 - Back out go() since that feature's been pushed to 5.80
230 - Fix some Win32 test failures
231 - Add pt translation of error message (wreis)
232 - Make :Chained('../action') work (Florian Ragwitz)
234 - Chained doc improvements (rev 8326-8328)
236 5.7099_03 2008-07-20 10:10:00
237 - Fix regressions for regexp fallback in model(), view() and controller()
238 - Added the supplied argument to the regexp fallback warning for easier
240 - Ensure ACCEPT_CONTEXT is called for results from component()
242 5.7099_02 2008-07-16 19:10:00
243 - Added PathPrefix attribute
244 - Removed Catalyst::Build; we've long since moved to Module::Install
245 - Updated Catalyst::Test docs to mention the use of HTTP::Request
246 objects (Rafael Kitover)
248 5.7099_01 2008-06-25 22:36:00
249 - Refactored component resolution (component(), models(), model(), et al). We now
250 throw warnings for two reasons:
251 1) model() or view() was called with no arguments, and two results are returned
252 -- set default_(model|view), current_(model|view) or current_(model|view)_instance
254 2) you call a component resolution method with a string, and it resorts to a regexp
255 fallback wherein a result is returned -- if you really want to search, call the
256 method with a regex as the argument
257 - remove 0-length query string components so warnings aren't thrown (RT #36428)
258 - Update HTTP::Body dep so that the uploadtmp config value will work (RT #22540)
259 - Fix for LocalRegex when used in the Root controller
260 - Get some of the optional_* tests working from dirs with spaces (RT #26455)
261 - Fix Catalyst::Utils::home() when application .pm is in the current dir (RT #34437)
262 - Added the ability to remove parameters in req->uri_with() by passing in
263 an undef value (RT #34782)
264 - Added $c->go, to do an internal redispatch to another action, while retaining the
265 contents of the stash
267 5.7014 2008-05-25 15:26:00
268 - Addition of .conf in restart regex in Catalyst::Engine::HTTP::Restarter::Watcher
269 - Fix regression for relative uri_for arguments after a forward()
270 introduced in 5.7013 (Peter Karman)
271 - Fix regression for "sub foo : Path {}" in the root controller which
272 was introduced when attempting to allow "0" as a Path.
274 5.7013 2008-05-16 18:20:00
275 - Provide backwards compatability methods in Catalyst::Stats
276 - Fix subdirs for scripts that run in subdirs more than one level deep.
277 - Added test and updated docs for handling the Authorization header
278 under mod_fastcgi/mod_cgi.
279 - Fixed bug in HTTP engine where the connection was not closed properly if the
280 client disconnected before sending any headers. (Ton Voon)
281 - POD fix, IO::FileHandle => IO::Handle (RT #35690)
282 - Fix grammar on welcome page (RT #33236)
283 - Fix for Path('0') handling (RT #29334)
284 - Workaround for Win32 and c3_mro.t (RT #26452, tested by Kenichi Ishigaki)
285 - Fix for encoding query parameters (edenc)
286 - Fix Chained multiple test (t0m)
288 5.7012 2007-12-16 23:44:00
289 - Fix uri_for()'s and uri_with()'s handling of multibyte chars
291 - Fix __PACKAGE__->config->{foo} = 'bar' case with subclassing
292 - Add Catalyst::Stats (Jon Schutz)
293 - Fixed a bug where ?q=bar=baz is decoded as q=>'bar', not 'bar=baz'.
294 (Tatsuhiko Miyagawa, Masahiro Nagano)
295 - Fixed a bug where -rr (restart regex) command line option could cause
296 shell errors. (Aristotle Pagaltzis, Chisel Wright)
298 5.7011 2007-10-18 20:40:00
299 - Allow multiple restart directories and added option to follow
300 symlinks in the HTTP::Restarter engine (Sebastian Willert)
301 - Fixed t/optional_http-server-restart.t so it actually tests
302 if the server restarted or notified of an error (Sebastian Willert)
303 - Return child PID from the HTTP engine when run with the 'background' option.
305 - Fixed bug in HTTP engine where writes could fail with
306 'Resource temporarily unavailable'.
307 - Fixed bug where %2b in query parameter is doubly decoded to ' ', instead of '+'
308 (RT #30087, Gavin Henry, Tatsuhiko Miyagawa, Oleg Pronin)
309 - Fixed bug where req->base and req->uri would include a port number when running
311 - Removed unnecessary sprintf in debug mode that caused warnings on locales where
312 commas are used for decimal markers.
313 - Improved error message for case when server picks up editor save
314 files as module names. (James Mastros)
316 5.7010 2007-08-22 07:41:00
317 - Resource forks in 5.7009
319 5.7009 2007-08-22 00:14:00
320 - Moved Manual.pod to Manual.pm and clarified status of
322 - Doc patches to Catalyst::Controller
323 - remove ignore_loaded from plugin load, commenting why
324 - document the ignore_loaded feature in Catalyst::Utils
325 - Add testing of inline plugins.
327 5.7008 2007-08-13 08:40:00
328 - Added $c->request->query_keywords for getting the keywords
329 (a query string with no parameters).
330 - Add undef warning for uri_for.
331 - Fix bug where a nested component would be setup twice.
332 - Make ensure_class_loaded behave better with malformed class name.
333 - Make _register_plugin use ensure_class_loaded.
334 - Remove 'Argument "??" isn't numeric in sprintf' warning.
336 - Fixed a bug where Content-Length could be set to 0 if a filehandle
337 object in $c->response->body did not report a size.
338 - Fixed issue where development server running in fork mode did not
339 properly exit after a write error.
340 (http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27135)
341 - Remove warning for captures that are undef.
342 - Fixed $c->read and parse_on_demand mode.
343 - Fixed a bug with the HTTP engine where very large response bodies
344 would not be sent properly.
346 5.7007 2007-03-13 14:18:00
347 - Many performance improvements by not using URI.pm:
348 * $c->uri_for (approx. 8x faster)
349 * $c->engine->prepare_path (approx. 27x faster)
350 * $c->engine->prepare_query_parameters (approx. 5x faster)
351 - Updated HTTP::Body dependency to 0.9 which fixes the following issues:
352 * Handle when IE sometimes sends an extra CRLF after the POST body.
353 * Empty fields in multipart/form-data POSTs are no longer ignored.
354 * Uploaded files with the name "0" are no longer ignored.
355 - Sending SIGHUP to the dev server will now cause it to restart.
356 - Allow "0" for a path in uri_for.
357 - Performance and stability improvements to the built-in HTTP server.
358 - Don't ignore file uploads if form contains a text field with the same name.
360 - Support restart_delay of 0 (for use in the POE engine).
361 - Skip body processing if we don't have a Content-Length header.
362 Results in about a 9% performance increase when handling GET/HEAD
364 - Add a default body to redirect responses.
365 - MyApp->model/view now looks at MyApp->config->{default_view/model}
368 5.7006 2006-11-15 14.18
370 - Fix Slurp dependency
371 - Updated HTTP::Body dependency to 0.6, 0.5 can break on large POST
373 - Skip utf8 fix for undef values in uri_with() and uri_for()
375 5.7005 2006-11-07 19:37:35
376 - Fixed lighttpd tests to be properly skipped.
377 - Moved IE workarounds to exist only in the HTTP engine.
378 - Added installation instructions (from Catalyst-Manual dist)
380 5.7004 2006-11-06 20:48:35
381 - Fix Engine::HTTP crash when using IE. (Jesper Krogh, Peter Edwards)
382 - clean up Catalyst::Utils to handle some edge cases
383 - Properly work around lighttpd PATH_INFO vs. SCRIPT_NAME bug
385 - add _application accessor to Catalyst::Base
386 - Support current_view
387 - Allow use of Catalyst::Test without app name (Ton Voon, Altinity)
388 - Catalyst::Manual moved to its own package
389 - Add option to FastCGI engine to send errors to stdout, not the web server
390 - Use Module::Install's auto_install to install prerequisite modules
391 - various documentation fixes and improvements
393 5.7003 2006-09-21 16:29:45
394 - Additions and updates to tutorial
396 5.7002 2006-09-17 19:35:32
397 - unescape captures to match args
398 - fix for relative Chained under namespace '' (root)
399 - fix for hashrefs in action attributes from config
400 - fix for Chained to require correct number of CaptureArgs
402 5.7001 2006-07-19 23:46:54
403 - fix for component loading
404 - uri_for and uri_with now behave as they used to with non-
407 5.7000 2006-07-07 08:08:08
408 - fix FCGI.pm warning message with FastCGI engine
409 - bumped inc::Module::Install to 0.63 in Makefile.PL
410 - fixes to uri_for_action for DispatchType::Chained
412 - Minor code cleanups
413 - Changed catalyst.pl to depend on Catalyst::Devel
415 5.70_03 2006-06-28 16:42:00
416 - fixup to registered plugins debug at app startup
417 - refactored Catalyst::Utils::home
419 5.70_02 2006-06-27 11:51:00
422 5.70_01 2006-06-26 10:49:00
424 - fixed a Catalyst::Base bug causing duplicate action registrations
425 - modified DispatchTypes to support multiple registrations
426 - added Catalyst::Runtime module as dist marker
427 - added Catalyst::ActionChain and Chained DispatchType
428 - removed retarded registration requirement in dispatcher
429 - removed Module::Pluggable::Fast hack in favor of
430 Module::Pluggable::Object
431 - extended uri_for, added dispatcher->uri_for_action
432 - added Catalyst::Base->action_for('methodname')
433 - checked and tested :Args multimethod dispatch
434 - added ability to set action attributes from controller config
435 - added merge_config_hashes() as a convenience method
436 - Swapped out CGI::Cookie in favour of CGI::Simple::Cookie
437 - Removed test dependencies on Test::NoWarnings, Test::MockObject
438 - Removed dependency on UNIVERSAL::require
439 - Split out Catalyst::Helper into a new distribution
440 - un-bundled the plugins as they are now pre-reqs for Catalyst::Helper
441 - nuked each() out of core with prejudice (due to lurking buglets)
442 - Added tests from phaylon for dispatcher precedence
443 - Use Class::Inspector->loaded($class) instead of $class->can('can')
444 - Added ActionClass attribute
445 - Removed Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst from Makefile.PL (circular dep)
446 - Updated docs for Catalyst::Component
447 - Separated execute and dispatch on Catalyst::Action
448 - cleaned up logging and debug output
449 - significant documentation revisions
450 - Added warning for setup being called twice
451 - Fix pod to use DBIC::Schema instead of DBIC model
452 - Fix ->config failing to copy _config for subclassing
456 5.6902 2006-05-04 13:00:00
457 - Remove tarballs and OSX metadata files.
459 5.6901 2006-05-03 11.17:00
460 - Module::Install didn't overwrite META.yml.
462 5.6900 2006-05-03 11.17:00
463 - Stupid pause indexer can't count.
464 - Better fix for Catalyst::Test
467 5.682 2006-04-27 13:51:00
468 - Damn OSX attributes again :(
470 5.681 2006-04-27 08:47:00
472 - Add basename to core . (Deprecates Catalyst::Plugin::Basename)
474 5.68 2006-04-26 12:23:00
475 - ConfigLoader: Updated to version 0.06
476 - fixed undef warnings in uri_for() and uri_with()
477 - Fixed Catalyst::Test to report errors on failed Class load
479 5.678 2006-04-24 12:30:00
480 - Re-release of 5.67 without OSX metadata files.
482 5.67 2006-04-23 08:50:00
483 - Added $c->req->uri_with() helper
484 - ConfigLoader: Updated to version 0.05
485 - Fix up Engine to avoid a new 5.8.8 warning
486 - Added app name with :: support for PAR
487 - Added $c->models/views/controllers
488 - Static::Simple: Unescape the URI path before looking for the file.
489 This fixes issues with files that have spaces.
490 - Looping and recursion tests plus a fix
491 - Added lots of API documentation. Refactored main pod.
492 - Changed default behaviors for $c->model/$c->controller/$c->view
493 to more sane settings.
494 - added the clear_errors method - an alias for error(0)
495 - Added tmpdir option for uploads (woremacx)
496 - Applied patch from GEOFFR to allow normal filehandles.
497 - Refactored Dispatcher internals for better readability and speedup
498 (stress tests run 12% faster)
499 - Allow $c->error to run as a class method
501 5.66 2006-03-10 17:48:00
502 - Added Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst support
503 - Cleaned generated tests
504 - Added Root controller concept
505 - Updated ConfigLoader plugin to version 0.04
507 5.65 2006-02-21 10:34:00
508 - Added plugin introspection.
509 - Support optional hashref as last param for parameters in uri_for.
510 - Updated tutorial to be more complete.
511 - Applied args patch from antirice (Fixes Ticket #67)
513 5.64 2006-02-07 20:29:00
514 - Fixed bug in FastCGI proc manager mode where pm_post_dispatch
515 was not run. (Eric Wong)
516 - Cleaned up generated tests
517 - Updated YAML support to use ConfigLoader
518 - Fixed path dispatch to canonicalise correctly
519 (see http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/ticket/62)
520 - Added Catalyst::Manual::About
522 5.63 2006-01-22 00:00:00
523 - Updated prereq versions
525 5.62 2006-01-17 16:30:00
526 - Large update to the tutorial (castaway)
527 - Added YAML config support
528 - Added COMPONENT() and ACCEPT_CONTEXT() support
529 - Action list in debug mode is now displayed as a tree in the
530 correct execution order.
531 - Fixed engine detection to allow custom mod_perl engines.
532 - Static::Simple: Fixed bug in ignore_dirs under win32.
533 - Display version numbers of loaded plugins. (Curtis Poe)
534 - Added class and method for caught exception messages.
535 - Updated PAR support to use "make catalyst_par",
536 packages are no longer written by Makefile.PL.
537 - Automatically determine Content-Length when serving a
539 - Exceptions now return status 500.
540 - Updated for Module::Install 0.44.
541 - Fixed additional file installation for multi level app names.
542 - Added REDIRECT_URL support for applications running behind
543 a RewriteRule in Apache. (Carl Franks)
544 - Fixed FastCGI engine under win32. (Carl Franks)
545 - FastCGI doc updates (Bill Moseley)
546 - Bugfix for $c->model and friends (defined).
548 5.61 2005-12-02 00:00:00
549 - Fixed ExtUtils::AutoInstall Bootstrap Code in Makefile.PL
551 5.60 2005-12-01 22:15:00
552 - Fixed Path and index actions in the appclass,
553 including those that attach to /
554 - Index is now weighted higher than Path
555 - Fixed restarter and -d debug switch in server.pl.
556 - Added a warning if you attempt to retrieve a parameter
557 using $c->req->params('foo').
558 - Fixed the Module::Install::Catalyst @ISA bug
560 5.59 2005-11-30 13:25:00
561 - Fixed shebang line for generated scripts
562 - Fixed forward to classes ($c->forward(qw/MyApp foo/))
563 - Wrap use block in begin to quelch C:C3 warnings
564 - Removed scrollbar from debug output
565 - Fixed catalyst_par_core() and catalyst_par_multiarch()
567 5.58 2005-11-24 10:51:00
568 - Added ExtUtils::AutoInstall support
569 - Allow overriding path in Catalyst::Helper.
570 - Added -makefile to catalyst.pl to generate a new Makefile.PL.
571 - Restored Catalyst::Build with a deprecation notice.
572 - Improved PAR support
573 - Replaced -short with auto-detection
574 - Fixed prereqs, added File::Copy::Recursive
575 - Static::Simple changes:
576 - Made prepare_action play nice with other plugins by not short-
578 - Added tmpl to the ignored extensions.
579 - Fixed security problem if req->path contained '..'.
581 5.57 2005-11-20 22:45:00
582 - Updated uri_for to accept undef actions
583 - Switched to Module::Install
584 - Renamed tests for easier editing
585 - Reformatted documentation
586 - Renamed -nonew to -force
588 - Added keep-alive support and bug fixes to HTTP engine.
590 - Added daemonize option to FastCGI engine. (Sam Vilain)
592 5.56 2005-11-16 10:33:00
593 - Fixed FastCGI engine to not clobber the global %ENV on each
594 request. (Sam Vilain)
595 - Updated benchmarking to work with detach
596 - Fixed dispatcher, so $c->req->action(undef) works again
597 - Updated Catalyst::Test to use HTTP::Request::AsCGI
598 - Added -pidfile to external FastCGI server.
600 5.55 2005-11-15 12:55:00
601 - Fixed multiple cookie handling
603 5.54 2005-11-14 22:55:00
604 - Fixed a Module::Pluggable::Fast related bug
606 5.53 2005-11-14 15:55:00
607 - Removed t/04prereq.t that was testing for non-required
610 5.52 2005-11-14 10:57:00
611 - Strip '..'s in static urls to fix security issue.
613 5.51 2005-11-14 00:45:00
614 - Changed uri_for to use namespace instead of match.
616 5.50 2005-11-13 20:45:00
620 5.49_05 2005-11-12 20:45:00
621 - Large update to the documentation. (David Kamholz)
622 - Fixed args handling in forward()
623 - Fixed forwarding to classes
624 - Fixed catalyst.pl-generated Build.PL Makefile section.
625 - Fixed relative forwarding
626 - Fixed forward arrows in debug output
628 5.49_04 2005-11-09 23:00:00
629 - Made context, dispatcher, engine, request and response classes
632 - Fixed dispatcher to ignore unknown attributes.
633 - Improved format of startup debug log.
634 - Updated built in server to restart on win32. (Will Hawes)
635 - Fixed streaming write from a filehandle to stop writing
636 if the browser is closed.
637 - Added $c->controller, $c->model and $c->view shortcuts.
638 - Switched to Text::SimpleTable.
640 5.49_03 2005-11-03 12:00:00
641 - Fixed $c->req->{path} for backwards-compatibility.
642 - Allow debug to be disabled via ENV as well as enabled.
643 - Added -scripts option to catalyst.pl for script updating
644 - Changed helpers to default to long types, Controller instead of C
645 - Added Catalyst::Controller, Catalyst::Model and Catalyst::View
647 - Added JavaScript to debug screen to show and hide specific dumps
648 - Added _DISPATCH, _BEGIN, _AUTO, _ACTION and _END actions
649 - Added multi process external FastCGI support
650 (see myapp_fastcgi.pl -help) (Sam Vilain)
651 - Restarter process in HTTP engine now properly exits when the
652 parent app is shut down.
653 - Improved performance of restarter loop while watching for
655 - Restarter will now detect new files added to an app on systems
656 that change directory mtimes when new files are created.
657 - Restarter now properly handles modules that are deleted from an
659 - Fixed memory leak in TestApp.
661 5.49_02 2005-10-26 12:39:00
662 - Whole new dispatcher!
664 - Added path_to method
665 - Added support for passing an IO::Handle object to $c->res->body.
667 - Added a new welcome screen.
668 - Included Catalyst buttons and icons in helper.
669 - Added Static::Simple plugin to core.
670 - Added self restarting test server
671 - Added filename to debug output for uploaded files.
672 - Fixed forwarding with embedded arguments.
673 - Fixed handling of escaped query strings.
674 - Added upload parameters back into $c->req->params.
675 - Added multiple paths support to dispatcher
676 - Fixed bug in req->path where changing the path added a trailing
678 - Removed req->handle and res->handle
679 - Added prepare_body_chunk method as a hook for upload progress.
680 - Fixed bug in uri_for method when base has no path.
681 - Added automated tests for HTTP, CGI, and FastCGI servers.
683 5.49_01 2005-10-10 10:15:00
684 - Refactored all internals, should be 99% compatible to previous
686 - *IMPORTANT* The Apache engines have been moved to a separate package
687 for this release. Please install Catalyst::Engine::Apache if you
690 - Added support for calling forward with arguments in the path, i.e.
691 $c->forward('/foo/bar/arg1/arg2')
692 - Made $c->req->uri a URI object, added req->path_info for CGI compat.
693 Raw query string is available as $c->req->uri->query.
694 - Made $c->req->base a URI object.
695 - Parameters with multiple values (?a=1&a=2) now display properly
697 - Semi-colon separators in query strings now work properly.
698 - Expanded documentation of catalyst.pl (Andrew Ford)
699 - Added support for running as a backend server behind a frontend
700 proxy so req->base and req->address are set properly.
701 - Added an 'abort' method to the Log api, so that you can
702 kill loggging for a whole request.
703 - Added $c->uri_for method to simplify url handling.
704 - Added more tests and reorganized the t directory.
705 - Reimplemented core engines, all are now CGI based for better test
706 coverage and maintainability.
707 - Added fork support to built in test server.
708 - Fixed all memory leaks.
709 - Thread-related bug fixes and tests. We now believe the Catalyst
710 core to be thread-safe.
711 - Added streaming IO support through $c->req->read() and
713 - Added MyApp->config->{parse_on_demand} (streaming input)
714 - Added $c->req->handle and $c->res->handle
715 - Improved documentation
716 - Fixed mkpath in Catalyst::Helper (Autrijus Tang)
717 - Fixed bug in dispatcher where an invalid path could call a valid
718 action. (Andy Grundman)
719 - Fixed Helper so it works with CRLF line-endings. (Andy Grundman)
721 5.33 2005-08-10 15:25:00
722 - Now with updated manifest.
724 5.32 2005-08-10 15:10:00
725 - Dispatcher might fail if object returns false. (Florian Ragwitz)
727 5.31 2005-06-04 12:35:00 (never released to CPAN)
729 - helpers now create .new files where files already exist and differ
730 - fixed $Data::Dumper::Terse (Robin Berjon)
731 - added arguments for detach
732 - new credits section in pod
733 - fixed detach to allow relative action names (Matt and Robert)
734 - added the ability to have whitespaces in Path( '' ) and Regex( '' )
736 5.30 2005-06-04 12:35:00
738 - Fixed a bug where it was not possible to $c->forward to a
740 that was not inheriting from Catalyst::Base.
741 - Fix for inheritance bug.
742 - Allow forward with arguments.
744 - Allow overriding home/root in config.
745 - make module build cons README automatically.
746 - prettify home path by resolving '..' (Andy Grundman)
747 - improved helper templates a bit, new naming scheme for tests.
748 - added support for case sensitivity, MyApp->config->{case_sensitive}
749 - added $c->detach for non-returning forwards
750 - added unified error handling, Catalyst::Exception
751 - added section on param handling in Intro.pod
752 - added $c->request->cookie
753 - added Catalyst::Setup
754 - refactored Catalyst::import()
755 - improved rendering of error messages in debug mode
756 - fixed a bug in Catalyst::Helper::mk_dir
757 - further doc changes, esp. to Intro.pod
759 5.23 2005-06-03 02:30:00
760 - added support for non Catalyst::Base components to live in namespace
761 - improved concurrency connections in Catalyst::Engine::HTTP::Daemon
763 5.22 2005-05-26 14:24:00
764 - improved base locating in MP engines
765 - improved error messages in C::E::HTTP::Daemon
766 - hostnames are now resolved on demand unless provided by engine
767 - fixed memory leak in $c->execute (Michael Reece, Matt S Trout)
769 5.21 2005-05-24 14:56:00
770 - fixed a bug in https detection
771 - fixed auto chain finally
772 - added MYAPP_HOME and CATALYST_HOME environment variables
774 5.20 2005-05-18 19:52:00
775 - improved uploads and parameters
776 - added $c->req->protocol and $c->req->secure
777 - added $c->req->user and $c->req->uri
778 - improved error message when forwarding to unknown module
779 - fixed win32 installer
780 - added deep recursion detection
782 - fixed inheritance in dispatcher
783 - allow whitespaces between brackets and quoted string
784 in Path and Regex attributes
785 - new helper templates
786 - installer now supports install_base and destdir
787 - allow multiple Catalyst apps to run on the same mod_perl
788 instance (not the same app!)
790 - removed apreq dependency from all MP engines
791 - added support for MP registry scripts
792 - added support for LocationMatch and ScriptAliasMatch in MP engines
793 - added SpeedyCGI engine
795 5.10 2005-04-23 11:16:00
796 - updated dependencies to require latest module::pluggable::fast
797 - new installer for templates and stuff using Module::Build
798 - scripts are now prefixed, for being installable
799 IMPORTANT: You have to regenerate the script directory,
800 remove Makefile.PL and add Build.PL
801 - Added compat to install Module::Build if required.
802 - Improved: Params handling with MP engines
803 - Fixed: Params handling on POST with CGI engine (Andy Grundman)
804 - Fixed: Helper.pm on Win32 (Matt S Trout)
806 5.03 2005-04-19 20:35:00 (Revision 462)
807 - fixed Test example (Torsten Seeman)
808 - added Plugins chapter to manual
809 - applied doc patch from Robert Boone <robert@rlb3.com>
810 - improved Dispatcher error messages.
811 - refactored so we don't need to include helper from
812 Catalyst.pm - Fixes issues with FindBin
813 - applied HTTP.pm patch from Andy Grundman <andy@hybridized.org>
814 - added plugin() method for instant plugins
815 - FCGI is no more considered experimental
817 5.02 2005-04-18 10:00:00
820 5.01 2005-04-17 23:00:00
821 - some documentation bugs fixed
822 - added Catalyst::Utils
823 - fixed regexp bug (Matt S Trout)
824 - fixed upload bug with MP19
825 - added $c->req->body
826 - aliased $c->res->output to $c->res->body
827 - Read AUTHOR from passwd or $ENV{AUTHOR} when
829 - extended attribute handling
830 - added global config for components
832 5.00 2005-04-15 18:00:00
833 - new core to support inheritance trees
834 - new syntax for action declaration
835 - new helper system using TT2
836 - problems with mod_perl2 fixed
837 - added Test::Pod support
838 - added new server backend with HTTP/1.1 support
839 - added option to run tests against a remote server
840 - renamed errors() to error()
842 - countless minor improvements
843 IMPORTANT: This release is very incompatible to previous ones
844 and you have to regenerate the helper scripts again...
846 4.34 2005-03-23 07:00:00 2005
847 - added some messages to Makefile.PL
848 - added Catalyst::Engine::Test
849 - added Catalyst::Engine::CGI::NPH
850 - simplified Catalyst::Log to be easier to implement/subclass
852 - updated Catalyst::Test to use Catalyst::Engine::Test
853 - updated helper scripts
854 IMPORTANT: this will be the last time you'll have to regenerate
855 the script directory. We promise!
857 4.33 2005-03-23 01:00:00 2005
858 - documented the log() accessor method in Catalyst (Andrew Ford)
859 - added optional arguments to Catalyst::Log methods (Andrew Ford)
860 - removed cgi-server.pl
861 - added fcgi.pl and Catalyst::Engine::FCGI
862 - fixed an undef durng make test (Dan Sully)
863 - new path test (Christian Hansen)
864 IMPORTANT: you have to regenerate the script directory again
866 4.32 2005-03-22 02:10:00 2005
867 - made a damn typo *AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!*
869 4.31 2005-03-22 02:00:00
870 - fixed inheritance (Christian Hansen)
871 - previous release was borked!
872 fixed that, but you have to regenerate the scripts again :(
874 4.30 2005-03-21 23:00:00
875 - more documentation (Andrew Ford)
876 - added connection informations (Christian Hansen)
877 - HTTP::Request support in Catalyst::Test (Christian Hansen)
878 - moved cgi.pl to nph-cgi.pl
879 - added Catalyst::Engine::Server (Christian Hansen)
880 - removed Catalyst::Test::server
881 - updated helper scripts
882 IMPORTANT: note that you have to regenerate script/server.pl,
883 script/cgi-server.pl and script/cgi.pl (now nph-cgi.pl)
885 4.28 2005-03-19 22:00:00
886 - fixed isa tree (Christian Hansen)
887 - added script/cgi-server.pl, so no more server restarting after
889 - reworked documentation (Andrew Ford <A.Ford@ford-mason.co.uk>)
891 4.27 2005-03-19 01:00:00
892 - debug message for parameters
893 - Fix redirects (Christian Hansen <ch@ngmedia.com>)
895 - new helper api for Catalyst::Helper::* support
896 you have to update script/create.pl to use it
898 4.26 2005-03-16 10:00:00
899 - fixed the weird bug that caused regex actions to fail on every
901 - more debug messages
904 4.25 2005-03-12 18:00:00
905 - correct perl pathes for helper generated scripts (Tatsuhiko Miyagawa)
906 - improved cgi engine docs (Christoper Hicks)
908 4.24 2005-03-12 01:00:00
909 - updated cookbook example
910 - fixed base for apache and https (Andrew Ruthven)
912 4.23 2005-03-09 20:00:00
913 - no more regex actions in forward
914 - added support for test directories t/m, t/v and t/c
916 4.22 2005-03-08 20:00:00
917 - catch errors in application class
918 - handle die properly.
920 4.21 2005-03-05 17:00:00
923 4.20 2005-03-04 22:00:00
924 - moved bin to script
926 4.13 2005-03-03 11:00:00
927 - improved documentation
928 - pod coverage test for helper generated apps
931 4.12 2005-03-02 11:00:00 2005
932 - server_base sucks, removed
933 - added $c->log->dump()
935 4.11 2005-03-02 11:00:00 2005
936 - removed some warnings
938 - private prefixed actions override private non prefixed actions
940 - updated Catalyst::Manual::Intro
942 4.10 2005-03-02 10:00:00 2005
943 - improved documentation
945 - fixed prefixed private actions bug
946 - fixed more little bugs
948 4.01 2005-03-01 10:00:00 2005
949 - improved documentation
950 - documentation fixes (Johan Lindstrom)
952 4.00 2005-02-27 22:00:00
953 - more verbose debug messages, especially for forward()
954 - implemented prefixed prvate actions, icluding built in
955 !?default, !?begin and !?end
956 - new Catalyst::Manual::Intro
957 - new helpers, bin/catalyst
960 3.11 2005-02-23 21:00:00
961 - added dependency to UNIVERSAL::require (Marcus Ramberg)
962 - added a little workaround for a warning in Catalyst::Test
964 - improved documentation for actions
966 3.10 2005-02-19 20:00:00
967 - removed roles management from Catalyst::Engine
968 and added it to Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication::CDBI
970 3.04 2005-02-17 21:00:00
971 - error reporting for app class
972 - no more engine debug messages
973 - class->method forwards get resolved now
975 3.03 2005-02-16 23:00:00
976 - friendlier statistics
978 3.02 2005-02-16 22:00:00
979 - fixed unintialized actions (Marcus Ramberg)
981 3.01 2005-02-16 20:30:00
984 3.00 2005-02-16 20:00:00
985 - real version number for CPAN.pm
986 - fixed redirect in CGI engine
987 - more statistics in debug logs
988 - ? prefix for forward()
990 2.99_15 2005-02-02 22:00:00
991 - support for short namespaces, MyApp::M, MyApp::V and MyApp::C
992 - Replaced "Catched" with "Caught" in Catalyst::Engine
994 - replaced _ with ! for private actions
995 - added ? for prefixed actions
998 2.99_14 2005-01-31 22:00:00 2005
999 - arguments for _default
1000 - $c->entrance removed for more flexibility
1001 - added $c->req->method
1003 2.99_13 2005-01-30 18:00:00 2005
1004 - POD fixes and improvements
1006 2.99_12 2005-01-28 22:00:00 2005
1007 - first development release