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# -*- rd -*-
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= NEWS
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This document is a list of user visible feature changes made between
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releases except for bug fixes.
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Note that each entry is kept so brief that no reason behind or
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reference information is supplied with. For a full list of changes
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with all sufficient information, see the ChangeLog file.
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2010-07-05 03:11:44 -04:00
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== Changes since the 1.9.2 release
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2010-09-10 04:20:47 -04:00
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=== C API updates
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* rb_scan_args() is enhanced with support for option hash argument
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extraction.
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2010-07-05 03:11:44 -04:00
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=== Library updates (outstanding ones only)
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* builtin classes
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* Kernel
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* Kernel#respond_to? now returns false for protected methods.
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2010-08-26 23:45:24 -04:00
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* Float
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* new constants:
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* File::NULL
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name of NULL device.
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2010-08-27 17:50:06 -04:00
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* String
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* new methods:
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* String#prepend
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2010-08-30 17:50:11 -04:00
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* Time
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* extended methods:
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* Time#strftime supports %:z and %::z.
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2010-08-11 08:00:42 -04:00
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* io/console
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* new methods:
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* IO#noecho {|io| }
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* IO#echo=
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* IO#echo?
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* IO#raw {|io| }
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* IO#raw!
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* IO#getch
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* IO#winsize
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* IO.console
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2010-09-10 06:20:35 -04:00
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* webrick
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* new method:
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* WEBrick::HTTPRequest#continue for generating '100 continue' response.
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2010-07-05 03:11:44 -04:00
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=== Compatibility issues (excluding feature bug fixes)
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* Kernel#respond_to?
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See above.
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