1 # This file documents the revision history for Perl extension Catalyst.
4 - $c->uri_for now defines a final argument for setting the URL fragment
5 /URL anchor. This is now the canonical approach to setting a fragment
9 - Fixed regression introduced in previous release that prevented a URI
10 fragment from getting properly encoded. Added more tests around this
11 to define behavior better.
14 - Minor test case tweak that I hope solve some minor hiesenfails reported
16 - (https://github.com/perl-catalyst/catalyst-runtime/pull/109) added som
17 additional directions to how to setup a development sandbox
18 - (https://github.com/perl-catalyst/catalyst-runtime/pull/108) fix bug in
19 encoding where URI fragment seperator '#' in ->uri_for would get encoded.
22 - When there is a multipart POST request and the parts have extended
23 HTTP headers, try harder to decode and squeeze a meaningful value
24 out of it before giving up and crying. Updated docs and tests to
25 reflect this change. This should solve problems when your clients
26 are posting multipart form values with special character sets.
27 - Fixed issue where last_error actually returned the first error. Took
28 the change to add a 'pop_errors' to give the inverse of shift_errors.
29 - Merged Pull Requests:
30 - https://github.com/perl-catalyst/catalyst-runtime/pull/95
31 - https://github.com/perl-catalyst/catalyst-runtime/pull/96
32 - https://github.com/perl-catalyst/catalyst-runtime/pull/97
33 - https://github.com/perl-catalyst/catalyst-runtime/pull/98
34 - https://github.com/perl-catalyst/catalyst-runtime/pull/106
35 - https://github.com/perl-catalyst/catalyst-runtime/pull/107
38 - Fixed a bug where if you used $res->write and then $res->body, the
39 contents of body would be double encoded (gshank++).
42 - Allows you to use a namespace suffix for request, response and stats
43 class traits. Docs and tests for this.
44 - Refactor the change introduced in 5.90091 to solve reported issues (for
45 example Catalyst::Controller::DBIC::API fails its tests) and to be a more
46 conservative refactor (new code more closely resembles the orginal code
47 that has proven to work for years.)
50 - Fixed a bug where if an injected component expanded sub components, those
51 sub components would not show up in the startup debug dev console (
52 even though they were actually created).
55 - Updated some documention in Catalyst::Request::Upload to clarify behavior
56 that RT ticket reported as confusing or unexpected
57 - Merged all changes from 5.90089_XXX development cycle.
58 - removed a mistaken use of Test::Most, which is not a core Catalyst
59 dependency. Used Test::More instead.
61 5.90089_004 - 2015-04-28
62 - Added swanky github badges.
63 - Reverted a change to how the stats engine is setup that was incorrect.
64 - New application setup hook 'config_for' which allows one to get the
65 canonical application configuration for a controller, view or model, or
66 a plugin. Can also be used to override and adapt what configuration is
69 5.90089_003 - 2015-04-27
70 - Fixed an issue where a delayed controller that did ACCEPT_CONTEXT would
71 raise an error when registering its actions.
72 - Updated some documentation around route matching.
73 - refactored the setup of injected components to allow you to hook into
74 the injection and do custom injection types.
76 5.90089_002 - 2015-04-17
77 - Changed the way we check for presence of Type::Tiny in a test case to be
78 more explicit in the version requirement. Hopefully a fix for reported
80 - When declaring type constraints in Args and CaptureArgs, if you want to
81 use a Moose builtin type (or a custom stringy type that you've already
82 defined and associated with the Moose::TypeRegistry) you must now quote
83 the type name. This is to clearly disambiguate between Moose stringy types
85 - Additional changes to type constraint detection to between determine when a
86 type constraint for reference types have a measured number of arguments or
87 not. clarify restriction on reference type constraints.
88 - Several bugs with type constraints and uri_for squashed. More test cases
89 around all the argument type constraints to tighten scope of action.
90 - NEW FEATURE: New method in Catalyst::Utils 'inject_component', which is a core
91 version of the previously external addon 'CatalystX::InjectComponent'. You should
92 start to convert your existing code which uses the stand alone version, since
93 going forward only the core version will be supported. Also the core version in
94 Catalyst::Utils has an additional feature to compose roles into the injected
96 - NEW FEATURE: Concepts from 'CatalystX::RoleApplicator' have been moved to core
97 so we now have the follow application attributes 'request_class_traits',
98 'response_class_traits' and 'stats_class_traits' which allow you to compose
99 traits for these core Catalyst classes without needing to create subclasses. So
100 in general any request or response trait on CPAN that used 'CatalystX::RoleApplicator'
101 should now just work with this core feature. Note that can also set thse roles
102 via new configuration keys, 'request_class_traits', 'response_class_traits'
103 and 'stats_class_traits'. If you use both configuration and application class methods,
105 - NEW FEATURE: Core concepts from 'CatalystX::ComponentsFromConfig'. You can now
106 setup components directly from configuration. This could save you some effort and
107 creating 'empty' base classes in your Model/View and Controller directories. This
108 feature is currently limited in that you can only configure components that are
109 'true' Catalyst components (but you may use Catalyst::Model::Adaptor to proxy
110 stand alone classes...).
111 - Only create a stats object if you are using stats. This is a minor performance
112 optimization, but there's a small chance it is a breaking change, so please
113 report any stats related issues.
114 - Added a developer mode warning if you call a component with arguments that does not
115 expect arguments (for example calling $c->model('Foo', 1,2,3,4) where Myapp::Model::Foo
116 does not ACCEPT_CONTEXT. Only components that ACCEPT_CONTEXT do anything with
117 passed arguments in $c->controller/view/model.
118 - Change the way components are setup so that you can now rely on all components
119 when setting up a component. Previously application scoped components could not
120 reliably use an existing application scoped component as a dependecy for initialization.
122 5.90089_001 - 2015-03-26
123 - New development branch synched with 5.90085.
124 - NEW FEATURE: Type Constraints on Args/CaptureArgs. Allows you to declare
125 a Moose, MooseX::Types or Type::Tiny named constraint on your Arg or
127 - When using $c->uri_for (or the derived $c->uri_for_action) and the target
128 action has type constrainted args (or captures), verify that the proposed
129 URL matches the defined args. In general $c->uri_for will be a bit more
130 noisy if the supplied arguments are not correct.
131 - New top level document on Route matching. (Catalyst::RouteMatching). This
132 document is still in development, but is worth review and comments.
135 - Small change to Catalyst::Action to prevent autovivication of Args value (dim1++)
136 - Minor typo fixes (Abraxxa++)
137 - Make sure than when using chained actions and when more than one action
138 matches the same path specification AND has Args(0), that we follow the
139 "in a tie, the last action defined wins" rule. There is a small chance
140 this is a breaking change for you. See Catalyst::Upgrading for more.
141 You may use the application configuration setting "use_chained_args_0_special_case"
142 to disable this new behavior, if you must for back-compat reasons.
143 - Added PATCH HTTP Method action attribute shortcut.
144 - Several new configuration options aimed to give improved backwards compatibility
145 for when your URL query parameters or keywords have non UTF-8 encodings.
146 See Catalyst::Upgrading.
149 - Small change to the way body parameters are created in order to prevent
150 trying to create parameters twice.
151 - Use new HTTP::Body and code updates to fix issue when POSTed params have
152 non UTF-8 charset encodings or otherwise complex upload parts that are not
153 file uploads. In these cases when Catalyst can't determine what the value of
154 a form upload is, will return an instance of Catalyst::Request::PartData with
155 all the information need to figure it out. Documentation about this corner
156 case. For RT https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=101556
157 - Two new application configuration parameters 'skip_body_param_unicode_decoding'
158 and 'skip_complex_post_part_handling' to assist you with any backward
159 compatibility issues with all the new UTF8 work in the most recent stable
160 Catalyst. You may use these settings to TEMPORARILY disable certain new
161 features while you are seeking a long term fix.
164 - Fixed typo in support for OPTIONS method matching (andre++)
165 - Stop using $env->{'plack.request.query'} as a query parsing optimization
166 since 1) it doesn't belong to us and 2) there's subtle differences in the
167 way plack parses parameters and catalyst does. This fixes a bug when you
168 are using middleware that uses Plack::Request to do its thing. This change
169 might have subtle impact on query parsing. Please test this change!
172 - Fixed a regression created in $response->from_psgi_response and test case
173 to prevent it happening again.
176 - created class attribute 'finalized_default_middleware' which determines
177 if the default middleware has been added to the stack yet or not. This
178 removes a horrible hack that polluted the configuration hash. Added
179 test case to prevent regressions.
182 - Minor documentation corrections
183 - Make the '79 development series stable
185 5.90079_008 - 2015-01-07
186 - If we get a response set from $res->from_psgi_response and that response
187 has a charset for the content type, we clear encoding for the rest of the
188 response (avoid double encoding). Added more documentation around this.
189 - Documentation updates and typo fixes across various UTF8 docs (Mark Ellis++)
191 5.90079_007 - 2015-01-07
192 - Merged from Stable (5.90079)
193 - reviewed and cleaned up UTF8 related docs
194 - replace missing utf8 pragma in Catalyst::Engine
195 - Cleaned up spelling errors in various docs (abbraxxa++)
196 - New document Catalyst::UTF8 which attempts to summarize UTF8 and encoding
197 changes introduced in v5.90080.
199 5.90079_006 - 2015-01-02
200 - Removed unneeded dependency on RenderView in new test case that was causing fails
201 on CPAN testers that did not just happen to have that dependency already installed
202 - Updated copyright notices to 2015
203 - Documentation patches around the setup methods and clarification on on security
204 note posted a few months ago.
205 - Added my name to the contributors list
207 5.90079_005 - 2014-12-31
208 - Merged changes from 5.90078
209 - If configuration 'using_frontend_proxy' is set, we add the correct middleware
210 to the default middleware list. This way you get the correct and expected
211 behavior if you are starting your application via one of the generated scripts
212 or if you are calling MyApp->psgi_app. Previously if you started the application
213 with ->psgi_app (or to_app) we ignored this configuration option
214 - New configuration option 'using_frontend_proxy_path' which enables
215 Plack::Middleware::ReverseProxyPath on your application easily. Please note that
216 Plack::Middleware::ReverseProxyPath is not an automatic dependency of Catalyst at
217 this time, so if you want this feature you should add it to your project dependency
218 list. This is done to avoid continued growth of Catalyst dependencies.
219 - Tweaks encoding docs a bit to get closer to final.
221 5.90079_004 - 2014-12-26
222 - Starting adding some docs around the new encoding stuff
223 - Exposed the reqexp we use to match content types that need encoding via a
225 - Added some test cases for JSON utf8 and tested file uploads with utf8.
226 - Fixes to decoding on file upload filenames and related methods
227 - new methods on upload object that tries to do the right thing if we find
228 a character set on the upload and its UTF8.
229 - new additional helper methods on the file upload object.
230 - new helper methods has_encoding and clear_encoding on context.
231 - Method on Catalyst::Response to determine if the response should be encoded.
232 - Warn if changing headers only if headers are finalized AND the response callback
233 has already been called (and headers already sent).
234 - Centralized rules about detecting if we need to automatically encode or not and
235 added tests around cases when you choose to skip auto encoding.
237 5.90079_003 - 2014-12-03
238 - Make sure all tests run even if debug mode is enabled.
239 - Fixed issue with middleware stash test case that failed on older Perls
241 5.90079_002 - 2014-12-02
242 - Fixed typo in Makefile.PL which borked the previous distribution. No other
245 5.90079_001 - 2014-12-02
246 - MyApp->to_app is now an alias for MyApp->psgi_app in order to better support
247 existing Plack conventions.
248 - Modify Catalyst::Response->from_psgi_response to allow the first argument to
249 be an object that does ->as_psgi.
250 - Modified Catalyst::Middleware::Stash to be a shallow copy in $env. Added some
251 docs. Added a test case to make sure stash keys added in a child application
252 don't bubble back up to the main application.
253 - We no longer use Encode::is_utf8 since it doesn't work the way we think it
254 does... This required some UTF-8 changes. If your application is UTF-8 aware
255 I highly suggest you test this release.
256 - We always do utf8 decoding on incoming URLs (before we only did so if the server
257 encoding was utf8. I believe this is correct as per the w3c spec, but please
258 correct if incorrect :)
259 - Debug output now shows utf8 characters if those are incoming via Args or as
260 path or pathparts in your actions. query and body parameter keys are now also
261 subject to utf8 decoding (or as specified via the encoding configuration value).
262 - lots of UTF8 changes. Again we think this is now more correct but please test.
263 - Allow $c->res->redirect($url) to accept $url as an object that does ->as_string
264 which I think will ease a common case (and common bug) and added documentation.
265 - !!! UTF-8 is now the default encoding (there used to be none...). You can disable
266 this if you need to with MyApp->config(encoding => undef) if it causes you trouble.
267 - Calling $c->res->write($data) now encodes $data based on the configured encoding
269 - $c->res->writer_fh now returns Catalyst::Response::Writer which is a decorator
270 over the PSGI writer and provides an additional method 'write_encoded' that just
271 does the right thing for encoding your responses. This is probably the method
273 - New dispatch matching attribute: Scheme. This lets you match a route based on
274 the incoming URI scheme (http, https, ws, wss).
275 - If $c->uri_for targets an action or action chain that defines Scheme, use that
276 scheme for the generated URI object instead of just using whatever the incoming
280 - Removed dependency from test case that we don't install for testing (
282 - updated year in copyright notices
285 - POD corrections (sergey++)
286 - New configuration option to disable the HTTP Exception passthrough feature
287 introduced in 5.90060. You can use this if that feature is causing you
288 trouble. (davewood++);
289 - Some additional helper methods for dealing with errors.
290 - More clear exception when $request->body_data tries to parse malformed POSTed
291 data. Added documentation and tests around this.
294 - We store the PSGI $env in Catalyst::Engine for backcompat reasons. Changed
295 this so that the storage is a weak reference, so that it goes out of scope
296 with the request. This solves an issue where items in the stash (now in the
297 PSGI env) would not get closed at the end of the request. This caused some
298 regression, primarily in custom testing classes.
301 - If throwing an exception object that does the code method, make sure that
302 method returns an expected HTTP status code before passing it on to the
303 HTTP Exception middleware.
306 - Documentation patch for $c->req->param to point out the recently discovered
307 potential security issues: http://blog.gerv.net/2014/10/new-class-of-vulnerability-in-perl-web-applications/
308 - You don't need to install this update, but you should read about the exploit
309 and review if your code is vulnerable. If you use the $c->req->param interface
310 you really need to review this exploit.
313 - Specify Carp minimum version to avoid pointless test fails (valy++)
316 - Fixed a regression caused by the last release where we broke what happened
317 when you tried to set request parameters via $c->req->param('foo', 'bar').
318 You shouldn't do this, but I guess I shouldn't have busted it either :)
319 - Allow the term_width to be regenerated (see Catalyst::Utils::term_width,
321 - More aggressive skipping of value decoding if the value is undefined.
324 - In the case where you call $c->req->param(undef), warn with a more useful
325 warning (now gives the line of your code that called param with the undef,
326 so you can go to hunt it out.
329 - Travis config now performs basic reverse dependency testing.
330 - Restored deprecated 'env' code in Engine.pm b/c it is still being used out
331 in the wild (Catalyst-Plugin-Authentication-0.10023) - (removed in 5.90070)
332 - Reverted changes to debug log/handling (5.90069_003) to fix
333 rev dep Catalyst-Plugin-Static-Simple-0.32 test suite.
334 - Added Italian translation of default error.
337 - Retagged previous release as stable; no changes
340 - Fixed typo in middleware stash that was causing older Perls to fail
341 certain tests. No other changes.
344 - The default log level is now 'info', not 'debug'.
345 - Finished merging all the encoding plugin code to core code. The encoding
346 plugin is now just an empty package. Also tried to improve encoding docs
348 - Some additional changes to the stash middleware that should not break
350 - Documentation around using Sendfile type http headers with a filehandle
352 - Merged from master branch to pick up some additional fixes and documentation
356 - Catalyst stash functionality has been moved to Middleware. It should
357 work entirely the same when used as a context method, please report
358 questions or problems!
359 - Removed code related to supporting the long deprecated stand alone
360 PSGI Engine. If you are still using this you code is now broken.
361 Luckily you can just stop using it and likely everything will work
362 under the new PSGI support built into Catalyst for several years.
363 - 'abort_chain_on_error_fix' now defaults to true. If this behavior
364 causes you issues, you can explicitly turn it off by setting it to a
365 non true defined value (0 is a good option here).
366 - When throwing an http style exception, make sure we properly flush the
367 existing log and report other errors in the error stack.
370 - Set encoding on STDERR when encoding is set in config
371 - documentation and test fixes
374 - The Catalyst::Log object now has 'autoflush' (which defaults to true) and
375 causes log messages to be written out in real-time. This is helpful for the
376 test/dev server to be able to see messages during startup as well as before
377 the end of the request when the log is flushed.
378 - Fix spelling, grammar and structural errors in POD
379 - Remove redundant ->setup call in t/head_middleware.t RT#95361
380 - Fix test failures when running under CATALYST_DEBUG. RT#95358
383 - Fix for mindless broken tests on Win32 (Haarg++).
384 - Happy Cinco de Mayo!
387 - 'end' and other special actions won't catch HTTP style exceptions anymore.
388 - Fix bug where Catalyst did not properly detect the terminal width when in
389 debug mode and thus making the debug output narrow and hard to read.
390 - Documentation corrections for Util methods around localized PSGI $env.
391 - Improvements to auto detection of terminal width.
392 - Updating deprecation list to include Class::Load and ensure_class_loaded
393 - Added a few docs around middleware and corrected the order that middleware
394 is loaded when registering it via ->setup_middleware instead of via
396 - Added a test case to make sure default middleware order is correct.
399 - HTTP::Exception objects were not properly bubbled up to middleware since
400 there was some code in Catalyst that was triggering stringification.
403 - Reverted a change related to how plugins get initialized that was
404 introduced by a change in December.
407 - Same as 5.90059_006, just marking it as stable, no functional changes.
410 5.90059_006 - 2014-02-06
411 - MyApp->setup now returns $app to allow class method chaining.
412 - New Util helper functional localize $env to make it easier to mount PSGI
413 applications under controllers and actions. See Catalyst::Utils/PSGI Helpers.
414 - NOTICE: Final Development release for Runner, unless significant issues are
417 5.90059_005 - 2014-01-28
418 - Specify newest versions of some middleware in attempt to solve test errors
419 reported while installing.
420 5.90059_004 - 2014-01-27
421 - Make sure IO handle objects do 'getline' before sending them to the
422 response callback, to properly support the PSGI specification.
423 - Added some backcompat code when setting a response body to an object
424 that does 'read' but not 'getline'. Added deprecation notice for this
425 case. Added docs to Catalyst::Delta.
426 - Catalyst::Delta contains a list of behaviors which will be considered
427 deprecated immediately. Most items have workarounds and tweaks you can
428 make to avoid issues. These deprecations are targeted for removal/enforcement
429 in the Catalyst 6 release. Please review and give your feedback.
430 - More middleware to replace inline code (upasana++)
431 - Documentation around Exceptions and how we handle them.
432 - update copyright notices.
434 5.90059_003 - 2013-12-24
435 - More documentation about alternative ways to setup middleware.
436 - removed unneeded use of Devel::Dwarn in test case that was causing
437 fails to install (sorry).
438 - When finalizing caught errors, if the error conforms to the interface as
439 described by Plack::Middleware::HTTPExceptions, rethrow it and let the
440 middleware deal with it.
442 5.90059_002 - 2013-12-21
443 - We now pass a scalar or filehandle directly to you Plack handler, rather
444 than always use the streaming interface (we are still always using a
445 delayed response callback). This means that you can make use of Plack
446 middleware like Plack::Middleware::XSendfile and we expect better use of
447 server features (when they exist) like correct use of chunked encoding or
448 properly non blocking streaming when running under a supporting server like
449 Twiggy. See Catalyst::Delta for more. This change might cause issues if
450 you are making heaving use of streaming (although in general we expect things
452 - In the case when we remove a content body from the response because you set
453 an information status or a no content type status, warn that we are doing so
454 when in debug mode. You might see additional debugging information to help
455 you find and remove unneeded response bodies.
456 - Updated the code where Catalyst tries to guess a content length when you
457 fail to provide one. This should cause less issues when trying to guess the
458 length of a funky filehandle. This now uses Plack::Middleware::ContentLength
459 - Removed custom code to remove body content when the request is HEAD and
460 swapped it for Plack::Middleware::Head
461 - Merged fix for regressions from stable..
463 5.90059_001 - 2013-12-19
464 - Removed deprecated Regexp dispatch type from dependency list. If you are
465 using Regex[p] type dispatching you need to add the standalone distribution
466 'Catalyst::DispatchType::Regex' to you build system NOW or you application
470 - Reverted a change in the previous release that moved the setup_log phase
471 to after setup_config. This change was made to allow people to use
472 configuration that is late loaded (such as via the ConfigLoader Plugin)
473 to setup the plugin. However it also broke the ability to use the log
474 during plugin setup (ie, it breaks lots of plugins). Reverting the
475 change. See Catalyst::Delta for workarounds.
479 - Fixed first block of startup debug messages missing when using a custom
480 logger that gets set at runtime, for example by overriding finalize_config
481 - Give a more descriptive error message when trying to load middleware that
483 - Change the way we initialize plugins to fix a bug where when using the
484 popular ConfigLoader plugin, configs merged are not available for setting
485 up middleware and data handlers (and probably other things as well).
487 NOTE: This change might cause issues if you had code that was relying on the
488 broken behavior. For example external configuration that was being loaded to
489 late to have effect might now take effect. Please test you code carefully and
490 be aware of this possible issue </NOTE>.
492 - You may now also call 'setup_middleware' as a package method if you think
493 that loading middleware via configuration is a weird or broken idea.
494 - Various POD formatting fixed.
495 - Improved some documentation about what type of filehandles that ->body can
496 accept and issues that might arise.
499 - Be more skeptical of the existence of $request->env to fix a regression
500 introduced in Catalyst::Action::REST by the previous release
503 - Previously public predicates on the following attributes are now considered
504 private and their method names have been changed to follow Perl convention
505 for internal methods:
507 -- Catalyst::Request->has_io_fh ==> _has_io_fh
508 -- Catalyst::Request->has_env ==> _has_env
509 -- Catalyst::Response->has_write_fh ==> _has_write_fh
511 These are breaking changes but these methods were never documented and serve
512 no use for external code. If you are using thing, you need to make the noted
513 change (but please consider finding another way to do what you are trying to
514 do). t0m++ for code review of Hamburg branch.
516 5.90049_006 - 2013-11-04
517 - Fixed case where test could fail when Starman was partly installed (n0body++)
518 - Fixed missing date information in previous release
520 5.90049_005 - 2013-10-31
521 - NEW FEATURE: New Controller action attribute 'Consumes', which allows you
522 to specify the content type of the incoming request. This makes it easier
523 to create actions that only handle certain content type POST or PUT, such
524 as actions that only handle JSON or actions that only understand classic
526 - NEW FEATURE: Request->body_data is now also populated from classic HTML
527 Forms using CGI::Struct to support nested data. For non nested data you
528 should use the classic ->body_parameters method.
529 - Removed PSGI $env keys that are added on the 'plack.request.*' namespace
530 since after discussion it was clear those keys are not part of the public
531 API. Keys removed: 'plack.request.query', 'plack.request.body',
532 'plack.request.merged' and 'plack.request.http.body'. Altered some test
533 cases to reflect this change.
535 5.90049_004 - 2013-10-18
536 - JSON Data handler looks for both JSON::MaybeXS and JSON, and uses
537 whichever is first (preferring to find JSON::MaybeXS). This should
538 improve compatibility as you likely already have one installed.
539 - Fixed a warning in the server script (bokutin++)
540 - We now populate various Plack $env keys in order to play nice with
541 downstream middleware or plack apps (and to reduce processing if
542 those keys already exist). Keys added:
543 - plack.request.query
545 - plack.request.merged
546 - plack.request.http.body
547 (NOTE: REMOVED IN 5.90049_005)
548 - If incoming input (from a POST or PUT) is not buffered, create the
549 buffer and set the correct psgi env keys to note this for downstream
550 psgi apps / middleware. This should solve some issues where Catalyst
551 sucks up the body input but its not buffered so downstream apps can't
552 read it (for example FCGI does not buffer). We now also try to make
553 sure the body content input is reset to the start of the filehandle
554 so that we are polite to downstream middleware /apps.
555 - NEW FEATURE: Catalyst::Response can now pull response from a PSGI
556 specification response. This makes it easier to host external Plack
557 applications under Catalyst. See Catalyst::Response->from_psgi_response
558 - NEW FEATURE: New configuration option 'use_hash_multivalue_in_request'
559 will populate $request methods 'parameters', 'body_parameters' and
560 'query_parameters' with an instance of Hash::MultiValue instead of a
561 HashRef. This is used by Plack and is intended to reduce the need to
562 write defensive logic since you are never sure if an incoming parameter
563 is a scalar or arrayref.
564 - NEW FEATURE: We now experimentally support Net::Async::HTTP::Server
565 and IO-Async based event loops. Examples will follow.
567 5.90049_003 - 2013-09-20
568 - Documented the new body_data method added in the previous release
569 - Merged from master many important bugfixes and forward compatibility
571 - Use modern preferred method for Moose metaclass access and many other
572 small changes to how we use Moose for better forward compat (ether++)
573 - Killed some evil use of $@ (ether++)
574 - spelling fixes and documentation updates (ether++), (gerda++)
575 - use Test::Fatal over Test::Exception (ether++)
576 - Misc. test case fixes to modernize code (ether++)
577 - Added a first pass cpanfile, to try and make it easier to bootstrap
578 a development setup (ether++)
580 5.90049_002 - 2013-08-20
581 - Fixed loading middleware from project directory
582 - Fixed some pointless warnings when middleware class lacked VERSION
583 - NEW FEATURE: Declare global 'data_handlers' for parsing HTTP POST/PUT
584 alternative content, and created default JSON handler. Yes, now Catalyst
585 handles JSON request content out of the box! More docs eventually but
586 for now see the DATA HANDLERS section in Catalyst.pm (or review the test
587 case t/data_handler.t
589 5.90049_001 - 2013-07-26
590 - Declare PSGI compliant Middleware as part of your Catalyst Application via
591 a new configuration key, "psgi_middleware".
592 - Increased lowest allowed module version for Module::Pluggable to be 4.7 (up
593 from 3.4) to solve the fact this is no longer bundled with Perl in v5.18.
596 - Removed more places where an optional dependency shows up in the test
597 suite. Hopefully really fixed the unicode regression introduced in 5.90040
598 - reverted the change we introduced in 5.90040 where a unicode conversion
599 error warned instead of died. Now it dies again, like in the stand alone
601 - More work to make sure nothing happens with encoding unless you explicitly
603 - Code to hopefully fix an issue where file uploads using the unicode plugin
607 - Bug fix release to fix regressions introduced in previous. I would consider
608 this a likely upgrade and if you are having trouble with the previous I hope
609 this fixes all of them.
610 - Fix regression with the cored Unicode plugin that broke systems where you are
611 setting encoding type in an external configuration file
612 - Fixed circular dependency introduced when we cored the unicode plugin tests
613 - Fixed a longstanding problem with stats when locale uses , instead of . for
615 - Fixed some docs that didn't properly date the previous release.
618 ! Stricter checking of attributes in Catalyst::DispatchType::Chained:
619 1) Only allow one of either :CaptureArgs or :Args
620 2) :CaptureArgs() argument must be numeric
621 3) :CaptureArgs() and :Args() arguments cannot be negative
622 - Add Devel::InnerPackage to dependencies, fixing tests on Perl 5.17.11
623 as it's been removed from core. RT#84787
624 - New support for closing over the PSGI $writer object, useful for working
626 - lets you access a psgix.io socket, if your server supports it, for manual
627 handling of the client - server communication, such as for websockets.
628 - Fix waiting for the server to start in t/author/http-server.t
629 - new config flag 'abort_chain_on_error_fix' that exits immediately when a
630 action in an action chain throws and error (fixes issues where currently
631 the remaining actions are processed and the error is handled at chain
633 - Cored the Encoding plugin. Now get unicode out of the box by just setting
634 $c->config->{encoding} = 'UTF-8'. BACKCOMPAT WARNING: If you are using
635 the Encoding plugin on CPAN, we skip it to avoid double encoding issues, so
636 you should remove it from your plugin list, HOWEVER the 'encoding' config
637 setting is now undef, rather than 'UTF-8' (this was done to avoid breaking
638 people's existing applications) so you should add the encoding setting to
639 you global config. There's some other changes between the stand alone
640 plugin and the cored version, if you use it be sure to see Catalyst::Upgrading
642 - minor documentation typo fixes and updates
645 ! POSSIBLE BREAKING CHANGE: Removed Regexp dispatch type from core, and put
646 it in an external package. If you need Regexp dispatch types you should
647 add "Catalyst-DispatchType-Regex" as a distribution to your build system.
648 - make $app->uri_for and related methods return something sane, when called
649 as an application method, instead of a context method. Now if you call
650 MyApp::Web->uri_for(...) you will get a generic URI object that you need to
652 - documentation updates around forwarding to chained actions.
653 - Fixed bug when a PSGI engine need to use psgix logger.
654 - Added cpanfile as a way to notice we are a dev checkout.
655 - Added 'x-tunneled-method' HTTP Header method override to match features in
656 Catalyst::Action::REST and in other similar systems on CPAN.
657 - smarter validation around action attributes.
660 ! Catalyst::Action now defines 'match_captures' so it is no long considered
661 an optional method. This might break you code if you have made custom
662 action roles/classes where you define 'match_captures'. You must change
663 your code to use a method modifier (such as 'around').
664 - New match method "Method($HTTP_METHOD)" where $HTTP_METHOD in (GET, POST,
665 PUT, HEAD, DELETE, OPTION) and shortcuts in controllers called "GET, POST
666 PUT, HEAD, DELETE, OPTION"). Tests and documentation. Please note if you
667 are currently using Catalyst::ActionRole::MatchRequestMethods there may
668 be compatibility issues. You should remove that actionrole since the built
669 in behavior is compatible on its own.
670 - Initial debug screen now shows HTTP Method Match info
671 - security fixes in the way we handle redirects
672 - Make Catalyst::Engine and Catalyst::Base immutable
673 - Some test and documentation improvements
675 5.90019 - 2012-12-04 21:31:00
676 - Fix for Perl 5.17.6 (commit g7dc8663). RT#81601
677 - Fix for Perl 5.8. RT#61122
678 - Remove use of MooseX::Types as MooseX::Types is broken on Perl 5.8
681 5.90018 - 2012-10-23 20:55:00
682 - Changed code in test suite so it no longer trips up on recent changes to
685 5.90017 - 2012-10-19 22:33:00
686 - Change Catalyst _parse_attrs so that when sub attr handlers:
688 1) Can return multiple pairs of new attributes.
689 2) Get their returned attributes passed through the correct attribute handler.
691 e.g sub _parse_Whatever_attr { return Chained => 'foo', PathPart => 'bar' }
693 Will now work because both new attributes are respected, and the Chained
694 attribute is passed to _parse_Chained_attr and fixed up correctly by that.
696 - In Catalyst::Test, don't mangle headers of non-HTML responses. RT#79043
698 - Refactor request and response class construction to add methods
699 that roles can hook to feed extra parameters into the constructor
700 of request or response classes.
702 5.90016 - 2012-08-16 15:35:00
703 - prepare_parameters is no longer an attribute builder. It is now a method
704 that calls the correct underlying functionality (Bill Moseley++)
705 - Updated Makefile.PL to handle MacOSX tar
706 - Fix uri_for to handle a stringifiable object
707 - Fix model/view/controller methods to handle stringifiable objects
708 - Fix RT#78377 - IIS7 ignores response body for 3xx requests, which
709 causes (a different) response to be broken when using keepalive.
710 Fixed by applying Middleware which removes the response body and
711 content length that Catalyst supplies with redirects.
713 5.90015 - 2012-06-30 16:57:00
714 - Fix $c->finalize_headers getting called twice. RT#78090
715 - Fix test fails in Catalyst-Plugin-Session-State-Cookie. RT#76179
716 - Fix test fails in Catalyst-Plugin-StackTrace
717 - Fix test fails in Test-WWW-Mechanize-Catalyst
719 5.90014 - 2012-06-26 10:00:00
721 - Fix calling finalize_headers before writing body when using $c->write /
722 $c->res->write (fixes RT#76179).
724 5.90013 - 2012-06-21 10:40:00
726 - Release previous TRIAL as stable.
727 - We failed to note in the previous changelog that the Makefile.PL has been
728 improved to make it easier for authors to bootstrap a developer install
731 5.90013 - TRIAL 2012-06-07 20:21:00
734 - Merge Catalyst::Controller::ActionRole into Catalyst::Controller.
737 - Fix warnings in some matching cases for Action methods with
738 Args(), when using Catalyst::DispatchType::Chained
740 - Fix request body parameters to not be undef if no parameters
743 - Fix action_args config so that it can be specified in the
746 - Fix t/author/http-server.t on Win32
748 - Fix use of Test::Aggregate to make tests faster.
750 5.90012 - 2012-05-16 09:59:00
752 Distribution META.yml changes:
753 - author key is now correct, rather than what Module::Install
754 mis-parses from the documentation.
755 - x_authority key added.
758 - Fix request body parameters being multiply rebuilt. Fixes both
759 RT#75607 and CatalystX::DebugFilter
761 - Make plugin de-duplication work as intended originally, as whilst
762 duplicate plugins are totally unwise, the C3 error given to the user
763 is less than helpful.
765 - Remove dependence on obscure behaviour in B::Hooks::EndOfScope
766 for backward compatibility. This fixes issues with behaviour changes
767 in bleadperl. RT#76437
769 - Work around Moose bug RT#75367 which breaks
770 Catalyst::Controller::DBIC::API.
773 - Fix documentation in Catalyst::Component to show attributes and
774 calling readers, rather than accessing elements in the $self->{} hash
776 - Add note in Catalyst::Component to strongly disrecommend $self->config
777 - Fix vague 'checkout' wording in Catalyst::Utils. RT#77000
778 - Fix documentation for the 'secure' method in Catalyst:Request. RT#76710
780 5.90011 - 2012-03-08 16:43:00
783 - Simplification of the previous changes to Catalyst::ScriptRunner
784 We now just push $FindBin::Bin/../lib to the @INC path again, but
785 only if one of the dist indicator files (Makefile.PL Build.PL or
786 dist.ini) can be found in $FindBin::Bin/../$_
787 This avoids heuristics when the app is unloaded and therefore
788 works better for extensions which have entire applications in
790 - Bug fix to again correctly detect checkouts in dist zilla using
792 - --background option for the server script now only closes
793 STDIN, STDOUT and STDERR. This fixes issues with Log::Dispatch
794 and other loggers which open a file handle when
795 - Change incorrect use of File::Spec->catdir to File::Spec->catfile
796 so that we work on platforms which care about this (VMS?)
797 - Make it more obvious if our PSGI server doesn't pass in a response
800 5.90010 - 2012-02-18 00:01:00
803 - Fix the previous fix to Catalyst::ScriptRunner which was resulting
804 in the lib directory not being pushed onto @INC.
805 This meant perl ./script/myapp_server.pl failed, however
806 perl -Ilib ./script/myapp_server.pl would succeed.
808 5.90009 - 2012-02-16 09:06:00
811 - Fix the debug page so that it works as expected with the latest
814 - The Catalyst::Utils::home function is used to find if the application
815 is a checkout in Catalyst::ScriptRunner. This means that a non-existent
816 lib directory that is relative to the script install location is not
817 included when not running from a checkout.
819 - Fix dead links to cpansearch.perl.org to point to metacpan.org.
821 - Require the latest version of B::Hooks::EndOfScope (0.10) to avoid an
822 issue with new versions of Module::Runtime (0.012) on perl 5.10
823 which stopped Catalyst::Controller from compiling.
825 - In Catalyst::Test, don't mangle headers of non-HTML responses. RT#79043
827 5.90008 - TRIAL 2012-02-06 20:49:00
829 New features and refactoring:
830 - Much of the Catalyst::Engine code has been moved into Catalyst::Request
831 and Catalyst::Response, to be able to better support asynchronous web
832 servers such as Twiggy, by making the application engine more reenterant.
834 This change is as a prequel to full asynchronous support inside Catalyst
835 for AnyEvent and IO::Async backends, which allow highly scaleable streaming
836 (for applications such as multi-part XML HTTPRequests, and Websockets).
839 - This means that the $c->engine->env method to access the PSGI environment
840 is now deprecated. The accessor for the PSGI env is now on Catalyst::Request
841 as per applications which were using Catalyst::Engine::PSGI
843 Catalyst::Engine::PSGI is now considered fully deprecated.
845 - The private _dump method in Catalyst::Log is now deprecated. The dumper is
846 not pluggable and which dumper to use should be a user choice. Using
847 an imported Dump() or Dumper() function is less typing than $c->log->_dump
848 and as this method is unused anywhere else in Catalyst, it has been scheduled
849 for removal as a cleanup. Calling this method will now emit a stack trace
850 on first call (but not on subsequent calls).
852 Back compatibility fixes:
853 - Applications still using Catalyst::Engine::PSGI as they rely on
854 $c->request->env - this is now the provided (and recommended) way of
855 accessing the raw PSGI environment.
858 - Spurious warnings have been removed from the test suite
861 - Fix the display of PROJECT FOUNDER and CONTRIBUTORS sections in the
862 documentation. These were erroneously being emitted when the Pod
863 was converted to HTML for search.cpan.org
865 - Fix documentation for the build_psgi_app app method. Previously the
866 documentation advised that it provided the psgi app already wrapped
867 in default middleware. This is not the case - it is the raw app psgi
869 5.90007 - 2011-11-22 20:35:00
872 - Implement a match_captures hook which, if it exists on an action,
873 is called with the $ctx and \@captures and is expected to return
874 true to continue the chain matching and false to stop matching.
875 This can be used to implement action classes or roles which match
876 conditionally (for example only matching captures which are integers).
879 - Lighttpd script name fix is only applied for lighttpd versions
880 < 1.4.23. This should fix non-root installs of lighttpd in versions
882 - Prepare_action is now inside a try {} block, so that requests containing
883 bad unicode can be appropriately trapped by
884 Catalyst::Plugin::Unicode::Encoding
886 5.90006 - 2011-10-25 09:18:00
889 - A new 'run_options' class data method has been added to Catalyst.pm
890 This is used to store all the options passed by scripts, allowing
891 application authors to add custom options to their scripts then
892 get them passed through to the application.
895 - Clarify that if you manually write your own .psgi file, then optional
896 proxy support (via the using_frontend_proxy config value) will not be
897 enabled unless you explicitly apply the default middlewares from
898 Catalyst, or you apply the middleware manually.
901 - Fix issue due to perl internals bugs in 5.8 and 5.10 (not present in
902 other perl versions) require can pass the context inappropriately,
903 meaning that some methods of loading classes can fail due to void
904 context being passed through to make_immutable, causing it to not return
906 This bug caused loading Catalyst::Script::XXX to fail and is fixed
907 both by bumping the Class::Load dependency, and also adding an explicit
908 '1;' to the end of the classes, avoiding the context issue.
910 - Fix using_frontend_proxy support in mod_perl by using the psgi wrapped
911 in default middleware in mod_perl context, rather than the raw psgi.
913 5.90005 - 2011-10-22 13:35:00
917 - $c->uri_for_action can now take an array of CaptureArgs and Args
918 If you have an action which has both, then you can now say:
919 $c->uri_for_action('/myaction', [@captures, @args]);
920 whereas before you had to say:
921 $c->uri_for_action('/myaction', [@captures], @args);
922 The previous form is still supported, however in many cases it is
923 easier for the application code to not have to differentiate between
926 - Catalyst::ScriptRunner has been enhanced so that it will now
927 load and apply traits, making it easier to customise.
928 - MyApp::TraitFor::Script (if it exists) will be applied to all
929 scripts in the application.
930 - MyApp::TraitFor::Script::XXXX will be applied to the relevant script
931 (for example MyApp::TraitFor::Script::Server will be applied to
932 MyApp::Script::Server if it exists, or Catalyst::Script::Server
937 - Document how to get the vhost of the request in $c->req->hostname
939 - Remove documentation showing Global / Regex / Private actions
940 as whilst these still exist (and work), they are not recommended.
941 - Remove references to the -Engine flag.
942 - Remove references to the deprecated Catalyst->plugin method
943 - Spelling fixed (and tested) throughout the documentation
944 - Note that wrapping the setup method will not work with method modifiers
945 and provide an alternative.
947 5.90004 - 2011-10-11 17:12:00
951 - Don't guess engine class names when setting an engine through
954 5.90003 - 2011-10-05 08:32:00
957 - Make default body responses for 302s W3C compliant. RT#71237
959 - Fix issue where groups of attributes to override controller actions
960 in config would be (incorrectly) overwritten, if the parser for that
961 attribute mangled the contents of the attribute. This was found
962 with Catalyst::Controller::ActionRole, where Does => [ '+Foo' ]
963 would be transformed to Does => [ 'Foo' ] and written back to config,
964 whereas Does => '+Foo' would not be changed in config. RT#65463
968 - Set a matching Content-type for the redirect if Catalyst sets the
969 body. This is for compatibility with a WatchGuard Firewall.
971 Backward compatibility fixes:
973 - Restore (an almost empty) Catalyst::Engine::HTTP to the dist for old
974 scripts which explicitly require Catalyst::Engine::HTTP
978 - Document Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication fails tests unless
979 you use the latest version with Catalyst 5.9
981 - Clarify that prepare is called as a class method
983 - Clarify use of uri_for further. RT#57011
985 5.90002 - 2011-08-22 21:44:00
986 Backward compatibility fixes:
988 - Deploying via mod_perl in some cases is fixed by making
989 Catalyst::EngineLoader detect mod_perl in more generic
991 https://github.com/miyagawa/Plack/issues/239
995 - Fix incorrect example in Catalyst::PSGI.
996 - Add note that if you are using the PSGI engine, then $c->req->env
997 needs to become $c->engine->env when you upgrade.
999 5.90001 - 2011-08-15 22:42
1001 Realise that we accidentally chopped a digit off the versioning scheme
1002 without anyone noticing, which is a bad thing.
1004 Feel like a fool. Well done t0m.
1006 Cut another release.
1008 5.9000 - 2011-08-15 22:18
1010 See Catalyst::Delta for the major changes in this release.
1012 Changelog since the last TRIAL release:
1014 Backward compatibility fixes:
1016 - Fix calling MyApp->engine_class to set the engine class manually.
1018 - Re-add a $res->headers->{status} field to Catalyst::Test responses.
1019 This _should_ be accessed with $c->res->code instead, but is here
1020 for backward compatibility.
1024 - Documentation which was in the now removed Catalyst::Engine::* classes
1025 has been moved to Catalyst::Manual::Deployment
1029 - nginx specific behaviour is removed as it is not needed with any
1030 web server configuration I can come up with (recommended config is
1031 documented in Catalyst::Manual::Deployment::nginx::FastCGI)
1033 5.89003 2011-07-28 20:11:50 (TRIAL release)
1035 Backward compatibility fixes:
1037 - Application scripts which have not been upgraded to newer
1038 Catalyst::Script::XXX style scripts have been fixed
1042 - mod_perl handler fixed to work with application classes which have manually
1043 been made immutable.
1045 - Scripts now force the Plack engine choice manually, rather than relying
1046 on auto-detection, as the automatic mechanism gets it wrong if (for
1047 example) Coro is loaded.
1049 - Server script option for --fork --keepalive are now handled by loading
1050 the Starman server, rather than silently ignored.
1052 - Server script options for --background and --pid are now fixed by
1053 using MooseX::Deamonize
1055 - Plack middlewares to deal with issues in Lighttpd and IIS6 are now
1056 automatically applied to applications and deployments which need them
1057 (when there is not a user written .psgi script available).
1058 This fixes compatibility with previous stable releases for applications
1059 deployed in these environments.
1063 - Catalyst::Test's remote_request method not uses Plack::Test to perform
1067 - Added a Catalyst::PSGI manual page with information about writing a .psgi
1068 file for your application.
1070 - Catalyst::Upgrading has been improved, and the status of old Catalyst
1074 - Catalyst::Test's local_request function is now deprecated. You should just
1075 use the normal request function against a local server instead.
1077 5.80033 2011-07-24 16:09:00
1080 - Fix Catalyst::Request so that the hostname accessor is not incorrectly
1081 populated with 'localhost' if a reverse DNS lookup fails.
1083 - Fix Path actions debug screen to display number of arguments
1085 - Fix a regression that prevented configuring attributes for all actions using
1086 ->config(actions => { '*' => \%attrs }) from working
1088 - Append $\ in Catalyst::Response->print to more closely match
1089 IO::Handle's behaviour.
1091 - Fixed situation where a detach($action) from a forward within auto
1092 was not breaking out correctly
1094 - Fix the disable_component_resolution_regex_fallback config setting
1095 to also work in the $c->component method.
1097 - Handle users setting cookies with an undef value by not trying to
1098 output that cookie (rather than trying to do so and causing an exception
1099 as previously happened). A warning is logged if this occurs in debug
1101 - Update tests to ignore $ENV{CATALYST_HOME} where required
1103 - Change repository metadata to point at git.
1105 - Clean namespaces in Catalyst::Request::Upload
1107 - Catalyst::Test: Fixes to action_ok, action_redirect and action_notfound
1108 test functions to be better documented, and have better default test
1111 - Update tests to ignore CATALYST_HOME env var.
1113 5.89002 2011-03-02 11:30:00 (TRIAL release)
1116 - Fix a couple of test failures caused by optional dependencies such as FCGI
1117 not being installed.
1120 - Simplified the API for getting a PSGI application code reference for a
1121 Catalyst application for use in, for example, .psgi files. See
1122 Catalyst::Upgrading for details.
1124 5.89001 2011-03-01 15:27:00 (TRIAL release)
1127 - Fixed command-line argument passing in Catalyst::Script::FastCGI.
1129 - Fixed Catalyst::Engine::Stomp compatibility. Applications using
1130 Catalyst::Engine::Stomp are believed to continue working without
1131 any changes with the new Catalyst major version.
1133 - Fixed issues auto-loading engine with older scripts.
1136 - Catalyst::Engine::Wx is officially unsupported and BROKEN. If you
1137 are using this engine then please get in touch with us and we'll
1138 be happy to help with the changes it needs to be compatible with
1139 the new major version of Catalyst.
1142 - The section of Catalyst::Upgrading describing how to upgrade to version 5.90
1143 of Catalyst has been much improved.
1145 5.80032 2011-02-23 01:10:00
1148 - Fix compatibility issue with code which was testing the value of
1149 $c->res->body multiple times. Previously this would cause the value
1150 to be built, and ergo cause the $c->res->has_body predicate to start
1152 Having a response body is indicated by $c->res->body being defined.
1154 - Fix bug with calling $upload->slurp multiple times in one request
1155 not working as expected as the file handle wasn't returned to
1156 the zero position. (Adam Sjøgren)
1158 - Fix some weird perl 5.8 situations where $c can get squashed unexpectedly
1159 in Catalyst::execute
1161 - Fix chained dispatch where chains were being compared for length (number
1162 of private parts in the chain) vs where they are being compared for
1163 PathPart length (i.e. number of non-capturing URI elements in your path).
1165 This bug meant that sometimes multiple Args or CaptureArgs (e.g. /*/*)
1166 type paths would be preferred to those with fixed path elements
1170 - Add MYAPP_RESTARTER and CATALYST_RESTARTER environment variables to
1171 allow the restarter class to be chosen per application or generally.
1173 This feature was added to enable GUI restarters (such as the soon to
1174 be released CatalystX::Restarter::GTK to be enabled more easily by
1175 developers without changing their application code.
1177 5.80031 2011-01-31 08:13:02
1180 - Update dependency on MooseX::Role::WithOverloading to ensure that
1181 a version which can deal with / depends on a new Package::Stash
1182 is installed. (As if some other dependency is pulled in during upgrading
1183 which results in new Package::Stash, then it can leave you with a broken
1184 version of MooseX::Role::WithOverloading.
1186 - Fix undef warning in Catalyst::Engine::FastCGI when writing an empty
1187 body (e.g. doing a redirect)
1189 5.89000 2011-01-24 09:28:45 (TRIAL release)
1191 This is a development release from psgi branch of Catalyst-Runtime.
1195 - All of the Catalyst::Engine::* namespace is now gone. Instead we only have
1196 one Catalyst::Engine class speaking the PSGI protocol natively. Everything
1197 the various Catalyst::Engine:: classes did before is now supposed to happen
1198 through PSGI handlers such as Plack::Handler::FCGI,
1199 Plack::Handler::HTTP::Server::PSGI, Plack::Handler::Apache2, and so
1200 on. However, deployment can still work the same as it did before. The
1201 catalyst scripts still exist and continue to work.
1203 If you find anything that either doesn't work anymore as it did before or
1204 anything that could be done before with the various Catalyst::Engine::
1205 classes, but can't be done anymore with the single PSGI Catalyst::Engine
1206 class, please tell us *now*.
1208 5.80030 2011-01-04 13:13:02
1211 - Add a --proc_title option to the FCGI script to set the process
1213 - Allow the response body to be set to `undef' explicitly to indicate the
1214 absence of a body. It can be used to indicate that no body should be sent at
1215 all and processing of views should be skipped. This is especially useful for
1216 things like X-Sendfile, which now no longer require providing fake response
1217 bodies to suppress view processing. In order for this to work, you will also
1218 have upgrade Catalyst::Action::RenderView to at least version 0.15.
1221 - Deal correctly with GLOB file handles in the response body (setting
1222 the Content-Length header appropriately)
1223 - Chained dispatch has been fixed to always prefer paths
1224 with the minimum number of captures (rather than the
1225 maximum number of actions). This means that (for example)
1226 a URI path /foo/* made out of 2 actions will take preference
1227 to a URI path /*/* made out of 3 actions. Please check your applications
1228 if you are using chained action and please write new test to report
1230 - Stop relying on bugs in the pure-perl version of Package::Stash. New
1231 versions of Package::Stash load Package::Stash::XS if
1232 available. Package::Stash::XS fixes some of the bugs of the pure-perl
1233 version, exposing our faulty assumption and breaking things. We now work
1234 with both old and new versions of Package::Stash, both with and without
1235 Package::Stash::XS being installed. Older versions of Catalyst-Runtime also
1236 work with both old and new versions of Package::Stash, but only if
1237 Package::Stash::XS is *not* installed.
1240 - Clarify that when forwarding or detaching, the end action associated
1241 with the original dispatched action will be run afterwards (fallen)
1243 5.80029 2010-10-03 16:39:00
1246 - Add a warning when $c->view is called and cannot locate a default_view
1247 or current_view. This clarifies the logging when ::RenderView gets
1251 - Deal warning in with Moose >= 1.15 if you add a method called 'meta' to a
1252 class which already has one by using _add_meta_method.
1254 5.80028 2010-09-28 20:49:00
1257 - use Class::MOP in Catalyst::Utils.
1259 - Do not keep a reference to a closed over context in ctx_request, allowing
1260 the caller to dispose of the request context at their leisure.
1262 - Changes to be compatible with bleadperl
1264 5.80027 2010-09-01 22:14:00
1267 - Fix an issue with newly added test cases which depended on Catalyst::Action::RenderView
1269 5.80026 2010-09-01 15:14:00
1272 - Fix so that CATALYST_EXCEPTION_CLASS in MyApp is always respected by
1273 not loading Catalyst::Exception in Utils.pm BEGIN, because some Scripts::*
1274 load Utils before MyApp.pm
1276 - Fix warnings with new Moose versions about "excludes" during role
1279 - Fix warning from MooseX::Getopt regarding duplicate "help" aliases.
1281 - parse_on_demand fixed when used in conjunction with debug mode.
1282 A regression was introduced in 5.80022 which would cause the body
1283 to always be parsed for logging at the end of the request when in
1284 debug mode. This has been fixed so that if the body has not been parsed
1285 by the time the request is logged, then the body is omitted.
1287 - Fix show_internal_actions config setting producing warnings in debug
1290 - Make Catalyst::Test::local_request() set the response base from base href
1291 in the returned document so that links can be resolved correctly by
1292 Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst
1295 - moved component name sort that happens in setup_components to
1296 locate_components to allow methods to wrap around locate_components
1301 - Advertise Catalyst::Plugin::SmartURI
1304 5.80025 2010-07-29 01:50:00
1307 - An 'action_class' method has been added to Catalyst::Controller to
1308 allow controller base classes, roles or traits
1309 (e.g. Catalyst::Controller::ActionRole) to more easily override
1310 the default action creation.
1313 - Fix the --mech and --mechanize options to the myapp_create.pl script
1314 to operate correctly by fixing the options passed down into the script.
1315 - Fix controllers with no method attributes (where the action definitions
1316 are entirely contained in config). RT#58057
1317 - Fix running as a CGI under IIS at non-root locations.
1318 - Fix warning about "excludes" during role application
1319 - Fix warning from MooseX::Getopt regarding duplicate "help" aliases
1322 - Fix missing - in the docs when describing the --mechanize option at one
1324 - Explained the common practice how to access the component's config
1326 - Fixed typo in Catalyst/Script/Server.pm (RT #58474)
1328 5.80024 2010-05-15 11:55:44
1331 - Revert the path resolution behaviour to how it used to work before
1332 Catalyst 5.80014_02, so that application paths are (by default)
1333 resolved from $ENV{PATH_INFO} and $ENV{SCRIPT_NAME}. This fixes backward
1334 compatibility breakage seen by a number of people since that release
1335 with mod_rewrite and SSI.
1338 - Add a use_request_uri_for_path config setting to optionally
1339 use the (more correct) $ENV{REQUEST_URI} path resolution behaviour.
1342 - Clarify the documentation for the Catalyst::Stats interface.
1343 - Copious documentation about the use_request_uri_for_path feature
1344 and the implications of setting this to true/false in
1345 Catalyst::Engine::CGI
1347 5.80023 2010-05-07 23:50:27
1350 - Ensure to always cleanup temporary uploaded files in all cases, even
1351 when exceptions occur during request processing, using HTTP::Body's
1352 ->cleanup feature. (RT#41442)
1353 - Ensure that Catalyst::Engine::HTTP's options hash is defined before
1354 dereferencing it. (RT#49267)
1355 - Fix regex special characters in REDIRECT_URL variable breaking
1356 the request base. (2nd part of RT#24951)
1357 - Fix not stripping backslashes in DispatchType::Regex::uri_for_action
1360 - Setting __PACKAGE__->config(enable_catalyst_header => 1); in your MyApp.pm
1361 now enables the X-Catalyst header being printed when not in debug mode.
1362 - Require CGI::Simple::Cookie version 1.109 to ensure support for the
1364 - Allow the myapp_test.pl script to be given a list of paths which it
1365 will retrieve all of. (RT#53653)
1366 - Allow parameterized roles to be applied as plugins.
1367 - Allow requiring minimum versions of plugins when loading them.
1370 - The Catalyst::Test::get method is documented as returning the raw
1371 response bytes without any character decoding (RT#53678)
1374 - Removal of $Catalyst::PRETTY_VERSION. Future releases will always have the
1375 full and unmangled version number, including trailing zeroes, in
1378 5.80022 2010-03-28 19:43:01
1381 - Log an extra line in debug mode with the response status code,
1382 the content type and content length if available.
1384 Refactoring / optimizations:
1385 - Display of the end of hit debug messages has been factored out into
1386 log_headers, log_request, log_request_headers, log_response,
1387 log_response_status_line and log_response_headers methods so that
1388 plugins which customise how much information is shown on the debug
1389 screen as easy to write.
1390 - Make all logging of request and response state get the information from
1391 $c->dump_these so that there is a unified point from which to hook
1392 in parameter filtering (for example).
1393 - $c->model/view/controller have become a lot faster for non-regexp names
1394 by using direct hash lookup instead of looping.
1395 - IP address => hostname mapping for the server is only done once and cached
1396 by Catalyst::Engine::HTTP to somewhat mitigate the problem of people
1397 developing on machines pointed at slow DNS servers.
1400 - DispatchType::Index's uri_for_action only returns for actions registered
1401 with it (prevents 'index :Path' or similar resolving to the wrong URI)
1402 - Make sure to construct Upload objects properly, even if there are
1403 multiple Content-Type headers (Closes RT#55976).
1405 5.80021 2010-03-03 23:02:01
1408 - $c->uri_for will now escape unsafe characters in captures
1409 ($c->request->captures) and correctly encode utf8 characters.
1411 5.80020 2010-02-04 06:51:18
1414 - Allow components to specify additional components to be set up by
1415 overriding the expand_modules method. (Oliver Charles)
1417 5.80019 2010-01-29 01:04:09
1420 - Calls to $c->uri_for with private paths as strings (e.g.
1421 $c->uri_for('controller/action', 'arg1', 'arg2') ) no longer have
1422 / encoded to %2F. This is due to $c->uri_for('static', 'css/foo', $bar)
1423 which should not be encoded.
1424 Calls with an action object (rather than a string), or uri_for action
1425 will still encode / in args and captures to %2F
1427 - The above noted / => %2F encoding in uri_for_action or uri_for with
1428 an action object has been fixed to not just encode the first slash in
1429 any set of args/captures.
1431 - nginx and lighttpd FCGI requests with URI encoded sections as the first
1432 path part have been fixed to operate correctly.
1434 - A source of bogus warnings in Catalyst::Component::BUILDARGS has been
1438 - Improve the documentation about -Home and how Catalyst finds the home path
1440 - Various minor typo fixes.
1443 - Allow passing additional arguments to action constructors.
1445 5.80018 2010-01-12 22:24:20
1448 - Call ->canonical on URI derived from $ENV{REQUEST_URI} to get
1449 paths correctly decoded. This bug was previously hidden by a bug
1450 in HTTP::Request::AsCGI.
1453 - Clarify that uri_for_action works on private paths, with example.
1454 - Clarify documentation about debug
1457 - Saying use Catalyst::Test; (without an application name or () to stop
1458 the importer running is now deprecated and will issue a warning.
1459 You should be saying use Catalyst::Test ();
1461 5.80017 2010-01-10 02:27:29
1464 - Fix docs for ->forward method when passed a class name - this should
1465 be a component name (e.g. View::HTML, not a full class name, like
1469 - --daemon and -d options to Catalyst::Script::FastCGI are fixed.
1470 - Fix the debug dump for applications which use Catalyst::Plugin::Session
1472 - Fix regression in the case where mod_rewrite is being used to rewrite
1473 requests into a path below your application base introduced with the
1474 %2F related fixes in 5.80014_02.
1475 - Do not crash on SIGHUP if Catalyst::Engine::HTTP->run is not passed the
1476 argv key in the options hash.
1477 - Correctly pass the arguments to Catalyst::Script::Server through to
1478 Catalyst::Engine::HTTP->run so that the server can restart itself
1479 with the correct options on SIGHUP.
1480 - Require new MooseX::MethodAttributes to be compatible with Moose
1482 - Require new MooseX::Role::WithOverloading to be compatible with Moose
1486 - Stop suppressing warnings from Class::C3::Adopt::NEXT now that most plugins
1487 have been updated to not use NEXT. If you get warnings then please upgrade
1488 your components or log a bug with the component author if an upgrade is
1489 not available. The Class::C3::Adopt::NEXT documentation contains information
1490 about how to suppress the warnings in your application if you need to.
1492 5.80016 2009-12-11 23:23:33
1496 - Fix slurping a file to work correctly with binary on Win32 in the
1497 encoding test controller.
1499 Bug fixes in the new scripts (for applications which have been upgraded):
1501 - Allow --restartdirectory as an option for the Server script, for
1502 backwards compatibility. (Dave Rolsky)
1503 - The --host option for the server script defaulted to localhost, rather
1504 than listening on all interfaces, which was the previous default. (Dave
1506 - Restore -p option for pid file in the FastCGI server script.
1507 - Fix the script environment variables MYAPP_PORT and MYAPP_RELOAD RT#52604
1508 - Fix aliasing applications under non-root paths with mod_rewrite in
1509 some Apache versions where %ENV{SCRIPT_NAME} is set to the real name of
1510 the script, by using $ENV{REDIRECT_URL} which contains the non-rewritten
1512 - Fix usage display when myapp_create.pl is run with no arguments. RT#52630
1516 - The __MOP__ hash element is suppressed from being dumped fully
1517 (and instead stringified) when dumping the error screen to be
1518 less packed with information of no use.
1522 - Fix Pod nits (RT#52370)
1524 5.80015 2009-12-02 15:13:54
1526 - Fix bug in Catalyst::Engine which would cause a request parsing to end
1527 prematurely in the hypothetical case where calling $engine->read returned
1528 the single character '0'.
1529 - Fix failing tests when combined with new HTTP::Request::AsCGI
1532 - Improved documentation on read and read_chunk methods in Catalyst::Engine.
1533 - Fix reversal of SCRIPT_NAME and PATH_INFO in previously correct nginx
1534 FastCGI documentation introduced in _02.
1536 5.80014_02 2009-12-01 00:55:23
1538 - Fix reporting the wrong Content-Length if the response body is an
1539 upgraded string. Strings mean the same thing whether or not they are
1540 upgraded, may get upgraded even after they are encoded, and will
1541 produce the same output either way, but bytes::length returns too big
1542 values for upgraded strings containing characters >127
1543 - Fix t/live_fork.t with bleadperl (RT#52100)
1544 - Set $ENV{PATH_INFO} from $ENV{REQUEST_URI} combined with
1545 $ENV{SCRIPT_NAME} if possible. This is many web servers always fully
1546 decode PATH_INFO including URI reserved characters. This allows us to
1547 tell foo%2cbar from foo%252cbar, and fixes issues with %2F in paths
1548 being incorrectly decoded, resulting in too many path parts (rather
1549 than 1 path part containing a /, on some web servers (at least nginx).
1551 - Require new HTTP::Request::AsCGI so that it fully decodes $ENV{PATH_INFO}
1552 in non CGI contexts. (RT#50082)
1554 Refactoring / cleanups:
1555 - NoTabs and Pod tests moved to t/author so that they're not run
1556 (and then skipped) normally.
1559 - Fix Pod nits in Catalyst::Response (RT#51818)
1561 5.80014_01 2009-11-22 20:01:23
1564 - Filehandle now forced to binmode in CGI and FastCGI engines. This appears
1565 to correct some UTF-8 issues, but may break people's code which relies
1566 on the old behaviour.
1568 Refactoring / cleanups:
1569 - Plugins which inherit from Catalyst::Controller or Catalyst::Component
1570 are deprecated and now issue warnings.
1572 5.80014 2009-11-21 02:51:14
1575 - Require MooseX::MethodAttributes 0.17. This in turn requires new
1576 MooseX::Types to stop warnings in Moose 0.91, and correctly supports
1577 role combination of roles containing attributed methods.
1578 - Catalyst::Dispatcher::dispatch_types no longer throws deprecated warnings
1579 as there is no recommended alternative.
1580 - Improved the suggested fix warning when component resolution uses regex
1581 fallback for fully qualified component names.
1582 - Catalyst::Test::local_request sets ->request on the response.
1583 - Log flush moved to the end of setup so that roles and plugins which
1584 hook setup_finalize can log things and have them appear in application
1585 startup, rather than with the first hit.
1586 - Require a newer version of LWP to avoid failing tests.
1587 - Stop warnings when actions are forwarded to during dispatch.
1588 - Remove warnings for using Catalyst::Dispatcher->dispatch_types as this is a
1589 valid method to publicly call on the dispatcher.
1590 - Args ($c->request->args) and CaptureArgs ($c->request->captures)
1591 passed to $c->uri_for with an action object ($c->action) will now
1592 correctly round-trip when args or captures contain / as it is now
1593 correctly uri encoded to %2F.
1596 - Document no-args call to $c->uri_for.
1597 - Document all top level application configuration parameters.
1598 - Clarify how to fix actions in your application class (which is
1599 deprecated and causes warnings).
1600 - Pod fixes for ContextClosure.
1601 - Fix documentation for go/visit to reference captures and arguments
1602 in the correct order.
1603 - Update $c->forward and $c->state documentation to address scalar
1605 - Pod fix in Catalyst::Request (RT#51490)
1606 - Pod fixes to refer to ::Controller:: rather than ::C:: as the latter
1607 is deprecated (RT#51489)
1610 - Added disable_component_resolution_regex_fallback config option to
1611 switch off (deprecated) regex fallback for component resolution.
1612 - Added an nginx-specific behavior to the FastCGI engine to allow
1613 proper PATH_INFO and SCRIPT_NAME processing for non-root applications
1614 - Enable Catalyst::Utils::home() to find home within Dist::Zilla built
1616 - Added the Catalyst::Exception::Interface role defining the interface
1617 exception classes need to implement.
1618 - Added Catalyst::Exception::Basic as a basic implementation of
1619 Catalyst::Exception::Interface and made the existing exception classes
1622 Refactoring / cleanups:
1623 - Remove documentation for the case_sensitive setting
1624 - Warning is now emitted at application startup if the case_sensitive
1625 setting is turned on. This setting is not used by anyone, not
1626 believed to be useful and adds unnecessary complexity to controllers
1627 and the dispatcher. If you are using this setting and have good reasons
1628 why it should stay then you need to be shouting, now.
1629 - Writing to $c->req->body now fails as doing this never makes sense.
1631 5.80013 2009-09-17 11:07:04
1634 - Preserve immutable_options when temporarily making a class mutable in
1635 Catalyst::ClassData as this is needed by new Class::MOP.
1636 This could have potentially caused issues when using the deprecated runtime
1637 plugins feature in an application with plugins which define their own new
1639 - Require new Moose version and new versions of various dependencies
1640 to avoid warnings from newest Moose release.
1641 - Fix go / visit expecting captures and arguments in reverse order.
1644 - Rework the $c->go documentation to make it more clear.
1645 - Additional documentation in Catalyst::Upgrading covering more deprecation
1648 Refactoring / cleanups:
1649 - Action methods in the application class are deprecated and applications
1650 using them will now generate a warning at startup.
1651 - The -short option has been removed from catalyst.pl, stopping new
1652 applications from being generated using the ::[MVC]:: naming scheme as
1653 this is deprecated and generates warnings. RT#49771
1655 5.80012 2009-09-09 19:09:09
1658 - Fix t/optional_http-server.t test.
1659 - Fix t/optional_http-server-restart.t test.
1660 - Fix duplicate components being loaded at setup time, each component is
1661 now loaded at most once + tests.
1662 - Fix backward compatibility - hash key configured actions are stored in
1663 is returned to 'actions'.
1664 - Fix get_action_methods returning duplicate methods when a method is both
1665 decorated with method attributes and set as an action in config.
1667 Refactoring / cleanups:
1668 - Reduce minimum supported perl version from 5.8.6 to 5.8.4 as there are
1669 many people still running/testing this version with no known issues.
1672 - Make the optional_http_server.t test an author only test which must be
1673 run by authors to stop it being broken again.
1674 - Fix recursion warnings in the test suites.
1676 5.80011 2009-08-23 13:48:15
1679 - Remove leftovers of the restarter engine. The removed code caused test
1680 failures, which weren't apparent for anyone still having an old version
1683 5.80010 2009-08-21 23:32:15
1686 - Fix and add tests for a regression introduced by 5.80008.
1687 Catalyst::Engine is now able to send out data from filehandles larger
1688 than the default chunksize of 64k again.
1690 5.80009 2009-08-21 22:21:08
1693 - Fix and add tests for generating inner packages inside the COMPONENT
1694 method, and those packages being correctly registered as components.
1695 This fixes Catalyst::Model::DBIC among others.
1697 5.80008 2009-08-21 17:47:30
1700 - Fix replace_constructor warning to actually work if you make your
1701 application class immutable without that option.
1702 - Depend on Module::Pluggable 3.9 to prevent a bug wherein components
1703 in inner packages might not be registered. This especially affected
1705 - Catalyst::Engine::FastCGI - relax the check for versions of Microsoft
1706 IIS. Provides compatibility with Windows 2008 R2 as well as
1707 (hopefully) future versions.
1708 - In tests which depend on the values of environment variables,
1709 localise the environment, then delete only relevant environment
1710 variables (RT#48555)
1711 - Fix issue with Engine::HTTP not sending headers properly in some cases
1713 - Make Catalyst::Engine write at least once when finalizing the response
1714 body from a filehandle, even if the write is empty. This avoids fail
1715 when trying to send out an empty response body from a filehandle.
1716 - Catalyst::Engine::HTTP - Accept a fully qualified absolute URI in the
1717 Request-URI of the Request-Line
1719 Refactoring / cleanups:
1720 - Deleted the Restarter engine and its Watcher code. Use the
1721 new Catalyst::Restarter in a recent Catalyst::Devel instead.
1722 - New unit test for Catalyst::Action 'unit_core_action.t'
1723 - Bump minimum supported perl version from 5.8.1 to 5.8.6 as there are
1724 known issues with 5.8.3.
1725 - Debug output uses dynamic column sizing to create more readable output
1726 when using a larger $ENV{COLUMNS} setting. (groditi)
1729 - Added private_path method for Catalyst::Action
1730 - Allow uri_for($controller_instance) which will produce a URI
1731 for the controller namespace
1732 - Break setup_components into two more parts: locate_components and
1733 expand_component_module (rjbs)
1734 - Allow Components to return anon classed from their COMPONENT method
1735 correctly, and have action registration work on Controllers returned
1736 as such by adding a catalyst_component_name accessor for all components
1737 which returns the component instance's name to be used when building
1739 - Adding X-Forwarded-Port to allow the frontend proxy to dictate the
1740 frontend port (jshirley)
1741 - Added Catalyst::Stats->created accessor for the time at the start of
1745 - Fix POD to refer to ->config(key => $val), rather than
1746 ->config->{key} = $val, as the latter form is deprecated.
1747 - Clearer docs for the 'uri_for' method.
1748 - Fix POD referring to CGI::Cookie. We're using CGI::Simple::Cookie.
1751 5.80007 2009-06-30 23:54:34
1754 - Don't mangle query parameters passed to uri_for
1755 - Tests for this (Byron Young + Amir Sadoughi)
1756 - Inherited controller methods can now be specified in
1758 - Assigning an undef response body no longer produces warnings
1759 - Fix C3 incompatibility bug caused if you use Moose in MyApp.pm and
1760 add Catalyst to the right hand side of this in @ISA.
1761 - Make Catalyst.pm implement the Component::ApplicationAttribute
1762 interface so defining actions in MyApp.pm works again, if the
1763 actions have attributes that cause $self->_application to be used
1767 - Add optional second argument to uri_with which appends to existing
1768 params rather than replacing them. (foo=1 becomes foo=1&foo=2 when
1769 uri_with({ foo => 2 }, { mode => 'append' }) is called on a foo=1
1772 5.80006 2009-06-29 23:37:47
1775 - Revert change to URL encode things passed into $c->uri_for
1776 Args and CaptureArgs as this causes breakage to pre-existing
1778 - Remove use of Test::MockObject as it doesn't install from CPAN
1779 in some environments.
1780 - Remove use of dclone to deep copy configs and replace with
1781 Catalyst::Utils::merge_hashes which has the same effect, of
1782 ensuring child classes don't inherit their parent's config,
1783 except works correctly with closures.
1784 - Add Class::C3::reinitialize into Catalyst::Test to avoid weird
1785 bugs in ctx_request (bokutin in RT#46459)
1786 - Fix issues with _parse_PathPrefix_attr method in Catalyst::Controller
1787 (jasonk in RT#42816)
1788 - Fix bugs with action sorting:
1789 - Path actions sorted so that the most specific wins.
1790 - Action methods named default and index fixed.
1793 - Use ~ as prefix for plugins or action classes which are located in
1794 MyApp::Plugin / MyApp::Action (mo)
1795 - Controller methods without attributes are now considered actions if
1796 they are specified in config->{action(s)} (mo)
1797 - Add Catalyst::Component::ContextClosure as an easy way to create code
1798 references, that close over the context, without creating leaks.
1800 Refactoring / cleanups:
1801 - Clean namespaces in Catalyst::Exception*.
1802 - Turn Catalyst::Exception into an actual class and make the throw
1803 method create instances of it. They can still be used as normal
1804 strings, as before, as they are overloaded to stringify to their
1806 - Add a rethrow method to Catalyst::Exception.
1807 - Add Catalyst::Exception::Detach and ::Go, and refactor detach() and
1808 go() to use them instead of magic, global strings.
1810 - Clean up getting metaclass instance and making app class immutable
1811 again in Catalyst::Test
1813 5.80005 2009-06-06 14:40:00
1816 - Arguments ($c->req->args) in Chained dispatch are now automatically
1817 URL decoded to be consistent with Local/Path dispatch
1820 - Clarify correct techniques for Moose controllers (domm)
1823 - Further change pushing 'env' attribute down into Catalyst::Engine
1824 to make $c->engine->env work in all cases (kmx)
1825 - Also fix $c->engine->env in Catalyst::Test tests (kmx)
1827 - Fix Catalyst failing to start if any plugin changed $_ whilst
1830 - Be stricter about arguments to Args attributes for Chained actions,
1831 so that they blow up on load instead of causing undefined behavior
1834 - Prefer Path actions with a smaller (or set) number of Args (caelum)
1835 Bug reported here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/931653/catalyst-action-that-matches-a-single-file-in-the-root-directory/933181#933181
1839 - Add $c->req->remote_user to disambiguate from $c->req->user (dwc)
1840 - Require MooseX::MethodAttributes 0.12 so that action methods
1841 (with attributes) can be used in / composed from Moose roles.
1842 - Allow the generation of cookies with the HTTPOnly flag set
1843 in Catalyst::Engine (kmx)
1845 5.80004 2009-05-18 17:03:23
1846 - Rename the actions attribute in Catalyst::Controller to
1847 _controller_actions to avoid name clashes with application
1848 controller naming. (random)
1849 - Test for using Moose in components which have a non-Moose base class
1850 Fixed by 349cda in Moose 0.78
1851 - Fix deprecation message for Catalyst::Dispatcher to refer
1852 to the class actually calling the deprecated method. RT#45741
1853 - Clarify limitations of $request->base and $request->secure.
1855 - Add 'use Catalyst' to documentation for a Moose MyApp class as
1857 - Fix so that / (and other special characters) are URL encoded when
1858 passed into $c->uri_for as Args/CaptureArgs
1859 - Fix development server so that $c->engine->env returns the correct
1861 - Require Moose 0.78 to fix metaclass incompatibility issues
1862 - Require MooseX::MethodAttributes 0.10 and use
1863 Moose::Meta::Class->initialize rather than Moose->init_meta to fix
1864 bugs related to having a 'meta' method in your controller
1865 - Fix cases where your application failing to compile could cause perl
1866 to report 'Unknown Error'
1867 - Support adding Moose::Roles to the plugin list. These are applied to
1868 MyApp after plugins have been pushed onto @ISA
1869 - Fix calling $c->req->parameters as the first thing you do when
1870 parse_on_demand is on
1872 5.80003 2009-04-29 16:23:53
1873 - Various POD tweaks. (hdp, dandv)
1874 - Fix formatting error in the regex fallback warning.
1875 - Convert the dispatcher's and restarter engine's BUILD method to
1876 attribute builders to not override the BUILD method from
1877 MooseX::Emulate::Class::Accessor::Fast.
1878 - Fix classes without metaclasses restarting, when not using
1879 B::Hooks::OP::Check::StashChange
1880 - Fix the unattached chain debug table for endpoints with no
1882 - Turn off test aggregation by default. Only aggregate if the
1883 AGGREGATE_TESTS environment variable is set and a recent
1884 Test::Aggregate is available.
1885 - Bump to MooseX::MethodAttributes 0.09, to gain the
1886 get_nearest_methods_with_attributes method allowing methods without
1887 attributes in a subclass to override those with attributes in a
1888 superclass. This fixes CatalystX::CRUD's method of overriding /
1889 disabling functionality from base controllers.
1890 - Bump HTTP::Request::AsCGI dependency to avoid broken version
1891 - Bump Moose dependency to latest version to fix metaclass
1892 incompatibility issues in some cases.
1893 - Additional tests for setup_stats method.
1894 - Fix log levels in Catalyst::Log to be properly additive.
1895 - Fix RT#43375 by sorting results before testing them
1896 - Fixes for uri_for_action when using Catalyst::DispatchType::Regex
1897 + tests from RT#39369 (norbi)
1898 - Partial rewrite and reorganization of the C3 docs in
1899 Catalyst::Upgrading based on feedback from kiffin
1900 - If you make your application class immutable and turn off
1901 constructor inlining, Catalyst will die and tell you pass
1902 the (replace_constructor => 1) argument to
1903 make_immutable. (Dave Rolsky)
1905 5.80002 2009-04-22 01:28:36
1906 - Fix CATALYST_DEBUG and MYAPP_DEBUG environment variables
1907 turning debugging on if defined, rather than if set.
1908 They now force debugging on or off, taking precedence over
1909 configuration in your application.
1911 - pass replace_constructor to the immutable call to ensure
1912 applications get a Moose constructor rather than a C::A one
1913 - Fix issues with restarting the application class due to C3 failures
1915 - Work around issues in Moose with initialization order of multiple
1916 levels of non-Moose classes inheriting from a Moose class
1918 - Add backwards compatibility method for Catalyst::Log->body, which
1919 has been made private
1920 - Fix so that calling $c->req->parameters(undef) does not flatten
1921 the request parameters with undef + test
1922 - Fix so that width of table of unattached actions for debugging
1923 ::DispatchType::Chained varies according to your terminal width
1925 - Fix warning message about linearized @ISA in Catalyst::Component
1927 - Require MX::MethodAttributes 0.06 to avoid issues with saying
1928 use base 'Catalyst::Controller'; use Moose; losing actions
1929 - Fix all of's typos in ::Upgrading and ::Delta (hobbs)
1931 5.80001 2009-04-18 22:18
1932 - Don't inline the constructor for Catalyst::Log to avoid a
1933 warning on recent Moose versions.
1934 - Add delta documentation
1935 - Clean up recursion errors
1936 - Extra cross links in dispatch types POD (Ian Wells)
1937 - Test uri_with clears query params when they are set to undef
1939 - Complain about old Catalyst::Devel versions which generated
1940 ->setup(qw/-Debug... etc. as this is not recommended
1942 5.8000_07 2009-04-12 13:37
1943 - Add the Catalyst::Dispatcher->dispatch_type method (ash)
1944 - Throw an exception rather than loading an app if an action
1945 tries to chain to itself
1947 - Change the $c->visit and $c->go methods to optionally take
1948 CaptureArgs, making them useful to call ActionChains with
1949 - Tests for this (radek)
1950 - Fix _invoke_as_component method to find the proper action instance
1951 for dispatchable actions so that ->visit or ->going to ActionChains
1952 with qw/Class::Name method_name/ works correctly
1953 - Tests for this (radek)
1954 - Added Catalyst::Test::ctx_request to be able to inspect
1955 the context object after a request is made (Jos Boumans)
1956 - debug() POD rewrite (jhannah)
1957 - Change the warning when you have conflicting components to
1959 - Move NEXT use and testing deprecated features out to its own
1960 test application so that the main TestApp isn't polluted with
1962 - Add a warning for the old ::[MVC]:: style naming scheme
1964 - Kill Class::C3::Adopt::NEXT warnings for the Catalyst:: namespace
1965 in production versions
1966 - Tidy up Catalyst::ClassData to ensure that all components get
1967 the correct metaclass
1968 - Make MyApp.pm restartable by unsetting setup_finished in
1969 the restarter process
1970 - Non-naive implementation of making mutable on restart using
1971 B::Hooks::OP::Check::StashChange if installed
1973 - Naive implementation of making all components mutable in the
1974 forked restart watcher process so native Moose apps using
1975 immutable restart correctly.
1977 - Bump Moose dependency to 0.70 so that we avoid nasty surprises
1978 with is_class_loaded and perl 5.80 when you Moosify MyApp.pm
1979 - Clarify that request arguments aren't unescaped automatically
1980 (Simon Bertrang) (Closes RT#41153)
1981 - Don't require C3 for the MRO test
1982 - Bump MX::Emulate::CAF prereq to support list assignment
1983 - Remove useless column in chained action debug table.
1984 - namespace::clean related cleanups
1985 - Import related cleanups and consistency fixes
1986 - Fix test suite TestApp /dump/env action
1987 - Add $res->code as alias for $res->status
1988 - Make Catalyst::ClassData compatible with the latest Class::MOP::Class
1989 changes. Also depend on the latest Class::MOP.
1990 - Add $c->uri_for_action method.
1991 - Don't stringify the meta method. Use its name instead.
1992 - Use MooseX::MethodAttributes::Inheritable to contain action
1993 attributes. This means that attributes are now represented in the MOP,
1994 allowing method modifiers on actions to work as expected.
1995 - Provide a reasonable API in Catalyst::Controller for working with
1996 and registering actions, allowing a controller sub-class to replace
1997 subroutine attributes for action declarations with an alternate
1999 - Instantiate correct sub-class of Moose::Meta::Class for non-Moose
2000 components where Catalyst forces the creation of a metaclass instance.
2001 This is more correct, and avoids metaclass incompatibility in complex
2004 - Use of deprecated Catalyst::Base now warns.
2005 - Add uri_with tests
2007 5.8000_06 2009-02-04 21:00
2008 - Disallow writing to config after setup
2009 - Disallow calling setup more than once
2010 - Documentation fix regarding overloading of Engine and Dispatcher
2012 - Several documentation typo fixes
2013 - Stop Makefile.PL from warning about versions that fixed a conflict
2014 - Improved upgrading documentation
2015 - Seed the RNG in each FastCGI child process (Andrew Rodland)
2016 - Properly report dynamic bind port for the development server
2018 - Use the way documented by IO::Socket::INET to get the error message
2019 after trying to create a listening socket (Closes RT#41828)
2020 - Don't ignore SIGCHLD while handling requests with the dev server
2023 5.8000_05 2008-29-01 00:00
2024 - Text::SimpleTable's go as wide as $ENV{COLUMNS} (jhannah)
2025 Patch written by Oleg Kostyuk <cub.uanic@gmail.com>
2026 - Improve docs for visit (mateu)
2027 - Add docs for finalize hook (dhoss)
2028 - Added ru/ua translations to error page
2029 - Improve the clarity and verbosity of the warning when component
2030 resolution uses regex fallback. (jhannah)
2031 - Handle leading CRLF in HTTP requests sometimes sent by IE6 in
2032 keep-alive requests.
2033 - Fixes for FastCGI with IIS 6.0 (janus)
2034 - Passing request method exported by Catalyst::Test an extra
2035 parameter used to be ignored, but started breaking if the parameter
2036 was not a hash in 5.8000_04. Extra parameter is now ignored if
2038 - Fix request arguments getting corrupted if you override the
2039 dispatcher and call an action which detaches (for
2040 Catalyst::Plugin::Authorization::ACL)
2041 - Fix calling use Catalyst::Test 'MyApp' 'foo' which used to work,
2042 but stopped as the 2nd parameter can be an options hash now
2043 - Bump Moose dependency to fix make_immutable bug
2044 - Use compile time extends in Catalyst::Controller
2045 - Make Catalyst::Request::uploads attribute non-lazy, to fix
2046 test for Catalyst-Engine-Apache
2047 - Bump version of MooseX::Emulate::Class::Accessor::Fast
2048 - Stop using MooseX::Adopt::Class::Accessor::Fast by default, to stop
2049 breaking other packages which use Class::Accessor::Fast
2050 - Remove unused action_container_class attribute from
2051 Catalyst::Dispatcher
2052 - Replace {_body} instance access with calls to _body accessors
2053 - Add backwards compatibility alias methods for private attributes on
2054 Catalyst::Dispatcher which used to be public. Needed by
2055 Catalyst::Plugin::Server and Catalyst::Plugin::Authorization::ACL
2056 - Fix return value of $c->req->body, which delegates to the body
2057 method on the requests HTTP::Body instance
2059 - Fix calling $c->req->body from inside an overridden prepare_action
2060 method in a plugin, as used by Catalyst::Plugin::Server
2062 - Fix assignment to Catalyst::Dispatcher's preload_dispatch_types and
2063 postload_dispatch_types attributes - assigning a list should later
2064 return a listref. Fixes Catalyst::Plugin::Server.
2066 - Change streaming test to serve itself rather than 01use.t, making
2067 test sync for engines easier
2068 - Refactor capturing of $app from Catalyst::Controller into
2069 Catalyst::Component::ApplicationAttribute for easier reuse in other
2071 - Make the test suites YAML dependency optional
2072 - Make debug output show class name for the engine and dispatcher
2073 rather than the stringified ref.
2074 - Make MyApp immutable at the end of the scope after the setup
2075 method is called, fixing issues with plugins which have their
2076 own new methods by inlining a constructor on MyApp
2077 - Test for this and method modifiers in MyApp
2078 - Fix bug causing Catalyst::Request::Upload's basename method
2080 - Test for this (Carl Franks)
2081 - Fix loading of classes which do not define any symbols to not
2082 die, as it didn't in 5.70
2084 - Bump MooseX::Emulate::Class::Accessor::Fast dependency
2085 to force new version which fixes a lot of plugins
2086 - Make log levels additive, and add documentation and tests
2087 for the setup_log method, which previously had none.
2088 Sewn together by from two patches provided by David E. Wheeler
2089 - Switch an around 'new' in Catalyst::Controller to a BUILDARGS
2090 method as it's much neater and more obvious what is going on
2091 - Add a clearer method on request and response _context
2092 attributes, and use if from ::Engine rather than deleting
2093 the key from the instance hash
2094 - Use handles on tree attribute of Catalyst::Stats to replace
2095 trivial delegation methods
2096 - Change the following direct hash accesses into attributes:
2097 Catalyst::Engine: _prepared_write
2098 Catalyst::Engine::CGI: _header_buf
2099 Catalyst::Engine::HTTP: options, _keepalive, _write_error
2100 Catalyst::Request: _path
2101 Catalyst::Stats: tree
2102 - Fix issues in Catalyst::Controller::WrapCGI
2103 and any other components which import (or define) their
2104 own meta method by always explicitly calling
2105 Class::MOP::Object->meta inside Catalyst
2107 - Add test case for the bug which is causing the
2108 Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication tests to fail
2109 - Fix a bug in uri_for which could cause it to generate paths
2110 with multiple slashes in them.
2112 - Fix SKIP block name in t/optional_http-server-restart.t,
2113 stopping 'Label not found for "last SKIP"' error from
2115 - Workaround max_redirect 0 bug in LWP
2116 - Move live_engine_response_print into aggregate
2117 - Fix dependency bug, s/parent/base/ in new test
2118 - Fix optional tests to run the live tests in the aggregate
2120 - Fix Catalyst->go error in remote tests
2121 - Fix upload test to work with remote servers, don't check for
2123 - Fix engine_request_uri tests to work on remote server with
2126 5.8000_04 2008-12-05 12:15:00
2127 - Silence Class::C3::Adopt::NEXT warnings in the test suite
2128 - Fix loads of 'used once, possible typo' warnings
2129 - Additional tests to ensure upload temp files are deleted
2130 - Remove use of NEXT from the test suite, except for one case
2131 which tests if Class::C3::Adopt::NEXT is working
2132 - Use a predicate to avoid recursion in cases where the uri
2133 method is overridden by a plugin, and calls the base method,
2134 for example Catalyst::Plugin::SmartURI
2135 - Test for this (caelum)
2136 - Compose the MooseX::Emulate::Class::Accessor::Fast role to
2137 Catalyst::Action, Catalyst::Request, and all other modules which
2138 inherit from Class::Accessor::Fast in 5.70.
2140 - Catalyst::Controller::HTML::FormFu (zamolxes)
2141 - Catalyst::Request::REST
2143 - Make hostname resolution lazy (Marc Mims)
2144 - Support mocking virtualhosts in test suite (Jason Gottshall)
2147 - Use Class::C3::Adopt::NEXT
2148 - Ignore C3 warnings on 5.10 when testing ensure_class_loaded
2149 - Add TODO test for chained bug (gbjk)
2150 - Fix list address in documentation (zarquon)
2151 - Fix ACCEPT_CONTEXT on MyApp, called as a class method
2153 - Bump MooseX::Emulate::Class::Accessor::Fast version requirement to
2154 get more back compatibility
2155 - Improve documentation for $req->captures (caelum)
2156 - Fix a bug in Catalyst::Stats, stopping garbage being inserted into
2157 the stats if a user calls begin => but no end => (jhannah)
2158 - Test for this (jhannah)
2159 - Trim lines sooner in stats to avoid ugly Text::SimpleTable wrapping
2161 - Change Catalyst::ClassData to tweak the symbol table inline for
2162 performance after profiling
2163 - Fix POD typo in finalize_error (jhannah)
2164 - Add tests to ensure that we delete the temp files created by
2165 HTTP::Body's OctetStream parser
2167 5.8000_03 2008-10-14 14:13:00
2168 - Fix forwarding to Catalyst::Action objects.
2169 - Fix links to the mailing lists (RT #39754 and Florian Ragwitz).
2170 - Use Class::MOP instead of Class::Inspector.
2171 - Change Catalyst::Test to use Sub::Exporter.
2172 - Fixed typo in Engine::HTTP::Restarter::Watcher causing -r to complain.
2174 5.8000_02 2008-10-14 07:59:00
2177 5.8000_01 2008-10-13 22:52:00
2179 - Added test for action stringify
2180 - Added test for component instances getting $self->{value} from config.
2181 - Add Catalyst::Response->print() method
2182 - Optionally aggregate tests using Test::Aggregate.
2183 - Additional docs for uri_for to mention how to use $c->action and
2184 $c->req->captures (jhannah)
2185 - List unattached chained actions in Debug mode.
2186 - Pod formatting fix for Engine::FastCGI (Oleg Kostyuk).
2187 - Add visit, a returning ->go
2190 - Workaround change in LWP that broke a cookie test (RT #40037)
2191 - Back out go() since that feature's been pushed to 5.80
2192 - Fix some Win32 test failures
2193 - Add pt translation of error message (wreis)
2194 - Make :Chained('../action') work
2196 - Chained doc improvements (rev 8326-8328)
2198 5.7099_03 2008-07-20 10:10:00
2199 - Fix regressions for regexp fallback in model(), view() and controller()
2200 - Added the supplied argument to the regexp fallback warning for easier
2202 - Ensure ACCEPT_CONTEXT is called for results from component()
2204 5.7099_02 2008-07-16 19:10:00
2205 - Added PathPrefix attribute
2206 - Removed Catalyst::Build; we've long since moved to Module::Install
2207 - Updated Catalyst::Test docs to mention the use of HTTP::Request
2210 5.7099_01 2008-06-25 22:36:00
2211 - Refactored component resolution (component(), models(), model(), et al). We now
2212 throw warnings for two reasons:
2213 1) model() or view() was called with no arguments, and two results are returned
2214 -- set default_(model|view), current_(model|view) or current_(model|view)_instance
2216 2) you call a component resolution method with a string, and it resorts to a regexp
2217 fallback wherein a result is returned -- if you really want to search, call the
2218 method with a regex as the argument
2219 - remove 0-length query string components so warnings aren't thrown (RT #36428)
2220 - Update HTTP::Body dep so that the uploadtmp config value will work (RT #22540)
2221 - Fix for LocalRegex when used in the Root controller
2222 - Get some of the optional_* tests working from dirs with spaces (RT #26455)
2223 - Fix Catalyst::Utils::home() when application .pm is in the current dir (RT #34437)
2224 - Added the ability to remove parameters in req->uri_with() by passing in
2225 an undef value (RT #34782)
2226 - Added $c->go, to do an internal redispatch to another action, while retaining the
2227 contents of the stash
2229 5.7014 2008-05-25 15:26:00
2230 - Addition of .conf in restart regex in Catalyst::Engine::HTTP::Restarter::Watcher
2231 - Fix regression for relative uri_for arguments after a forward()
2232 introduced in 5.7013 (Peter Karman)
2233 - Fix regression for "sub foo : Path {}" in the root controller which
2234 was introduced when attempting to allow "0" as a Path.
2236 5.7013 2008-05-16 18:20:00
2237 - Provide backwards compatibility methods in Catalyst::Stats
2238 - Fix subdirs for scripts that run in subdirs more than one level deep.
2239 - Added test and updated docs for handling the Authorization header
2240 under mod_fastcgi/mod_cgi.
2241 - Fixed bug in HTTP engine where the connection was not closed properly if the
2242 client disconnected before sending any headers. (Ton Voon)
2243 - POD fix, IO::FileHandle => IO::Handle (RT #35690)
2244 - Fix grammar on welcome page (RT #33236)
2245 - Fix for Path('0') handling (RT #29334)
2246 - Workaround for Win32 and c3_mro.t (RT #26452, tested by Kenichi Ishigaki)
2247 - Fix for encoding query parameters
2248 - Fix Chained multiple test
2250 5.7012 2007-12-16 23:44:00
2251 - Fix uri_for()'s and uri_with()'s handling of multibyte chars
2253 - Fix __PACKAGE__->config->{foo} = 'bar' case with subclassing
2254 - Add Catalyst::Stats (Jon Schutz)
2255 - Fixed a bug where ?q=bar=baz is decoded as q=>'bar', not 'bar=baz'.
2256 (Tatsuhiko Miyagawa, Masahiro Nagano)
2257 - Fixed a bug where -rr (restart regex) command line option could cause
2258 shell errors. (Aristotle Pagaltzis, Chisel Wright)
2260 5.7011 2007-10-18 20:40:00
2261 - Allow multiple restart directories and added option to follow
2262 symlinks in the HTTP::Restarter engine (Sebastian Willert)
2263 - Fixed t/optional_http-server-restart.t so it actually tests
2264 if the server restarted or notified of an error (Sebastian Willert)
2265 - Return child PID from the HTTP engine when run with the 'background' option.
2267 - Fixed bug in HTTP engine where writes could fail with
2268 'Resource temporarily unavailable'.
2269 - Fixed bug where %2b in query parameter is doubly decoded to ' ', instead of '+'
2270 (RT #30087, Gavin Henry, Tatsuhiko Miyagawa, Oleg Pronin)
2271 - Fixed bug where req->base and req->uri would include a port number when running
2273 - Removed unnecessary sprintf in debug mode that caused warnings on locales where
2274 commas are used for decimal markers.
2275 - Improved error message for case when server picks up editor save
2276 files as module names. (James Mastros)
2278 5.7010 2007-08-22 07:41:00
2279 - Resource forks in 5.7009
2281 5.7009 2007-08-22 00:14:00
2282 - Moved Manual.pod to Manual.pm and clarified status of
2283 Catalyst-Manual dist
2284 - Doc patches to Catalyst::Controller
2285 - remove ignore_loaded from plugin load, commenting why
2286 - document the ignore_loaded feature in Catalyst::Utils
2287 - Add testing of inline plugins.
2289 5.7008 2007-08-13 08:40:00
2290 - Added $c->request->query_keywords for getting the keywords
2291 (a query string with no parameters).
2292 - Add undef warning for uri_for.
2293 - Fix bug where a nested component would be setup twice.
2294 - Make ensure_class_loaded behave better with malformed class name.
2295 - Make _register_plugin use ensure_class_loaded.
2296 - Remove 'Argument "??" isn't numeric in sprintf' warning.
2298 - Fixed a bug where Content-Length could be set to 0 if a filehandle
2299 object in $c->response->body did not report a size.
2300 - Fixed issue where development server running in fork mode did not
2301 properly exit after a write error.
2302 (http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27135)
2303 - Remove warning for captures that are undef.
2304 - Fixed $c->read and parse_on_demand mode.
2305 - Fixed a bug with the HTTP engine where very large response bodies
2306 would not be sent properly.
2308 5.7007 2007-03-13 14:18:00
2309 - Many performance improvements by not using URI.pm:
2310 * $c->uri_for (approx. 8x faster)
2311 * $c->engine->prepare_path (approx. 27x faster)
2312 * $c->engine->prepare_query_parameters (approx. 5x faster)
2313 - Updated HTTP::Body dependency to 0.9 which fixes the following issues:
2314 * Handle when IE sometimes sends an extra CRLF after the POST body.
2315 * Empty fields in multipart/form-data POSTs are no longer ignored.
2316 * Uploaded files with the name "0" are no longer ignored.
2317 - Sending SIGHUP to the dev server will now cause it to restart.
2318 - Allow "0" for a path in uri_for.
2319 - Performance and stability improvements to the built-in HTTP server.
2320 - Don't ignore file uploads if form contains a text field with the same name.
2322 - Support restart_delay of 0 (for use in the POE engine).
2323 - Skip body processing if we don't have a Content-Length header.
2324 Results in about a 9% performance increase when handling GET/HEAD
2326 - Add a default body to redirect responses.
2327 - MyApp->model/view now looks at MyApp->config->{default_view/model}
2330 5.7006 2006-11-15 14.18
2332 - Fix Slurp dependency
2333 - Updated HTTP::Body dependency to 0.6, 0.5 can break on large POST
2335 - Skip utf8 fix for undef values in uri_with() and uri_for()
2337 5.7005 2006-11-07 19:37:35
2338 - Fixed lighttpd tests to be properly skipped.
2339 - Moved IE workarounds to exist only in the HTTP engine.
2340 - Added installation instructions (from Catalyst-Manual dist)
2342 5.7004 2006-11-06 20:48:35
2343 - Fix Engine::HTTP crash when using IE. (Jesper Krogh, Peter Edwards)
2344 - clean up Catalyst::Utils to handle some edge cases
2345 - Properly work around lighttpd PATH_INFO vs. SCRIPT_NAME bug
2347 - add _application accessor to Catalyst::Base
2348 - Support current_view
2349 - Allow use of Catalyst::Test without app name (Ton Voon, Altinity)
2350 - Catalyst::Manual moved to its own package
2351 - Add option to FastCGI engine to send errors to stdout, not the web server
2352 - Use Module::Install's auto_install to install prerequisite modules
2353 - various documentation fixes and improvements
2355 5.7003 2006-09-21 16:29:45
2356 - Additions and updates to tutorial
2358 5.7002 2006-09-17 19:35:32
2359 - unescape captures to match args
2360 - fix for relative Chained under namespace '' (root)
2361 - fix for hashrefs in action attributes from config
2362 - fix for Chained to require correct number of CaptureArgs
2364 5.7001 2006-07-19 23:46:54
2365 - fix for component loading
2366 - uri_for and uri_with now behave as they used to with non-
2369 5.7000 2006-07-07 08:08:08
2370 - fix FCGI.pm warning message with FastCGI engine
2371 - bumped inc::Module::Install to 0.63 in Makefile.PL
2372 - fixes to uri_for_action for DispatchType::Chained
2374 - Minor code cleanups
2375 - Changed catalyst.pl to depend on Catalyst::Devel
2377 5.70_03 2006-06-28 16:42:00
2378 - fixup to registered plugins debug at app startup
2379 - refactored Catalyst::Utils::home
2381 5.70_02 2006-06-27 11:51:00
2384 5.70_01 2006-06-26 10:49:00
2386 - fixed a Catalyst::Base bug causing duplicate action registrations
2387 - modified DispatchTypes to support multiple registrations
2388 - added Catalyst::Runtime module as dist marker
2389 - added Catalyst::ActionChain and Chained DispatchType
2390 - removed retarded registration requirement in dispatcher
2391 - removed Module::Pluggable::Fast hack in favor of
2392 Module::Pluggable::Object
2393 - extended uri_for, added dispatcher->uri_for_action
2394 - added Catalyst::Base->action_for('methodname')
2395 - checked and tested :Args multimethod dispatch
2396 - added ability to set action attributes from controller config
2397 - added merge_config_hashes() as a convenience method
2398 - Swapped out CGI::Cookie in favour of CGI::Simple::Cookie
2399 - Removed test dependencies on Test::NoWarnings, Test::MockObject
2400 - Removed dependency on UNIVERSAL::require
2401 - Split out Catalyst::Helper into a new distribution
2402 - un-bundled the plugins as they are now pre-reqs for Catalyst::Helper
2403 - nuked each() out of core with prejudice (due to lurking buglets)
2404 - Added tests from phaylon for dispatcher precedence
2405 - Use Class::Inspector->loaded($class) instead of $class->can('can')
2406 - Added ActionClass attribute
2407 - Removed Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst from Makefile.PL (circular dep)
2408 - Updated docs for Catalyst::Component
2409 - Separated execute and dispatch on Catalyst::Action
2410 - cleaned up logging and debug output
2411 - significant documentation revisions
2412 - Added warning for setup being called twice
2413 - Fix pod to use DBIC::Schema instead of DBIC model
2414 - Fix ->config failing to copy _config for subclassing
2415 - Updated log format
2416 - Updated debug dump
2418 5.6902 2006-05-04 13:00:00
2419 - Remove tarballs and OSX metadata files.
2421 5.6901 2006-05-03 11.17:00
2422 - Module::Install didn't overwrite META.yml.
2424 5.6900 2006-05-03 11.17:00
2425 - Stupid pause indexer can't count.
2426 - Better fix for Catalyst::Test
2429 5.682 2006-04-27 13:51:00
2430 - Damn OSX attributes again :(
2432 5.681 2006-04-27 08:47:00
2434 - Add basename to core . (Deprecates Catalyst::Plugin::Basename)
2436 5.68 2006-04-26 12:23:00
2437 - ConfigLoader: Updated to version 0.06
2438 - fixed undef warnings in uri_for() and uri_with()
2439 - Fixed Catalyst::Test to report errors on failed Class load
2441 5.678 2006-04-24 12:30:00
2442 - Re-release of 5.67 without OSX metadata files.
2444 5.67 2006-04-23 08:50:00
2445 - Added $c->req->uri_with() helper
2446 - ConfigLoader: Updated to version 0.05
2447 - Fix up Engine to avoid a new 5.8.8 warning
2448 - Added app name with :: support for PAR
2449 - Added $c->models/views/controllers
2450 - Static::Simple: Unescape the URI path before looking for the file.
2451 This fixes issues with files that have spaces.
2452 - Looping and recursion tests plus a fix
2453 - Added lots of API documentation. Refactored main pod.
2454 - Changed default behaviors for $c->model/$c->controller/$c->view
2455 to more sane settings.
2456 - added the clear_errors method - an alias for error(0)
2457 - Added tmpdir option for uploads (woremacx)
2458 - Applied patch from GEOFFR to allow normal filehandles.
2459 - Refactored Dispatcher internals for better readability and speedup
2460 (stress tests run 12% faster)
2461 - Allow $c->error to run as a class method
2463 5.66 2006-03-10 17:48:00
2464 - Added Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst support
2465 - Cleaned generated tests
2466 - Added Root controller concept
2467 - Updated ConfigLoader plugin to version 0.04
2469 5.65 2006-02-21 10:34:00
2470 - Added plugin introspection.
2471 - Support optional hashref as last param for parameters in uri_for.
2472 - Updated tutorial to be more complete.
2473 - Applied args patch from antirice (Fixes Ticket #67)
2475 5.64 2006-02-07 20:29:00
2476 - Fixed bug in FastCGI proc manager mode where pm_post_dispatch
2477 was not run. (Eric Wong)
2478 - Cleaned up generated tests
2479 - Updated YAML support to use ConfigLoader
2480 - Fixed path dispatch to canonicalise correctly
2481 (see http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/ticket/62)
2482 - Added Catalyst::Manual::About
2484 5.63 2006-01-22 00:00:00
2485 - Updated prereq versions
2487 5.62 2006-01-17 16:30:00
2488 - Large update to the tutorial (castaway)
2489 - Added YAML config support
2490 - Added COMPONENT() and ACCEPT_CONTEXT() support
2491 - Action list in debug mode is now displayed as a tree in the
2492 correct execution order.
2493 - Fixed engine detection to allow custom mod_perl engines.
2494 - Static::Simple: Fixed bug in ignore_dirs under win32.
2495 - Display version numbers of loaded plugins. (Curtis Poe)
2496 - Added class and method for caught exception messages.
2497 - Updated PAR support to use "make catalyst_par",
2498 packages are no longer written by Makefile.PL.
2499 - Automatically determine Content-Length when serving a
2501 - Exceptions now return status 500.
2502 - Updated for Module::Install 0.44.
2503 - Fixed additional file installation for multi level app names.
2504 - Added REDIRECT_URL support for applications running behind
2505 a RewriteRule in Apache. (Carl Franks)
2506 - Fixed FastCGI engine under win32. (Carl Franks)
2507 - FastCGI doc updates (Bill Moseley)
2508 - Bugfix for $c->model and friends (defined).
2510 5.61 2005-12-02 00:00:00
2511 - Fixed ExtUtils::AutoInstall Bootstrap Code in Makefile.PL
2513 5.60 2005-12-01 22:15:00
2514 - Fixed Path and index actions in the appclass,
2515 including those that attach to /
2516 - Index is now weighted higher than Path
2517 - Fixed restarter and -d debug switch in server.pl.
2518 - Added a warning if you attempt to retrieve a parameter
2519 using $c->req->params('foo').
2520 - Fixed the Module::Install::Catalyst @ISA bug
2522 5.59 2005-11-30 13:25:00
2523 - Fixed shebang line for generated scripts
2524 - Fixed forward to classes ($c->forward(qw/MyApp foo/))
2525 - Wrap use block in begin to quelch C:C3 warnings
2526 - Removed scrollbar from debug output
2527 - Fixed catalyst_par_core() and catalyst_par_multiarch()
2529 5.58 2005-11-24 10:51:00
2530 - Added ExtUtils::AutoInstall support
2531 - Allow overriding path in Catalyst::Helper.
2532 - Added -makefile to catalyst.pl to generate a new Makefile.PL.
2533 - Restored Catalyst::Build with a deprecation notice.
2534 - Improved PAR support
2535 - Replaced -short with auto-detection
2536 - Fixed prereqs, added File::Copy::Recursive
2537 - Static::Simple changes:
2538 - Made prepare_action play nice with other plugins by not short-
2540 - Added tmpl to the ignored extensions.
2541 - Fixed security problem if req->path contained '..'.
2543 5.57 2005-11-20 22:45:00
2544 - Updated uri_for to accept undef actions
2545 - Switched to Module::Install
2546 - Renamed tests for easier editing
2547 - Reformatted documentation
2548 - Renamed -nonew to -force
2550 - Added keep-alive support and bug fixes to HTTP engine.
2552 - Added daemonize option to FastCGI engine. (Sam Vilain)
2554 5.56 2005-11-16 10:33:00
2555 - Fixed FastCGI engine to not clobber the global %ENV on each
2556 request. (Sam Vilain)
2557 - Updated benchmarking to work with detach
2558 - Fixed dispatcher, so $c->req->action(undef) works again
2559 - Updated Catalyst::Test to use HTTP::Request::AsCGI
2560 - Added -pidfile to external FastCGI server.
2562 5.55 2005-11-15 12:55:00
2563 - Fixed multiple cookie handling
2565 5.54 2005-11-14 22:55:00
2566 - Fixed a Module::Pluggable::Fast related bug
2568 5.53 2005-11-14 15:55:00
2569 - Removed t/04prereq.t that was testing for non-required
2572 5.52 2005-11-14 10:57:00
2573 - Strip '..'s in static urls to fix security issue.
2575 5.51 2005-11-14 00:45:00
2576 - Changed uri_for to use namespace instead of match.
2578 5.50 2005-11-13 20:45:00
2582 5.49_05 2005-11-12 20:45:00
2583 - Large update to the documentation. (David Kamholz)
2584 - Fixed args handling in forward()
2585 - Fixed forwarding to classes
2586 - Fixed catalyst.pl-generated Build.PL Makefile section.
2587 - Fixed relative forwarding
2588 - Fixed forward arrows in debug output
2590 5.49_04 2005-11-09 23:00:00
2591 - Made context, dispatcher, engine, request and response classes
2594 - Fixed dispatcher to ignore unknown attributes.
2595 - Improved format of startup debug log.
2596 - Updated built in server to restart on win32. (Will Hawes)
2597 - Fixed streaming write from a filehandle to stop writing
2598 if the browser is closed.
2599 - Added $c->controller, $c->model and $c->view shortcuts.
2600 - Switched to Text::SimpleTable.
2602 5.49_03 2005-11-03 12:00:00
2603 - Fixed $c->req->{path} for backwards-compatibility.
2604 - Allow debug to be disabled via ENV as well as enabled.
2605 - Added -scripts option to catalyst.pl for script updating
2606 - Changed helpers to default to long types, Controller instead of C
2607 - Added Catalyst::Controller, Catalyst::Model and Catalyst::View
2609 - Added JavaScript to debug screen to show and hide specific dumps
2610 - Added _DISPATCH, _BEGIN, _AUTO, _ACTION and _END actions
2611 - Added multi process external FastCGI support
2612 (see myapp_fastcgi.pl -help) (Sam Vilain)
2613 - Restarter process in HTTP engine now properly exits when the
2614 parent app is shut down.
2615 - Improved performance of restarter loop while watching for
2617 - Restarter will now detect new files added to an app on systems
2618 that change directory mtimes when new files are created.
2619 - Restarter now properly handles modules that are deleted from an
2621 - Fixed memory leak in TestApp.
2623 5.49_02 2005-10-26 12:39:00
2624 - Whole new dispatcher!
2625 - Added index action
2626 - Added path_to method
2627 - Added support for passing an IO::Handle object to $c->res->body.
2629 - Added a new welcome screen.
2630 - Included Catalyst buttons and icons in helper.
2631 - Added Static::Simple plugin to core.
2632 - Added self restarting test server
2633 - Added filename to debug output for uploaded files.
2634 - Fixed forwarding with embedded arguments.
2635 - Fixed handling of escaped query strings.
2636 - Added upload parameters back into $c->req->params.
2637 - Added multiple paths support to dispatcher
2638 - Fixed bug in req->path where changing the path added a trailing
2640 - Removed req->handle and res->handle
2641 - Added prepare_body_chunk method as a hook for upload progress.
2642 - Fixed bug in uri_for method when base has no path.
2643 - Added automated tests for HTTP, CGI, and FastCGI servers.
2645 5.49_01 2005-10-10 10:15:00
2646 - Refactored all internals, should be 99% compatible to previous
2648 - *IMPORTANT* The Apache engines have been moved to a separate package
2649 for this release. Please install Catalyst::Engine::Apache if you
2650 need Apache support.
2652 - Added support for calling forward with arguments in the path, i.e.
2653 $c->forward('/foo/bar/arg1/arg2')
2654 - Made $c->req->uri a URI object, added req->path_info for CGI compat.
2655 Raw query string is available as $c->req->uri->query.
2656 - Made $c->req->base a URI object.
2657 - Parameters with multiple values (?a=1&a=2) now display properly
2658 in the debug output.
2659 - Semi-colon separators in query strings now work properly.
2660 - Expanded documentation of catalyst.pl (Andrew Ford)
2661 - Added support for running as a backend server behind a frontend
2662 proxy so req->base and req->address are set properly.
2663 - Added an 'abort' method to the Log api, so that you can
2664 kill loggging for a whole request.
2665 - Added $c->uri_for method to simplify url handling.
2666 - Added more tests and reorganized the t directory.
2667 - Reimplemented core engines, all are now CGI based for better test
2668 coverage and maintainability.
2669 - Added fork support to built in test server.
2670 - Fixed all memory leaks.
2671 - Thread-related bug fixes and tests. We now believe the Catalyst
2672 core to be thread-safe.
2673 - Added streaming IO support through $c->req->read() and
2675 - Added MyApp->config->{parse_on_demand} (streaming input)
2676 - Added $c->req->handle and $c->res->handle
2677 - Improved documentation
2678 - Fixed mkpath in Catalyst::Helper (Autrijus Tang)
2679 - Fixed bug in dispatcher where an invalid path could call a valid
2680 action. (Andy Grundman)
2681 - Fixed Helper so it works with CRLF line-endings. (Andy Grundman)
2683 5.33 2005-08-10 15:25:00
2684 - Now with updated manifest.
2686 5.32 2005-08-10 15:10:00
2687 - Dispatcher might fail if object returns false.
2689 5.31 2005-06-04 12:35:00 (never released to CPAN)
2691 - helpers now create .new files where files already exist and differ
2692 - fixed $Data::Dumper::Terse (Robin Berjon)
2693 - added arguments for detach
2694 - new credits section in POD
2695 - fixed detach to allow relative action names (Matt and Robert)
2696 - added the ability to have whitespaces in Path( '' ) and Regex( '' )
2698 5.30 2005-06-04 12:35:00
2700 - Fixed a bug where it was not possible to $c->forward to a
2702 that was not inheriting from Catalyst::Base.
2703 - Fix for inheritance bug.
2704 - Allow forward with arguments.
2706 - Allow overriding home/root in config.
2707 - make module build cons README automatically.
2708 - prettify home path by resolving '..' (Andy Grundman)
2709 - improved helper templates a bit, new naming scheme for tests.
2710 - added support for case sensitivity, MyApp->config->{case_sensitive}
2711 - added $c->detach for non-returning forwards
2712 - added unified error handling, Catalyst::Exception
2713 - added section on param handling in Intro.pod
2714 - added $c->request->cookie
2715 - added Catalyst::Setup
2716 - refactored Catalyst::import()
2717 - improved rendering of error messages in debug mode
2718 - fixed a bug in Catalyst::Helper::mk_dir
2719 - further doc changes, esp. to Intro.pod
2721 5.23 2005-06-03 02:30:00
2722 - added support for non Catalyst::Base components to live in namespace
2723 - improved concurrency connections in Catalyst::Engine::HTTP::Daemon
2725 5.22 2005-05-26 14:24:00
2726 - improved base locating in MP engines
2727 - improved error messages in C::E::HTTP::Daemon
2728 - hostnames are now resolved on demand unless provided by engine
2729 - fixed memory leak in $c->execute (Michael Reece, Matt S Trout)
2731 5.21 2005-05-24 14:56:00
2732 - fixed a bug in https detection
2733 - fixed auto chain finally
2734 - added MYAPP_HOME and CATALYST_HOME environment variables
2736 5.20 2005-05-18 19:52:00
2737 - improved uploads and parameters
2738 - added $c->req->protocol and $c->req->secure
2739 - added $c->req->user and $c->req->uri
2740 - improved error message when forwarding to unknown module
2741 - fixed win32 installer
2742 - added deep recursion detection
2743 - fixed auto actions
2744 - fixed inheritance in dispatcher
2745 - allow whitespaces between brackets and quoted string
2746 in Path and Regex attributes
2747 - new helper templates
2748 - installer now supports install_base and destdir
2749 - allow multiple Catalyst apps to run on the same mod_perl
2750 instance (not the same app!)
2752 - removed apreq dependency from all MP engines
2753 - added support for MP registry scripts
2754 - added support for LocationMatch and ScriptAliasMatch in MP engines
2755 - added SpeedyCGI engine
2757 5.10 2005-04-23 11:16:00
2758 - updated dependencies to require latest module::pluggable::fast
2759 - new installer for templates and stuff using Module::Build
2760 - scripts are now prefixed, for being installable
2761 IMPORTANT: You have to regenerate the script directory,
2762 remove Makefile.PL and add Build.PL
2763 - Added compat to install Module::Build if required.
2764 - Improved: Params handling with MP engines
2765 - Fixed: Params handling on POST with CGI engine (Andy Grundman)
2766 - Fixed: Helper.pm on Win32 (Matt S Trout)
2768 5.03 2005-04-19 20:35:00 (Revision 462)
2769 - fixed Test example (Torsten Seeman)
2770 - added Plugins chapter to manual
2771 - applied doc patch from Robert Boone <robert@rlb3.com>
2772 - improved Dispatcher error messages.
2773 - refactored so we don't need to include helper from
2774 Catalyst.pm - Fixes issues with FindBin
2775 - applied HTTP.pm patch from Andy Grundman <andy@hybridized.org>
2776 - added plugin() method for instant plugins
2777 - FCGI is no more considered experimental
2779 5.02 2005-04-18 10:00:00
2782 5.01 2005-04-17 23:00:00
2783 - some documentation bugs fixed
2784 - added Catalyst::Utils
2785 - fixed regexp bug (Matt S Trout)
2786 - fixed upload bug with MP19
2787 - added $c->req->body
2788 - aliased $c->res->output to $c->res->body
2789 - Read AUTHOR from passwd or $ENV{AUTHOR} when
2791 - extended attribute handling
2792 - added global config for components
2794 5.00 2005-04-15 18:00:00
2795 - new core to support inheritance trees
2796 - new syntax for action declaration
2797 - new helper system using TT2
2798 - problems with mod_perl2 fixed
2799 - added Test::Pod support
2800 - added new server backend with HTTP/1.1 support
2801 - added option to run tests against a remote server
2802 - renamed errors() to error()
2804 - countless minor improvements
2805 IMPORTANT: This release is very incompatible to previous ones
2806 and you have to regenerate the helper scripts again...
2808 4.34 2005-03-23 07:00:00 2005
2809 - added some messages to Makefile.PL
2810 - added Catalyst::Engine::Test
2811 - added Catalyst::Engine::CGI::NPH
2812 - simplified Catalyst::Log to be easier to implement/subclass
2814 - updated Catalyst::Test to use Catalyst::Engine::Test
2815 - updated helper scripts
2816 IMPORTANT: this will be the last time you'll have to regenerate
2817 the script directory. We promise!
2819 4.33 2005-03-23 01:00:00 2005
2820 - documented the log() accessor method in Catalyst (Andrew Ford)
2821 - added optional arguments to Catalyst::Log methods (Andrew Ford)
2822 - removed cgi-server.pl
2823 - added fcgi.pl and Catalyst::Engine::FCGI
2824 - fixed an undef durng make test (Dan Sully)
2825 - new path test (Christian Hansen)
2826 IMPORTANT: you have to regenerate the script directory again
2828 4.32 2005-03-22 02:10:00 2005
2829 - made a damn typo *AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!*
2831 4.31 2005-03-22 02:00:00
2832 - fixed inheritance (Christian Hansen)
2833 - previous release was borked!
2834 fixed that, but you have to regenerate the scripts again :(
2836 4.30 2005-03-21 23:00:00
2837 - more documentation (Andrew Ford)
2838 - added connection informations (Christian Hansen)
2839 - HTTP::Request support in Catalyst::Test (Christian Hansen)
2840 - moved cgi.pl to nph-cgi.pl
2841 - added Catalyst::Engine::Server (Christian Hansen)
2842 - removed Catalyst::Test::server
2843 - updated helper scripts
2844 IMPORTANT: note that you have to regenerate script/server.pl,
2845 script/cgi-server.pl and script/cgi.pl (now nph-cgi.pl)
2847 4.28 2005-03-19 22:00:00
2848 - fixed isa tree (Christian Hansen)
2849 - added script/cgi-server.pl, so no more server restarting after
2851 - reworked documentation (Andrew Ford <A.Ford@ford-mason.co.uk>)
2853 4.27 2005-03-19 01:00:00
2854 - debug message for parameters
2855 - Fix redirects (Christian Hansen <ch@ngmedia.com>)
2857 - new helper api for Catalyst::Helper::* support
2858 you have to update script/create.pl to use it
2860 4.26 2005-03-16 10:00:00
2861 - fixed the weird bug that caused regex actions to fail on every
2863 - more debug messages
2864 - 100% pod coverage.
2866 4.25 2005-03-12 18:00:00
2867 - correct perl pathes for helper generated scripts (Tatsuhiko Miyagawa)
2868 - improved cgi engine docs (Christoper Hicks)
2870 4.24 2005-03-12 01:00:00
2871 - updated cookbook example
2872 - fixed base for apache and https (Andrew Ruthven)
2874 4.23 2005-03-09 20:00:00
2875 - no more regex actions in forward
2876 - added support for test directories t/m, t/v and t/c
2878 4.22 2005-03-08 20:00:00
2879 - catch errors in application class
2880 - handle die properly.
2882 4.21 2005-03-05 17:00:00
2885 4.20 2005-03-04 22:00:00
2886 - moved bin to script
2888 4.13 2005-03-03 11:00:00
2889 - improved documentation
2890 - pod coverage test for helper generated apps
2893 4.12 2005-03-02 11:00:00 2005
2894 - server_base sucks, removed
2895 - added $c->log->dump()
2897 4.11 2005-03-02 11:00:00 2005
2898 - removed some warnings
2900 - private prefixed actions override private non prefixed actions
2902 - updated Catalyst::Manual::Intro
2904 4.10 2005-03-02 10:00:00 2005
2905 - improved documentation
2907 - fixed prefixed private actions bug
2908 - fixed more little bugs
2910 4.01 2005-03-01 10:00:00 2005
2911 - improved documentation
2912 - documentation fixes (Johan Lindstrom)
2914 4.00 2005-02-27 22:00:00
2915 - more verbose debug messages, especially for forward()
2916 - implemented prefixed prvate actions, icluding built in
2917 !?default, !?begin and !?end
2918 - new Catalyst::Manual::Intro
2919 - new helpers, bin/catalyst
2922 3.11 2005-02-23 21:00:00
2923 - added dependency to UNIVERSAL::require (Marcus Ramberg)
2924 - added a little workaround for a warning in Catalyst::Test
2926 - improved documentation for actions
2928 3.10 2005-02-19 20:00:00
2929 - removed roles management from Catalyst::Engine
2930 and added it to Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication::CDBI
2932 3.04 2005-02-17 21:00:00
2933 - error reporting for app class
2934 - no more engine debug messages
2935 - class->method forwards get resolved now
2937 3.03 2005-02-16 23:00:00
2938 - friendlier statistics
2940 3.02 2005-02-16 22:00:00
2941 - fixed unintialized actions (Marcus Ramberg)
2943 3.01 2005-02-16 20:30:00
2946 3.00 2005-02-16 20:00:00
2947 - real version number for CPAN.pm
2948 - fixed redirect in CGI engine
2949 - more statistics in debug logs
2950 - ? prefix for forward()
2952 2.99_15 2005-02-02 22:00:00
2953 - support for short namespaces, MyApp::M, MyApp::V and MyApp::C
2954 - Replaced "Catched" with "Caught" in Catalyst::Engine
2956 - replaced _ with ! for private actions
2957 - added ? for prefixed actions
2960 2.99_14 2005-01-31 22:00:00 2005
2961 - arguments for _default
2962 - $c->entrance removed for more flexibility
2963 - added $c->req->method
2965 2.99_13 2005-01-30 18:00:00 2005
2966 - POD fixes and improvements
2968 2.99_12 2005-01-28 22:00:00 2005
2969 - first development release