Changes for version 0.43 - 2026-09-03

  • SECURITY: a websocket upgrade is refused with 403 unless its Origin is one the application answers as
  • ADDS: the `origin` websocket route option - a hostname, an arrayref of them in `host allow` syntax, a coderef, or 0 to serve any origin.
  • ADDS: $c->req->body_each($cb) and $c->req->body_to($dest) - the request body a window at a time, and straight to a file, for the bodies that are not multipart. A body is read once: after either of these, body/json/form croak rather than answer with nothing, and a body already read whole is replayed from the copy.
  • ADDS: the after_response phase - `hook after_response` and $c->after_response($code), for work a request generates that the client is not waiting for.
  • ADDS: the `rate_limit` route option - a budget for one route, compiled into a guard at to_app and enforced by the same C the keyword installs. Takes limit/window/by/tag, or a bare count. The counter is namespaced to the route unless a tag shares one between several, and the guard runs before `validate`, so a refused request never parses a body.

Documentation

the Punk command line

Modules

a MVC web framework
the per-application registry and boot compiler
async and await in Punk apps, controllers and models
the authentication battery
password hashing
cross-origin resource sharing
single-use CSRF tokens
a pluggable cache with TTL
a cache store on disk, shared by the whole worker pool
an in process cache store, bounded by bytes
the punk command line: registry, dispatcher and commands
YAML configuration with secrets kept out of the file
the per-request object
base class for Punk controllers
the development error page
an async result that runs on the loop, or blocks
scaffold a new Punk application
security response headers
a level-based logger
the storage-agnostic model tier
the default DBI backend for Punk models
a non-blocking backend for Punk models
a directory of markdown as a documentation site
the api mount: spec-first operations
base class for Punk plugins
content addressed storage for uploads
Content-Security-Policy with a per request nonce
ETags, Last-Modified and 304s for dynamic responses
liveness and readiness probes that mean different things
translations and language negotiation
Idempotency on unsafe methods
a Prometheus endpoint whose labels cannot run away
give every request an id
sitemap.xml and robots.txt from the route table
rate limiting and IP blocking over Hyperman's shared arena
a lazy wrapper over the PSGI environment
a response builder
the compiled-at-boot route tables (XS)
the handle an under returns
a Server-Sent Events stream
the bounded body of a ranged send_file response
signed cookie sessions
server-side sessions, on any store
serving files from a directory
a streamed response for an ordinary route
an in-process test client for Punk applications
a pure-Perl RFC 6455 codec for testing WebSocket servers
the client side of one WebSocket connection
the transaction a < $c-txn >> block receives
the outbound HTTP agent on the context
an uploaded file from a multipart form
collecting request validation
the Template::Stencil view engine
the pluggable view engine registry (XS)
a WebSocket connection
pub/sub groups of WebSocket connections