May 4, 2005 - 0.66

• honor 'provides' field in META.yml file to provide list of packages/files the distribution supplies.
• when updating a distribution, check that the existing modules in the dists table are present in the updated distribution, and delete them if they're not.
• add Portugese translations (thanks to Alberto Simoes)
• fix mod_perl handlers to use new namespace introduced in RC5 of mp2. Note that all Apache::* modules are now named Apache2::*.
• assume utf-8 data in mod_perl handlers

April 7, 2005 - 0.64

• when extracting files from a distribution, honor the file, directory, and package entries of the no_index field in a META.yml file to ignore indexing
• introduce the environment variable CSL_CONFIG_FILE as an optional means to specify the configuration file
• when reindexing, set no_ppm = 1, so as to not index ppm
• die when reading the configuration file unless only the expected parameters are specified
• introduce an "ignore" field in the configuration file to specify distribution(s) to ignore when indexing
• add a "src" field to the module table to specify if the source of the module is available
• introduce a pod_split option that allows one to write 2 sets of html docs; once containing just the pod (from pod2html), and the other containing the complete source as generated through Perl::Tidy (which is usually quite large) (suggested by Sebastian Aperghis-Tramoni)
• enclose all of META.yml files in <PRE> tags, as the html formatting is often off (suggested by Sebastian Aperghis-Tramoni)
• use Perl::Tidy to generate html documentation; this includes formatting of the actual code at the bottom of the html page, and thus we extract all of the module from the archive, and not just the pod as before (suggested by Sebastian Aperghis-Tramoni)
• rather than have some of the translations done in separate tt2 pages, move all the translations into C::S::L::Lang::*.pm, and pass a language-specific data structure into one set of tt2 pages (suggested by Sebastian Aperghis-Tramoni)
• add module, distribution, author, or chapter name in title of tt2 page, when specified (suggested by Sebastian Aperghis-Tramoni)
• start split of DBI functionality into separate modules: C::S::L::DBI and C::S::L::DBI::*
• add option to reindex a distribution
• have search results for modules and distributions return their chapter information
• have search results for modules and distributions ordered also by their score when matching the abstract
• add a md5 column to the dists table to record the MD5 checksum from the CPAN CHECKSUMS file (suggested by Chris Dolan)
• add auto-incrementing primary keys to the ppms, chaps, and reqs tables
• add two new tables, reps and chapters, to record respectively the chapter names and repository names
• add a script, build/fix_db.pl, to alter the tables based on previous versions of C::S::L to agree with the current version
• change the way custom Apache directives are invoked so as to work with the current RC1 of mod_perl 2
• add a build/rss.pl script to generate an rss feed

Sept 22, 2004 - 0.59

• various translation improvements

  French: Isabelle Hernandez <isa at panix.com> German: Florian Greb <greb at inf.fu-berlin.de> Italian: Enrico Sorcinelli <bepi at modperl.it> Spanish: Joaquin Ferrero <explorer at joaquinferrero.com>

• add script to automatically generate dslip.html information page in different languages, contributed by Briac Pilpre <briac at pilpre.com>)
• add checks of Apache::Test, SOAP::Lite, mod_perl, and libapreq2 in Makefile.PL, which are optional modules in principle, but needed to run various web services for the database.
• split the modules into a lib/ and Apache2/ directory, so as to be able to run "Test" tests under lib/ and "Apache::Test" tests under Apache2/.
• add a test suite, which requires a "test" database (of user "test") already set up, plus Apache::Test to test web services.
• add a simple configuration script to set up the configuration file used by csl_index to create and update the database, as well as some sample Apache directives.
• for the Apache directives to set up the database connection, interpret the lack of a password directive to mean no password is required.
• for a search term of a module or distribution which results in one match, supply the "subletter" information.
• remove some leading and trailing spaces in the information gathered from the CPAN indices for author full names and chapter ids.
• in the example Apache directives, indicate that CPAN ids can contain numbers, as well as letters and the '-' sign.
• when a distribution is scheduled for deletion from the database, remove it's pod and html docs as well, if present.

Sept 4, 2004 - 0.55

• use AI::Categorizer to guess at a category for unassigned modules/distributions, based on the learning from existing categorized modules. There are two new options available in the [CPAN] section of the configuration file:
  • cat_threshold: a number between 0 and 1 used as a threshold for assigning categories
  • no_cat: to not use this feature
• bump up length of module names stored in the mods table, as some modules were longer than this
• if there is only one result available for a link from a "letter" page of modules/distributions or a chapter page, redirect to that page directly, rather than show a page with one link
• present the date and file size associated with distributions in different languages
• (greatly) improved translations:

  French: Isabelle Hernandez <isa at panix.com>

  Arnaud Assad <arnaud at underlands.org> German: Florian Greb <greb at inf.fu-berlin.de> Italian: Enrico Sorcinelli <bepi at modperl.it> Spanish: Joaquin Ferrero <explorer at joaquinferrero.com> Thanks!

• add ppminfo.cgi, a soap server script now used by PPM::Make to get module/distribution/author info.
• switch to Lingua::Stem for the stemming algorithm used in the text searches

July 29, 2004 - 0.53

• fix bug where an error message, for example, in a regular expression query was getting cached across requests.
• introduce presentation of results in different languages, based on the language preference of the web browser. This entails some changes in the config/header/footer tt2 pages, as well as provision of the rest of the pages in a translated form.
• introduce stemming (from Text::English) when doing a text search of the module/distribution abstracts; this is an experiment to see if better search results are obtained.

June 14, 2004 - 0.47

• fix bug in Query.pm to return an array if requested.

June 2, 2004 - 0.46

• fix bug where some updates weren't being recorded properly when they involved a change in module author

April 15, 2004 - 0.45

• add custom Apache2 configuration directives for mod_perl 2 based modules, rather than having to edit the files
• add mod_perl 2 SOAP-based services (requires Apache2::SOAP, which is a mod_perl 2 aware version of Apache::SOAP of the SOAP-Lite distribution), and provide examples within bin/csl_soap and bin/perldocs.

March 19, 2004 - 0.25

• add perldocs, a soap-enhanced Pod::Perldoc to fetch from remote repository modules pods not available on local system.

March 13, 2004 - 0.23

• when calling CPAN::Search::Lite::Query->new(), accept as an argument max_results => $max_results, specifying the maximum number of results to return.
• fix a bug where $max_results was being applied to more than just user queries (which it now does).
• move declaration of Template::Toolkit object to a package variable in the mod_perl handlers, so as to cache it.
• move declaration of CPAN::Search::Lite::Query object to a package variable in the mod_perl handlers, so as to cache it.

March 10, 2004 - 0.20

• ensure the labelled INSTALL and README files for a distribution are not possible .pm files.
• add a fix_links method to Populate.pm to fix the links in the generated html files. The reason for this is that when the html file are created no cache is used, to maintain consistency between updates, and so links to packages outside a given package may be wrong. This method queries the database to see what module docs are really present, and asjusts the links accordingly (or removes them, if they're not present).

Mar 7, 2004 - 0.15

• trim whitespace from query term, and remove quotes and backslashes
• verify presence of table id before updating tables
• check for validity of regular expression query term
• direct to main page if query term is empty
• various checks to avoid warnings about uninitialized hash elements
• documentation fixes

Feb 29, 2004 - 0.1

• initial release