This release has a number of important improvements and it is highly recommended that anyone use Mason 1.10 or 1.11 upgrade immediately in order to fix a nasty memory leak in ApacheHandler. 1.12 is also quite a bit faster than previous 1.1x versions.
Those folks still using 1.0x or earlier should upgrade if they want to play with new features, but should not that there are a number of backwards incompatibilities in the newest versions, so if you have working code in production that you don't want to change, don't upgrade! With that said, here are the changes for 1.12: 1.12 [ ENHANCEMENTS ] - Various optimizations have been added to this release in order to address the fact that Mason 1.11 is quite a bit slower than 1.05. One major factor was optimizing Params::Validate and Class::Container, so for that reason this version of Mason requires Params::Validate 0.24 and Class::Container 0.07. With these modules installed, this release shows improvements of up to 50-60% in benchmarks that stress Mason's weaknesses, with other benchmarks showing up to a 100% improvement. - Made subclassing CGIHandler more useful by breaking out its arg processing into a request_args method, just like ApacheHandler. - Added alter_superclass method to Request class, for use by Request subclasses. See the HTML::Mason::Subclassing document for details. [ BUG FIXES ] - Fix HTML generated for error messages so that tags balance out. Unbalanced table tags caused this page to not display properly with Netscape 4.x. - Fix nasty memory leaks in ApacheHandler.
