Changes for version 0.9.8 - 2026-10-22
- Performance: ~108% faster on benchmark suite
- Bug fix: __DATA__ marker only matched at start of line (ignored inside comments)
- Bug fix: whitespace parity for {if} blocks
- Bug fix: reject unquoted non-numeric modifier params (#31558)
- Bug fix: unclosed if/foreach/literal blocks raise #45821
- Bug fix: bareword, undefined-function, and division-by-zero errors raise #18933
- Bug fix: templates read as raw bytes (CRLF handling on Windows)
- Error messages use backticks instead of <code>
- Tests: error paths (t/11-errors.t), inline templates (t/12-inline.t), fetch extras (t/13-fetch-extra.t), compiled renderer parity (t/14-compiled.t)
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A minimalistic Perl templating engine with Smarty-like syntax