This is an overview of the user-visible changes to Catalyst between major
Catalyst releases.
+=head2 VERSION 5.90105
+
+This version primarily fixed a regression in the way we preserved $c->state
+which the previous version introduced. Now in the case when you forward to
+an action, should that action throw an exception it sets state to 0 and is
+sure that the return value is false. This is to meet expected behavior based
+on the documentation. If you relied on the last update behavior you may not have
+regressions but it was thought that we should make the code behave as documented
+for more than 10 years.
+
+We also changed how we compose the request, response and stats base class. We
+now compose the base class with any configured traits once at the end of the
+application setup, rather than for each request. This reduced request overhead
+when you are composing lots of traits. It possible this may break some code that
+was adding traits after the application setup was finalized. Please shout out if
+this actually causes you trouble and we'll do the best to accomodate.
+
+=head2 VERSION 5.90102 - 5.90103
+
+A significant change is that we now preserve the value of $c->state from action
+to following action. This gives you a new way to pass a value between actions
+in a chain, for example. However any 'auto' actions always have $c->state
+forced to be set to 0, which is the way its been for a long time, this way an
+auto action is required to return 1 to pass the match. It also exists to maintain
+compatibility with anyone that exits an auto action with a detach (which is not a
+documented way to escape matching, but exists in the wild since it worked as a
+side effect of the code for a long time).
+
+Additionally, upon $c->detach we also force set state to 0.
+
+Version 5.90102 contains a version of this change but its considered buggy, so
+that is a version to avoid.
+
+=head2 VERSION 5.90100
+
+Support for type constraints in Args and CaptureArgs has been improved. You may
+now inherit from a base controller that declares type constraints and use roles
+that declare type constraints. See L<Catalyst::RouteMatching> for more.
+
+You may now. also use a full type constraint namespace instead of importing type
+constraints into your package namespace.
+
+We changed the way the middleware stash works so that it no longer localizes
+the PSGI env hashref. This was done to fix bugs where people set PSGI ENV hash
+keys and found them to disappear in certain cases. It also means that now if
+a sub applications sets stash variables, that stash will now bubble up to the
+parent application. This may be a breaking change for you since previous
+versions of this code did not allow that. A workaround is to explicitly delete
+stash keys in your sub application before returning control to the parent
+application.
+
+=head2 VERSION 5.90097
+
+=head3 Defined how $c->uri_for adds a URI fragment.
+
+We now have a specification for creating URIs with fragments (or HTML anchors).
+Previously you could do this as a side effect of how we create URIs but this
+side effect behavior was never documented or tested, and was broken when we
+introduced default UTF-8 encoding. When creating URIs with fragments please
+follow the new, supported specification:
+
+ $c->uri_for($action_or_path, \@captures_or_args, @args, \$query, \$fragment);
+
+This will be a breaking change for some codebases, we recommend testing if
+you are creating URLs with fragments.
+
+B<NOTE> If you are using the alternative:
+
+ $c->uri_for('/foo/bar#baz')
+
+construction, we do not attempt to encode this and it will make a URL with a
+fragment of 'baz'.
+
+=head2 VERSION 5.90094
+
+=head3 Multipart form POST with character set headers
+
+When we did the UTF8 work, we punted on Form POSTs when the POST envelope was
+multipart and each part had complex headers such as content-types, character
+sets and so forth. In those cases instead of returning a possibly incorrect
+value, we returned an object describing the part so that you could figure it
+out manually. This turned out to be a bad workaround as people did not expect
+to find that object. So we changed this to try much harder to get a correct
+value. We still return an object if we fail but we try much harder now. If
+you used to check for the object you might find that code is no longer needed
+(although checking for it should not hurt or break anything either).
+
+=head2 VERSION 5.90091
+
+=head3 'case_sensitive' configuration
+
+At one point in time we allowed you to set a 'case_sensitive' configuration value so
+that you could find actions by their private names using mixed case. We highly
+discourage that. If you are using this 'feature' you should be on notice that we
+plan to remove the code around it in the near future.
+
+=head2 VERSION 5.90090+
+
+=head3 Type constraints on Args and CaptureArgs.
+
+You may now use a type constraint (using L<Moose>, L<MooseX::Types> or preferably
+L<Type::Tiny> in your Args or CaptureArgs action attributes. This can be used
+to restrict the value of the Arg. For example:
+
+ sub myaction :Local Args(Int) { ... }
+
+Would match '.../myaction/5' but not '.../myaction/string'.
+
+When an action (or action chain) has Args (or CaptureArgs) that declare type constraints
+your arguments to $c->uri_for(...) must match those constraints.
+
+See L<Catalyst::RouteMatching> for more.
+
+=head3 Move CatalystX::InjectComponent into core
+
+L<Catalyst::Utils> has a new method 'inject_component' which works the same as the method of
+the same name in L<CatalystX::InjectComponent>.
+
+=head3 inject_components
+
+New configuration key allows you to inject components directly into your application without
+any subclasses. For example:
+
+ MyApp->config({
+ inject_components => {
+ 'Controller::Err' => { from_component => 'Local::Controller::Errors' },
+ 'Model::Zoo' => { from_component => 'Local::Model::Foo' },
+ 'Model::Foo' => { from_component => 'Local::Model::Foo', roles => ['TestRole'] },
+ },
+ 'Controller::Err' => { a => 100, b=>200, namespace=>'error' },
+ 'Model::Zoo' => { a => 2 },
+ 'Model::Foo' => { a => 100 },
+ });
+
+Injected components are useful to reduce the amount of nearly empty boilerplate classes
+you might have, particularly when first starting an application.
+
+=head3 Component setup changes.
+
+Previously you could not depend on an application scoped component doing setup_components
+since components were setup 'in order'. Now all components are first registered and then
+setup, so you can now reliably use any component doing setup_components.
+
=head2 VERSION 5.90080+
The biggest change in this release is that UTF8 encoding is now enabled by
default. So you no longer need any plugins (such as L<Catalyst::Plugin::Unicode::Encoding>)
which you can just no go ahead and remove. You also don't need to set
the encoding configuration (__PACKAGE__->config(encoding=>'UTF-8')) anymore
-as well (although its presense hurts nothing).
+as well (although its presence hurts nothing).
If this change causes you trouble, you can disable it:
__PACKAGE__->config(encoding=>undef);
+For further information, please see L<Catalyst::UTF8>
+
But please report bugs. You will find that a number of common Views have been
updated for this release (such as L<Catalyst::View::TT>). In all cases that the
author is aware of these updates were to fix test cases only. You shouldn't
need to update unless you are installing fresh and want tests to pass.
L<Catalyst::Plugin::Compress> was updated to be compatible with this release.
-You will need to upgrade if you are using this plugin.
+You will need to upgrade if you are using this plugin. L<Catalyst::Upgrading>
+also has details.
A small change is that the configuration setting C<using_frontend_proxy>
was not doing the right thing if you started your application with C<psgi_app>
-and dod not apply the default middleware. This setting is now honored in
+and did not apply the default middleware. This setting is now honored in
all the ways an application may be started. This could cause trouble if you
are using the configuration value and also adding the proxy middleware
manually with a custom application startup. The solution is that you only
=head3 Distinguish between body null versus undef.
-We also now more carefully distingush the different between a body set
+We also now more carefully distinguish the different between a body set
to '' and a body that is undef. This might lead to situations where
again you'll get a content-length were you didn't get one before or
where a supporting server will start chunking output. If this is an
=head3 More Catalyst Middleware
-We have started migrating code in Catalyst to equivilent Plack
+We have started migrating code in Catalyst to equivalent Plack
Middleware when such exists and is correct to do so. For example we now use
L<Plack::Middleware::ContentLength> to determine content length of a response
when none is provided. This replaces similar code inlined with L<Catalyst>
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