Changes for version v2.0.15 - 2025-04-03 (TRIAL RELEASE)
- API / Behaviour Changes:
- Rename Bifcode2 back to just Bifcode.
- Enhancements:
- Avoid heavy use of 'return' statements
- Packaging:
- Need at least OptArgs2 v2.0.0 for diff-bifcode test.
- Add Test2::Require::Module to cpanfile
- Avoid triggering old bugs in Math::BigInt.
Changes for version 2.0.0_14 - 2022-02-02
- Bug Fixes:
- Document limitations of decoding large numbers.
- Dependencies:
- Need at least version 1.999723 of Math::BigInt for the bdstr() and bnstr() methods.
Changes for version 2.0.0_13 - 2022-02-01
- New Features:
- New infinity types INF and NEGINF
- New Not a number type NAN
Changes for version 2.0.0_12 - 2022-01-17
- API / Behaviour Changes:
- Rename Bifcode::V2 to Bifcode2
- Dependencies:
- Add development dep on Text::Table::Tiny for t/synopsis.pl
- Suggest on develop dep OptArgs2 for bin/diff-bifcode
- Packaging:
- Split Bifcode::V1 back into its own Bifcode distribution
Changes for version 2.0.0_11 - 2022-01-14
- API / Behaviour Changes:
- All V2 functions now named like encode_bifcodeV2()
- Bug Fixes:
- Several documentation fixes for previous Bifcode to Bifcode::V2 naming change
- Use Bifcode::V2 in (previously broken) diff-bifcode
- Packaging:
- Change to semver versioning
Changes for version 2.000_10 - 2020-01-31
- Bug Fixes:
- Fix up missing Bifcode -> Bifcode::V2 changes in t/
Changes for version 2.000_9 - 2020-01-30
- API / Behaviour Changes:
- Rename Bifcode -> Bifcode::V2 so that it is explicitly obvious which version is in use.
- Enhancements:
- More idomatic and robust tests for AnyEvent::Handle support
- Packaging:
- Set ExtUtils::MakeMaker RECURSIVE_TEST_FILES
- Add a test script to compare Bifcode vs Bifcode::V1 performance
Changes for version 2.000_8 - 2019-11-13
- Dependencies:
- Hopefully support Perl 5.12 by not using "package BLOCK" in error class.
Changes for version 2.000_7 - 2019-11-13
- API / Behaviour Changes:
- Extra argument to encode_bifcode() for BIFCODE_BIFCODE generation. Bifcode::BIFCODE objects are no longer used.
- Dependencies:
- Convert Bifcode::V1 tests to Test2::V0.
- Packaging:
- Depend on Text::Diff explicitly for tests (closes RT#130969)
- Add an 'anyevent-handle' feature that depends on AnyEvent::Handle.
Changes for version 2.000_5 - 2019-11-11
- API / Behaviour Changes:
- Rename everything Bifcode2 back to Bifcode
- Enhancements:
- Make diff-bifcode an optional "feature"
- Packaging:
- Convert all tests to Test2::V0.
Changes for version 2.000_4 - 2019-11-09
- API / Behaviour Changes:
- Rename Bifcode::V2 -> Bifcode2
- Rename *_bifcode() functions to *_bifcode2()
- Enhancements:
- Better test function names.
- Better test for decoding of BIFCODE_REAL.
- Proper AnyEvent support with tests
Changes for version 2.000_3 - 2019-09-09
- API / Behaviour Changes:
- Re-introduce requirement for BIFCODE_DICT keys to be BIFCODE_UTF8 or BIFCODE_BYTES.
- New Features:
- New BIFCODE_BIFCODE type for framing Bifcodes across a network connection.
- Support AnyEvent::Handle integration.
- Enhancements:
- Only load Carp when we actually need to croak
- Packaging:
- Add some missing (bugtracker, repo) META data.
Changes for version 2.000_2 - 2019-09-08
- API / Behaviour Changes:
- Use ":" to separate hash keys from values.
- Allow hash keys to be of any type.
- Enhancements:
- Inflate numbers as Perl IV and NV values.
- Better automatic UTF8/BYTES detection.
Changes for version 2.000_1 - 2019-09-02
- API / Behaviour Changes:
- Implements bifcode version 2, incompatible with version 1.
Documentation
compare files containing Bifcode
Modules
encode and decode Bifcode serialization format
simple serialization format