v0.040001

Changes

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
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+0.040001 2014-01-14
+
 - Updated the docs to mention the MaxMind::DB::Reader::XS module.
 
 - Renamed the languages constructor parameter to locales for both the Client

README

@@ -2,17 +2,17 @@ NAME
     GeoIP2 - Perl API for MaxMind's GeoIP2 web services and databases
 
 VERSION
-    version 0.040000
+    version 0.040001
 
 DESCRIPTION
-    This distribution provides an API for the GeoIP2 web services (as
-    documented at <http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/web-services>) and
-    downloadable databases.
+    This distribution provides an API for the GeoIP2 web services
+    <http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/web-services> and databases
+    <http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/downloadable>. The API also works
+    with the free GeoLite2 databases
+    <http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/>.
 
     See GeoIP2::WebService::Client for details on the web service client API
-    and GeoIP2::Database::Reader for the database API. The only downloadable
-    database currently available is GeoLite2 City. See
-    <http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/> for details.
+    and GeoIP2::Database::Reader for the database API.
 
 BETA NOTE
     This is a beta release. The API may change before the first production
@@ -21,6 +21,14 @@ BETA NOTE
     You may find information on the GeoIP2 beta release process on our
     website <http://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip2_beta>.
 
+SPEEDING UP DATABASE READING
+    This module only depends on the pure Perl implementation of the MaxMind
+    database reader (MaxMind::DB::Reader). If you install the libmaxminddb
+    library (<http://maxmind.github.io/libmaxminddb/>) and
+    MaxMind::DB::Reader::XS, then the XS implementation will be loaded
+    automatically. The XS implementation is approximately 60x faster than
+    the pure Perl implementation.
+
 INTEGRATION WITH GEONAMES
     GeoNames (<http://www.geonames.org/>) offers web services and
     downloadable databases with data on geographical features around the
@@ -65,9 +73,9 @@ PERL VERSION SUPPORT
     accept patches to support any version of Perl before 5.8.
 
     The data returned from the GeoIP2 web services includes Unicode
-    characters in several languages. This may expose bugs in earlier
-    versions of Perl. If Unicode support is important to you, we recommend
-    that you use the most recent version of Perl available.
+    characters in several locales. This may expose bugs in earlier versions
+    of Perl. If Unicode support is important to you, we recommend that you
+    use the most recent version of Perl available.
 
 SUPPORT
     Please report all issues with this code using the GitHub issue tracker
@@ -88,7 +96,7 @@ CONTRIBUTOR
     Graham Knop <[email protected]>
 
 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
-    This software is copyright (c) 2013 by MaxMind, Inc..
+    This software is copyright (c) 2014 by MaxMind, Inc..
 
     This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
     the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.