Revision history for WebDyne

3.005 - 2026-08-02

Major Version 3 release.

• Added PAGI runtime support through WebDyne::PAGI and the webdyne.pagi wrapper, including HTTP, server-sent event, WebSocket, and lifespan request handling.
• Added a common request abstraction for standalone, Apache/mod_perl, PSGI, and PAGI execution environments.
• Refactored PSGI support into WebDyne::PSGI and expanded runtime handling for document roots, default documents, directory indexes, static files, and API routes.
• Added webdyne.apache for temporary local Apache/mod_perl execution without requiring a permanent system Apache configuration.
• Expanded wdapacheinit to support broader Apache installations, APXS discovery, installation and uninstall workflows, dry-run operation, and platform-specific configuration layouts.
• Expanded wdrender to exercise multiple request backends, including fake, PSGI, PAGI, and mod_perl, with support for request methods, headers, parameters, response inspection, and comparison testing.
• Added test-file modes to command-line compilation and rendering utilities.
• Added a bundled default stylesheet for generated WebDyne pages and improved the appearance of default directory index output.
• Added Docker runtime selection between PSGI and PAGI, with environment-variable tuning for server workers, timeouts, backlog, connection limits, and request body sizes.
• Improved request and static-file safety, including path traversal, upload, multipart, error handling, and binary response coverage.
• Reworked the documentation into a DocBook/MkDocs build with generated utility and module reference pages.
• Added extensive examples and expanded automated test coverage for runtime backends, wrappers, static handling, APIs, SSE, WebSockets, and command-line utilities.
• Removed the old WebDyne::CGI::PSGI adapter in favour of the new request and runtime abstraction.

2.021 - 2025-11-07

• Added multi-line <start_html> attributes for scripts, styles, and related inclusions.
• Prevented WebDyne substitution inside executable JavaScript blocks.
• Added default viewport metadata and expanded head inclusion support, including array-valued includes.
• Added Alpine/Vue attribute compatibility handling.

2.018 - 2025-10-29

• Added the <htmx> tag for request-aware HTML fragment rendering.
• Made directory indexes and static files available by default through the PSGI wrapper.
• Improved HTML tree handling, constant importing, and error reporting.

2.017 - 2025-10-27

• Added the <api> tag for lightweight JSON API responses using Router::Simple path matching.

2.015 - 2025-10-22

• Added the wdlint utility for checking Perl syntax in __PERL__ sections of PSP files.
• Added the default PSGI directory index page and --index support.

2.014 - 2025-10-18

• Replaced the CGI.pm-based HTML generation path with CGI::Simple and WebDyne::HTML::Tiny.
• Refactored compilation and evaluation handling around the new HTML generation backend.
• Added the JSON tag, alternate div-based WebDyne syntax, application/perl script blocks, and expanded HTML5 tag handling.
• Added PSGI/Plack support to the main WebDyne distribution, including command-line document-root and default-document selection.
• Added exported WebDyne::html() and WebDyne::html_sr() functions for standalone PSP rendering.
• Added WebDyne::Template to the core distribution and added PSGI static-file serving through --static.
• Added WEBDYNE_HEAD_INSERT for injecting common content into generated document heads.
• Added Docker build files and container-oriented development support, including automatic dependency installation from a mounted cpanfile.