Revision history for Perl extension Geo::IP.
1.31 March 22nd 2008
- Added BL/Saint Barthelemy, MF/Saint Martin (ISO-3166-1 additions)
- Change default database name for NetWare to sys:/etc/GeoIP/GeoIP.dat
and MSWin32 to c:/GeoIP/GeoIP.dat ( Guenter Knauf )
- Added support for time_zone lookup in GeoIP City API
1.30 December 16th 2007
- Add GEOIP_MMAP_CACHE support ( Peter Shipley )
- Added last_netmask - gets netmask of network block from last lookup
- Merged in Geo::IP::PurePerl code, PurePerl code is mostly
API compatible with XS code, except for charset functions
! Added set_charset - enables UTF8 output of city name - requires C API 1.4.3 or greater
1.28 July 4th 2007
- Added support for region name lookup in GeoIP City API
- Fixed database_info method (Ken Neighbors)
1.27 September 8th 2005
- Fixed Autoloader/open issue (Alexander Vasiljev)
- Fixed compilation error in Perl 5.005 with semicolon
in GeoIP_database_info in IP.xs (Stephen Schulte)
- Added support for open_type (Frank Mather)
1.26 May 19th 2005
- Fixed segfault issue if non-resolvable domain name is
passed to region_by_addr or region_by_name
- Added support for GEOIP_INDEX_CACHE - which just caches
the most frequently accessed index portion of the database, resulting
in faster lookups than GEOIP_STANDARD, but less memory usage than
GEOIP_MEMORY_CACHE
1.25 December 24th 2004
- Added database_info method (Frank Mather)
- Added example/netspeed.pl to MANIFEST
1.24 November 30th 2004
- Fixed memory leak in ISP/Organization database lookups
by adding O_CHAR to typemap
1.23 October 6th 2004
- Updated test case, removed www.bundesregierung.de
- Geo::Mirror: fallback to using Geo::IP::PurePerl if Geo::IP is not available
(Graham Barr)
- Geo::Mirror: added support for mirror freshness
1.22 July 29th 2004
- Added support for Netspeed
- Fixed IP address in examples
1.21 July 28th 2003
- Added support for GEOIP_CHECK_CACHE
1.20 June 6th 2003
- Added support for GeoIP City Format Rev 1, DMA Codes and area codes
1.15 March 4th 2003
- Added support for GeoIP Organization and ISP databases
1.14 February 19th 2003
- Added support for GeoIP Region Edition
1.13 December 24th 2002
- Added float to typemap, required to compile for Perl < 5.8
1.12 December 11th 2002
- Added support for postal codes
- Removed non-portable asprintf code
1.11 November 22nd 2002
- Forget to include typemap and INSTALL in MANIFEST
1.10 November 22nd 2002
- Added support for GeoIP City Edition
- Added more documentation on where to get databases,
and sourceforge.
0.26 July 25th 2002
Geo::IP
- Made flags optional to new and open
- Removed www.moinfo.gov.kw from test, domain no longer resolves.
0.20 June 25th 2002
Geo::IP
- Brought up to date with latest changes for GeoIP C 0.2.0
0.11 April 27th 2002
Geo::IP
- install process works for non-standard GeoIP C library installs
0.10 April 21st 2002
Geo::IP
- Fixed DESTROY (Brian Grossman)
Geo::Mirror
- Set PI to more accurate value (Mike Mitchell)
0.09 April 8th 2002
Geo::Mirror
- Fixed bug when no database file specified.
- Fixed bug in t/3_mirror.t test script
0.08 April 7th 2002
Geo::IP
- This perl module is now a XS wrapper around the GeoIP C library
for improved performance. Note that the API has changed.
- Removed the geoip-lookup script, since GeoIP C contains a
geoiplookup executable that provides the same functionality
0.07 April 1st 2002
Geo::IP
- Removed dependency on Berkeley DB - requires new
Geo-IP data format.
0.06 February 19th 2002
Geo::IP
- Added new method, lookup_country_by_name,
performs DNS lookup of IP address for hostnames
- added O_RDWR option to tie DB_File for
compatibility (Allen Smith)
- makes directory '/usr/local/geoip' (Philip Mak)
- added binmode for compatibility (Randy Kobes)
Geo::Mirror
- Mirror when doesn't find country, default to US
- Special handing for "EU" (European Union)
treat as country with coordinates between
Germany and Italy.
0.05 February 15th 2002
- Added new option to Geo::Mirror->new, database_file
- Fixed test problem with t/3_mirror.t
- Added error handling to Makefile.PL for database download
0.04 February 15th 2002
- Added new module, Geo::Mirror
- Added new default file location for database in /usr/local/geoip/Geo-IP.db
- Installation easier, Makefile.PL downloads and extracts database file
- Added geolookup script
- Removed old Net::Geography wrapper
0.03 July 28th 2001
- Geo::IP now generates Berkeley DB file from
data file, to get around differing versions
of Berkeley DB.
- now croaks if db file can not be opened (Nick Craig-Wood)
0.02 July 11th 2001
- renamed to Geo::IP from Net::Geography
- revised docs
- data separated from perl distribution, can
be downloaded from http://geo-ip.com
0.01 June 30th 2001
- original version; created by h2xs 1.19