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NAME

6       Catalyst::Delta - Overview of changes between versions of Catalyst
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DESCRIPTION

9       This is an overview of the user-visible changes to Catalyst in version
10       5.8.
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12   Deprecations
13       Please see Catalyst::Upgrading for a full description of how changes in
14       the framework may affect your application.
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16       Below is a brief list of features which have been deprecated in this
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19       ::[MVC]:: style naming scheme has been deprecated and will warn
20       NEXT is deprecated for all applications and components, use MRO::Compat
21       Dispatcher methods which are an implementation detail made private,
22       public versions now warn.
23       MyApp->plugin method is deprecated, use Catalyst::Model::Adaptor
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25       __PACKAGE__->mk_accessors() is supported for backward compatibility
26       only, use Moose attributes instead in new code.
27       Use of Catalyst::Base now warns
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29   New features
30       Dispatcher
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32       Fix forwarding to Catalyst::Action objects.
33       Add the dispatch_type method
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35       Restarter
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37       The development server restarter has been improved to be compatible
38       with immutable Moose classes, and also to optionally use
39       B::Hooks::OP::Check::StashChange to handle more complex application
40       layouts correctly.
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42       $c->uri_for_action method.
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44       Give a private path to the Catalyst action you want to create a URI
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47       Logging
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49       Log levels have been made additive.
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51       Catalyst::Test
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53       Change to use Sub::Exporter.
54       Support mocking multiple virtual hosts
55       New methods like action_ok and action_redirect to write more compact
56       tests
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58       Catalyst::Response
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60       ·   New print method which prints @data to the output stream, separated
61           by $,.  This lets you pass the response object to functions that
62           want to write to an IO::Handle.
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64       ·   Added code method as an alias for "$res->status"
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66   Consequences of the Moose back end
67       ·   Components are fully compatible with Moose, and all Moose features,
68           such as method modifiers, attributes, roles, BUILD and BUILDARGS
69           methods are fully supported and may be used in components and
70           applications.
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72       ·   Many reusable extensions which would previously have been plugins
73           or base classes are better implemented as Moose roles.
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75       ·   MooseX::MethodAttributes::Inheritable is used to contain action
76           attributes. This means that attributes are represented in the MOP,
77           and decouples action creation from attributes.
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79       ·   There is a reasonable API in Catalyst::Controller for working with
80           and registering actions, allowing a controller sub-class to replace
81           subroutine attributes for action declarations with an alternate
82           syntax.
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84       ·   Refactored capturing of $app from Catalyst::Controller into
85           Catalyst::Component::ApplicationAttribute for easier reuse in other
86           components.
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88       ·   Your application class is forced to become immutable at the end of
89           compilation.
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91   Bug fixes
92       ·   Don't ignore SIGCHLD while handling requests with the development
93           server, so that system() and other ways of creating child processes
94           work as expected.
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96       ·   Fixes for FastCGI when used with IIS 6.0
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98       ·   Fix a bug in uri_for which could cause it to generate paths with
99           multiple slashes in them.
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101       ·   Fix a bug in Catalyst::Stats, stopping garbage being inserted into
102           the stats if a user calls begin => but no end
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