Jason A. Crome

The Dancer Core Team is excitedly preparing a major release of Dancer2, 2.0.0. In advance of this, I'd like to give you all a preview of what to expect:

• A handful of bug fixes

• Customizable scrubber/censor engine (when dumping errors, etc. - a long requested feature)

• Remove Template::Tiny fork from core (Template::Tiny support remains, but ether graciously merged our customizations into Template::Tiny)

• Remove Dancer2::Template::Simple from the core of Dancer2

• New documentation, courtesy of a TPRF grant

• Removal of deprecated code (according to our deprecation policy)

• Official support for Perl 5.22 and newer

The following features are possible, but not likely for 2.0.0 (but maybe soon thereafter):

• Bring your own config engine (TOML, JSON, etc.)

• Using Throwable to produce errors

I'm estimating a release in the next 2-4 weeks. There are still a few bikesheds to paint, cats to herd, and yaks to shave.

If you have questions or feedback, we'd love to hear from you! Until then, keep Dancing, then Dance a little happier! :)

Jason/CromeDome

The Dancer Core Team is happy to announce that Dancer2 1.1.1 is on its way to CPAN. This is a maintenance release that deals with the following issues:

[ BUG FIXES ]
* GH #1712: Fix use of send_as in templates (Andy Beverley)

[ DOCUMENTATION ]
* PR #1706: Document missing logging hooks and log format option;
  fix typo in logging test (Jason A. Crome)

Happy Dancing! Jason / CromeDome

The 2023 Dancer Advent Calendar, the Twelve Days of Dancer is up and running! We hope you'll enjoy this year's version - there's a lot of fun and practical gifts to be found there.

Hot on the heels of our earlier gift (Dancer2 1.1.0) come two more plugin releases, Dancer2::Plugin::Cache::CHI and Dancer2::Plugin::Syntax::GetPost.

Enjoy! Let us know what you think. Happy holidays to all! (and now it is time for this Dancer to enjoy a long winter's nap)

Jason/CromeDome

Hey everyone,

Happy Holidays! Dancer2 1.1.0 has been released and is on its way to CPAN. It has one really awesome new feature: named routes.

With this update, you can name each route in your Dancer2 application, then refer to that route by name with a new keyword, uri_for_route. You have a lot of control over how this route is constructed, and can use it anywhere you were previously using uri_for. This helps you to avoid the need for lengthy URL references in your code, and makes it easier for you to build applications that are easier to grow, maintain, and later refactor.

You can read more about it in the Dancer2 manual, or check out the pull request that introduced the change. As a bonus, the Twelve Days of Dancer (our mini-advent calendar) launches this week, and Sawyer has written a great article that covers this new feature and keyword in-depth.

Happy Dancing! Jason/CromeDome

Hey Dancers! We’re doing an advent calendar this year, and we’d love for you to contribute. Tell us your Dancer success story! Write about a project you worked on that used Dancer, a plugin you wrote, a plugin you love, anything.

December is coming fast, so get your ideas in now. Please reply to this post if you’d be interesting in helping with this year’s advent calendar.