This release has lots of fun new stuff. It's _more_ backwards compatible
than 1.10-1.13, particularly as far as caching is concerned, which should
help those who are interested in upgrading. It has a brand new spiffy
"user-defined escapes" feature, which among other things allows you to
easily HTML-escape something besides ISO-8859-1 (or UTF8) text.
Plus a bunch of bug fixes, improved docs, and it's less filling (uses less
memory).
1.14 October 7, 2002
[ BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY ]
- Added compatibility layer for 1.0x cache API. It is now possible to
use $m->cache and $m->cache_self in the old way by setting the
data_cache_api parameter to '1.0'. L{Params/data_cache_api}
- Added back $comp->create_time, which was renamed as $comp->load_time
in 1.09_02, as a deprecated method.
- Added back $interp->time and $m->current_time, which were removed in
1.09_01, as deprecated methods.
[ ENHANCEMENTS ]
- Implemented the long requested user-defined escapes feature. It is
now possible to define your own escape flags, as well as overriding
Mason's own 'h' and 'u' flags. L{Devel/Escaping expressions}
- Implemented expire_if and busy_lock options in new $m->cache->get
API. These retain the essence of the 1.0x options although both
work a little differently. L{Devel/Data Caching}
- Added new module to implement caching extensions,
HTML::Mason::Cache::BaseCache, with accompanying documentation.
- Enhanced Params.pod with TOC and full descriptions of all
parameters. Standardized rest of documentation to link to Params.pod
when referring to a parameter.
- When a component path is not found, but that path matches a file on
disk, we now print an extra warning, because this indicates that the
user does not understand the distinction between component paths and
filesystem paths.
- The Request object's redirect() method now accepts an optional
additional argument, allowing users to use a status code other than
302 for the redirect.
- Mason should now work on a box with a fresh mod_perl 2/Apache 2
install. Previously, Mason unconditionally tried to load
Apache::Status, which comes with mod_perl 1.x, but not (yet?) with
mod_perl 2.
[ BUG FIXES ]
- Installation was failing when Exception::Class wasn't installed.
- Calling <%def> subcomponents no longer changes base_comp, which is
important in autohandlers. (reported by Ian Robertson)
- The documentation incorrectly indicated that you could create an
ApacheHandler object during server startup without providing a
component root. This will also shown incorrectly in the sample
handler.pl in the eg/ directory.
- Reduced Mason's memory usage when compiling and serving components.
This is particularly noticeable with very large components (1-2MB or
greater). Work on this will continue for future versions. (reported
by Todd Holbrook)
- %ARGS and <%shared> variables could not be accessed from <%filter>.
(reported by Adam Roth)
- Switch.pm did not work in file-based components. (reported by Gert
Thiel)
- use_strict could not be turned off. (reported by Viacheslav
Voytovich)
- $m->clear_buffer (and $m->redirect) did not work inside a component
call with content. (reported by Manuel Capinha)
- Some tests were failing on Windows, because they assumed Unix style
filesystem paths. This was a problem with the tests, not the core
code, but still worth fixing. (reported by Adam Rinehart).
- $m->caller() was inadvertently left out of the documentation - fixed.
- Fixed a small documentation error about what kinds of things are
valid keys in <%flags> and <%attr> blocks.
- Configuring multiple component roots via the httpd.conf file failed
silently (as opposed to releases 1.10 - 1.12, where this failed with
an error).
- Unreadable component source files caused the confusing error message
"source callback returned no source". This will now throw a much more
helpful exception.
- Errors occuring in subrequests would cause error output to be mixed
with regular output when the error_mode was "output" (the default with
ApacheHandler and CGIHandler). Errors in subrequests should now look
the same as errors in the top request.
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