Changes for version 5.80023 - 2010-05-07

  • Bug fixes:
    • Ensure to always cleanup temporary uploaded files in all cases, even when exceptions occur during request processing, using HTTP::Body's ->cleanup feature. (RT#41442)
    • Ensure that Catalyst::Engine::HTTP's options hash is defined before dereferencing it. (RT#49267)
    • Fix regex special characters in REDIRECT_URL variable breaking the request base. (2nd part of RT#24951)
    • Fix not stripping backslashes in DispatchType::Regex::uri_for_action
  • New features:
    • Setting __PACKAGE__->config(enable_catalyst_header => 1); in your MyApp.pm now enables the X-Catalyst header being printed when not in debug mode.
    • Require CGI::Simple::Cookie version 1.109 to ensure support for the HttpOnly flag
    • Allow the myapp_test.pl script to be given a list of paths which it will retrieve all of. (RT#53653)
    • Allow parameterized roles to be applied as plugins.
    • Allow requiring minimum versions of plugins when loading them.
  • Documentation:
    • The Catalyst::Test::get method is documented as returning the raw response bytes without any character decoding (RT#53678)
  • Cleanups:
    • Removal of $Catalyst::PRETTY_VERSION. Future releases will always have the full and unmangled version number, including trailing zeroes, in $Catalyst::VERSION.

Documentation

Overview of changes between versions of Catalyst
Instructions for upgrading to the latest Catalyst
Bootstrap a Catalyst application

Modules

The Elegant MVC Web Application Framework
Catalyst Action
Chain of Catalyst Actions
Catalyst Action Container
Deprecated base class
Class data accessors
Catalyst Component Base Class
Moose Role for components which capture the application context.
Moose Role for components which need to close over the $ctx, without leaking
Catalyst Controller base class
DispatchType Base Class
Path Part DispatchType
Default DispatchType
Index DispatchType
Path DispatchType
Regex DispatchType
The Catalyst Dispatcher
The Catalyst Engine
The CGI Engine
FastCGI Engine
Catalyst HTTP Engine
Catalyst Exception Class
Basic Catalyst Exception Role
Exception for redispatching using $ctx->detach()
Exception for redispatching using $ctx->go()
Role defining the interface for Catalyst exceptions
Catalyst Log Class
Catalyst Model base class
provides information about the current client request
handles file upload requests
stores output responding to the current client request
The Catalyst Framework Runtime
The CGI Catalyst Script
Create a new Catalyst Component
The FastCGI Catalyst Script
Catalyst test server
Test Catalyst application on the command line
Common functionality for Catalyst scripts.
The Catalyst Framework script runner
Catalyst Timing Statistics Class
Test Catalyst Applications
The Catalyst Utils
Catalyst View base class

Provides

in lib/Catalyst/Exception.pm