Modern Perl

Perl Catalyst 5.90079 Development 004 "Holland' On CPAN

I'm please to announce the 4th development release in the Perl Catalyst "Holland" branch!

https://metacpan.org/release/JJNAPIORK/Catalyst-Runtime-5.90079_004

We continue to make changes around encoding and UTF8 to better support existing plugins and existing code.  We also made a first stab at documentation and tried to make using encoding a bit more flexible.  See the full change log:

https://metacpan.org/changes/release/JJNAPIORK/Catalyst-Runtime-5.90079_004

I am encouraging people to make this a development release you bother to test since the changes to fix UTF8 support are deeper than the average release.  I am targeting January 28, 2015 to make this stable so less than a month to review and get me your feedback!

-- luck, jnap

Development release 001 of Catalyst 5.90080 "Holland" on CPAN

Hey all!

There's a new development release on CPAN which has a ton of fixes and changes around UTF8 and encoding.  Amongst these changes are te fact UTF8 encoding is enabled by default, which is a proposed change still subject to reversing if it turns out to be too painful.

https://metacpan.org/release/JJNAPIORK/Catalyst-Runtime-5.90079_001

If you never bother to test development releases of Catalyst, this is the one time you really should.  I expect this dev cycle to remain elongated compared to the ones in the recent past given the depth of refactoring here.  

Although the bulk of the changes are around UTF8 and encoding there's a few other tweaks, including a new dispatcher mathing rule 'Scheme' that lets you match actions based on the URL scheme (for example to require an action to be HTTPS).

If you are a CPAN author that supports bits in the extended Catalyst ecosystem I recommend testing as well.

Happy holidays!

jnap

 

Catalyst Advent 2014

http://www.catalystframework.org/calendar/2014

I don't have articles to cover 25 days and could use a hand!  I can commit to doing articles on each new feature and a review of the current development branch "Holland".  That's about 10 articles.  The rest I could really use some contrib.

Thanks!

jnap