Change history for MIME-Base64
3.16 2020-09-26
- Convert the build to Dist::Zilla to ensure we're releasing well built
packages
- Ensure all tests are using strict and warnings (thanks, Nicolas R).
- Cleanup this change log
- Add a .mailmap to cleanup our contributors list
- Use `our` instead of `use vars`
- Bump the required Perl version to v5.6.2
3.15 2015-01-12
- Avoid compilation warnings on Windows.
- Restore compatibility with perl-5.4
3.14 2013-07-02
- Install to 'site' instead of 'perl' when perl version is 5.12+
3.13 2010-10-26
- The fix in v3.12 to try to preserve the SvUTF8 flag was buggy
and actually managed to set the flag on strings that did not
have it originally.
3.12 2010-10-25
- Don't change SvUTF8 flag on the strings encoded [RT#60105]
- Documentation tweaks
3.11 2010-10-24
- Provide encode_base64url and decode_base64url functions to process
the base64 scheme for "URL applications".
- The decode_base64() does not issue warnings on suspect input data
any more.
3.10 2010-10-11
- Provide functions to calculate the length of encoded and decoded
base64 strings [RT#62404]
3.09 2010-01-25
- The Quoted-Printable encoder would sometimes output lines
that were 77 characters long. The max line length should be 76.
[RT#53919]
3.08 2009-06-09
- EBCDIC changes from core (Thanks, Jarkko Hietaniemi)
- Get rid of the PERL_CORE hacks (Thanks, Nicholas Clark)
3.07 2005-11-30
- Use a Makefile.PL that is also suitable for core perl.
3.06 2005-11-26
- Documentation tweaks.
- use XSLoader; perl-5.6 now required.
- Some consting from bleadperl.
- Unbundled the {en,de}code-{base64,qp} utility scripts.
These are now found in the MIME-Base64-Scripts package.
3.05 2004-09-20
- Steve Hay <steve.hay@uk.radan.com> found the warn test broken
on Windows and provided a fix.
3.04 2004-09-18
- Fixed the bad-sv.t test script to actually contain the
correct expected result as of v3.02.
3.03 2004-08-25
- Forgot to increment version number in MIME::QuotedPrint even
if its interface changed in 3.02. As a result you will now
need to require MIME::QuotedPrint 3.03 if you want to ensure
it provides the binmode interface.
3.02 2004-08-24
- The encode_qp() function now takes an optional third argument
to select binary encoding mode. (RT #7456)
- The result of encode_qp($non_empty, $eol) will now always be
$eol terminated. If the string to encode does not end with "\n"
then a soft line break is appended to the result. As an example
encode_qp("foo") used to be encoded as "foo", but now encodes as
"foo=\n".
3.01 2004-03-29
- By compiling the extension with PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT we can
make it slightly faster on a threaded perl. No change on a
regular perl. Patch provided by Beau E. Cox <beau@beaucox.com>.
- Fixed missing ";" with assert. Patch provided by
Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>.
3.00 2004-01-14
- Drop the pure Perl implementations of the encoders and
decoders. They are bloat that hides real problems in
the XS implementations. I will re-release them separately
in the new MIME-Base64-Perl distribution.
- The 'gcc -Wall' fix in 2.22 broke support for perl5.005,
as the isXDIGIT() macro is not available in that perl.
This problem has now been fixed.
2.23 2004-01-08
- Documentation fixes by Paul Croome <Paul.Croome@softwareag.com>.
2.22 2004-01-08
- Fix 'gcc -Wall' complaints.
2.21 2003-10-09
- Documentation tweaks.
- Don't rely on SvEND(sv) == '\0' as discussed in the perl5-porters
mailing list thread that starts with
- Should now pass test suite even without XS support.
- Perl v5.005 or better is now required.
2.20 2003-05-13
- decode_qp() recognize soft whitespace when there is whitespace
between the '=' and the '\n'.
2.19 2003-05-13
- decode_qp() did eat up all trailing whitespace in the string decoded.
- Only whitespace in front of "\n" should go.
- Win32 fix for t/warn.t by Reini Urban <rurban@x-ray.at>.
2.18 2003-03-09
- Fix up INSTALLDIRS for perl-5.8 and newer.
2.17 2003-03-09
- Make it reliable to disable base64 decoding warnings by
resetting $^W in recent perls. Would really like to be
able to do real lexical warnings but the current mechanism
does not seems suitable for XS code.
- Passing "" as $eol to encode_qp() disable soft line
breaks as well.
- Sync up with changes in bleadperl:
- safer patchlevel.h include
- bad cast
2.16 2003-01-05
- Fixed the encode_qp() line breaking code. It sometimes
made lines longer than 76 chars and it could even get into
an infinite loop on certain inputs.
2.15 2003-01-03
- Fixed the XS based decode_qp() for strings where a =XX
sequence was followed by digits.
- Faster encode_qp() for long strings with lots of chars
that need escaping.
- The old_decode_base64() function introduced in 2.13
was returning undef for empty input on olders perls.
This problem has been fixed.
2.14 2003-01-01
- MIME::QuotedPrint functions now also implemented using XS
which make them faster. 2-3 times faster when encoding line by
line and as much as 200 times faster on long binary input. There
is probably some breakage on non-ASCII systems from this.
- The encode_qp() function now takes an $eol argument in the
same way as encode_base64() does.
- Slight change in behaviour: the decode_qp() function now turns
\r\n terminated lines into \n terminated lines. This makes is
more likely that encode_qp(decode_qp()) round-trip properly.
- Included {en,de}code-{base64,qp} utility scripts.
2.13 2002-12-27
- Sync up with bleadperl:
- Documentation update
- EBCDIC support
- Whitespace tweaks
- Improved Unicode support
- Test suite tweaks
- Improved version of the old_{en,de}code_base64 functions
contributed by Paul Szabo <psz@maths.usyd.edu.au>.
2.12 2001-02-23
- Speed up pure perl base64 encoder/decoder by using join/map instead
of while loop. Contributed by Arno Beckmann <arno@gmx.de>
- Doc update contributed by Jerrad Pierce <belg4mit@CALLOWAY.MIT.EDU>
- Downgrade UTF8 strings before starting to encode.
2.11 1999-02-27
- Fixed bogus "Premature end of base64 data" warning (Thanks, Dwayne
Jacques Fontenot)
- Workaround for Redhat shipping trial releases of perl.
2.10 1998-12-18
- A tweak that should make compilation with some old perl5.00[23]
perls better.
- A cast that make some compilers more happy.
2.09 1998-11-13
- The 2.08 release did not compile with perl5.005_53, because
all simple globals now need to be prefixed with "PL_".
2.08 1998-10-22
- Found another tweak to speed up decode_base64() with another 3%.
- Improved MIME::Base64 documentation a little.
2.07 1998-10-21
- Faster and smarter C implementation of the decode_base64()
function. The new decode_base64() was 25% faster when tested
on Linux, i586, gcc -O2.
2.06 1998-07-15
- The decode_base64() implemented in pure perl will only carp
(not croak) if length of data to decode is not a multiple 4. This
actually made 'make test' fail after 'rm Base64.xs'.
2.05 1998-01-27
- The decode_base64() would previously allocate a too short buffer for the
result string when the trailing "==" padding was missing in the string to
be decoded.
- The encode_base64() now allocate one byte less space in the result
strings returned.
2.04 1997-12-02
- Documentation expanded a bit.
2.03 1997-07-10
- Decode_base64() doesn't croak on premature ended data any more.
A warning is generated instead if running under -w.
2.02 1997-06-27
- QuotedPrint fix by Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>:
- Long lines were not broken unless they're at the beginning
of the text
- Lines near but not over 76 chars were broken when they
shouldn't be
2.01 1997-06-13
- Base64.xs: Avoid type conversion warnings with some compilers
- Minor documentation updates
2.00 1997-04-24
- based on libwww-perl-5.08.