Tremendous thanks and am looking forward to 5.9 :) --John Napiorkowski --- On Sat, 4/18/09, Tomas Doran <bobtf...@bobtfish.net> wrote:
> From: Tomas Doran <bobtf...@bobtfish.net> > Subject: [Catalyst] [ANNOUNCE] Catalyst Runtime 5.80001 > To: "The elegant MVC web framework" <catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk> > Date: Saturday, April 18, 2009, 4:28 PM > The Catalyst Core Team is proud to > announce that we've just shipped the next major release of > the Catalyst framework, version 5.8001. This release is the > result of the helpful contributions of a large number of > people, comprising documentation, new features, bug fixes > and entire branches of refactoring, and has taken over > twelve months work. > > Specifically this release would not have been possible > without the hard work put in by Guillermo Roditi and Scott > McWhirter for the initial port, and Florian Ragwitz on > method attributes, as well as their CPAN modules to support > this. Huge thanks to those guys, and also to everyone > providing patches for documentation, bug fixes, and new > features. > > The major focus of this release is refactoring, and porting > to Moose, which enables a lot of additional features, and > gives you, the user, a lot of additional power to use when > building your applications, and gives the Catalyst team a > lot of power for extending the framework. Current > applications will still run unmodified, but new code and > extensions can start to fully take advantage of Moose. > > A lot of (previously inadvisable) techniques have become > officially deprecated, producing warnings, and full > documentation is provided in the distribution to explain any > changes which may affect your applications or components. > Extensive smoke testing for backwards compatibility has > taken place as part of the release process, and we're > confident that we haven't broken anything which wasn't a > very bad idea in the first place :) > > The Runtime distributions will be on a CPAN mirror near you > before long, but until then you have the option of getting > them here: > > http://files.perldition.org/Catalyst-Runtime-5.80001.tar.gz > > A further explanation of all the changes can be found in > Catalyst::Delta (included below). > > Thank you for your attention, and for using our software. > t0m > > Full delta from 5.71: > > Deprecations: > > Please see Catalyst::Upgrading for a full > description of how changes in > the framework may affect your application. > > Below is a brief list of features which have > been deprecated in this > release: > > * ::[MVC]:: style naming scheme has been > deprecated and will warn > NEXT is deprecated for all applications and > components, use MRO::Compat > Dispatcher methods which are an > implementation detail made private, > public versions now warn. > > * MyApp->plugin method is deprecated, use > Catalyst::Model::Adaptor > instead. > > * __PACKAGE__->mk_accessors() is supported > for backward compatibility > only, use Moose attributes instead in new > code. > > * Use of Catalyst::Base now warns > > New features: > > Dispatcher - > * Fix forwarding to Catalyst::Action > objects. > * Add the dispatch_type method > > Restarter - > * The development server restarter has been > improved to be compatible with > immutable Moose classes, and also to > optionally use > B::Hooks::OP::Check::StashChange to > handle more complex application > layouts correctly. > > $c->uri_for_action - > Give a private path to the Catalyst action > you want to create a URI for. > > Logging - > Log levels have been made additive. > > Catalyst::Test - > * Change to use Sub::Exporter. > * Support mocking multiple virtual hosts > * New methods like action_ok and > action_redirect to write more compact > tests > > Catalyst::Response - > * New print method which > prints @data to the output stream, separated > by $,. This lets you pass the > response object to functions that want > to write to an IO::Handle. > * Added code method as an > alias for "$res->status" > > Consequences of the Moose back end: > > * Components > are fully compatible with Moose, and all Moose > features, such as > method modifiers, attributes, roles, BUILD and > BUILDARGS methods > are fully supported and may be used in > components and > applications. > > * Many > reusable extensions which would previously have been > plugins or base > classes are better implemented as Moose roles. > > > * MooseX::MethodAttributes::Inheritable is > used to contain action > attributes. This > means that attributes are represented in the > MOP, and > decouples action creation from attributes. > > * There is a > reasonable API in Catalyst::Controller for working > with and > registering actions, allowing a controller sub-class to > replace > subroutine attributes for action declarations with an > alternate > syntax. > > * Refactored > capturing of $app from Catalyst::Controller into > > Catalyst::Component::ApplicationAttribute for easier reuse > in > other > components. > > * Your > application class is forced to become immutable at the end > of compilation. > > Bug fixes: > > * Don't ignore > SIGCHLD while handling requests with the > development > server, so that system() and other ways of creating > child processes > work as expected. > > * Fixes for > FastCGI when used with IIS 6.0 > > * Fix a bug in > uri_for which could cause it to generate paths with > multiple slashes > in them. > > * Fix a bug in > Catalyst::Stats, stopping garbage being inserted > into the stats if > a user calls begin => but no end > > P.S. This release would also not have been possible without > the relentless list keeping, cat herding, dist smoking and > bug fixing done by t0m Doran, who is apparently too modest > to point it out > > P.P.S. mst made me add that.. > > _______________________________________________ > List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk > Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst > Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ > Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/ > _______________________________________________ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/