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  [SECURITY]
  1. embedded newlines are now filtered out of header values in header(). 
     Thanks to Mark Stosberg and Yanick Champoux.

  [DOCUMENTATION]
  1. README was updated to reflect that CGI.pm was moved under ./lib. 
     Thanks to Alex Vandiver.

  [INTERNALS]
  1. More tests were added for autoescape, thanks to Bob Kuo. (RT#25485)
  2. Attempt to avoid test failures with t/fast, thanks to Steve Hay. (RT#49599)

Version 3.48, Sep 25, 2009

  [BUG FIXES]
  1. <optgroup> default values are now properly escaped.
     Thanks to #raleigh.pm and Mark Stosberg. (RT#49606)
  2. The change to exception handling in CGI::Carp introduced in 3.47 has been
     reverted for now. It caused regressions reported in RT#49630. 
     Thanks to mkanat for the report.

  [DOCUMENTATION]
  1. Documentation for upload() has been overhauled, thanks to Mark Stosberg. 
  2. Documentation for tmpFileName has been added. Thanks to Mark Stosberg and Nathaniel K. Smith.
  3. URLS were updated, thanks to Leon Brocard and Yanick Champoux. (RT#49770)

  [INTERNALS]
  1. More tests were added for autoescape, thanks to Bob Kuo. (RT#25485)

Version 3.47,  Sep 9, 2009

  No code changes. 

  [INTERNALS]
    Re-release of 3.46, which did not contain a proper MANIFEST

Version 3.46

  [BUG FIXES]
  1. In CGI::Pretty, we no longer add line breaks after tags we claim not to format. Thanks to rrt, Bob Kuo and
     and Mark Stosberg. (RT#42114).
  2. unescapeHTML() no longer falsely recognizes certain text as entities. Thanks to Pete Gamanche, Mark Stosberg
     and Bob Kuo. (RT#39122)
  3. checkbox_group() now correctly includes a space before the "checked" attribute.
     Thanks to Andrew Speer and Bob Kuo. (RT#36583)
  4. Fix case-sensitivity in http() and https() according to docs. Make https()
     return list of keys in list context. Thanks to riQyRoe and Rhesa Rozendaal. (RT#12909)
  5. XHTML is now automatically disabled for HTML 4, as well as HTML 2 and HTML 3. Thanks to
     Dan Harkless and Yanick Champoux. (RT#27907)
  6. Pre-compiling 'end_form' with ':form' switch now works. Thanks to ryochin and Yanick Champoux. (RT#41530)
  7. Empty name/values pairs are now properly saved and restored from filehandles. Thanks to rlucas and
     Rhesa Rozendaal (RT#13158)
  8. Some differences between startform() and start_form() have been fixed. Thanks to Slaven Rezic and
     Shawn Corey. (RT#22046)
  9. url_param() has been updated to be more consistent with the documentation and param().
     Thanks to Britton Kerin and Yanick Campoux. (RT#43587)
  10.hidden() now correctly supports multiple default values.
     Thanks to david@dierauer.net and Russell Jenkins. (RT#20436)
  11.Calling CGI->new() no longer clobbers the value of $_ in the current scope.
     Thanks to Alexey Tourbin, Bob Kuo and Mark Stosberg. (RT#25131)
  12.UTF-8 params should not get double-decoded now.
     Thanks to Yves, Bodo, Burak G�rsoy, and Michael Schout. (RT#19913)
  13.We now give objects passed to CGI::Carp::die a chance to be stringified.
     Thanks to teek and Yanick Champoux (RT#41530)
  14.Turning off autoEscape() now only affects the behavior of built-in HTML
     generation fuctions. Explicit calls to escapeHTML() always escape HTML regardless
     of the setting. Thanks to vindex, Bob Kuo and Mark Stosberg (RT#40748)
  15.In CGI::Fast, preferences set via pragmas are now preserved.
     Thanks to heinst and Mark Stosberg (RT#32119)

  [DOCUMENTATION]
  1. remote_addr() is now documented. Thanks to Yanick Champoux. (RT#38884)
  2. In CGI::Pretty in the list of tags left unformatted was updated to match the code. Thanks to Mark Stosberg. (RT#42114)
  3. In CGI::Pretty, performance concerns are now documented. Thanks to Jochen, Rhesa Rozendaal and Mark Stosberg (RT#13223)
  4. A number of outdated Netscape references have been removed. Thanks to Mark Stosberg.
  5. The documentation has been purged of examples of using indirect object notation. Thanks to Mark Stosberg.
  6. Some POD formatting was fixed. Thanks to Dave Mitchell (RT#48935).
  7. Docs and examples were updated to highlight start_form instead of startform.
     Thanks to Slaven Rezic.
  8. Note that CGI::Carp::carpout() doesn't work with in-memory filehandles. 
     Thanks to rhubbell and Mark Stosberg. 
  9. The documentation for the -newstyle_urls is now less confusing.
     Thanks to Ryan Tate and Mark Stosberg (RT#49454)

  [INTERNALS]
  1. Quit bundling an ancient copy of Test::More and and using a custom 'lib' path for the tests. Instead, Test::More
     is now a dependency. Thanks to Ansgar and Mark Stosberg (RT#48811)
  2. Automated tests for hidden() have been added, thanks to Russel Jenkins and Mark Stosberg (RT#20436)
  3. t/util.t has been updated to use Test::More instead of a home-grown test function. Thanks to Bob Kuo.

Version 3.45, Aug 14, 2009

  [BUG FIXES]
  1. Prevent warnings about "uninitialized values" for REQUEST_URI, HTTP_USER_AGENT and other environment variables.
     Patches by Callum Gibson, heiko and Mark Stosberg. (RT#24684, RT#29065)
  2. Avoid death in some cases when running under Taint mode on Windows.
     Patch by Peter Hancock (RT#43796)
  3. Allow 0 to be used as a default value in popup_menu(). This was broken starting in 3.37.
     Thanks to Haze, who was the first to report this and supply a patch, and pfschill, who pinpointed
     when the bug was introduced. A regression test for this was also added. (RT#37908)
  4. Allow "+" as a valid character in file names, which fixes temp file creation on OS X Leopard.
     Thanks to Andy Armstrong, and alech for patches. (RT#30504)
  5. Set binmode() on the Netware platform, thanks to Guenter Knauf (RT#27455)
  6. Don't allow a CGI::Carp error handler to die recursively. Print a warning and exit instead.
     Thanks to Marc Chantreux. (RT#45956)
  7. The Dump() method now is fixed to escape HTML properly. Thanks to Mark Stosberg (RT#21341)
  8. Support for <optgroup> with scrolling_list() now works the same way as it does for popup_menu().
     Thanks to Stuart Johnston (RT#30097)
  9. CGI::Pretty now works properly when $" is set to ''. Thanks to Jim Keenan (RT#12401)
 10. Fix crash when used in combination with PerlEx::DBI. Thanks to Burak G�rsoy (RT#19902)

  [DOCUMENTATION]
  1. Several typos were fixed, Thanks to ambs. (RT#41105)
  2. A typo related to the nosticky pragma was fixed, thanks to Britton Kerin. (RT#43220)
  3. examples/nph-clock.cgi is now more portable, by calling localtime() rather than `/bin/date`,
     thanks to Guenter Knauf. (RT#27456).
  4. In CGI::Carp, the SEE ALSO section was cleaned up, thanks to Slaven Rezic. (RT#32769)
  5. The docs for redirect() were updated to reflect that most headers are
     ignored during redirection. Thanks to Mark Stosberg (RT#44911)

  [INTERNALS]