What is new in 4.00_04 - Wednesday, February 16, 2005 * FIX: Minor fix in tests suits and error-checking routines of serializers and id-generators What is new in 4.00_03 - Friday, February 11, 2005 * NEW: CGI::Session::find() introduced * NEW: traverse() introduced into drivers to support CGI::Session::find() * DOCS: More complete driver specs documented What is new in 4.00_02 - Wednesday, February 09, 2005 * FIX: race conditions in Driver/file.pm pointed out by Martin Bartosch What is new in 4.00_01 - Wednesday, February 09, 2005 * NEW: load() - constructor method to prevent unnecessary session creations * NEW: is_expired() - method to intercept expired sessions * NEW: is_empty() - to intercept requests for unexisting sessions * NEW: more optimized source code * NEW: updated and improved driver specs * NEW: standard testing framework * NEW: 'sqlite' driver What is new in 3.12? * cache() method introduced, which is normally used by library drivers to cache certain value within the single process * Apache::Session-like tie interface supported (EXPERIMENTAL!) * trace() and tracemsg() methods added for debugging purposes What is new in 3.8? * Abbreviations in DSN parameters are supported via Text::Abbrev. * Automatic api3 detection makes "-api3" switch obsolete * Experimental "-frozen" switch added, but not yet functional. * sync_param() utility function added * header() replacement to CGI::header() added, which outputs proper HTTP headers with session information * Private data records have been documented. * Bug in clear() kept failing if passed no arguments to be cleared. What is new in 3.x? * Ability to choose between serializers, drivers and id generators while creating the session object. Supported via '-api3' switch. * New serializers added: Storable, FreezeThaw in addition to Default. * New ID generator added: Incr, which generates auto incrementing id numbers, in addition to MD5 * "-ip_match" switch enabled for additional security * Expire() method is fully functional * Ability to expire certain session parameters * Better documented drivers specifications * Main documentation is split into two: CGI::Session and CGI::Session::Tutorial * Bug in POD documentation is fixed (thanks to Graham Barr) Changes,v 3.8 2005/02/17 03:20:34 sherzodr Exp