[Catalyst] [ANNOUNCE] Catalyst Runtime 5.80001

Sat Apr 18 22:42:39 GMT 2009

Tremendous thanks and am looking forward to 5.9 :)  --John Napiorkowski

--- On Sat, 4/18/09, Tomas Doran <bobtfish at bobtfish.net> wrote:

> From: Tomas Doran <bobtfish at bobtfish.net>
> Subject: [Catalyst] [ANNOUNCE] Catalyst Runtime 5.80001
> To: "The elegant MVC web framework" <catalyst at lists.scsys.co.uk>
> Date: Saturday, April 18, 2009, 4:28 PM
> The Catalyst Core Team is proud to
> announce that we've just shipped the next major release of
> the Catalyst framework, version 5.8001. This release is the
> result of the helpful contributions of a large number of
> people, comprising documentation, new features, bug fixes
> and entire branches of refactoring, and has taken over
> twelve months work.
> 
> Specifically this release would not have been possible
> without the hard work put in by Guillermo Roditi and Scott
> McWhirter for the initial port, and Florian Ragwitz on
> method attributes, as well as their CPAN modules to support
> this. Huge thanks to those guys, and also to everyone
> providing patches for documentation, bug fixes, and new
> features.
> 
> The major focus of this release is refactoring, and porting
> to Moose, which enables a lot of additional features, and
> gives you, the user, a lot of additional power to use when
> building your applications, and gives the Catalyst team a
> lot of power for extending the framework. Current
> applications will still run unmodified, but new code and
> extensions can start to fully take advantage of Moose.
> 
> A lot of (previously inadvisable) techniques have become
> officially deprecated, producing warnings, and full
> documentation is provided in the distribution to explain any
> changes which may affect your applications or components.
> Extensive smoke testing for backwards compatibility has
> taken place as part of the release process, and we're
> confident that we haven't broken anything which wasn't a
> very bad idea in the first place :)
> 
> The Runtime distributions will be on a CPAN mirror near you
> before long, but until then you have the option of getting
> them here:
> 
> http://files.perldition.org/Catalyst-Runtime-5.80001.tar.gz
> 
> A further explanation of all the changes can be found in
> Catalyst::Delta (included below).
> 
> Thank you for your attention, and for using our software.
> t0m
> 
> Full delta from 5.71:
> 
>   Deprecations:
> 
>     Please see Catalyst::Upgrading for a full
> description of how changes in
>     the framework may affect your application.
> 
>     Below is a brief list of features which have
> been deprecated in this
>     release:
> 
>     * ::[MVC]:: style naming scheme has been
> deprecated and will warn
>     NEXT is deprecated for all applications and
> components, use MRO::Compat
>     Dispatcher methods which are an
> implementation detail made private,
>     public versions now warn.
> 
>     * MyApp->plugin method is deprecated, use
> Catalyst::Model::Adaptor
>     instead.
> 
>     * __PACKAGE__->mk_accessors() is supported
> for backward compatibility
>     only, use Moose attributes instead in new
> code.
> 
>     * Use of Catalyst::Base now warns
> 
>   New features:
> 
>    Dispatcher -
>     * Fix forwarding to Catalyst::Action
> objects.
>     * Add the dispatch_type method
> 
>    Restarter -
>     * The development server restarter has been
> improved to be compatible with
>       immutable Moose classes, and also to
> optionally use
>       B::Hooks::OP::Check::StashChange to
> handle more complex application
>       layouts correctly.
> 
>    $c->uri_for_action -
>     Give a private path to the Catalyst action
> you want to create a URI for.
> 
>    Logging -
>     Log levels have been made additive.
> 
>    Catalyst::Test -
>     * Change to use Sub::Exporter.
>     * Support mocking multiple virtual hosts
>     * New methods like action_ok and
> action_redirect to write more compact
>       tests
> 
>    Catalyst::Response -
>     *   New print method which
> prints @data to the output stream, separated
>         by $,. This lets you pass the
> response object to functions that want
>         to write to an IO::Handle.
>     *   Added code method as an
> alias for "$res->status"
> 
>   Consequences of the Moose back end:
> 
>         *   Components
> are fully compatible with Moose, and all Moose
>             features, such as
> method modifiers, attributes, roles, BUILD and
>             BUILDARGS methods
> are fully supported and may be used in
>             components and
> applications.
> 
>         *   Many
> reusable extensions which would previously have been
>             plugins or base
> classes are better implemented as Moose roles.
> 
>        
> *   MooseX::MethodAttributes::Inheritable is
> used to contain action
>             attributes. This
> means that attributes are represented in the
>             MOP, and
> decouples action creation from attributes.
> 
>         *   There is a
> reasonable API in Catalyst::Controller for working
>             with and
> registering actions, allowing a controller sub-class to
>             replace
> subroutine attributes for action declarations with an
>             alternate
> syntax.
> 
>         *   Refactored
> capturing of $app from Catalyst::Controller into
>            
> Catalyst::Component::ApplicationAttribute for easier reuse
> in
>             other
> components.
> 
>         *   Your
> application class is forced to become immutable at the end
>             of compilation.
> 
>   Bug fixes:
> 
>         *   Don't ignore
> SIGCHLD while handling requests with the
>             development
> server, so that system() and other ways of creating
>             child processes
> work as expected.
> 
>         *   Fixes for
> FastCGI when used with IIS 6.0
> 
>         *   Fix a bug in
> uri_for which could cause it to generate paths with
>             multiple slashes
> in them.
> 
>         *   Fix a bug in
> Catalyst::Stats, stopping garbage being inserted
>             into the stats if
> a user calls begin => but no end
> 
> P.S. This release would also not have been possible without
> the relentless list keeping, cat herding, dist smoking and
> bug fixing done by t0m Doran, who is apparently too modest
> to point it out
> 
> P.P.S. mst made me add that..
> 
> _______________________________________________
> List: Catalyst at lists.scsys.co.uk
> Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst
> Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/
> Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
>