--- JSON-XS/Changes 2007/06/25 04:19:51 1.57 +++ JSON-XS/Changes 2008/03/19 03:17:50 1.96 @@ -1,11 +1,93 @@ Revision history for Perl extension JSON::XS -TODO: blessed object tests -1.4 - - add convert_blessed option. + - update documentation here and there, add a large section + about utf8/latin1/ascii flags, add a security consideration. + - minor speed enhancements when encoding non-ascii data. + - 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. + +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 @@ -15,8 +97,8 @@ values. - add a reference to http://jpsykes.com/47/practical-csrf-and-json-security. - - removed require 5.8.8 again, it just not very expert-friendly, - and try to be more compatible with slightly older versions, + - 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