[Catalyst] [ANNOUNCE] Catalyst-Runtime-5.80003

[Tomas Doran]

The Catalyst core team is pleased to announce the availability of the 
second maintenance release of Catalyst 5.80.

This release fixes a number of bugs and regressions found in the 
previous releases.

As far as I can see, this fixes every regression against 5.71 reported 
thus far, except for a bug causing errors to be reported as 'unknown 
error' in some cases where your application will not compile / start.

If you have an issue which has been reported, is not solved by this 
release, and is not specifically mentioned in the TODO file included in 
the distribution, then please reply into this thread..

The important fixes in this release are:

   - Logging levels have been fixed to be additive, this cures
     inconsistencies with logging / stats / debug mode.

   - Moose and MooseX::MethodAttributes new versions are required,
     avoiding 'metaclass compatibility' and 'cannot support
     register_actions' exceptions in some cases which would have stopped
     applications from starting previously.

   - Fix so that unattached chained actions can no longer cause your
     application to fail to start. Also fix so that these are correctly
     reported in a table when debug mode is on.

A full changelog of what we fixed, and the list of known bugs is 
included below.

Many thanks
t0m

BEGIN FULL CHANGELOG:

5.80003 2009-04-29 16:23:53
         - Various POD tweaks. (hdp, dandv)
         - Fix formatting error in the regex fallback warning. (rafl)
         - Convert the dispatcher's and restarter engine's BUILD method
           to attribute builders to not override the BUILD method from
           MooseX::Emulate::Class::Accessor::Fast. (rafl)
         - Fix classes without metaclasses restarting, when not using
           B::Hooks::OP::Check::StashChange (t0m)
         - Fix the unattached chain debug table for endpoints with no
           parents at all. (rafl)
         - Turn of test aggregation by default. Only aggregate if the
           AGGREGATE_TESTS environment variable is set and a recent
           Test::Aggregate is available. (rafl)
         - Bump to MooseX::MethodAttributes 0.09, to gain the
           get_nearest_methods_with_attributes method allowing methods
           without attributes in a subclass to override those with
           attributes in a superclass. This fixes CatalystX::CRUD's
           method of overriding / disabling functionality from base
           controllers. (t0m)
         - Bump HTTP::Request::AsCGI dependency to avoid broken version
           (t0m)
         - Bump Moose dependency to latest version to fix metaclass
           incompatibility issues in some cases. (t0m)
         - Additional tests for setup_stats method. (t0m)
         - Fix log levels in Catalyst::Log to be properly additive. (t0m)
         - Fix RT#43375 by sorting results before testing them (t0m)
         - Fixes for uri_for_action when using
           Catalyst::DispatchType::Regex + tests from RT#39369 (norbi)
         - Partial rewrite and reoganisation of the C3 docs in
           Catalyst::Upgrading based on feedback from kiffin (t0m)
         - If you make your application class immutable and turn off
           constructor inlining, Catalyst will die and tell you pass
           the (replace_constructor => 1) argument to
           make_immutable. (Dave Rolsky)

END FULL CHANGELOG

BEGIN TODO:

    - Moose bug causes issues if you use Moose in your application, but
      want to use base classes which have not been converted to Moose
      yet.

      Tests in Moose for this are: http://tinyurl.com/c2k85c

      Note: This issue _does not affect_ components which have been
            converted to Moose, or applications which do not use Moose,
            and causes a compile-time error if present.

    - Bug ->go or ->visit causes actions which have Args or CaptureArgs
      called twice when called via ->go or ->visit. Note - also in 5.71

      Test app:
      http://github.com/bobtfish/catalyst-app-bug-go_chain/tree/master

    - Certain errors in your application caused by using/requiring code
      which does not exist can cause an 'Unknown error' to be reported,
      whereas 5.7 would report the error correctly.

      Test app:
    http://github.com/bobtfish/catalyst-app-bug-unknown-error/tree/master

END TODO