[Catalyst] [ANNOUNCE] Catalyst-Runtime-5.89000-TRIAL PSGI Catalyst - first development release.

[Tomas Doran]

Hi

It gives me great pleasure to announce the first development release  
of the next major version of Catalyst.

This is a development release, and we need people to start trying to  
use it _NOW_, and to tell us about the issues you find with your real  
world applications. Otherwise we're going to be unable to fix those  
issues before a final release.

There are still some known problems with the current release, and the  
upgrading documentation is at this stage anything but complete.  
However, we have been working hard to keep this release as compatible  
as possible with previous versions, and the documentation for  
upgrading will greatly improve before the final version..

Known issues:
  * -l argument to myapp_fastcgi.pl script is broken (this is already  
fixed in subversion)
  * lighttpd versions below 1.4.23 are known to be broken (this should  
be able to be worked around using  
Plack::Middleware::LighttpdScriptNameFix - we would love some people  
using earlier versions of lighttpd to help test this)
  * IIS6 is believed to be broken (fix will be forthcoming - please  
shout up if you will be able to test this for us).
  * Alternate engines such as Stomp and Wx are broken (we will be  
working with the authors to fix these before a final release version)
  * Two of the tests in the distribution are broken if you install  
onto a clean system

Other than this list of known issues, everything should continue  
working as it did beforehand for all users (including current users of  
Catalyst::Engine::PSGI). You shouldn't have to do _anything_ to  
upgrade to the new release, other than ensure your application scripts  
(as generated by catalyst.pl) to use the Catalyst::Script:: classes.

Please test the release out and let us know how you get on.

The release can be found at:
http://search.cpan.org/~flora/Catalyst-Runtime-5.89000-TRIAL/

or if you are deploying with fastcgi, you can grab the bugfixed  
version from subversion at:
http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/repos/Catalyst/Catalyst-Runtime/5.80/branches/psgi/

Please report your successes (and/or failures) to the list, or come  
grab me on irc. We'll be trying to get a new dev release out every  
couple of weeks now until people stop finding issues..

Thanks in advance
t0m