Changes for version 0.161 - 2026-09-07
- Fixed
- **The printed record's length cap did nothing on Data::Printer before 0.99_001.** 0.16 capped each field of the record at 4096 characters by handing `string_max` to Data::Printer and leaving the clipping to it, but that property only arrived in Data::Printer 0.99_001 (2018-04-21) and every earlier release ignores a property it does not know, in silence. A CPAN tester on perl 5.20.0 with Data::Printer 0.38 therefore had a 200,000-character capture printed whole: 200,927 bytes to the terminal and 200,914 bytes to the log. SimpleFlow now clips the strings itself before printing them, and marks what it dropped in Data::Printer's own wording, so the ceiling holds on every version. The full capture is still on the result hash, and the output on Data::Printer 1.x is unchanged.
- Tests
- Added a regression test for the above (block 17 of `t/02.fixes.t`), confirmed to fail against 0.16 first. Its probe loads a stub `DDP` that ignores every property it is handed, which is what those Data::Printer releases did, and is the only way to reproduce the flood on a machine whose Data::Printer is current; it needs no network and nothing installed.
- Block 10 asked that `$VERSION` have exactly two decimal places, which this release does not: 0.161 is a point release on 0.16 and keeps three. The assertion now takes two or more, and a new one compares `$VERSION` against the literal in the source digit for digit -- the check that actually catches an unquoted version, since with the quotes off 0.161 the module still reports "0.161" and any pattern on the digits passes.
- A passing run of the suite no longer looks like a crash. task() prints the result record, and its failure paths dump the arguments with `p` and then warn or die on the terminal -- all as documented -- so the three test files together printed some 1,180 lines of record dumps and eight backtraces on a clean, wholly successful run. Every call whose printing is not itself under test now goes through a `quietly` helper that captures both streams with `Capture::Tiny`, and the expected diagnostics are asserted on rather than discarded: `prove -Ilib t/` prints TAP and nothing else. Capturing was chosen over passing `quiet => 1` because it leaves the arguments handed to task() unchanged, which is what keeps blocks 1-11 of `t/02.fixes.t` runnable against 0.15 (re-checked: they still fail there). No module behaviour changed.
- Documentation
- README.md no longer carries the release notes, so they are no longer copied into `read.me.pod` and the module's POD either. `Changes` is the only copy now, and `md2pod.pl` checks it with `changes_file_ok()` rather than generating it.
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