<h1>Perltidy Change Log</h1>
+<h2>2022 06 13</h2>
+
+<pre><code>- No significant bugs have been found since the last release but users
+ of programs which call the Perl::Tidy module should note the first
+ item below, which changes a default setting. The main change to
+ existing formatting is the second item below, which adds vertical
+ alignment to 'use' statements.
+
+- The flag --encode-output-strings, or -eos, is now set 'on' by default.
+ This has no effect on the use of the 'perltidy' binary script, but could
+ change the behavior of some programs which use the Perl::Tidy module on
+ files encoded in UTF-8. If any problems are noticed, an emergency fix
+ can be made by reverting to the old default by setting -neos. For
+ an explanation of why this change needs to be made see:
+
+ https://github.com/perltidy/perltidy/issues/92
+
+ https://github.com/perltidy/perltidy/blob/master/docs/eos_flag.md
+
+- Added vertical alignment for qw quotes and empty parens in 'use'
+ statements (see issue #git 93). This new alignment is 'on' by default
+ and will change formatting as shown below. If this is not wanted it can
+ be turned off with the parameter -vxl='q' (--valign-exclude-list='q').
+
+ # old default, or -vxl='q'
+ use Getopt::Long qw(GetOptions);
+ use Fcntl qw(O_RDONLY O_WRONLY O_EXCL O_CREAT);
+ use Symbol qw(gensym);
+ use Exporter ();
+
+ # new default
+ use Getopt::Long qw(GetOptions);
+ use Fcntl qw(O_RDONLY O_WRONLY O_EXCL O_CREAT);
+ use Symbol qw(gensym);
+ use Exporter ();
+
+- The parameter -kbb (--keep-break-before) now ignores a request to break
+ before an opening token, such as '('. Likewise, -kba (--keep-break-after)
+ now ignores a request to break after a closing token, such as ')'. This
+ change was made to avoid a rare instability discovered in random testing.
+
+- Previously, if a -dsc command was used to delete all side comments,
+ then any special side comments for controlling non-indenting braces got
+ deleted too. Now, these control side comments are retained when -dsc is
+ set unless a -nnib (--nonon-indenting-braces) flag is also set to
+ deactivate them.
+
+- This version runs about 10 percent faster on large files than the previous
+ release due to optimizations made with the help of Devel::NYTProf. Much
+ of the gain came from faster processing of blank tokens and comments.
+
+- This version of perltidy was stress-tested for many cpu hours with
+ random input parameters. No failures to converge, internal fault checks,
+ undefined variable references or other irregularities were seen.
+</code></pre>
+
+<h2>2022 02 17</h2>
+
+<pre><code>- A new flag, --encode-output-strings, or -eos, has been added to resolve
+ issue git #83. This issue involves the interface between Perl::Tidy and
+ calling programs, and Code::TidyAll (tidyall) in particular. The problem
+ is that perltidy by default returns decoded character strings, but
+ tidyall expects encoded strings. This flag provides a fix for that.
+
+ So, tidyall users who process encoded (utf8) files should update to this
+ version of Perl::Tidy and use -eos for tidyall. For further info see:
+
+ https://github.com/houseabsolute/perl-code-tidyall/issues/84, and
+ https://github.com/perltidy/perltidy/issues/83
+
+ If there are other applications having utf8 problems at the interface
+ with Perl::Tidy, this flag probably may need to be set.
+
+- The default value of the new flag, --encode-output-strings, -eos, is currently
+ -neos BUT THIS MAY CHANGE in a future release because the current
+ default is inconvenient. So authors of programs which receive character
+ strings back from Perl::Tidy should set this flag, if necessary,
+ to avoid any problems when the default changes. For more information see the
+ above links and the Perl::Tidy man pages for example coding.
+
+- The possible values of the string 's' for the flag '--character-encoding=s'
+ have been limited to 'utf8' (or UTF-8), 'none', or 'guess'. Previously an
+ arbitrary encoding could also be specified, but as a result of discussions
+ regarding git #83 it became clear that this could cause trouble
+ since the output encoding was still restricted to UTF-8. Users
+ who need to work in other encodings can write a short program calling
+ Perl::Tidy with pre- and post-processing to handle encoding/decoding.
+
+- A new flag --break-after-labels=i, or -bal=i, was added for git #86. This
+ controls line breaks after labels, to provide a uniform style, as follows:
+
+ -bal=0 follows the input line breaks [DEFAULT]
+ -bal=1 always break after a label
+ -bal=2 never break after a label
+
+ For example:
+
+ # perltidy -bal=1
+ INIT:
+ {
+ $xx = 1.234;
+ }
+
+ # perltidy -bal=2
+ INIT: {
+ $xx = 1.234;
+ }
+
+- Fix issue git #82, an error handling something like ${bareword} in a
+ possible indirect object location. Perl allows this, now perltidy does too.
+
+- The flags -kbb=s or --keep-old-breakpoints-before=s, and its counterpart
+ -kba=s or --keep-old-breakpoints-after=s have expanded functionality
+ for the container tokens: { [ ( } ] ). The updated man pages have
+ details.
+
+- Two new flags have been added to provide finer vertical alignment control,
+ --valign-exclusion-list=s (-vxl=s) and --valign-inclusion-list=s (-vil=s).
+ This has been requested several times, most recently in git #79, and it
+ finally got done. For example, -vil='=>' means just align on '=>'.
+
+- A new flag -gal=s, --grep-alias-list=s, has been added as suggested in
+ git #77. This allows code blocks passed to list operator functions to
+ be formatted in the same way as a code block passed to grep, map, or sort.
+ By default, the following list operators in List::Util are included:
+
+ all any first none notall reduce reductions
+
+ They can be changed with the flag -gaxl=s, -grep-alias-exclusion-list=s
+
+- A new flag -xlp has been added which can be set to avoid most of the
+ limitations of the -lp flag regarding side comments, blank lines, and
+ code blocks. See the man pages for more info. This fixes git #64 and git #74.
+ The older -lp flag still works.
+
+- A new flag -lpil=s, --line-up-parentheses-inclusion-list=s, has been added
+ as an alternative to -lpxl=s, --line-up-parentheses-exclusion-list=s.
+ It supplies equivalent information but is much easier to describe and use.
+ It works for both the older -lp version and the newer -xlp.
+
+- The coding for the older -lp flag has been updated to avoid some problems
+ and limitations. The new coding allows the -lp indentation style to
+ mix smoothly with the standard indentation in a single file. Some problems
+ where -lp and -xci flags were not working well together have been fixed, such
+ as happened in issue rt140025. As a result of these updates some minor
+ changes in existing code using the -lp style may occur.
+
+- This version of perltidy was stress-tested for many cpu hours with
+ random input parameters. No failures to converge, internal fault checks,
+ undefined variable references or other irregularities were seen.
+
+- Numerous minor fixes have been made, mostly very rare formatting
+ instabilities found in random testing.
+</code></pre>
+
+<h2>2021 10 29</h2>
+
+<pre><code>- No significant bugs have been found since the last release, but several
+ minor issues have been fixed. Vertical alignment has been improved for
+ lists of call args which are not contained within parens (next item).
+
+- Vertical alignment of function calls without parens has been improved with
+ the goal of making vertical alignment essentially the same with or
+ without parens around the call args. Some examples:
+
+ # OLD
+ mkTextConfig $c, $x, $y, -anchor => 'se', $color;
+ mkTextConfig $c, $x + 30, $y, -anchor => 's', $color;
+ mkTextConfig $c, $x + 60, $y, -anchor => 'sw', $color;
+ mkTextConfig $c, $x, $y + 30, -anchor => 'e', $color;
+
+ # NEW
+ mkTextConfig $c, $x, $y, -anchor => 'se', $color;
+ mkTextConfig $c, $x + 30, $y, -anchor => 's', $color;
+ mkTextConfig $c, $x + 60, $y, -anchor => 'sw', $color;
+ mkTextConfig $c, $x, $y + 30, -anchor => 'e', $color;
+
+ # OLD
+ is id_2obj($id), undef, "unregistered object not retrieved";
+ is scalar keys %$ob_reg, 0, "object registry empty";
+ is register($obj), $obj, "object returned by register";
+ is scalar keys %$ob_reg, 1, "object registry nonempty";
+ is id_2obj($id), $obj, "registered object retrieved";
+
+ # NEW
+ is id_2obj($id), undef, "unregistered object not retrieved";
+ is scalar keys %$ob_reg, 0, "object registry empty";
+ is register($obj), $obj, "object returned by register";
+ is scalar keys %$ob_reg, 1, "object registry nonempty";
+ is id_2obj($id), $obj, "registered object retrieved";
+
+ This will cause some changes in alignment, hopefully for the better,
+ particularly in test code which often uses numerous parenless function
+ calls with functions like 'ok', 'is', 'is_deeply', ....
+
+- Two new parameters were added to control the block types to which the
+ -bl (--opening-brace-on-new-line) flag applies. The new parameters are
+ -block-left-list=s, or -bll=s, and --block-left-exclusion-list=s,
+ or -blxl=s. Previously the -bl flag was 'hardwired' to apply to
+ nearly all blocks. The default values of the new parameters
+ retain the the old default behavior but allow it to be changed.
+
+- The default behavior of the -bli (-brace-left-and-indent) flag has changed
+ slightly. Previously, if you set -bli, then the -bl flag would also
+ automatically be set. Consequently, block types which were not included
+ in the default list for -bli would get -bl formatting. This is no longer done,
+ and these two styles are now controlled independently. The manual describes
+ the controls. If you want to recover the exact previous default behavior of
+ the -bli then add the -bl flag.
+
+- A partial fix was made for issue for git #74. The -lp formatting style was
+ being lost when a one-line anonymous sub was followed by a closing brace.
+
+- Fixed issue git #73, in which the -nfpva flag was not working correctly.
+ Some unwanted vertical alignments of spaced function perens
+ were being made.
+
+- Updated the man pages to clarify the flags -valign and -novalign
+ for turning vertical alignment on and off (issue git #72).
+ Added parameters -vc -vsc -vbc for separately turning off vertical
+ alignment of code, side comments and block comments.
+
+- Fixed issue git #68, where a blank line following a closing code-skipping
+ comment, '#>>V', could be lost.
+
+- This version runs 10 to 15 percent faster on large files than the
+ previous release due to optimizations made with the help of NYTProf.
+
+- This version of perltidy was stress-tested for many cpu hours with
+ random input parameters. No instabilities, internal fault checks,
+ undefined variable references or other irregularities were seen.
+
+- Numerous minor fixes have been made, mostly very rare formatting instabilities
+ found in random testing. An effort has been made to minimize changes to
+ existing formatting that these fixes produce, but occasional changes
+ may occur. Many of these updates are listed at:
+
+ https://github.com/perltidy/perltidy/blob/master/local-docs/BugLog.pod
+</code></pre>
+
+<h2>2021 07 17</h2>
+
+<pre><code>- This release is being made mainly because of the next item, in which an
+ error message about an uninitialized value error message could be produced
+ in certain cases when format-skipping is used. The error message was
+ annoying but harmless to formatting.
+
+- Fixed an undefined variable message, see git #67. When a format skipping
+ comment '#<<' is placed before the first line of code in a script, a
+ message 'Use of uninitialized value $Ktoken_vars in numeric ...' can
+ occur.
+
+- A warning will no longer be given if a script has an opening code-skipping
+ comment '#<<V' which is not terminated with a closing comment '#>>V'. This
+ makes code-skipping and format-skipping behave in a similar way: an
+ opening comment without a corresponding closing comment will cause
+ the rest of a file to be skipped. If there is a question about which lines
+ are skipped, a .LOG file can be produced with the -g flag and it will have
+ this information.
+
+- Removed the limit on -ci=n when -xci is set, reference: rt #136415.
+ This update removes a limit in the previous two versions in which the
+ value of -ci=n was limited to the value of -i=n when -xci was set.
+ This limit had been placed to avoid some formatting instabilities,
+ but recent coding improvements allow the limit to be removed.
+
+- The -wn and -bbxx=n flags were not working together correctly. This has
+ been fixed.
+
+- This version may produce occasional differences in formatting compared to
+ previous versions, mainly for lines which are near the specified line
+ length limit. This is due to ongoing efforts to eliminate edge cases of
+ formatting instability.
+
+- Numerous minor fixes have been made. A complete list is at:
+
+ https://github.com/perltidy/perltidy/blob/master/local-docs/BugLog.pod
+</code></pre>
+
+<h2>2021 06 25</h2>
+
+<pre><code>- This release adds several new requested parameters. No significant bugs have
+ been found since the last release, but a number of minor problems have been
+ corrected.
+
+- Added a new option '--code-skipping', requested in git #65, in which code
+ between comment lines '#<<V' and '#>>V' is passed verbatim to the output
+ stream without error checking. It is simmilar to --format-skipping
+ but there is no error checking of the skipped code. This can be useful for
+ skipping past code which employs an extended syntax.
+
+- Added a new option for closing paren placement, -vtc=3, requested in rt #136417.
+
+- Added flag -atnl, --add-terminal-newline, to help issue git #58.
+ This flag tells perltidy to terminate the last line of the output stream
+ with a newline character, regardless of whether or not the input stream
+ was terminated with a newline character. This is the default.
+ If this flag is negated, with -natnl, then perltidy will add a terminal
+ newline character to the the output stream only if the input
+ stream is terminated with a newline.
+
+- Some nested structures formatted with the -lp indentation option may have
+ some changes in indentation. This is due to updates which were made to
+ prevent formatting instability when line lengths are limited by the maximum line
+ length. Most scripts will not be affected. If this causes unwanted formatting
+ changes, try increasing the --maximum-line-length by a few characters.
+
+- Numerous minor fixes have been made. A complete list is at:
+
+ https://github.com/perltidy/perltidy/blob/master/local-docs/BugLog.pod
+</code></pre>
+
+<h2>2021 04 02</h2>
+
+<pre><code>- This release fixes several non-critical bugs which have been found since the last
+release. An effort has been made to keep existing formatting unchanged.
+
+- Fixed issue git #57 regarding uninitialized warning flag.
+
+- Added experimental flag -lpxl=s requested in issue git #56 to provide some
+control over which containers get -lp indentation.
+
+- Fixed issue git #55 regarding lack of coordination of the --break-before-xxx
+flags and the --line-up-parens flag.
+
+- Fixed issue git #54 regarding irregular application of the --break-before-paren
+and similar --break-before-xxx flags, in which lists without commas were not
+being formatted according to these flags.
+
+- Fixed issue git #53. A flag was added to turn off alignment of spaced function
+parens. If the --space-function-paren, -sfp flag is set, a side-effect is that the
+spaced function parens may get vertically aligned. This can be undesirable,
+so a new parameter '--function-paren-vertical-alignment', or '-fpva', has been
+added to turn this vertical alignment off. The default is '-fpva', so that
+existing formatting is not changed. Use '-nfpva' to turn off unwanted
+vertical alignment. To illustrate the possibilities:
+
+ # perltidy [default]
+ myfun( $aaa, $b, $cc );
+ mylongfun( $a, $b, $c );
+
+ # perltidy -sfp
+ myfun ( $aaa, $b, $cc );
+ mylongfun ( $a, $b, $c );
+
+ # perltidy -sfp -nfpva
+ myfun ( $aaa, $b, $cc );
+ mylongfun ( $a, $b, $c );
+
+- Fixed issue git #51, a closing qw bare paren was not being outdented when
+the -nodelete-old-newlines flag was set.
+
+- Fixed numerous edge cases involving unusual parameter combinations which
+ could cause alternating output states. Most scripts will not be
+ changed by these fixes.
+
+- A more complete list of updates is at
+
+ https://github.com/perltidy/perltidy/blob/master/local-docs/BugLog.pod
+</code></pre>
+
+<h2>2021 01 11</h2>
+
+<pre><code>- Fixed issue git #49, -se breaks warnings exit status behavior.
+The exit status flag was not always being set when the -se flag was set.
+
+- Some improvements have been made in the method for aligning side comments.
+One of the problems that was fixed is that there was a tendency for side comment
+placement to drift to the right in long scripts. Programs with side comments
+may have a few changes.
+
+- Some improvements have been made in formatting qw quoted lists. This
+fixes issue git #51, in which closing qw pattern delimiters not always
+following the settings specified by the --closing-token-indentation=n settings.
+Now qw closing delimiters ')', '}' and ']' follow these flags, and the
+delimiter '>' follows the flag for ')'. Other qw pattern delimiters remain
+indented as the are now. This change will cause some small formatting changes
+in some existing programs.
+
+- Another change involving qw lists is that they get full indentation,
+rather than just continuation indentation, if
+
+ (1) the closing delimiter is one of } ) ] > and is on a separate line,
+ (2) the opening delimiter (i.e. 'qw{' ) is also on a separate line, and
+ (3) the -xci flag (--extended-continuation-indentation) is set.
+
+This improves formatting when qw lists are contained in other lists. For example,
+
+ # OLD: perltidy
+ foreach $color (
+ qw(
+ AntiqueWhite3 Bisque1 Bisque2 Bisque3 Bisque4
+ SlateBlue3 RoyalBlue1 SteelBlue2 DeepSkyBlue3
+ ),
+ qw(
+ LightBlue1 DarkSlateGray1 Aquamarine2 DarkSeaGreen2
+ SeaGreen1 Yellow1 IndianRed1 IndianRed2 Tan1 Tan4
+ )
+ )
+
+ # NEW, perltidy -xci
+ foreach $color (
+ qw(
+ AntiqueWhite3 Bisque1 Bisque2 Bisque3 Bisque4
+ SlateBlue3 RoyalBlue1 SteelBlue2 DeepSkyBlue3
+ ),
+ qw(
+ LightBlue1 DarkSlateGray1 Aquamarine2 DarkSeaGreen2
+ SeaGreen1 Yellow1 IndianRed1 IndianRed2 Tan1 Tan4
+ )
+ )
+
+- Some minor improvements have been made to the rules for formatting
+some edge vertical alignment cases, usually involving two dissimilar lines.
+
+- A more complete list of updates is at
+
+ https://github.com/perltidy/perltidy/blob/master/local-docs/BugLog.pod
+</code></pre>
+
+<h2>2020 12 07</h2>
+
+<pre><code>- Fixed issue git #47, incorrect welding of anonymous subs.
+ An incorrect weld format was being made when the --weld-nested-containers option
+ (-wn) was used in to format a function which returns a list of anonymous subs.
+ For example, the following snippet was incorrectly being welded.
+
+$promises[$i]->then(
+ sub { $all->resolve(@_); () },
+ sub {
+ $results->[$i] = [@_];
+ $all->reject(@$results) if --$remaining <= 0;
+ return ();
+ }
+);
+
+This was due to an error introduced in v20201201 related to parsing sub
+signatures. Reformatting with the current version will fix the problem.
+</code></pre>
+
+<h2>2020 12 01</h2>
+
+<pre><code>- This release is being made primarily to make available a several new formatting
+ parameters, in particular -xci, -kbb=s, -kba=s, and -wnxl=s. No significant
+ bugs have been found since the previous release, but numerous minor issues have
+ been found and fixed as listed below.
+
+- This version is about 20% faster than the previous version due to optimizations
+ made with the help of Devel::NYTProf.
+
+- Added flag -wnxl=s, --weld-nested-exclusion-list=s, to provide control which containers
+ are welded with the --weld-nested-containers parameter. This is related to issue git #45.
+
+- Merged pull request git #46 which fixes the docs regarding the -fse flag.
+
+- Fixed issue git #45, -vtc=n flag was ignored when -wn was set.
+
+- implement request RT #133649, delete-old-newlines selectively. Two parameters,
+
+ -kbb=s or --keep-old-breakpoints-before=s, and
+ -kba=s or --keep-old-breakpoints-after=s
+
+ were added to request that old breakpoints be kept before or after
+ selected token types. For example, -kbb='=>' means that newlines before
+ fat commas should be kept.
+
+- Fix git #44, fix exit status for assert-tidy/untidy. The exit status was
+ always 0 for --assert-tidy if the user had turned off all error messages with
+ the -quiet flag. This has been fixed.
+
+- Add flag -maxfs=n, --maximum-file-size-mb=n. This parameter is provided to
+ avoid causing system problems by accidentally attempting to format an
+ extremely large data file. The default is n=10. The command to increase
+ the limit to 20 MB for example would be -mfs=20. This only applies to
+ files specified by filename on the command line.
+
+- Skip formatting if there are too many indentation level errors. This is
+ controlled with -maxle=n, --maximum-level-errors=n. This means that if
+ the ending indentation differs from the starting indentation by more than
+ n levels, the file will be output verbatim. The default is n=1.
+ To skip this check, set n=-1 or set n to a large number.
+
+- A related new flag, --maximum-unexpected-errors=n, or -maxue=n, is available
+ but is off by default.
+
+- Add flag -xci, --extended-continuation-indentation, regarding issue git #28
+ This flag causes continuation indentation to "extend" deeper into structures.
+ Since this is a fairly new flag, the default is -nxci to avoid disturbing
+ existing formatting. BUT you will probably see some improved formatting
+ in complex data structures by setting this flag if you currently use -ci=n
+ and -i=n with the same value of 'n' (as is the case if you use -pbp,
+ --perl-best-practices, where n=4).
+
+- Fix issue git #42, clarify how --break-at-old-logical-breakpoints works.
+ The man page was updated to note that it does not cause all logical breakpoints
+ to be replicated in the output file.
+
+- Fix issue git #41, typo in manual regarding -fsb.
+
+- Fix issue git #40: when using the -bli option, a closing brace followed by
+ a semicolon was not being indented. This applies to braces which require
+ semicolons, such as a 'do' block.
+
+- Added 'state' as a keyword.
+
+- A better test for convergence has been added. When iterations are requested,
+ the new test will stop after the first pass if no changes in line break
+ locations are made. Previously, file checksums were used and required at least two
+ passes to verify convergence unless no formatting changes were made. With the new test,
+ only a single pass is needed when formatting changes are limited to adjustments of
+ indentation and whitespace on the lines of code. Extensive testing has been made to
+ verify the correctness of the new convergence test.
+
+- Line breaks are now automatically placed after 'use overload' to
+ improve formatting when there are numerous overloaded operators. For
+ example
+
+ use overload
+ '+' => sub {
+ ...
+
+- A number of minor problems with parsing signatures and prototypes have
+ been corrected, particularly multi-line signatures. Some signatures
+ had previously been parsed as if they were prototypes, which meant the
+ normal spacing rules were not applied. For example
+
+ OLD:
+ sub echo ($message= 'Hello World!' ) {
+ ...;
+ }
+
+ NEW:
+ sub echo ( $message = 'Hello World!' ) {
+ ...;
+ }
+
+- Numerous minor issues that the average user would not encounter were found
+ and fixed. They can be seen in the more complete list of updates at
+
+ https://github.com/perltidy/perltidy/blob/master/local-docs/BugLog.pod
+</code></pre>
+
+<h2>2020 10 01</h2>
+
+<pre><code>- Robustness of perltidy has been significantly improved. Updating is recommended. Continual
+ automated testing runs began about 1 Sep 2020 and numerous issues have been found and fixed.
+ Many involve references to uninitialized variables when perltidy is fed random text and random
+ control parameters.
+
+- Added the token '->' to the list of alignment tokens, as suggested in git
+ #39, so that it can be vertically aligned if a space is placed before them with -wls='->'.
+
+- Added parameters -bbhb=n (--break-before-hash-brace=n), -bbsb=n (--break-before-square-bracket=n),
+ and -bbp=n (--break-before-paren=n) suggested in git #38. These provide control over the
+ opening container token of a multiple-line list. Related new parameters -bbhbi=n, -bbsbi=n, -bbpi=n
+ control indentation of these tokens.
+
+- Added keyword 'isa'.
+</code></pre>
+
+<h2>2020 09 07</h2>
+
+<pre><code>- Fixed bug git #37, an error when the combination -scbb -csc was used.
+ It occurs in perltidy versions 20200110, 20200619, and 20200822. What happens is
+ that when two consecutive lines with isolated closing braces had new side
+ comments generated by the -csc parameter, a separating newline was missing.
+ The resulting script will not then run, but worse, if it is reformatted with
+ the same parameters then closing side comments could be overwritten and data
+ lost.
+
+ This problem was found during automated random testing. The parameter
+ -scbb is rarely used, which is probably why this has not been reported. Please
+ upgrade your version.
+
+- Added parameter --non-indenting-braces, or -nib, which prevents
+ code from indenting one level if it follows an opening brace marked
+ with a special side comment, '#<<<'. For example,
+
+ { #<<< a closure to contain lexical vars
+
+ my $var; # this line does not indent
+
+ }
+
+ # this line cannot 'see' $var;
+
+ This is on by default. If your code happens to have some
+ opening braces followed by '#<<<', and you
+ don't want this, you can use -nnib to deactivate it.
+
+- Side comment locations reset at a line ending in a level 0 open
+ block, such as when a new multi-line sub begins. This is intended to
+ help keep side comments from drifting to far to the right.
+</code></pre>
+
+<h2>2020 08 22</h2>
+
+<pre><code>- Fix RT #133166, encoding not set for -st. Also reported as RT #133171
+ and git #35.
+
+ This is a significant bug in version 20200616 which can corrupt data if
+ perltidy is run as a filter on encoded text.
+</code></pre>
+
+<p><strong>Please upgrade</strong></p>
+
+<pre><code>- Fix issue RT #133161, perltidy -html was not working on pod
+
+- Fix issue git #33, allow control of space after '->'
+
+- Vertical alignment has been improved. Numerous minor issues have
+ been fixed.
+
+- Formatting with the -lp option is improved.
+
+- Fixed issue git #32, misparse of bare 'ref' in ternary
+
+- When --assert-tidy is used and triggers an error, the first difference
+ between input and output files is shown in the error output. This is
+ a partial response to issue git #30.
+</code></pre>
+
+<h2>2020 06 19</h2>
+
+<pre><code>- Added support for Switch::Plain syntax, issue git #31.
+
+- Fixed minor problem where trailing 'unless' clauses were not
+ getting vertically aligned.
+
+- Added a parameter --logical-padding or -lop to allow logical padding
+ to be turned off. Requested by git #29. This flag is on by default.
+ The man pages have examples.
+
+- Added a parameter -kpit=n to control spaces inside of parens following
+ certain keywords, requested in git#26. This flag is off by default.
+
+- Added fix for git#25, improve vertical alignment for long lists with
+ varying numbers of items per line.
+
+- calls to the module Perl::Tidy can now capture any output produced
+ by a debug flag or one of the 'tee' flags through the new 'debugfile' and
+ 'teefile' call parameters. These output streams are rarely used but
+ they are now treated the same as any 'logfile' stream.
+
+- add option --break-at-old-semicolon-breakpoints', -bos, requested
+ in RT#131644. This flag will keep lines beginning with a semicolon.
+
+- Added --use-unicode-gcstring to control use of Unicode::GCString for
+ evaluating character widths of encoded data. The default is
+ not to use this (--nouse-unicode-gcstring). If this flag is set,
+ perltidy will look for Unicode::GCString and, if found, will use it
+ to evaluate character display widths. This can improve displayed
+ vertical alignment for files with wide characters. It is a nice
+ feature but it is off by default to avoid conflicting formatting
+ when there are multiple developers. Perltidy installation does not
+ require Unicode::GCString, so users wanting to use this feature need
+ set this flag and also to install Unicode::GCString separately.
+
+- Added --character-encoding=guess or -guess to have perltidy guess
+ if a file (or other input stream) is encoded as -utf8 or some
+ other single-byte encoding. This is useful when processing a mixture
+ of file types, such as utf8 and latin-1.
+
+ Please Note: The default encoding has been set to be 'guess'
+ instead of 'none'. This seems like the best default, since
+ it allows perltidy work properly with both
+ utf8 files and older latin-1 files. The guess mode uses Encode::Guess,
+ which is included in standard perl distributions, and only tries to
+ guess if a file is utf8 or not, never any other encoding. If the guess is
+ utf8, and if the file successfully decodes as utf8, then it the encoding
+ is assumed to be utf8. Otherwise, no encoding is assumed.
+ If you do not want to use this new default guess mode, or have a
+ problem with it, you can set --character-encoding=none (the previous
+ default) or --character-encoding=utf8 (if you deal with utf8 files).
+
+- Specific encodings of input files other than utf8 may now be given, for
+ example --character-encoding=euc-jp.
+
+- Fix for git#22, Preserve function signature on a single line. An
+ unwanted line break was being introduced when a closing signature paren
+ followed a closing do brace.
+
+- Fix RT#132059, the -dac parameter was not working and caused an error exit
+
+- When -utf8 is used, any error output is encoded as utf8
+
+- Fix for git#19, adjust line break around an 'xor'
+
+- Fix for git#18, added warning for missing comma before unknown bare word.
+</code></pre>
+
<h2>2020 01 10</h2>
<pre><code>- This release adds a flag to control the feature RT#130394 (allow short nested blocks)
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