[Catalyst-dev] Announce: Last Call - RC of C::P::Authentication

[Jay K]

Hey all,

Big news!  With the most excellent assistance of J. Shirley and
Nilson Santos Figueiredo Junior - The new C::P::Authentication
finally has all it's tests and, we feel, is ready for release.

Thus - the Release Candidate is now on CPAN at:

http://search.cpan.org/~jayk/Catalyst-Plugin-Authentication-0.09999_02/

For those of you using custom, or unusual stores or credentials -
PLEASE TEST THIS in your config!  The update makes a lot of changes
to the internals of the authentication system, and while there is a
compatibility mode which should maintain functionality with older
modules - only a handful have actually been tested.

So again - if you have a custom store or credential, or you use
something aside from the DBIC store module and
Password credential - it's a very VERY good idea to test against the
updated C::P::Authentication module.

If nobody shouts 'stop the presses' in the next couple of days, we
will be doing a full release and bumping the CPAN version next week.

For those who have authored Stores or Credentials - it's probably a
good idea to look at:

http://tinyurl.com/3x5yu3  (C::P::A::Internals)

to better understand how the new system works and how to update your
modules for compatibility.  Modules that are not updated will
continue to work in compatibility mode, but will not allow users to
take advantage of the new Realms features.

Again, PLEASE TEST this module with your apps!  We will most likely
release mid-week if we get no bug reports!

Thanks all!

JayK

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