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This file documents the revision history for Perl extension Catalyst.

5.10  Sat Apr 23 11:16:00 2005
        - Updated: require latest Module::Pluggable::Fast
        - New installer for templates and stuff using Module::Build
        - scripts are now prefixed, for being installable
        IMPORTANT: You have to regenerate the script directory,
        remove Makefile.PL and add Build.PL
        - Added compat to install Module::Build if required.
        - Improved: Params handling with MP engines
        - Fixed: Params handling on POST with CGI engine (Andy Grundman)
        - Fixed: Helper.pm on Win32 (Matt S Trout)

5.03  Tue Apr 19 20:35:00 2005 (Revision 462)
        - Fixed Test example (Torsten Seeman)
        - Added Plugins chapter to manual
        - applied doc patch from Robert Boone <robert@rlb3.com>
        - Improved Dispatcher error messages.
        - Refactored so we don't need to include helper from
          Catalyst.pm - Fixes issues with FindBin
        - applied HTTP.pm patch from Andy Grundman <andy@hybridized.org>
        - added plugin() method for instant plugins
        - FCGI is no more considered experimental

5.02  Mon Apr 18 10:00:00 2005
        - fixed manifest

5.01  Sun Apr 17 23:00:00 2005
        - some documentation bugs fixed
        - added Catalyst::Utils
        - fixed regexp bug (Matt S Trout)
        - fixed upload bug with MP19
        - added $c->req->body
        - aliased $c->res->output to $c->res->body
        - Read AUTHOR from passwd or $ENV{AUTHOR} when 
          generating code.
        - extended attribute handling
        - added global config for components

5.00  Fri Apr 15 18:00:00 2005
        - new core to support inheritance trees
        - new syntax for action declaration
        - new helper system using TT2
        - problems with mod_perl2 fixed
        - added Test::Pod support
        - added new server backend with HTTP/1.1 support
        - added option to run tests against a remote server
        - renamed errors() to error()
        - more better docs
        - countless minor improvements
          IMPORTANT: This release is very incompatible to previous ones
          and you have to regenerate the helper scripts again...

4.34  Wed Mar 23 07:00:00 2005
        - added some messages to Makefile.PL
        - added Catalyst::Engine::Test
        - added Catalyst::Engine::CGI::NPH
        - simplified Catalyst::Log to be easier to implement/subclass
        - added cgi.pl
        - updated Catalyst::Test to use Catalyst::Engine::Test
        - updated helper scripts
          IMPORTANT: this will be the last time you'll have to regenerate
          the script directory. We promise!

4.33  Wed Mar 23 01:00:00 2005
        - documented the log() accessor method in Catalyst (Andrew Ford)
        - added optional arguments to Catalyst::Log methods (Andrew Ford)
        - removed cgi-server.pl
        - added fcgi.pl and Catalyst::Engine::FCGI
        - fixed an undef durng make test (Dan Sully)
        - new path test (Christian Hansen)
          IMPORTANT: you have to regenerate the script directory again

4.32  Tue Mar 22 02:10:00 2005
        - made a damn typo *AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!*

4.31  Tue Mar 22 02:00:00 2005
        - fixed inheritance (Christian Hansen)
        - previous release was borked!
          fixed that, but you have to regenerate the scripts again :(

4.30  Mon Mar 21 23:00:00 2005
        - more documentation (Andrew Ford)
        - added connection informations (Christian Hansen)
        - HTTP::Request support in Catalyst::Test (Christian Hansen)
        - moved cgi.pl to nph-cgi.pl
        - added Catalyst::Engine::Server (Christian Hansen)
        - removed Catalyst::Test::server
        - updated helper scripts
          IMPORTANT: note that you have to regenerate script/server.pl,
          script/cgi-server.pl and script/cgi.pl (now nph-cgi.pl)

4.28  Sat Mar 19 22:00:00 2005
        - fixed isa tree (Christian Hansen)
        - added script/cgi-server.pl, so no more server restarting after
          code changes
        - reworked documentation (Andrew Ford <A.Ford@ford-mason.co.uk>)

4.27  Sat Mar 19 01:00:00 2005
        - debug message for parameters
        - Fix redirects (Christian Hansen <ch@ngmedia.com>)
        - some random fixes
        - new helper api for Catalyst::Helper::* support
          you have to update script/create.pl to use it

4.26  Wed Mar 16 10:00:00 2005
        - fixed the weird bug that caused regex actions to fail on every
          second request
        - more debug messages
        - 100% pod coverage.

4.25  Sat Mar 12 18:00:00 2005
        - correct perl pathes for helper generated scripts (Tatsuhiko Miyagawa)
        - improved cgi engine docs (Christoper Hicks)

4.24  Sat Mar 12 01:00:00 2005
        - updated cookbook example  
        - fixed base for apache and https (Andrew Ruthven)
        
4.23  Wed Mar 09 20:00:00 2005
        - no more regex actions in forward
        - added support for test directories t/m, t/v and t/c

4.22  Tue Mar 08 20:00:00 2005
        - catch errors in application class
        - handle die properly.

4.21  Sat Mar 05 17:00:00 2005
        - fixed docs

4.20  Fri Mar 04 22:00:00 2005
        - moved bin to script

4.13  Thu Mar 03 11:00:00 2005
        - improved documentation
        - pod coverage test for helper generated apps
        - new helper api

4.12  Wed Mar 02 11:00:00 2005
        - server_base sucks, removed
        - added $c->log->dump()

4.11  Wed Mar 02 11:00:00 2005
        - removed some warnings
        - improved docs
        - private prefixed actions override private non prefixed actions
        - added server_base
        - updated Catalyst::Manual::Intro

4.10  Wed Mar 02 10:00:00 2005
        - improved documentation
        - fixed upload bug
        - fixed prefixed private actions bug
        - fixed more little bugs

4.01  Tue Mar 01 10:00:00 2005
        - improved documentation
        - documentation fixes (Johan Lindstrom)

4.00  Sun Feb 27 22:00:00 2005
        - more verbose debug messages, especially for forward()
        - implemented prefixed prvate actions, icluding built in
          !?default, !?begin and !?end
        - new Catalyst::Manual::Intro
        - new helpers, bin/catalyst
        - helper api

3.11  Wed Feb 23 21:00:00 2005
        - added dependency to UNIVERSAL::require (Marcus Ramberg)
        - added a little workaround for a warning in Catalyst::Test
          (Marcus Ramberg)
        - improved documentation for actions

3.10  Thu Feb 19 20:00:00 2005
        - removed roles management from Catalyst::Engine
          and added it to Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication::CDBI

3.04  Thu Feb 17 21:00:00 2005
        - error reporting for app class
        - no more engine debug messages
        - class->method forwards get resolved now

3.03  Wed Feb 16 23:00:00 2005
        - friendlier statistics

3.02  Wed Feb 16 22:00:00 2005
        - fixed unintialized actions (Marcus Ramberg)

3.01  Wed Feb 16 20:30:00 2005
        - better statistics

3.00  Wed Feb 16 20:00:00 2005
        - real version number for CPAN.pm
        - fixed redirect in CGI engine
        - more statistics in debug logs
        - ? prefix for forward()

2.99_15  Wed Feb 02 22:00:00 2005
        - support for short namespaces, MyApp::M, MyApp::V and MyApp::C
        - Replaced "Catched" with "Caught" in Catalyst::Engine
          (Gary Ashton Jones)
        - replaced _ with ! for private actions
        - added ? for prefixed actions
        - misc improvememts

2.99_14  Mon Jan 31 22:00:00 2005
        - arguments for _default
        - $c->entrance removed for more flexibility
        - added $c->req->method

2.99_13  Sun Jan 30 18:00:00 2005
        - POD fixes and improvements

2.99_12  Fri Jan 28 22:00:00 2005
        - first development release