Major changes for Perl module version This is not a complete list of changes. See repository for full details: https://github.com/Perl/version.pm 0.9927 * Released 0.99_26 as 0.9927 0.99_26 * Add usage error to pure-perl vcmp * Quote version classname in test for 5.8 compatability * Use base instead of parent for tests * Update ppport.h for future compatibility 0.99_25 * Fix stack usage in vcmp method * Drop Perl 5.5 compatibility * Use PERL_VERSION_GE for Perl 7 compatibility * Fix typo in pod example for comparing versions. 0.9924 - 2018-04-19 * Revise CPAN metadata to advertise correct repo Patch from Ed <ej_zg@hotmail.com> 0.9923 - 2018-04-15 * Add back spaces for picky C++ compilers Patch from Karl Williamson <khw@cpan.org> 0.9922 - 2018-04-12 * Switch master repo to github 0.9921 - 2018-04-11 * Silence overly compulsive GCC 7 warning https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=123477 * Improve docs regarding trailing zeros https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=122858 0.9920 - 2018-04-08 * Backwards compatible locale handling https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=125042 0.9919 - 2018-04-08 * Core improvements to locale handling https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=124563 0.9918 - 2017-04-15 * Fix compiling under C++11 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=118846 * Make version::regex variables public for better reuse https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=119669 * Use rel2abs for require in tests to support 5.26.0 @INC https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121148 * Move change list to standard CHANGES out of README https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=119123 * Better taint handling for Perl < 5.17.2 with tests https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=118087 0.9917 - 2016-05-29 * Fix version::regex captures, resolves: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=114712 0.9916 - 2016-03-18 * Incorporate changes from bleadperl (destined to be 5.24.0) 0.9915 - 2016-03-05 * Clarify details of Lyon Compromise: https://gist.github.com/dagolden/9559280 - version comparision should be done irrespective of the presence of underscores in the string used to initialize the version object - underscore should no longer be used as a tuple separator in vstrings or vstring-like strings; vstrings are converted to tuples by splitting into *characters* (not bytes) and converting to codepoints; any elements after the first must be in the range 0-999 - numify/normal should produce a standarized string representation without underscores - stringify should produce the best possible representation of the value used to initialize the version object; it should include underscores only if the initializing value was a non-vstring string. - floating point numbers used as initializers are converted to a decimal string form at the precision limit of the architecture; people will be warned about this in the documentation 0.9914 - 2016-02-18 * Release non-alpha version to CPAN 0.9913_01 - 2016-02-17 * Apply one additional changeset from leont to handle magic v-strings 0.9913 - 2016-02-16 * Release non-alpha version to CPAN 0.9912_03 - 2016-01-21 * Apply two pull requests from bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/jpeacock/version/pull-requests/1/fix-test-failures-due-to-hard-coded/diff https://bitbucket.org/jpeacock/version/pull-requests/2/static-all-symbols/diff 0.9912_02 - 2016-01-03 * Fix stupid mistake in locale tests, resolves: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=110852 0.9912_01 - 2015-12-31 * Apply patch to implement Lyon Consensus: https://gist.github.com/dagolden/9559280 * Also resolve the following tickets: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=101647 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=101841 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=105315 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=106782 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=107113 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=107114 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=98744 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=102272 0.9912 - 2015-01-20 * Complete reverting the ill-conceived alpha->normal() code, resolves: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=101632 * Skip leading zeros when parsing dotted-decimal versions after the first element, resolves: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=101628 * Minor change to report the correct rt.cpan.org URL, resolves: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=101600 0.9911 - 2015-01-17 * Backout change to normal() and numify() because it breaks Module::Build 0.9910 - 2015-01-17 * Ensure that calling either normal() or numify() on an alpha version is explicitly a lossy operation, and add a warning to that effect. Forbid trailing bare decimal for dotted-decimal versions. Change heuristic in vpp to better resolve v-string versions. Various cleanups. Resolves: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=93603 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=93715 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=93721 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=95896 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96100 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96620 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96699 * Patch from Dave Mitchell to rewrite the parser and avoid warnings from clang. Resolves https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=101501 0.9909 - 2014-08-15 * Compatibility release for Perl 5.20.1. Apply two patches from bleadperl (one which shipped with 5.20.0 and one from bleadperl) so that a clean release can be applied prior to 5.20.1 being shipped. Holding back a few other improvements, so expect 0.9910 shortly. 0.9908 - 2014-02-02 * More optimizations courtesy of Daniel Dragan (bulk88@hotmail.com). Also resolves: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92438 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92540 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92642 0.9907 - 2014-01-12 * Lots of optimizations of XS and C code courtesy of Daniel Dragan (bulk88@hotmail.com). Lots of minor tweaks as well. Resolves: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=91892 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=91867 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=91987 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92051 0.9906 - 2014-01-04 * Applied C89 compatibility fix from Karl Williamson to vxs.inc. Added back support for $version::LAX and $version::STRICT to resolve: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=88458 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=91858 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=91868 0.9905 - 2014-01-04 * Major rewrite of XS code to permit easier inclusion in core Perl (mostly written by Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>). XS code is no longer supported for any Perl < v5.10, although the pure Perl code still works going back to 5.005_04. In addition, the version::vpp class is now completely independent and can be use'd exactly like the base version class. It is still better to use the base class for compatibility purposes. 0.9904 - 2013-08-20 * Final upstream changes from bleadperl. Resolves RT tickets: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=87513 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=87983 0.9903 - 2013-08-18 * Upstream test changes from bleadperl. Include version::vpp even when installing XS version. Subtle locale test changes. 0.9902 - 2013-03-05 * Upstream test changess from bleadperl. Support env PERL_ONLY=1 as well as --perl-only. version::new with no arguments reads past the end of the stack. 0.9901 - 2012-04-26 * Fix problem with short floating point alpha versions (e.g. 0.52_0). 0.99 - 2012-04-26 * Apply missing patch from core Perl to prevent overflow with ludicrous versions. 0.98 - 2012-04-25 * Apply patch from core Perl to prevent overflow with ludicrous versions. 0.97 - 2012-02-28 * Minor tweak to locale test to skip if no locales are installed at all. 0.96 - 2012-02-06 * Merge in upstream changes from bleadperl. Improved locale tests. 0.95 - 2011-11-12 * Restore compatibility in replacement UNIVERSAL::VERSION with the behavior of Perl 5.14.x, essentially by reverting the changes in https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=95544 * Fix segfault error with strings that begin with 'v', especially the string 'version'. Resolves: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72365 * Forbid all math operations on version objects in base class (this was already the case for XS code but the pure Perl was lacking). Resolves: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=70950 0.94 - 2011-08-21 * Clarify documentation on advisability of using leading 'v' (it isn't mandatory, but it is much more likely to DTRT). Resolves: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=70120 * Use a localized DIE handler when attempting to load the XS code, in case the caller has its own DIE handler. Resolves: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=70260 0.93 - 2011-07-27 * Fix problem with UNIVERSAL::VERSION noted by Father Chrysostomos. 0.92 - 2011-07-26 * Forbid negative versions. Make replacement UNIVERSAL::VERSION return the original $VERSION scalar if called without a requested version. Resolves https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=95544 Rewrite code so that we just override all subs for Perl >= 5.9.0 (when version.pm was added to the core). 0.91 - 2011-06-05 * Fix compilation/linking on Strawberry Perl, resolves https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68611 0.90 - 2011-06-01 * Make all tests pass even with older Test::More releases. Resolves https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68588 0.89 - 2011-05-31 * Change behavior of pure Perl qv/declare to match the core/XS behavior; do not use parent's new() class for derived classes. This breaks encapsulation but I can justify it because qv/declare is a very specific thing that shouldn't be casually overridden (unless you do it directly in the subclass). 0.88 - 2010-12-19 * Fix Makefile.PL to make Strawberry Perl happy. Resolves: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=63991 0.87 - 2010-12-09 * Remove Build.PL since there are modules in the Module::Build tool chain that require version.pm, leading to circular dependencies. This also allows Module::Build itself to depend on version.pm. 0.86 - 2010-11-26 * is_strict/is_lax were not exported correctly (which no one noticed). Also pull in strict/lax tests from core. 0.85 - 2010-10-25 * Don't include MYMETA.yml file in distro 0.84 - 2010-10-24 * Restore public API vcmp() broken in 0.83 0.83 - 2010-10-17 * Changed vverify API (David Golden). Improved heuristic for non-magical v-strings (Perl 5.6.0-5.8.0). Install in proper patch post-@INC reordering. 0.82 - 2010-04-13 * Still more changes to sync with Perl 5.12.0-as-released. Rewritten POD thanks to many hands, but mostly David Golden. Vastly improved Regex definitions from Zephram. 0.81 - 2010-02-01 * Merge in changes from bleadperl that will be part of Perl 5.12.0. Completely rewrite pure Perl code to operate exactly like the XS code, through the creation of a character-array class called charstar. Now the pure Perl code and XS code can be more easily be synchronized. 0.80 - 2010-01-21 * No outwardly visible changes. This release is to fix an assertion error with certain picky/older compilers. NOTE: this is not the version object code that will be part of Perl 5.12.0, which will be released shortly as 0.81. 0.79 - 2010-01-03 * No outwardly visible changes. This release is to match the code that will part of Perl 5.12.0, but which doesn't affect the external API of the CPAN release. 0.78 - 2009-10-12 * More changes to improve the non-magic v-string heuristics, this time affecting both the pure Perl and XS backends. NOTE: these fixes only matter if you are running Perl 5.6.x to 5.8.0 (inclusive). Beginning with Perl 5.8.1, v-strings are now magical and version.pm no longer has to guess. Resolves: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=50347 * Also resolve the issue where attempting to install CPAN releases on top of core releases (e.g. 5.10.0 and 5.10.1) would not DTRT. Resolves: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49667 0.7702 - 2009-09-07 * Add additional contraints to the code which tries to guess whether something is a v-string or not for Perl 5.6.0 through 5.8.0 (inclusive). Resolves: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49348 0.7701 - 2009-07-28 * Special RHEL4.x/Fedora4.x Are Too Stupid to Live Release. Those distros have never updated beyond Perl 5.8.5/5.8.6 respectively. Consequently, they contain a complete broken Test::More::use_ok which doesn't load the package into the correct namespace: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48268 thus causing mysterious test failures. No version.pm code was changed at all. :( 0.77 - 2009-07-26 * Complete POD rewrite to document common usage in version.pod and put all of the implementation details into version::Internals. * Resolve a number of RT tickets: RT#48135 - Compilation failure using MS VC++ 7.0. RT#47980 - Remove need for runtime class loading in pure Perl code RT#46921 - locale and eval action at a distance. RT#45241 - mistaken regex to convert large exponential numbers to non-exponential form before scanning.