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Changes for version 4.00

  • INTERNALS
    • CGI::Fast split out into its own distribution, related files and tests removed
    • developer test added for building with perlbrew
  • DOCUMENTATION
    • Update perldoc to explain that CGI.pm has been removed from perl core
    • Make =head2 perldoc less shouty (RT #91140)
    • Tickets migrated from RT to github issues (both CGI and CGI.pm distributions)
    • Repointing bugtracker at newly forked github repo and note that Lee Johnson is the current maintainer.
    • Bump version to 4.00 for clear boundary of above changes

Modules

CGI
Handle Common Gateway Interface requests and responses
Backward compatibility module for CGI.pm
CGI routines for writing to the HTTPD (or other) error log
Interface to HTTP Cookies
module to produce nicely formatted HTML code
Simple Interface to Server Push
Backward compatibility module for defunct CGI::Switch
Internal utilities used by CGI module

Provides

in lib/CGI.pm
Fh
in lib/CGI.pm
in lib/CGI.pm