[Catalyst] [ANNOUNCE] Catalyst-Runtime-5.80008

[Tomas Doran]

The Catalyst core team is pleased to announce the availability of the 
latest maintenance release of Catalyst-Runtime, version 5.80008.

A number of bugs have been fixed, and a load of small but useful 
features have been added.

A full changelog is included below. Thanks to everybody who contributed 
to this release, and I hope you enjoy it.

Cheers
t0m

Bug fixes:
  - Fix replace_constructor warning to actually work if you make your
    application class immutable without that option.
  - Depend on Module::Pluggable 3.9 to prevent a bug wherein components
    in inner packages might not be registered. This especially affected
    tests.
  - Catalyst::Engine::FastCGI - relax the check for versions of Microsoft
    IIS. Provides compatibility with Windows 2008 R2 as well as
    (hopefully) future versions.
  - In tests which depend on the values of environment variables,
    localise the environment, then delete only relevant environment
    variables (RT#48555)
  - Fix issue with Engine::HTTP not sending headers properly in some
    cases (RT#48623)
  - Make Catalyst::Engine write at least once when finalizing the
    response body from a filehandle, even if the write is empty. This
    avoids fail when trying to send out an empty response body from a
    filehandle.
  - Catalyst::Engine::HTTP - Accept a fully qualified absolute URI in the
    Request-URI of the Request-Line

Refactoring / cleanups:
  - Deleted the Restarter engine and its Watcher code. Use the
    new Catalyst::Restarter in a recent Catalyst::Devel instead.
  - New unit test for Catalyst::Action 'unit_core_action.t'
  - Bump minimum supported perl version from 5.8.1 to 5.8.6 as there are
    known issues with 5.8.3, and nobody is prepared to fix / support perl
    older than 5.8.6 any more. Patches to regain compatibility to older
    perls would be welcome.
  - Debug output uses dynamic column sizing to create more readable
    output when using a larger $ENV{COLUMNS} setting. (groditi)

New features:
  - Added private_path method for Catalyst::Action
  - Allow uri_for($controller_instance) which will produce a URI
    for the controller namespace
  - Break setup_components into two more parts: locate_components and
    expand_component_module (rjbs)
  - Allow Components to return anon classed from their COMPONENT method
    correctly, and have action registration work on Controllers returned
    as such by adding a catalyst_component_name accessor for all
    components which returns the component instance's name to be used
    when building actions etc.
  - Adding X-Forwarded-Port to allow the frontend proxy to dictate the
    frontend port (jshirley)
  - Added Catalyst::Stats->created accessor for the time at the start of
    the request.

Documentation:
  - Fix POD to refer to ->config(key => $val), rather than
    ->config->{key} = $val, as the latter form is deprecated.
  - Clearer docs for the 'uri_for' method.
  - Fix POD refering to CGI::Cookie. We're using CGI::Simple::Cookie.
    (Forrest Cahoon)