1 2 C h a n g e L o g o f e P e r l 3 ___________________________________________________________________________ 4 5 6 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2 7 ------------------------------- 8 9 970529 o fixed a typo in eperl_security.h 10 which caused problems for non GCC 11 compilers, e.g. under IRIX. 12 [Thanks to Ewan McPhail 13 <ewan@epages.iafrica.com> for hint] 14 15 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1 16 ------------------------------- 17 18 970501 o added -P option to etc/newsvers 19 o removed \n at SCRIPT_.._CTIME 20 970502 o replaced the $| = 1 stuff in eperl_perl5.c to the way 21 mod_perl does it 22 [Thanks to Doug MacEachern <dougm@osf.org> for patch] 23 o enhanced the SetUID-based UID/GID checking: now in 24 eperl_global.h is an option DO_ON_FAILED_STEP which 25 either forces ePerl to error on any failed checks or go 26 on but finally don't do the UID/GID switching 27 o moved the security definitions from eperl_global.h to 28 a new eperl_security.h and changed the references in 29 eperl.pod 30 31 Changes between 2.1b8 and 2.1.0 32 ------------------------------- 33 34 970426 o removed more obsolete @logfile@ stuff 35 o again revised eperl.pod 36 o !! CHANGED LICENSE !! 37 NOW ePerl IS DISTRIBUTED AT THE TERMS 38 OF EITHER THE GPL OR THE ARTISTIC LICENSE 39 LIKE THE Perl 5.0 INTERPRETER ITSELF 40 o fixed /tmp/x usage in configure 41 o created PORTING file 42 o tested ePerl on various platforms 43 o made seteuid/setegid configureable 44 via GNU autoconf for HP/UX and others 45 o made the include files in eperl_globa.h 46 conditional 47 o made the -O2 conditional for GCC only 48 49 Changes between 2.1b7 and 2.1b8 50 ------------------------------- 51 52 970425 o fixed installation manpath 53 o fixed a security hole: the 54 effective uid/gid have to be eliminated 55 independend of mode and uid switching 56 o fixed some typos in eperl.pod 57 o rewritten the NEWS file 58 o renamed the options: 59 -D => -d, -E => -D (more intuitive) 60 -b => -B, -e => -E (prevent conflicts) 61 o fixed the order of command line 62 option descriptions 63 o removed the @logfile@ stuff from Makefile 64 65 Changes between 2.1b6 and 2.1b7 66 ------------------------------- 67 68 970425 o fixed error page colors 69 o changed some aux files: NEWS, TODO 70 o added .cgi to allowed extensions 71 for using shebang CGI/ePerl scripts 72 o added more clear info about shebang 73 to eperl.pod 74 o fixed more bugs in eperl.pod 75 o removed the exit on debug 76 o finished the test suite 77 o slightly fixed the usage output 78 o added support for HEAD requests in 79 case the server does not do it for us 80 o documented provided env variables 81 o created new isotime() function 82 for SCRIPT_SRC_MODIFIED_ISOTIME variable 83 o removed eperl_log.c because this 84 will be used in later versions only 85 86 Changes between 2.1b5 and 2.1b6 87 ------------------------------- 88 89 970414 o slightly changed the error message page 90 970418 o created -c for syntax check like "perl -c" 91 o now the default delimiters are 92 <? .. !> for CGI modes 93 and <: ...:> for Filter mode 94 o removed the delimiters defs in eperl_global.h 95 but added a table to eperl.pod 96 o completely rewritten the setuid security stuff !! 97 o added security information to eperl.pod 98 o now -x does something useful: it outputs 99 the internally generated Perl script to /dev/tty 100 and exits 101 102 Changes between 2.1b4 and 2.1b5 103 ------------------------------- 104 105 970404 o now when used as a Unix filter the exit code 106 is != 0 on error while for CGI scripts it is 107 still 0 (needed to make the webserver happy 108 and to force him to accept your HTML error page). 109 o now prints the error message on stderr instead 110 of stdout in Unix filter mode 111 o fixed "make distclean", now t/Makefile is 112 also removed. 113 114 Changes between 2.1b3 and 2.1b4 115 ------------------------------- 116 117 970403 o fixed a bug in the b3 distribution: 118 autoheader was not run, so to _compile_ 119 ePerl GNU autoconf was needed. :-( 120 o slight adjustments to eperl.pod 121 122 Changes between 2.1b2 and 2.1b3 123 ------------------------------- 124 125 970402 o starting with Perl 5.003_96 the dXSUB_SYS define 126 is empty. Removed the call and the gcc -Wall 127 kludge from eperl_perl5.c 128 o fixed etc/newvers 129 o add "none" to configure DynaLoader check 130 131 Changes between 2.1b1 and 2.1b2 132 ------------------------------- 133 134 970330 o reduced the logo GIF image in size to fit betteri 135 into the browser window. The reduced one also has 136 10 KB less bytes. 137 o made the Error HTML page nicer 138 o removed the not used -a (age) option 139 140 Changes between 2.1b0 and 2.1b1 141 ------------------------------- 142 143 970326 o added "-o file" to the usage message 144 o when running as a Unix filter the current 145 working directory is restored before the 146 final outputfile (-o) is created. 147 o documented that "-o outputfile" is 148 relative to source file dir when 149 runtime mode is CGI or NPH-CGI 150 o added new-betalevel to Makefile.in 151 152 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.1b0 153 ------------------------------- 154 155 970322 o released as 2.1b0 for first test 156 157 970310 o added --with-perl=/path/to/perl option 158 to ./configure to force a specific perl 159 160 970302 o removed getdate.c stuff :-( 161 o added more tests 162 o changed aux dir to etc for porting to WinNT :-( 163 164 970228 o debugged and cleanup up eperl_parse.c 165 o fixed the core-dump under SunOS which 166 comes from SunOS' non-POSIX vsprintf(). 167 o removed the sdbm and md5 stuff because 168 this should be introduced in 3.0 later only. 169 o removed brainfile stuff 170 o fixed another coredump in eperl_parse.c 171 o fixed mode determination and mode-dependend 172 error message 173 174 970227 o debugged and cleanup up eperl_parse.c 175 176 970226 o added dmalloc support for debugging 177 178 970224 o changed sprintf stuff to more portable 179 variant in eperl_main.c 180 o now autoconf checks for memmove and 181 if not found eperl_parse.c uses bcopy. 182 183 970219 o changed bool checking to Autoconf stuff 184 185 970216 o ported to Linux: now bool is defined, 186 prefix was replaced by AC_prefix to avoid collisions and the 187 ccdlflags from Perl are used which need to be -rdynamic under 188 Linux. Now ePerl compiles out of the box on Linux and runs fine, 189 even with dynamic loading. 190 191 970210 o added getdate() code 192 o added --enable-brainfile=/path/to/brainfile 193 which sets the brain file where timestamps and 194 md5 etc. are stored. 195 o added -a option to set an age 196 197 970209 o added MD5 code 198 o added SDBM code 199 200 970207 o changed -c and -s options to -m c and -m f 201 o adding -m n for NPH/CGI, -m c is no only CGI 202 o added stdin support via "-" and tmpfiles 203 o added automatic tmpfile support with remove 204 on interrupts or errors 205 o now the old tempfiles are also created 206 with new mechanism 207 o added -o option for specifying an 208 explicit outputfile instead of stdout 209 o greatly imporved the manpage and brroght it 210 to the latest status 211 o created a test suite with Perl Test::Harness 212 o now ePerl also accepts an empty file 213 o added a security logfile which can be optionally 214 enabled via "--enable-logfile=/path/to/logfile" 215 at compile time. 216 o added configure support for debug compilation 217 via --enable-debug. This adds -g -ggdb3 to 218 the CFLAGS and LDFLAGS and prevents the 219 executable from being stripped. 220 o removed the old doc/ subdir with the 221 old FAQ and About file. 222 223 970206 o removed the generation of libeperl.a 224 o added a real installation target to Makefile 225 o removed eperl_parse.h, because it is still 226 replaced by the generated eperl_proto.h 227 o added -V option which now displays the compile 228 parameters 229 o removed the <tt>..</tt> tags from error output 230 because for the stand-alone version is looks bad. 231 o added experimental TAINT...TAINT_NOT around perl_run. 232 o added -d option to set real Perl variables and 233 not just $ENV{'...'}; 234 235 970128 o added support to configure for Perl snapshot 236 releases named 5.003_XX. 237 o added a first security check: If operating in 238 NPH-CGI mode the source file has to be one of 239 the predefined valid file extensions. 240 o now when ePerl runs as a setuid program (seteuid = 0) 241 it switches to the uid/gid of the file owner 242 243 970127 o added -D option to set environment variables. 244 (this is needed for my WML project where in 245 pass 3 eperl gets called via -D...) 246 o added -k option to keep CWD. 247 (this is needed for my WML project where 248 ePerl should not chdir to the /tmp/xxx files). 249 250 970118 o make the BEGIN/END_DELIMITER strings variables which 251 now can be set via -b and -e 252 (this is needed for my WML project where I use 253 two variants of embedded Perl blocks) 254 255 970107 o fixed this changelog file 256 o added test directory 257 o cleanup of Makefile 258 o removed obsolete prototypes in eperl_lib.h 259 o cleaned up eperl_global.h 260 o make eperl_getopt.[ch] gcc -Wall clean 261 o added support for shebang usage, i.e. you can use #!/path/to/eperl 262 at the top of your pages and use them as a CGI script now. ePerl 263 will ignore the shebang line. 264 o moved the system IO and env functions out to new eperl_sys.c 265 o renamed eperl_lib to eperl_parse 266 o Hups! all references to the CGI/1.0 standard were wrong, it 267 actually is CGI/1.1... 268 269 970106 o added stand-alone interpreter with options 270 o added -x and -v options 271 o added README and LICENSE display 272 o now ePerl reads the file from stdin if 273 the argument is "-" 274 o added a ePerl manual page for the 275 stand-alone interpreter 276 277