CGI::Session Change Log
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4.09 - Friday, March 16th, 2006

    * SECURITY: Applying security patch from: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=356555 (Julien Danjou)

4.08 - Thursday, March 15th, 2006

    * FIX: DESTROY was sometimes wiping out exception handling. RT#18183, Matt LeBlanc.
    * SECURITY: Resolve some issues in: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=356555
      - db_file and file now check for symlinks either explicitly or by using O_EXCL on sysopen
      - file creation umask defaults to 660
    * NEW: db_file and file drivers now accepts a UMask option. (Matt LeBlanc)
    * INTERNAL: test suite clean up (Tyler MacDonald) 

4.07 - Thursday, March 9th, 2006

    * INTERNAL: MANIFEST update to fix release. 

4.06 - Wednesday, March 3rd, 2006

    * INTERNAL: MANIFEST update to fix release. 

4.06 - Wednesday, March 8th, 2006

    * FIX: some stray warnings when flushing:  "Use of uninitialized value in numeric eq (==)" (RT#14603)
    * NEW: JSON and YAML serializers (Tyler MacDonald)
    * INTERNAL: CGI::Session::Test::Default accepts a "skip" argument,
      listing tests that should be skipped. (Tyler)

4.05 - Friday, March 3rd, 2006
    * FIX: Race condition fixed when writing to session files (RT#17949)

4.04 - Wednesday, March 01, 2006
    * NEW: File driver now has option to disable flock (for those running
      Win 9x, VMS, MacPerl, VOS and RISC OS). (Matt LeBlanc)
    * FIX: If DBI driver wass initialized using 'Handle', Driver::DBI::init()
      returned false, and Driver::new() thought init faild and kept returning
      undef. The problem was fixed by making sure Driver::DBI::init() returned
      true. (Sherzod)
    * Added .*cgisess.* to disclude cgisess.db, cgisess.id, and any session
      files created in the t directory. (Matt LeBlanc)

    * FIX: File driver now respects $CGI::Session::File::FileName for 3.9x
      compatibility. (Matt LeBlanc)
    * FIX: Default serializer now properly handles data structures that appear
      more than once in the serialized data structure (before it'd result in data 
      structures that were equivalent but did not have the same address). (Matt LeBlanc)
    * FIX: File driver now localizes the filehandle to avoid any possibility
      of extended locking in persistent environments (Matt LeBlanc)
    * FIX: File driver now locks the file when retrieving the session data (Matt LeBlanc)
    * NEW: DBI Drivers now support a lazy loaded database handle. This is useful with the
      CGI::Application plugin system. If the session is never used, the database handle may not
      not need to be created. The syntax is to use a code ref: 
        Handle => sub {DBI->connect} (Mark Stosberg)

    Finally, be aware that since 4.0 some people have reported problems with
    the auto-flushing code. There may be an unresolved. You always  call
    flush() to be safe. Input or code contributions for the issue are
    appreciated. Some related tickets include:

    http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=14604
    http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=16861
    http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=17541
    http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=17299

4.03 - Wednesday, October 05, 2005
    * FIX: automatic flushing did not work if session object was global
    * FIX: Default serializer can now serialize objects (Matt LeBlanc)
    * INTERNAL: SQLite driver no longer needs MIME::Base64 for encoding (Matt LeBlanc)

4.02 - Friday, September 02, 2005
    * FIX: remote_addr() was missing (RT #14414])

4.01 - Thursday, September 01, 2005
    * FIX: Minor POD fix

4.00 - Wednesday, August 31, 2005

    *** NOTE ***
    The 4.0 release represents a major overhaul of the CGI::Session code base.
    Care has been taken to be 100% compatible with applications developed with 3.x.
    However, you are encouraged to run regression tests with your own applications
    before using this in production.

    * NEW: PostgreSQL driver enhanced to work better with binary serializers (Matt LeBlanc)
    * FIX: update to un tainting in default serializer to make "-T" happy (Matt LeBlanc)
    * FIX: CGI::Session (qw/-ip_match/), a 3.x feature, works again (Shawn Sorichetti)
    * INTERNAL: Improved documentation shown during "make", which explains how to run
      database-driven tests. (Mark Stosberg)
    * FIX: to support binary serializers SQLite driver uses MIME::Base64 (Sherzod Ruzmetov)

4.00_09 - Thursday, July 21, 2005

    * CHANGE: Starting with 4.0, it will no longer work to use the syntax of
      CGI::Session::DriverName(). This hasn't been a documented API since CGI::Session 2.94,
      released in August, 2002.
    * FIX: documented etime(), which was present in 3.x (Mark Stosberg)
    * FIX: Added code, test and docs to make $CGI::Session::File::FileName work,
      for 3.x compatibility. (Mark Stosberg)
    * FIX: Providing an expire time like "-10" now works (Mark Stosberg)
    * FIX: Restored close() method, for 3.x compatibility. (Mark Stosberg)
    * FIX: Make ->clear('email') work, for 3.95 compatibility (Mark Stosberg)
    * FIX: Added back is_new() for compatibility with 3.95. (Mark Stosberg)
    * FIX: Support for CGI::Simple is confirmed, resolving RT#6141 (Mark Stosberg)
    * FIX: Add code and tests for $CGI::Session::MySQL::TABLE_NAME, which worked in 3.x (Mark Stosberg)

    * DOCS: CGI::Session now has a public Subversion repository, thanks to Jason Crome.
      See the bottom of the CGI::Session docs for details.

4.00_08 - Tuesday, March 15, 2005

    * FIX: Changes made in 4.00_07 rolled back

4.00_07 - Sunday, March 13, 2005

    * FIX: overloaded objects are now stored properly

4.00_06 - Thursday, February 24, 2005

    * FIX (?): a test script was failing on Win32
    * FIX: inaccurate error reporting in load()

4.00_05 - Tuesday, February 22, 2005

    * FIX: case insensitivity was not enforced properly in CGI::Session::parse_dsn()

4.00_04 - Wednesday, February 16, 2005

    * FIX: Minor fix in tests suits and error-checking routines of
      serializers and id-generators

4.00_03 - Friday, February 11, 2005

    * NEW: CGI::Session::find() introduced
    * NEW: traverse() introduced into drivers to support CGI::Session::find()
    * DOCS: More complete driver specs documented

4.00_02 - Wednesday, February 09, 2005

    * FIX: race conditions in Driver/file.pm pointed out by Martin Bartosch

4.00_01 - Wednesday, February 09, 2005

    * NEW: load() - constructor method to prevent unnecessary session creations
    * NEW: is_expired() - method to intercept expired sessions
    * NEW: is_empty() - to intercept requests for un existing sessions
    * NEW: more optimized source code
    * NEW: updated and improved driver specs
    * NEW: standard testing framework
    * NEW: 'sqlite' driver

3.12

    * cache() method introduced, which is normally used by library drivers to
      cache certain value within the single process
    * Apache::Session-like tie interface supported (EXPERIMENTAL!)
    * trace() and tracemsg() methods added for debugging purposes

3.8

    * Abbreviations in DSN parameters are supported via Text::Abbrev.
    * Automatic api3 detection makes "-api3" switch obsolete
    * Experimental "-frozen" switch added, but not yet functional.
    * sync_param() utility function added
    * header() replacement to CGI::header() added, which outputs
      proper HTTP headers with session information
    * Private data records have been documented.
    * Bug in clear() kept failing if passed no arguments to be cleared.

3.x

    * Ability to choose between serializers, drivers and id generators
      while creating the session object. Supported via '-api3' switch.
    * New serializers added: Storable, FreezeThaw in addition to Default.
    * New ID generator added: Incr, which generates auto incrementing
      id numbers, in addition to MD5
    * "-ip_match" switch enabled for additional security
    * Expire() method is fully functional
    * Ability to expire certain session parameters
    * Better documented drivers specifications
    * Main documentation is split into two:
        1) CGI::Session and 2) CGI::Session::Tutorial
    * Bug in POD documentation is fixed (thanks to Graham Barr)


$Id: Changes 259 2006-03-16 22:11:02Z markstos $
