Revision history for Perl extension Geo::IP. 1.39 May 7th 2011

• Upd Docs ( Boris Zentner )
• Add glue for the CAPI lib_version method ( Boris Zentner )
• Add CAPI glue for the methods enable_teredo and teredo. currently only avail in conjunction with the CAPI ( Boris Zentner )
• Add example/benchmark.pl and example/country_v6.pl ( Boris Zentner )
• Add name_by_name and name_by_addr ( Boris Zentner )
• Add org_by_name_v6 and org_by_addr_v6 only XS ( Boris Zentner )
• Add name_by_ipnum_v6, name_by_name_v6 and name_by_addr_v6 XS glue ( Boris Zentner )
• Add sub Geo::IP::CLONE_SKIP {1} in conjunction with .xs Avoid thread issues ( Boris Zentner )
• Export GEOIP_DOMAIN_EDITION by default ( Boris Zentner )
• Update region codes 20100810 ( Boris Zentner )
• Fix some PP 3letter country codes ( Boris Zentner )
• Fix PP continent codes ( Boris Zentner )
• Add PP continent_code_by_country_code ( Boris Zentner )
• Add PP Geo::IP->time_zone ( Boris Zentner )
• Update region codes 20100420 ( Boris Zentner )
• Link at least to CAPI 1.4.7 ( Boris Zentner )
• Add example/geolite-mirror-simple.pl to download maxmind databases ( Boris Zentner )
• Update region codes ( Boris Zentner )
• Update timezones ( Boris Zentner )
• Add isp_by_name and isp_by_addr if the CAPI is used ( Boris Zentner )
• Add isp_by_addr and org_by_addr to the PurePerl API ( Boris Zentner )
• Add api method, so users know if they use the PurePerl or CAPI glue print Geo::IP->api ( Boris Zentner )
• Silence redefined warning, when perl is started with -w and the PurePerl API is used ( Boris Zentner )
• Export GEOIP_CITYCONFIDENCE_EDITION, GEOIP_LOCATIONA_EDITION, GEOIP_ACCURACYRADIUS_EDITION and GEOIP_COUNTRY_EDITION_V6 ( Boris Zentner )
• Add some more v6 XS glue. IPv6 support require the CAPI to work. GeoIP_country_code_by_addr_v6 GeoIP_country_code_by_name_v6 GeoIP_country_code3_by_addr_v6 GeoIP_country_code3_by_name_v6 ( Boris Zentner ) ! Change RU's continent code from AS to EU ( Boris Zentner ) ! Change Turkey's continent code from AS to EU ( Boris Zentner ) ! org_by_* and friends return UTF8 scalars, if the charset is set to GEOIP_CHARSET_UTF8 ( Boris Zentner )
• Add PP ASNum support ( Boris Zentner )
• Add XS glue for time_zone and continent_code_by_country_code ( Boris Zentner )
• Add glue for database_edition ( Boris Zentner )
• Workaround centos/mod_perl issue when the PP fallback is used and Sys::Mmap is not installed ( Boris Zentner )
• Update PurePerl region names 20090723 ( Boris Zentner )
• Add XS glue for GeoIP_country_code_by_ipnum_v6 ( Boris Zentner ) 1.38 May 16th 2009
• PurePerl region_by_addr and region_by_name return '00' for unknown regions, like the CAPI does ( Boris Zentner )
• Update to latest FIPS codes from 20090401 ( Boris Zentner )
• Fix Pureperl handling of GEOIP_REGION_EDITION_REV0 ( Boris Zentner )
• Fix segfault when undef is supplied as filename to open ( Boris Zentner )
• Fix PP GEOIP_ISP_EDITION handling ( Boris Zentner )
• Add PP support for GEOIP_DOMAIN_EDITION ( Boris Zentner )
• Handle database types in the same way, as the CAPI does ( Boris Zentner )
• Remove Australia double timezones entries. ( Boris Zentner ) 1.37 March 6th 2009
• Document region_by_addr and region_by_name ( Boris Zentner )
• region_by_addr and region_by_name return undef for unknown countries and regions. Instead of "\0" and '000' ( Boris Zentner )
• Add PP function region_by_addr ( Boris Zentner )
• Change the default values of Geo::IP::Record fields for metro_code and area_code to 0 instead of '' PurePerl only ( Boris Zentner )
• Change the default values of Geo::IP::Record fields for region, postal_code and region_name to undef instead of '' ( Boris Zentner )
• Force the output of Geo::IP::Record::longitude and ::latitude to four decimal places ( Boris Zentner )
• Fix PurePerl three letter code for Romania ( Boris Zentner )
• Update PurePerl regionnames 20090201 ( Boris Zentner )
• Update PurePerl timezones 20090201 ( Boris Zentner )
• Update timezones for Australia ! Fix: PurePerl's get_city_record_as_hash, record_by_addr and record_by_name to return undef for private and unknown IP's. Former we returned a Geo::IP::Record object with everything undef. The PurePerl code and the CAPI wrapper are now behave the same. ( Boris Zentner )
• Update region codes from http://www.maxmind.com/app/fips10_4 Dec 17th, 2008 ( Boris Zentner ) 1.36 December 20th 2008
• Add the methods charset and set_charset to the pureperl fallback ( Boris Zentner )
• Fix: We require CAPI 1.4.5 not 1.4.4 for range_by_ip ( Boris Zentner )
• Add isp_by_addr and org_by_addr to the pureperl fallback ( Boris Zentner ) 1.35 September 29th 2008
• Add GEOIP_DOMAIN_EDITION for the PurePerl ( Boris Zentner )
• Add open_type method to the PurePerl fallback ( Boris Zentner )
• Add CAPI Version detection, for the case, where a outdated CAPI is installed. ( Boris Zentner )
• Add metro_code, a replacement for the depreciated dma_code method. ( Boris Zentner )
• Add range_by_ip, netmask and last_netmask to the PurePerl API ( Boris Zentner )
• Add range_by_ip to the C API wrapper ( Boris Zentner ) 1.34 August 4th 2008
• Add Geo::IP::Record::region_name to the PurePerl API ( Boris Zentner )
• Add missing record_by_name function to the PurePerl API ( Boris Zentner )
• Add missing country/country code 'Other' for the pureperl fallback ( Boris Zentner )
• Fix trash of $ in Geo::Mirror ( Boris Zentner )
• Geo::Mirror die, if open failed ( Boris Zentner )
• Fix pureperl timezone for countries with region codes, but only one time_zone ( Boris Zentner ).
• Add continent_code to the pureperl and C API ( Boris Zentner )
• minimum perl version is 5.6 now ( Boris Zentner ) 1.33 May 5th 2008
• make cpantesters happy exit 0 early, if libGeoIP is not found. ( Boris Zentner ) 1.32 May 4th 2008
• make Geo::IP::Record::time_zone work for the pure perl part of Geo::IP ( Boris Zentner )
• BEGIN{$Geo::IP::GEOIP_PP_ONLY=1} use Geo::IP; disable the C API, even if it is installed. ( Boris Zentner ) ! rename $Geo::IP::TESTING_PERL_ONLY to $Geo::IP::GEOIP_PP_ONLY. ( Boris Zentner )
• Fix Geo::IP::Record to use the C API, only, when Geo::IP use it ( Boris Zentner )

1.31 March 22nd 2008

• Added BL/Saint Barthelemy, MF/Saint Martin (ISO-3166-1 additions)
• Change default database name for NetWare to sys:/etc/GeoIP/GeoIP.dat

  and MSWin32 to c:/GeoIP/GeoIP.dat ( Guenter Knauf )

• Added support for time_zone lookup in GeoIP City API

1.30 December 16th 2007

• Add GEOIP_MMAP_CACHE support ( Peter Shipley )
• Added last_netmask - gets netmask of network block from last lookup
• Merged in Geo::IP::PurePerl code, PurePerl code is mostly

  API compatible with XS code, except for charset functions ! Added set_charset - enables UTF8 output of city name - requires C API 1.4.3 or greater

1.28 July 4th 2007

• Added support for region name lookup in GeoIP City API
• Fixed database_info method (Ken Neighbors)

1.27 September 8th 2005

• Fixed Autoloader/open issue (Alexander Vasiljev)
• Fixed compilation error in Perl 5.005 with semicolon

  in GeoIP_database_info in IP.xs (Stephen Schulte)

• Added support for open_type (Frank Mather)

1.26 May 19th 2005

• Fixed segfault issue if non-resolvable domain name is passed to region_by_addr or region_by_name
• Added support for GEOIP_INDEX_CACHE - which just caches the most frequently accessed index portion of the database, resulting in faster lookups than GEOIP_STANDARD, but less memory usage than GEOIP_MEMORY_CACHE

1.25 December 24th 2004

• Added database_info method (Frank Mather)
• Added example/netspeed.pl to MANIFEST

1.24 November 30th 2004

• Fixed memory leak in ISP/Organization database lookups

  by adding O_CHAR to typemap

1.23 October 6th 2004

• Updated test case, removed www.bundesregierung.de
• Geo::Mirror: fallback to using Geo::IP::PurePerl if Geo::IP is not available

  (Graham Barr)

• Geo::Mirror: added support for mirror freshness

1.22 July 29th 2004

• Added support for Netspeed
• Fixed IP address in examples

1.21 July 28th 2003

• Added support for GEOIP_CHECK_CACHE

1.20 June 6th 2003

• Added support for GeoIP City Format Rev 1, DMA Codes and area codes

1.15 March 4th 2003

• Added support for GeoIP Organization and ISP databases

1.14 February 19th 2003

• Added support for GeoIP Region Edition

1.13 December 24th 2002

• Added float to typemap, required to compile for Perl < 5.8

1.12 December 11th 2002

• Added support for postal codes
• Removed non-portable asprintf code

1.11 November 22nd 2002

• Forget to include typemap and INSTALL in MANIFEST

1.10 November 22nd 2002

• Added support for GeoIP City Edition
• Added more documentation on where to get databases, and sourceforge.

0.26 July 25th 2002

      Geo::IP
        - Made flags optional to new and open
        - Removed www.moinfo.gov.kw from test, domain no longer resolves.

0.20 June 25th 2002

      Geo::IP
        - Brought up to date with latest changes for GeoIP C 0.2.0

0.11 April 27th 2002

      Geo::IP
        - install process works for non-standard GeoIP C library installs

0.10 April 21st 2002

      Geo::IP
        - Fixed DESTROY (Brian Grossman)
      Geo::Mirror
        - Set PI to more accurate value (Mike Mitchell)

0.09 April 8th 2002

      Geo::Mirror
        - Fixed bug when no database file specified.
        - Fixed bug in t/3_mirror.t test script

0.08 April 7th 2002

      Geo::IP
        - This perl module is now a XS wrapper around the GeoIP C library
          for improved performance.  Note that the API has changed.
        - Removed the geoip-lookup script, since GeoIP C contains a
          geoiplookup executable that provides the same functionality

0.07 April 1st 2002

      Geo::IP
        - Removed dependency on Berkeley DB - requires new
        Geo-IP data format.

0.06 February 19th 2002

      Geo::IP
        - Added new method, lookup_country_by_name,
            performs DNS lookup of IP address for hostnames
        - added O_RDWR option to tie DB_File for
            compatibility (Allen Smith)
        - makes directory '/usr/local/geoip' (Philip Mak)
        - added binmode for compatibility (Randy Kobes)

      Geo::Mirror
        - Mirror when doesn't find country, default to US
        - Special handing for "EU" (European Union)
            treat as country with coordinates between
            Germany and Italy.

0.05 February 15th 2002

• Added new option to Geo::Mirror->new, database_file
• Fixed test problem with t/3_mirror.t
• Added error handling to Makefile.PL for database download

0.04 February 15th 2002

• Added new module, Geo::Mirror
• Added new default file location for database in /usr/local/geoip/Geo-IP.db
• Installation easier, Makefile.PL downloads and extracts database file
• Added geolookup script
• Removed old Net::Geography wrapper

0.03 July 28th 2001

• Geo::IP now generates Berkeley DB file from

  data file, to get around differing versions of Berkeley DB.

• now croaks if db file can not be opened (Nick Craig-Wood)

0.02 July 11th 2001

• renamed to Geo::IP from Net::Geography
• revised docs
• data separated from perl distribution, can

  be downloaded from http://geo-ip.com

0.01 June 30th 2001

• original version; created by h2xs 1.19