Catalyst::Upgrading - Instructions for upgrading to the latest Catalyst
-=head1 Upgrading to Catalyst TBA
+=head1 Upgrading to Catalyst 5.90080
+
+UTF8 encoding is now default. For temporary backwards compatibility, if this
+change is causing you trouble, you can disable it by setting the application
+configuration option to undef:
+
+ MyApp->config(encoding => undef);
+
+But please consider this a temporary measure since it is the intention that
+UTF8 is enabled going forwards and the expectation is that other ecosystem
+projects will assume this as well. At some point you application will not
+correctly function without this setting.
+
+As of 5.90084 we've added two additional configuration flags for more selective
+control over some encoding changes: 'skip_body_param_unicode_decoding' and
+'skip_complex_post_part_handling'. You may use these to more selectively
+disable new features while you are seeking a long term fix. Please review
+CONFIGURATION in L<Catalyst>.
+
+For further information, please see L<Catalyst::UTF8>
+
+A number of projects in the wider ecosystem required minor updates to be able
+to work correctly. Here's the known list:
+
+L<Catalyst::View::TT>, L<Catalyst::View::Mason>, L<Catalyst::View::HTML::Mason>,
+L<Catalyst::View::Xslate>, L<Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst>
+
+You will need to update to modern versions in most cases, although quite a few
+of these only needed minor test case and documentation changes so you will need
+to review the changelog of each one that is relevant to you to determine your
+true upgrade needs.
+
+=head1 Upgrading to Catalyst 5.90060
+
+Starting in the v5.90059_001 development release, the regexp dispatch type is
+no longer automatically included as a dependency. If you are still using this
+dispatch type, you need to add L<Catalyst::DispatchType::Regex> into your build
+system.
+
+The standalone distribution of Regexp will be supported for the time being, but
+should we find that supporting it prevents us from moving L<Catalyst> forward
+in necessary ways, we reserve the right to drop that support. It is highly
+recommended that you use this last stage of deprecation to change your code.
+
+=head1 Upgrading to Catalyst 5.90040
=head2 Catalyst::Plugin::Unicode::Encoding is now core
Please note that this is different from the old stand alone plugin which applied
C<UTF-8> encoding by default (that is, if you did not set an explicit
-C<encoding> configuration value, it assumed you wanted UTF-8). In order to
+C<encoding> configuration value, it assumed you wanted UTF-8). In order to
preserve backwards compatibility you will need to explicitly turn it on via the
configuration setting. THIS MIGHT CHANGE IN THE FUTURE, so please consider
starting to test your application with proper UTF-8 support and remove all those
reserve the right to make necessary changes to fix major issues that people
run into when the use this functionality in the wild.
+=head1 Upgrading to Catalyst 5.90030
+
+=head2 Regex dispatch type is deprecated.
+
+The Regex dispatchtype (L<Catalyst::DispatchType::Regex>) has been deprecated.
+
+You are encouraged to move your application to Chained dispatch (L<Catalyst::DispatchType::Chained>).
+
+If you cannot do so, please add a dependency to Catalyst::DispatchType::Regex to your application's
+Makefile.PL
+
=head1 Upgrading to Catalyst 5.9
The major change is that L<Plack>, a toolkit for using the L<PSGI>
The engines that are built upon the various iterations of mod_perl,
L<Catalyst::Engine::Apache::MP13> (for mod_perl 1, and Apache 1.x) and
L<Catalyst::Engine::Apache2::MP20> (for mod_perl 2, and Apache 2.x),
-should be seamless upgrades and will work using using L<Plack::Handler::Apache1>
+should be seamless upgrades and will work using L<Plack::Handler::Apache1>
or L<Plack::Handler::Apache2> as required.
L<Catalyst::Engine::Apache2::MP19>, however, is no longer supported, as
to the test. This change standardizes behavior, so that local test
requests behave similarly to remote requests.
-=head2 Regex dispatch type is deprecated.
-
-The Regex dispatchtype (L<Catalyst::DispatchType::Regex>) has been deprecated.
-
-You are encouraged to move your application to Chained dispatch (L<Catalyst::DispatchType::Chained>).
-
-If you cannot do so, please add a dependency to Catalyst::DispatchType::Regex to your application's
-Makefile.PL
-
=head1 Upgrading to Catalyst 5.80
Most applications and plugins should run unaltered on Catalyst 5.80.
Having actions in your application class will now emit a warning at application
startup as this is deprecated. It is highly recommended that these actions are moved
into a MyApp::Controller::Root (as demonstrated by the scaffold application
-generated by catalyst.pl).
+generated by catalyst.pl).
This warning, also affects tests. You should move actions in your test,
creating a myTest::Controller::Root, like the following example:
sub action : Local {
my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
- $c->do_something;
+ $c->do_something;
}
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