Changes for version v0.5.2 - 2026-07-23
- BREAKING: Concierge::Auth->new's constructor key renamed from backend to backend_class, to disambiguate it from the unrelated "friendly name" sense of backend used elsewhere in the Concierge suite (Concierge::Sessions, Concierge::Users, and the auth/ sessions/users blocks of a Concierge desk's build config all accept a short friendly name like 'pwd'/'database'/'file' under backend; Concierge::Auth's own key has always required an already-resolved, fully-qualified class name, which backend_class now makes explicit). Updated the two internal call sites in the core Concierge repo (Concierge.pm and Desk::Setup.pm) accordingly.
- Removed the 10 stale examples/*.pl scripts (01-basic-authentication.pl through 10-architecture-comparison.pl) and their coverage in examples/README.md: all called removed methods (checkID/checkPwd/ setPwd/resetPwd/deleteID) and used the pre-v0.5.0 hashref constructor. Archived copies are kept outside this distribution, in the core Concierge repo's ZZZ_archive/Concierge-Auth-examples/.
- Renamed examples/11-custom-backend-ldap.pl to examples/1-custom-backend-ldap.pl, now the sole example; rewrote examples/README.md to describe just this one script plus a note that more examples are planned.
- Updated MANIFEST to match.
Modules
Factory/dispatcher for Concierge::Auth backends
Base class / contract for Concierge::Auth backends
Value generation utilities for Concierge::Auth
Password-file Concierge::Auth backend using Crypt::Passphrase