Revision history for Perl module XML::RSS 1.62 2020-10-15 - dist.ini / weaver.ini / .tidyallrc / etc. cleanup - Move to @SHLOMIF - Inspired by Lady_Aleena. - Sympotamtic fix for item/link nested inside custom tags: - https://github.com/shlomif/perl-XML-RSS/issues/7 - Thanks to @jkramer for the bug report and a test case. 1.61 2019-08-24 - Clarified the docs regarding DateTime objects. - Thanks to shtrb - Add 2.0 to the version list, fix broken links to versions - Thanks to E. Choroba - Changed to explicit imports in "use" statements. 1.60 2018-04-03 - Convert to Dist-Zilla. - Add Travis-CI support. 1.59 2016-03-01 - Merge a pull request to add subcategory support. - https://github.com/shlomif/perl-XML-RSS/pull/4 - https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=48426 - Thanks to @ozcoder for the changes. 1.58 2016-02-08 - Merge a pull-request regarding the handling of isPermaLink: - https://github.com/shlomif/perl-XML-RSS/pull/2 - Thanks to @dwmc15873 for the changes. 1.57 2015-12-13 - Update an old E-mail address for Shlomi Fish. 1.56 2014-12-04 - Fix https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=100660 - XML External Entities Exploit, as reported here: - http://mikeknoop.com/lxml-xxe-exploit/ - Security. 1.55 2014-04-15 - Fix the tests for DateTime-Format-Mail-0.400. 1.54 2013-06-05 - Apply a patch from Debian for correcting a typo. - https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=85962 - Thanks to Gregor Herrmann 1.53 2013-06-04 - Implement a more user-friendly error with XML::RSS->new(version=>1.0) and a missing "link" and/or "title" field. - Thanks to Gabor Szabo for reporting it. 1.52 2013-05-21 - Add t/style-trailing-space.t. - Got rid of trailing space. - Convert to t/cpan-changes.t . 1.51 2013-05-11 - Sort the XML namespaces before outputting. - became broken in perl-5.18.0-RC1. 1.50 2013-04-07 - Update the repository URL to its new location on GitHub. 1.49 2011-04-07 - Some correctness and Modern Perl changes to the rss2html.pl script (it still appears to be very hairy.) - Add support for parsing rssCloud: - https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67241 - Thanks to STUIFZAND for the patch. 1.48 2010-04-23 - Fix the $rss->parse($string)->other_method() display (had to add spaces between the << and >>). See: - https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=56848 - Thanks to Slaven_Rezic for the report. 1.47 2009-12-08 - Made sure XML::RSS::save() can do its thing when in taint mode: - http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=52334 1.46 2009-10-08 - Updated the E-mail address of Adam Trickett. - Removed the perl-5.6.x-specific workarounds and made perl-5.8.x as a requirement. This was done in order to: - avoid a workaround that also caused an incomplete test coverage. - avoid various test failures due to a problem with XML-Parser on 5.6.x . - encourage people using ancient versions of perl in production. - Convert all occurences of "new XML::RSS" to "XML::RSS->new()" everywhere. - a best practice. 1.45 2009-08-05 - Removed some unused module requirements statements from lib/**.pm. - Added a note about date parsing/generation (thanks to an email correspondent). - Applied a patch by "David White" to have uppercase letter in namespace/module identifiers. - https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48405 - Added "resources" and "keywords" to the Build.PL. 1.44 2009-04-01 - Applied a patch from Simon Wistow (after some modifications) to add support for multiple enclosures. - Added the t/xml-base.t test file from Simon Wistow to test for xml:base. Corrected for style. 1.43 2009-01-12 - Fixed the date on the last entry on this changelog, to say "2009" instead of "2008". - http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42304 1.42 2009-01-03 - When transforming elements with attributes into hash-refs - make sure they are placed in the correct namespace. Previously over-rided the plain . (as in Flickr). 1.41 2008-12-04 - Made the default keys for the channel link, description and title undef instead of ''. They become '' once they are opened. - http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=40686 - Now keeping track of rdf:resource of in RSS 1.0: - http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=3978 - Made sure that channel/{link,description,title} are localized to the empty string before rendering, to allow for better backwards compatibility. - http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=40686 1.40 2008-12-01 - Now outputting an arrayref of /'s and / properly. - http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=40978 - Now parsing multiple 'ies inside an into an array-reference. - http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=38296 - Now outputting an arayref of / prpoerly. - http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=38296 - Parsing multiple / into arrays. - http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=9729 - Rendering multiple / elements from array refs. - http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=9729 - Now parsing multiple dc:items into an array reference (at least inside an ): - http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=6000 - Added the modules_as_arrays option to parse repeatable module elements into an array ref. 1.38 2008-11-27 - Added support for duplicate items of RSS modules. - http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=4495 - Added support for multiple Dublin Core elements. One can point the field to an array and it will create multiple elements: - http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=6000 - Now parsing several /s and /s into an array reference instead of concatenating them together. - http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=40978 1.37 2008-11-18 - Extracted the common parts of parse() and parsefile() into one method (Refactoring - Shlomi Fish) - Incorporated a modified version of a patch from Simon Wistow to add support for the "xml:base" attribute. - Renamed t/items-are-0.t into the more descriptive t/test-generated-items.t , to highlight its significance and make it easier to notice. - Enabled backwards-compatibility mode for the "description" item to not become a hash-ref by default if xml:base is specified. 1.36 2008-10-07 - ->parse() now explicitly returns $self. - http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=34914 - ->parsefile() now explicitly returns $self. - http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=34914 - Applied a patch to change the RSS-0.91 DTD URL from my.netscape.com to rssboard.org: - http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39780 - Reformatted the Changes file to standardize on 4-space-indents. - Small documentation patch: (add_item with dc:date) - http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39780 1.35 2008-09-13 - Added a Module::Build-based Build.PL so we'll have an easier time with the META.yml and the Kwalitee. - Kwalitee - added "use warnings" to all Perl files. - now depending on at least perl-5.6.0. - Kwalitee - fixed the "use" statement of "Test::Run::CmdLine::Iface" to a runtime require. 1.34 2008-09-12 - fixed a typo in the documentation of lib/XML/RSS.pm - "regardless" instead of "regarless". - http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=37916 - (Reported by Reuben Thomas, Fixed by Shlomif). - fixed a code fragment - pop() instead of shift() for older items, and while() instead of if(): - http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=39231 - (Reported by Dave, Fixed by Shlomif). 1.33 2008-06-08 - Allowed the end-user to customise the _encode() routine in XML::RSS::Private::Output::Base from XML::RSS using the encode_cb key. 1.32 2008-02-08 - Fixed http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=25336 : - made sure the namespace specified elements can have a hash as a value in which case they'll be outputted as a standalone tag with attributes. - Fixed http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25368 : - changed pop() to shift() to remove the oldest item in the example in lib/XML/RSS.pm, per the comments in the bug report. - Fixed http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24329#txn-296761 : - updated the URLs for information about RSS mentioned under "=head1 DESCRIPTION", based on a Google search. - (Shlomi Fish) - Fixed http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=33001 : - made sure that isPermalink is true if and only if the isPermalink attribute is "true". Not if it is non-existent, etc. - this modified the behaviour of the module. 1.31 2007-06-29 - Fixed the save() function to handle perl-5.6.x (and possibly below) where the ":encoding(...)" filehandle are not available (Shlomi Fish) 1.30 2007-06-18 - Same as 1.29_02 (from February 23, 2007) - Removed some methods that were not used. - Added more tests to increase the test coverage. - Fixed a bug where prefixes could be specified with invalid characters because there was a range (.-_) instead of three individual characters (.\-_). - Many files were left in the distribution or Subversion repository that were executable but need not be. Made them non-executable. - Clean up examples/ directory and move generated files out of t/ - isPerCould not parse Line '1.04 - Web Mar 03 20:49:43 2004' at /home/shlomif/bin/upgrade-to-CPAN-Changes line 40, line 271. maLink / guid fixes (RT#23983, Shlomi) - increased the test coverage of XML::RSS up to 100%. (Shlomif) - SECURITY BUG FIX: eliminated a markup injection vulnerability in the taxo:topics output of RSS 1.0. (Shlomif) - Moved the append function, which is unused and cannot be effectively used, out of the main module and into the rejects directory inside the repository (but outside the module). (Shlomif) - Added POD for full POD coverage. (Shlomif) - Several other bug fixes. (Shlomif) - Heavy refactoring of the code. (Shlomif) - perltidy configuration file; run perltidy on XML::RSS (and intentionally not on the tests) (ABH). - Removed the remaining tab characters. (Shlomif) - Fixed a bug in one of the tests. (Shlomif) - Converted the rendering processes of the various RSS versions to one class per RSS version and applied the "Convert Conditionals to Polymorphism" refactoring. (Shlomif) - Removed the languages hash which was completely unused. (Shlomif) - Converted the parsing routines to be methods of XML::RSS to increase modularity. XML::RSS no longer inherits from XML::Parser. (Shlomif) - Extracted several methods from the parsing stage. (Shlomif) - Added a regression test to https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24742 (Shlomif) - Tweaked the Makefile.PL Test::Run integration according to: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.qa/2006/11/msg7400.html (Shlomif) 1.22 2006-12-17 - Fix XML::Feed compatability. Make sure $item->{content} is always setup (broke in 1.20, RT#23822, Shlomi, Andreas J. Koenig) - Fix the tests to work on Win32 (RT#23752, Shlomi, Kenichi Ishigaki) - make add_module work for both RSS 1.0 and 2.0 (RT#16191, RT#18907, RT#13209, Ben Trott, Ivan Willis) - Fixed the problem with a version => "2.0" RSS not parsing correctly the namespaced elements in a RSS 1.0 feed (in RT#23822, Shlomi) - Channel->{link | textInput} (sic) property mapping in RSS 2.0 (RT#9862, Shlomi / chatiman) - Don't fail the tests if Test::Pod::Coverage is missing (reported by Andreas J. Koenig) 1.21 2006-12-05 - Support inserting a XSL stylesheet URL into the XML output (RT#11569, Jason A. Smith, Shlomi Fish) - Remove empty lines in the test_manifest - some versions of Test::Manifest doesn't do the right thing with those. (RT#23678, Hugo van der Sanden) - Add Pod::Coverage tests - More Date Conversion (Shlomi) - Fix for a Markup Injection Vulnerability (RT#23435, Shlomi) 1.20 2006-11-10 - Value for $XML::RSS::modules gets destroyed (RT#18755, Shlomi) - Note that YOU CAN NO LONGER USE $XML::RSS::modules, you have to use the add_modules call as documented! - encode generates warnings for undefined text (RT#13523, Mark Stosberg) - Missing last build date value in RSS 2.0 (RT#19417) - renamed the internal encode method to _encode - RSS 2.0 spec allows omission of title from entry (RT#18817, test from Shlomi) - Can't create "0" values in optional items (RT#11415, based on patch from Shlomi - thanks!) - Remove the executable bit from Makefile.PL - Add test to test regression of CPAN RT#5438 (Shlomi) - More tests... 1.12 2006-10-25 - Add more tests - make sure META.yml is correctly generated - Fix enclosure parsing (RT#7920, Tatsuhiko Miyagawa) - Incorrect entity encoding in XML output (RT#22467, reported by Stephen Hall) 1.11 2006-10-19 - use HTML::Entities instead of the "homegrown" entity encoding code - Minor doc fix (David Steinbrunner) - Fix encoding of the > char, added tests (RT#19420, Shlomi Fish) - XML::RSS ignores output encoding (RT#11124, RT#7343, test failures on win32, Vaclav Haisman, Steve Peters) - encoding of source element (RT#2285) - use base instead of @ISA - Thanks to Shlomi Fish for helping sorting through the RT queue! 1.10 2006-03-11 - Module (for now) maintained by Ask Bjoern Hansen - Fixed category output in RSS 2.0 (RT#17303, Yasuhiro Onishi) - Update documentation with new Subversion server and bug tracking - Clean up distribution (tests, Makefile.PL, file locations, ...) 1.05 2004-08-12 - fixed version number - improved RSS 2.0 generation support - typo and documentation fixes