1 # This file documents the revision history for Perl extension Catalyst.
3 - Add the Catalyst::Dispatcher->dispatch_type method (ash)
4 - Throw an exception rather than loading an app if an action
5 tries to chain to itself (t0m)
7 - Change the $c->visit and $c->go methods to optionally take
8 CaptureArgs, making them useful to call ActionChains with (t0m)
9 - Tests for this (radek)
10 - Fix _invoke_as_component method to find the proper action instance
11 for dispatchable actions so that ->visit or ->going to ActionChains
12 with qw/Class::Name method_name/ works correctly (t0m)
13 - Tests for this (radek)
14 - Added Catalyst::Test::ctx_request to be able to inspect
15 the context object after a request is made (Jos Boumans)
16 - debug() POD rewrite (jhannah)
17 - Change the warning when you have conflicting components to
19 - Move NEXT use and testing deprecated features out to its own
20 test application so that the main TestApp isn't polluted with
21 spurious warnings (t0m)
22 - Add a warning for the old ::[MVC]:: style naming scheme (t0m)
24 - Kill Class::C3::Adopt::NEXT warnings for the Catalyst:: namespace
25 in production versions (t0m)
26 - Tidy up Catalyst::ClassData to ensure that all components get
27 the correct metaclass (t0m)
28 - Make MyApp.pm restartable by unsetting setup_finished in
29 the restarter process (t0m)
30 - Non-naive implementation of making mutable on restart using
31 B::Hooks::OP::Check::StashChange if installed (t0m)
32 - Tests for this (t0m)
33 - Naive implementation of making all components mutable in the
34 forked restart watcher process so native Moose apps using
35 immutable restart correctly. (t0m)
36 - Tests for this (t0m)
37 - Bump Moose dependency to 0.70 so that we avoid nasty surprises
38 with is_class_loaded and perl 5.80 when you Moosify MyApp.pm (t0m)
39 - Clarify that request arguments aren't unescaped automatically
40 (Simon Bertrang) (Closes RT#41153)
41 - Don't require C3 for the MRO test (rafl)
42 - Bump MX::Emulate::CAF prereq to support list assignment (rafl)
43 - Remove useless column in chained action debug table. (rafl)
44 - namespace::clean related cleanups (rafl)
45 - Import related cleanups and consistency fixes (rafl)
46 - Fix test suite TestApp /dump/env action (t0m)
47 - Add $res->code as alias for $res->status (hdp)
48 - Make Catalyst::ClassData compatible with the latest Class::MOP::Class
49 changes. Also depend on the latest Class::MOP. (rafl)
50 - Add $c->uri_for_action method. (hdp)
52 5.8000_06 2009-02-04 21:00
53 - Disallow writing to config after setup (rafl)
54 - Disallow calling setup more than once (rafl)
55 - Documentation fix regarding overloading of Engine and Dispatcher
57 - Several documentation typo fixes (rafl)
58 - Stop Makefile.PL from warning about versions that fixed a conflict
60 - Improved upgrading documentation (t0m, rafl)
61 - Seed the RNG in each FastCGI child process (Andrew Rodland)
62 - Properly report dynamic bind port for the development server (rafl)
64 - Use the way documented by IO::Socket::INET to get the error message
65 after trying to create a listening socket (rafl) (Closes RT#41828)
66 - Don't ignore SIGCHLD while handling requests with the dev server
67 (rafl) (Closes RT#42962)
69 5.8000_05 2008-29-01 00:00
70 - Text::SimpleTable's go as wide as $ENV{COLUMNS} (jhannah)
71 Patch written by Oleg Kostyuk <cub.uanic@gmail.com>
72 - Improve docs for visit (mateu)
73 - Add docs for finalize hook (dhoss)
74 - Added ru/ua translations to error page
75 - Improve the clarity and verbosity of the warning when component
76 resolution uses regex fallback. (jhannah)
77 - Handle leading CRLF in HTTP requests sometimes sent by IE6 in
78 keep-alive requests. (andyg)
79 - Fixes for FastCGI with IIS 6.0 (janus)
80 - Passing request method exported by Catalyst::Test an extra
81 parameter used to be ignored, but started breaking if the parameter
82 was not a hash in 5.8000_04. Extra parameter is now ignored if
83 it isn't a hashref (t0m)
84 - Fix request argumentss getting corrupted if you override the
85 dispatcher and call an action which detaches (for
86 Catalyst::Plugin::Authorization::ACL) (t0m)
87 - Fix calling use Catalyst::Test 'MyApp' 'foo' which used to work,
88 but stopped as the 2nd parameter can be an options hash now (t0m)
89 - Bump Moose dependency to fix make_immutable bug (t0m)
90 - Use compile time extends in Catalyst::Controller (t0m)
91 - Make Catalyst::Request::uploads attribute non-lazy, to fix
92 test for Catalyst-Engine-Apache (t0m)
93 - Bump version of MooseX::Emulate::Class::Accessor::Fast (t0m)
94 - Stop using MooseX::Adopt::Class::Accessor::Fast by default, to stop
95 breaking other packages which use Class::Accessor::Fast
96 - Remove unused action_container_class attribute from
97 Catalyst::Dispatcher (t0m)
98 - Replace {_body} instance access with calls to _body accessors (t0m)
99 - Add backwards compatibility alias methods for private attributes on
100 Catalyst::Dispatcher which used to be public. Needed by
101 Catalyst::Plugin::Server and Catalyst::Plugin::Authorization::ACL
103 - Fix return value of $c->req->body, which delegates to the body
104 method on the requests HTTP::Body instance (t0m)
105 - Test for this (t0m)
106 - Fix calling $c->req->body from inside an overridden prepare_action
107 method in a plugin, as used by Catalyst::Plugin::Server (t0m)
108 - Test for this (t0m)
109 - Fix assignment to Catalyst::Dispatcher's preload_dispatch_types and
110 postload_dispatch_types attributes - assigning a list should later
111 return a listref. Fixes Catalyst::Plugin::Server. (t0m)
112 - Tests for this (t0m)
113 - Change streaming test to serve itself rather than 01use.t, making
114 test sync for engines easier (t0m)
115 - Refactor capturing of $app from Catalyst::Controller into
116 Catalyst::Component::ApplicationAttribute for easier reuse in other
117 components (Florian Ragwitz)
118 - Make the test suites YAML dependency optional (Florian Ragwitz)
119 - Make debug output show class name for the engine and dispatcher
120 rather than the stringified ref. (t0m)
121 - Make MyApp immutable at the end of the scope after the setup
122 method is called, fixing issues with plugins which have their
123 own new methods by inlining a constructor on MyApp (t0m)
124 - Test for this and method modifiers in MyApp (t0m)
125 - Fix bug causing Catalyst::Request::Upload's basename method
126 to return undef (t0m)
127 - Test for this (Carl Franks)
128 - Fix loading of classes which do not define any symbols to not
129 die, as it didn't in 5.70 (t0m)
130 - Test for this (t0m)
131 - Bump MooseX::Emulate::Class::Accessor::Fast dependency
132 to force new version which fixes a lot of plugins (t0m)
133 - Make log levels additive, and add documentation and tests
134 for the setup_log method, which previously had none.
135 Sewn together by t0m from two patches provided by David E. Wheeler
136 - Switch an around 'new' in Catalyst::Controller to a BUILDARGS
137 method as it's much neater and more obvious what is going on (t0m)
138 - Add a clearer method on request and response _context
139 attributes, and use if from ::Engine rather than deleting
140 the key from the instance hash (t0m)
141 - Use handles on tree attribute of Catalyst::Stats to replace
142 trivial delegation methods (t0m)
143 - Change the following direct hash accesses into attributes:
144 Catalyst::Engine: _prepared_write
145 Catalyst::Engine::CGI: _header_buf
146 Catalyst::Engine::HTTP: options, _keepalive, _write_error
147 Catalyst::Request: _path
148 Catalyst::Stats: tree
150 - Fix issues in Catalyst::Controller::WrapCGI
151 and any other components which import (or define) their
152 own meta method by always explicitly calling
153 Class::MOP::Object->meta inside Catalyst (t0m)
154 - Add test for this (t0m)
155 - Add test case for the bug which is causing the
156 Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication tests to fail (t0m)
157 - Fix a bug in uri_for which could cause it to generate paths
158 with multiple slashes in them. (t0m)
159 - Add test for this (t0m)
160 - Fix SKIP block name in t/optional_http-server-restart.t,
161 stopping 'Label not found for "last SKIP"' error from
163 - Workaround max_redirect 0 bug in LWP (andyg)
164 - Move live_engine_response_print into aggregate (andyg)
165 - Fix dependency bug, s/parent/base/ in new test (rafl)
166 - Fix optional tests to run the live tests in the aggregate
168 - Fix Catalyst->go error in remote tests (andyg)
169 - Fix upload test to work with remote servers, don't check for
170 deleted files (andyg)
171 - Fix engine_request_uri tests to work on remote server with
172 different URI (andyg)
174 5.8000_04 2008-12-05 12:15:00
175 - Silence Class::C3::Adopt::NEXT warnings in the test suite (rafl)
176 - Fix loads of 'used once, possible typo' warnings (rafl)
177 - Additional tests to ensure upload temp files are deleted (andyg)
178 - Remove use of NEXT from the test suite, except for one case
179 which tests if Class::C3::Adopt::NEXT is working (t0m)
180 - Use a predicate to avoid recursion in cases where the uri
181 method is overridden by a plugin, and calls the base method,
182 for example Catalyst::Plugin::SmartURI (t0m)
183 - Test for this (caelum)
184 - Compose the MooseX::Emulate::Class::Accessor::Fast role to
185 Catalyst::Action, Catalyst::Request, and all other modules which
186 inherit from Class::Accessor::Fast in 5.70.
188 - Catalyst::Controller::HTML::FormFu (zamolxes)
189 - Catalyst::Request::REST (t0m)
190 - Test for this (t0m)
191 - Make hostname resolution lazy (Marc Mims)
192 - Support mocking virtualhosts in test suite (Jason Gottshall)
193 - Add README (marcus)
194 - Fix TODO list (t0m)
195 - Use Class::C3::Adopt::NEXT (rafl)
196 - Ignore C3 warnings on 5.10 when testing ensure_class_loaded (rafl)
197 - Add TODO test for chained bug (gbjk)
198 - Fix list address in documentation (zarquon)
199 - Fix ACCEPT_CONTEXT on MyApp, called as a class method (marcus)
200 - Test for this (marcus)
201 - Bump MooseX::Emulate::Class::Accessor::Fast version requirement to
202 get more back compatibility (t0m)
203 - Improve documentation for $req->captures (caelum)
204 - Fix a bug in Catalyst::Stats, stopping garbage being inserted into
205 the stats if a user calls begin => but no end => (jhannah)
206 - Test for this (jhannah)
207 - Trim lines sooner in stats to avoid ugly Text::SimpleTable wrapping
209 - Change Catalyst::ClassData to tweak the symbol table inline for
210 performance after profiling (mst)
211 - Fix POD typo in finalize_error (jhannah)
212 - Add tests to ensure that we delete the temp files created by
213 HTTP::Body's OctetStream parser (t0m)
215 5.8000_03 2008-10-14 14:13:00
216 - Fix forwarding to Catalyst::Action objects (Rafael Kitover).
217 - Fix links to the mailing lists (RT #39754 and Florian Ragwitz).
218 - Use Class::MOP instead of Class::Inspector (Florian Ragwitz).
219 - Change Catalyst::Test to use Sub::Exporter (Florian Ragwitz).
220 - Fixed typo in Engine::HTTP::Restarter::Watcher causing -r to complain.
222 5.8000_02 2008-10-14 07:59:00
225 5.8000_01 2008-10-13 22:52:00
227 - Added test for action stringify
228 - Added test for component instances getting $self->{value} from config.
229 - Add Catalyst::Response->print() method (ilmari)
230 - Optionally aggregate tests using Test::Aggregate (Florian Ragwitz).
231 - Additional docs for uri_for to mention how to use $c->action and
232 $c->req->captures (jhannah)
233 - List unattached chained actions in Debug mode (Florian Ragwitz).
234 - Pod formatting fix for Engine::FastCGI (Oleg Kostyuk).
235 - Add visit, a returning ->go
238 - Workaround change in LWP that broke a cookie test (RT #40037)
239 - Back out go() since that feature's been pushed to 5.80
240 - Fix some Win32 test failures
241 - Add pt translation of error message (wreis)
242 - Make :Chained('../action') work (Florian Ragwitz)
244 - Chained doc improvements (rev 8326-8328)
246 5.7099_03 2008-07-20 10:10:00
247 - Fix regressions for regexp fallback in model(), view() and controller()
248 - Added the supplied argument to the regexp fallback warning for easier
250 - Ensure ACCEPT_CONTEXT is called for results from component()
252 5.7099_02 2008-07-16 19:10:00
253 - Added PathPrefix attribute
254 - Removed Catalyst::Build; we've long since moved to Module::Install
255 - Updated Catalyst::Test docs to mention the use of HTTP::Request
256 objects (Rafael Kitover)
258 5.7099_01 2008-06-25 22:36:00
259 - Refactored component resolution (component(), models(), model(), et al). We now
260 throw warnings for two reasons:
261 1) model() or view() was called with no arguments, and two results are returned
262 -- set default_(model|view), current_(model|view) or current_(model|view)_instance
264 2) you call a component resolution method with a string, and it resorts to a regexp
265 fallback wherein a result is returned -- if you really want to search, call the
266 method with a regex as the argument
267 - remove 0-length query string components so warnings aren't thrown (RT #36428)
268 - Update HTTP::Body dep so that the uploadtmp config value will work (RT #22540)
269 - Fix for LocalRegex when used in the Root controller
270 - Get some of the optional_* tests working from dirs with spaces (RT #26455)
271 - Fix Catalyst::Utils::home() when application .pm is in the current dir (RT #34437)
272 - Added the ability to remove parameters in req->uri_with() by passing in
273 an undef value (RT #34782)
274 - Added $c->go, to do an internal redispatch to another action, while retaining the
275 contents of the stash
277 5.7014 2008-05-25 15:26:00
278 - Addition of .conf in restart regex in Catalyst::Engine::HTTP::Restarter::Watcher
279 - Fix regression for relative uri_for arguments after a forward()
280 introduced in 5.7013 (Peter Karman)
281 - Fix regression for "sub foo : Path {}" in the root controller which
282 was introduced when attempting to allow "0" as a Path.
284 5.7013 2008-05-16 18:20:00
285 - Provide backwards compatability methods in Catalyst::Stats
286 - Fix subdirs for scripts that run in subdirs more than one level deep.
287 - Added test and updated docs for handling the Authorization header
288 under mod_fastcgi/mod_cgi.
289 - Fixed bug in HTTP engine where the connection was not closed properly if the
290 client disconnected before sending any headers. (Ton Voon)
291 - POD fix, IO::FileHandle => IO::Handle (RT #35690)
292 - Fix grammar on welcome page (RT #33236)
293 - Fix for Path('0') handling (RT #29334)
294 - Workaround for Win32 and c3_mro.t (RT #26452, tested by Kenichi Ishigaki)
295 - Fix for encoding query parameters (edenc)
296 - Fix Chained multiple test (t0m)
298 5.7012 2007-12-16 23:44:00
299 - Fix uri_for()'s and uri_with()'s handling of multibyte chars
301 - Fix __PACKAGE__->config->{foo} = 'bar' case with subclassing
302 - Add Catalyst::Stats (Jon Schutz)
303 - Fixed a bug where ?q=bar=baz is decoded as q=>'bar', not 'bar=baz'.
304 (Tatsuhiko Miyagawa, Masahiro Nagano)
305 - Fixed a bug where -rr (restart regex) command line option could cause
306 shell errors. (Aristotle Pagaltzis, Chisel Wright)
308 5.7011 2007-10-18 20:40:00
309 - Allow multiple restart directories and added option to follow
310 symlinks in the HTTP::Restarter engine (Sebastian Willert)
311 - Fixed t/optional_http-server-restart.t so it actually tests
312 if the server restarted or notified of an error (Sebastian Willert)
313 - Return child PID from the HTTP engine when run with the 'background' option.
315 - Fixed bug in HTTP engine where writes could fail with
316 'Resource temporarily unavailable'.
317 - Fixed bug where %2b in query parameter is doubly decoded to ' ', instead of '+'
318 (RT #30087, Gavin Henry, Tatsuhiko Miyagawa, Oleg Pronin)
319 - Fixed bug where req->base and req->uri would include a port number when running
321 - Removed unnecessary sprintf in debug mode that caused warnings on locales where
322 commas are used for decimal markers.
323 - Improved error message for case when server picks up editor save
324 files as module names. (James Mastros)
326 5.7010 2007-08-22 07:41:00
327 - Resource forks in 5.7009
329 5.7009 2007-08-22 00:14:00
330 - Moved Manual.pod to Manual.pm and clarified status of
332 - Doc patches to Catalyst::Controller
333 - remove ignore_loaded from plugin load, commenting why
334 - document the ignore_loaded feature in Catalyst::Utils
335 - Add testing of inline plugins.
337 5.7008 2007-08-13 08:40:00
338 - Added $c->request->query_keywords for getting the keywords
339 (a query string with no parameters).
340 - Add undef warning for uri_for.
341 - Fix bug where a nested component would be setup twice.
342 - Make ensure_class_loaded behave better with malformed class name.
343 - Make _register_plugin use ensure_class_loaded.
344 - Remove 'Argument "??" isn't numeric in sprintf' warning.
346 - Fixed a bug where Content-Length could be set to 0 if a filehandle
347 object in $c->response->body did not report a size.
348 - Fixed issue where development server running in fork mode did not
349 properly exit after a write error.
350 (http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27135)
351 - Remove warning for captures that are undef.
352 - Fixed $c->read and parse_on_demand mode.
353 - Fixed a bug with the HTTP engine where very large response bodies
354 would not be sent properly.
356 5.7007 2007-03-13 14:18:00
357 - Many performance improvements by not using URI.pm:
358 * $c->uri_for (approx. 8x faster)
359 * $c->engine->prepare_path (approx. 27x faster)
360 * $c->engine->prepare_query_parameters (approx. 5x faster)
361 - Updated HTTP::Body dependency to 0.9 which fixes the following issues:
362 * Handle when IE sometimes sends an extra CRLF after the POST body.
363 * Empty fields in multipart/form-data POSTs are no longer ignored.
364 * Uploaded files with the name "0" are no longer ignored.
365 - Sending SIGHUP to the dev server will now cause it to restart.
366 - Allow "0" for a path in uri_for.
367 - Performance and stability improvements to the built-in HTTP server.
368 - Don't ignore file uploads if form contains a text field with the same name.
370 - Support restart_delay of 0 (for use in the POE engine).
371 - Skip body processing if we don't have a Content-Length header.
372 Results in about a 9% performance increase when handling GET/HEAD
374 - Add a default body to redirect responses.
375 - MyApp->model/view now looks at MyApp->config->{default_view/model}
378 5.7006 2006-11-15 14.18
380 - Fix Slurp dependency
381 - Updated HTTP::Body dependency to 0.6, 0.5 can break on large POST
383 - Skip utf8 fix for undef values in uri_with() and uri_for()
385 5.7005 2006-11-07 19:37:35
386 - Fixed lighttpd tests to be properly skipped.
387 - Moved IE workarounds to exist only in the HTTP engine.
388 - Added installation instructions (from Catalyst-Manual dist)
390 5.7004 2006-11-06 20:48:35
391 - Fix Engine::HTTP crash when using IE. (Jesper Krogh, Peter Edwards)
392 - clean up Catalyst::Utils to handle some edge cases
393 - Properly work around lighttpd PATH_INFO vs. SCRIPT_NAME bug
395 - add _application accessor to Catalyst::Base
396 - Support current_view
397 - Allow use of Catalyst::Test without app name (Ton Voon, Altinity)
398 - Catalyst::Manual moved to its own package
399 - Add option to FastCGI engine to send errors to stdout, not the web server
400 - Use Module::Install's auto_install to install prerequisite modules
401 - various documentation fixes and improvements
403 5.7003 2006-09-21 16:29:45
404 - Additions and updates to tutorial
406 5.7002 2006-09-17 19:35:32
407 - unescape captures to match args
408 - fix for relative Chained under namespace '' (root)
409 - fix for hashrefs in action attributes from config
410 - fix for Chained to require correct number of CaptureArgs
412 5.7001 2006-07-19 23:46:54
413 - fix for component loading
414 - uri_for and uri_with now behave as they used to with non-
417 5.7000 2006-07-07 08:08:08
418 - fix FCGI.pm warning message with FastCGI engine
419 - bumped inc::Module::Install to 0.63 in Makefile.PL
420 - fixes to uri_for_action for DispatchType::Chained
422 - Minor code cleanups
423 - Changed catalyst.pl to depend on Catalyst::Devel
425 5.70_03 2006-06-28 16:42:00
426 - fixup to registered plugins debug at app startup
427 - refactored Catalyst::Utils::home
429 5.70_02 2006-06-27 11:51:00
432 5.70_01 2006-06-26 10:49:00
434 - fixed a Catalyst::Base bug causing duplicate action registrations
435 - modified DispatchTypes to support multiple registrations
436 - added Catalyst::Runtime module as dist marker
437 - added Catalyst::ActionChain and Chained DispatchType
438 - removed retarded registration requirement in dispatcher
439 - removed Module::Pluggable::Fast hack in favor of
440 Module::Pluggable::Object
441 - extended uri_for, added dispatcher->uri_for_action
442 - added Catalyst::Base->action_for('methodname')
443 - checked and tested :Args multimethod dispatch
444 - added ability to set action attributes from controller config
445 - added merge_config_hashes() as a convenience method
446 - Swapped out CGI::Cookie in favour of CGI::Simple::Cookie
447 - Removed test dependencies on Test::NoWarnings, Test::MockObject
448 - Removed dependency on UNIVERSAL::require
449 - Split out Catalyst::Helper into a new distribution
450 - un-bundled the plugins as they are now pre-reqs for Catalyst::Helper
451 - nuked each() out of core with prejudice (due to lurking buglets)
452 - Added tests from phaylon for dispatcher precedence
453 - Use Class::Inspector->loaded($class) instead of $class->can('can')
454 - Added ActionClass attribute
455 - Removed Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst from Makefile.PL (circular dep)
456 - Updated docs for Catalyst::Component
457 - Separated execute and dispatch on Catalyst::Action
458 - cleaned up logging and debug output
459 - significant documentation revisions
460 - Added warning for setup being called twice
461 - Fix pod to use DBIC::Schema instead of DBIC model
462 - Fix ->config failing to copy _config for subclassing
466 5.6902 2006-05-04 13:00:00
467 - Remove tarballs and OSX metadata files.
469 5.6901 2006-05-03 11.17:00
470 - Module::Install didn't overwrite META.yml.
472 5.6900 2006-05-03 11.17:00
473 - Stupid pause indexer can't count.
474 - Better fix for Catalyst::Test
477 5.682 2006-04-27 13:51:00
478 - Damn OSX attributes again :(
480 5.681 2006-04-27 08:47:00
482 - Add basename to core . (Deprecates Catalyst::Plugin::Basename)
484 5.68 2006-04-26 12:23:00
485 - ConfigLoader: Updated to version 0.06
486 - fixed undef warnings in uri_for() and uri_with()
487 - Fixed Catalyst::Test to report errors on failed Class load
489 5.678 2006-04-24 12:30:00
490 - Re-release of 5.67 without OSX metadata files.
492 5.67 2006-04-23 08:50:00
493 - Added $c->req->uri_with() helper
494 - ConfigLoader: Updated to version 0.05
495 - Fix up Engine to avoid a new 5.8.8 warning
496 - Added app name with :: support for PAR
497 - Added $c->models/views/controllers
498 - Static::Simple: Unescape the URI path before looking for the file.
499 This fixes issues with files that have spaces.
500 - Looping and recursion tests plus a fix
501 - Added lots of API documentation. Refactored main pod.
502 - Changed default behaviors for $c->model/$c->controller/$c->view
503 to more sane settings.
504 - added the clear_errors method - an alias for error(0)
505 - Added tmpdir option for uploads (woremacx)
506 - Applied patch from GEOFFR to allow normal filehandles.
507 - Refactored Dispatcher internals for better readability and speedup
508 (stress tests run 12% faster)
509 - Allow $c->error to run as a class method
511 5.66 2006-03-10 17:48:00
512 - Added Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst support
513 - Cleaned generated tests
514 - Added Root controller concept
515 - Updated ConfigLoader plugin to version 0.04
517 5.65 2006-02-21 10:34:00
518 - Added plugin introspection.
519 - Support optional hashref as last param for parameters in uri_for.
520 - Updated tutorial to be more complete.
521 - Applied args patch from antirice (Fixes Ticket #67)
523 5.64 2006-02-07 20:29:00
524 - Fixed bug in FastCGI proc manager mode where pm_post_dispatch
525 was not run. (Eric Wong)
526 - Cleaned up generated tests
527 - Updated YAML support to use ConfigLoader
528 - Fixed path dispatch to canonicalise correctly
529 (see http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/ticket/62)
530 - Added Catalyst::Manual::About
532 5.63 2006-01-22 00:00:00
533 - Updated prereq versions
535 5.62 2006-01-17 16:30:00
536 - Large update to the tutorial (castaway)
537 - Added YAML config support
538 - Added COMPONENT() and ACCEPT_CONTEXT() support
539 - Action list in debug mode is now displayed as a tree in the
540 correct execution order.
541 - Fixed engine detection to allow custom mod_perl engines.
542 - Static::Simple: Fixed bug in ignore_dirs under win32.
543 - Display version numbers of loaded plugins. (Curtis Poe)
544 - Added class and method for caught exception messages.
545 - Updated PAR support to use "make catalyst_par",
546 packages are no longer written by Makefile.PL.
547 - Automatically determine Content-Length when serving a
549 - Exceptions now return status 500.
550 - Updated for Module::Install 0.44.
551 - Fixed additional file installation for multi level app names.
552 - Added REDIRECT_URL support for applications running behind
553 a RewriteRule in Apache. (Carl Franks)
554 - Fixed FastCGI engine under win32. (Carl Franks)
555 - FastCGI doc updates (Bill Moseley)
556 - Bugfix for $c->model and friends (defined).
558 5.61 2005-12-02 00:00:00
559 - Fixed ExtUtils::AutoInstall Bootstrap Code in Makefile.PL
561 5.60 2005-12-01 22:15:00
562 - Fixed Path and index actions in the appclass,
563 including those that attach to /
564 - Index is now weighted higher than Path
565 - Fixed restarter and -d debug switch in server.pl.
566 - Added a warning if you attempt to retrieve a parameter
567 using $c->req->params('foo').
568 - Fixed the Module::Install::Catalyst @ISA bug
570 5.59 2005-11-30 13:25:00
571 - Fixed shebang line for generated scripts
572 - Fixed forward to classes ($c->forward(qw/MyApp foo/))
573 - Wrap use block in begin to quelch C:C3 warnings
574 - Removed scrollbar from debug output
575 - Fixed catalyst_par_core() and catalyst_par_multiarch()
577 5.58 2005-11-24 10:51:00
578 - Added ExtUtils::AutoInstall support
579 - Allow overriding path in Catalyst::Helper.
580 - Added -makefile to catalyst.pl to generate a new Makefile.PL.
581 - Restored Catalyst::Build with a deprecation notice.
582 - Improved PAR support
583 - Replaced -short with auto-detection
584 - Fixed prereqs, added File::Copy::Recursive
585 - Static::Simple changes:
586 - Made prepare_action play nice with other plugins by not short-
588 - Added tmpl to the ignored extensions.
589 - Fixed security problem if req->path contained '..'.
591 5.57 2005-11-20 22:45:00
592 - Updated uri_for to accept undef actions
593 - Switched to Module::Install
594 - Renamed tests for easier editing
595 - Reformatted documentation
596 - Renamed -nonew to -force
598 - Added keep-alive support and bug fixes to HTTP engine.
600 - Added daemonize option to FastCGI engine. (Sam Vilain)
602 5.56 2005-11-16 10:33:00
603 - Fixed FastCGI engine to not clobber the global %ENV on each
604 request. (Sam Vilain)
605 - Updated benchmarking to work with detach
606 - Fixed dispatcher, so $c->req->action(undef) works again
607 - Updated Catalyst::Test to use HTTP::Request::AsCGI
608 - Added -pidfile to external FastCGI server.
610 5.55 2005-11-15 12:55:00
611 - Fixed multiple cookie handling
613 5.54 2005-11-14 22:55:00
614 - Fixed a Module::Pluggable::Fast related bug
616 5.53 2005-11-14 15:55:00
617 - Removed t/04prereq.t that was testing for non-required
620 5.52 2005-11-14 10:57:00
621 - Strip '..'s in static urls to fix security issue.
623 5.51 2005-11-14 00:45:00
624 - Changed uri_for to use namespace instead of match.
626 5.50 2005-11-13 20:45:00
630 5.49_05 2005-11-12 20:45:00
631 - Large update to the documentation. (David Kamholz)
632 - Fixed args handling in forward()
633 - Fixed forwarding to classes
634 - Fixed catalyst.pl-generated Build.PL Makefile section.
635 - Fixed relative forwarding
636 - Fixed forward arrows in debug output
638 5.49_04 2005-11-09 23:00:00
639 - Made context, dispatcher, engine, request and response classes
642 - Fixed dispatcher to ignore unknown attributes.
643 - Improved format of startup debug log.
644 - Updated built in server to restart on win32. (Will Hawes)
645 - Fixed streaming write from a filehandle to stop writing
646 if the browser is closed.
647 - Added $c->controller, $c->model and $c->view shortcuts.
648 - Switched to Text::SimpleTable.
650 5.49_03 2005-11-03 12:00:00
651 - Fixed $c->req->{path} for backwards-compatibility.
652 - Allow debug to be disabled via ENV as well as enabled.
653 - Added -scripts option to catalyst.pl for script updating
654 - Changed helpers to default to long types, Controller instead of C
655 - Added Catalyst::Controller, Catalyst::Model and Catalyst::View
657 - Added JavaScript to debug screen to show and hide specific dumps
658 - Added _DISPATCH, _BEGIN, _AUTO, _ACTION and _END actions
659 - Added multi process external FastCGI support
660 (see myapp_fastcgi.pl -help) (Sam Vilain)
661 - Restarter process in HTTP engine now properly exits when the
662 parent app is shut down.
663 - Improved performance of restarter loop while watching for
665 - Restarter will now detect new files added to an app on systems
666 that change directory mtimes when new files are created.
667 - Restarter now properly handles modules that are deleted from an
669 - Fixed memory leak in TestApp.
671 5.49_02 2005-10-26 12:39:00
672 - Whole new dispatcher!
674 - Added path_to method
675 - Added support for passing an IO::Handle object to $c->res->body.
677 - Added a new welcome screen.
678 - Included Catalyst buttons and icons in helper.
679 - Added Static::Simple plugin to core.
680 - Added self restarting test server
681 - Added filename to debug output for uploaded files.
682 - Fixed forwarding with embedded arguments.
683 - Fixed handling of escaped query strings.
684 - Added upload parameters back into $c->req->params.
685 - Added multiple paths support to dispatcher
686 - Fixed bug in req->path where changing the path added a trailing
688 - Removed req->handle and res->handle
689 - Added prepare_body_chunk method as a hook for upload progress.
690 - Fixed bug in uri_for method when base has no path.
691 - Added automated tests for HTTP, CGI, and FastCGI servers.
693 5.49_01 2005-10-10 10:15:00
694 - Refactored all internals, should be 99% compatible to previous
696 - *IMPORTANT* The Apache engines have been moved to a separate package
697 for this release. Please install Catalyst::Engine::Apache if you
700 - Added support for calling forward with arguments in the path, i.e.
701 $c->forward('/foo/bar/arg1/arg2')
702 - Made $c->req->uri a URI object, added req->path_info for CGI compat.
703 Raw query string is available as $c->req->uri->query.
704 - Made $c->req->base a URI object.
705 - Parameters with multiple values (?a=1&a=2) now display properly
707 - Semi-colon separators in query strings now work properly.
708 - Expanded documentation of catalyst.pl (Andrew Ford)
709 - Added support for running as a backend server behind a frontend
710 proxy so req->base and req->address are set properly.
711 - Added an 'abort' method to the Log api, so that you can
712 kill loggging for a whole request.
713 - Added $c->uri_for method to simplify url handling.
714 - Added more tests and reorganized the t directory.
715 - Reimplemented core engines, all are now CGI based for better test
716 coverage and maintainability.
717 - Added fork support to built in test server.
718 - Fixed all memory leaks.
719 - Thread-related bug fixes and tests. We now believe the Catalyst
720 core to be thread-safe.
721 - Added streaming IO support through $c->req->read() and
723 - Added MyApp->config->{parse_on_demand} (streaming input)
724 - Added $c->req->handle and $c->res->handle
725 - Improved documentation
726 - Fixed mkpath in Catalyst::Helper (Autrijus Tang)
727 - Fixed bug in dispatcher where an invalid path could call a valid
728 action. (Andy Grundman)
729 - Fixed Helper so it works with CRLF line-endings. (Andy Grundman)
731 5.33 2005-08-10 15:25:00
732 - Now with updated manifest.
734 5.32 2005-08-10 15:10:00
735 - Dispatcher might fail if object returns false. (Florian Ragwitz)
737 5.31 2005-06-04 12:35:00 (never released to CPAN)
739 - helpers now create .new files where files already exist and differ
740 - fixed $Data::Dumper::Terse (Robin Berjon)
741 - added arguments for detach
742 - new credits section in pod
743 - fixed detach to allow relative action names (Matt and Robert)
744 - added the ability to have whitespaces in Path( '' ) and Regex( '' )
746 5.30 2005-06-04 12:35:00
748 - Fixed a bug where it was not possible to $c->forward to a
750 that was not inheriting from Catalyst::Base.
751 - Fix for inheritance bug.
752 - Allow forward with arguments.
754 - Allow overriding home/root in config.
755 - make module build cons README automatically.
756 - prettify home path by resolving '..' (Andy Grundman)
757 - improved helper templates a bit, new naming scheme for tests.
758 - added support for case sensitivity, MyApp->config->{case_sensitive}
759 - added $c->detach for non-returning forwards
760 - added unified error handling, Catalyst::Exception
761 - added section on param handling in Intro.pod
762 - added $c->request->cookie
763 - added Catalyst::Setup
764 - refactored Catalyst::import()
765 - improved rendering of error messages in debug mode
766 - fixed a bug in Catalyst::Helper::mk_dir
767 - further doc changes, esp. to Intro.pod
769 5.23 2005-06-03 02:30:00
770 - added support for non Catalyst::Base components to live in namespace
771 - improved concurrency connections in Catalyst::Engine::HTTP::Daemon
773 5.22 2005-05-26 14:24:00
774 - improved base locating in MP engines
775 - improved error messages in C::E::HTTP::Daemon
776 - hostnames are now resolved on demand unless provided by engine
777 - fixed memory leak in $c->execute (Michael Reece, Matt S Trout)
779 5.21 2005-05-24 14:56:00
780 - fixed a bug in https detection
781 - fixed auto chain finally
782 - added MYAPP_HOME and CATALYST_HOME environment variables
784 5.20 2005-05-18 19:52:00
785 - improved uploads and parameters
786 - added $c->req->protocol and $c->req->secure
787 - added $c->req->user and $c->req->uri
788 - improved error message when forwarding to unknown module
789 - fixed win32 installer
790 - added deep recursion detection
792 - fixed inheritance in dispatcher
793 - allow whitespaces between brackets and quoted string
794 in Path and Regex attributes
795 - new helper templates
796 - installer now supports install_base and destdir
797 - allow multiple Catalyst apps to run on the same mod_perl
798 instance (not the same app!)
800 - removed apreq dependency from all MP engines
801 - added support for MP registry scripts
802 - added support for LocationMatch and ScriptAliasMatch in MP engines
803 - added SpeedyCGI engine
805 5.10 2005-04-23 11:16:00
806 - updated dependencies to require latest module::pluggable::fast
807 - new installer for templates and stuff using Module::Build
808 - scripts are now prefixed, for being installable
809 IMPORTANT: You have to regenerate the script directory,
810 remove Makefile.PL and add Build.PL
811 - Added compat to install Module::Build if required.
812 - Improved: Params handling with MP engines
813 - Fixed: Params handling on POST with CGI engine (Andy Grundman)
814 - Fixed: Helper.pm on Win32 (Matt S Trout)
816 5.03 2005-04-19 20:35:00 (Revision 462)
817 - fixed Test example (Torsten Seeman)
818 - added Plugins chapter to manual
819 - applied doc patch from Robert Boone <robert@rlb3.com>
820 - improved Dispatcher error messages.
821 - refactored so we don't need to include helper from
822 Catalyst.pm - Fixes issues with FindBin
823 - applied HTTP.pm patch from Andy Grundman <andy@hybridized.org>
824 - added plugin() method for instant plugins
825 - FCGI is no more considered experimental
827 5.02 2005-04-18 10:00:00
830 5.01 2005-04-17 23:00:00
831 - some documentation bugs fixed
832 - added Catalyst::Utils
833 - fixed regexp bug (Matt S Trout)
834 - fixed upload bug with MP19
835 - added $c->req->body
836 - aliased $c->res->output to $c->res->body
837 - Read AUTHOR from passwd or $ENV{AUTHOR} when
839 - extended attribute handling
840 - added global config for components
842 5.00 2005-04-15 18:00:00
843 - new core to support inheritance trees
844 - new syntax for action declaration
845 - new helper system using TT2
846 - problems with mod_perl2 fixed
847 - added Test::Pod support
848 - added new server backend with HTTP/1.1 support
849 - added option to run tests against a remote server
850 - renamed errors() to error()
852 - countless minor improvements
853 IMPORTANT: This release is very incompatible to previous ones
854 and you have to regenerate the helper scripts again...
856 4.34 2005-03-23 07:00:00 2005
857 - added some messages to Makefile.PL
858 - added Catalyst::Engine::Test
859 - added Catalyst::Engine::CGI::NPH
860 - simplified Catalyst::Log to be easier to implement/subclass
862 - updated Catalyst::Test to use Catalyst::Engine::Test
863 - updated helper scripts
864 IMPORTANT: this will be the last time you'll have to regenerate
865 the script directory. We promise!
867 4.33 2005-03-23 01:00:00 2005
868 - documented the log() accessor method in Catalyst (Andrew Ford)
869 - added optional arguments to Catalyst::Log methods (Andrew Ford)
870 - removed cgi-server.pl
871 - added fcgi.pl and Catalyst::Engine::FCGI
872 - fixed an undef durng make test (Dan Sully)
873 - new path test (Christian Hansen)
874 IMPORTANT: you have to regenerate the script directory again
876 4.32 2005-03-22 02:10:00 2005
877 - made a damn typo *AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!*
879 4.31 2005-03-22 02:00:00
880 - fixed inheritance (Christian Hansen)
881 - previous release was borked!
882 fixed that, but you have to regenerate the scripts again :(
884 4.30 2005-03-21 23:00:00
885 - more documentation (Andrew Ford)
886 - added connection informations (Christian Hansen)
887 - HTTP::Request support in Catalyst::Test (Christian Hansen)
888 - moved cgi.pl to nph-cgi.pl
889 - added Catalyst::Engine::Server (Christian Hansen)
890 - removed Catalyst::Test::server
891 - updated helper scripts
892 IMPORTANT: note that you have to regenerate script/server.pl,
893 script/cgi-server.pl and script/cgi.pl (now nph-cgi.pl)
895 4.28 2005-03-19 22:00:00
896 - fixed isa tree (Christian Hansen)
897 - added script/cgi-server.pl, so no more server restarting after
899 - reworked documentation (Andrew Ford <A.Ford@ford-mason.co.uk>)
901 4.27 2005-03-19 01:00:00
902 - debug message for parameters
903 - Fix redirects (Christian Hansen <ch@ngmedia.com>)
905 - new helper api for Catalyst::Helper::* support
906 you have to update script/create.pl to use it
908 4.26 2005-03-16 10:00:00
909 - fixed the weird bug that caused regex actions to fail on every
911 - more debug messages
914 4.25 2005-03-12 18:00:00
915 - correct perl pathes for helper generated scripts (Tatsuhiko Miyagawa)
916 - improved cgi engine docs (Christoper Hicks)
918 4.24 2005-03-12 01:00:00
919 - updated cookbook example
920 - fixed base for apache and https (Andrew Ruthven)
922 4.23 2005-03-09 20:00:00
923 - no more regex actions in forward
924 - added support for test directories t/m, t/v and t/c
926 4.22 2005-03-08 20:00:00
927 - catch errors in application class
928 - handle die properly.
930 4.21 2005-03-05 17:00:00
933 4.20 2005-03-04 22:00:00
934 - moved bin to script
936 4.13 2005-03-03 11:00:00
937 - improved documentation
938 - pod coverage test for helper generated apps
941 4.12 2005-03-02 11:00:00 2005
942 - server_base sucks, removed
943 - added $c->log->dump()
945 4.11 2005-03-02 11:00:00 2005
946 - removed some warnings
948 - private prefixed actions override private non prefixed actions
950 - updated Catalyst::Manual::Intro
952 4.10 2005-03-02 10:00:00 2005
953 - improved documentation
955 - fixed prefixed private actions bug
956 - fixed more little bugs
958 4.01 2005-03-01 10:00:00 2005
959 - improved documentation
960 - documentation fixes (Johan Lindstrom)
962 4.00 2005-02-27 22:00:00
963 - more verbose debug messages, especially for forward()
964 - implemented prefixed prvate actions, icluding built in
965 !?default, !?begin and !?end
966 - new Catalyst::Manual::Intro
967 - new helpers, bin/catalyst
970 3.11 2005-02-23 21:00:00
971 - added dependency to UNIVERSAL::require (Marcus Ramberg)
972 - added a little workaround for a warning in Catalyst::Test
974 - improved documentation for actions
976 3.10 2005-02-19 20:00:00
977 - removed roles management from Catalyst::Engine
978 and added it to Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication::CDBI
980 3.04 2005-02-17 21:00:00
981 - error reporting for app class
982 - no more engine debug messages
983 - class->method forwards get resolved now
985 3.03 2005-02-16 23:00:00
986 - friendlier statistics
988 3.02 2005-02-16 22:00:00
989 - fixed unintialized actions (Marcus Ramberg)
991 3.01 2005-02-16 20:30:00
994 3.00 2005-02-16 20:00:00
995 - real version number for CPAN.pm
996 - fixed redirect in CGI engine
997 - more statistics in debug logs
998 - ? prefix for forward()
1000 2.99_15 2005-02-02 22:00:00
1001 - support for short namespaces, MyApp::M, MyApp::V and MyApp::C
1002 - Replaced "Catched" with "Caught" in Catalyst::Engine
1004 - replaced _ with ! for private actions
1005 - added ? for prefixed actions
1008 2.99_14 2005-01-31 22:00:00 2005
1009 - arguments for _default
1010 - $c->entrance removed for more flexibility
1011 - added $c->req->method
1013 2.99_13 2005-01-30 18:00:00 2005
1014 - POD fixes and improvements
1016 2.99_12 2005-01-28 22:00:00 2005
1017 - first development release