Dancer 2 0.201000 is on its way to a CPAN mirror near you.

The Dancer Core Developers are sad to announce the retirement of David Golden (xdg) from the core team. Dancer2 was made much better by his many contributions, and we are extremely grateful for all he has done.

We’d also like to announce the addition of Peter Mottram (SysPete) to the core team. SysPete has been working quietly behind the scenes on a number of projects, but has been a valuable member of the core team for some time now, and we are happy to have him aboard.

The core developers would most importantly like to give thanks to our awesome community for the numerous contributions towards this release. You rock!

We realize the long delay between releases in leading up to 0.200000, and it is our sincere hope to not go so long between releases in the future. The upgrade to Plugin2 was extremely long and complicated, but the core team is hopeful to get to a more regular release cycle going forward.

If you have any questions, please find us on #dancer on irc.perl.org.

The full changelog is as follows:

0.201000  2016-07-22 08:26:18-05:00 America/Chicago

    [ BUG FIXES ]
    * GH #1216: Make DSL work in edge-case of plugins calling DSL before the
      app class loaded Dancer2. (Sawyer X)
    * GH #1210: Show proper module/line number in log output (Masaaki Saito)

    [ ENHANCEMENTS ]
    * GH #900: Switch from to_json to encode/encode_json (Nuno Ramos Carvalho)
    * GH #1196: Move serializer from JSON to JSON::MaybeXS (Nuno Ramos Carvalho)
    * GH #1215: Remove unused DANCER2_SHARE_DIR env variable (Jason A. Crome)

    [ DOCUMENTATION ]
    * PR #1213: Clarify params merging docs and related examples
      (Daniel Perrett)
    * Add Peter Mottram (@SysPete) to list of core developers. (Russell Jenkins)
    * PR #1208: Introduce appdir before it's used; simplify description of what
      a view is (James E Keenan)
    * GH #1218: By request, remove David Golden from list of core developers. 
      Created "emeritus" section to honor the contributions of former core 
      developers. Thanks, xdg!

Dancer 0.200003 is on its way to a CPAN mirror near you. I'd like to give a big shout out to the rest of the Dancer core team and our awesome community members for their work in bringing this release to fruition.

There are several changes in particular worth noting:

- There is a security fix for Dancer2::Session::YAML that prevents accepting a bad session cookie value from the client. Thanks SysPete!

- There was a swift response to the breakage caused by YAML 1.16. Originally, we patched Dancer2 to requi…