X-Git-Url: http://git.vpit.fr/?p=perl%2Fmodules%2FVariable-Magic.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=Changes;h=4ae98acaeec4b0d4ae40d078a7b56c4efabb9ef3;hp=47bcb4850e1b5b14c9f4def44e7bea8833739421;hb=9ed6790ce779d2ca91e392ceeb016d555658d8c0;hpb=7c97a83a6831a64f4f6886fbc76b9f78af9d1d69 diff --git a/Changes b/Changes index 47bcb48..4ae98ac 100644 --- a/Changes +++ b/Changes @@ -1,5 +1,306 @@ Revision history for Variable-Magic +0.55 2014-10-20 23:45 UTC + + Fix : [RT #99319] : t/18-opinfo.t: test failure due to change in + perl 5 blead + The new METHOP op class added in perl 5.21.5 is now supported. + Thanks James E Keenan for reporting. + +0.54 2014-09-22 17:30 UTC + + Add : The new constant VMG_COMPAT_CODE_COPY_CLONE evaluates to true + if your perl calls 'copy' magic when a magical code prototype + is cloned, which is currently the case for perl 5.17.0 and + above. + + Fix : [RT #90205] : copy magic on subs puts raw CV in $_[3] + $_[3] will now contain a reference to the cloned code when + 'copy' magic is called for a coderef. + Thanks Lukas Mai for reporting. + + Fix : t/35-stash.t has been taught about perl 5.21.4. + + Fix : Tests using run_perl() in t/17-ctl.t will no longer fail on + Android. + +0.53 2013-09-01 17:50 UTC + This is a maintenance release. The code contains no functional change. + Satisfied users of version 0.52 can skip this update. + + Fix : [RT #86338] : typo fix. + Thanks dsteinbrunner@pobox.com for the patch. + + Tst : Author tests are no longer bundled with this distribution. + They are only made available to authors in the git repository. + +0.52 2012-11-05 02:30 UTC + + Add : The new constant VMG_COMPAT_SCALAR_NOLEN evaluates to true + when your perl does not call 'len' magic for scalars, which + is the case for perl 5.17.4 and above. + This fixes RT #80388. + + Tst : t/35-stash.t has been taught about perl 5.17.4. + + Tst : Author tests overhaul. + +0.51 2012-08-18 15:00 UTC + + Fix : It is now safe to call dispell() from inside 'free', 'copy' and + 'uvar' callbacks to dispell the magic currently in use. + Thanks Clinton Gormley for reporting. + + Fix : Exceptions thrown from inside a 'free' callback are now always + consistently propagated outside of the callback. They used to + be lost when the 'free' callback was invoked at the end of an + eval block or string. + + Fix : The 'reset RMG flag' workaroundn used to allow wizards with + both 'uvar' and 'clear' magics to be cast onto a hash, has been + made thread-safe. + +0.50 2012-06-24 23:00 UTC + + Fix : Less memory is leaked when a wizard is freed during global + destruction, or when an exception is thrown from a 'free' + callback. + + Fix : [RT #77991] : t/17-ctl.t fails on perl 5.14 and 5.16. + This was actually an issue with ActivePerl, and this test + has learned to cope with it. + Thanks Gisle Aas for reporting. + + Tst : t/35-stash.t has been taught about perl 5.17.1. + + Doc : Many clarifications. + +0.49 2012-06-05 21:40 UTC + This is a maintenance release. The code contains no functional change. + Satisfied users of version 0.48 can skip this update. + + Fix : [RT #77644] : t/17_ctl.t fails in test 44 since 5.17.0. + This test has been taught about perl 5.17.0. + Thanks Reini Urban for reporting. + + Tst : t/99-kwalitee.t will be skipped when only problematic versions + of its dependencies are available. + +0.48 2012-02-17 23:40 UTC + + Add : You can now pass a reference to undef as the magic callback in + order to install a no-op callback. + Thanks Florian Ragwitz for the suggestion. + +0.47 2011-10-27 16:55 UTC + + Add : The new constant VMG_COMPAT_HASH_DELETE_NOUVAR_VOID evaluates + to true when "delete $hash{key}" does not call 'delete' uvar + magic in void context. + + Chg : The MAGIC tokens created by this module no longer use the + mg_private member for storing a "magical" signature. + + Fix : Triggering magic in a thread on a variable cloned from the main + interpreter, and when the wizard already went out of scope, + will not segfault anymore. + + Opt : The pointer table is no longer needed to ensure thread safety. + The size of the object code is about 8% smaller for threaded + perls. + + Tst : Threads tests will not fail anymore if resources constraints + prevent the system from creating all the required threads. + +0.46 2011-01-23 16:45 UTC + + Fix : [RT #64866] : Assertion failure with perl 5.13.9. + The real problem was that dispell() wasn't properly resetting + the magical sv flags, which became visible in the test suite + only with perl 5.13.9. + Thanks Joshua ben Jore for reporting. + +0.45 2010-11-21 23:15 UTC + This is a maintenance release. The code contains no functional change. + Users of 0.44 can skip this update. + + Doc : C++ compilers are officially NOT supported. + + Doc : The minimum perl 5.10.0 requirement for uvar magic has been + made more explicit. + Thanks Peter Rabbitson for pointing this out and contributing a + patch. + + Tst : Tune for perl 5.13.7. + + Tst : Capture::Tiny will be used in t/17-ctl.t if and only if it can + capture a simple run. + +0.44 2010-09-24 19:10 UTC + + Fix : Broken linkage on Windows with gcc 3.4, which appears in + particular when using ActivePerl's default compiler suite. + For those setups, the Variable::Magic shared library will now + be linked against the perl dll directly (instead of the import + library). This (should) fix RT #51483. + Thanks Christian Walde for helping to reproduce this failure + and extra testing. + + Rem : Support for development perls from the 5.11 branch but older + than the 5.11.0 release was removed. This could cause more + recent setups to fail. + + Tst : Threads tests are now only run on perl 5.13.4 and higher. + They could segfault randomly because of what seems to be an + internal bug of Perl, which has been addressed in 5.13.4. + There is also an environment variable that allows you to + forcefully run those tests, but it should be set only for + author testing and not for end users. + +0.43 2010-06-25 23:35 UTC + + Add : The new constant VMG_COMPAT_GLOB_GET tells you whether get magic + is called for globs. It's true starting perl 5.13.2. + + Chg : All callbacks are now called within an eval-like context. + Only free callbacks used to be called that way. + + Fix : Some exceptions thrown from a free callback could be lost. + + Fix : Croak messages could sometimes be repeated several times. + + Fix : t/41-clone.t segfaulting with perl 5.13.2. + +0.42 2010-05-19 00:15 UTC + This is a maintenance release. The code contains no functional change. + Users of 0.41 can skip this update. + + Fix : Test failures with perl 5.13. + + Tst : Improve coverage. + +0.41 2010-03-15 17:35 UTC + + Doc : Tweaks and fixups. + Thanks Shlomi Fish. + + Fix : Compatibility with the soon-to-be-released perl 5.12.0. + + Fix : Correctly propagate the errors thrown when variable destruction + happens at compile-time and not from inside eval STRING. + Thanks Florian Ragwitz and Ash Berlin for reporting. + +0.40 2010-01-06 23:20 UTC + + Fix : Possible memory miswrites when passing data arguments to cast(). + + Fix : Minor C portability tweaks. + +0.39 2009-12-01 00:05 UTC + + Add : You can use a function name as a callback by passing a string + reference to wizard() instead of a code reference. + + Fix : Compatiblity with perl 5.11.1 and 5.11.2. + + Fix : Scalars stored into the data slot no longer leak. + + Fix : Thread destruction should not segfault anymore. + + Opt : As a result of removing the deprecated features, less memory is + used for both threaded (a pointer table is used instead of a + hash) and non-threaded (no global structure is needed anymore) + perls. + + Rem : As advertised in the precendent version, all the signature + related features were removed. This includes the 'sig' option + to wizard(), the getsig() and gensig() functions, and the SIG_* + constants. + +0.38 2009-10-04 16:10 UTC + + Dep : All the signature-related features are DEPRECATED and will be + removed in december 2009. This includes the 'sig' option to + wizard(), the getsig() and gensig() functions, and the SIG_* + constants. + Afaik those features were never used in real life, and they make + the XS code slow and brittle. If you want your wizards to be + globally available, you'll have to handle that yourself by + storing them in a hash. + + Doc : More examples in a new COOKBOOK section. + + Fix : Compatiblity with the 5.11.0 release. The new compatibility + constant VMG_COMPAT_ARRAY_PUSH_NOLEN_VOID was added to cover + this. + + Fix : Work around Kwalitee test misfailures. + +0.37 2009-08-25 15:25 UTC + + Add : The new constant VMG_FORKSAFE can be tested to know whether the + module will behave nicely when fork()ing. It's currently always + true except on Windows where you need perl 5.10.1 for it to be + true. + + Doc : Nits and clarifications. + +0.36 2009-07-05 16:30 UTC + + Chg : getdata() now returns an empty list when no magic is present. + It used to return undef but did not croak as stated in the doc. + Thanks Matt S. Trout for pointing this out. + + Fix : Building and tests with ActiveState Perl 5.8 build >= 822. + +0.35 2009-05-15 20:50 UTC + This is a maintenance release. Users of 0.34 can skip this update. + + Chg : uvar magic used to be enabled for 5.9.5. It now requires 5.10 or + later. + + Fix : Silence compilation warnings for cxinc(). + + Rem : The workaround introduced in 0.31 for the "Unknown errors" issue + was removed, as regression tests show that 0.34 provides a + better fix. + + Tst : Skip t/40-threads.t on 5.8.x with old versions of threads and + threads::shared. + +0.34 2009-04-19 16:55 UTC + + Fix : Destruction of wizards in require. + + Fix : "panic: restartop" in 5.10 when dieing at compile time triggers + a destructor. + +0.33 2009-03-26 00:00 UTC + + Chg : cast() and getsig() now croak too when an invalid signature is + passed. + + Fix : It was possible to generate with gensig() the same signature + twice before actually defining the wizards. + + Tst : More stash tests. + + Tst : Test when the magic takes place in some cases. + + Tst : Improved coverage for the op object feature. + +0.32 2009-03-01 13:45 UTC + + Chg : dispell() and getdata() now croak when an invalid signature is + passed. + + Doc : More examples and a brand new synopsis. + + Fix : The signature is no longer stored in the mg_private member of + the MAGIC struct. This fixes possible clashes with magics from + other extensions. + + Fix : op info objects weren't blessed into the right class. + + Fix : Races when initializing the op names cache under threads. + +0.31 2009-02-19 23:50 UTC + + Doc : A somewhat better introduction. The FUNCTION section was moved + before CONSTANTS and HISTORY since it's more important. And + 'assignation' is really 'assignment', says Ricardo. :) + + Fix : The op_info features are now thread safe. + + Fix : Segfaults that occured when trying to get the op name during + global destruction. + + Fix : Segfaults and wrong "Unknown error" exceptions that happened + when dieing in require caused a free callback to fire. + Thanks Florian Ragwitz for reporting. + +0.30 2009-02-12 17:05 UTC + + Add : You can now get in all the callbacks either the name or a B::OP + object representing the current op if you pass the new 'op_info' + option to wizard() with respective values VMG_OP_INFO_NAME and + VMG_OP_INFO_OBJECT. + + Doc : Document magic on array/hashes values. + + Fix : Completely skip free callbacks during global destruction. + + Tst : Tests now pass again on 5.8.3 and lower (they were broken since + 0.27). + + Tst : Test magic on symbol table and on array/hash values. + +0.29 2009-02-08 11:10 UTC + + Add : Set $_[2] to the default length for len magic on scalars. + + Chg : Perl 5.8 is required. + + Chg : The CLONE method will no longer be defined for non-threaded + perls. + + Doc : Nits. + + Fix : The logic for turning off the GMAGICAL flag on hashes when no + uvar magic is involved could do nasty things on tied hashes. + + Upd : More resources in META.yml. + +0.28 2009-01-24 17:05 UTC + + Add : The 'copy_key' option to wizard(), that enables the safe edition + of $_[2] in uvar callbacks to redirect actions to another key. + + Fix : Exception objects thrown from callbacks at compile time were not + available in $@. + + Fix : free callbacks triggered during global destruction could lead to + segfaults because the wizard was already freed. + + Fix : Refcount of scalars with free callback. + + Fix : Segfaults when using get or uvar magic simultaneously with clear + magic. + + Doc : The documentation about what the callbacks take and should + return is now somewhat clearer. + +0.27 2009-01-18 23:40 UTC + + Fix : Offset of 1 with len magic on scalars. + + Fix : Segfaults that seem to happen when one croak in a callback at + compile time (thanks Ash Berlin for the testcase). + + Upd : Resources in META.yml (Florian Ragwitz) + + Tst : Large cleanup resulting in a wider set of tested behaviours. + +0.26 2008-11-29 22:05 UTC + + Fix : Leaks of cloned coderefs that access lexicals. + + Fix : Building with maint-5.8 and blead (thanks Andreas Koenig). + +0.25 2008-11-12 19:40 UTC + + Fix : Compatibility with 5.8.9. + + Fix : Old Pod::Coverage don't ignore CLONE. + + Upd : META.yml spec updated to 1.4. + +0.24 2008-10-12 14:55 UTC + + Fix : Really fix it. + +0.23 2008-10-11 17:25 UTC + + Fix : Building on perls with multiplicity but not ithreads. + +0.22 2008-09-29 19:40 UTC + + Doc : Explain how magic differs from overloading. + + Fix : Disable thread safety for perl 5.8 on Windows. If you want it + enabled, reliable feedback is welcome. + 0.21_02 2008-09-28 23:10 UTC + Fix : Hide previously deleted magic tokens in vmg_svt_free (Yuval Kogman).