Revision history for Perl extension Data::Serializer

0.39  Mon Mar  5 10:39:00 MST 2007
	- Left "use File::Slurp" inside of Serializer.pm from some testing, removed this needless dependency

0.38  Mon Mar  5 09:15:00 MST 2007
	- Modified Data::Serializer::Storable to always use nfreeze, whether portable flag is set or not
		Thanks to David Sepiashvili <arribapor@msn.com> for pointing out the original logic wasn't very useful
	- Removed tests for self references in JSON::Syck, as they are no longer supported - if you try to use them with current
	  versions of JSON::Syck it will error out.  
		Thanks to David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk> of the cpan-testers for finding this problem, and helping to track
		it down.

0.37  Wed Mar 22 11:10:52 MDT 2006
	- Added use strict statement to Data::Serializer::Cookbook to make CPANTS happy (not really important)
	- renamed internal transient method to be _transient (should be deprecated completely one of these days)
        - documented compressor method (noted that it isn't currently supported, just a placeholder) 
	- Added tests for Test::Pod and Test::Pod::Coverage - test are disabled for
          distribution as I don't want to add a Test::More dependency to 
          Data::Serializer at this point.
	- Nothing important changed, so this version was not publicly released

0.36  Thu Mar 16 10:10:04 MDT 2006
	- Added support for JSON, JSON::Syck, and YAML::Syck

		Thanks to Naoya Ito <naoya@bloghackers.net> for writing the patch
		and making my job very easy.


0.35  Wed Nov 03 07:37:31 MDT 2005
	- Anchored token extractor
  	  When portable was disabled, binary type data could confuse the token extractor and break
	  the ability to deserialize data.  

		Thanks to Carl Eklof <carleklof@yahoo.com> for reporting this via RT (https://rt.cpan.org/).  
	 	and also for suggesting the fix	

0.34  Mon Oct 17 12:02:04 MDT 2005
	- Fixed Serialized scalars from Data::Dumper
  	  Previously would only serialize scalar references, now will serialize scalars too

		Thanks to Chris <clotho@cpan.org> for reporting this via RT (https://rt.cpan.org/).  

0.33  Wed Sep 28 16:37:50 MDT 2005
	- Added support for Data::Taxi

	- Minor documentation changes
	
0.32  Tue Sep 27 15:49:45 MDT 2005
	- Fixed bug with declaring 'options' for an underlying serializer
	
		Thanks to rk1990@google.com for finding and supplying the
		patch to fix it.	
	
0.31  Tue Sep 27 12:10:11 MDT 2005
	- Fixed bug in the test suite introduced in .30

		Thanks to the cpan-testers for identifying this quickly

0.30  Thu Sep 15 08:49:28 MDT 2005
	- Modified call to Digest module to bring it up to current.
	- Changed default digester to SHA-256

		Thanks to Mark Shelor <mshelor@comcast.net> for sending
		out the notice that sha1 is now considered vulnerable.

	* If you explicitly want to use SHA1 that will still work, but be
	  advised that is no longer considered secure.  This only impacts
          serialization if you are using it with encryption.
	  

0.29  Mon Feb 07 18:42:14 MDT 2005
	- Modified constructor to test exists rather then defined allowing 
	  features to be disabled in the constructor.
	- Modified deserialize to check if values are true, not just defined 
		to enable features also fixed a bug in deserialize for tokenless 
		deserializations where compressor was checked instead of 
		compress to determine if the data needed to be decompressed
	- Cleaned up a couple bugs that prevented it from compiling when 
		autosplit was disabled

		Thanks to John Alden <john.alden@bbc.co.uk> for detailed bug reports, 
		and excellent recommendations.

0.28  Mon Dec 06 13:08:42 MST 2004
	- Test qw compatibility bug in older perl versions fixed:
	  From the 5.6 perldelta:
		The qw// operator is now evaluated at compile time into a true 
		list instead of being replaced with a run time call to split(). 
		This removes the confusing misbehavior of qw// in scalar context, 
		which had inherited that behavior from split().

	  To keep the module compatible with older version of perl the test was
	  changed to explicitly return a list and thus circumvent this limitation
	  of qw in older versions of perl.	
	    Thanks to nothingmuch@woobling.org for having multiple perl versions in 
	    the cpan testers results to make finding the compatibility problem possible.

0.27  Mon Dec 06 08:51:53 MST 2004
	- Fixed version bug in test suite
	  Routine in test suite that tested storing to open filehandles was
	  using open() in a fashion incompatible with earlier versions of perl.
	  Converted it to use IO::File instead.
	    Thanks to the cpan testers for catching this one, in particular
	      nothingmuch@woobling.org

0.26  Fri Dec 03 11:49:34 MST 2004
	- Modified Data::Serializer::Data::Dumper 
	  removed the '2.08' requirement from use statement, this is handled in
	  the Makefile.PL so was redundant anyway.  Was causing problems with
	  build in perl 5.8.6
	    Thanks to Ian <ian@holsman.net>

      Tue Oct 05 15:30:02 MST 2004
	- Modified Data::Serializer::Storable to use nfreeze when 
	  the portable flag is set.  This should help make the use of Storable 
	  within Data::Serializer actually be portable when you ask it to be.
	    Thanks to Nick Edwards <nicke@summerleaze.co.uk> for requesting the feature

	-Modified Data::Serializer::Data::Dumper to handle self-references correctly.
	 Was not correctly handling the serializing of self-referencing data structures.
	  
	   Thanks to Ticha <ticha@openelement.co.uk> for finding the bug, and to
	   Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@ActiveState.com> (Data::Dumper author) for suggesting
	   the fix. 

0.25  Sat Jun 01 06:38:13 MST 2004
	- Fixed misbehaving sloppy reference passing in test harness.
	  (Bug only visible in win32)  
            Thanks to =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Murat_=DCnalan=22?= <muenalan@cpan.org>
	    For debugging and providing the patch to get this to work.

0.24  Sat May 29 14:22:42 MST 2004
	- Fixed bug in new 08-Store-Retrieve.t test
	    Now using File::Spec to correctly build path for test
            Thanks to =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Murat_=DCnalan=22?= <muenalan@cpan.org>
	    For being on the ball in catching this bug.

0.23  Fri May 28 17:21:11 MST 2004
	- Added store and retrieve functions for simple persistence
	    Thanks to 
	      Nick Stutterer <nick@tesbo.com>
		and
	      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Murat_=DCnalan=22?= <muenalan@cpan.org>
	     For requesting this useful feature.
	- Updated cookbook persistence example

0.22  Fri Mar  5 16:39:36 MST 2004
	- Split up and organized test suite
	- Added support for XML::Simple
	- Created Data::Serializer::Cookbook

0.21  Tue Feb 24 16:57:19 MST 2004
	- Added support for PHP::Serializer
	- Added support for XML::Dumper
	- Added raw_serialize and raw_deserialize methods
	    allows direct access to underlying serializers
            useful to import/export data between aps that don't
	    understand Data::Serializer (like say serialized 
            PHP data)
	- Added test for serializing scalars

0.20  Fri Feb 13 17:32:02 MST 2004
	- Improved test suite to test combination of features
	- cleaned up bug in handing of 'non-portable' serialized data

0.19  Fri Feb 13 14:46:30 MDT 2004
	- Modified makefile to include dependancy on Digest::SHA1
		Thanks (again) to Florian Helmberger <fh@laudatio.com>
                  for finding this discrepancy.

0.18  Fri Feb 13 11:17:24 MDT 2004
	- Added support for MIME::Base64 for 'ascii armoring' serialized
	  data.
	- Minor modifications to pod documentation

0.17  Thu Jul 11 15:10:41 MDT 2002
	- Added support for YAML as a new serializer
		Thanks to Florian Helmberger <fhe@inode.at> for writing 
		  the relevant patch to do this.

0.16  Tue Jul  9 08:33:46 MDT 2002
	- Added support for Config::General as a new serializer
 	- Added method 'options' for passing arguments to underlying serializers
	  currently only supported for Config::General
	- Converted installation tests to use ExtUtils::Tbone (included)
	- Added more robust testing of all serializers and features
		Thanks to Thomas Linden <tom@daemon.de> who wrote a patch
	          adding support for Config::General to Data::Serializer
                  and for suggesting the addition of the options method

0.15  Mon Jul  1 13:32:46 MDT 2002
	- Correct Makefile.PL testing bug
          In particular we tested for Crypt::CBC and assumed Crypt::Blowfish
          would also be installed.  This is obviously not the case.  We do not 
          want to force this as a dependency as encryption is a feature, not a 
          requirement for serializing data structures.
	    Thanks to 'Automated Perl Test Account <perl_test@logicalchaos.org>'
  
           
0.14  Mon Jul  1 08:43:42 MDT 2002
	- Corrected typo's in pod documentation
          Thanks to Florian Helmberger <f.helmberger@uptime.at>

0.13  Mon Jan 14 12:49:10 MST 2002
        - Added support for Tie::Transient
            Thanks to recomendation from brian moseley <bcm@maz.org>)

0.12  Mon Jan 14 12:23:28 MST 2002
        - Cleaned up installation tests

0.11  Tue Jan  8 13:28:43 MST 2002
        - Removed build dependencies for all but Data::Dumper
            Thanks to recomendation from brian moseley <bcm@maz.org>

0.10  Mon Jan  7 13:00:24 MST 2002
        - Added Support for Data::Denter

0.09  Fri Nov  2 08:14:07 2001
	- Cleaned up documentation

0.08  Mon Oct 16 07:54:32 2001
	- Fixed bug in digest verification 
        - Fixed 5.005_03 compatibility bug 
            Thanks to Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa@edge.co.jp>

0.07  Wed Oct  5 11:42:20 2001
	- changed token system to be more flexible
	- added compression
	- cleaned up 'portability' option
	- updated documentation
	- updated tests

0.06  Wed Oct  4 16:27:02 2001
	- added Encryption

0.05  Wed Oct  4 14:30:13 2001
	- added t/ tests

0.04  Wed Oct  4 12:35:44 2001
	- added documentation

0.03  Wed Oct  4 11:32:10 2001
	- added serializer_token to assist deserialization

0.02  Tue Oct  3 15:32:19 2001
	- completed generic serializer/deserializer interface

0.01  Tue Oct  3 11:11:36 2001
	- original version; created by h2xs 1.19
