What's Changed in Pipeline?

From version 1.0 to version 2.0

Version 2.0 was released on 27 January 1997.

Most of the changes from version 2.0 to 1.0 is to add some security features to (at least) reduce the possibility of remote users tricking Pipeline into doing something that you didn't intend for it to do.

For everyone:

• Fixed parameters. The modules that may run, the "_path" values, and the destinations for reporting errors can now be (independently) restricted by enumerating the valid values. These can be listed in the pipeline.pl file itself or in a designated file. Previously there was no way to restrict these, and whatever was in the form submitted was trusted, which may not be a good idea.
• Changes to configuration error reporting:
• Errors can now be appended to a file. Before, you could only send them via e-mail.
• A default place to report errors to may now be specified in pipeline.pl. This comes into play if there was no "_errorsto" field submitted or it doesn't contain any valid destinations.
• There can now be multiple destinations for errors specified in the "_errorsto" field.
• Error and warning messages sent from Pipeline now include more context surrounding the message. The values of all the fields and environmental variables are now included.
• The names of modules may now only include certain characters.

For module developers:

• A startmail routine is now available to facilitate modules sending e-mail.
• Calls to die and warn now invoke the reporterr subroutine.