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Revision history for Perl extension JSON::XS

TODO: maybe detetc and croak on more invalid inputs (e.g. +-inf/nan)
TODO: maybe avoid the reblessing and better support readonly objects.
TODO: http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=104 compression

3.01 Tue Oct 29 16:55:15 CET 2013
        - backport to perls < 5.18 (reported by Paul Howarth).

3.0  Tue Oct 29 01:35:37 CET 2013
        - implemented an object tagging extension (using the
          Types::Serialiser serialisation protocol).
        - reworked the documentation regarding object serialisation,
          add a new OBJECT SERIALISATION section that explains the
          whole process.
        - new setting: allow_tags.
        - switch to Types::Serialiser booleans.
        - remove to_json/from_json.
        - other minor improvements to the documentation.

2.34 Thu May 23 11:30:34 CEST 2013
        - work around bugs in perl 5.18 breaking more than 100
          widely used modules, without a fix in sight because
          p5pers don't care about CPAN anymore.
        - when canonicalising, only allocate up to 64 hash key
          pointers on the stack. for larger hashes, use the heap,
          to avoid using too much stackspace.
        - discuss the problem with setlocale (reported by a few victims).

2.33 Wed Aug  1 21:03:52 CEST 2012
        - internal encode/decode XS wrappers did not expect stack
          moves caused by callbacks (analyzed and testcase by Jesse Luehrs).
        - add bencode as to/from option in bin/json_xs.
        - add -e option to json_xs, and none and string in/out formats.

2.32 Thu Aug 11 19:06:38 CEST 2011
        - fix a bug in the initial whitespace accumulation.

2.31 Wed Jul 27 17:53:05 CEST 2011
        - don't accumulate initial whitespace in the incremental buffer
          (this can be useful to allow whitespace-keepalive on a tcp
          connection without triggering the max_size limit).
        - properly croak on some invalid inputs that are not strings
          (e.g. undef) when trying to decode a json text (reported
          and analyzed by Goro Fuji).

2.3   Wed Aug 18 01:26:47 CEST 2010
        - make sure decoder doesn't change the decoding in the incremental
          parser (testcase provided by Hendrik Schumacher).
        - applied patch by DaTa for Data::Dumper support in json_xs.
        - added -t dump support to json_xs, using Data::Dump.
        - added -f eval support to json_xs.

2.29  Wed Mar 17 02:39:12 CET 2010
        - fix a memory leak when callbacks set using filter_json_object
          or filter_json_single_key_object were called (great testcase
          by Eric Wilhelm).

2.28  Thu Mar 11 20:30:46 CET 2010
        - implement our own atof function - perl's can be orders of
          magnitudes slower than even the system one. on the positive
          side, ours seems to be more exact in general than perl's.
          (testcase provided by Tim Meadowcroft).
        - clarify floating point conversion issues a bit.
        - update jpsykes csrf article url.
        - updated benchmark section - JSON::PP became much faster!

2.27  Thu Jan  7 07:35:08 CET 2010
        - support relaxed option inside the incremental parser
          (testcase provided by IKEGAMI via Makamaka).

2.26  Sat Oct 10 03:26:19 CEST 2009
        - big integers could become truncated (based on patch
          by Strobl Anton).
        - output format change: indent now adds a final newline, which is
          more expected and more true to the documentation.

2.25  Sat Aug  8 12:04:41 CEST 2009
        - the perl debugger completely breaks lvalue subs - try to work
          around the issue.
        - ignore RMAGICAL hashes w.r.t. CANONICAL.
        - try to work around a possible char signedness issue on aix.
        - require common sense.

2.24  Sat May 30 08:25:45 CEST 2009
        - the incremental parser did not update its parse offset
          pointer correctly when parsing utf8-strings (nicely
          debugged by Martin Evans).
        - appending a non-utf8-string to the incremental parser
          in utf8 mode failed to upgrade the string.
        - wording of parse error messages has been improved.

2.232 Sun Feb 22 11:12:25 CET 2009
        - use an exponential algorithm to extend strings, to
          help platforms with bad or abysmal==windows memory
          allocater performance, at the expense of some memory
          wastage (use shrink to recover this extra memory).
          (nicely analysed by Dmitry Karasik).

2.2311 Thu Feb 19 02:12:54 CET 2009
        - add a section "JSON and ECMAscript" to explain some
          incompatibilities between the two (problem was noted by
          various people).
        - add t/20_faihu.t.

2.231 Thu Nov 20 04:59:08 CET 2008
        - work around 5.10.0 magic bugs where manipulating magic values
          (such as $1) would permanently damage them as perl would
          ignore the magicalness, by making a full copy of the string,
          reported by Dmitry Karasik.
        - work around spurious warnings under older perl 5.8's.

2.23 Mon Sep 29 05:08:29 CEST 2008
        - fix a compilation problem when perl is not using char * as, well,
          char *.
        - use PL_hexdigit in favour of rolling our own.

2.2222 Sun Jul 20 18:49:00 CEST 2008
        - same game again, broken 5.10 finds yet another assertion
          failure, and the workaround causes additional runtime warnings.
          Work around the next assertion AND the warning. 5.10 seriously
          needs to adjust it's attitude against working code.

2.222 Sat Jul 19 06:15:34 CEST 2008
        - you work around one -DDEBUGGING assertion bug in perl 5.10
          just to hit the next one. work around this one, too.

2.22 Tue Jul 15 13:26:51 CEST 2008
        - allow higher nesting levels in incremental parser.
        - error out earlier in some cases in the incremental parser
          (as suggested by Yuval Kogman).
        - improve incr-parser test (Yuval Kogman).

2.21 Tue Jun  3 08:43:23 CEST 2008
        - (hopefully) work around a perl 5.10 bug with -DDEBUGGING.
        - remove the experimental status of the incremental parser interface.
        - move =encoding around again, to avoid bugs with search.cpan.org.
          when can we finally have utf-8 in pod???
        - add ->incr_reset method.

2.2  Wed Apr 16 20:37:25 CEST 2008
        - lifted the log2 rounding restriction of max_depth and max_size.
        - make booleans mutable by creating a copy instead of handing out
          the same scalar (reported by pasha sadri).
        - added support for incremental json parsing (still EXPERIMENTAL).
        - implemented and added a json_xs command line utility that can convert
          from/to a number of serialisation formats - tell me if you need more.
        - implement allow_unknown/get_allow_unknown methods.
        - fixed documentation of max_depth w.r.t. higher and equal.
        - moved down =encoding directive a bit, too much breaks if it's the first
          pod directive :/.
        - removed documentation section on other modules, it became somewhat
          outdated and is nowadays mostly of historical interest.

2.1  Wed Mar 19 23:23:18 CET 2008
        - update documentation here and there: add a large section
          about utf8/latin1/ascii flags, add a security consideration
          and extend and clarify the JSON and YAML section.
        - medium speed enhancements when encoding/decoding non-ascii chars.
        - minor speedup in number encoding case.
        - extend and clarify the section on incompatibilities
          between YAML and JSON.
        - switch to static inline from just inline when using gcc.
        - add =encoding utf-8 to the manpage, now that perl 5.10 supports it.
        - fix some issues with UV to JSON conversion of unknown impact.
        - published the yahoo locals search result used in benchmarks as the
          original url changes so comparison is impossible.

2.01 Wed Dec  5 11:40:28 CET 2007
        - INCOMPATIBLE API CHANGE: to_json and from_json have been
          renamed to encode_json/decode_json for JSON.pm compatibility.
          The old functions croak and might be replaced by JSON.pm
          comaptible versions in some later release.

2.0  Tue Dec  4 11:30:46 CET 2007
        - this is supposed to be the first version of JSON::XS
          compatible with version 2.0+ of the JSON module.
          Using the JSON module as frontend to JSON::XS should be
          as fast as using JSON::XS directly, so consider using it
          instead.
        - added get_* methods for all "simple" options.
        - make JSON::XS subclassable.

1.53 Tue Nov 13 23:58:33 CET 2007
        - minor doc clarifications.
        - fixed many doc typos (patch by Thomas L. Shinnick).

1.52 Mon Oct 15 03:22:06 CEST 2007
        - remove =encoding pod directive again, it confuses too many pod
          parsers :/.

1.51 Sat Oct 13 03:55:56 CEST 2007
        - encode empty arrays/hashes in a compact way when pretty is enabled.
        - apparently JSON::XS was used to find some bugs in the
          JSON_checker testsuite, so add (the corrected) JSON_checker tests to
          the testsuite.
        - quite a bit of doc updates/extension.
        - require 5.8.2, as this seems to be the first unicode-stable version.

1.5  Tue Aug 28 04:05:38 CEST 2007
        - add support for tied hashes, based on ideas and testcase by
          Marcus Holland-Moritz.
        - implemented relaxed parsing mode where some extensions are being
          accepted. generation is still JSON-only.

1.44 Wed Aug 22 01:02:44 CEST 2007
        - very experimental process-emulation support, slowing everything down.
          the horribly broken perl threads are still not supported - YMMV.

1.43 Thu Jul 26 13:26:37 CEST 2007
        - convert big json numbers exclusively consisting of digits to NV
          only when there is no loss of precision, otherwise to string.

1.42 Tue Jul 24 00:51:18 CEST 2007
        - fix a crash caused by not handling missing array elements
          (report and testcase by Jay Kuri).

1.41 Tue Jul 10 18:21:44 CEST 2007
        - fix compilation with NDEBUG (assert side-effect),
          affects convert_blessed only.
        - fix a bug in decode filters calling ENTER; SAVETMPS;
          one time too often.
        - catch a typical error in TO_JSON methods.
        - antique-ised XS.xs again to work with outdated
          C compilers (windows...).

1.4  Mon Jul  2 10:06:30 CEST 2007
        - add convert_blessed setting.
        - encode did not catch all blessed objects, encoding their
          contents in most cases. This has been fixed by introducing
          the allow_blessed setting.
        - added filter_json_object and filter_json_single_key_object
          settings that specify a callback to be called when
          all/specific json objects are encountered.
        - assume that most object keys are simple ascii words and
          optimise this case, penalising the general case. This can
          speed up decoding by 30% in typical cases and gives
          a smaller and faster perl hash.
        - implemented simpleminded, optional resource size checking
          in decode_json.
        - remove objToJson/jsonToObj aliases, as the next version
          of JSON will not have them either.
        - bit the bullet and converted the very simple json object
          into a more complex one.
        - work around a bug where perl wrongly claims an integer
          is not an integer.
        - unbundle JSON::XS::Boolean into own pm file so Storable
          and similar modules can resolve the overloading when thawing.

1.3  Sun Jun 24 01:55:02 CEST 2007
        - make JSON::XS::true and false special overloaded objects
          and return those instead of 1 and 0 for those json atoms
          (JSON::PP compatibility is NOT achieved yet).
        - add JSON::XS::is_bool predicate to test for those special
          values.
        - add a reference to
          http://jpsykes.com/47/practical-csrf-and-json-security.
        - removed require 5.8.8 again, it is just not very expert-friendly.
          Also try to be more compatible with slightly older versions,
          which are not recommended (because they are buggy).

1.24 Mon Jun 11 05:40:49 CEST 2007
        - added informative section on JSON-as-YAML.
        - get rid of some c99-isms again.
        - localise dec->cur in decode_str, speeding up
          string decoding considerably (>15% on my amd64 + gcc).
        - increased SHORT_STRING_LEN to 16kb: stack space is
          usually plenty, and this actually saves memory
          when !shrinking as short strings will fit perfectly.

1.23 Wed Jun  6 20:13:06 CEST 2007
        - greatly improved small integer encoding and decoding speed.
        - implement a number of µ-optimisations.
        - updated benchmarks.

1.22 Thu May 24 00:07:25 CEST 2007
        - require 5.8.8 explicitly as older perls do not seem to offer
          the required macros.
        - possibly made it compile on so-called C compilers by microsoft.

1.21 Wed May  9 18:40:32 CEST 2007
        - character offset reported for trailing garbage was random.

1.2  Wed May  9 18:35:01 CEST 2007
        - decode did not work with magical scalars (doh!).
        - added latin1 flag to produce JSON texts in the latin1 subset
          of unicode.
        - flag trailing garbage as error.
        - new decode_prefix method that returns the number
          of characters consumed by a decode.
        - max octets/char in perls UTF-X is actually 13, not 11,
          as pointed out by Glenn Linderman.
        - fixed typoe reported by YAMASHINA Hio.

1.11 Mon Apr  9 07:05:49 CEST 2007
        - properly 0-terminate sv's returned by encode to help
          C libraries that expect that 0 to be there.
        - partially "port" JSON from C to microsofts fucking broken
          pseudo-C. They should be burned to the ground for pissing
          on standards. And I should be stoned for even trying to
          support this filthy excuse for a c compiler.

1.1  Wed Apr  4 01:45:00 CEST 2007
        - clarify documentation (pointed out by Quinn Weaver).
        - decode_utf8 sometimes did not correctly flag errors,
          leading to segfaults.
        - further reduced default nesting depth to 512 due to the test
          failure by that anonymous "chris" whose e-mail address seems
          to be impossible to get. Tests on other freebsd systems indicate
          that this is likely a problem in his/her configuration and not this
          module.
        - renamed json => JSON in error messages.
        - corrected the character offset in some error messages.

1.01 Sat Mar 31 16:15:40 CEST 2007
        - do not segfault when from_json/decode gets passed
          a non-string object (reported by Florian Ragwitz).
          This has no effect on normal operation.

1.0  Thu Mar 29 04:43:34 CEST 2007
        - the long awaited (by me) 1.0 version.
        - add \0 (JSON::XS::false) and \1 (JSON::XS::true) mappings to JSON
          true and false.
        - add some more notes to shrink, as suggested by Alex Efros.
        - improve testsuite.
        - halve the default nesting depth limit, to hopefully make it
          work on Freebsd (unfortunately, the cpan tester did not
          send me his report, so I cannot ask about the stack limit on fbsd).

0.8  Mon Mar 26 00:10:48 CEST 2007
        - fix a memleak when decoding hashes.
        - export jsonToBj and objToJson as aliases
          to to_json and from_json, to reduce incompatibilities
          between JSON/JSON::PC and JSON::XS. (experimental).
        - implement a maximum nesting depth for both en- and de-coding.
        - added a security considerations sections.

0.7  Sun Mar 25 01:46:30 CET 2007
        - code cleanup.
        - fix a memory overflow bug when indenting.
        - pretty-printing now up to 15% faster.
        - improve decoding speed of strings by
          up to 50% by specialcasing short strings.
        - further decoding speedups for strings using
          lots of \u escapes.
        - improve utf8 decoding speed for U+80 .. U+7FF.

0.5  Sat Mar 24 20:41:51 CET 2007
        - added the UTF-16 encoding example hinted at in previous
          versions.
        - minor documentation fixes.
        - fix a bug in and optimise canonicalising fastpath
          (reported by Craig Manley).
        - remove a subtest that breaks with bleadperl (reported
          by Andreas König).

0.31 Sat Mar 24 02:14:34 CET 2007
        - documentation updates.
        - do some casting to hopefully fix Andreas' problem.
        - nuke bogus json rpc stuff.

0.3  Fri Mar 23 19:33:21 CET 2007
        - remove spurious PApp::Util reference (John McNamara).
        - adapted lots of tests from other json modules
          (idea by Chris Carline).
        - documented mapping from json to perl and vice versa.
        - improved the documentation by adding more examples.
        - added short escaping forms, reducing the created
          json texts a bit.
        - added shrink flag.
        - when flag methods are called without enable argument
          they will by default enable their flag.
        - considerably improved string encoding speed (at least
          with gcc 4).
        - added a test that covers lots of different characters.
        - clarified some error messages.
        - error messages now use correct character offset
          with F_UTF8.
        - improve the "no bytes" and "no warnings" hacks in
          case the called functions do... stuff.
        - croak when encoding to ascii and an out-of-range
          (non-unicode) codepoint is encountered.

0.2  Fri Mar 23 00:23:34 CET 2007
        - the "could not sleep without debugging release".
          it should basically work now, with many bugs as
          no production tests have been run yet.
        - added more testcases.
        - the expected shitload of bugfixes.
        - handle utf8 flag correctly in decode.
        - fix segfault in decoder.
        - utf8n_to_uvuni sets retlen to -1, but retlen is an
          unsigned types (argh).
        - fix decoding of utf-8 strings.
        - improved error diagnostics.
        - fix decoding of 'null'.
        - fix parsing of empty array/hashes
        - silence warnings when we prepare the croak message.

0.1   Thu Mar 22 22:13:43 CET 2007
        - first release, very untested, basically just to claim
          the namespace.
 
0.01  Thu Mar 22 06:08:12 CET 2007
        - original version; cloned from Convert-Scalar

Revision:	1.162
Committed:	Tue Oct 29 15:55:49 2013 UTC (10 years, 6 months ago) by root
Branch:	MAIN
CVS Tags:	rel-3_01
Changes since 1.161:	+3 -0 lines
Log Message:	3.01
#	User	Rev	Content
1	root	1.1	Revision history for Perl extension JSON::XS
2	root	1.2
3	root	1.147	TODO: maybe detetc and croak on more invalid inputs (e.g. +-inf/nan)
4	root	1.151	TODO: maybe avoid the reblessing and better support readonly objects.
5	root	1.153	TODO: http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=104 compression
6	root	1.151
7	root	1.162	3.01 Tue Oct 29 16:55:15 CET 2013
8			- backport to perls < 5.18 (reported by Paul Howarth).
9
10	root	1.161	3.0 Tue Oct 29 01:35:37 CET 2013
11			- implemented an object tagging extension (using the
12	root	1.159	Types::Serialiser serialisation protocol).
13			- reworked the documentation regarding object serialisation,
14			add a new OBJECT SERIALISATION section that explains the
15			whole process.
16	root	1.160	- new setting: allow_tags.
17	root	1.158	- switch to Types::Serialiser booleans.
18	root	1.156	- remove to_json/from_json.
19	root	1.159	- other minor improvements to the documentation.
20	root	1.156
21	root	1.155	2.34 Thu May 23 11:30:34 CEST 2013
22			- work around bugs in perl 5.18 breaking more than 100
23			widely used modules, without a fix in sight because
24			p5pers don't care about CPAN anymore.
25	root	1.154	- when canonicalising, only allocate up to 64 hash key
26			pointers on the stack. for larger hashes, use the heap,
27			to avoid using too much stackspace.
28	root	1.155	- discuss the problem with setlocale (reported by a few victims).
29	root	1.154
30	root	1.153	2.33 Wed Aug 1 21:03:52 CEST 2012
31			- internal encode/decode XS wrappers did not expect stack
32			moves caused by callbacks (analyzed and testcase by Jesse Luehrs).
33	root	1.151	- add bencode as to/from option in bin/json_xs.
34	root	1.152	- add -e option to json_xs, and none and string in/out formats.
35	root	1.147
36	root	1.150	2.32 Thu Aug 11 19:06:38 CEST 2011
37			- fix a bug in the initial whitespace accumulation.
38
39	root	1.149	2.31 Wed Jul 27 17:53:05 CEST 2011
40	root	1.153	- don't accumulate initial whitespace in the incremental buffer
41	root	1.149	(this can be useful to allow whitespace-keepalive on a tcp
42			connection without triggering the max_size limit).
43	root	1.148	- properly croak on some invalid inputs that are not strings
44			(e.g. undef) when trying to decode a json text (reported
45			and analyzed by Goro Fuji).
46
47	root	1.146	2.3 Wed Aug 18 01:26:47 CEST 2010
48			- make sure decoder doesn't change the decoding in the incremental
49			parser (testcase provided by Hendrik Schumacher).
50	root	1.144	- applied patch by DaTa for Data::Dumper support in json_xs.
51	root	1.145	- added -t dump support to json_xs, using Data::Dump.
52	root	1.146	- added -f eval support to json_xs.
53	root	1.144
54	root	1.143	2.29 Wed Mar 17 02:39:12 CET 2010
55			- fix a memory leak when callbacks set using filter_json_object
56			or filter_json_single_key_object were called (great testcase
57			by Eric Wilhelm).
58
59	root	1.142	2.28 Thu Mar 11 20:30:46 CET 2010
60	root	1.139	- implement our own atof function - perl's can be orders of
61			magnitudes slower than even the system one. on the positive
62			side, ours seems to be more exact in general than perl's.
63			(testcase provided by Tim Meadowcroft).
64	root	1.142	- clarify floating point conversion issues a bit.
65	root	1.138	- update jpsykes csrf article url.
66	root	1.140	- updated benchmark section - JSON::PP became much faster!
67	root	1.138
68	root	1.137	2.27 Thu Jan 7 07:35:08 CET 2010
69	root	1.136	- support relaxed option inside the incremental parser
70	root	1.137	(testcase provided by IKEGAMI via Makamaka).
71	root	1.136
72	root	1.135	2.26 Sat Oct 10 03:26:19 CEST 2009
73			- big integers could become truncated (based on patch
74			by Strobl Anton).
75	root	1.134	- output format change: indent now adds a final newline, which is
76			more expected and more true to the documentation.
77	root	1.132
78	root	1.131	2.25 Sat Aug 8 12:04:41 CEST 2009
79			- the perl debugger completely breaks lvalue subs - try to work
80			around the issue.
81	root	1.130	- ignore RMAGICAL hashes w.r.t. CANONICAL.
82	root	1.128	- try to work around a possible char signedness issue on aix.
83	root	1.129	- require common sense.
84	root	1.128
85	root	1.127	2.24 Sat May 30 08:25:45 CEST 2009
86			- the incremental parser did not update its parse offset
87			pointer correctly when parsing utf8-strings (nicely
88			debugged by Martin Evans).
89			- appending a non-utf8-string to the incremental parser
90			in utf8 mode failed to upgrade the string.
91			- wording of parse error messages has been improved.
92
93	root	1.126	2.232 Sun Feb 22 11:12:25 CET 2009
94	root	1.125	- use an exponential algorithm to extend strings, to
95	root	1.126	help platforms with bad or abysmal==windows memory
96			allocater performance, at the expense of some memory
97	root	1.125	wastage (use shrink to recover this extra memory).
98			(nicely analysed by Dmitry Karasik).
99
100	root	1.124	2.2311 Thu Feb 19 02:12:54 CET 2009
101	root	1.123	- add a section "JSON and ECMAscript" to explain some
102			incompatibilities between the two (problem was noted by
103			various people).
104	root	1.122	- add t/20_faihu.t.
105
106	root	1.121	2.231 Thu Nov 20 04:59:08 CET 2008
107			- work around 5.10.0 magic bugs where manipulating magic values
108			(such as $1) would permanently damage them as perl would
109			ignore the magicalness, by making a full copy of the string,
110			reported by Dmitry Karasik.
111	root	1.125	- work around spurious warnings under older perl 5.8's.
112	root	1.121
113	root	1.120	2.23 Mon Sep 29 05:08:29 CEST 2008
114			- fix a compilation problem when perl is not using char * as, well,
115			char *.
116	root	1.119	- use PL_hexdigit in favour of rolling our own.
117
118	root	1.118	2.2222 Sun Jul 20 18:49:00 CEST 2008
119			- same game again, broken 5.10 finds yet another assertion
120			failure, and the workaround causes additional runtime warnings.
121			Work around the next assertion AND the warning. 5.10 seriously
122			needs to adjust it's attitude against working code.
123
124	root	1.117	2.222 Sat Jul 19 06:15:34 CEST 2008
125			- you work around one -DDEBUGGING assertion bug in perl 5.10
126			just to hit the next one. work around this one, too.
127
128	root	1.116	2.22 Tue Jul 15 13:26:51 CEST 2008
129	root	1.115	- allow higher nesting levels in incremental parser.
130			- error out earlier in some cases in the incremental parser
131			(as suggested by Yuval Kogman).
132			- improve incr-parser test (Yuval Kogman).
133
134	root	1.114	2.21 Tue Jun 3 08:43:23 CEST 2008
135			- (hopefully) work around a perl 5.10 bug with -DDEBUGGING.
136	root	1.112	- remove the experimental status of the incremental parser interface.
137	root	1.111	- move =encoding around again, to avoid bugs with search.cpan.org.
138			when can we finally have utf-8 in pod???
139	root	1.113	- add ->incr_reset method.
140	root	1.111
141	root	1.110	2.2 Wed Apr 16 20:37:25 CEST 2008
142	root	1.109	- lifted the log2 rounding restriction of max_depth and max_size.
143	root	1.107	- make booleans mutable by creating a copy instead of handing out
144			the same scalar (reported by pasha sadri).
145	root	1.105	- added support for incremental json parsing (still EXPERIMENTAL).
146	root	1.103	- implemented and added a json_xs command line utility that can convert
147			from/to a number of serialisation formats - tell me if you need more.
148	root	1.108	- implement allow_unknown/get_allow_unknown methods.
149	root	1.109	- fixed documentation of max_depth w.r.t. higher and equal.
150	root	1.112	- moved down =encoding directive a bit, too much breaks if it's the first
151	root	1.102	pod directive :/.
152	root	1.106	- removed documentation section on other modules, it became somewhat
153			outdated and is nowadays mostly of historical interest.
154	root	1.102
155	root	1.101	2.1 Wed Mar 19 23:23:18 CET 2008
156			- update documentation here and there: add a large section
157			about utf8/latin1/ascii flags, add a security consideration
158			and extend and clarify the JSON and YAML section.
159	root	1.98	- medium speed enhancements when encoding/decoding non-ascii chars.
160	root	1.100	- minor speedup in number encoding case.
161	root	1.92	- extend and clarify the section on incompatibilities
162			between YAML and JSON.
163	root	1.95	- switch to static inline from just inline when using gcc.
164	root	1.94	- add =encoding utf-8 to the manpage, now that perl 5.10 supports it.
165	root	1.100	- fix some issues with UV to JSON conversion of unknown impact.
166	root	1.99	- published the yahoo locals search result used in benchmarks as the
167			original url changes so comparison is impossible.
168	root	1.92
169	root	1.91	2.01 Wed Dec 5 11:40:28 CET 2007
170			- INCOMPATIBLE API CHANGE: to_json and from_json have been
171			renamed to encode_json/decode_json for JSON.pm compatibility.
172			The old functions croak and might be replaced by JSON.pm
173			comaptible versions in some later release.
174
175	root	1.90	2.0 Tue Dec 4 11:30:46 CET 2007
176			- this is supposed to be the first version of JSON::XS
177			compatible with version 2.0+ of the JSON module.
178			Using the JSON module as frontend to JSON::XS should be
179			as fast as using JSON::XS directly, so consider using it
180			instead.
181	root	1.88	- added get_* methods for all "simple" options.
182	root	1.89	- make JSON::XS subclassable.
183	root	1.88
184	root	1.86	1.53 Tue Nov 13 23:58:33 CET 2007
185	root	1.85	- minor doc clarifications.
186			- fixed many doc typos (patch by Thomas L. Shinnick).
187
188	root	1.84	1.52 Mon Oct 15 03:22:06 CEST 2007
189	root	1.83	- remove =encoding pod directive again, it confuses too many pod
190			parsers :/.
191
192	root	1.82	1.51 Sat Oct 13 03:55:56 CEST 2007
193	root	1.81	- encode empty arrays/hashes in a compact way when pretty is enabled.
194	root	1.87	- apparently JSON::XS was used to find some bugs in the
195	root	1.80	JSON_checker testsuite, so add (the corrected) JSON_checker tests to
196			the testsuite.
197			- quite a bit of doc updates/extension.
198	root	1.79	- require 5.8.2, as this seems to be the first unicode-stable version.
199	root	1.78
200	root	1.77	1.5 Tue Aug 28 04:05:38 CEST 2007
201	root	1.74	- add support for tied hashes, based on ideas and testcase by
202			Marcus Holland-Moritz.
203	root	1.75	- implemented relaxed parsing mode where some extensions are being
204			accepted. generation is still JSON-only.
205	root	1.74
206			1.44 Wed Aug 22 01:02:44 CEST 2007
207	root	1.73	- very experimental process-emulation support, slowing everything down.
208			the horribly broken perl threads are still not supported - YMMV.
209
210	root	1.72	1.43 Thu Jul 26 13:26:37 CEST 2007
211			- convert big json numbers exclusively consisting of digits to NV
212			only when there is no loss of precision, otherwise to string.
213
214	root	1.71	1.42 Tue Jul 24 00:51:18 CEST 2007
215			- fix a crash caused by not handling missing array elements
216			(report and testcase by Jay Kuri).
217
218	root	1.70	1.41 Tue Jul 10 18:21:44 CEST 2007
219			- fix compilation with NDEBUG (assert side-effect),
220			affects convert_blessed only.
221	root	1.69	- fix a bug in decode filters calling ENTER; SAVETMPS;
222			one time too often.
223	root	1.70	- catch a typical error in TO_JSON methods.
224	root	1.69	- antique-ised XS.xs again to work with outdated
225			C compilers (windows...).
226
227	root	1.68	1.4 Mon Jul 2 10:06:30 CEST 2007
228	root	1.63	- add convert_blessed setting.
229	root	1.56	- encode did not catch all blessed objects, encoding their
230			contents in most cases. This has been fixed by introducing
231			the allow_blessed setting.
232	root	1.65	- added filter_json_object and filter_json_single_key_object
233			settings that specify a callback to be called when
234	root	1.67	all/specific json objects are encountered.
235	root	1.59	- assume that most object keys are simple ascii words and
236			optimise this case, penalising the general case. This can
237			speed up decoding by 30% in typical cases and gives
238			a smaller and faster perl hash.
239	root	1.58	- implemented simpleminded, optional resource size checking
240			in decode_json.
241	root	1.61	- remove objToJson/jsonToObj aliases, as the next version
242			of JSON will not have them either.
243	root	1.62	- bit the bullet and converted the very simple json object
244			into a more complex one.
245	root	1.64	- work around a bug where perl wrongly claims an integer
246			is not an integer.
247	root	1.65	- unbundle JSON::XS::Boolean into own pm file so Storable
248			and similar modules can resolve the overloading when thawing.
249	root	1.56
250	root	1.55	1.3 Sun Jun 24 01:55:02 CEST 2007
251	root	1.54	- make JSON::XS::true and false special overloaded objects
252			and return those instead of 1 and 0 for those json atoms
253			(JSON::PP compatibility is NOT achieved yet).
254			- add JSON::XS::is_bool predicate to test for those special
255			values.
256	root	1.52	- add a reference to
257			http://jpsykes.com/47/practical-csrf-and-json-security.
258	root	1.60	- removed require 5.8.8 again, it is just not very expert-friendly.
259			Also try to be more compatible with slightly older versions,
260	root	1.54	which are not recommended (because they are buggy).
261	root	1.52
262	root	1.51	1.24 Mon Jun 11 05:40:49 CEST 2007
263	root	1.49	- added informative section on JSON-as-YAML.
264	root	1.51	- get rid of some c99-isms again.
265	root	1.50	- localise dec->cur in decode_str, speeding up
266			string decoding considerably (>15% on my amd64 + gcc).
267			- increased SHORT_STRING_LEN to 16kb: stack space is
268			usually plenty, and this actually saves memory
269	root	1.51	when !shrinking as short strings will fit perfectly.
270	root	1.49
271	root	1.47	1.23 Wed Jun 6 20:13:06 CEST 2007
272	root	1.46	- greatly improved small integer encoding and decoding speed.
273			- implement a number of µ-optimisations.
274	root	1.47	- updated benchmarks.
275	root	1.46
276	root	1.45	1.22 Thu May 24 00:07:25 CEST 2007
277	root	1.42	- require 5.8.8 explicitly as older perls do not seem to offer
278			the required macros.
279	root	1.43	- possibly made it compile on so-called C compilers by microsoft.
280	root	1.42
281	root	1.41	1.21 Wed May 9 18:40:32 CEST 2007
282	root	1.47	- character offset reported for trailing garbage was random.
283	root	1.41
284	root	1.40	1.2 Wed May 9 18:35:01 CEST 2007
285			- decode did not work with magical scalars (doh!).
286	root	1.38	- added latin1 flag to produce JSON texts in the latin1 subset
287			of unicode.
288	root	1.39	- flag trailing garbage as error.
289			- new decode_prefix method that returns the number
290			of characters consumed by a decode.
291	root	1.40	- max octets/char in perls UTF-X is actually 13, not 11,
292			as pointed out by Glenn Linderman.
293			- fixed typoe reported by YAMASHINA Hio.
294	root	1.34
295	root	1.32	1.11 Mon Apr 9 07:05:49 CEST 2007
296			- properly 0-terminate sv's returned by encode to help
297			C libraries that expect that 0 to be there.
298	root	1.31	- partially "port" JSON from C to microsofts fucking broken
299			pseudo-C. They should be burned to the ground for pissing
300			on standards. And I should be stoned for even trying to
301	root	1.32	support this filthy excuse for a c compiler.
302	root	1.6
303	root	1.30	1.1 Wed Apr 4 01:45:00 CEST 2007
304	root	1.28	- clarify documentation (pointed out by Quinn Weaver).
305	root	1.29	- decode_utf8 sometimes did not correctly flag errors,
306			leading to segfaults.
307	root	1.30	- further reduced default nesting depth to 512 due to the test
308			failure by that anonymous "chris" whose e-mail address seems
309			to be impossible to get. Tests on other freebsd systems indicate
310			that this is likely a problem in his/her configuration and not this
311			module.
312			- renamed json => JSON in error messages.
313			- corrected the character offset in some error messages.
314	root	1.28
315	root	1.27	1.01 Sat Mar 31 16:15:40 CEST 2007
316			- do not segfault when from_json/decode gets passed
317			a non-string object (reported by Florian Ragwitz).
318			This has no effect on normal operation.
319
320	root	1.25	1.0 Thu Mar 29 04:43:34 CEST 2007
321			- the long awaited (by me) 1.0 version.
322			- add \0 (JSON::XS::false) and \1 (JSON::XS::true) mappings to JSON
323			true and false.
324	root	1.24	- add some more notes to shrink, as suggested by Alex Efros.
325	root	1.25	- improve testsuite.
326	root	1.26	- halve the default nesting depth limit, to hopefully make it
327	root	1.25	work on Freebsd (unfortunately, the cpan tester did not
328			send me his report, so I cannot ask about the stack limit on fbsd).
329	root	1.24
330	root	1.23	0.8 Mon Mar 26 00:10:48 CEST 2007
331	root	1.21	- fix a memleak when decoding hashes.
332	root	1.20	- export jsonToBj and objToJson as aliases
333			to to_json and from_json, to reduce incompatibilities
334			between JSON/JSON::PC and JSON::XS. (experimental).
335	root	1.21	- implement a maximum nesting depth for both en- and de-coding.
336			- added a security considerations sections.
337	root	1.20
338	root	1.19	0.7 Sun Mar 25 01:46:30 CET 2007
339	root	1.16	- code cleanup.
340			- fix a memory overflow bug when indenting.
341			- pretty-printing now up to 15% faster.
342			- improve decoding speed of strings by
343			up to 50% by specialcasing short strings.
344			- further decoding speedups for strings using
345			lots of \u escapes.
346	root	1.17	- improve utf8 decoding speed for U+80 .. U+7FF.
347	root	1.16
348	root	1.15	0.5 Sat Mar 24 20:41:51 CET 2007
349	root	1.14	- added the UTF-16 encoding example hinted at in previous
350			versions.
351			- minor documentation fixes.
352	root	1.15	- fix a bug in and optimise canonicalising fastpath
353			(reported by Craig Manley).
354			- remove a subtest that breaks with bleadperl (reported
355			by Andreas König).
356	root	1.14
357	root	1.13	0.31 Sat Mar 24 02:14:34 CET 2007
358	root	1.12	- documentation updates.
359	root	1.13	- do some casting to hopefully fix Andreas' problem.
360			- nuke bogus json rpc stuff.
361	root	1.12
362	root	1.11	0.3 Fri Mar 23 19:33:21 CET 2007
363	root	1.5	- remove spurious PApp::Util reference (John McNamara).
364			- adapted lots of tests from other json modules
365			(idea by Chris Carline).
366	root	1.9	- documented mapping from json to perl and vice versa.
367	root	1.11	- improved the documentation by adding more examples.
368	root	1.5	- added short escaping forms, reducing the created
369			json texts a bit.
370			- added shrink flag.
371			- when flag methods are called without enable argument
372			they will by default enable their flag.
373			- considerably improved string encoding speed (at least
374			with gcc 4).
375	root	1.7	- added a test that covers lots of different characters.
376			- clarified some error messages.
377			- error messages now use correct character offset
378			with F_UTF8.
379	root	1.8	- improve the "no bytes" and "no warnings" hacks in
380			case the called functions do... stuff.
381	root	1.9	- croak when encoding to ascii and an out-of-range
382			(non-unicode) codepoint is encountered.
383	root	1.4
384	root	1.3	0.2 Fri Mar 23 00:23:34 CET 2007
385	root	1.109	- the "could not sleep without debugging release".
386	root	1.3	it should basically work now, with many bugs as
387			no production tests have been run yet.
388			- added more testcases.
389			- the expected shitload of bugfixes.
390			- handle utf8 flag correctly in decode.
391			- fix segfault in decoder.
392			- utf8n_to_uvuni sets retlen to -1, but retlen is an
393			unsigned types (argh).
394			- fix decoding of utf-8 strings.
395			- improved error diagnostics.
396			- fix decoding of 'null'.
397			- fix parsing of empty array/hashes
398			- silence warnings when we prepare the croak message.
399
400	root	1.2	0.1 Thu Mar 22 22:13:43 CET 2007
401			- first release, very untested, basically just to claim
402			the namespace.
403	root	1.1
404			0.01 Thu Mar 22 06:08:12 CET 2007
405			- original version; cloned from Convert-Scalar
406