# This file documents the revision history for Perl extension Catalyst. - Further change pushing 'env' attribute down into Catalyst::Engine to make $c->engine->env work in all cases (kmx) - Also fix $c->engine->env in Catalyst::Test tests (kmx) - Tests for this (t0m) - Clarify correct techniques for Moose controllers (domm) - Add $c->req->remote_user to disambiguate from $c->req->user (dwc) 5.80004 2009-05-18 17:03:23 - Rename the actions attribute in Catalyt::Controller to _controller_actions to avoid name clashes with application controller naming. (random) - Test for using Moose in components which have a non-Moose base class Fixed by 349cda in Moose 0.78 (t0m) - Fix deprecation message for Catalyst::Dispatcher to refer to the class actually calling the deprecated method. RT#45741 (t0m) - Clarify limitations of $request->base and $request->secure. (Phil Mitchell) - Add 'use Catalyst' to documentation for a Moose MyApp class as noted by dmaki. (t0m) - Fix so that / (and other special characters) are URL encoded when passed into $c->uri_for as Args/CaptureArgs (t0m) - Fix development server so that $c->engine->env returns the correct environment (t0m) - Require Moose 0.78 to fix metaclass incompatibility issues (t0m) - Require MooseX::MethodAttributes 0.10 and use Moose::Meta::Class->initialize rather than Moose->init_meta to fix bugs related to having a 'meta' method in your controller (t0m) - Fix cases where your application failing to compile could cause perl to report 'Unknown Error' (t0m) - Support adding Moose::Roles to the plugin list. These are applied to MyApp after plugins have been pushed onto @ISA (t0m) - Fix calling $c->req->parameters as the first thing you do when parse_on_demand is on (t0m) 5.80003 2009-04-29 16:23:53 - Various POD tweaks. (hdp, dandv) - Fix formatting error in the regex fallback warning. (rafl) - Convert the dispatcher's and restarter engine's BUILD method to attribute builders to not override the BUILD method from MooseX::Emulate::Class::Accessor::Fast. (rafl) - Fix classes without metaclasses restarting, when not using B::Hooks::OP::Check::StashChange (t0m) - Fix the unattached chain debug table for endpoints with no parents at all. (rafl) - Turn of test aggregation by default. Only aggregate if the AGGREGATE_TESTS environment variable is set and a recent Test::Aggregate is available. (rafl) - Bump to MooseX::MethodAttributes 0.09, to gain the get_nearest_methods_with_attributes method allowing methods without attributes in a subclass to override those with attributes in a superclass. This fixes CatalystX::CRUD's method of overriding / disabling functionality from base controllers. (t0m) - Bump HTTP::Request::AsCGI dependency to avoid broken version (t0m) - Bump Moose dependency to latest version to fix metaclass incompatibility issues in some cases. (t0m) - Additional tests for setup_stats method. (t0m) - Fix log levels in Catalyst::Log to be properly additive. (t0m) - Fix RT#43375 by sorting results before testing them (t0m) - Fixes for uri_for_action when using Catalyst::DispatchType::Regex + tests from RT#39369 (norbi) - Partial rewrite and reoganisation of the C3 docs in Catalyst::Upgrading based on feedback from kiffin (t0m) - If you make your application class immutable and turn off constructor inlining, Catalyst will die and tell you pass the (replace_constructor => 1) argument to make_immutable. (Dave Rolsky) 5.80002 2009-04-22 01:28:36 - Fix CATALYST_DEBUG and MYAPP_DEBUG environment variables turning debuging on if defined, rather than if set. They now force debugging on or off, taking precedence over configuration in your application. (t0m) - Tests for this (t0m) - pass replace_constructor to the immutable call to ensure applications get a Moose constructor rather than a C::A one - Fix issues with restarting the application class due to C3 failures on perl 5.10 (t0m) - Work around issues in Moose with initialization order of multiple levels of non-Moose classes inheriting from a Moose class (t0m) - Test for this - Add backwards compatibility method for Catalyst::Log->body, which has been made private (t0m) - Fix so that calling $c->req->parameters(undef) does not flatten the request parameters with undef + test (t0m) - Fix so that width of table of unattached actions for debugging ::DispatchType::Chained varies according to your terminal width (Oleg Kostyuk) - Fix warning message about linearized @ISA in Catalyst::Component (Emanuele Zeppieri) - Require MX::MethodAttributes 0.06 to avoid issues with saying use base 'Catalyst::Controller'; use Moose; losing actions (t0m) - Fix all of t0m's typos in ::Upgrading and ::Delta (hobbs) 5.80001 2009-04-18 22:18 - Don't inline the constructor for Catalyst::Log to avoid a warning on recent Moose versions. - Add delta documentation - Clean up recursion errors - Extra cross links in dispatch types POD (Ian Wells) - Test uri_with clears query params when they are set to undef (Ian Wells) - Complain about old Catalyst::Devel versions which generated ->setup(qw/-Debug... etc. as this is not recommended (t0m) 5.8000_07 2009-04-12 13:37 - Add the Catalyst::Dispatcher->dispatch_type method (ash) - Throw an exception rather than loading an app if an action tries to chain to itself (t0m) - Tests for this - Change the $c->visit and $c->go methods to optionally take CaptureArgs, making them useful to call ActionChains with (t0m) - Tests for this (radek) - Fix _invoke_as_component method to find the proper action instance for dispatchable actions so that ->visit or ->going to ActionChains with qw/Class::Name method_name/ works correctly (t0m) - Tests for this (radek) - Added Catalyst::Test::ctx_request to be able to inspect the context object after a request is made (Jos Boumans) - debug() POD rewrite (jhannah) - Change the warning when you have conflicting components to present a list (t0m) - Move NEXT use and testing deprecated features out to its own test application so that the main TestApp isn't polluted with spurious warnings (t0m) - Add a warning for the old ::[MVC]:: style naming scheme (t0m) - Test for this (t0m) - Kill Class::C3::Adopt::NEXT warnings for the Catalyst:: namespace in production versions (t0m) - Tidy up Catalyst::ClassData to ensure that all components get the correct metaclass (t0m) - Make MyApp.pm restartable by unsetting setup_finished in the restarter process (t0m) - Non-naive implementation of making mutable on restart using B::Hooks::OP::Check::StashChange if installed (t0m) - Tests for this (t0m) - Naive implementation of making all components mutable in the forked restart watcher process so native Moose apps using immutable restart correctly. (t0m) - Tests for this (t0m) - Bump Moose dependency to 0.70 so that we avoid nasty surprises with is_class_loaded and perl 5.80 when you Moosify MyApp.pm (t0m) - Clarify that request arguments aren't unescaped automatically (Simon Bertrang) (Closes RT#41153) - Don't require C3 for the MRO test (rafl) - Bump MX::Emulate::CAF prereq to support list assignment (rafl) - Remove useless column in chained action debug table. (rafl) - namespace::clean related cleanups (rafl) - Import related cleanups and consistency fixes (rafl) - Fix test suite TestApp /dump/env action (t0m) - Add $res->code as alias for $res->status (hdp) - Make Catalyst::ClassData compatible with the latest Class::MOP::Class changes. Also depend on the latest Class::MOP. (rafl) - Add $c->uri_for_action method. (hdp) - Don't stringify the meta method. Use its name instead. (rafl) - Use MooseX::MethodAttributes::Inheritable to contain action attributes. This means that attributes are now represented in the MOP, allowing method modifiers on actions to work as expected. (rafl) - Provide a reasonable API in Catalyst::Controller for working with and registering actions, allowing a controller sub-class to replace subroutine attributes for action declerations with an alternate syntax. (rafl/hdp) - Instantiate correct sub-class of Moose::Meta::Class for non-Moose components where Catalyst forces the creation of a metaclass instance. This is more correct, and avoids metaclass incompatibility in complex cases (t0m) - Tests for this (t0m) - Use of deprecated Catalyst::Base now warns. (t0m) - Add uri_with tests (gphat) 5.8000_06 2009-02-04 21:00 - Disallow writing to config after setup (rafl) - Disallow calling setup more than once (rafl) - Documentation fix regarding overloading of Engine and Dispatcher instances (rafl) - Several documentation typo fixes (rafl) - Stop Makefile.PL from warning about versions that fixed a conflict (t0m) - Improved upgrading documentation (t0m, rafl) - Seed the RNG in each FastCGI child process (Andrew Rodland) - Properly report dynamic bind port for the development server (rafl) (Closes RT#38544) - Use the way documented by IO::Socket::INET to get the error message after trying to create a listening socket (rafl) (Closes RT#41828) - Don't ignore SIGCHLD while handling requests with the dev server (rafl) (Closes RT#42962) 5.8000_05 2008-29-01 00:00 - Text::SimpleTable's go as wide as $ENV{COLUMNS} (jhannah) Patch written by Oleg Kostyuk - Improve docs for visit (mateu) - Add docs for finalize hook (dhoss) - Added ru/ua translations to error page - Improve the clarity and verbosity of the warning when component resolution uses regex fallback. (jhannah) - Handle leading CRLF in HTTP requests sometimes sent by IE6 in keep-alive requests. (andyg) - Fixes for FastCGI with IIS 6.0 (janus) - Passing request method exported by Catalyst::Test an extra parameter used to be ignored, but started breaking if the parameter was not a hash in 5.8000_04. Extra parameter is now ignored if it isn't a hashref (t0m) - Fix request argumentss getting corrupted if you override the dispatcher and call an action which detaches (for Catalyst::Plugin::Authorization::ACL) (t0m) - Fix calling use Catalyst::Test 'MyApp' 'foo' which used to work, but stopped as the 2nd parameter can be an options hash now (t0m) - Bump Moose dependency to fix make_immutable bug (t0m) - Use compile time extends in Catalyst::Controller (t0m) - Make Catalyst::Request::uploads attribute non-lazy, to fix test for Catalyst-Engine-Apache (t0m) - Bump version of MooseX::Emulate::Class::Accessor::Fast (t0m) - Stop using MooseX::Adopt::Class::Accessor::Fast by default, to stop breaking other packages which use Class::Accessor::Fast - Remove unused action_container_class attribute from Catalyst::Dispatcher (t0m) - Replace {_body} instance access with calls to _body accessors (t0m) - Add backwards compatibility alias methods for private attributes on Catalyst::Dispatcher which used to be public. Needed by Catalyst::Plugin::Server and Catalyst::Plugin::Authorization::ACL (t0m) - Fix return value of $c->req->body, which delegates to the body method on the requests HTTP::Body instance (t0m) - Test for this (t0m) - Fix calling $c->req->body from inside an overridden prepare_action method in a plugin, as used by Catalyst::Plugin::Server (t0m) - Test for this (t0m) - Fix assignment to Catalyst::Dispatcher's preload_dispatch_types and postload_dispatch_types attributes - assigning a list should later return a listref. Fixes Catalyst::Plugin::Server. (t0m) - Tests for this (t0m) - Change streaming test to serve itself rather than 01use.t, making test sync for engines easier (t0m) - Refactor capturing of $app from Catalyst::Controller into Catalyst::Component::ApplicationAttribute for easier reuse in other components (Florian Ragwitz) - Make the test suites YAML dependency optional (Florian Ragwitz) - Make debug output show class name for the engine and dispatcher rather than the stringified ref. (t0m) - Make MyApp immutable at the end of the scope after the setup method is called, fixing issues with plugins which have their own new methods by inlining a constructor on MyApp (t0m) - Test for this and method modifiers in MyApp (t0m) - Fix bug causing Catalyst::Request::Upload's basename method to return undef (t0m) - Test for this (Carl Franks) - Fix loading of classes which do not define any symbols to not die, as it didn't in 5.70 (t0m) - Test for this (t0m) - Bump MooseX::Emulate::Class::Accessor::Fast dependency to force new version which fixes a lot of plugins (t0m) - Make log levels additive, and add documentation and tests for the setup_log method, which previously had none. Sewn together by t0m from two patches provided by David E. Wheeler - Switch an around 'new' in Catalyst::Controller to a BUILDARGS method as it's much neater and more obvious what is going on (t0m) - Add a clearer method on request and response _context attributes, and use if from ::Engine rather than deleting the key from the instance hash (t0m) - Use handles on tree attribute of Catalyst::Stats to replace trivial delegation methods (t0m) - Change the following direct hash accesses into attributes: Catalyst::Engine: _prepared_write Catalyst::Engine::CGI: _header_buf Catalyst::Engine::HTTP: options, _keepalive, _write_error Catalyst::Request: _path Catalyst::Stats: tree (t0m) - Fix issues in Catalyst::Controller::WrapCGI and any other components which import (or define) their own meta method by always explicitly calling Class::MOP::Object->meta inside Catalyst (t0m) - Add test for this (t0m) - Add test case for the bug which is causing the Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication tests to fail (t0m) - Fix a bug in uri_for which could cause it to generate paths with multiple slashes in them. (t0m) - Add test for this (t0m) - Fix SKIP block name in t/optional_http-server-restart.t, stopping 'Label not found for "last SKIP"' error from Test::More (t0m) - Workaround max_redirect 0 bug in LWP (andyg) - Move live_engine_response_print into aggregate (andyg) - Fix dependency bug, s/parent/base/ in new test (rafl) - Fix optional tests to run the live tests in the aggregate dir (andyg) - Fix Catalyst->go error in remote tests (andyg) - Fix upload test to work with remote servers, don't check for deleted files (andyg) - Fix engine_request_uri tests to work on remote server with different URI (andyg) 5.8000_04 2008-12-05 12:15:00 - Silence Class::C3::Adopt::NEXT warnings in the test suite (rafl) - Fix loads of 'used once, possible typo' warnings (rafl) - Additional tests to ensure upload temp files are deleted (andyg) - Remove use of NEXT from the test suite, except for one case which tests if Class::C3::Adopt::NEXT is working (t0m) - Use a predicate to avoid recursion in cases where the uri method is overridden by a plugin, and calls the base method, for example Catalyst::Plugin::SmartURI (t0m) - Test for this (caelum) - Compose the MooseX::Emulate::Class::Accessor::Fast role to Catalyst::Action, Catalyst::Request, and all other modules which inherit from Class::Accessor::Fast in 5.70. This fixes: - Catalyst::Controller::HTML::FormFu (zamolxes) - Catalyst::Request::REST (t0m) - Test for this (t0m) - Make hostname resolution lazy (Marc Mims) - Support mocking virtualhosts in test suite (Jason Gottshall) - Add README (marcus) - Fix TODO list (t0m) - Use Class::C3::Adopt::NEXT (rafl) - Ignore C3 warnings on 5.10 when testing ensure_class_loaded (rafl) - Add TODO test for chained bug (gbjk) - Fix list address in documentation (zarquon) - Fix ACCEPT_CONTEXT on MyApp, called as a class method (marcus) - Test for this (marcus) - Bump MooseX::Emulate::Class::Accessor::Fast version requirement to get more back compatibility (t0m) - Improve documentation for $req->captures (caelum) - Fix a bug in Catalyst::Stats, stopping garbage being inserted into the stats if a user calls begin => but no end => (jhannah) - Test for this (jhannah) - Trim lines sooner in stats to avoid ugly Text::SimpleTable wrapping (jhannah) - Change Catalyst::ClassData to tweak the symbol table inline for performance after profiling (mst) - Fix POD typo in finalize_error (jhannah) - Add tests to ensure that we delete the temp files created by HTTP::Body's OctetStream parser (t0m) 5.8000_03 2008-10-14 14:13:00 - Fix forwarding to Catalyst::Action objects (Rafael Kitover). - Fix links to the mailing lists (RT #39754 and Florian Ragwitz). - Use Class::MOP instead of Class::Inspector (Florian Ragwitz). - Change Catalyst::Test to use Sub::Exporter (Florian Ragwitz). - Fixed typo in Engine::HTTP::Restarter::Watcher causing -r to complain. 5.8000_02 2008-10-14 07:59:00 - Fix manifest 5.8000_01 2008-10-13 22:52:00 - Port to Moose - Added test for action stringify - Added test for component instances getting $self->{value} from config. - Add Catalyst::Response->print() method (ilmari) - Optionally aggregate tests using Test::Aggregate (Florian Ragwitz). - Additional docs for uri_for to mention how to use $c->action and $c->req->captures (jhannah) - List unattached chained actions in Debug mode (Florian Ragwitz). - Pod formatting fix for Engine::FastCGI (Oleg Kostyuk). - Add visit, a returning ->go 5.7XXXXXX XXXX - Workaround change in LWP that broke a cookie test (RT #40037) - Back out go() since that feature's been pushed to 5.80 - Fix some Win32 test failures - Add pt translation of error message (wreis) - Make :Chained('../action') work (Florian Ragwitz) - Add test actions - Chained doc improvements (rev 8326-8328) 5.7099_03 2008-07-20 10:10:00 - Fix regressions for regexp fallback in model(), view() and controller() - Added the supplied argument to the regexp fallback warning for easier debugging - Ensure ACCEPT_CONTEXT is called for results from component() 5.7099_02 2008-07-16 19:10:00 - Added PathPrefix attribute - Removed Catalyst::Build; we've long since moved to Module::Install - Updated Catalyst::Test docs to mention the use of HTTP::Request objects (Rafael Kitover) 5.7099_01 2008-06-25 22:36:00 - Refactored component resolution (component(), models(), model(), et al). We now throw warnings for two reasons: 1) model() or view() was called with no arguments, and two results are returned -- set default_(model|view), current_(model|view) or current_(model|view)_instance instead 2) you call a component resolution method with a string, and it resorts to a regexp fallback wherein a result is returned -- if you really want to search, call the method with a regex as the argument - remove 0-length query string components so warnings aren't thrown (RT #36428) - Update HTTP::Body dep so that the uploadtmp config value will work (RT #22540) - Fix for LocalRegex when used in the Root controller - Get some of the optional_* tests working from dirs with spaces (RT #26455) - Fix Catalyst::Utils::home() when application .pm is in the current dir (RT #34437) - Added the ability to remove parameters in req->uri_with() by passing in an undef value (RT #34782) - Added $c->go, to do an internal redispatch to another action, while retaining the contents of the stash 5.7014 2008-05-25 15:26:00 - Addition of .conf in restart regex in Catalyst::Engine::HTTP::Restarter::Watcher - Fix regression for relative uri_for arguments after a forward() introduced in 5.7013 (Peter Karman) - Fix regression for "sub foo : Path {}" in the root controller which was introduced when attempting to allow "0" as a Path. 5.7013 2008-05-16 18:20:00 - Provide backwards compatability methods in Catalyst::Stats - Fix subdirs for scripts that run in subdirs more than one level deep. - Added test and updated docs for handling the Authorization header under mod_fastcgi/mod_cgi. - Fixed bug in HTTP engine where the connection was not closed properly if the client disconnected before sending any headers. (Ton Voon) - POD fix, IO::FileHandle => IO::Handle (RT #35690) - Fix grammar on welcome page (RT #33236) - Fix for Path('0') handling (RT #29334) - Workaround for Win32 and c3_mro.t (RT #26452, tested by Kenichi Ishigaki) - Fix for encoding query parameters (edenc) - Fix Chained multiple test (t0m) 5.7012 2007-12-16 23:44:00 - Fix uri_for()'s and uri_with()'s handling of multibyte chars (Daisuke Murase) - Fix __PACKAGE__->config->{foo} = 'bar' case with subclassing - Add Catalyst::Stats (Jon Schutz) - Fixed a bug where ?q=bar=baz is decoded as q=>'bar', not 'bar=baz'. (Tatsuhiko Miyagawa, Masahiro Nagano) - Fixed a bug where -rr (restart regex) command line option could cause shell errors. (Aristotle Pagaltzis, Chisel Wright) 5.7011 2007-10-18 20:40:00 - Allow multiple restart directories and added option to follow symlinks in the HTTP::Restarter engine (Sebastian Willert) - Fixed t/optional_http-server-restart.t so it actually tests if the server restarted or notified of an error (Sebastian Willert) - Return child PID from the HTTP engine when run with the 'background' option. (Emanuele Zeppieri) - Fixed bug in HTTP engine where writes could fail with 'Resource temporarily unavailable'. - Fixed bug where %2b in query parameter is doubly decoded to ' ', instead of '+' (RT #30087, Gavin Henry, Tatsuhiko Miyagawa, Oleg Pronin) - Fixed bug where req->base and req->uri would include a port number when running in SSL mode. - Removed unnecessary sprintf in debug mode that caused warnings on locales where commas are used for decimal markers. - Improved error message for case when server picks up editor save files as module names. (James Mastros) 5.7010 2007-08-22 07:41:00 - Resource forks in 5.7009 5.7009 2007-08-22 00:14:00 - Moved Manual.pod to Manual.pm and clarified status of Catalyst-Manual dist - Doc patches to Catalyst::Controller - remove ignore_loaded from plugin load, commenting why - document the ignore_loaded feature in Catalyst::Utils - Add testing of inline plugins. 5.7008 2007-08-13 08:40:00 - Added $c->request->query_keywords for getting the keywords (a query string with no parameters). - Add undef warning for uri_for. - Fix bug where a nested component would be setup twice. - Make ensure_class_loaded behave better with malformed class name. - Make _register_plugin use ensure_class_loaded. - Remove 'Argument "??" isn't numeric in sprintf' warning. (Emanuele Zeppieri) - Fixed a bug where Content-Length could be set to 0 if a filehandle object in $c->response->body did not report a size. - Fixed issue where development server running in fork mode did not properly exit after a write error. (http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27135) - Remove warning for captures that are undef. - Fixed $c->read and parse_on_demand mode. - Fixed a bug with the HTTP engine where very large response bodies would not be sent properly. 5.7007 2007-03-13 14:18:00 - Many performance improvements by not using URI.pm: * $c->uri_for (approx. 8x faster) * $c->engine->prepare_path (approx. 27x faster) * $c->engine->prepare_query_parameters (approx. 5x faster) - Updated HTTP::Body dependency to 0.9 which fixes the following issues: * Handle when IE sometimes sends an extra CRLF after the POST body. * Empty fields in multipart/form-data POSTs are no longer ignored. * Uploaded files with the name "0" are no longer ignored. - Sending SIGHUP to the dev server will now cause it to restart. - Allow "0" for a path in uri_for. - Performance and stability improvements to the built-in HTTP server. - Don't ignore file uploads if form contains a text field with the same name. (Carl Franks) - Support restart_delay of 0 (for use in the POE engine). - Skip body processing if we don't have a Content-Length header. Results in about a 9% performance increase when handling GET/HEAD requests. - Add a default body to redirect responses. - MyApp->model/view now looks at MyApp->config->{default_view/model} (Bogdan Lucaciu) 5.7006 2006-11-15 14.18 - Updated manifest - Fix Slurp dependency - Updated HTTP::Body dependency to 0.6, 0.5 can break on large POST requests. - Skip utf8 fix for undef values in uri_with() and uri_for() 5.7005 2006-11-07 19:37:35 - Fixed lighttpd tests to be properly skipped. - Moved IE workarounds to exist only in the HTTP engine. - Added installation instructions (from Catalyst-Manual dist) 5.7004 2006-11-06 20:48:35 - Fix Engine::HTTP crash when using IE. (Jesper Krogh, Peter Edwards) - clean up Catalyst::Utils to handle some edge cases - Properly work around lighttpd PATH_INFO vs. SCRIPT_NAME bug (Mark Blythe) - add _application accessor to Catalyst::Base - Support current_view - Allow use of Catalyst::Test without app name (Ton Voon, Altinity) - Catalyst::Manual moved to its own package - Add option to FastCGI engine to send errors to stdout, not the web server - Use Module::Install's auto_install to install prerequisite modules - various documentation fixes and improvements 5.7003 2006-09-21 16:29:45 - Additions and updates to tutorial 5.7002 2006-09-17 19:35:32 - unescape captures to match args - fix for relative Chained under namespace '' (root) - fix for hashrefs in action attributes from config - fix for Chained to require correct number of CaptureArgs 5.7001 2006-07-19 23:46:54 - fix for component loading - uri_for and uri_with now behave as they used to with non- array references 5.7000 2006-07-07 08:08:08 - fix FCGI.pm warning message with FastCGI engine - bumped inc::Module::Install to 0.63 in Makefile.PL - fixes to uri_for_action for DispatchType::Chained - Further doc work. - Minor code cleanups - Changed catalyst.pl to depend on Catalyst::Devel 5.70_03 2006-06-28 16:42:00 - fixup to registered plugins debug at app startup - refactored Catalyst::Utils::home 5.70_02 2006-06-27 11:51:00 - Updated tutorial. 5.70_01 2006-06-26 10:49:00 - fixed a Catalyst::Base bug causing duplicate action registrations - modified DispatchTypes to support multiple registrations - added Catalyst::Runtime module as dist marker - added Catalyst::ActionChain and Chained DispatchType - removed retarded registration requirement in dispatcher - removed Module::Pluggable::Fast hack in favor of Module::Pluggable::Object - extended uri_for, added dispatcher->uri_for_action - added Catalyst::Base->action_for('methodname') - checked and tested :Args multimethod dispatch - added ability to set action attributes from controller config - added merge_config_hashes() as a convenience method - Swapped out CGI::Cookie in favour of CGI::Simple::Cookie - Removed test dependencies on Test::NoWarnings, Test::MockObject - Removed dependency on UNIVERSAL::require - Split out Catalyst::Helper into a new distribution - un-bundled the plugins as they are now pre-reqs for Catalyst::Helper - nuked each() out of core with prejudice (due to lurking buglets) - Added tests from phaylon for dispatcher precedence - Use Class::Inspector->loaded($class) instead of $class->can('can') - Added ActionClass attribute - Removed Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst from Makefile.PL (circular dep) - Updated docs for Catalyst::Component - Separated execute and dispatch on Catalyst::Action - cleaned up logging and debug output - significant documentation revisions - Added warning for setup being called twice - Fix pod to use DBIC::Schema instead of DBIC model - Fix ->config failing to copy _config for subclassing - Updated log format - Updated debug dump 5.6902 2006-05-04 13:00:00 - Remove tarballs and OSX metadata files. 5.6901 2006-05-03 11.17:00 - Module::Install didn't overwrite META.yml. 5.6900 2006-05-03 11.17:00 - Stupid pause indexer can't count. - Better fix for Catalyst::Test - more tests. 5.682 2006-04-27 13:51:00 - Damn OSX attributes again :( 5.681 2006-04-27 08:47:00 - Updated manifest. - Add basename to core . (Deprecates Catalyst::Plugin::Basename) 5.68 2006-04-26 12:23:00 - ConfigLoader: Updated to version 0.06 - fixed undef warnings in uri_for() and uri_with() - Fixed Catalyst::Test to report errors on failed Class load 5.678 2006-04-24 12:30:00 - Re-release of 5.67 without OSX metadata files. 5.67 2006-04-23 08:50:00 - Added $c->req->uri_with() helper - ConfigLoader: Updated to version 0.05 - Fix up Engine to avoid a new 5.8.8 warning - Added app name with :: support for PAR - Added $c->models/views/controllers - Static::Simple: Unescape the URI path before looking for the file. This fixes issues with files that have spaces. - Looping and recursion tests plus a fix - Added lots of API documentation. Refactored main pod. - Changed default behaviors for $c->model/$c->controller/$c->view to more sane settings. - added the clear_errors method - an alias for error(0) - Added tmpdir option for uploads (woremacx) - Applied patch from GEOFFR to allow normal filehandles. - Refactored Dispatcher internals for better readability and speedup (stress tests run 12% faster) - Allow $c->error to run as a class method 5.66 2006-03-10 17:48:00 - Added Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst support - Cleaned generated tests - Added Root controller concept - Updated ConfigLoader plugin to version 0.04 5.65 2006-02-21 10:34:00 - Added plugin introspection. - Support optional hashref as last param for parameters in uri_for. - Updated tutorial to be more complete. - Applied args patch from antirice (Fixes Ticket #67) 5.64 2006-02-07 20:29:00 - Fixed bug in FastCGI proc manager mode where pm_post_dispatch was not run. (Eric Wong) - Cleaned up generated tests - Updated YAML support to use ConfigLoader - Fixed path dispatch to canonicalise correctly (see http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/ticket/62) - Added Catalyst::Manual::About 5.63 2006-01-22 00:00:00 - Updated prereq versions 5.62 2006-01-17 16:30:00 - Large update to the tutorial (castaway) - Added YAML config support - Added COMPONENT() and ACCEPT_CONTEXT() support - Action list in debug mode is now displayed as a tree in the correct execution order. - Fixed engine detection to allow custom mod_perl engines. - Static::Simple: Fixed bug in ignore_dirs under win32. - Display version numbers of loaded plugins. (Curtis Poe) - Added class and method for caught exception messages. - Updated PAR support to use "make catalyst_par", packages are no longer written by Makefile.PL. - Automatically determine Content-Length when serving a filehandle. - Exceptions now return status 500. - Updated for Module::Install 0.44. - Fixed additional file installation for multi level app names. - Added REDIRECT_URL support for applications running behind a RewriteRule in Apache. (Carl Franks) - Fixed FastCGI engine under win32. (Carl Franks) - FastCGI doc updates (Bill Moseley) - Bugfix for $c->model and friends (defined). 5.61 2005-12-02 00:00:00 - Fixed ExtUtils::AutoInstall Bootstrap Code in Makefile.PL 5.60 2005-12-01 22:15:00 - Fixed Path and index actions in the appclass, including those that attach to / - Index is now weighted higher than Path - Fixed restarter and -d debug switch in server.pl. - Added a warning if you attempt to retrieve a parameter using $c->req->params('foo'). - Fixed the Module::Install::Catalyst @ISA bug 5.59 2005-11-30 13:25:00 - Fixed shebang line for generated scripts - Fixed forward to classes ($c->forward(qw/MyApp foo/)) - Wrap use block in begin to quelch C:C3 warnings - Removed scrollbar from debug output - Fixed catalyst_par_core() and catalyst_par_multiarch() 5.58 2005-11-24 10:51:00 - Added ExtUtils::AutoInstall support - Allow overriding path in Catalyst::Helper. - Added -makefile to catalyst.pl to generate a new Makefile.PL. - Restored Catalyst::Build with a deprecation notice. - Improved PAR support - Replaced -short with auto-detection - Fixed prereqs, added File::Copy::Recursive - Static::Simple changes: - Made prepare_action play nice with other plugins by not short- circuiting. - Added tmpl to the ignored extensions. - Fixed security problem if req->path contained '..'. 5.57 2005-11-20 22:45:00 - Updated uri_for to accept undef actions - Switched to Module::Install - Renamed tests for easier editing - Reformatted documentation - Renamed -nonew to -force - Added PAR support - Added keep-alive support and bug fixes to HTTP engine. (Sascha Kiefer) - Added daemonize option to FastCGI engine. (Sam Vilain) 5.56 2005-11-16 10:33:00 - Fixed FastCGI engine to not clobber the global %ENV on each request. (Sam Vilain) - Updated benchmarking to work with detach - Fixed dispatcher, so $c->req->action(undef) works again - Updated Catalyst::Test to use HTTP::Request::AsCGI - Added -pidfile to external FastCGI server. 5.55 2005-11-15 12:55:00 - Fixed multiple cookie handling 5.54 2005-11-14 22:55:00 - Fixed a Module::Pluggable::Fast related bug 5.53 2005-11-14 15:55:00 - Removed t/04prereq.t that was testing for non-required modules. 5.52 2005-11-14 10:57:00 - Strip '..'s in static urls to fix security issue. 5.51 2005-11-14 00:45:00 - Changed uri_for to use namespace instead of match. 5.50 2005-11-13 20:45:00 - Fixed minor bugs. - Updated docs. 5.49_05 2005-11-12 20:45:00 - Large update to the documentation. (David Kamholz) - Fixed args handling in forward() - Fixed forwarding to classes - Fixed catalyst.pl-generated Build.PL Makefile section. - Fixed relative forwarding - Fixed forward arrows in debug output 5.49_04 2005-11-09 23:00:00 - Made context, dispatcher, engine, request and response classes configurable. - Added $c->stack. - Fixed dispatcher to ignore unknown attributes. - Improved format of startup debug log. - Updated built in server to restart on win32. (Will Hawes) - Fixed streaming write from a filehandle to stop writing if the browser is closed. - Added $c->controller, $c->model and $c->view shortcuts. - Switched to Text::SimpleTable. 5.49_03 2005-11-03 12:00:00 - Fixed $c->req->{path} for backwards-compatibility. - Allow debug to be disabled via ENV as well as enabled. - Added -scripts option to catalyst.pl for script updating - Changed helpers to default to long types, Controller instead of C - Added Catalyst::Controller, Catalyst::Model and Catalyst::View base classes - Added JavaScript to debug screen to show and hide specific dumps - Added _DISPATCH, _BEGIN, _AUTO, _ACTION and _END actions - Added multi process external FastCGI support (see myapp_fastcgi.pl -help) (Sam Vilain) - Restarter process in HTTP engine now properly exits when the parent app is shut down. - Improved performance of restarter loop while watching for changed files. - Restarter will now detect new files added to an app on systems that change directory mtimes when new files are created. - Restarter now properly handles modules that are deleted from an application. - Fixed memory leak in TestApp. 5.49_02 2005-10-26 12:39:00 - Whole new dispatcher! - Added index action - Added path_to method - Added support for passing an IO::Handle object to $c->res->body. (Andrew Bramble) - Added a new welcome screen. - Included Catalyst buttons and icons in helper. - Added Static::Simple plugin to core. - Added self restarting test server - Added filename to debug output for uploaded files. - Fixed forwarding with embedded arguments. - Fixed handling of escaped query strings. - Added upload parameters back into $c->req->params. - Added multiple paths support to dispatcher - Fixed bug in req->path where changing the path added a trailing slash. - Removed req->handle and res->handle - Added prepare_body_chunk method as a hook for upload progress. - Fixed bug in uri_for method when base has no path. - Added automated tests for HTTP, CGI, and FastCGI servers. 5.49_01 2005-10-10 10:15:00 - Refactored all internals, should be 99% compatible to previous versions. - *IMPORTANT* The Apache engines have been moved to a separate package for this release. Please install Catalyst::Engine::Apache if you need Apache support. - Added support for calling forward with arguments in the path, i.e. $c->forward('/foo/bar/arg1/arg2') - Made $c->req->uri a URI object, added req->path_info for CGI compat. Raw query string is available as $c->req->uri->query. - Made $c->req->base a URI object. - Parameters with multiple values (?a=1&a=2) now display properly in the debug output. - Semi-colon separators in query strings now work properly. - Expanded documentation of catalyst.pl (Andrew Ford) - Added support for running as a backend server behind a frontend proxy so req->base and req->address are set properly. - Added an 'abort' method to the Log api, so that you can kill loggging for a whole request. - Added $c->uri_for method to simplify url handling. - Added more tests and reorganized the t directory. - Reimplemented core engines, all are now CGI based for better test coverage and maintainability. - Added fork support to built in test server. - Fixed all memory leaks. - Thread-related bug fixes and tests. We now believe the Catalyst core to be thread-safe. - Added streaming IO support through $c->req->read() and $c->res->write() - Added MyApp->config->{parse_on_demand} (streaming input) - Added $c->req->handle and $c->res->handle - Improved documentation - Fixed mkpath in Catalyst::Helper (Autrijus Tang) - Fixed bug in dispatcher where an invalid path could call a valid action. (Andy Grundman) - Fixed Helper so it works with CRLF line-endings. (Andy Grundman) 5.33 2005-08-10 15:25:00 - Now with updated manifest. 5.32 2005-08-10 15:10:00 - Dispatcher might fail if object returns false. (Florian Ragwitz) 5.31 2005-06-04 12:35:00 (never released to CPAN) - helpers now create .new files where files already exist and differ - fixed $Data::Dumper::Terse (Robin Berjon) - added arguments for detach - new credits section in POD - fixed detach to allow relative action names (Matt and Robert) - added the ability to have whitespaces in Path( '' ) and Regex( '' ) 5.30 2005-06-04 12:35:00 - Fixed a bug where it was not possible to $c->forward to a component that was not inheriting from Catalyst::Base. - Fix for inheritance bug. - Allow forward with arguments. - Updated cookbook - Allow overriding home/root in config. - make module build cons README automatically. - prettify home path by resolving '..' (Andy Grundman) - improved helper templates a bit, new naming scheme for tests. - added support for case sensitivity, MyApp->config->{case_sensitive} - added $c->detach for non-returning forwards - added unified error handling, Catalyst::Exception - added section on param handling in Intro.pod - added $c->request->cookie - added Catalyst::Setup - refactored Catalyst::import() - improved rendering of error messages in debug mode - fixed a bug in Catalyst::Helper::mk_dir - further doc changes, esp. to Intro.pod 5.23 2005-06-03 02:30:00 - added support for non Catalyst::Base components to live in namespace - improved concurrency connections in Catalyst::Engine::HTTP::Daemon 5.22 2005-05-26 14:24:00 - improved base locating in MP engines - improved error messages in C::E::HTTP::Daemon - hostnames are now resolved on demand unless provided by engine - fixed memory leak in $c->execute (Michael Reece, Matt S Trout) 5.21 2005-05-24 14:56:00 - fixed a bug in https detection - fixed auto chain finally - added MYAPP_HOME and CATALYST_HOME environment variables 5.20 2005-05-18 19:52:00 - improved uploads and parameters - added $c->req->protocol and $c->req->secure - added $c->req->user and $c->req->uri - improved error message when forwarding to unknown module - fixed win32 installer - added deep recursion detection - fixed auto actions - fixed inheritance in dispatcher - allow whitespaces between brackets and quoted string in Path and Regex attributes - new helper templates - installer now supports install_base and destdir - allow multiple Catalyst apps to run on the same mod_perl instance (not the same app!) - fixed MP2 engines - removed apreq dependency from all MP engines - added support for MP registry scripts - added support for LocationMatch and ScriptAliasMatch in MP engines - added SpeedyCGI engine 5.10 2005-04-23 11:16:00 - updated dependencies to require latest module::pluggable::fast - new installer for templates and stuff using Module::Build - scripts are now prefixed, for being installable IMPORTANT: You have to regenerate the script directory, remove Makefile.PL and add Build.PL - Added compat to install Module::Build if required. - Improved: Params handling with MP engines - Fixed: Params handling on POST with CGI engine (Andy Grundman) - Fixed: Helper.pm on Win32 (Matt S Trout) 5.03 2005-04-19 20:35:00 (Revision 462) - fixed Test example (Torsten Seeman) - added Plugins chapter to manual - applied doc patch from Robert Boone - improved Dispatcher error messages. - refactored so we don't need to include helper from Catalyst.pm - Fixes issues with FindBin - applied HTTP.pm patch from Andy Grundman - added plugin() method for instant plugins - FCGI is no more considered experimental 5.02 2005-04-18 10:00:00 - fixed manifest 5.01 2005-04-17 23:00:00 - some documentation bugs fixed - added Catalyst::Utils - fixed regexp bug (Matt S Trout) - fixed upload bug with MP19 - added $c->req->body - aliased $c->res->output to $c->res->body - Read AUTHOR from passwd or $ENV{AUTHOR} when generating code. - extended attribute handling - added global config for components 5.00 2005-04-15 18:00:00 - new core to support inheritance trees - new syntax for action declaration - new helper system using TT2 - problems with mod_perl2 fixed - added Test::Pod support - added new server backend with HTTP/1.1 support - added option to run tests against a remote server - renamed errors() to error() - more better docs - countless minor improvements IMPORTANT: This release is very incompatible to previous ones and you have to regenerate the helper scripts again... 4.34 2005-03-23 07:00:00 2005 - added some messages to Makefile.PL - added Catalyst::Engine::Test - added Catalyst::Engine::CGI::NPH - simplified Catalyst::Log to be easier to implement/subclass - added cgi.pl - updated Catalyst::Test to use Catalyst::Engine::Test - updated helper scripts IMPORTANT: this will be the last time you'll have to regenerate the script directory. We promise! 4.33 2005-03-23 01:00:00 2005 - documented the log() accessor method in Catalyst (Andrew Ford) - added optional arguments to Catalyst::Log methods (Andrew Ford) - removed cgi-server.pl - added fcgi.pl and Catalyst::Engine::FCGI - fixed an undef durng make test (Dan Sully) - new path test (Christian Hansen) IMPORTANT: you have to regenerate the script directory again 4.32 2005-03-22 02:10:00 2005 - made a damn typo *AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!* 4.31 2005-03-22 02:00:00 - fixed inheritance (Christian Hansen) - previous release was borked! fixed that, but you have to regenerate the scripts again :( 4.30 2005-03-21 23:00:00 - more documentation (Andrew Ford) - added connection informations (Christian Hansen) - HTTP::Request support in Catalyst::Test (Christian Hansen) - moved cgi.pl to nph-cgi.pl - added Catalyst::Engine::Server (Christian Hansen) - removed Catalyst::Test::server - updated helper scripts IMPORTANT: note that you have to regenerate script/server.pl, script/cgi-server.pl and script/cgi.pl (now nph-cgi.pl) 4.28 2005-03-19 22:00:00 - fixed isa tree (Christian Hansen) - added script/cgi-server.pl, so no more server restarting after code changes - reworked documentation (Andrew Ford ) 4.27 2005-03-19 01:00:00 - debug message for parameters - Fix redirects (Christian Hansen ) - some random fixes - new helper api for Catalyst::Helper::* support you have to update script/create.pl to use it 4.26 2005-03-16 10:00:00 - fixed the weird bug that caused regex actions to fail on every second request - more debug messages - 100% pod coverage. 4.25 2005-03-12 18:00:00 - correct perl pathes for helper generated scripts (Tatsuhiko Miyagawa) - improved cgi engine docs (Christoper Hicks) 4.24 2005-03-12 01:00:00 - updated cookbook example - fixed base for apache and https (Andrew Ruthven) 4.23 2005-03-09 20:00:00 - no more regex actions in forward - added support for test directories t/m, t/v and t/c 4.22 2005-03-08 20:00:00 - catch errors in application class - handle die properly. 4.21 2005-03-05 17:00:00 - fixed docs 4.20 2005-03-04 22:00:00 - moved bin to script 4.13 2005-03-03 11:00:00 - improved documentation - pod coverage test for helper generated apps - new helper api 4.12 2005-03-02 11:00:00 2005 - server_base sucks, removed - added $c->log->dump() 4.11 2005-03-02 11:00:00 2005 - removed some warnings - improved docs - private prefixed actions override private non prefixed actions - added server_base - updated Catalyst::Manual::Intro 4.10 2005-03-02 10:00:00 2005 - improved documentation - fixed upload bug - fixed prefixed private actions bug - fixed more little bugs 4.01 2005-03-01 10:00:00 2005 - improved documentation - documentation fixes (Johan Lindstrom) 4.00 2005-02-27 22:00:00 - more verbose debug messages, especially for forward() - implemented prefixed prvate actions, icluding built in !?default, !?begin and !?end - new Catalyst::Manual::Intro - new helpers, bin/catalyst - helper api 3.11 2005-02-23 21:00:00 - added dependency to UNIVERSAL::require (Marcus Ramberg) - added a little workaround for a warning in Catalyst::Test (Marcus Ramberg) - improved documentation for actions 3.10 2005-02-19 20:00:00 - removed roles management from Catalyst::Engine and added it to Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication::CDBI 3.04 2005-02-17 21:00:00 - error reporting for app class - no more engine debug messages - class->method forwards get resolved now 3.03 2005-02-16 23:00:00 - friendlier statistics 3.02 2005-02-16 22:00:00 - fixed unintialized actions (Marcus Ramberg) 3.01 2005-02-16 20:30:00 - better statistics 3.00 2005-02-16 20:00:00 - real version number for CPAN.pm - fixed redirect in CGI engine - more statistics in debug logs - ? prefix for forward() 2.99_15 2005-02-02 22:00:00 - support for short namespaces, MyApp::M, MyApp::V and MyApp::C - Replaced "Catched" with "Caught" in Catalyst::Engine (Gary Ashton Jones) - replaced _ with ! for private actions - added ? for prefixed actions - misc improvememts 2.99_14 2005-01-31 22:00:00 2005 - arguments for _default - $c->entrance removed for more flexibility - added $c->req->method 2.99_13 2005-01-30 18:00:00 2005 - POD fixes and improvements 2.99_12 2005-01-28 22:00:00 2005 - first development release