Revision history for Parse-MediaWikiDump

1.0.6 Dec 04, 2010

• Fix for bug #58196 - error "not a MediaWiki link dunp file" due to absence of 'LOCK TABLES ...' line in link dump file?
• Added option to pass input to ::Pages constructor via named parameters so that MediaWiki::DumpFile::Compat and ::Pages share the same API
• Software is nearly retired, only need more testing on MediaWiki::DumpFile::Compat; Please begin using MediaWiki::DumpFile::Compat instead of this package and report problems if you encounter them.

1.0.5 Apr 21, 2010

• Updated docs pointing people to MediaWiki::DumpFile::Compat

1.0.4 Jan 04, 2010

• Fixed bug #53361: Incorrectly assigned usernames with anon edits
• Added support for getting access to IP of anonymous edits

1.0.3 Nov 21, 2009

• Fixed bug #51607 "Build failed CPAN smoke test for for i686pc solaris" by specifying minimum version numbers for all dependencies in Makefile.PL.

1.0.2 Nov 15, 2009

• Fixed bug #51461 "Warnings During Build" - now the test process squelches the harmless warning from Test::Memory::Cycle.

1.0.1 Nov 11, 2009

• CPAN indexer did not like previous version number

1.0.0 Nov 11, 2009

• Stable status achieved
• Slight speed tweak on character handler for XML parser
• Added dependency on Devel::Cycle 1.11 as 1.10 causes a false positive to be thrown on the memory leak test

0.98 Oct 28, 2009

• Bumped processing speed back up
• Fixed possible infinite loop scenario
• Ordered tests
• Added test to find circular references

0.97 Oct 23, 2009

• Fixed all known memory leaks
• No more Object::Destroyer
• Cleaned out some old cruft

0.96 Oct 22, 2009

• Allowed parsing of 0.4 version XML dump files but not support for new features
• Added in a method to retrieve the version number of the XML dump file

0.95 Oct 14, 2009

• Found and removed a circular reference but it did not stop the memory leak
• Fixed bug 50092 - some times $page->text would return a reference to an undefined value
• Implemented support for compressed file GLOB objects per bug 50241

0.94 Sep 28, 2009

• Fix bug 49979 - "redirect in newer Wikipedia dumps" by allowing unknown tag names to exist

0.93 Sep 15, 2009

• Made ::Pages a subclass of ::Revisions
• Discovered a bug regression: ::Pages and ::Revisions leak memory/are not properly garbage collected

0.92 Apr 15, 2009

• Completed documentation for all modules
• Added test for backwards compatibility to the pre-factory Parse::MediaWikiDump interface

0.91 May 13, 2009

• Updated documentation to more explicitly list what kind of dump files each parser object can deal with.
• Added dependency on perl 5.8.8 for :utf8 compatibility.
• Split up lib/ into multiple files.
• Fix for bug #46054 - using categories method of Parse::MediaWikiDump::page object causes script to crash.

0.90 May 07, 2009

• Implemented new parsing engine and called it Parse::MediaWikiDump::Revisions. Soon it will be replacing Parse::MediaWikiDump::Pages as a base engine. It is fully backwards compatible so please feel free to test it in your existing utilities and report success and failure to the author.
• Moved namespace logic into Parse::MediaWikiDump::page and updated Parse::MediaWikiDump::Pages to support it.

0.51 May 31, 2008

• Fix for bug 36255 "Parse::MediaWikiDump::page::namespace may return a string which is not really a namespace" provided by Amir E. Aharoni.
• Moved test data into t/ and moved speed_test.pl into examples/
• Exceedingly complicated functions (parse_head() and parse_page()) are not funny. Added some comments on how to rectify that situation.
• Tightened up the tests a little bit.

0.50 Jun 27, 2006

• Added category links parser.
• Removed all instances of shift() from the code.

0.40 Jun 21, 2006

• Increased processing speed by around 40%! Thank you Andrew Rodland.

0.33 Jun 18, 2006

• Added current_byte and size methods to page dumper.

0.32 Feb 25, 2006

• Added a line to create a package named Parse::MediaWikiDump so the module will get listed on CPAN search and the cpan command line tool.

0.31 Jan 10, 2006

• Fix bug 16981 - Parse::MediaWikiDump::page->redirect does not work with redirects that have a : in them.
• Fix bug 16981 part two: title with a non-breaking space in it would come through as undefined.

0.30 December 23, 2005

• the Pages and Links class now both use a method named next() to get the next record. The old link() and page() methods are retained for now but should be migrated away from as soon as is convenient.
• Added list of dump files that this module can process to the README file.

0.24 December 19, 2005

• Fixed bug #16616 - the category method only works properly on English language dump files.

0.23 December 19, 2005

• Fixed email address for author.
• Fixed omission of namespace method for pages objects in the documentation.
• Added limitations section to README.
• Fixed http://rt.cpan.org bug #16583 - Module dies when parsing the 20051211 German Wikipedia dump.
• Added some comments to the source code.

0.22 September 15, 2005

• Created some new and more comprehensive examples.
• Parse::MediaWikiDump::Pages now dies with a specific error if it is asked to parse a comprehensive (full pages) dump file.
• Updated Parse::MediaWikiDump::Links to new dump file format.
• Added tests for Parse::MediaWikiDump::Links.
• Solved a bug: Expat's current_byte method returns a 32 bit signed integer and the english Wikipedia dumps cause the number to wrap; implemented a work around for this.

0.21 September 10, 2005

• Improve testing of Parse::MediaWikiDump::Pages
• Fix silly bug related to opening file handle references
• Found new bug: The links dump format has been changed and the existing code can not parse the new format
• Found new bug: comprehensive dump files like 20050909_pages_full.xml.gz cause the stack to grow too large and the module to abort early.

0.2 September 9, 2005

• Add tests and test data

0.1 September 6, 2005

• First version, released on an unsuspecting world.