1.44    2017-12-10

- You can now pass "frame_filter", "filter_frames_early", and "skip_frames" to

  the throw() method of an exception class. These will be passed on to the

  Devel::StackTrace constructor. Requested by Frédéric Brière. GH #6.

1.43    2017-07-09

- The full_message() method in Exception::Class::Base now calls message()

  instead of accessing the object's hash key. This makes it easier to override

  message() in a subclass. Patch by Alexander Batyrshin. PR #11.

1.42    2017-01-04

- Generated exception classes are now added to %INC. If you subclass a

  generated class with "use base" then base.pm will no longer attempt to load

  the requested class. Patch by Todd Rinaldo. PR #8.

1.41    2016-12-07

- Switch to GitHub Issues.

1.40    2016-01-29

- Fixed broken metadata. Reported by Slaven Rezić. GitHub #3.

1.39    2014-11-01

- Replaced the Exception::Class::Base->NoRefs method with UnsafeRefCapture to

  match changes in Devel::StackTrace 2.00. The old method is deprecated but

  will continue to work.

1.38    2014-05-05

- An exception without a message will now default to either the associated

  exception class description or the string "[Generic exception]". Patch by

  Ricardo Signes. PR #2.

- Added field_hash() and context_hash() methods. Patch by Ricardo Signes. PR

  #1.

1.37    2013-02-24

- I now recommend you use Throwable instead of this module. It has a nicer,

  more modern interface.

- Fixed various bugs and confusion in the docs.

1.36    2012-11-17

- Fixed some stupidity in the tests that appears to have been highlighted by

  recent changes to Devel::StackTrace. Reported by Dan Horne. RT #81245.

1.35    2012-09-17

- Require Class::Data::Inheritable 0.02+.

1.34    2012-09-16

- 1.33 did not declare any prereqs. Oops. Reported by Roham McGovern. RT

  #79677.

1.33    2012-09-16

- Fixed warning from basic.t on 5.17.x. RT #79121.

1.32    2010-06-28

- Removed Test::Most dependency, which was causing a circular dependency

  chain. Reported by Burak Gursoy. RT #58889.

1.31    2010-06-26

- Made it possible to use Exception::Class::Base without loading

  Exception::Class. Reported by Alex Peters. RT #57269.

1.30    2010-03-20

- Added the ability to create light weight exceptions, which don't record a

  stack trace or any other context info (time, pid, etc.). This is done by

  setting $class->NoContextInfo to a true value for the exception class. Based

  on a patch by Graham Barr. RT #54826.

1.29    2009-05-08

- Make sure that there is only one line that the toolchain can pick up

  when looking for this module's $VERSION.

1.28    2009-05-06

* Removed Exception::Class::Base->do_trace and ->NoObjectRefs, both of

  which have been undocumented for many years.

- Moved Exception::Class::Base to its own file, so it doesn't

  overwrite the $VERSION in Exception::Class (and for general

  sanity). Reported by Kirk Baucom.

1.27    2009-05-04

* The error message for an exception no longer defaults to $!. This

  was a bad idea, and has bitten some people. Addresses RT #43600.

* I'm now only supporting Perl 5.8.1+. This module broke on 5.6.2 (and

  5.8.0) at some point and I don't really care enough to fix

  it. Non-intrusive patches to make it work on 5.8.0 or less (again)

  will be accepted.

1.26    2008-10-25

- No code changes, just bumped the Devel::StackTrace dependency to

  1.20.

  The changes in 1.25 exposed a bug in Devel::StackTrace which has now

  been fixed. This caused HTML::Mason test failures, among other

  things. Reported by Andreas Koenig.

1.25    2008-10-21

- The Exception::Class::Base constructor no longer looks at the

  associated Devel::StackTrace object's frames. Avoiding looking at

  the frames should make constructing exception objects much

  faster. Instead the information based on the stack trace frames -

  package(), file(), and line() - is only retrieved when it is

  requested. Patch by Ruslan Zakirov. RT #40221.

1.24    2008-03-30

- Added a MaxArgLength class parameter to go along with the new

  max_arg_length constructor param for Devel::StackTrace

  objects. Patch by Ian Burrell.

1.23    2006-01-14

- Fix code bugs in the SYNOPSIS.

- Exception::Class->caught() now returns $@ if not given an argument.

1.22    2005-09-30

- Added Exception::Class::Base->caught() so you can write

  "My::Error->caught()".  Apparently this is what Damian documented in

  Perl Best Practices.  Thanks to JD Hedden for pointing this out.

- Require Devel::StackTrace 1.12 to fix a test failure on Win32.

  Reported by Garrett Goebel.

1.21    2005-04-17

- Added Exception::Class->caught() as syntactic sugar for catching

  exceptions in a "safe" manner.  See the docs for details.  Suggested

  by Damian Conway.

1.20    2005-01-01

- Moved the Classes() method to Exception::Class, now as a function,

  which is where it really belongs.  Also corrected the docs for this

  function, as they incorrectly implied that it would return all

  subclasses, instead of just subclasses which were created when

  loading Exception::Class.

- Added a Build.PL file, and releases are now signed with

  Module::Signature.

- Added ignore_class and ignore_package constructor parameters.  Patch

  by Daisuke Maki.

1.19    2004-03-10

- Identical to 1.18 except that it requires Devel::StackTrace 1.10,

  which fixes a failure in this package's test when run with Perl

  5.6.1.  Reported by Jesse Erlbaum.

1.18    2004-02-21

- Added RespectOverload class method, which can be used to control the

  respect_overload parameter for Devel::StackTrace objects.

1.17    2004-02-20

- Document that new() is always called to create an

  Exception::Class::Base object.  Suggested by Steve Hay.

- Fix a test that failed with Devel::StackTrace 1.05.  Basically, the

  test expected output from Devel::StackTrace that reflected a bug

  that was fixed in 1.05.  Reported by Jesse Vincent.

1.16    2003-09-25

- David Wheeler's patch exposed a bug in Devel::StackTrace which could

  cause exceptions to not have any value set for package, file, or

  line.  This is fixed by depending on Devel::StackTrace 1.04.  This

  release is otherwise identical to 1.15.  Reported by Steve Hay.

1.15    2003-09-17

- Exceptions thrown from an alias subroutine always had

  "Exception::Class" as their package name.  Patch by David Wheeler.

1.14    2003-07-04

- ** BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITY **

  NoRefs is now true by default.  This means that stacktraces will

  _not_ store references unless you explicitly set NoRefs to a false

  value.  This is done because it's too easy to leak memory when

  references are saved in stack traces.

- Fixed a very odd bug where Exception::Class could mistakenly think

  that an exception class had been created when it really hadn't.

  This was only exposed with bleadperl (5.8.1-to-be), and is unlikely

  to affect anyone using an existing Perl version.

1.13    2003-06-21

- Documented the Exception::Class::Base->Fields method, which can be

  called on subclasses to determine what extra fields they have

  defined.  Suggested by Chris Winters.

1.12    2003-04-03

- Added the Exception::Class::Base->Classes method.  Patch by David

  Wheeler.

1.11    2003-02-20

- A description containing a single quote or backslash would cause a

  syntax error in the code generated by Exception::Class.  Patch by

  Luc St-Louis.

1.10    2003-01-28

- The alias feature had a bug that showed up when an alias was

  assigned to a class whose parent had not yet been made.

1.09    2003-01-22

- Tweak to Fields method so that it returns empty list for 5.6.1 and

  5.00503.

- Require Devel::StackTrace 1.03 to fix potential recursion problem

  between the two classes when stringifying exceptions.

1.08    2003-01-21

- Added "alias" feature, which allows you to create a subroutine that

  throws a specified exception.  This is based on code created by Ken

  Williams for Mason.

1.07    2002-09-19

- Forgot to require Devel::StackTrace 1.01.

1.06    2002-09-19

- Use File::Spec when testing file method so that test 7 passes on all

  platforms.  Reported by Ron Savage.

- Use Test::More for test suite.

- Change NoObjectRefs method to NoRefs, to match change in

  Devel::StackTrace 1.01.  The old method is deprecated, but will

  continue to work.  However, it now _means_ the same thing as NoRefs.

1.05    2002-08-23

- Add NoObjectRefs class method to prevent Devel::StackTrace from

  holding onto objects internally, thus delaying destruction.  Based

  on a discussion with Tatsuhiko Miyagawa.

1.04    2002-08-22

- Fix messed up tarball as reported by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa.

1.03    2002-08-21

- Some versions of Perl may give an error about "Ambiguous call

  resolved as CORE::time()".  This should be fixed now.  Reported by

  Ron Savage.

1.02    2002-08-20

- Fields set in a parent class were not actually being inherited by

  children.  Patch (with tests!) by David Wheeler.

- Allow a single argument (error/message) to the constructor.  Patch

  by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa.

- General doc cleanup.

1.01    2002-05-23

- Make sure that exception objects always test as true in a boolean

  context.

1.00    2002-03-08

- Added a full_message method intended to be overridden when you

  create a subclass that uses fields that you want included in the

  stringification of the object.  Suggested by Jon Swartz.

0.99    2002-03-06

- The much-requested "arbitrary attributes" feature has been added.

  Thanks to Jon Swartz for the patch.  You can now do this:

  use Exception::Class ( 'My::Exception' => { fields => [ 'bar', 'baz' ] } );

  ...

  if ( UNIVERSAL::isa( $@, 'My::Exception' ) { print $@->bar, $@->baz; }

0.98    2002-02-20

- Subclasses that overrode the ->as_string method had to repeat the

  stringification overloading for exception objects.  This has been

  changed so that the stringification overloading is now

  sub { $_[0]->as_string }

  Suggested by Jon Swartz.

0.97    2001-11-25

- Incorporated a patch from Ken Williams that works around several

  Perl 5.6.0 bugs.

- Test 31 was explicitly different for 5.6.0.  Ken said that the

  difference actually made it fail (whereas in the past for me it

  succeeded).  Tweak this test a bit more to just be more flexible

  under 5.6.0.

0.96    2001-11-23

- Changes wasn't in MANIFEST.  Oops.

- Doc tweaks and cleanup of README.

- Make do_trace a synonym to Trace for backwards compatibility.

0.95    2001-11-22

  ** INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES IN THIS RELEASE **

- Remove do_trace method and replace it with Trace method, which is

  inherited by subclasses.

- Exception object now always have a Devel::StackTrace object

  available.  The Trace method only determines whether or not it is

  included when the exception is stringified.

- A new parameter show_trace for throw which allows you to override

  the value of Trace on a case by case basis.

- Fix uninit value warning with 5.00503.

0.90    2001-10-23

- fix buglet reported by Terrence Brannon that could occur while

  trying to figure out where the exception was thrown, if the

  exception was thrown from the package that the exception is an

  object of.

- doc improvements suggested Nathaniel Smith (related to using

  Error.pm) and Mark Stosberg.

0.85    Unknown Release Date

- added ability to use message instead of error as hash key to

  constructor.

0.8     2000-09-03

- changed object from psuedo-hash to regular hash

- added package, file, & line methods to exception object.

- added more tests for exception object accessors

0.7     2000-09-03

- hack in test.pl to allow tests to pass under 5.6.0.

- README details various Perl bugs this module (along with

  Devel::StackTrace) can expose and some possible workarounds.

0.6     2000-06-27

- renamed to Exception::Class

0.5     2000-06-26

- Initial release, as Class::Exceptions.