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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

TODO: how to cope with tagged values and standard json decoders
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:	1.163
Committed:	Wed Oct 30 22:11:01 2013 UTC (10 years, 6 months ago) by root
Branch:	MAIN
Changes since 1.162:	+1 -0 lines
Log Message:	* empty log message *
#	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	1.163	TODO: how to cope with tagged values and standard json decoders
8	root	1.162	3.01 Tue Oct 29 16:55:15 CET 2013
9			- backport to perls < 5.18 (reported by Paul Howarth).
10
11	root	1.161	3.0 Tue Oct 29 01:35:37 CET 2013
12			- implemented an object tagging extension (using the
13	root	1.159	Types::Serialiser serialisation protocol).
14			- reworked the documentation regarding object serialisation,
15			add a new OBJECT SERIALISATION section that explains the
16			whole process.
17	root	1.160	- new setting: allow_tags.
18	root	1.158	- switch to Types::Serialiser booleans.
19	root	1.156	- remove to_json/from_json.
20	root	1.159	- other minor improvements to the documentation.
21	root	1.156
22	root	1.155	2.34 Thu May 23 11:30:34 CEST 2013
23			- work around bugs in perl 5.18 breaking more than 100
24			widely used modules, without a fix in sight because
25			p5pers don't care about CPAN anymore.
26	root	1.154	- when canonicalising, only allocate up to 64 hash key
27			pointers on the stack. for larger hashes, use the heap,
28			to avoid using too much stackspace.
29	root	1.155	- discuss the problem with setlocale (reported by a few victims).
30	root	1.154
31	root	1.153	2.33 Wed Aug 1 21:03:52 CEST 2012
32			- internal encode/decode XS wrappers did not expect stack
33			moves caused by callbacks (analyzed and testcase by Jesse Luehrs).
34	root	1.151	- add bencode as to/from option in bin/json_xs.
35	root	1.152	- add -e option to json_xs, and none and string in/out formats.
36	root	1.147
37	root	1.150	2.32 Thu Aug 11 19:06:38 CEST 2011
38			- fix a bug in the initial whitespace accumulation.
39
40	root	1.149	2.31 Wed Jul 27 17:53:05 CEST 2011
41	root	1.153	- don't accumulate initial whitespace in the incremental buffer
42	root	1.149	(this can be useful to allow whitespace-keepalive on a tcp
43			connection without triggering the max_size limit).
44	root	1.148	- properly croak on some invalid inputs that are not strings
45			(e.g. undef) when trying to decode a json text (reported
46			and analyzed by Goro Fuji).
47
48	root	1.146	2.3 Wed Aug 18 01:26:47 CEST 2010
49			- make sure decoder doesn't change the decoding in the incremental
50			parser (testcase provided by Hendrik Schumacher).
51	root	1.144	- applied patch by DaTa for Data::Dumper support in json_xs.
52	root	1.145	- added -t dump support to json_xs, using Data::Dump.
53	root	1.146	- added -f eval support to json_xs.
54	root	1.144
55	root	1.143	2.29 Wed Mar 17 02:39:12 CET 2010
56			- fix a memory leak when callbacks set using filter_json_object
57			or filter_json_single_key_object were called (great testcase
58			by Eric Wilhelm).
59
60	root	1.142	2.28 Thu Mar 11 20:30:46 CET 2010
61	root	1.139	- implement our own atof function - perl's can be orders of
62			magnitudes slower than even the system one. on the positive
63			side, ours seems to be more exact in general than perl's.
64			(testcase provided by Tim Meadowcroft).
65	root	1.142	- clarify floating point conversion issues a bit.
66	root	1.138	- update jpsykes csrf article url.
67	root	1.140	- updated benchmark section - JSON::PP became much faster!
68	root	1.138
69	root	1.137	2.27 Thu Jan 7 07:35:08 CET 2010
70	root	1.136	- support relaxed option inside the incremental parser
71	root	1.137	(testcase provided by IKEGAMI via Makamaka).
72	root	1.136
73	root	1.135	2.26 Sat Oct 10 03:26:19 CEST 2009
74			- big integers could become truncated (based on patch
75			by Strobl Anton).
76	root	1.134	- output format change: indent now adds a final newline, which is
77			more expected and more true to the documentation.
78	root	1.132
79	root	1.131	2.25 Sat Aug 8 12:04:41 CEST 2009
80			- the perl debugger completely breaks lvalue subs - try to work
81			around the issue.
82	root	1.130	- ignore RMAGICAL hashes w.r.t. CANONICAL.
83	root	1.128	- try to work around a possible char signedness issue on aix.
84	root	1.129	- require common sense.
85	root	1.128
86	root	1.127	2.24 Sat May 30 08:25:45 CEST 2009
87			- the incremental parser did not update its parse offset
88			pointer correctly when parsing utf8-strings (nicely
89			debugged by Martin Evans).
90			- appending a non-utf8-string to the incremental parser
91			in utf8 mode failed to upgrade the string.
92			- wording of parse error messages has been improved.
93
94	root	1.126	2.232 Sun Feb 22 11:12:25 CET 2009
95	root	1.125	- use an exponential algorithm to extend strings, to
96	root	1.126	help platforms with bad or abysmal==windows memory
97			allocater performance, at the expense of some memory
98	root	1.125	wastage (use shrink to recover this extra memory).
99			(nicely analysed by Dmitry Karasik).
100
101	root	1.124	2.2311 Thu Feb 19 02:12:54 CET 2009
102	root	1.123	- add a section "JSON and ECMAscript" to explain some
103			incompatibilities between the two (problem was noted by
104			various people).
105	root	1.122	- add t/20_faihu.t.
106
107	root	1.121	2.231 Thu Nov 20 04:59:08 CET 2008
108			- work around 5.10.0 magic bugs where manipulating magic values
109			(such as $1) would permanently damage them as perl would
110			ignore the magicalness, by making a full copy of the string,
111			reported by Dmitry Karasik.
112	root	1.125	- work around spurious warnings under older perl 5.8's.
113	root	1.121
114	root	1.120	2.23 Mon Sep 29 05:08:29 CEST 2008
115			- fix a compilation problem when perl is not using char * as, well,
116			char *.
117	root	1.119	- use PL_hexdigit in favour of rolling our own.
118
119	root	1.118	2.2222 Sun Jul 20 18:49:00 CEST 2008
120			- same game again, broken 5.10 finds yet another assertion
121			failure, and the workaround causes additional runtime warnings.
122			Work around the next assertion AND the warning. 5.10 seriously
123			needs to adjust it's attitude against working code.
124
125	root	1.117	2.222 Sat Jul 19 06:15:34 CEST 2008
126			- you work around one -DDEBUGGING assertion bug in perl 5.10
127			just to hit the next one. work around this one, too.
128
129	root	1.116	2.22 Tue Jul 15 13:26:51 CEST 2008
130	root	1.115	- allow higher nesting levels in incremental parser.
131			- error out earlier in some cases in the incremental parser
132			(as suggested by Yuval Kogman).
133			- improve incr-parser test (Yuval Kogman).
134
135	root	1.114	2.21 Tue Jun 3 08:43:23 CEST 2008
136			- (hopefully) work around a perl 5.10 bug with -DDEBUGGING.
137	root	1.112	- remove the experimental status of the incremental parser interface.
138	root	1.111	- move =encoding around again, to avoid bugs with search.cpan.org.
139			when can we finally have utf-8 in pod???
140	root	1.113	- add ->incr_reset method.
141	root	1.111
142	root	1.110	2.2 Wed Apr 16 20:37:25 CEST 2008
143	root	1.109	- lifted the log2 rounding restriction of max_depth and max_size.
144	root	1.107	- make booleans mutable by creating a copy instead of handing out
145			the same scalar (reported by pasha sadri).
146	root	1.105	- added support for incremental json parsing (still EXPERIMENTAL).
147	root	1.103	- implemented and added a json_xs command line utility that can convert
148			from/to a number of serialisation formats - tell me if you need more.
149	root	1.108	- implement allow_unknown/get_allow_unknown methods.
150	root	1.109	- fixed documentation of max_depth w.r.t. higher and equal.
151	root	1.112	- moved down =encoding directive a bit, too much breaks if it's the first
152	root	1.102	pod directive :/.
153	root	1.106	- removed documentation section on other modules, it became somewhat
154			outdated and is nowadays mostly of historical interest.
155	root	1.102
156	root	1.101	2.1 Wed Mar 19 23:23:18 CET 2008
157			- update documentation here and there: add a large section
158			about utf8/latin1/ascii flags, add a security consideration
159			and extend and clarify the JSON and YAML section.
160	root	1.98	- medium speed enhancements when encoding/decoding non-ascii chars.
161	root	1.100	- minor speedup in number encoding case.
162	root	1.92	- extend and clarify the section on incompatibilities
163			between YAML and JSON.
164	root	1.95	- switch to static inline from just inline when using gcc.
165	root	1.94	- add =encoding utf-8 to the manpage, now that perl 5.10 supports it.
166	root	1.100	- fix some issues with UV to JSON conversion of unknown impact.
167	root	1.99	- published the yahoo locals search result used in benchmarks as the
168			original url changes so comparison is impossible.
169	root	1.92
170	root	1.91	2.01 Wed Dec 5 11:40:28 CET 2007
171			- INCOMPATIBLE API CHANGE: to_json and from_json have been
172			renamed to encode_json/decode_json for JSON.pm compatibility.
173			The old functions croak and might be replaced by JSON.pm
174			comaptible versions in some later release.
175
176	root	1.90	2.0 Tue Dec 4 11:30:46 CET 2007
177			- this is supposed to be the first version of JSON::XS
178			compatible with version 2.0+ of the JSON module.
179			Using the JSON module as frontend to JSON::XS should be
180			as fast as using JSON::XS directly, so consider using it
181			instead.
182	root	1.88	- added get_* methods for all "simple" options.
183	root	1.89	- make JSON::XS subclassable.
184	root	1.88
185	root	1.86	1.53 Tue Nov 13 23:58:33 CET 2007
186	root	1.85	- minor doc clarifications.
187			- fixed many doc typos (patch by Thomas L. Shinnick).
188
189	root	1.84	1.52 Mon Oct 15 03:22:06 CEST 2007
190	root	1.83	- remove =encoding pod directive again, it confuses too many pod
191			parsers :/.
192
193	root	1.82	1.51 Sat Oct 13 03:55:56 CEST 2007
194	root	1.81	- encode empty arrays/hashes in a compact way when pretty is enabled.
195	root	1.87	- apparently JSON::XS was used to find some bugs in the
196	root	1.80	JSON_checker testsuite, so add (the corrected) JSON_checker tests to
197			the testsuite.
198			- quite a bit of doc updates/extension.
199	root	1.79	- require 5.8.2, as this seems to be the first unicode-stable version.
200	root	1.78
201	root	1.77	1.5 Tue Aug 28 04:05:38 CEST 2007
202	root	1.74	- add support for tied hashes, based on ideas and testcase by
203			Marcus Holland-Moritz.
204	root	1.75	- implemented relaxed parsing mode where some extensions are being
205			accepted. generation is still JSON-only.
206	root	1.74
207			1.44 Wed Aug 22 01:02:44 CEST 2007
208	root	1.73	- very experimental process-emulation support, slowing everything down.
209			the horribly broken perl threads are still not supported - YMMV.
210
211	root	1.72	1.43 Thu Jul 26 13:26:37 CEST 2007
212			- convert big json numbers exclusively consisting of digits to NV
213			only when there is no loss of precision, otherwise to string.
214
215	root	1.71	1.42 Tue Jul 24 00:51:18 CEST 2007
216			- fix a crash caused by not handling missing array elements
217			(report and testcase by Jay Kuri).
218
219	root	1.70	1.41 Tue Jul 10 18:21:44 CEST 2007
220			- fix compilation with NDEBUG (assert side-effect),
221			affects convert_blessed only.
222	root	1.69	- fix a bug in decode filters calling ENTER; SAVETMPS;
223			one time too often.
224	root	1.70	- catch a typical error in TO_JSON methods.
225	root	1.69	- antique-ised XS.xs again to work with outdated
226			C compilers (windows...).
227
228	root	1.68	1.4 Mon Jul 2 10:06:30 CEST 2007
229	root	1.63	- add convert_blessed setting.
230	root	1.56	- encode did not catch all blessed objects, encoding their
231			contents in most cases. This has been fixed by introducing
232			the allow_blessed setting.
233	root	1.65	- added filter_json_object and filter_json_single_key_object
234			settings that specify a callback to be called when
235	root	1.67	all/specific json objects are encountered.
236	root	1.59	- assume that most object keys are simple ascii words and
237			optimise this case, penalising the general case. This can
238			speed up decoding by 30% in typical cases and gives
239			a smaller and faster perl hash.
240	root	1.58	- implemented simpleminded, optional resource size checking
241			in decode_json.
242	root	1.61	- remove objToJson/jsonToObj aliases, as the next version
243			of JSON will not have them either.
244	root	1.62	- bit the bullet and converted the very simple json object
245			into a more complex one.
246	root	1.64	- work around a bug where perl wrongly claims an integer
247			is not an integer.
248	root	1.65	- unbundle JSON::XS::Boolean into own pm file so Storable
249			and similar modules can resolve the overloading when thawing.
250	root	1.56
251	root	1.55	1.3 Sun Jun 24 01:55:02 CEST 2007
252	root	1.54	- make JSON::XS::true and false special overloaded objects
253			and return those instead of 1 and 0 for those json atoms
254			(JSON::PP compatibility is NOT achieved yet).
255			- add JSON::XS::is_bool predicate to test for those special
256			values.
257	root	1.52	- add a reference to
258			http://jpsykes.com/47/practical-csrf-and-json-security.
259	root	1.60	- removed require 5.8.8 again, it is just not very expert-friendly.
260			Also try to be more compatible with slightly older versions,
261	root	1.54	which are not recommended (because they are buggy).
262	root	1.52
263	root	1.51	1.24 Mon Jun 11 05:40:49 CEST 2007
264	root	1.49	- added informative section on JSON-as-YAML.
265	root	1.51	- get rid of some c99-isms again.
266	root	1.50	- localise dec->cur in decode_str, speeding up
267			string decoding considerably (>15% on my amd64 + gcc).
268			- increased SHORT_STRING_LEN to 16kb: stack space is
269			usually plenty, and this actually saves memory
270	root	1.51	when !shrinking as short strings will fit perfectly.
271	root	1.49
272	root	1.47	1.23 Wed Jun 6 20:13:06 CEST 2007
273	root	1.46	- greatly improved small integer encoding and decoding speed.
274			- implement a number of µ-optimisations.
275	root	1.47	- updated benchmarks.
276	root	1.46
277	root	1.45	1.22 Thu May 24 00:07:25 CEST 2007
278	root	1.42	- require 5.8.8 explicitly as older perls do not seem to offer
279			the required macros.
280	root	1.43	- possibly made it compile on so-called C compilers by microsoft.
281	root	1.42
282	root	1.41	1.21 Wed May 9 18:40:32 CEST 2007
283	root	1.47	- character offset reported for trailing garbage was random.
284	root	1.41
285	root	1.40	1.2 Wed May 9 18:35:01 CEST 2007
286			- decode did not work with magical scalars (doh!).
287	root	1.38	- added latin1 flag to produce JSON texts in the latin1 subset
288			of unicode.
289	root	1.39	- flag trailing garbage as error.
290			- new decode_prefix method that returns the number
291			of characters consumed by a decode.
292	root	1.40	- max octets/char in perls UTF-X is actually 13, not 11,
293			as pointed out by Glenn Linderman.
294			- fixed typoe reported by YAMASHINA Hio.
295	root	1.34
296	root	1.32	1.11 Mon Apr 9 07:05:49 CEST 2007
297			- properly 0-terminate sv's returned by encode to help
298			C libraries that expect that 0 to be there.
299	root	1.31	- partially "port" JSON from C to microsofts fucking broken
300			pseudo-C. They should be burned to the ground for pissing
301			on standards. And I should be stoned for even trying to
302	root	1.32	support this filthy excuse for a c compiler.
303	root	1.6
304	root	1.30	1.1 Wed Apr 4 01:45:00 CEST 2007
305	root	1.28	- clarify documentation (pointed out by Quinn Weaver).
306	root	1.29	- decode_utf8 sometimes did not correctly flag errors,
307			leading to segfaults.
308	root	1.30	- further reduced default nesting depth to 512 due to the test
309			failure by that anonymous "chris" whose e-mail address seems
310			to be impossible to get. Tests on other freebsd systems indicate
311			that this is likely a problem in his/her configuration and not this
312			module.
313			- renamed json => JSON in error messages.
314			- corrected the character offset in some error messages.
315	root	1.28
316	root	1.27	1.01 Sat Mar 31 16:15:40 CEST 2007
317			- do not segfault when from_json/decode gets passed
318			a non-string object (reported by Florian Ragwitz).
319			This has no effect on normal operation.
320
321	root	1.25	1.0 Thu Mar 29 04:43:34 CEST 2007
322			- the long awaited (by me) 1.0 version.
323			- add \0 (JSON::XS::false) and \1 (JSON::XS::true) mappings to JSON
324			true and false.
325	root	1.24	- add some more notes to shrink, as suggested by Alex Efros.
326	root	1.25	- improve testsuite.
327	root	1.26	- halve the default nesting depth limit, to hopefully make it
328	root	1.25	work on Freebsd (unfortunately, the cpan tester did not
329			send me his report, so I cannot ask about the stack limit on fbsd).
330	root	1.24
331	root	1.23	0.8 Mon Mar 26 00:10:48 CEST 2007
332	root	1.21	- fix a memleak when decoding hashes.
333	root	1.20	- export jsonToBj and objToJson as aliases
334			to to_json and from_json, to reduce incompatibilities
335			between JSON/JSON::PC and JSON::XS. (experimental).
336	root	1.21	- implement a maximum nesting depth for both en- and de-coding.
337			- added a security considerations sections.
338	root	1.20
339	root	1.19	0.7 Sun Mar 25 01:46:30 CET 2007
340	root	1.16	- code cleanup.
341			- fix a memory overflow bug when indenting.
342			- pretty-printing now up to 15% faster.
343			- improve decoding speed of strings by
344			up to 50% by specialcasing short strings.
345			- further decoding speedups for strings using
346			lots of \u escapes.
347	root	1.17	- improve utf8 decoding speed for U+80 .. U+7FF.
348	root	1.16
349	root	1.15	0.5 Sat Mar 24 20:41:51 CET 2007
350	root	1.14	- added the UTF-16 encoding example hinted at in previous
351			versions.
352			- minor documentation fixes.
353	root	1.15	- fix a bug in and optimise canonicalising fastpath
354			(reported by Craig Manley).
355			- remove a subtest that breaks with bleadperl (reported
356			by Andreas König).
357	root	1.14
358	root	1.13	0.31 Sat Mar 24 02:14:34 CET 2007
359	root	1.12	- documentation updates.
360	root	1.13	- do some casting to hopefully fix Andreas' problem.
361			- nuke bogus json rpc stuff.
362	root	1.12
363	root	1.11	0.3 Fri Mar 23 19:33:21 CET 2007
364	root	1.5	- remove spurious PApp::Util reference (John McNamara).
365			- adapted lots of tests from other json modules
366			(idea by Chris Carline).
367	root	1.9	- documented mapping from json to perl and vice versa.
368	root	1.11	- improved the documentation by adding more examples.
369	root	1.5	- added short escaping forms, reducing the created
370			json texts a bit.
371			- added shrink flag.
372			- when flag methods are called without enable argument
373			they will by default enable their flag.
374			- considerably improved string encoding speed (at least
375			with gcc 4).
376	root	1.7	- added a test that covers lots of different characters.
377			- clarified some error messages.
378			- error messages now use correct character offset
379			with F_UTF8.
380	root	1.8	- improve the "no bytes" and "no warnings" hacks in
381			case the called functions do... stuff.
382	root	1.9	- croak when encoding to ascii and an out-of-range
383			(non-unicode) codepoint is encountered.
384	root	1.4
385	root	1.3	0.2 Fri Mar 23 00:23:34 CET 2007
386	root	1.109	- the "could not sleep without debugging release".
387	root	1.3	it should basically work now, with many bugs as
388			no production tests have been run yet.
389			- added more testcases.
390			- the expected shitload of bugfixes.
391			- handle utf8 flag correctly in decode.
392			- fix segfault in decoder.
393			- utf8n_to_uvuni sets retlen to -1, but retlen is an
394			unsigned types (argh).
395			- fix decoding of utf-8 strings.
396			- improved error diagnostics.
397			- fix decoding of 'null'.
398			- fix parsing of empty array/hashes
399			- silence warnings when we prepare the croak message.
400
401	root	1.2	0.1 Thu Mar 22 22:13:43 CET 2007
402			- first release, very untested, basically just to claim
403			the namespace.
404	root	1.1
405			0.01 Thu Mar 22 06:08:12 CET 2007
406			- original version; cloned from Convert-Scalar
407