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1 Revision history for Perl extension JSON::XS
2
3 TODO: maybe detetc and croak on more invalid inputs (e.g. +-inf/nan)
4 TODO: maybe avoid the reblessing and better support readonly objects.
5 TODO: http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=104 compression
6 TODO: how to cope with tagged values and standard json decoders
7 TODO: investigate magic (Eric Brine)
8 TODO: rfc7464
9 TODO: Victor Efimov
10 TODO: move json_xs to types::serialiser?
11
12 TODO: [PATCH] Types::Serialiser: Inline true(), false() and error() functions
13
14 TODO: document & testcase ->boolean_values (aristoteles).
15 - work around what smells like a perl bug w.r.t. exceptions
16 thrown in callbacks.
17 - json_xs json-pretty now enables canonical mode.
18 - json_xs now uses allow_nonref to decode json.
19
20 3.04 Thu Aug 17 04:30:47 CEST 2017
21 - change exponential realloc algorithm on encoding and string decoding to be
22 really exponential (this helps slow/debugging allocators such as libumem)
23 (reported by Matthew Horsfall).
24 - string encoding would needlessly overallocate output space
25 (testcase by Matthew Horsfall).
26 - be very paranoid about extending buffer lengths and croak if buffers get too large,
27 which might (or might not) improve security.
28 - add cbor-packed type to json_xs.
29 - switch from YAML to YAML::XS in json_xs, as YAML is way too buggy and outdated.
30
31 3.03 Wed Nov 16 20:20:59 CET 2016
32 - fix a bug introduced by a perl bug workaround that would cause
33 incremental parsing to fail with a sv_chop panic.
34 - json_xs: toformat failure error message fixed.
35 - json_xs: allow cyclic data structures in CBOR.
36
37 3.02 Fri Feb 26 22:45:20 CET 2016
38 - allow_nonref now affects booleans (\1, $Types::Serialiser::Boolean)
39 as well (reported by Alex Efros).
40 - allow literal tabs in strings in relaxed mode (patch by
41 lubo.rintel@gooddata.com).
42 - support "cbor" format in json_xs tool.
43 - support (and fix) calling encode and decode in list context
44 (reported by Вадим Власов).
45 - work around a bug in older perls crashing when presented
46 with shared hash keys (Reini Urban).
47 - use stability canary.
48
49 3.01 Tue Oct 29 16:55:15 CET 2013
50 - backport to perls < 5.18 (reported by Paul Howarth).
51
52 3.0 Tue Oct 29 01:35:37 CET 2013
53 - implemented an object tagging extension (using the
54 Types::Serialiser serialisation protocol).
55 - reworked the documentation regarding object serialisation,
56 add a new OBJECT SERIALISATION section that explains th
57 whole process.
58 - new setting: allow_tags.
59 - switch to Types::Serialiser booleans.
60 - remove to_json/from_json.
61 - other minor improvements to the documentation.
62
63 2.34 Thu May 23 11:30:34 CEST 2013
64 - work around bugs in perl 5.18 breaking more than 100
65 widely used modules, without a fix in sight because
66 p5pers don't care about CPAN anymore.
67 - when canonicalising, only allocate up to 64 hash key
68 pointers on the stack. for larger hashes, use the heap,
69 to avoid using too much stackspace.
70 - discuss the problem with setlocale (reported by a few victims).
71
72 2.33 Wed Aug 1 21:03:52 CEST 2012
73 - internal encode/decode XS wrappers did not expect stack
74 moves caused by callbacks (analyzed and testcase by Jesse Luehrs).
75 - add bencode as to/from option in bin/json_xs.
76 - add -e option to json_xs, and none and string in/out formats.
77
78 2.32 Thu Aug 11 19:06:38 CEST 2011
79 - fix a bug in the initial whitespace accumulation.
80
81 2.31 Wed Jul 27 17:53:05 CEST 2011
82 - don't accumulate initial whitespace in the incremental buffer
83 (this can be useful to allow whitespace-keepalive on a tcp
84 connection without triggering the max_size limit).
85 - properly croak on some invalid inputs that are not strings
86 (e.g. undef) when trying to decode a json text (reported
87 and analyzed by Goro Fuji).
88
89 2.3 Wed Aug 18 01:26:47 CEST 2010
90 - make sure decoder doesn't change the decoding in the incremental
91 parser (testcase provided by Hendrik Schumacher).
92 - applied patch by DaTa for Data::Dumper support in json_xs.
93 - added -t dump support to json_xs, using Data::Dump.
94 - added -f eval support to json_xs.
95
96 2.29 Wed Mar 17 02:39:12 CET 2010
97 - fix a memory leak when callbacks set using filter_json_object
98 or filter_json_single_key_object were called (great testcase
99 by Eric Wilhelm).
100
101 2.28 Thu Mar 11 20:30:46 CET 2010
102 - implement our own atof function - perl's can be orders of
103 magnitudes slower than even the system one. on the positive
104 side, ours seems to be more exact in general than perl's.
105 (testcase provided by Tim Meadowcroft).
106 - clarify floating point conversion issues a bit.
107 - update jpsykes csrf article url.
108 - updated benchmark section - JSON::PP became much faster!
109
110 2.27 Thu Jan 7 07:35:08 CET 2010
111 - support relaxed option inside the incremental parser
112 (testcase provided by IKEGAMI via Makamaka).
113
114 2.26 Sat Oct 10 03:26:19 CEST 2009
115 - big integers could become truncated (based on patch
116 by Strobl Anton).
117 - output format change: indent now adds a final newline, which is
118 more expected and more true to the documentation.
119
120 2.25 Sat Aug 8 12:04:41 CEST 2009
121 - the perl debugger completely breaks lvalue subs - try to work
122 around the issue.
123 - ignore RMAGICAL hashes w.r.t. CANONICAL.
124 - try to work around a possible char signedness issue on aix.
125 - require common sense.
126
127 2.24 Sat May 30 08:25:45 CEST 2009
128 - the incremental parser did not update its parse offset
129 pointer correctly when parsing utf8-strings (nicely
130 debugged by Martin Evans).
131 - appending a non-utf8-string to the incremental parser
132 in utf8 mode failed to upgrade the string.
133 - wording of parse error messages has been improved.
134
135 2.232 Sun Feb 22 11:12:25 CET 2009
136 - use an exponential algorithm to extend strings, to
137 help platforms with bad or abysmal==windows memory
138 allocater performance, at the expense of some memory
139 wastage (use shrink to recover this extra memory).
140 (nicely analysed by Dmitry Karasik).
141
142 2.2311 Thu Feb 19 02:12:54 CET 2009
143 - add a section "JSON and ECMAscript" to explain some
144 incompatibilities between the two (problem was noted by
145 various people).
146 - add t/20_faihu.t.
147
148 2.231 Thu Nov 20 04:59:08 CET 2008
149 - work around 5.10.0 magic bugs where manipulating magic values
150 (such as $1) would permanently damage them as perl would
151 ignore the magicalness, by making a full copy of the string,
152 reported by Dmitry Karasik.
153 - work around spurious warnings under older perl 5.8's.
154
155 2.23 Mon Sep 29 05:08:29 CEST 2008
156 - fix a compilation problem when perl is not using char * as, well,
157 char *.
158 - use PL_hexdigit in favour of rolling our own.
159
160 2.2222 Sun Jul 20 18:49:00 CEST 2008
161 - same game again, broken 5.10 finds yet another assertion
162 failure, and the workaround causes additional runtime warnings.
163 Work around the next assertion AND the warning. 5.10 seriously
164 needs to adjust it's attitude against working code.
165
166 2.222 Sat Jul 19 06:15:34 CEST 2008
167 - you work around one -DDEBUGGING assertion bug in perl 5.10
168 just to hit the next one. work around this one, too.
169
170 2.22 Tue Jul 15 13:26:51 CEST 2008
171 - allow higher nesting levels in incremental parser.
172 - error out earlier in some cases in the incremental parser
173 (as suggested by Yuval Kogman).
174 - improve incr-parser test (Yuval Kogman).
175
176 2.21 Tue Jun 3 08:43:23 CEST 2008
177 - (hopefully) work around a perl 5.10 bug with -DDEBUGGING.
178 - remove the experimental status of the incremental parser interface.
179 - move =encoding around again, to avoid bugs with search.cpan.org.
180 when can we finally have utf-8 in pod???
181 - add ->incr_reset method.
182
183 2.2 Wed Apr 16 20:37:25 CEST 2008
184 - lifted the log2 rounding restriction of max_depth and max_size.
185 - make booleans mutable by creating a copy instead of handing out
186 the same scalar (reported by pasha sadri).
187 - added support for incremental json parsing (still EXPERIMENTAL).
188 - implemented and added a json_xs command line utility that can convert
189 from/to a number of serialisation formats - tell me if you need more.
190 - implement allow_unknown/get_allow_unknown methods.
191 - fixed documentation of max_depth w.r.t. higher and equal.
192 - moved down =encoding directive a bit, too much breaks if it's the first
193 pod directive :/.
194 - removed documentation section on other modules, it became somewhat
195 outdated and is nowadays mostly of historical interest.
196
197 2.1 Wed Mar 19 23:23:18 CET 2008
198 - update documentation here and there: add a large section
199 about utf8/latin1/ascii flags, add a security consideration
200 and extend and clarify the JSON and YAML section.
201 - medium speed enhancements when encoding/decoding non-ascii chars.
202 - minor speedup in number encoding case.
203 - extend and clarify the section on incompatibilities
204 between YAML and JSON.
205 - switch to static inline from just inline when using gcc.
206 - add =encoding utf-8 to the manpage, now that perl 5.10 supports it.
207 - fix some issues with UV to JSON conversion of unknown impact.
208 - published the yahoo locals search result used in benchmarks as the
209 original url changes so comparison is impossible.
210
211 2.01 Wed Dec 5 11:40:28 CET 2007
212 - INCOMPATIBLE API CHANGE: to_json and from_json have been
213 renamed to encode_json/decode_json for JSON.pm compatibility.
214 The old functions croak and might be replaced by JSON.pm
215 comaptible versions in some later release.
216
217 2.0 Tue Dec 4 11:30:46 CET 2007
218 - this is supposed to be the first version of JSON::XS
219 compatible with version 2.0+ of the JSON module.
220 Using the JSON module as frontend to JSON::XS should be
221 as fast as using JSON::XS directly, so consider using it
222 instead.
223 - added get_* methods for all "simple" options.
224 - make JSON::XS subclassable.
225
226 1.53 Tue Nov 13 23:58:33 CET 2007
227 - minor doc clarifications.
228 - fixed many doc typos (patch by Thomas L. Shinnick).
229
230 1.52 Mon Oct 15 03:22:06 CEST 2007
231 - remove =encoding pod directive again, it confuses too many pod
232 parsers :/.
233
234 1.51 Sat Oct 13 03:55:56 CEST 2007
235 - encode empty arrays/hashes in a compact way when pretty is enabled.
236 - apparently JSON::XS was used to find some bugs in the
237 JSON_checker testsuite, so add (the corrected) JSON_checker tests to
238 the testsuite.
239 - quite a bit of doc updates/extension.
240 - require 5.8.2, as this seems to be the first unicode-stable version.
241
242 1.5 Tue Aug 28 04:05:38 CEST 2007
243 - add support for tied hashes, based on ideas and testcase by
244 Marcus Holland-Moritz.
245 - implemented relaxed parsing mode where some extensions are being
246 accepted. generation is still JSON-only.
247
248 1.44 Wed Aug 22 01:02:44 CEST 2007
249 - very experimental process-emulation support, slowing everything down.
250 the horribly broken perl threads are still not supported - YMMV.
251
252 1.43 Thu Jul 26 13:26:37 CEST 2007
253 - convert big json numbers exclusively consisting of digits to NV
254 only when there is no loss of precision, otherwise to string.
255
256 1.42 Tue Jul 24 00:51:18 CEST 2007
257 - fix a crash caused by not handling missing array elements
258 (report and testcase by Jay Kuri).
259
260 1.41 Tue Jul 10 18:21:44 CEST 2007
261 - fix compilation with NDEBUG (assert side-effect),
262 affects convert_blessed only.
263 - fix a bug in decode filters calling ENTER; SAVETMPS;
264 one time too often.
265 - catch a typical error in TO_JSON methods.
266 - antique-ised XS.xs again to work with outdated
267 C compilers (windows...).
268
269 1.4 Mon Jul 2 10:06:30 CEST 2007
270 - add convert_blessed setting.
271 - encode did not catch all blessed objects, encoding their
272 contents in most cases. This has been fixed by introducing
273 the allow_blessed setting.
274 - added filter_json_object and filter_json_single_key_object
275 settings that specify a callback to be called when
276 all/specific json objects are encountered.
277 - assume that most object keys are simple ascii words and
278 optimise this case, penalising the general case. This can
279 speed up decoding by 30% in typical cases and gives
280 a smaller and faster perl hash.
281 - implemented simpleminded, optional resource size checking
282 in decode_json.
283 - remove objToJson/jsonToObj aliases, as the next version
284 of JSON will not have them either.
285 - bit the bullet and converted the very simple json object
286 into a more complex one.
287 - work around a bug where perl wrongly claims an integer
288 is not an integer.
289 - unbundle JSON::XS::Boolean into own pm file so Storable
290 and similar modules can resolve the overloading when thawing.
291
292 1.3 Sun Jun 24 01:55:02 CEST 2007
293 - make JSON::XS::true and false special overloaded objects
294 and return those instead of 1 and 0 for those json atoms
295 (JSON::PP compatibility is NOT achieved yet).
296 - add JSON::XS::is_bool predicate to test for those special
297 values.
298 - add a reference to
299 http://jpsykes.com/47/practical-csrf-and-json-security.
300 - removed require 5.8.8 again, it is just not very expert-friendly.
301 Also try to be more compatible with slightly older versions,
302 which are not recommended (because they are buggy).
303
304 1.24 Mon Jun 11 05:40:49 CEST 2007
305 - added informative section on JSON-as-YAML.
306 - get rid of some c99-isms again.
307 - localise dec->cur in decode_str, speeding up
308 string decoding considerably (>15% on my amd64 + gcc).
309 - increased SHORT_STRING_LEN to 16kb: stack space is
310 usually plenty, and this actually saves memory
311 when !shrinking as short strings will fit perfectly.
312
313 1.23 Wed Jun 6 20:13:06 CEST 2007
314 - greatly improved small integer encoding and decoding speed.
315 - implement a number of µ-optimisations.
316 - updated benchmarks.
317
318 1.22 Thu May 24 00:07:25 CEST 2007
319 - require 5.8.8 explicitly as older perls do not seem to offer
320 the required macros.
321 - possibly made it compile on so-called C compilers by microsoft.
322
323 1.21 Wed May 9 18:40:32 CEST 2007
324 - character offset reported for trailing garbage was random.
325
326 1.2 Wed May 9 18:35:01 CEST 2007
327 - decode did not work with magical scalars (doh!).
328 - added latin1 flag to produce JSON texts in the latin1 subset
329 of unicode.
330 - flag trailing garbage as error.
331 - new decode_prefix method that returns the number
332 of characters consumed by a decode.
333 - max octets/char in perls UTF-X is actually 13, not 11,
334 as pointed out by Glenn Linderman.
335 - fixed typoe reported by YAMASHINA Hio.
336
337 1.11 Mon Apr 9 07:05:49 CEST 2007
338 - properly 0-terminate sv's returned by encode to help
339 C libraries that expect that 0 to be there.
340 - partially "port" JSON from C to microsofts fucking broken
341 pseudo-C. They should be burned to the ground for pissing
342 on standards. And I should be stoned for even trying to
343 support this filthy excuse for a c compiler.
344
345 1.1 Wed Apr 4 01:45:00 CEST 2007
346 - clarify documentation (pointed out by Quinn Weaver).
347 - decode_utf8 sometimes did not correctly flag errors,
348 leading to segfaults.
349 - further reduced default nesting depth to 512 due to the test
350 failure by that anonymous "chris" whose e-mail address seems
351 to be impossible to get. Tests on other freebsd systems indicate
352 that this is likely a problem in his/her configuration and not this
353 module.
354 - renamed json => JSON in error messages.
355 - corrected the character offset in some error messages.
356
357 1.01 Sat Mar 31 16:15:40 CEST 2007
358 - do not segfault when from_json/decode gets passed
359 a non-string object (reported by Florian Ragwitz).
360 This has no effect on normal operation.
361
362 1.0 Thu Mar 29 04:43:34 CEST 2007
363 - the long awaited (by me) 1.0 version.
364 - add \0 (JSON::XS::false) and \1 (JSON::XS::true) mappings to JSON
365 true and false.
366 - add some more notes to shrink, as suggested by Alex Efros.
367 - improve testsuite.
368 - halve the default nesting depth limit, to hopefully make it
369 work on Freebsd (unfortunately, the cpan tester did not
370 send me his report, so I cannot ask about the stack limit on fbsd).
371
372 0.8 Mon Mar 26 00:10:48 CEST 2007
373 - fix a memleak when decoding hashes.
374 - export jsonToBj and objToJson as aliases
375 to to_json and from_json, to reduce incompatibilities
376 between JSON/JSON::PC and JSON::XS. (experimental).
377 - implement a maximum nesting depth for both en- and de-coding.
378 - added a security considerations sections.
379
380 0.7 Sun Mar 25 01:46:30 CET 2007
381 - code cleanup.
382 - fix a memory overflow bug when indenting.
383 - pretty-printing now up to 15% faster.
384 - improve decoding speed of strings by
385 up to 50% by specialcasing short strings.
386 - further decoding speedups for strings using
387 lots of \u escapes.
388 - improve utf8 decoding speed for U+80 .. U+7FF.
389
390 0.5 Sat Mar 24 20:41:51 CET 2007
391 - added the UTF-16 encoding example hinted at in previous
392 versions.
393 - minor documentation fixes.
394 - fix a bug in and optimise canonicalising fastpath
395 (reported by Craig Manley).
396 - remove a subtest that breaks with bleadperl (reported
397 by Andreas König).
398
399 0.31 Sat Mar 24 02:14:34 CET 2007
400 - documentation updates.
401 - do some casting to hopefully fix Andreas' problem.
402 - nuke bogus json rpc stuff.
403
404 0.3 Fri Mar 23 19:33:21 CET 2007
405 - remove spurious PApp::Util reference (John McNamara).
406 - adapted lots of tests from other json modules
407 (idea by Chris Carline).
408 - documented mapping from json to perl and vice versa.
409 - improved the documentation by adding more examples.
410 - added short escaping forms, reducing the created
411 json texts a bit.
412 - added shrink flag.
413 - when flag methods are called without enable argument
414 they will by default enable their flag.
415 - considerably improved string encoding speed (at least
416 with gcc 4).
417 - added a test that covers lots of different characters.
418 - clarified some error messages.
419 - error messages now use correct character offset
420 with F_UTF8.
421 - improve the "no bytes" and "no warnings" hacks in
422 case the called functions do... stuff.
423 - croak when encoding to ascii and an out-of-range
424 (non-unicode) codepoint is encountered.
425
426 0.2 Fri Mar 23 00:23:34 CET 2007
427 - the "could not sleep without debugging release".
428 it should basically work now, with many bugs as
429 no production tests have been run yet.
430 - added more testcases.
431 - the expected shitload of bugfixes.
432 - handle utf8 flag correctly in decode.
433 - fix segfault in decoder.
434 - utf8n_to_uvuni sets retlen to -1, but retlen is an
435 unsigned types (argh).
436 - fix decoding of utf-8 strings.
437 - improved error diagnostics.
438 - fix decoding of 'null'.
439 - fix parsing of empty array/hashes
440 - silence warnings when we prepare the croak message.
441
442 0.1 Thu Mar 22 22:13:43 CET 2007
443 - first release, very untested, basically just to claim
444 the namespace.
445
446 0.01 Thu Mar 22 06:08:12 CET 2007
447 - original version; cloned from Convert-Scalar
448