____ _ ___| _ \ ___ _ __| | / _ \ |_) / _ \ '__| | | __/ __/ __/ | | | \___|_| \___|_| |_| ePerl -- Embedded Perl 5 Language ChangeLog ========= This is the list of all(!) changes to this ePerl source tree. For a list of just the user-visible and/or major changes please have a look at the NEWS file. ____ _____ |___ \ |___ / __) | |_ \ / __/ _ ___) | __|_____(_)____/___________________________________________________________ Changes between 2.2.14 and 2.3.0 (12-Jun-1996 to xx-Nov-2000) *) Year 2000 patch for ePerl.pm [Denis Barbier , 31-Oct-2000] *) Ported to Perl 5.6.0 [Ralf S. Engelschall, 03-Jul-2000] *) Upgraded to GNU Shtool 1.5.0 [Ralf S. Engelschall, 03-Jul-2000] *) Merged in ePerl changes found in WML 2.0.2. [Denis Barbier , 03-Jul-2000] *) Fixed stringEQn() defines in eperl_global.h [Bruce McEachern , 01-Feb-1999] *) Year 2000 fixes. [Denis Barbier , 18-May-1999] *) Bugfix for mysetenv() function [Denis Barbier , 07-May-1999] *) Replaced lots of etc/* stuff with new GNU shtool [Ralf S. Engelschall, 03-May-1999] *) Fixed a few compiler warnings. [Ralf S. Engelschall, 03-May-1999] *) Merged ChangeLog.* files into ChangeLog [Ralf S. Engelschall, 03-May-1999] *) Upgraded to GNU autoconf 2.13 [Ralf S. Engelschall, 03-May-1999] *) Imported source into an own CVS repository [Ralf S. Engelschall, 03-May-1999] *) Fixed platform conflicts of strndup() & Co functions. [Ralf S. Engelschall, 04-Oct-1997] ____ ____ |___ \ |___ \ __) | __) | / __/ _ / __/ __|_____(_)_____|__________________________________________________________ Changes between 2.2.13 and 2.2.14 --------------------------------- [Bugfixes only] 970727 o Fixed HTTP header parsing: Now beside the header/body delimiter "\n\n" also "\r\n\r\n" is recogized correctly. This fixes especially the communication between CGI.pm and ePerl. [Thanks to Steve Dodd for hints and initial patches] o Fixed examples in Apache::ePerl manual [Thanks to Ian Wojtowicz for hints] o Fixed recognization of CGI situation where GET is used instead of POST to send data to ePerl scripts. [Thanks to Steve Dodd for hint] o Added a CREDITS file to give explicit credits to the people who contributed stuff in the past 970802 o Replaced build user/host/domain/time determination stuff with a new `buildinfo' script I've written for Apache which is more robust. o Replaced mkinstalldirs and install-sh with the cleaned up versions I've done for Apache 1.3's APACI stuff. o Ported to Perl 5.005 where variables start with PL_, etc. Changes between 2.2.12 and 2.2.13 --------------------------------- [Security and Bug Fixes] 980120 o Fixed construction of URLs inside Apache::ePerl for cases where the server port is not 80. [Thanks to Jim O'Quinn for hint] 980202 o Changed .so generation to be more compatible 980404 o Made etc/newvers more portable 980605 o Fix a minor comparison bug in Apache::ePerl [Thanks to Eric Howe for hint] 980705 o Fixed copyright statements by adding 1998 and removing the "All Rights Reserved" part because this is incompatible with the GPL. 980710 o Fix again a non-trivial-to-fix security bug related to the inconsitency way webservers handle QUERY_STRINGs: this time by making more exact parameter comparison. Now we check back even the argv[optind] against the provided QUERY_STRING, etc. Now the determination of the three runtime modes (CGI, NPH-CGI, FILTER) should be correct. [Thanks to Tiago Luz Pinto who reported this security hole on bugtraq] Changes between 2.2.11 and 2.2.12 --------------------------------- [Bugfix only] 971231 o ARGL! We really need 1998 now: Yesterday I've released 2.2.11 with two nasty syntax errors in the configure script. Hmmmmm... 1998 is now really needed, I think. [Thanks to Anthony Fok and ??? for quick response and patch] Changes between 2.2.10 and 2.2.11 --------------------------------- [Bugfix only] 971230 o Activated Perl Locale support for both Perl 5.003 and Perl 5.004 variants. o Fixed owner determination in eperl_main.c: ePerl core dumped when the owner of the script does not exists in the passwd database. o Updated contrib/pkg/ files o Updated VERSIONS file Changes between 2.2.9 and 2.2.10 -------------------------------- [Bugfix only] 971228 o little distribution bug: the asc2c was not run before the 2.2.9 release, so it has to be run by the builder which is not what was intended. Changes between 2.2.8 and 2.2.9 ------------------------------- [Bugfix only] 971120 o fixed demo.image.phtml description 971221 o fixed a really nasty fclose() bug in eperl_main.c which caused core dumps under Debian GNU/Linux with libc6. [Thanks to and Anthony Fok for hints] Changes between 2.2.7 and 2.2.8 ------------------------------- [Bugfix and Minor Enhancement] 971107 o ported to AIX 4.1.x by adding a fix for Perl's ccdlflags 971108 o again made Apache::ePerl even more complete: added the following env variables similar to nph-eperl: SCRIPT_SRC_URL, SCRIPT_SRC_URL_DIR, SCRIPT_SRC_URL_FILE, SCRIPT_SRC_PATH, SCRIPT_SRC_PATH_DIR, SCRIPT_SRC_PATH_FILE, SCRIPT_SRC_MODIFIED, SCRIPT_SRC_MODIFIED_CTIME, SCRIPT_SRC_MODIFIED_ISOTIME, SCRIPT_SRC_SIZE, SCRIPT_SRC_OWNER o enhanced the Apache::ePerl status page: now displays also the cache size 971116 o fixed shebang mode for webserver environment. [Thanks to J. Douglas Dunlop for hint] o added hint to INSTALL file that PerlIO+SfIO is currently not supported. o fixed HTTP header parsing: now setting of cookies (e.g. via Perl's CGI module) work correctly. o fixed HTTP header parsing in Apache::ePerl. Now even the special-case "Content-type: ..." works as expected. 971117 o fixed typos in eperl.pod o fixed preprocessing for Apache::ePerl o overhauled the demo webpages under eg/. Now the CGI::Cookie is used an example for CGI.pm. o adjusted VERSIONS file Changes between 2.2.6 and 2.2.7 ------------------------------- [Bugfix and Minor Enhancement] 971102 o reduced memory consumption of Apache::ePerl by specificing detailed import flags o fixed prototype bug in Parse::ePerl's XS part [Thanks to Doug MacEachern for patch] o removed the not needed AUTOLOAD facility from Parse::ePerl because this causes problems. [Thanks to Doug MacEachern for hint] 971104 o added VERSION_LANGUAGE and VERSION_INTERPRETER environment variables to Apache::ePerl the same way it is provides by the stand-alone program. 971105 o adjusted the URL to the Perl homepage in the PODs. o fixed Content-length header generation in Apache::ePerl o minor cleanup to Parse::ePerl 971106 o added workarounds to Parse::ePerl for tainted environments like the "PerlTaintCheck On" under Apache/mod_perl where Parse::ePerl is called from Apache::ePerl. o made the Apache::ePerl error page similar to the one nph-eperl displays. Changes between 2.2.5 and 2.2.6 ------------------------------- [Bugfix and Minor Enhancement] 970903 o merged ANNOUNCE and ANNOUNCE.ADDR files o slightly fixed comments in eperl_getopt.[ch] 970911 o added mod/README with CPAN module snipppet o changed the $VERSION variables to hold a real floating point number like 2.0206 instead of 2.2.6 o updated contrib/pkg/fbsdpkg/ stuff o fixed a bug in the preprocessor: filedescriptors were not closed for #include directive [Thanks to mhalperi@bbnplanet.com for patch] 971024 o fixed configure's Perl version check because of Perl 5.004_04's changed -v output. o added Apache->request($r) to Apache::ePerl for Apache::Registry modules like new CGI.pm under mod_perl-1.02. o updated PORTING file o added GNU long options o changed -i (nocase on delimiters) to -n o cleaned up source by sorted options o now the usage is only displayed on -h/--help o now the copyright and disclaimer is displayed on -V, too. o now configure removes -D_POSIX_SOURCE from Perl's ccflags under IRIX 5.3 because this causes problems with strdup. o now configure explicitly removed newlines at the end of the determined hostname/domainname pair because these would lead to a failure for GNU autoconfs final sed-part. [Thanks to for bug report] o added another -f test inside configure when trying to find a perl binary because when /tmp/perl is a directory -x alone fails. o added eperl_config.[ch] and moved some code from eperl_global to this file. o added test for strdup() to configure and a private replacement version to eperl_config.c (from FreeBSD 2.2) because Ultrix is missing strdup(). [Thanks to Joerg Lenneis for hint] o now the XS-Init function in eperl_perl5.c has a variable list of newXS() calls which come from the new eperl_perl5_sm.h file which itself is generated by eperl_perl5_sm.pl. This way we're now really able to use static module when no DynaLoader is available. [Thanks to Joerg Lenneis for hint] 971027 o fixed also PORTING.test for new "perl -v" output o changed "prefix" stuff in Makefile.in to make the life of our Debian friends a little bit easier... ;_) o added Debian stuff to contrib/pkg/dpkg/ o added workaround in aclocal.m4 for SunOS's braindead "date" o sucessfully run PORTING.test on platforms found in PORTING Changes between 2.2.4 and 2.2.5 ------------------------------- [Bugfix and Minor Enhancement] 970902 o fixed error catching for Parse::ePerl::Precompile. [Thanks to Joseph W. Norton for hint] 970903 o added better support for PerlIO/StdIO. The combination PerlIO/SfIO is currently untested and may be broken because the I/O redirection for SfIO is very different from StdIO. o added Perl I/O layer info to eperl -V o added built time/user info to configure and eperl -V Changes between 2.2.3 and 2.2.4 ------------------------------- [Bugfix and Major Enhancement] 970901 o added more hints to PORTING file o fixed a bug in Parse::ePerl for case where $error was undefined [Thanks to Joseph W. Norton for patch] o fixed -I option: now it works as expected even for cases where you want to add stuff to @INC which is needed at _parse_ time. o now the webmaster can configure the delimiters and other stuff via Apache::ePerl::Config hash from within ... sections in Apache. An example is added to the synopsis of Apache::ePerl manpage. Changes between 2.2.2 and 2.2.3 ------------------------------- [Security Bugfix and Minor Enhancement] 970821 o fixed installation section in Apache::ePerl manpage o ***** SECURITY BUGFIX ***** ePerl versions <= 2.2.2 have a heavy security hole when running under a webserver's CGI/1.1 interface. Because ePerl assumed here there are not command line arguments. THIS IS WRONG! According to the CGI/1.1 spec when an ISINDEX document is used (QUERY_STRING!) the query is provided on the command line by the webserver. So, when only one query existed, there was exactly one command line argument and ePerl switched to stand-alone runtime mode and all CGI-mode restrictions are falling down!! ***** SECURITY BUGFIX ***** [Thanks to Andrew Pimlott for finding this security bug!] o now a chdir is done before the preprocessor is run so relative paths in #include directives work as expected. [Thanks to Marc Singer for patch] Changes between 2.2.1 and 2.2.2 ------------------------------- [Bugfix and Porting Enhancement] 970804 o removed bad demo.errsync.phtml 970806 o fixed a few spaces in Makefile.in 970807 o removed wrong $AUTOLOAD from Apache::ePerl o fixed a few other things in Apache::ePerl and Parse::ePerl o added 2.2.1 to VERSIONS file o moved the place of the release macros in Makefile.in before any targets because some braindead Make variants don't like it in the middle of targets. o added a new test 09-dynaloader.t for testing if dynamic loading works correctly. o added error capturing for Parse::ePerl::Evaluate via __DIE__ hook. o fixed the PODs o moved -lperl at linking after DynaLoader 970808 o fixed configure help string for --with-perl=PATH o added missing .eperl extension in eperl_security.h [Thanks to Heiko Schlittermann for hint] o added more stuff to INSTALL.APACHE 970811 o fixed wrong coding in setuid check [Thanks to SONE Takeshi for patch] Changes between 2.2.0 and 2.2.1 ------------------------------- [Bugfix and Enhancement] 970721 o fixed eg/demo.net.phtml 970727 o optimized the Perl 5 internal stuff in eperl_eperl5.c [Thanks to Doug McEachern for patches] o added support for Cwd parameter to Parse::ePerl::Precompile and use this also in Apache::ePerl when precompiling. [Thanks to Michael Lazar for idea] o added support for quotation marks and angle brackets in #include and #sinclude directives: these are just skipped. [Thanks to Karl Wallner for idea] o now DOCUMENT_ROOT is automatically added to @INC in CGI modes. [Thanks to Karl Wallner for idea] o now Apache::ePerl always uses option "ConvertEntities=1" when calling Parse::ePerl::Translate. [Thanks to Mike Pheasant for hint] o fixed demos for strict variables and added both .phtml and .iphtml files (same contents!) for easier testing with both nph-eperl and Apache::ePerl. o added support for generated custom HTTP headers to Apache::ePerl. 970801 o added "/eperl" to $libdir for installation o now "make install" installs the demo pages into $libdir/eg o added PORTING.test script for making porting tests easier o changed test for Perl in configure from "test -f" to "test -x" o fixed the examples again. o fixed a few things in eperl.pod 970802 o enhanced the overwriting of the perl and cc programs for the build process. See INSTALL for more details. o enhanced PORTING.test to be able to set perl and cc. o added overview to INSTALL Changes between 2.2b9 and 2.2.0 ------------------------------- [Bugfix only] 970706 o added missing eperl_getopt.h include for eperl_main.c which caused the compilation at least under SunOS 4.x to fail. o added more descriptive error message to configure when Perl version is to old o added hint to INSTALL that the same environment have to be used for compiling ePerl as for Perl. 970709 o added klduge to support Perl+SFIO where fwrite has to be replaced by PerlIO_write o enabled ``CC=/path/to/cc ./configure'' again for cases where one wants to overwrite the used C compiler. 970714 o removed some unused defines in eperl_global.h which lead to problems under AIX 4.1.4 o removed the P_ macros in eperl_proto.h because AIX 4.1.4 is not happy about it because of PrintError defines which has "...". Should be ok without P_ because we need an ANSI compiler since the first days. 970715 o changed Perl requirement from 5.00390 to 5.00325 970718 o added ANNOUNCE.ADDR file o updated NEWS file and updated ANNOUNCE file o updated VERSIONS file o slightly adjusted NEWS file o created contrib/utils/00README file o added the package files to contrib/pkg/ o updated the demo files Changes between 2.2b8 and 2.2b9 ------------------------------- 970623 o added docs about #elsif to eperl.pod and NEWS file 970628 o added VERSIONS file with ePerl history o shit happens: the preprocessor parsing had nasty bugs where a string "#include" somewhere in the text leads to a total skip of all real "^#include" directives :-( Changes between 2.2b7 and 2.2b8 ------------------------------- 970615 o added hint about Options +ExecCGI to mod/Apache/ePerl.pm o split the ChangeLog file into seperated files o added old stuff from 2.1.2 to end of NEWS file o created a KNOWN.BUGS file o created a INSTALL.NSAPI o slightly fixed the POD in mod/Apache/ePerl.pm o created a new set of demo files in eg/ o fixed some README headers 970620 o created a contrib/ dir and initially started to write a shtml2phtml script which converts (X)SSI to ePerl o fixed tabs in top-level Makefile 970622 o changed red colors to blue ones in error page o added the new powered-by-ePerl image which can be retrieved via URL nph-eperl/powered.gif o added del2del script to contrib/ o added a #elsif to the preprocessor Changes between 2.2b6 and 2.2b7 ------------------------------- 970602 o now etc/newvers always removes /tmp/genopt [Thanks to Phil Ritzenthaler for hint] o now configure determines the full operating system id from Perl's Config.pm 970604 o set -Wl,-woff 85 only for IRIX 6.x because IRIX 5.x hates this option.. [Thanks to Ewan McPhail and Phil Ritzenthaler for hint] o fixed the preprocessor: the inital searching of the directives was broken, only worked when a specific order was used. So some directives were skipped :-( o added a #sinclude (secure include) directive which is the same as #include but removes all begin and end delimiters, so this one is a secure way of including stuff from foreign servers. o rewritten the preprocessor part of eperl.pod Changes between 2.2b5 and 2.2b6 ------------------------------- 970601 o added a #c preprocessor directive to be able to comment out stuff (even to use "#c #include..." to disable an include directive) [Thanks to J. Douglas Dunlop for hint] o now the preprocessor checks the HTTP response code when http://.. is uses as the file: - when 301 and 302 are returned it searches for the new URL in the Location-header and restarts with this one - when a response code other than 200 (OK) is returned it fails the same way as it fails when a local file it not found: with an error. [Thanks to J. Douglas Dunlop for hint] o removed the Bash check in configure because this it not used Changes between 2.2b4 and 2.2b5 ------------------------------- 970530 o fixed perlvers -> perl_vers stuff o fixed again problem with VERSION stuff: ePerl.pm's were broken (ARGL!) Changes between 2.2b3 and 2.2b4 ------------------------------- 970529 o fixed preprocessor: #include only valid at column 0, i.e. at start of line o added a test 08 for the preprocessor o now any characters are skipped at end of #include lines up to the newline o added new parsing feature: "_" as the last non-whitespace command disables the automatic adding of the final semicolon. This is to be able to writeo <: if { :> ... <: } :> etc. o added new optional(!) parsing feature which is per-default disabled(!): "\" directly before a newline character outside ePerl blocks prevent the newline to be printed, i.e. the line is continued in the output This feature can be turned on via new option -L. o added new parsing feature: when an end delimiter is directly followed by ``//'' this discards all data up to and including the following newline. o added three new commands to preprocessor which gets converted to ePerl blocks: ``#if expr'' -> ``<: if (expr) { _:>//' ``#else'' -> ``<: } else { _:>//'' ``#endif'' -> ``<: } _:>//'' o imported the patch from ePerl 2.1.2 which fixes a problem under non-GCC compilers with a semicolon in eperl_security.h o removed the sin_len stuff 970530 o !! Essential Change !! configure now imports all essential compilation flags from Perl's Config.pm, including the compiler. This is necessary to make ePerl work even under HP-UX and IRIX where they need the special compiler and special compiler flags. The point is that Perl already determined the correct flags, so we can use it. o changed C++ style comments in eperl_parse.c to C style o fixed a missing "int" in eperl_sys.c o renamed eperl_getopt.c to original eperl_egetopt.c and make the namespace clean, i.e. renamed optXXX to egetopt_optXXX. This is needed at least for IRIX o changes egetopt() slightly o replaced the old egetopt() by the GNU getopt() because egetopt() was broken under some systems like IRIX. o option -h now never displays the version o added a missing semicolon in mod/Parse/ePerl.pm o renamed and fixed mod/Parse/t/04_compile.t o now etc/newvers resets the LANG variable to prevent LOCALE warnings o provided an own copy of perl_eval_pv() which is too new. It was introduced in Perl 5.003_97e. Now plain old Perl 5.003 will work again. o the Perl 5 interface modules can only be used with Perl 5.003_90 or higher because of the TIEHANDLE stuff which is not working in prior releases. o fixed update-version target in Makefile.i Changes between 2.2b2 and 2.2b3 ------------------------------- 970521 o fixed NEWS and ANNOUNCE files o spellchecked INSTALL, INSTALL.APACHE and eperl.pod 970522 o fixed eperl.pod =back stuff and added a paragraph about software leverage. 970523 o added reference for Parse::ePerl and Apache::ePerl to eperl.pod o changed abstract in all source files 970525 o ** added new option -P for an own #include preprocessor. ** o added new option -I: same as for "perl" to add directories to @INC and preprocessor 970526 o ** added support for URLs to #include ** o added a kludge to etc/newvers for systems like BSDI where no "getopt" program is available 970527 o added Parse::ePerl::Preprocess which is the interface to the new preprocessor o added six new environment variables: SCRIPT_SRC_PATH, SCRIPT_SRC_PATH_DIR and SCRIPT_SRC_PATH_FILE SCRIPT_SRC_URL, SCRIPT_SRC_URL_DIR and SCRIPT_SRC_URL_FILE o fixed a long-standing bug: temporary files were not removed :-( o added new option -C for HTML entity conversions inside ePerl blocks. This is for people who use HTML editors which have now knowledge of ePerl code. 970529 o slightly fixed eperl.pod at some places Changes between 2.2b1 and 2.2b2 ------------------------------- 970518 o fixed ``make install UNINST=1'' case for Makefile.PL 970520 o added more POD to Apache::ePerl Changes between 2.2a2 and 2.2b1 ------------------------------- 970505 o again reorganized the source code and renamed a lot of functions. o created modules/ with h2xs for a Parse::ePerl module o created generation of libeperl.a containing shared objects for Parse::ePerl 970506 o created a top-level Makefile.PL for faking a MakeMaker distribution 970509 o created a Apache::ePerl module 970510 o added option -i for making the delimiters case-sensitive in more explicit way 970511 o added t/05* to Parse::ePerl and made delimiter case variable 970513 o enhanced Parse::ePerl and finished Apache::ePerl 970515 o fixed tests 4 and 5 for non-Bash users and fixed a char/int problem in eperl_main.c and eperl_sys.c [Thanks to Jarom Smith ] 970516 o finished Apache::ePerl and Parse::ePerl 970517 o added a INSTALL.APACHE which describes the installation of ePerl as an SSSL under Apache Changes between 2.2a1 and 2.2a2 ------------------------------- 970504 o removed -s and added -m 755 to install in configure o optimized the parser; no ``print "";'' constructs are never created which at least slightly speeds up processing. Changes between 2.2a0 and 2.2a1 ------------------------------- 970503 o now the begin and end delimiters are searched case-insensitive. o added -h for displaying the usage list. Just to be consequent with options. o added leading and trailing whitespaces for Perl blocks when translating the source file to make the -x display more readable. Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.2a0 ------------------------------- 970502 o added support for '=' prefix: now <:= ... :> automatically gets converted to "print ...". Now one can interpolate variables in a more shorter way via instead of the long (in conjunction with the next enhancements) o now ePerl is much smarter when converting the ePerl blocks, i.e. it now recognizes final semicolons and automatically puts one if missing. Now <: cmd;cmd :> is also valid. o Whitespaces are not only stripped from the beginning of a ePerl block. Now they are stripped from the end, too. o !!CHANGED THE PARSING AGAIN!! Now again (as in 2.0.3) ePerl block end delimiters are found via plain forward search. No quoted strings are recognized. The reason is that constructs with odd number of quoting characters are more often seen than end delimiters in quoted string. And one more fact: It is easier to escape the end delimiter in a quotes string (e.g. via backslahes) than to rewrite a complex construct (e.g. m|"[^"]+"| !!). o added -T (Tainting) and -w (Warnings) options which can be used like the same in "perl". o added alpha and snap releases to NEWVERS Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2 ------------------------------- 970529 o fixed a typo in eperl_security.h which caused problems for non GCC compilers, e.g. under IRIX. [Thanks to Ewan McPhail for hint] Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1 ------------------------------- 970501 o added -P option to etc/newsvers o removed \n at SCRIPT_.._CTIME 970502 o replaced the $| = 1 stuff in eperl_perl5.c to the way mod_perl does it [Thanks to Doug MacEachern for patch] o enhanced the SetUID-based UID/GID checking: now in eperl_global.h is an option DO_ON_FAILED_STEP which either forces ePerl to error on any failed checks or go on but finally don't do the UID/GID switching o moved the security definitions from eperl_global.h to a new eperl_security.h and changed the references in eperl.pod Changes between 2.1b8 and 2.1.0 ------------------------------- 970426 o removed more obsolete @logfile@ stuff o again revised eperl.pod o !! CHANGED LICENSE !! NOW ePerl IS DISTRIBUTED AT THE TERMS OF EITHER THE GPL OR THE ARTISTIC LICENSE LIKE THE Perl 5.0 INTERPRETER ITSELF o fixed /tmp/x usage in configure o created PORTING file o tested ePerl on various platforms o made seteuid/setegid configureable via GNU autoconf for HP/UX and others o made the include files in eperl_globa.h conditional o made the -O2 conditional for GCC only Changes between 2.1b7 and 2.1b8 ------------------------------- 970425 o fixed installation manpath o fixed a security hole: the effective uid/gid have to be eliminated independend of mode and uid switching o fixed some typos in eperl.pod o rewritten the NEWS file o renamed the options: -D => -d, -E => -D (more intuitive) -b => -B, -e => -E (prevent conflicts) o fixed the order of command line option descriptions o removed the @logfile@ stuff from Makefile Changes between 2.1b6 and 2.1b7 ------------------------------- 970425 o fixed error page colors o changed some aux files: NEWS, TODO o added .cgi to allowed extensions for using shebang CGI/ePerl scripts o added more clear info about shebang to eperl.pod o fixed more bugs in eperl.pod o removed the exit on debug o finished the test suite o slightly fixed the usage output o added support for HEAD requests in case the server does not do it for us o documented provided env variables o created new isotime() function for SCRIPT_SRC_MODIFIED_ISOTIME variable o removed eperl_log.c because this will be used in later versions only Changes between 2.1b5 and 2.1b6 ------------------------------- 970414 o slightly changed the error message page 970418 o created -c for syntax check like "perl -c" o now the default delimiters are for CGI modes and <: ...:> for Filter mode o removed the delimiters defs in eperl_global.h but added a table to eperl.pod o completely rewritten the setuid security stuff !! o added security information to eperl.pod o now -x does something useful: it outputs the internally generated Perl script to /dev/tty and exits Changes between 2.1b4 and 2.1b5 ------------------------------- 970404 o now when used as a Unix filter the exit code is != 0 on error while for CGI scripts it is still 0 (needed to make the webserver happy and to force him to accept your HTML error page). o now prints the error message on stderr instead of stdout in Unix filter mode o fixed "make distclean", now t/Makefile is also removed. Changes between 2.1b3 and 2.1b4 ------------------------------- 970403 o fixed a bug in the b3 distribution: autoheader was not run, so to _compile_ ePerl GNU autoconf was needed. :-( o slight adjustments to eperl.pod Changes between 2.1b2 and 2.1b3 ------------------------------- 970402 o starting with Perl 5.003_96 the dXSUB_SYS define is empty. Removed the call and the gcc -Wall kludge from eperl_perl5.c o fixed etc/newvers o add "none" to configure DynaLoader check Changes between 2.1b1 and 2.1b2 ------------------------------- 970330 o reduced the logo GIF image in size to fit betteri into the browser window. The reduced one also has 10 KB less bytes. o made the Error HTML page nicer o removed the not used -a (age) option Changes between 2.1b0 and 2.1b1 ------------------------------- 970326 o added "-o file" to the usage message o when running as a Unix filter the current working directory is restored before the final outputfile (-o) is created. o documented that "-o outputfile" is relative to source file dir when runtime mode is CGI or NPH-CGI o added new-betalevel to Makefile.in Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.1b0 ------------------------------- 970322 o released as 2.1b0 for first test 970310 o added --with-perl=/path/to/perl option to ./configure to force a specific perl 970302 o removed getdate.c stuff :-( o added more tests o changed aux dir to etc for porting to WinNT :-( 970228 o debugged and cleanup up eperl_parse.c o fixed the core-dump under SunOS which comes from SunOS' non-POSIX vsprintf(). o removed the sdbm and md5 stuff because this should be introduced in 3.0 later only. o removed brainfile stuff o fixed another coredump in eperl_parse.c o fixed mode determination and mode-dependend error message 970227 o debugged and cleanup up eperl_parse.c 970226 o added dmalloc support for debugging 970224 o changed sprintf stuff to more portable variant in eperl_main.c o now autoconf checks for memmove and if not found eperl_parse.c uses bcopy. 970219 o changed bool checking to Autoconf stuff 970216 o ported to Linux: now bool is defined, prefix was replaced by AC_prefix to avoid collisions and the ccdlflags from Perl are used which need to be -rdynamic under Linux. Now ePerl compiles out of the box on Linux and runs fine, even with dynamic loading. 970210 o added getdate() code o added --enable-brainfile=/path/to/brainfile which sets the brain file where timestamps and md5 etc. are stored. o added -a option to set an age 970209 o added MD5 code o added SDBM code 970207 o changed -c and -s options to -m c and -m f o adding -m n for NPH/CGI, -m c is no only CGI o added stdin support via "-" and tmpfiles o added automatic tmpfile support with remove on interrupts or errors o now the old tempfiles are also created with new mechanism o added -o option for specifying an explicit outputfile instead of stdout o greatly imporved the manpage and brroght it to the latest status o created a test suite with Perl Test::Harness o now ePerl also accepts an empty file o added a security logfile which can be optionally enabled via "--enable-logfile=/path/to/logfile" at compile time. o added configure support for debug compilation via --enable-debug. This adds -g -ggdb3 to the CFLAGS and LDFLAGS and prevents the executable from being stripped. o removed the old doc/ subdir with the old FAQ and About file. 970206 o removed the generation of libeperl.a o added a real installation target to Makefile o removed eperl_parse.h, because it is still replaced by the generated eperl_proto.h o added -V option which now displays the compile parameters o removed the .. tags from error output because for the stand-alone version is looks bad. o added experimental TAINT...TAINT_NOT around perl_run. o added -d option to set real Perl variables and not just $ENV{'...'}; 970128 o added support to configure for Perl snapshot releases named 5.003_XX. o added a first security check: If operating in NPH-CGI mode the source file has to be one of the predefined valid file extensions. o now when ePerl runs as a setuid program (seteuid = 0) it switches to the uid/gid of the file owner 970127 o added -D option to set environment variables. (this is needed for my WML project where in pass 3 eperl gets called via -D...) o added -k option to keep CWD. (this is needed for my WML project where ePerl should not chdir to the /tmp/xxx files). 970118 o make the BEGIN/END_DELIMITER strings variables which now can be set via -b and -e (this is needed for my WML project where I use two variants of embedded Perl blocks) 970107 o fixed this changelog file o added test directory o cleanup of Makefile o removed obsolete prototypes in eperl_lib.h o cleaned up eperl_global.h o make eperl_getopt.[ch] gcc -Wall clean o added support for shebang usage, i.e. you can use #!/path/to/eperl at the top of your pages and use them as a CGI script now. ePerl will ignore the shebang line. o moved the system IO and env functions out to new eperl_sys.c o renamed eperl_lib to eperl_parse o Hups! all references to the CGI/1.0 standard were wrong, it actually is CGI/1.1... 970106 o added stand-alone interpreter with options o added -x and -v options o added README and LICENSE display o now ePerl reads the file from stdin if the argument is "-" o added a ePerl manual page for the stand-alone interpreter Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3 ------------------------------- 970104 o added some documentation from the webpages to misc/doc/ o added a FreeBSD ports area to the webpages Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2 ------------------------------- 970104 o remove of the temporary files were disabled for debugging purposes. Fixed. Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1 ------------------------------- 970103 o removed unused variables Changes between 1.5 and 2.0.0 ----------------------------- 970102 o ePerl now supports the Perl 5 DynaLoader interface for dynamic linking and loading of shared modules. This provides ePerl with the complete power of the underlying Perl 5 installation, including the shared objects. o ePerl now runs as NPH-CGI/1.1 script, i.e. as a Non-Parsed-Header CGI-script. This means that it is able to create its own HTTP header. Implications of this include: - To create HTTP headers just put them on the first lines in your script as plain text or just generate them on the fly by a ePerl block at the beginning of your script. With this feature you can for instance write pages which create images instead of HTML code. - If no headers were created by the script, it outputs it with MIME-type "text/html", including an additional calculated "Content-Length" header. - It automatically adds "Date" and "Server" headers. o ePerl now saves and checks the STDERR output of the script. If this contains data this implies an error and leads to the display of the error HTML page, displaying the STDERR output. o ePerl now saves the STDOUT output of the script (the real contents). This implies that it can calculate the Content-Length or ignore it if STDERR was created and the error page have to be displayed. o Additional environment variables will be set by ePerl prior to the execution of the bristled Perl blocks: SCRIPT_SRC_SIZE ....... the byte size of the original source file SCRIPT_SRC_MTIME ...... the integer value of the last modify time SCRIPT_SRC_MTIME_FMT .. the formatted string of the last modify time SCRIPT_SRC_OWNER ...... the owner of the original source file VERSION_INTERPRETER ... the ePerl version string VERSION_LANGUAGE ...... the Perl version string o The ePerl sources were split into distinct peaces to allow further development, e.g. a standalone program or a Apache API module. Changes between 1.4 and 1.5 --------------------------- 9609xx o started with the work to split the ePerl functionality into a library and create a stand-alone CGI-program and a Apache module which use this library. Changes between 1.3 and 1.4 --------------------------- 960906 o changed source from PATH_INFO to PATH_TRANSLATED o cleanup the sources and released it the first time officially on the Web Changes between 1.2 and 1.3 --------------------------- 960622 o created WWW pages o changed all old EPL references to ePerl o added a lot of comments to the source o made the begin and end delimiters variable o changed the end delimiter from ">" to "!>" because ">" makes problems if it occurs inside the ePerl block Changes between 1.1 and 1.2 --------------------------- 960510 o created GNU autoconf files, Makefiles, etc. Changes between 1.0 and 1.1 --------------------------- 960415 o fixed a bug in the escape code: more chars have to be escaped! Changes between *GENESIS* and 1.0 --------------------------------- 960323 o adapted for Apache 1.1b0+ak 960310 o *GENESIS*