3 Changes - public release history for Data::Dumper
9 =item 2.151 (Mar 7 2014)
11 A "useqq" implementation for the XS version of Data::Dumper.
13 Better compatibility wrt. hash key quoting between PP and XS
14 versions of Data::Dumper.
18 64bit safety fixes (for very large arrays).
20 Build fixes for threaded perls.
24 Warning fixes in tests on older perls.
26 Typo fixes in documentation.
28 =item 2.145 (Mar 15 2013)
30 Test refactoring and fixing wide and far.
32 Various old-perl compat fixes.
34 =item 2.143 (Feb 26 2013)
36 Address vstring related test failures on 5.8: Skip tests for
39 Major improvements to test coverage and significant refactoring.
41 Make Data::Dumper XS ignore Freezer return value. Fixes RT #116364.
43 Change call of isALNUM to equivalent but more clearly named isWORDCHAR
45 =item 2.139 (Dec 12 2012)
47 Supply an explicit dynamic_config => 0 in META
49 Properly list BUILD_REQUIRES prereqs (P5-RT#116028)
51 Some optimizations. Removed useless "register" declarations.
53 =item 2.136 (Oct 04 2012)
55 Promote to stable release.
57 Drop some "register" declarations.
59 =item 2.135_07 (Aug 06 2012)
61 Use the new utf8 to code point functions - fixing a potential
62 reading buffer overrun.
64 Data::Dumper: Sparseseen option to avoid building much of the seen
65 hash: This has been measured to, in some cases, provide a 50% speed-up
67 Dumper.xs: Avoid scan_vstring on 5.17.3 and up
69 Avoid a warning from clang when compiling Data::Dumper
71 Fix DD's dumping of qr|\/|
73 Data::Dumper's Perl implementation was not working with overloaded
74 blessed globs, which it thought were strings.
76 Allow Data::Dumper to load on miniperl
78 =item 2.135_02 (Dec 29 2011)
80 Makes DD dump *{''} properly.
82 [perl #101162] DD support for vstrings:
83 Support for vstrings to Data::Dumper, in both Perl and XS
86 =item 2.135_01 (Dec 19 2011)
88 Make Data::Dumper UTF8- and null-clean with GVs.
90 In Dumper.xs, use sv_newmortal() instead of sv_mortalcopy(&PL_sv_undef)
93 Suppress compiler warning
95 Keep verbatim pod in Data::Dumper within 80 cols
97 =item 2.131 (May 27 2011)
99 Essentially the same as version 2.130_02, but a production release.
101 =item 2.130_03 (May 20 2011)
103 Essentially the same as version 2.130_02, but a CPAN release
104 for the eventual 2.131.
108 This was only shipped with the perl core, never released to CPAN.
110 Convert overload.t to Test::More
112 Fix some spelling errors
114 Fix some compiler warnings
116 Fix an out of bounds write in Data-Dumper with malformed utf8 input
118 =item 2.130 (Nov 20 2010)
120 C<Dumpxs> can now handle malformed UTF-8.
122 =item 2.129 (Oct 20 2010)
124 C<Dumpxs> no longer crashes with globs returned by C<*$io_ref>
127 =item 2.128 (Sep 10 2010)
129 Promote previous release to stable version with the correct version.
131 =item 2.127 (Sep 10 2010)
133 Promote previous release to stable version.
135 =item 2.126_01 (Sep 6 2010)
137 Port core perl changes e3ec2293dc, fe642606b19.
138 Fixes core perl RT #74170 (handle the stack changing in the
139 custom sort functions) and adds a test.
141 =item 2.126 (Apr 15 2010)
143 Fix Data::Dumper's Fix Terse(1) + Indent(2):
144 perl-RT #73604: When $Data::Dumper::Terse is true, the indentation is thrown
145 off. It appears to be acting as if the $VAR1 = is still there.
147 =item 2.125 (Aug 8 2009)
149 CPAN distribution fixes (meta information for META.yml).
151 =item 2.124 (Jun 13 2009)
153 Add three missing test files.
155 =item 2.123 (Jun 11 2009)
157 Re-add the INSTALLDIRS => 'perl' directive to Makefile.PL
160 =item 2.122 (Jun 9 2009)
162 Promote previous developer release to stable release.
164 =item 2.121_20 (Jun 6 2009)
166 A host of bug fixes and improvements that have
167 accumulated in the perl core
169 Updated backport to 5.6.1 by Steffen Mueller <smueller@cpan.org>.
171 =item 2.121 (Aug 24 2003)
173 Backport to 5.6.1 by Ilya Martynov <ilya@martynov.org>.
175 =item 2.11 (unreleased)
177 C<0> is now dumped as such, not as C<'0'>.
179 qr// objects are now dumped correctly (provided a post-5.005_58)
182 Implemented $Data::Dumper::Maxdepth, which was on the Todo list.
183 Thanks to John Nolan <jpnolan@Op.Net>.
185 =item 2.101 (30 Apr 1999)
187 Minor release to sync with version in 5.005_03. Fixes dump of
190 =item 2.10 (31 Oct 1998)
192 Bugfixes for dumping related undef values, globs, and better double
193 quoting: three patches suggested by Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>.
195 Escaping of single quotes in the XS version could get tripped up
196 by the presence of nulls in the string. Fix suggested by
197 Slaven Rezic <eserte@cs.tu-berlin.de>.
199 Rather large scale reworking of the logic in how seen values
200 are stashed. Anonymous scalars that may be encountered while
201 traversing the structure are properly tracked, in case they become
202 used in data dumped in a later pass. There used to be a problem
203 with the previous logic that prevented such structures from being
206 Various additions to the testsuite.
208 =item 2.09 (9 July 1998)
210 Implement $Data::Dumper::Bless, suggested by Mark Daku <daku@nortel.ca>.
212 =item 2.081 (15 January 1998)
214 Minor release to fix Makefile.PL not accepting MakeMaker args.
216 =item 2.08 (7 December 1997)
218 Glob dumps don't output superflous 'undef' anymore.
220 Fixes from Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no> to make Dumper() work with
221 overloaded strings in recent perls, and his new testsuite.
225 A separate flag to always quote hash keys (on by default).
227 Recreating known CODE refs is now better supported.
229 Changed flawed constant SCALAR bless workaround.
231 =item 2.07 (7 December 1996)
233 Dumpxs output is now exactly the same as Dump. It still doesn't
234 honor C<Useqq> though.
236 Regression tests test for identical output and C<eval>-ability.
238 Bug in *GLOB{THING} output fixed.
240 Other small enhancements.
242 =item 2.06 (2 December 1996)
244 Bugfix that was serious enough for new release--the bug cripples
245 MLDBM. Problem was "Attempt to modify readonly value..." failures
246 that stemmed for a misguided SvPV_force() instead of a SvPV().)
248 =item 2.05 (2 December 1996)
250 Fixed the type mismatch that was causing Dumpxs test to fail
253 GLOB elements are dumped now when C<Purity> is set (using the
254 *GLOB{THING} syntax).
256 The C<Freezer> option can be set to a method name to call
257 before probing objects for dumping. Some applications: objects with
258 external data, can re-bless themselves into a transitional package;
259 Objects the maintain ephemeral state (like open files) can put
260 additional information in the object to facilitate persistence.
262 The corresponding C<Toaster> option, if set, specifies
263 the method call that will revive the frozen object.
265 The C<Deepcopy> flag has been added to do just that.
267 Dumper does more aggressive cataloging of SCALARs encountered
268 within ARRAY/HASH structures. Thanks to Norman Gaywood
269 <norm@godel.une.edu.au> for reporting the problem.
271 Objects that C<overload> the '""' operator are now handled
272 properly by the C<Dump> method.
274 Significant additions to the testsuite.
278 =item 2.04beta (28 August 1996)
280 Made dump of glob names respect C<Useqq> setting.
282 [@$%] are now escaped now when in double quotes.
284 =item 2.03beta (26 August 1996)
286 Fixed Dumpxs. It was appending trailing nulls to globnames.
287 (reported by Randal Schwartz <merlyn@teleport.com>).
289 Calling the C<Indent()> method on a dumper object now correctly
290 resets the internal separator (reported by Curt Tilmes
291 <curt@ltpmail.gsfc.nasa.gov>).
293 New C<Terse> option to suppress the 'C<VARI<n> = >' prefix
294 introduced. If the option is set, they are output only when
295 absolutely essential.
297 The C<Useqq> flag is supported (but not by the XSUB version
300 Embedded nulls in keys are now handled properly by Dumpxs.
302 Dumper.xs now use various integer types in perl.h (should
303 make it compile without noises on 64 bit platforms, although
304 I haven't been able to test this).
306 All the dump methods now return a list of strings in a list
310 =item 2.02beta (13 April 1996)
312 Non portable sprintf usage in XS code fixed (thanks to
313 Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>).
316 =item 2.01beta (10 April 1996)
318 Minor bugfix (single digit numbers were always getting quoted).
321 =item 2.00beta (9 April 1996)
323 C<Dumpxs> is now the exact XSUB equivalent of C<Dump>. The XS version
328 MLDBM example removed (as its own module, it has a separate CPAN
331 Fixed bugs in handling keys with wierd characters. Perl can be
332 tripped up in its implicit quoting of the word before '=>'. The
333 fix: C<Data::Dumper::Purity>, when set, always triggers quotes
336 Andreas Koenig <k@anna.in-berlin.de> pointed out that handling octals
337 is busted. His patch added.
339 Dead code removed, other minor documentation fixes.
342 =item 1.23 (3 Dec 1995)
346 Several folks pointed out that quoting of ticks and backslashes
347 in strings is missing. Added.
349 Ian Phillipps <ian@pipex.net> pointed out that numerics may lose
350 precision without quotes. Fixed.
353 =item 1.21 (20 Nov 1995)
355 Last stable version I can remember.