3 Changes - public release history for Data::Dumper
9 =item 2.167_02 (Aug 4 2017)
11 Attempt to work around XS deparse issues on old perls.
12 According to the few old perls at my disposure, this now repairs,
13 for example 5.18, but 5.8.9 still barfs. My debugging hasn't
14 really come up with much since all changes other than the deparse
15 change look benign to me.
16 Can someone who uses ancient perls please step up and take a look?
19 =item 2.167_01 (Jul 31 2017)
21 CPAN dev release with the accumulated changes from core perl.
23 =item 2.166 (Nov 29 2016)
25 Reduce memory usage by not importing from Carp
26 Reduce memory usage by removing unused overload require.
28 =item 2.165 (Nov 20 2016)
30 Remove impediment to compiling under C++11.
32 =item 2.164 (Nov 12 2016)
34 The XS implementation now handles the C<Deparse> option, so using it no
35 longer forces use of the pure-Perl version.
37 =item 2.161 (Jul 11 2016)
39 Perl 5.12 fix/workaround until fixed PPPort release.
41 Pre-5.12 fixes for test dependency.
43 =item 2.160 (Jul 3 2016)
45 Now handles huge inputs on 64bit perls.
47 Add Trailingcomma option. This is as suggested in RT#126813.
49 Significant refactoring of XS implementation.
51 Pure Perl implementation fixes in corner cases ("\n" dumped raw").
53 =item 2.154 (Sep 18 2014)
55 Most notably, this release fixes CVE-2014-4330:
57 Don't recurse infinitely in Data::Dumper
59 Add a configuration variable/option to limit recursion when dumping
62 This patch addresses CVE-2014-4330. This bug was found and
63 reported by: LSE Leading Security Experts GmbH employee Markus
66 On top of that, there are several minor big fixes and improvements,
67 see "git log" if the core perl distribution for details.
69 =item 2.151 (Mar 7 2014)
71 A "useqq" implementation for the XS version of Data::Dumper.
73 Better compatibility wrt. hash key quoting between PP and XS
74 versions of Data::Dumper.
78 64bit safety fixes (for very large arrays).
80 Build fixes for threaded perls.
84 Warning fixes in tests on older perls.
86 Typo fixes in documentation.
88 =item 2.145 (Mar 15 2013)
90 Test refactoring and fixing wide and far.
92 Various old-perl compat fixes.
94 =item 2.143 (Feb 26 2013)
96 Address vstring related test failures on 5.8: Skip tests for
99 Major improvements to test coverage and significant refactoring.
101 Make Data::Dumper XS ignore Freezer return value. Fixes RT #116364.
103 Change call of isALNUM to equivalent but more clearly named isWORDCHAR
105 =item 2.139 (Dec 12 2012)
107 Supply an explicit dynamic_config => 0 in META
109 Properly list BUILD_REQUIRES prereqs (P5-RT#116028)
111 Some optimizations. Removed useless "register" declarations.
113 =item 2.136 (Oct 04 2012)
115 Promote to stable release.
117 Drop some "register" declarations.
119 =item 2.135_07 (Aug 06 2012)
121 Use the new utf8 to code point functions - fixing a potential
122 reading buffer overrun.
124 Data::Dumper: Sparseseen option to avoid building much of the seen
125 hash: This has been measured to, in some cases, provide a 50% speed-up
127 Dumper.xs: Avoid scan_vstring on 5.17.3 and up
129 Avoid a warning from clang when compiling Data::Dumper
131 Fix DD's dumping of qr|\/|
133 Data::Dumper's Perl implementation was not working with overloaded
134 blessed globs, which it thought were strings.
136 Allow Data::Dumper to load on miniperl
138 =item 2.135_02 (Dec 29 2011)
140 Makes DD dump *{''} properly.
142 [perl #101162] DD support for vstrings:
143 Support for vstrings to Data::Dumper, in both Perl and XS
146 =item 2.135_01 (Dec 19 2011)
148 Make Data::Dumper UTF8- and null-clean with GVs.
150 In Dumper.xs, use sv_newmortal() instead of sv_mortalcopy(&PL_sv_undef)
153 Suppress compiler warning
155 Keep verbatim pod in Data::Dumper within 80 cols
157 =item 2.131 (May 27 2011)
159 Essentially the same as version 2.130_02, but a production release.
161 =item 2.130_03 (May 20 2011)
163 Essentially the same as version 2.130_02, but a CPAN release
164 for the eventual 2.131.
168 This was only shipped with the perl core, never released to CPAN.
170 Convert overload.t to Test::More
172 Fix some spelling errors
174 Fix some compiler warnings
176 Fix an out of bounds write in Data-Dumper with malformed utf8 input
178 =item 2.130 (Nov 20 2010)
180 C<Dumpxs> can now handle malformed UTF-8.
182 =item 2.129 (Oct 20 2010)
184 C<Dumpxs> no longer crashes with globs returned by C<*$io_ref>
187 =item 2.128 (Sep 10 2010)
189 Promote previous release to stable version with the correct version.
191 =item 2.127 (Sep 10 2010)
193 Promote previous release to stable version.
195 =item 2.126_01 (Sep 6 2010)
197 Port core perl changes e3ec2293dc, fe642606b19.
198 Fixes core perl RT #74170 (handle the stack changing in the
199 custom sort functions) and adds a test.
201 =item 2.126 (Apr 15 2010)
203 Fix Data::Dumper's Fix Terse(1) + Indent(2):
204 perl-RT #73604: When $Data::Dumper::Terse is true, the indentation is thrown
205 off. It appears to be acting as if the $VAR1 = is still there.
207 =item 2.125 (Aug 8 2009)
209 CPAN distribution fixes (meta information for META.yml).
211 =item 2.124 (Jun 13 2009)
213 Add three missing test files.
215 =item 2.123 (Jun 11 2009)
217 Re-add the INSTALLDIRS => 'perl' directive to Makefile.PL
220 =item 2.122 (Jun 9 2009)
222 Promote previous developer release to stable release.
224 =item 2.121_20 (Jun 6 2009)
226 A host of bug fixes and improvements that have
227 accumulated in the perl core
229 Updated backport to 5.6.1 by Steffen Mueller <smueller@cpan.org>.
231 =item 2.121 (Aug 24 2003)
233 Backport to 5.6.1 by Ilya Martynov <ilya@martynov.org>.
235 =item 2.11 (unreleased)
237 C<0> is now dumped as such, not as C<'0'>.
239 qr// objects are now dumped correctly (provided a post-5.005_58)
242 Implemented $Data::Dumper::Maxdepth, which was on the Todo list.
243 Thanks to John Nolan <jpnolan@Op.Net>.
245 =item 2.101 (30 Apr 1999)
247 Minor release to sync with version in 5.005_03. Fixes dump of
250 =item 2.10 (31 Oct 1998)
252 Bugfixes for dumping related undef values, globs, and better double
253 quoting: three patches suggested by Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>.
255 Escaping of single quotes in the XS version could get tripped up
256 by the presence of nulls in the string. Fix suggested by
257 Slaven Rezic <eserte@cs.tu-berlin.de>.
259 Rather large scale reworking of the logic in how seen values
260 are stashed. Anonymous scalars that may be encountered while
261 traversing the structure are properly tracked, in case they become
262 used in data dumped in a later pass. There used to be a problem
263 with the previous logic that prevented such structures from being
266 Various additions to the testsuite.
268 =item 2.09 (9 July 1998)
270 Implement $Data::Dumper::Bless, suggested by Mark Daku <daku@nortel.ca>.
272 =item 2.081 (15 January 1998)
274 Minor release to fix Makefile.PL not accepting MakeMaker args.
276 =item 2.08 (7 December 1997)
278 Glob dumps don't output superflous 'undef' anymore.
280 Fixes from Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no> to make Dumper() work with
281 overloaded strings in recent perls, and his new testsuite.
285 A separate flag to always quote hash keys (on by default).
287 Recreating known CODE refs is now better supported.
289 Changed flawed constant SCALAR bless workaround.
291 =item 2.07 (7 December 1996)
293 Dumpxs output is now exactly the same as Dump. It still doesn't
294 honor C<Useqq> though.
296 Regression tests test for identical output and C<eval>-ability.
298 Bug in *GLOB{THING} output fixed.
300 Other small enhancements.
302 =item 2.06 (2 December 1996)
304 Bugfix that was serious enough for new release--the bug cripples
305 MLDBM. Problem was "Attempt to modify readonly value..." failures
306 that stemmed for a misguided SvPV_force() instead of a SvPV().)
308 =item 2.05 (2 December 1996)
310 Fixed the type mismatch that was causing Dumpxs test to fail
313 GLOB elements are dumped now when C<Purity> is set (using the
314 *GLOB{THING} syntax).
316 The C<Freezer> option can be set to a method name to call
317 before probing objects for dumping. Some applications: objects with
318 external data, can re-bless themselves into a transitional package;
319 Objects the maintain ephemeral state (like open files) can put
320 additional information in the object to facilitate persistence.
322 The corresponding C<Toaster> option, if set, specifies
323 the method call that will revive the frozen object.
325 The C<Deepcopy> flag has been added to do just that.
327 Dumper does more aggressive cataloging of SCALARs encountered
328 within ARRAY/HASH structures. Thanks to Norman Gaywood
329 <norm@godel.une.edu.au> for reporting the problem.
331 Objects that C<overload> the '""' operator are now handled
332 properly by the C<Dump> method.
334 Significant additions to the testsuite.
338 =item 2.04beta (28 August 1996)
340 Made dump of glob names respect C<Useqq> setting.
342 [@$%] are now escaped now when in double quotes.
344 =item 2.03beta (26 August 1996)
346 Fixed Dumpxs. It was appending trailing nulls to globnames.
347 (reported by Randal Schwartz <merlyn@teleport.com>).
349 Calling the C<Indent()> method on a dumper object now correctly
350 resets the internal separator (reported by Curt Tilmes
351 <curt@ltpmail.gsfc.nasa.gov>).
353 New C<Terse> option to suppress the 'C<VARI<n> = >' prefix
354 introduced. If the option is set, they are output only when
355 absolutely essential.
357 The C<Useqq> flag is supported (but not by the XSUB version
360 Embedded nulls in keys are now handled properly by Dumpxs.
362 Dumper.xs now use various integer types in perl.h (should
363 make it compile without noises on 64 bit platforms, although
364 I haven't been able to test this).
366 All the dump methods now return a list of strings in a list
370 =item 2.02beta (13 April 1996)
372 Non portable sprintf usage in XS code fixed (thanks to
373 Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>).
376 =item 2.01beta (10 April 1996)
378 Minor bugfix (single digit numbers were always getting quoted).
381 =item 2.00beta (9 April 1996)
383 C<Dumpxs> is now the exact XSUB equivalent of C<Dump>. The XS version
388 MLDBM example removed (as its own module, it has a separate CPAN
391 Fixed bugs in handling keys with wierd characters. Perl can be
392 tripped up in its implicit quoting of the word before '=>'. The
393 fix: C<Data::Dumper::Purity>, when set, always triggers quotes
396 Andreas Koenig <k@anna.in-berlin.de> pointed out that handling octals
397 is busted. His patch added.
399 Dead code removed, other minor documentation fixes.
402 =item 1.23 (3 Dec 1995)
406 Several folks pointed out that quoting of ticks and backslashes
407 in strings is missing. Added.
409 Ian Phillipps <ian@pipex.net> pointed out that numerics may lose
410 precision without quotes. Fixed.
413 =item 1.21 (20 Nov 1995)
415 Last stable version I can remember.