Revision history for Perl extension Business::ISBN.

2.05 - Sun Jan 25 00:00:17 2009

• Updated for latest data in Business::ISBN::Data

2.04_01 - Mon Oct 27 12:08:03 2008

• Revert the GD prereq. A lot of testers have borked GD installs.
• Require 5.8. Some of the new stuff isn't playing well with 5.6

2.04 - Sun Oct 26 18:29:20 2008

• Fix tests that used 99902 as a bad prefix. That now belongs to Gabon.

2.03 - Sat Oct 27 02:48:15 2007

• adjustments to make png_barcode.t actually work (RT #30291)

2.03 - Tue Oct 2 03:17:34 2007

• Fixed minor distro problems and bumped to release version 2.03

2.02_05 - Wed Sep 12 13:27:09 2007

• Explore RT #29292. I don't seem to have the problem with hyphens for ISBN-13, but let's see what CPAN Testers has to say

2.02_04 - Sat Sep 1 14:55:00 2007

        [BUGFIX] ISBN13 was returning "Bookland" for all groups, but 
        it shouldn't do that. Now it returns the same thing you'd
        get from ISBN10 (e.g. "English", "German", ... ).

2.02_03 - Sat Sep 1 04:12:49 2007

        [BUGFIX] RT 29089 - I had the wrong maxlength for ISBN13. That 13
        is the hint that it should be 13. :)

2.02_02 - Sat Aug 25 05:57:22 2007

        [FEATURE] added exportable function valid_isbn_checksum that 
        takes care of all of the object stuff for you and just gives
        you the answer. In previous docs, this was called is_valid_checksum
        even though that conflicted with an object method. It was
        documented but never implemented. Now it's there. :)
        [BUGFIX] now should pass tests under 5.6.2, after a bit of
        backporting. Upgrade already people! :)

2.02_01 - Fri Aug 17 14:00:51 2007

• Don't import import() from Exporter. There are a lot of people (apparently) using very old perls, not just CPAN Testers.

2.02 - Wed Aug 15 03:11:25 2007

• fixes RT #28843: an ISBN-13 with a bad prefix shouldn't croak, but return an object that explains the error.

2.01 - Sun Aug 12 22:28:01 2007

• Official release of Business::ISBN to handle ISBN-13
• Does not handle 979- numbers yet (need publisher data for that)
• Does handle 978-numbers, which is the 10 digit ISBN with a different "country code", so it uses the same publisher data
• There are significant API changes to handle the new stuff. It's not so bad, but test it before you rip out the old Business::ISBN stuff.

2.00_01 - Wed Mar 14 00:38:18 2007

• DEVELOPER RELEASE
• Completely redone internals to handle ISBN-10 and ISBN-13
• Some interface changes to Business::ISBN 1.x
• Removed exportable functions.

1.84 - Tue Jan 9 23:10:00 2007

• updated copyright and license info
• no code changes, so no need to upgrade

1.82 - Sun Aug 14 11:42:18 2005

• fixed up publisher code validation, since 0 can be a valid code. I hadn't run into one of those before, and now I know I wasn't doing that right.
• This is an important code change. Everyone should upgrade.

1.81 - Sat Aug 13 22:08:40 2005

• exposed the country group name as the country() method

1.80 - Tue Mar 8 16:58:47 2005

• added POD coverage tests and documented the uncovered methods it found

1.79 - Tue Dec 14 05:00:37 2004

• Updated tests for new ISBN data: previously invalid ISBNs are now valid. The latest data is in Business::ISBN::Data 1.09 and is current as of November 2004.
• You don't need this version of Business::ISBN if you already have it, although you should get the latest Business::ISBN::Data.

1.78 - Sun Nov 21 19:46:40 2004

• Require the latest version on Business::ISBN::Data, which was unbundled in the last version. You need Business::ISBN::Data 1.08 to pass the latest tests that check for the new ranges the ISBN folks assigned a couple of years ago.

1.77 - Wed Oct 27 02:39:17 2004

• removed Business::ISBN::Data, which is now a separate module so you can update the data without updating the rest of the stuff. Previously, CPAN.pm would install Business::ISBN::Data as a prerequisite, and this distribution would come along and overwrite it with old data. That was a bad thing.

1.76 - Fri Oct 8 16:12:51 2004

• somehow this module went missing from CPAN, so here it is again
• no need to upgrade if you have the previous version

1.74 - Thu Sep 2 17:17:20 2004

• another distro fix: some documentation cleanups, and the README is now in MANIFEST. You do not need to upgrade if you already have installed this module.

1.73 - Thu Sep 2 16:21:10 2004

• this is a distro fix only. if you already have Business::ISBN, you don't need this

1.72 - Wed Feb 11 16:18:30 2004

• removed errant File::Find::Rule use
• Check for modules in png_barcode before require-ing them

1.71 - Wed Jan 28 13:00:38 2004

• added xISBN support
• removed File::Find::Rule, Test::Pod, Test::Prereq dependencies

1.69 Thu Sep 5 01:18:26 CDT 2002

• documentation fixes - that's it

1.68 Wed Sep 4 15:51:29 CDT 2002

• converted to Test::More
• fixed ean_to_isbn to handle new EAN prefix 979

1.60 Sun Apr 1 17:06:28 EDT 2001

• fixed some POD problems
• no changes to the actual code

1.59 Tue Mar 27 11:51:42 EST 2001

• fixed some -w dirty internals
• clarified documentation for as_string method

1.58 Mon Mar 26 19:47:03 EST 2001

• there was an error in test.pl that failed to identify a bug. Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com> found it though. the constructor was always setting $obj->is_valid to BAD_CHECKSUM. that is fixed.
• version 1.57 should not be used at all. it is severely broken due to that bug.

1.57 Wed Mar 21 18:07:17 EST 2001

• fixed -w dirty line in is_valid_checksum (identified by Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>)

1.56      Mon Mar 12 10:03:37 EST 2001
        EVERYONE SHOULD UPGRADE TO THIS VERSION
        - fixed problem parsing ISBNs without valid
        country codes which would cause an infinite
        loop. (identified by Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>)
        - this module is now kept in a local CVS repository
        - added symbolic constants to replace magic return
        values.  see the docs for details.
        - fixed is_valid_checksum which would issue warnings
        if the string was less than ten characters
        (identified by Adam Thompson <athompso@athompso.net>)
        - added a test.pl which still needs more tests to
        reach all of the code.

1.51      Wed Jan 24 14:22:02 EST 2001
        - version 1.5 fixed some bugs with checksums
        - version 1.51 has a few minor doc fixes
        - now we have sane version numbers. :)

20001010 Sat Sep 9 00:33:07 EDT 2000

• fixed some missing arguments to isvalid.
• updated contact information
• added some real tests to test.pl
• everyone should update their installations

19990112 Mon Jan 11 18:03:07 EST 1999

• added "use Exporter" which was missing.

19980901 Tue Sep 01 15:15:30 1998

• added support for EAN-13 (isbn -> ean, ean -> isbn )
• cleaned up other nagging problems
• if you don't want EAN13, then you don't need this update

19980329 Sun Mar 29 03:29:16 1998

• original version; created by h2xs 1.18
• gutsy enough to actually release it for testing and comments