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Revision history for Perl extension JSON::PP.

2.97001 to be released
    - tweak internal number detector to always considers a flagged
      value as a string (GH#35, haarg++)
    - clarify json_pp options (RT-123766; Dan Jacobson)

2.97000 2017-11-21
    - fix is_bool to use blessed() instead of ref() (jwrightecs++)
    - use 5 digit minor version number for a while to avoid confusion
      (GH#33, dansut)

2.96  2017-11-20
    - not to use newer Test::More features (RT-122421 for JSON)

2.95  2017-11-20
    - json_pp now prints an encoded json string (RT#123653)
    - fix is_bool to use ->isa("JSON::PP::Boolean"), instead
      of UNIVERSAL::isa("JSON::PP::Boolean") (GH#34, aidy++)

2.94  2017-05-29
    - fix a test to support perl 5.6

2.93  2017-05-15
    - fix packaging issue

2.92  2017-05-15
    - production release

2.91_04  2017-01-10
	- fixed isa tests for bignum

2.91_03  2017-01-09
	- reworked documentation, based on the one for JSON::XS
	- let json_pp utility to show the version of JSON::PP
	- applied a patch to fix loading order of B module (pali++)

2.91_02  2016-12-04
	- fixed not to fail tests under Perl 5.25.* (srezic++)

2.91_01  2016-12-03
	- changed the number detection logic, patched by haarg
	  (experimental)
	- merged PR from dagolden to correct 0 handling
	- removed base.pm dependency (dolmen)
	- fixed wrong character offset spotted by ilmari
	- applied patches from Jarkko Hietaniemi to address VAX issues
	- small doc fixes from bessarabov, gregoa, Chris Anderson
	- applied a patch to remove . in @INC in json_pp (Tony Cook)
	- removed $VAR1 from json_pp output, spotted by tokuhirom
	- fixed an issue to ignore trailing 0
	- added Scalar::Util dependency for Perl 5.8+
	- fixed issues spotted by Nicolas Seriot's JSON Test Suite
	  including experimental UTF-16/32 support and backward
	  incompatible change of C style comment handling (now disabled
	  by default)
	- moved the guts of JSON::PP::Boolean into lib/JSON/PP/Boolean.pm
	  and gave it a proper version
	- refactored incremental parser to let it handle incomplete
	  JSON text properly
	- imported and tweaked tests from JSON.pm
	- minor code clean up

2.27400  2016-04-23
	[JSON::PP] appleid and merged long term neglected patches & PRs.
	           thanks to charsbar

- document patches
	  by AM909, leon[at]astray.com, dsteinbrunner, jwilk, alfiedotwtf
	- modified Makefile.PL to set UNINST=1 if needed on old perls
	  by dagolden
	- decode decimals to Perl's internal NV type
	  by dagolden

see to https://github.com/makamaka/JSON-PP/commits/master

2.27300  2014-10-06
	- fixed a problem about substr in perl 5.8.6 and below
	  many people report this issue and patched by haarg[at]haarg.org

2.27203  Thu Oct 17 19:38:55 2013
	- fixed return/or in _incr_parse
	  reported and patched by MAUKE, sprout and rjbs
	  https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=86948

2.27202  Wed Mar 13 15:41:22 2013
	- license in Makefile.PL was missing

2.27201  Wed Mar 13 13:22:33 2013
	- occasionally failed in t/019_incr.t in Perl 5.17.6 or more
          (because of hash iterator randomization)
          reported and patched by demerphq
          https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=83421

2.27200  Sun May 22 12:17:51 2011
	- fixed incr_parse decoding string more correctly (rt#68032 by LCONS)

2.27105  Tue Mar  8 12:38:42 2011
	- removed t/900_pod.t from package because of author test

2.27104  Thu Jan 20 19:06:25 2011
	- fixed a problem to convert overloaded objects (pointed by rt#64783)
	- changed decoding methods object() and array() to pass a object.

2.27103  Wed Dec 29 15:32:38 2010
	- added bin/json_pp - command line utility

2.27102  Mon Dec 20 20:29:39 2010
	- modified JSON::PP::Boolean pod

2.27101  Mon Dec 20 16:21:03 2010
	- renamed JSON::PPdev to JSON::PP

2.27100  Sun Nov 28 02:02:49 2010
	- split away JSON distribution 2.27 (= JSON::PP 2.27008)
	- renamed t/* files

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2.27  Sun Oct 31 20:32:46 2010
	[JSON::PP]
	- Some optimizations (gfx)
	[JSON::PP::5005]
	- added missing B module varibales (makamaka)

2.26  Tue Sep 28 17:41:37 2010
	[JSON::PP]
	- cleaned up code and enhanced sort option efficiency in encode.

2.25  Tue Sep 28 16:47:08 2010
	[JSON]
	- JSON::Backend::XS::Supportable always executed a needless process
	    with JSON::XS backend. This made encode/decode a bit slower.

2.24  Mon Sep 27 10:56:24 2010
	[JSON::PP]
	- tweaked code.
	- optimized code in hash object encoding.

2.23  Sun Sep 26 22:08:12 2010
	[JSON::PP]
	- modified tied object handling in encode. it made encoding speed faster.
	    pointed by https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61604
	- modified t/e10_bignum.t
            for avoiding a warning in using Math::BigInt dev version

2.22  Wed Aug 25 12:46:13 2010
	[JSON]
	- added JSON::XS installing feature in Makefile.PL
	    with cpan or cpanm (some points suggested by gfx)
	- check that to_json and from_json are not called as methods (CHORNY)
	[JSON::PP]
	- modified for -Duse64bitall -Duselongdouble compiled perl.
	    11_pc_expo.t too. (these are patched by H.Merijn Brand)

2.21  Mon Apr  5 14:56:52 2010
	[JSON]
	- enhanced 'HOW DO I DECODE A DATA FROM OUTER AND ENCODE TO OUTER'
	- renamed eg/bench_pp_xs.pl to eg/bench_decode.pl
	- added eg/bench_encode.pl

2.20  Fri Apr  2 12:50:08 2010
	[JSON]
	- added eg/bench_pp_xs.pl for benchmark sample
	- updated 'INCREMENTAL PARSING' section
	[JSON::PP]
	- decode_prefix() didn't count a consumed text length properly.
	- enhanced XS compatibility
	    in the case of decoding a white space garbaged text.

2.19  Tue Mar 30 13:40:24 2010
	[JSON]
	- fixed typo (rt#53535 by Angel Abad)
	- added a recommendation
              referring to (en|de)code_json to pod (suggested by tokuhirom)
	- added 'HOW DO I DECODE A DATA FROM OUTER AND ENCODE TO OUTER' to pod.

2.18  Tue Mar 23 15:18:10 2010
	[JSON]
	- updated document (compatible with JSON::XS 2.29)
	[JSON::PP]
	- fixed encode an overloaded 'eq' object bug (reported by Alexey A. Kiritchun)
	- enhanced an error message compatible to JSON::XS

2.17  Thu Jan  7 12:23:13 2010
	[JSON]
	- fixed a problem caused by JSON::XS backend and support_by_pp option
	  (rt#52842,  rt#52847 by ikegami)
	[JSON::PP]
	- made compatible with JSON::XS 2.27
	- patched decode for incr_parse (rt#52820 by ikegami)
	- relaxed option caused an infinite loop in some condition.

2.16  Fri Oct 16 15:07:37 2009
	[JSON][JSON::PP]
	- made compatible with JSON::XS 2.26
            *indent adds a final newline
	- corrected copyrights in JSON::PP58.

2.15  Tue Jun  2 16:36:42 2009
	[JSON]
	- made compatible with JSON::XS 2.24
	- corrected copyrights in some modules.
	[JSON::PP]
	 - modified incr_parse, pointed by Martin J. Evans (rt#46439)
	 - deleted a meaningless code

2.14  Tue Feb 24 11:20:24 2009
	[JSON]
	- the compatible XS version was miswritten in document.

2.13  Sat Feb 21 17:01:05 2009
	[JSON::PP]
	- decode() didn't upgrade unicode escaped charcters \u0080-\u00ff.
	  this problem was pointed by rt#43424 (Mika Raento)
	[JSON::PP::56]
	- fixed utf8::encode/decode emulators bugs.
	- defined a missing B module constant in Perl 5.6.0.
	  (reported by Clinton Pierce)
	[JSON::PP::5005]
	- _decode_unicode() returned a 0x80-0xff value as UTF8 encoded byte.
	[JSON]
	- added a reference to JSON::XS's document "JSON and ECMAscript".
	- fixed a typo in the document (pointed by Jim Cromie).

2.12  Wed Jul 16 11:14:35 2008
	[JSON]
	- made compatible with JSON::XS 2.22

[JSON::PP]
	- fixed the incremental parser in negative nest level
	    (pointed and patched by Yuval Kogman)

2.11  Tue Jun 17 14:30:01 2008
	[JSON::PP]
	- fixed the decoding process which checks number.
	    regarded number like chars in Unicode (ex. U+FF11) as [\d].
	- enhanced error messages compatible to JSON::XS.

2.10  Tue Jun  3 18:42:11 2008
	[JSON]
	- made compatible with JSON::XS 2.21
	    * updated the document.
	- added an item pointed by rt#32361 to the doc.

[JSON::PP] [JSON::PP58] [JSON::PP56] [JSON::PP5005]
	- made compatible with JSON::XS 2.21
	    * added incr_reset
	- removed useless codes.

2.09  Sun Apr 20 20:45:33 2008
	[JSON]
	- made compatible with JSON::XS 2.2
	- changed pod section totally.

[JSON::PP] 2.20001
	- made compatible witg JSON::XS 2.2
	    * lifted the log2 rounding restriction of max_depth and max_size.
	    * incremental json parsing (EXPERIMENTAL).
	    * allow_unknown/get_allow_unknown methods.
	- the version format was changed.
	    X.YYZZZ =>  X.YY is the same as JSON::XS. ZZZ is the PP own version.
	- changed pod section totally.

2.08  Sat Apr 12 22:49:39 2008
	[JSON]
	- fixed JSON::Boolean inheritance mechanism.
            If the backend is XS with support_by_pp mode and using PP only
            support method, JSON::Boolean did not work correctly.
            Thanks to hg[at]apteryx's point.

[JSON::PP] 2.07
	- Now split into JSON::PP58 for Perl 5.8 and lator.
	- enhanced an error message compatible to JSON::XS
            did not croak when TO_JSON method returns same object as passed.

[JSON::PP58]
	- modified for Perls post 5.8.0 that don't have utf8::is_utf8.
	    Thanks to Andreas Koenig.

2.07  Sat Feb 16 15:52:29 2008
	[JSON]
	- experimentally added -convert_blessed_universally to define
	    UNIVERSAL::TO_JSON subroutine.

use JSON -convert_blessed_universally;
              $json->convert_blessed->encode( $blessed );

- and as_nonbleesed is obsoleted (not yet removed). OK?
	- fixed t/04_pretty.t.

2.06  Fri Feb  8 16:21:59 2008
	[JSON::PP] 2.06
	- enhanced the XS compatibility for pretty-printing
	    and the indent handling was broken!

2.05  Tue Feb  5 13:57:19 2008
	[JSON::PP] 2.05
	- enhanced some XS compatibilities for de/encode.
	- now decode_error can dump high (>127) chars.
	- enhanced the XS combatilbity of the decoding error.
	- fixed the utf8 checker while decoding (is_valid_utf8).
	- implemented utf8::downgrade in JSON::PP56.
	- enhanced utf8::encode in JSON::PP56.
	- made utf8::downgrade return a true in JSON::PP5005.

2.04  Sat Jan  5 16:10:01 2008
	[JSON]
	- fixed a document typo pointed by kawasaki@annocpan
	- make DATA handle closed for error mssages in support_by_pp mode.
	- switched JSON::Backend::XS::Supportable wrapper de/encode
             to changing symbolic tables for croak messages and speed.
	- fixed support_by_pp setting

[JSON::PP] 2.04
	- enhanced the error message compatibility to XS.

2.03  Fri Jan  4 14:10:58 2008
	[JSON]
	- fixed the description - Transition ways from 1.xx to 2.xx.
             $JSON::ConvBlessed compat => $json->allow_blessed->as_nonbleesed
	- support_by_pp supports 'as_nonbleesed' (experimental)
	- clean up the code for saving memory

[JSON::PP] 2.03
	- Now the allo_bignum flag also affects the encoding process.
            encode() can convert Math::BigInt/Float objects into JSON numbers
	- added as_nonblessed option (experimental)
	- cleaned up internal function names (renamed camel case names)

2.02  Wed Dec 26 11:08:19 2007
	[JSON]
	- Now support_by_pp allows using indent_length()

[JSON::PP] 2.02
	- added get_indent_length

2.01  Thu Dec 20 11:30:59 2007
	[JSON]
	- made the object methods - jsonToObj and objToJson
          available for a while with warnings.

2.00  Wed Dec 19 11:48:04 2007
	[JSON]
	- new version!
	- modified Makefile.PL for broken Perls (when PERL_DL_NONLAZY = 1).

[JSON::PP] 2.0104
	- clean up the document.
	- use 'subs' instead of CORE::GLOBAL for fixing join() in 5.8.0 - 5.8.2
	- enhanced decoding error messages for JSON::XS compatibility.
	- jsonToObj and objToJson warn.

1.99_05  Fri Dec 14 18:30:43 2007
	[JSON]
	- added a description about the Unicode handling to document.

[JSON::PP] (2.0103)
	- Now the JSON::PP56 unicode handling does not require Unicode::String.
	- Now JSON::PP5005 can de/enocde properly within the Perl 5.005 world.
	- decode() always utf8::decode()ed to strings.
	- decode() returned a big integer as string though the integer is
          smaller than it is so.
	- a bad know how - added the join() wrapper for Perl 5.8.0 - 5.8.2 bug.
	- JSON::PP56 encode() did not handle Unicode properly.
	- added a section about the unicode handling on Perls to JSON::PP doc.

1.99_04  Mon Dec 10 14:28:15 2007
	[JSON]
	- modified the tests and source for Perl 5.005

[JSON::PP] (2.0102)
	- modified some prototypes in JSON::PP5005.

1.99_03  Mon Dec 10 11:43:02 2007
	[JSON]
	- modified tests and document.
	   in Perl5.8.2 or earlier, decoding with utf8 is broken because of
           a Perl side problem. (join() had a bug.)
	- modified Makefile.PL for Perl 5.005.
	   in the version, 'require JSON' is fail....

[JSON::PP] (2.0102)
	- modified string decode function.
	- enhanced error messages for compatibility to JSON::XS.
	- enhanced utf8::decode emulator and unpack emulator in JSON::PP56.

1.99_02  Sun Dec  9 05:06:19 2007
        [JSON::PP] (2.0101)
	- decoding with utf8 was broken in Perl 5.10
	    as the behaviour of unpack was changed.
	- added a fake in JSON::PP5005 (bytes.pm)
	- added the missing file JONS::PP::Boolean.pm

1.99_01  Sat Dec  8 12:01:43 2007
	[JSON]
	- released as version 2.0
	   this module is incompatible to 1.xx, so check the document.

[JSON::PP] (2.01 from 0.97)
	- updated JSON::PP for compatible to JSON::XS 2.01
	- renamed from_json and to_json to decode_json and encode_json
	- added get_* to JSON::PP
	- deleted property() from JSON::PP
	- deleted strict() and added loose()
	- deleted disable_UTF8() and self_encode()
	- renamed singlequote to allow_singlequote
	- renamed allow_bigint to allow_bignum
	- max_depth and max_size round up their arguments.
	- added indent_length and sort_by

## JSON version 1.xx

1.15  Wed Nov 14 14:52:31 2007
	- 1.xx final version.

0.09  Sat Apr  9 15:27:47 2005
	- original version; created by h2xs 1.22 with options
		-XA -b 5.5.3 -n JSON

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