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Revision history for Perl extension JSON::XS

        - no new features/code changes in this release.
        - apperently 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        - antique-ised XS.xs again to work with outdated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 debuggign 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:	1.80
Committed:	Thu Oct 11 23:57:23 2007 UTC (16 years, 7 months ago) by root
Branch:	MAIN
Changes since 1.79:	+5 -2 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	1.80	- no new features/code changes in this release.
4			- apperently JSON::XS was used to find some bugs in the
5			JSON_checker testsuite, so add (the corrected) JSON_checker tests to
6			the testsuite.
7			- quite a bit of doc updates/extension.
8	root	1.79	- require 5.8.2, as this seems to be the first unicode-stable version.
9	root	1.78
10	root	1.77	1.5 Tue Aug 28 04:05:38 CEST 2007
11	root	1.74	- add support for tied hashes, based on ideas and testcase by
12			Marcus Holland-Moritz.
13	root	1.75	- implemented relaxed parsing mode where some extensions are being
14			accepted. generation is still JSON-only.
15	root	1.74
16			1.44 Wed Aug 22 01:02:44 CEST 2007
17	root	1.73	- very experimental process-emulation support, slowing everything down.
18			the horribly broken perl threads are still not supported - YMMV.
19
20	root	1.72	1.43 Thu Jul 26 13:26:37 CEST 2007
21			- convert big json numbers exclusively consisting of digits to NV
22			only when there is no loss of precision, otherwise to string.
23
24	root	1.71	1.42 Tue Jul 24 00:51:18 CEST 2007
25			- fix a crash caused by not handling missing array elements
26			(report and testcase by Jay Kuri).
27
28	root	1.70	1.41 Tue Jul 10 18:21:44 CEST 2007
29			- fix compilation with NDEBUG (assert side-effect),
30			affects convert_blessed only.
31	root	1.69	- fix a bug in decode filters calling ENTER; SAVETMPS;
32			one time too often.
33	root	1.70	- catch a typical error in TO_JSON methods.
34	root	1.69	- antique-ised XS.xs again to work with outdated
35			C compilers (windows...).
36
37	root	1.68	1.4 Mon Jul 2 10:06:30 CEST 2007
38	root	1.63	- add convert_blessed setting.
39	root	1.56	- encode did not catch all blessed objects, encoding their
40			contents in most cases. This has been fixed by introducing
41			the allow_blessed setting.
42	root	1.65	- added filter_json_object and filter_json_single_key_object
43			settings that specify a callback to be called when
44	root	1.67	all/specific json objects are encountered.
45	root	1.59	- assume that most object keys are simple ascii words and
46			optimise this case, penalising the general case. This can
47			speed up decoding by 30% in typical cases and gives
48			a smaller and faster perl hash.
49	root	1.58	- implemented simpleminded, optional resource size checking
50			in decode_json.
51	root	1.61	- remove objToJson/jsonToObj aliases, as the next version
52			of JSON will not have them either.
53	root	1.62	- bit the bullet and converted the very simple json object
54			into a more complex one.
55	root	1.64	- work around a bug where perl wrongly claims an integer
56			is not an integer.
57	root	1.65	- unbundle JSON::XS::Boolean into own pm file so Storable
58			and similar modules can resolve the overloading when thawing.
59	root	1.56
60	root	1.55	1.3 Sun Jun 24 01:55:02 CEST 2007
61	root	1.54	- make JSON::XS::true and false special overloaded objects
62			and return those instead of 1 and 0 for those json atoms
63			(JSON::PP compatibility is NOT achieved yet).
64			- add JSON::XS::is_bool predicate to test for those special
65			values.
66	root	1.52	- add a reference to
67			http://jpsykes.com/47/practical-csrf-and-json-security.
68	root	1.60	- removed require 5.8.8 again, it is just not very expert-friendly.
69			Also try to be more compatible with slightly older versions,
70	root	1.54	which are not recommended (because they are buggy).
71	root	1.52
72	root	1.51	1.24 Mon Jun 11 05:40:49 CEST 2007
73	root	1.49	- added informative section on JSON-as-YAML.
74	root	1.51	- get rid of some c99-isms again.
75	root	1.50	- localise dec->cur in decode_str, speeding up
76			string decoding considerably (>15% on my amd64 + gcc).
77			- increased SHORT_STRING_LEN to 16kb: stack space is
78			usually plenty, and this actually saves memory
79	root	1.51	when !shrinking as short strings will fit perfectly.
80	root	1.49
81	root	1.47	1.23 Wed Jun 6 20:13:06 CEST 2007
82	root	1.46	- greatly improved small integer encoding and decoding speed.
83			- implement a number of µ-optimisations.
84	root	1.47	- updated benchmarks.
85	root	1.46
86	root	1.45	1.22 Thu May 24 00:07:25 CEST 2007
87	root	1.42	- require 5.8.8 explicitly as older perls do not seem to offer
88			the required macros.
89	root	1.43	- possibly made it compile on so-called C compilers by microsoft.
90	root	1.42
91	root	1.41	1.21 Wed May 9 18:40:32 CEST 2007
92	root	1.47	- character offset reported for trailing garbage was random.
93	root	1.41
94	root	1.40	1.2 Wed May 9 18:35:01 CEST 2007
95			- decode did not work with magical scalars (doh!).
96	root	1.38	- added latin1 flag to produce JSON texts in the latin1 subset
97			of unicode.
98	root	1.39	- flag trailing garbage as error.
99			- new decode_prefix method that returns the number
100			of characters consumed by a decode.
101	root	1.40	- max octets/char in perls UTF-X is actually 13, not 11,
102			as pointed out by Glenn Linderman.
103			- fixed typoe reported by YAMASHINA Hio.
104	root	1.34
105	root	1.32	1.11 Mon Apr 9 07:05:49 CEST 2007
106			- properly 0-terminate sv's returned by encode to help
107			C libraries that expect that 0 to be there.
108	root	1.31	- partially "port" JSON from C to microsofts fucking broken
109			pseudo-C. They should be burned to the ground for pissing
110			on standards. And I should be stoned for even trying to
111	root	1.32	support this filthy excuse for a c compiler.
112	root	1.6
113	root	1.30	1.1 Wed Apr 4 01:45:00 CEST 2007
114	root	1.28	- clarify documentation (pointed out by Quinn Weaver).
115	root	1.29	- decode_utf8 sometimes did not correctly flag errors,
116			leading to segfaults.
117	root	1.30	- further reduced default nesting depth to 512 due to the test
118			failure by that anonymous "chris" whose e-mail address seems
119			to be impossible to get. Tests on other freebsd systems indicate
120			that this is likely a problem in his/her configuration and not this
121			module.
122			- renamed json => JSON in error messages.
123			- corrected the character offset in some error messages.
124	root	1.28
125	root	1.27	1.01 Sat Mar 31 16:15:40 CEST 2007
126			- do not segfault when from_json/decode gets passed
127			a non-string object (reported by Florian Ragwitz).
128			This has no effect on normal operation.
129
130	root	1.25	1.0 Thu Mar 29 04:43:34 CEST 2007
131			- the long awaited (by me) 1.0 version.
132			- add \0 (JSON::XS::false) and \1 (JSON::XS::true) mappings to JSON
133			true and false.
134	root	1.24	- add some more notes to shrink, as suggested by Alex Efros.
135	root	1.25	- improve testsuite.
136	root	1.26	- halve the default nesting depth limit, to hopefully make it
137	root	1.25	work on Freebsd (unfortunately, the cpan tester did not
138			send me his report, so I cannot ask about the stack limit on fbsd).
139	root	1.24
140	root	1.23	0.8 Mon Mar 26 00:10:48 CEST 2007
141	root	1.21	- fix a memleak when decoding hashes.
142	root	1.20	- export jsonToBj and objToJson as aliases
143			to to_json and from_json, to reduce incompatibilities
144			between JSON/JSON::PC and JSON::XS. (experimental).
145	root	1.21	- implement a maximum nesting depth for both en- and de-coding.
146			- added a security considerations sections.
147	root	1.20
148	root	1.19	0.7 Sun Mar 25 01:46:30 CET 2007
149	root	1.16	- code cleanup.
150			- fix a memory overflow bug when indenting.
151			- pretty-printing now up to 15% faster.
152			- improve decoding speed of strings by
153			up to 50% by specialcasing short strings.
154			- further decoding speedups for strings using
155			lots of \u escapes.
156	root	1.17	- improve utf8 decoding speed for U+80 .. U+7FF.
157	root	1.16
158	root	1.15	0.5 Sat Mar 24 20:41:51 CET 2007
159	root	1.14	- added the UTF-16 encoding example hinted at in previous
160			versions.
161			- minor documentation fixes.
162	root	1.15	- fix a bug in and optimise canonicalising fastpath
163			(reported by Craig Manley).
164			- remove a subtest that breaks with bleadperl (reported
165			by Andreas König).
166	root	1.14
167	root	1.13	0.31 Sat Mar 24 02:14:34 CET 2007
168	root	1.12	- documentation updates.
169	root	1.13	- do some casting to hopefully fix Andreas' problem.
170			- nuke bogus json rpc stuff.
171	root	1.12
172	root	1.11	0.3 Fri Mar 23 19:33:21 CET 2007
173	root	1.5	- remove spurious PApp::Util reference (John McNamara).
174			- adapted lots of tests from other json modules
175			(idea by Chris Carline).
176	root	1.9	- documented mapping from json to perl and vice versa.
177	root	1.11	- improved the documentation by adding more examples.
178	root	1.5	- added short escaping forms, reducing the created
179			json texts a bit.
180			- added shrink flag.
181			- when flag methods are called without enable argument
182			they will by default enable their flag.
183			- considerably improved string encoding speed (at least
184			with gcc 4).
185	root	1.7	- added a test that covers lots of different characters.
186			- clarified some error messages.
187			- error messages now use correct character offset
188			with F_UTF8.
189	root	1.8	- improve the "no bytes" and "no warnings" hacks in
190			case the called functions do... stuff.
191	root	1.9	- croak when encoding to ascii and an out-of-range
192			(non-unicode) codepoint is encountered.
193	root	1.4
194	root	1.3	0.2 Fri Mar 23 00:23:34 CET 2007
195			- the "could not sleep without debuggign release".
196			it should basically work now, with many bugs as
197			no production tests have been run yet.
198			- added more testcases.
199			- the expected shitload of bugfixes.
200			- handle utf8 flag correctly in decode.
201			- fix segfault in decoder.
202			- utf8n_to_uvuni sets retlen to -1, but retlen is an
203			unsigned types (argh).
204			- fix decoding of utf-8 strings.
205			- improved error diagnostics.
206			- fix decoding of 'null'.
207			- fix parsing of empty array/hashes
208			- silence warnings when we prepare the croak message.
209
210	root	1.2	0.1 Thu Mar 22 22:13:43 CET 2007
211			- first release, very untested, basically just to claim
212			the namespace.
213	root	1.1
214			0.01 Thu Mar 22 06:08:12 CET 2007
215			- original version; cloned from Convert-Scalar
216