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Revision history for Perl extension Net::Amazon:
0.63 (xx/yy/zzzz)
   (cb) Debian bug POD bug report.

0.62 (01/26/2013)
   (dc) Add support for HTTP compression where available, enabled by default.
   (cb) Add support for EAN to the US locale, as reported by Jacob Turino.
   (cb) Add Spain and Italy locales, as implemented by Menno Blom.
   (cb) Add some new departments in Amazon.co.jp, as implemented Naoya Ito.

0.61 (10/28/2011)
   (cb) rt 71937; Amazon now requires an Associate Tag, so enforce usage.
   (cb) The ListLookup operation has been removed from the WSDL (from 2010!),
        scrub all of the wishlist operations as a result.
   (cb) Update to the latest WSDL - 2011-08-01.

0.60 (08/01/2011)
   (cb) Fix the page and max_pages parameter to correctly fetch the specified
        number of pages, and start at the correct offset.  Reported as rt 69201.
   (cb) Add a method to get similar products.  Patch submitted by Jennifer.
   (cb) Push from cpanservice: Small dist maintenance. Please use latest 
        ExtUtils::MakeMaker for release.

0.59 (11/02/2009)
   (cb) DigitalMusicTrack.pm was not included, reported by Matt 
        Okeson-Harlow.

0.58 (11/01/2009)
   (cb) Update the Keywords library in Validate - reported by Dave
        Hodgkinson.
   (cb) Added customer_location and customer_name accessors to review
        results for Scott Weisman.
   (cb) Nathan Handler re-re-reported a man page issue, rt 46708.

0.57 (09/08/2009)
   (cb) David Raab reported an incomplete kit via rt.cpan.org.  Re-run
        make manifest to address my mistake.

0.56 (09/07/2009)
   (cb) Add support for searching MP3 downloads as requsted by Dave 
        Hodgkinson.
   (cb) Required for MP3 Downloads, and inspired by Vince Veselosky's 
        fix, update aws4-itemsearch.
   (cb) secret_key is now a required parameter.  Update all of the example
        scripts with the secret_key parameter.

0.55 (07/20/2009)
   (cb) Yuichi Tateno implemented support for the SearchIndex all.
   (cb) Vince Veselosky fixed adm/aws4-types script, and as a result
        updated classes in Validate/Type.
   (cb) Update to WSDL 2009-07-16.

0.54 (06/17/2009)
   (cb) Alfons Wittmann reported that signing requests broke caching due
        to the current time being incorporated into every signed URL 
	submitted.

0.53 (06/13/2009)
   (cb) Nathan Handler re-reported a man page issue on Ubuntu, rt 46708.  
        I managed to fix 197 issues, except for the specific one he called 
        out in the bug.

0.52 (06/09/2009)
   (cb) Nathan Handler reported a man page issue on Ubuntu, rt 46708.

0.51 (06/05/2009)
   (cb) Vince Veselosky submitted a patch to support request signing, a
        feature that is required for accessing AWS after 2009-08-15.
        Upgrading is recommended.
   (cb) Complete the upgrade to WSDL 2009-03-31 that was started by
        Vince Veselosky.
   (cb) Clean-up POD issues found by pod checker.
   (cb) Indicate the code has moved to github.com.
   (cb) Update the README to reflect the actual date of the WSDL.

0.50 (07/29/2008)
   (cb) Michael Hendricks submitted a patch to guarantee that error 
        messages are stored as an arrayref.

0.49 (04/24/2008)
   (cb) Make an effort to return the price of an item.  Check for the
        price of an item in the following order: Amazon's price, third
        party new, and then third party used.  This issue was reported
        by a least two different people via Mike Schilli.

0.48 (01/13/2008)
   (cb) Fix from MATSUU Takuto for ReleaseDate, and Title.  These methods 
        have been moved to the base class.  The theatrical release date
        is now separate from the release date function.

0.47 (12/16/2007)
   (cb) Fix an issue on Darwin with Perl 5.10.  Yet another issue found
        by CPAN testers - thanks!
   (cb) Aethon ?? (aethon@gmail.com) pointed out that OurPrice() was not
        returning the correct price information.  This has been an issue
        since the cutover to AWS4, and is a great catch.

0.46 (11/16/2007)
   (cb) Serge Dubrouski <sergeyfd@gmail.com> submitted a patch for returning
        the width and height of the small, medium, and large images.

0.45 (11/11/2007)
   (cb) Gregor Hermann <gregor+debian@comodo.priv.at> submitted a patch to
        prevent canned tests from contacting the Amazon.com.
   (cb) Jochen Cichon <joschi@vfnet.de> reported a bug when specifying 
        multiple ResponseGroups.
   (cb) Update to the latest WSDL, version 2007-10-29.

0.44 (11/03/2007)
   (cb) Patch by Carl Franks <fireartist@gmail.com> to add support for 
        returning the currency code, and unformatted price.
   (cb) Patch by Carl Franks <fireartist@gmail.com> to address the confusion
        between release date, and publication date.  Prior to version 0.44
        release date was the publication date.  Now release date is the
        release date, and a function to return the publication date has been
        added.

0.43 (06/20/2007)
   (cb) Simon Wistow <simon@thegestalt.org> found an bug with wishlist
        processing, which would cause Net::Amazon to give up prematurely.
   (cb) Be more graceful when dealing with Small ResponseGroups by trying
        to avoid Perl warnings.
   (cb) Added a gross hack to deal with Amazon's wishlist handling to ensure
        the wishlist test can actually pass.

0.42 (06/18/2007)
   (cb) Add scripts to automatically generate the canned test data.
   (cb) Serge Dubrouski <sergeyfd@gmail.com> noted an inconsistency in the 
        documentation for ImageUrl{Small,Medium,Large}.  When I converted to 
        AWS4 I renamed these functions accidently.  Add back the old function 
        names, and keep the new functions around.

0.41 (04/10/2007)
   (cb) Tümer Garip <tgarip@neu.edu.tr> found a long standing bug for the
        Music properties whereby track data were not correctly captured, and
        returned.
   (cb) Fix the Artist test to account for this lapse in the future, and add 
        more tests as well.

0.40 (03/12/2007)
   (cb) UPC accepts a search index, so process it.
   (cb) Fix the documentation for ProductName.  
   (cb) Make ProductName an alias for [Tt]itle, both ProductName suggestions 
        were from Frank Tobia <frank.tobia@gmail.com>.
   (cb) Add searches for director and title, contributed by Carl Franks
        <fireartist@gmail.com>.

0.39 (02/18/2007)
   (cb) Update documentation, 10-digit vs. 13-digit ISBN was incorrect.
   (cb) Add support for searching by EAN.  This is only valid for 
        non-US locations.  Suggested by Nick Faarvang.
   (cb) Remove UPC ItemSearch'es for non-US locales, it is invalid.
   (cb) Fix a long standing bug when validating search against non-US
        locales.

0.38 (01/24/2007)
   (cb) Update documentation, dewey_decimal_number is for non-fiction 
        only.
   (cb) Add support for searching by ISBN.
   (cb) UPC is an ItemLookup, not an ItemSearch.

0.37 (01/23/2007)
   (cb) Update to WSDL 01-17-2007.
   (cb) Update index.html to indicate a differences between AWS3 and
        AWS4 releases.
   (cb) Add POD for all types of item searches.
   (cb) Add actor, and author to the SEARCH_TYPE_CLASS_MAP.
   (cb) README is generated from Amazon.pm, update Amazon.pm with the
        changes made to README, and regenerate README. 
   (cb) Mike Schilli found a bug with non-US locales for Reviews where
        TotalVotes was always zero.  This caused a bogus warning.

0.36 (01/09/2007)
   (cb) Christopher Boumenot is taking over has maintainer of Net::Amazon.
   (cb) Update the library to use AWS4 from AWS3.  The changes involved
        are quite deep.  While I have strived to keep interfaces the same
        that was not always possible.  I am sure there are still bugs
        to be had that need to be fixed.
   (cb) Add searching by Author, Actor, MusicLabel, and Publisher.  
   (cb) Add the property functions numpages(), dewey_decimal(), and
        SuperSaverShipping().
   (cb) Add new property classes for CE (consumer electronics), Software,
        and VideoGames.
   (cb) Restrucure the fetch code to reduce the need to directly poke
        the XML where applicable.  There is still cleanup that needs to
        be done.
   (cb) Remove the need to explicitly specify mode parameters.
   (cb) Autogenerate libraries based on data from Amazon's ECS specs to
        determine a default mode for the user.
   (cb) Autogenerate libraries based on data form Amazon's ECS specs to
        determine the search types available for a given.  This 
        information is also locale specific.
   (cb) Cleanup locale support, and add support for France, and Canada.
        Locale support needs more testing.
   (cb) Add support for the different search response types in AWS4: 
        small, medium, large, similarities, reviews, etc.  The search 
        response type is automatically determined based on search mode.

0.35 (02/04/2006)
   (ms) Took starring() out of eg/asin_dvd, looks like it is no longer
        supported by amzn (reported by Joseph Ronie).

0.34 (07/11/2005)
   (ms) Added similar_asins() to Net::Amazon::Property
   (ms) Steven Alyari reported a caching problem on v5.8.1-RC3/darwin,
        where perl's hashes are stored differently between invocations
        of the same program, confusing Net::Amazon's URL-based caching
        algorithm. Applied his fix, which sorts the query arguments.

0.33 (02/23/2005)
   (ms) Makefile.PL prerequisite changed from undef to '0'.
   (ms) Greg McCann <greg@cambria.com> added ThirdPartyProductInfo.
   (ms) Added Exchange requests with help by Greg McCann <greg@cambria.com>.

0.32 (10/16/2004)
   (ms) Greg McCann <greg@cambria.com> added CollectiblePrice, 
        CollectibleCount, NumberOfOfferings, UsedCount, ThirdPartyNewPrice,
        ThirdPartyNewCount as default properties. To get (*Count, 
        NumberOfOfferings), specify "offer" => "All" in the request.

0.31 (09/22/2004)
   (ms) Lance P Cleveland <lance@lancecleveland.com> noticed that somewhere
        between 0.26 and 0.30 the properties() method lost the ability to 
        be called in scalar context and return only the first result. Added
        logic to re-enable it.

0.30 (09/14/2004)
   (ms) Lance Cleveland <lancec@proactivewm.com> provided a patch to
        fix a typo which caused N::A::Request::Similar to fail. Added more
        documentation on request classes and test cases for all constructors.

0.29 (08/12/2004)
   (ms) Brian <brianbrian@gmail.com> contributed code for querying sellers.
        Added docs and test cases. Added a new hierarchy N::A::Result/*
        to deal with responses containing results which aren't Amazon items.
   (ms) fixed bug in _convert_option: Override target option only if
        it doesn't exist already.

0.28 (08/04/2004)
   (ms) ASIN search can now process several asin numbers with one request.
        Dan Kreft <dan@kreft.net> cleaned up the implementation of 
        Request.pm, ASIN.pm and a bunch of other files.
   (ms) Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa@livedoor.jp> provided a patch for
        load errors on search(blended => ...), a fix for a bug with
        single/multiple ProductLine(s), and a suggestion for using
        ForceArray which XML::Simple. Added test cases for this patch.
   (ms) Added xml_parse() method to Net::Amazon::Response which Net::Amazon
        now calls to parse the returned XML. This enables the response
        class (which can override it) to creatively interpret the 
        response XML to form the response data structure.
   (ms) Added strict warnings to each and every module
   (ms) Added dump_responses() for easier response canning.

0.27 (07/27/2004)
   (ms) Richard Giliam <nirosys@nirostasis.net> added the isbn()
        method to the Book.pm property.
   (ms) Andy Grundman <andy@hybridized.org> provided a patch to 
        enforce Amazon's no-more-than-1-request-per-second rule. 
        A new parameter 'strict' has been added to the Net::Amazon 
        constructor, which will limit the number of requests if 
        set to 1. Defaults to 1.

0.26 (07/07/2004)
   (ms) Added ProductDescription to Properties.pm
   (ms) Applied patch by Robert Rothenberg <wlkngowl@i-2000.com> for 
        Media and NumMedia properties.

0.25 (06/19/2004)
   (ms) Applied patch by Robert Rothenberg <wlkngowl@i-2000.com> to
        Properties.pm that returns the browse_nodes (categories) for 
        a result.
   (ms) Dave Holland <dave@biff.org.uk> suggested to provide access
        to the user agent's proxy settings. Now, proxy settings via
        environment variables are supported (env_proxy()) as well as
        passing Net::Amazon->new(); a prepped LWP::UserAgent instance
        via the 'ua' parameter (see docs).
   (ms) Accessors are no longer created in the constructors, but on the
        package level. Thanks to tony@tmtm.com who reported this to the
        CPAN bug tracker.
   
0.24 (06/10/2004)
   (ms) Fixed test bug in 007Manufacturer.t
   (ms) Applied patch by Steve Rushe <steve@deeden.co.uk> for book->binding()

0.23 (06/06/2004)
   (ms) Evaldas Imbrasas <evaldas@wolfram.com> suggested to add SalesRank
        to Properties.pm -- added field and test case.
   (ms) Added eg/dejazz, a sample program to retrieve the 10 best-selling
        jazz CDs in Germany, as presented by an article in iX magazine.

0.22 (05/09/2004)
   (ms) fixed warnings during make test (backwards-compatible without
        tracks())
   (ms) Batara Kesuma <bkesuma@gaijinweb.com> sent in a patch to 
        access TotalPages (now available as $resp->total_pages()).

0.21 (03/21/2004)
   (ms) Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa@livedoor.jp> provided a patch to
        adapt N:A for Amazon's change of "locale=jp" requests, which 
        should be sent to xml.amazon.co.jp, instead of xml.amazon.com:
        http://forums.prospero.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=am-assocdevxml&msg=4629.1&ctx=4096
   (ms) added tracks() to N:A::Properties::Music to list track titles of CDs

0.20 (03/08/2004)
   (ms) rayg <rayg@varchars.com> added textstream search and support
        for sorting results.
   (ms) added directors(), director() and starring() to DVD.pm

0.19 (02/13/2004)
   (ms) Michael Coulter <mjc@bitz.ca> noticed that eg/review had the
        wrong path to Review.pm.
   (ms) Sam Smith <s@msmith.net> noticed that the dependency on
        LWP::UserAgent was missing from the documentation.
   (ms) Bill Fitzpatrick provided a patch implementing and testing
        Manufacturer searches.

0.18 (12/22/2003)
   (ms) Brian Hirt <bhirt@mobygames.com> provided a patch for
        multiple error messages returned by some requests to AMZN.
        There's two accessors now, Response->messages() returning
        a ref to an array of error messages, and Response->message()
        returning them stringed together for backwards compatibility.
   (ms) Padraic Renaghan <padraic@renaghan.com> provided a patch
        for access to upc/media/nummedia fields in Music.pm
   (ms) Fixed test suite warnings with perl 5.8.2 in N::A::Property::Book.

0.17 (11/18/2003)
   (ms) Robert Graff <rgraff@workingdemo.com> provided a patch for 
        'blended' searches.

0.16 (10/10/2003)
   (ms) Replaced 'legacy call' onca/xml2 by onca/xml3, according to 
        the AWS newsletter.
   (ms) Martin Streicher <martin.streicher@apress.com> enhanced the
        "power" search script (in /eg) to limit searches to page
        ranges if so requested.

0.15 (08/24/2003)
   (ms) Martin Streicher <martin.streicher@apress.com> provided support
        for Amazon's "Power Search". Added documentation and test case.
   (ms) Jackie Hamilton <kira@cgi101.com> provided a patch plus
        documentation for Browse Nodes. Added test case.

0.14 (08/12/2003)
   (ms) Mike Evron <evronm@dtcinc.net> suggested to implement caching
        for responses. Added a Cache::File-based implementation.

0.13 (08/07/2003)
   (ms) Added customer reviews for all properties. Changed default
        request mode to 'heavy' for that. Now all properties have a
        review_set() method returning a
        Net::Amazon::Attribute::ReviewSet object, which in turn offers
        a reviews() method delivering a list of
        Net::Amazon::Attribute::Review objects. Check the man pages
        for details. eg/review shows an example.

0.12 (07/24/2003)
   (ms) Mike Evron <evronm@dtcinc.net> noticed that the SYNOPSIS code
        on the main documentation page had the wrong "search" syntax 
        -- thanks, Mike!
   (ms) Changed all tests to process canned data, live tests turned out
        to be too unreliable, due to Amazon's "best effort" responses.
        If you want the test suite to process live data, you need to
        set the environment variable NET_AMAZON_LIVE_TESTS.
        
0.11 (07/14/2003)
   (ms) Added 'Similar Searches' API
   (ms) Adapted for new amazon.de and amazon.co.uk searches

0.10 (06/28/2003)
   (ms) Adapted wishlist test case for change in AMZN's catalog
   (ms) Added docs for new Net::Amazon homepage at net-amazon.sourceforge.net
        and mailing list
   (ms) Helper in place to assist XML::Simple in choosing the right parser,
        to avoid install problems due to XML::SAX::RTF.

0.09 (06/24/2003)
   (ms) Tony Bowden <tony@kasei.com> suggested to have a $ua->search
        method, abstracting the usage of the different request objects.
        Implemented that.
   (ms) Resolved warnings and strict errors in test cases

0.08 (06/22/2003)
   (ms) Changed dependencies to 5.006, XML::Simple and LWP::UserAgent

0.07 (06/10/2003)
   (ms) fixed bug with single-item-wishlists
   (ms) Lists printed as strings now have numbered bullets
   (ms) Tests are using new wishlist 1XL5DWOUFMFVJ (Net::Amazon)
   (ms) Added tests with canned reponses

0.06 (06/07/2003)
   (ms) applied workaround for AMZN's wishlist bug: If a wishlist
     is longer than 10 items, AMZN returns the first 10 items with
     no indication if there's any followup pages. The workaround
     just tries to fetch another batch in case there's exactly 10 and 
     hides eventually encountered errors. 

   Dan Sully <daniel@electricrain.com> provided a patch
     to suppress a warning in case a music item isn't returning a 'year'
     field

   Barnaby Claydon <bclaydon@perseus.com> reported a couple of problems
   with wishlists, they're fixed by the following patches:

   (ms) Added new property Net::Amazon::Property::DVD

   (ms) Changed as_string() of default Net::Amazon::Property (used if
     we come across a 'Toy' or 'Video Game' category) to return
     a more human-readable format.

   (ms) Implemented retry strategy on Amazon's temporary errors, if we
     encounter one, we'll sleep for 1 sec and then retry at most
     twice.

   (ms) Accessors have been changed to return an empty string if 
     a value hasn't been specified in XML. Products without price and
     other anomalies won't cause perl warnings anymore.

0.05 (05/31/2003)
   Martha Greenberg <marthag@mit.edu> provided bug reports 
   and patches for
       * 'music' parameter for UPC searches (fixed in doc)
       * Net::Amazon::Property::Music now deals correctly with
         CDs by multiple artists.
       * missing documentation of 'locale' parameter

   (ms) Net::Amazon now takes the 'locale' parameter also in
   the main Net::Amazon object's constructor.

0.04 (05/29/2003)
   Dan Sully <daniel@electricrain.com> provided a patch
   to check if a response indeed contains the {Details} hash.

0.03 (05/06/2003)
   (ms) properties returns empty list on failure now

   Martha Greenberg <marthag@mit.edu> provided patch for 
       * the now mandatory associates-id in the query
       * two documentation bugs

   Konstantin Gredeskoul <kig@get.topica.com> also provided an almost
       identical patch to the problem :).

0.02
   (ms) documentation updated

0.01
   (ms) where it all started