--- JSON-XS/Changes 2007/11/13 22:59:08 1.86 +++ JSON-XS/Changes 2009/09/05 23:00:55 1.133 @@ -1,5 +1,117 @@ Revision history for Perl extension JSON::XS +TODO: configurable booleans +TODO: tagging + + - 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). @@ -10,7 +122,7 @@ 1.51 Sat Oct 13 03:55:56 CEST 2007 - encode empty arrays/hashes in a compact way when pretty is enabled. - - apperently JSON::XS was used to find some bugs in the + - 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. @@ -201,7 +313,7 @@ (non-unicode) codepoint is encountered. 0.2 Fri Mar 23 00:23:34 CET 2007 - - the "could not sleep without debuggign release". + - 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.