| 1 | =head1 NAME
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| 2 |
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| 3 | HISTORY - public release history for Data::Dumper
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| 4 |
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| 5 | =head1 DESCRIPTION
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| 6 |
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| 7 | =over 8
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| 8 |
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| 9 | =item 2.121 (Aug 24 2003)
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| 10 |
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| 11 | Backport to 5.6.1 by Ilya Martynov <[email protected]>.
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| 12 |
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| 13 | =item 2.11 (unreleased)
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| 14 |
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| 15 | C<0> is now dumped as such, not as C<'0'>.
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| 16 |
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| 17 | qr// objects are now dumped correctly (provided a post-5.005_58)
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| 18 | overload.pm exists).
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| 19 |
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| 20 | Implemented $Data::Dumper::Maxdepth, which was on the Todo list.
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| 21 | Thanks to John Nolan <[email protected]>.
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| 22 |
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| 23 | =item 2.101 (30 Apr 1999)
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| 24 |
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| 25 | Minor release to sync with version in 5.005_03. Fixes dump of
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| 26 | dummy coderefs.
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| 27 |
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| 28 | =item 2.10 (31 Oct 1998)
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| 29 |
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| 30 | Bugfixes for dumping related undef values, globs, and better double
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| 31 | quoting: three patches suggested by Gisle Aas <[email protected]>.
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| 32 |
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| 33 | Escaping of single quotes in the XS version could get tripped up
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| 34 | by the presence of nulls in the string. Fix suggested by
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| 35 | Slaven Rezic <[email protected]>.
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| 36 |
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| 37 | Rather large scale reworking of the logic in how seen values
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| 38 | are stashed. Anonymous scalars that may be encountered while
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| 39 | traversing the structure are properly tracked, in case they become
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| 40 | used in data dumped in a later pass. There used to be a problem
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| 41 | with the previous logic that prevented such structures from being
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| 42 | dumped correctly.
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| 43 |
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| 44 | Various additions to the testsuite.
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| 45 |
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| 46 | =item 2.09 (9 July 1998)
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| 47 |
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| 48 | Implement $Data::Dumper::Bless, suggested by Mark Daku <[email protected]>.
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| 49 |
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| 50 | =item 2.081 (15 January 1998)
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| 51 |
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| 52 | Minor release to fix Makefile.PL not accepting MakeMaker args.
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| 53 |
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| 54 | =item 2.08 (7 December 1997)
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| 55 |
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| 56 | Glob dumps don't output superflous 'undef' anymore.
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| 57 |
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| 58 | Fixes from Gisle Aas <[email protected]> to make Dumper() work with
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| 59 | overloaded strings in recent perls, and his new testsuite.
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| 60 |
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| 61 | require 5.004.
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| 62 |
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| 63 | A separate flag to always quote hash keys (on by default).
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| 64 |
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| 65 | Recreating known CODE refs is now better supported.
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| 66 |
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| 67 | Changed flawed constant SCALAR bless workaround.
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| 68 |
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| 69 | =item 2.07 (7 December 1996)
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| 70 |
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| 71 | Dumpxs output is now exactly the same as Dump. It still doesn't
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| 72 | honor C<Useqq> though.
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| 73 |
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| 74 | Regression tests test for identical output and C<eval>-ability.
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| 75 |
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| 76 | Bug in *GLOB{THING} output fixed.
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| 77 |
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| 78 | Other small enhancements.
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| 79 |
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| 80 | =item 2.06 (2 December 1996)
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| 81 |
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| 82 | Bugfix that was serious enough for new release--the bug cripples
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| 83 | MLDBM. Problem was "Attempt to modify readonly value..." failures
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| 84 | that stemmed for a misguided SvPV_force() instead of a SvPV().)
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| 85 |
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| 86 | =item 2.05 (2 December 1996)
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| 87 |
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| 88 | Fixed the type mismatch that was causing Dumpxs test to fail
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| 89 | on 64-bit platforms.
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| 90 |
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| 91 | GLOB elements are dumped now when C<Purity> is set (using the
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| 92 | *GLOB{THING} syntax).
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| 93 |
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| 94 | The C<Freezer> option can be set to a method name to call
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| 95 | before probing objects for dumping. Some applications: objects with
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| 96 | external data, can re-bless themselves into a transitional package;
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| 97 | Objects the maintain ephemeral state (like open files) can put
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| 98 | additional information in the object to facilitate persistence.
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| 99 |
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| 100 | The corresponding C<Toaster> option, if set, specifies
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| 101 | the method call that will revive the frozen object.
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| 102 |
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| 103 | The C<Deepcopy> flag has been added to do just that.
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| 104 |
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| 105 | Dumper does more aggressive cataloging of SCALARs encountered
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| 106 | within ARRAY/HASH structures. Thanks to Norman Gaywood
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| 107 | <[email protected]> for reporting the problem.
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| 108 |
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| 109 | Objects that C<overload> the '""' operator are now handled
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| 110 | properly by the C<Dump> method.
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| 111 |
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| 112 | Significant additions to the testsuite.
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| 113 |
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