# This file documents the revision history for Perl extension Catalyst.

5.80032 2011-02-23 01:10:00

Bug fixes:

• Fix compatibility issue with code which was testing the value of $c->res->body multiple times. Previously this would cause the value to be built, and ergo cause the $c->res->has_body predicate to start returning true. Having a response body is indicated by $c->res->body being defined.
• Fix bug with calling $upload->slurp multiple times in one request not working as expected as the file handle wasn't returned to the zero position. (Adam Sjøgren)
• Fix some weird perl 5.8 situations where $c can get squashed unexpectedly in Catalyst::execute
• Fix chained dispatch where chains were being compared for length (number of private parts in the chain) vs where they are being compared for PathPart length (i.e. number of non-capturing URI elements in your path).

  This bug meant that sometimes multiple Args or CaptureArgs (e.g. /*/) type paths would be preferred to those with fixed path elements (e.g. /account/)

New features:

• Add MYAPP_RESTARTER and CATALYST_RESTARTER environment variables to allow the restarter class to be chosen per application or generally.

  This feature was added to enable GUI restarters (such as the soon to be released CatalystX::Restarter::GTK to be enabled more easily by developers without changing their application code.

5.80031 2011-01-31 08:13:02

Bug fixes:

• Update dependency on MooseX::Role::WithOverloading to ensure that a version which can deal with / depends on a new Package::Stash is installed. (As if some other dependency is pulled in during upgrading which results in new Package::Stash, then it can leave you with a broken version of MooseX::Role::WithOverloading.
• Fix undef warning in Catalyst::Engine::FastCGI when writing an empty body (e.g. doing a redirect)

5.80030 2011-01-04 13:13:02

New features:

• Add a --proc_title option to the FCGI script to set the process title.
• Allow the response body to be set to `undef' explicitly to indicate the absence of a body. It can be used to indicate that no body should be sent at all and processing of views should be skipped. This is especially useful for things like X-Sendfile, which now no longer require providing fake response bodies to suppress view processing. In order for this to work, you will also have upgrade Catalyst::Action::RenderView to at least version 0.15.

Bug fixes:

• Deal correctly with GLOB file handles in the response body (setting the Content-Length header appropriately)
• Chained dispatch has been fixed to always prefer paths with the minimum number of captures (rather than the maximum number of actions). This means that (for example) a URI path /foo/ made out of 2 actions will take preference to a URI path //* made out of 3 actions. Please check your applications if you are using chained action and please write new test to report failing case.
• Stop relying on bugs in the pure-perl version of Package::Stash. New versions of Package::Stash load Package::Stash::XS if available. Package::Stash::XS fixes some of the bugs of the pure-perl version, exposing our faulty assumption and breaking things. We now work with both old and new versions of Package::Stash, both with and without Package::Stash::XS being installed. Older versions of Catalyst-Runtime also work with both old and new versions of Package::Stash, but only if Package::Stash::XS is not installed.

  Documentation

• Clarify that when forwarding or detaching, the end action associated with the original dispatched action will be run afterwards (fallen)

5.80029 2010-10-03 16:39:00

New features:

• Add a warning when $c->view is called and cannot locate a default_view or current_view. This clarifies the logging when ::RenderView gets confused.

Warning fixes:

• Deal warning in with Moose >= 1.15 if you add a method called 'meta' to a class which already has one by using addmeta_method.

5.80028 2010-09-28 20:49:00

Bug fixes:

• use Class::MOP in Catalyst::Utils.
• Do not keep a reference to a closed over context in ctx_request, allowing the caller to dispose of the request context at their leisure.
• Changes to be compatible with bleadperl

5.80027 2010-09-01 22:14:00

Bug fixes:

• Fix an issue with newly added test cases which depended on Catalyst::Action::RenderView

5.80026 2010-09-01 15:14:00

Bug fixes:

• Fix so that CATALYST_EXCEPTION_CLASS in MyApp is always respected by not loading Catalyst::Exception in Utils.pm BEGIN, because some Scripts::* load Utils before MyApp.pm
• Fix warnings with new Moose versions about "excludes" during role application
• Fix warning from MooseX::Getopt regarding duplicate "help" aliases.
• parse_on_demand fixed when used in conjunction with debug mode. A regression was introduced in 5.80022 which would cause the body to always be parsed for logging at the end of the request when in debug mode. This has been fixed so that if the body has not been parsed by the time the request is logged, then the body is omitted.
• Fix show_internal_actions config setting producing warnings in debug mode (RT#59738)
• Make Catalyst::Test::local_request() set the response base from base href in the returned document so that links can be resolved correctly by Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst

  Refactoring

  • moved component name sort that happens in setup_components to locate_components to allow methods to wrap around locate_components

  Documentation

  • Fix some typos
  • Advertise Catalyst::Plugin::SmartURI

5.80025 2010-07-29 01:50:00

New features:

• An 'action_class' method has been added to Catalyst::Controller to allow controller base classes, roles or traits (e.g. Catalyst::Controller::ActionRole) to more easily override the default action creation.

Bug fixes:

• Fix the --mech and --mechanize options to the myapp_create.pl script to operate correctly by fixing the options passed down into the script.
• Fix controllers with no method attributes (where the action definitions are entirely contained in config). RT#58057
• Fix running as a CGI under IIS at non-root locations.
• Fix warning about "excludes" during role application
• Fix warning from MooseX::Getopt regarding duplicate "help" aliases

  Documentation

• Fix missing - in the docs when describing the --mechanize option at one point.
• Explained the common practice how to access the component's config values.
• Fixed typo in Catalyst/Script/Server.pm (RT #58474)

5.80024 2010-05-15 11:55:44

Bug fixes:

• Revert the path resolution behaviour to how it used to work before Catalyst 5.80014_02, so that application paths are (by default) resolved from $ENV{PATH_INFO} and $ENV{SCRIPT_NAME}. This fixes backward compatibility breakage seen by a number of people since that release with mod_rewrite and SSI.

New features:

• Add a use_request_uri_for_path config setting to optionally use the (more correct) $ENV{REQUEST_URI} path resolution behaviour.

  Documentation

• Clarify the documentation for the Catalyst::Stats interface.
• Copious documentation about the use_request_uri_for_path feature and the implications of setting this to true/false in Catalyst::Engine::CGI

5.80023 2010-05-07 23:50:27

Bug fixes:

• Ensure to always cleanup temporary uploaded files in all cases, even when exceptions occur during request processing, using HTTP::Body's ->cleanup feature. (RT#41442)
• Ensure that Catalyst::Engine::HTTP's options hash is defined before dereferencing it. (RT#49267)
• Fix regex special characters in REDIRECT_URL variable breaking the request base. (2nd part of RT#24951)
• Fix not stripping backslashes in DispatchType::Regex::uri_for_action

New features:

• Setting __PACKAGE__->config(enable_catalyst_header => 1); in your MyApp.pm now enables the X-Catalyst header being printed when not in debug mode.
• Require CGI::Simple::Cookie version 1.109 to ensure support for the HttpOnly flag
• Allow the myapp_test.pl script to be given a list of paths which it will retrieve all of. (RT#53653)
• Allow parameterized roles to be applied as plugins.
• Allow requiring minimum versions of plugins when loading them.

  Documentation

• The Catalyst::Test::get method is documented as returning the raw response bytes without any character decoding (RT#53678)

  Cleanups

• Removal of $Catalyst::PRETTY_VERSION. Future releases will always have the full and unmangled version number, including trailing zeroes, in $Catalyst::VERSION.

5.80022 2010-03-28 19:43:01

New features:

• Log an extra line in debug mode with the response status code, the content type and content length if available.

Refactoring / optimizations:

• Display of the end of hit debug messages has been factored out into log_headers, log_request, log_request_headers, log_response, log_response_status_line and log_response_headers methods so that plugins which customise how much information is shown on the debug screen as easy to write.
• Make all logging of request and response state get the information from $c->dump_these so that there is a unified point from which to hook in parameter filtering (for example).
• $c->model/view/controller have become a lot faster for non-regexp names by using direct hash lookup instead of looping.
• IP address => hostname mapping for the server is only done once and cached by Catalyst::Engine::HTTP to somewhat mitigate the problem of people developing on machines pointed at slow DNS servers.

Bugs fixed:

• DispatchType::Index's uri_for_action only returns for actions registered with it (prevents 'index :Path' or similar resolving to the wrong URI)
• Make sure to construct Upload objects properly, even if there are multiple Content-Type headers (Closes RT#55976).

5.80021 2010-03-03 23:02:01

Bug fixed:

• $c->uri_for will now escape unsafe characters in captures ($c->request->captures) and correctly encode utf8 charracters.

5.80020 2010-02-04 06:51:18

New features:

• Allow components to specify additional components to be set up by overriding the expand_modules method. (Oliver Charles)

5.80019 2010-01-29 01:04:09

Bug fixed:

• Calls to $c->uri_for with private paths as strings (e.g. $c->uri_for('controller/action', 'arg1', 'arg2') ) no longer have / encoded to %2F. This is due to $c->uri_for('static', 'css/foo', $bar) which should not be encoded. Calls with an action object (rather than a string), or uri_for action will still encode / in args and captures to %2F
• The above noted / => %2F encoding in uri_for_action or uri_for with an action object has been fixed to not just encode the first slash in any set of args/captures.
• nginx and lighttpd FCGI requests with URI encoded sections as the first path part have been fixed to operate correctly.
• A source of bogus warnings in Catalyst::Component::BUILDARGS has been removed.

  Documentation

• Improve the documentation about -Home and how Catalyst finds the home path for applications.
• Various minor typo fixes.

New features:

• Allow passing additional arguments to action constructors.

5.80018 2010-01-12 22:24:20

Bug fixed:

• Call ->canonical on URI derived from $ENV{REQUEST_URI} to get paths correctly decoded. This bug was previously hidden by a bug in HTTP::Request::AsCGI.

  Documentation

• Clarify that uri_for_action works on private paths, with example.
• Clarify documentation about debug

  Deprecations

• Saying use Catalyst::Test; (without an application name or () to stop the importer running is now deprecated and will issue a warning. You should be saying use Catalyst::Test ();

5.80017 2010-01-10 02:27:29

Documentation

• Fix docs for ->forward method when passed a class name - this should be a component name (e.g. View::HTML, not a full class name, like MyApp::View::HTML).

Bug fixes:

• --daemon and -d options to Catalyst::Script::FastCGI are fixed.
• Fix the debug dump for applications which use Catalyst::Plugin::Session (RT#52898)
• Fix regression in the case where mod_rewrite is being used to rewrite requests into a path below your application base introduced with the %2F related fixes in 5.80014_02.
• Do not crash on SIGHUP if Catalyst::Engine::HTTP->run is not passed the argv key in the options hash.
• Correctly pass the arguments to Catalyst::Script::Server through to Catalyst::Engine::HTTP->run so that the server can restart itself with the correct options on SIGHUP.
• Require new MooseX::MethodAttributes to be compatible with Moose versions >= 0.93_01
• Require new MooseX::Role::WithOverloading to be compatible with Moose versions >= 0.93_01

  Cleanups

  • Stop suppressing warnings from Class::C3::Adopt::NEXT now that most plugins have been updated to not use NEXT. If you get warnings then please upgrade your components or log a bug with the component author if an upgrade is not available. The Class::C3::Adopt::NEXT documentation contains information about how to suppress the warnings in your application if you need to.

5.80016 2009-12-11 23:23:33

Bug fixes:

• Fix slurping a file to work correctly with binary on Win32 in the encoding test controller.

Bug fixes in the new scripts (for applications which have been upgraded):

• Allow --restartdirectory as an option for the Server script, for backwards compatibility. (Dave Rolsky)
• The --host option for the server script defaulted to localhost, rather than listening on all interfaces, which was the previous default. (Dave Rolsky)
• Restore -p option for pid file in the FastCGI server script.
• Fix the script environment variables MYAPP_PORT and MYAPP_RELOAD RT#52604
• Fix aliasing applications under non-root paths with mod_rewrite in some apache versions where %ENV{SCRIPT_NAME} is set to the real name of the script, by using $ENV{REDIRECT_URL} which contains the non-rewritten URI.
• Fix usage display when myapp_create.pl is run with no arguments. RT#52630

New features:

• The __MOP__ hash element is suppressed from being dumped fully (and instead stringified) when dumping the error screen to be less packed with information of no use.

  Documentation

• Fix Pod nits (RT#52370)

5.80015 2009-12-02 15:13:54
Bug fixes:

• Fix bug in Catalyst::Engine which would cause a request parsing to end prematurely in the hypothetical case where calling $engine->read returned the single character '0'.
• Fix failing tests when combined with new HTTP::Request::AsCGI

  Documentation

• Improved documentation on read and read_chunk methods in Catalyst::Engine.
• Fix reversal of SCRIPT_NAME and PATH_INFO in previously correct nginx FastCGI documentation introduced in _02.

5.80014_02 2009-12-01 00:55:23
Bug fixes:

• Fix reporting the wrong Content-Length if the response body is an upgraded string. Strings mean the same thing whether or not they are upgraded, may get upgraded even after they are encoded, and will produce the same output either way, but bytes::length returns too big values for upgraded strings containing characters >127
• Fix t/live_fork.t with bleadperl (RT#52100)
• Set $ENV{PATH_INFO} from $ENV{REQUEST_URI} combined with $ENV{SCRIPT_NAME} if possible. This is many web servers always fully decode PATH_INFO including URI reserved characters. This allows us to tell foo%2cbar from foo%252cbar, and fixes issues with %2F in paths being incorrectly decoded, resulting in too many path parts (rather than 1 path part containing a /, on some web servers (at least nginx). (RT#50082)
• Require new HTTP::Request::AsCGI so that it fully decodes $ENV{PATH_INFO} in non CGI contexts. (RT#50082)

Refactoring / cleanups:

• NoTabs and Pod tests moved to t/author so that they're not run (and then skipped) normally.

  Documentation

  • Fix Pod nits in Catalyst::Response (RT#51818)

5.80014_01 2009-11-22 20:01:23

Bug fixes:

• Filehandle now forced to binmode in CGI and FastCGI engines. This appears to correct some UTF-8 issues, but may break people's code which relies on the old behaviour.

Refactoring / cleanups:

• Plugins which inherit from Catalyst::Controller or Catalyst::Component are deprecated and now issue warnings.

5.80014 2009-11-21 02:51:14

Bug fixes:

• Require MooseX::MethodAttributes 0.17. This in turn requires new MooseX::Types to stop warnings in Moose 0.91, and correctly supports role combination of roles containing attributed methods.
• Catalyst::Dispatcher::dispatch_types no longer throws deprecated warnings as there is no recommended alternative.
• Improved the suggested fix warning when component resolution uses regex fallback for fully qualified component names.
• Catalyst::Test::local_request sets ->request on the response.
• Log flush moved to the end of setup so that roles and plugins which hook setup_finalize can log things and have them appear in application startup, rather than with the first hit.
• Require a newer version of LWP to avoid failing tests.
• Stop warnings when actions are forwarded to during dispatch.
• Remove warnings for using Catalyst::Dispatcher->dispatch_types as this is a valid method to publicly call on the dispatcher.
• Args ($c->request->args) and CaptureArgs ($c->request->captrues) passed to $c->uri_for with an action object ($c->action) will now correctly round-trip when args or captures contain / as it is now correctly uri encoded to %2F.

  Documentation

• Document no-args call to $c->uri_for.
• Document all top level application configuration parameters.
• Clarify how to fix actions in your application class (which is deprecated and causes warnings).
• Pod fixes for ContextClosure.
• Fix documentation for go/visit to reference captures and arguments in the correct order.
• Update $c->forward and $c->state documentation to address scalar context.
• Pod fix in Catalyst::Request (RT#51490)
• Pod fixes to refer to ::Controller:: rather than ::C:: as the latter is deprecated (RT#51489)

New features:

• Added disable_component_resolution_regex_fallback config option to switch off (deprecated) regex fallback for component resolution.
• Added an nginx-specific behavior to the FastCGI engine to allow proper PATH_INFO and SCRIPT_NAME processing for non-root applications
• Enable Catalyst::Utils::home() to find home within Dist::Zilla built distributions
• Added the Catalyst::Exception::Interface role defining the interface exception classes need to implement.
• Added Catalyst::Exception::Basic as a basic implementation of Catalyst::Exception::Interface and made the existing exception classes use it.

Refactoring / cleanups:

• Remove documentation for the case_sensitive setting
• Warning is now emitted at application startup if the case_sensitive setting is turned on. This setting is not used by anyone, not believed to be useful and adds unnecessary complexity to controllers and the dispatcher. If you are using this setting and have good reasons why it should stay then you need to be shouting, now.
• Writing to $c->req->body now fails as doing this never makes sense.

5.80013 2009-09-17 11:07:04

Bug fixes:

• Preserve immutable_options when temporarily making a class mutable in Catalyst::ClassData as this is needed by new Class::MOP. This could have potentially caused issues when using the deprecated runtime plugins feature in an application with plugins which define their own new method.
• Require new Moose version and new versions of various dependencies to avoid warnings from newest Moose release.
• Fix go / visit expecting captures and arguments in reverse order.

  Documentation

• Rework the $c->go documentation to make it more clear.
• Additional documentation in Catalyst::Upgrading covering more deprecation warnings.

Refactoring / cleanups:

• Action methods in the application class are deprecated and applications using them will now generate a warning at startup.
• The -short option has been removed from catalyst.pl, stopping new applications from being generated using the ::[MVC]:: naming scheme as this is deprecated and generates warnings. RT#49771

5.80012 2009-09-09 19:09:09

Bug fixes:

• Fix t/optional_http-server.t test.
• Fix t/optional_http-server-restart.t test.
• Fix duplicate components being loaded at setup time, each component is now loaded at most once + tests.
• Fix backward compatibility - hash key configured actions are stored in is returned to 'actions'.
• Fix get_action_methods returning duplicate methods when a method is both decorated with method attributes and set as an action in config.

Refactoring / cleanups:

• Reduce minimum supported perl version from 5.8.6 to 5.8.4 as there are many people still running/testing this version with no known issues.

  Tests

• Make the optional_http_server.t test an author only test which must be run by authors to stop it being broken again.
• Fix recursion warnings in the test suites.

5.80011 2009-08-23 13:48:15

Bug fixes:

• Remove leftovers of the restarter engine. The removed code caused test failures, which weren't apparent for anyone still having an old version installed in @INC.

5.80010 2009-08-21 23:32:15

Bug fixes:

• Fix and add tests for a regression introduced by 5.80008. Catalyst::Engine is now able to send out data from filehandles larger than the default chunksize of 64k again.

5.80009 2009-08-21 22:21:08

Bug fixes:

• Fix and add tests for generating inner packages inside the COMPONENT method, and those packages being correctly registered as components. This fixes Catalyst::Model::DBIC among others.

5.80008 2009-08-21 17:47:30

Bug fixes:

• Fix replace_constructor warning to actually work if you make your application class immutable without that option.
• Depend on Module::Pluggable 3.9 to prevent a bug wherein components in inner packages might not be registered. This especially affected tests.
• Catalyst::Engine::FastCGI - relax the check for versions of Microsoft IIS. Provides compatibility with Windows 2008 R2 as well as (hopefully) future versions.
• In tests which depend on the values of environment variables, localise the environment, then delete only relevant environment variables (RT#48555)
• Fix issue with Engine::HTTP not sending headers properly in some cases (RT#48623)
• Make Catalyst::Engine write at least once when finalizing the response body from a filehandle, even if the write is empty. This avoids fail when trying to send out an empty response body from a filehandle.
• Catalyst::Engine::HTTP - Accept a fully qualified absolute URI in the Request-URI of the Request-Line

Refactoring / cleanups:

• Deleted the Restarter engine and its Watcher code. Use the new Catalyst::Restarter in a recent Catalyst::Devel instead.
• New unit test for Catalyst::Action 'unit_core_action.t'
• Bump minimum supported perl version from 5.8.1 to 5.8.6 as there are known issues with 5.8.3.
• Debug output uses dynamic column sizing to create more readable output when using a larger $ENV{COLUMNS} setting. (groditi)

New features:

• Added private_path method for Catalyst::Action
• Allow uri_for($controller_instance) which will produce a URI for the controller namespace
• Break setup_components into two more parts: locate_components and expand_component_module (rjbs)
• Allow Components to return anon classed from their COMPONENT method correctly, and have action registration work on Controllers returned as such by adding a catalyst_component_name accessor for all components which returns the component instance's name to be used when building actions etc.
• Adding X-Forwarded-Port to allow the frontend proxy to dictate the frontend port (jshirley)
• Added Catalyst::Stats->created accessor for the time at the start of the request.

  Documentation

• Fix POD to refer to ->config(key => $val), rather than ->config->{key} = $val, as the latter form is deprecated.
• Clearer docs for the 'uri_for' method.
• Fix POD refering to CGI::Cookie. We're using CGI::Simple::Cookie. (Forrest Cahoon)

5.80007 2009-06-30 23:54:34

Bug fixes:

• Don't mangle query parameters passed to uri_for
  • Tests for this (Byron Young + Amir Sadoughi)
• Inherited controller methods can now be specified in config->{action(s)}
• Assigning an undef response body no longer produces warnings
• Fix C3 incompatibility bug caused if you use Moose in MyApp.pm and add Catalyst to the right hand side of this in @ISA.
• Make Catalyst.pm implement the Component::ApplicationAttribute interface so defining actions in MyApp.pm works again, if the actions have attributes that cause $self->_application to be used (like ActionClass).

New features:

• Add optional second argument to uri_with which appends to existing params rather than replacing them. (foo=1 becomes foo=1&foo=2 when uri_with({ foo => 2 }, { mode => 'append' }) is called on a foo=1 URI.

5.80006 2009-06-29 23:37:47

Bug fixes:

• Revert change to URL encode things passed into $c->uri_for Args and CaptureArgs as this causes breakage to pre-existing applications.
• Remove use of Test::MockObject as it doesn't install from CPAN in some environments.
• Remove use of dclone to deep copy configs and replace with Catalyst::Utils::merge_hashes which has the same effect, of ensuring child classes don't inherit their parent's config, except works correctly with closures.
• Add Class::C3::reinitialize into Catalyst::Test to avoid weird bugs in ctx_request (bokutin in RT#46459)
• Fix issues with parsePathPrefix_attr method in Catalyst::Controller (jasonk in RT#42816)
• Fix bugs with action sorting:
  • Path actions sorted so that the most specific wins.
  • Action methods named default and index fixed.

New features:

• Use ~ as prefix for plugins or action classes which are located in MyApp::Plugin / MyApp::Action (mo)
• Controller methods without attributes are now considered actions if they are specified in config->{action(s)} (mo)
• Add Catalyst::Component::ContextClosure as an easy way to create code references, that close over the context, without creating leaks.

Refactoring / cleanups:

• Clean namespaces in Catalyst::Exception*.
• Turn Catalyst::Exception into an actual class and make the throw method create instances of it. They can still be used as normal strings, as before, as they are overloaded to stringify to their error message.
• Add a rethrow method to Catalyst::Exception.
• Add Catalyst::Exception::Detach and ::Go, and refactor detach() and go() to use them instead of magic, global strings. Fixes RT#47366
• Clean up getting metaclass instance and making app class immutable again in Catalyst::Test

5.80005 2009-06-06 14:40:00

Behaviour changes:

• Arguments ($c->req->args) in Chained dispatch are now automatically URL decoded to be consistent with Local/Path dispatch

  Documentation

• Clarify correct techniques for Moose controllers (domm)

Bug fixes:

• 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
• Fix Catalyst failing to start if any plugin changed $_ whilst loading
  • Tests for this
• Be stricter about arguments to Args attributes for Chained actions, so that they blow up on load instead of causing undefined behavior later on
  • Tests for this
• Prefer Path actions with a smaller (or set) number of Args (caelum) Bug reported here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/931653/catalyst-action-that-matches-a-single-file-in-the-root-directory/933181#933181
  • Tests for this

New features:

• Add $c->req->remote_user to disambiguate from $c->req->user (dwc)
• Require MooseX::MethodAttributes 0.12 so that action methods (with attributes) can be used in / composed from Moose roles.
• Allow the generation of cookies with the HTTPOnly flag set in Catalyst::Engine (kmx)

5.80004 2009-05-18 17:03:23

• Rename the actions attribute in Catalyt::Controller to controlleractions 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
• Fix deprecation message for Catalyst::Dispatcher to refer to the class actually calling the deprecated method. RT#45741
• Clarify limitations of $request->base and $request->secure. (Phil Mitchell)
• Add 'use Catalyst' to documentation for a Moose MyApp class as noted by dmaki.
• Fix so that / (and other special characters) are URL encoded when passed into $c->uri_for as Args/CaptureArgs
• Fix development server so that $c->engine->env returns the correct environment
• Require Moose 0.78 to fix metaclass incompatibility issues
• 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
• Fix cases where your application failing to compile could cause perl to report 'Unknown Error'
• Support adding Moose::Roles to the plugin list. These are applied to MyApp after plugins have been pushed onto @ISA
• Fix calling $c->req->parameters as the first thing you do when parse_on_demand is on

5.80003 2009-04-29 16:23:53

• Various POD tweaks. (hdp, dandv)
• Fix formatting error in the regex fallback warning.
• 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.
• Fix classes without metaclasses restarting, when not using B::Hooks::OP::Check::StashChange
• Fix the unattached chain debug table for endpoints with no parents at all.
• Turn off test aggregation by default. Only aggregate if the AGGREGATE_TESTS environment variable is set and a recent Test::Aggregate is available.
• 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.
• Bump HTTP::Request::AsCGI dependency to avoid broken version
• Bump Moose dependency to latest version to fix metaclass incompatibility issues in some cases.
• Additional tests for setup_stats method.
• Fix log levels in Catalyst::Log to be properly additive.
• Fix RT#43375 by sorting results before testing them
• 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
• 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.
  • Tests for this
• 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
• Work around issues in Moose with initialization order of multiple levels of non-Moose classes inheriting from a Moose class
  • Test for this
• Add backwards compatibility method for Catalyst::Log->body, which has been made private
• Fix so that calling $c->req->parameters(undef) does not flatten the request parameters with undef + test
• 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
• Fix all of'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

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
  • Tests for this
• Change the $c->visit and $c->go methods to optionally take CaptureArgs, making them useful to call ActionChains with
  • Tests for this (radek)
• Fix invokeas_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
  • 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
• Move NEXT use and testing deprecated features out to its own test application so that the main TestApp isn't polluted with spurious warnings
• Add a warning for the old ::[MVC]:: style naming scheme
  • Test for this
• Kill Class::C3::Adopt::NEXT warnings for the Catalyst:: namespace in production versions
• Tidy up Catalyst::ClassData to ensure that all components get the correct metaclass
• Make MyApp.pm restartable by unsetting setup_finished in the restarter process
• Non-naive implementation of making mutable on restart using B::Hooks::OP::Check::StashChange if installed
  • Tests for this
• Naive implementation of making all components mutable in the forked restart watcher process so native Moose apps using immutable restart correctly.
  • Tests for this
• 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
• Clarify that request arguments aren't unescaped automatically (Simon Bertrang) (Closes RT#41153)
• Don't require C3 for the MRO test
• Bump MX::Emulate::CAF prereq to support list assignment
• Remove useless column in chained action debug table.
• namespace::clean related cleanups
• Import related cleanups and consistency fixes
• Fix test suite TestApp /dump/env action
• Add $res->code as alias for $res->status
• Make Catalyst::ClassData compatible with the latest Class::MOP::Class changes. Also depend on the latest Class::MOP.
• Add $c->uri_for_action method.
• Don't stringify the meta method. Use its name instead.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
  • Tests for this
• Use of deprecated Catalyst::Base now warns.
• Add uri_with tests

5.8000_06 2009-02-04 21:00

• Disallow writing to config after setup
• Disallow calling setup more than once
• Documentation fix regarding overloading of Engine and Dispatcher instances
• Several documentation typo fixes
• Stop Makefile.PL from warning about versions that fixed a conflict
• Improved upgrading documentation
• Seed the RNG in each FastCGI child process (Andrew Rodland)
• Properly report dynamic bind port for the development server (Closes RT#38544)
• Use the way documented by IO::Socket::INET to get the error message after trying to create a listening socket (Closes RT#41828)
• Don't ignore SIGCHLD while handling requests with the dev server (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 <cub.uanic@gmail.com>
• 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.
• 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
• Fix request argumentss getting corrupted if you override the dispatcher and call an action which detaches (for Catalyst::Plugin::Authorization::ACL)
• Fix calling use Catalyst::Test 'MyApp' 'foo' which used to work, but stopped as the 2nd parameter can be an options hash now
• Bump Moose dependency to fix make_immutable bug
• Use compile time extends in Catalyst::Controller
• Make Catalyst::Request::uploads attribute non-lazy, to fix test for Catalyst-Engine-Apache
• Bump version of MooseX::Emulate::Class::Accessor::Fast
• 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
• Replace {_body} instance access with calls to body accessors
• 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
• Fix return value of $c->req->body, which delegates to the body method on the requests HTTP::Body instance
  • Test for this
• Fix calling $c->req->body from inside an overridden prepareaction method in a plugin, as used by Catalyst::Plugin::Server
  • Test for this
• 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.
  • Tests for this
• Change streaming test to serve itself rather than 01use.t, making test sync for engines easier
• Refactor capturing of $app from Catalyst::Controller into Catalyst::Component::ApplicationAttribute for easier reuse in other components
• Make the test suites YAML dependency optional
• Make debug output show class name for the engine and dispatcher rather than the stringified ref.
• 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
  • Test for this and method modifiers in MyApp
• Fix bug causing Catalyst::Request::Upload's basename method to return undef
  • 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
  • Test for this
• Bump MooseX::Emulate::Class::Accessor::Fast dependency to force new version which fixes a lot of plugins
• Make log levels additive, and add documentation and tests for the setup_log method, which previously had none. Sewn together by 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
• Add a clearer method on request and response _context attributes, and use if from ::Engine rather than deleting the key from the instance hash
• Use handles on tree attribute of Catalyst::Stats to replace trivial delegation methods
• Change the following direct hash accesses into attributes: Catalyst::Engine: preparedwrite Catalyst::Engine::CGI: headerbuf Catalyst::Engine::HTTP: options, _keepalive, writeerror Catalyst::Request: path Catalyst::Stats: tree
• 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
  • Add test for this
• Add test case for the bug which is causing the Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication tests to fail
• Fix a bug in urifor which could cause it to generate paths with multiple slashes in them.
  • Add test for this
• Fix SKIP block name in t/optional_http-server-restart.t, stopping 'Label not found for "last SKIP"' error from Test::More
• Workaround max_redirect 0 bug in LWP
• Move live_engine_response_print into aggregate
• Fix dependency bug, s/parent/base/ in new test
• Fix optional tests to run the live tests in the aggregate dir
• Fix Catalyst->go error in remote tests
• Fix upload test to work with remote servers, don't check for deleted files
• Fix engine_request_uri tests to work on remote server with different URI

5.8000_04 2008-12-05 12:15:00

• Silence Class::C3::Adopt::NEXT warnings in the test suite
• Fix loads of 'used once, possible typo' warnings
• Additional tests to ensure upload temp files are deleted
• Remove use of NEXT from the test suite, except for one case which tests if Class::C3::Adopt::NEXT is working
• 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
  • 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
    • Test for this
• Make hostname resolution lazy (Marc Mims)
• Support mocking virtualhosts in test suite (Jason Gottshall)
• Add README
• Fix TODO list
• Use Class::C3::Adopt::NEXT
• Ignore C3 warnings on 5.10 when testing ensure_class_loaded
• Add TODO test for chained bug (gbjk)
• Fix list address in documentation (zarquon)
• Fix ACCEPT_CONTEXT on MyApp, called as a class method
  • Test for this
• Bump MooseX::Emulate::Class::Accessor::Fast version requirement to get more back compatibility
• 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
• Fix POD typo in finalize_error (jhannah)
• Add tests to ensure that we delete the temp files created by HTTP::Body's OctetStream parser

5.8000_03 2008-10-14 14:13:00

• Fix forwarding to Catalyst::Action objects.
• Fix links to the mailing lists (RT #39754 and Florian Ragwitz).
• Use Class::MOP instead of Class::Inspector.
• Change Catalyst::Test to use Sub::Exporter.
• 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
• Optionally aggregate tests using Test::Aggregate.
• Additional docs for uri_for to mention how to use $c->action and $c->req->captures (jhannah)
• List unattached chained actions in Debug mode.
• 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
• 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

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
• Fix Chained multiple test

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 registerplugin 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 currentview
• 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 nonarray 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 shortcircuiting.
  • 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 myappfastcgi.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.

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 <robert@rlb3.com>
• 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 <andy@hybridized.org>
• 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 <A.Ford@ford-mason.co.uk>)

4.27 2005-03-19 01:00:00

• debug message for parameters
• Fix redirects (Christian Hansen <ch@ngmedia.com>)
• 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