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# -*- rdoc -*-
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= NEWS for Ruby 2.1.0
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2008-12-12 09:46:28 +00:00
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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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2013-02-25 00:41:07 +00:00
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== Changes since the 2.0.0 release
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2010-09-15 16:14:05 +00:00
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2013-02-23 14:23:39 +00:00
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=== Language changes
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=== Core classes updates (outstanding ones only)
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2013-03-10 18:23:00 +00:00
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2013-03-14 02:54:30 +00:00
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* GC
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* added environment variable:
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* RUBY_HEAP_SLOTS_GROWTH_FACTOR: growth rate of the heap.
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2013-04-03 12:25:09 +00:00
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* IO
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* extended methods:
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* IO#seek accepts symbols (:CUR, :END, :SET) for 2nd argument.
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2013-03-10 18:23:00 +00:00
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* Mutex
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* misc
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* Mutex#owned? is no longer experimental.
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2013-04-19 17:50:38 +00:00
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* String
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* New methods:
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* added String#scrub to verify and fix invalid byte sequence.
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* extended methods:
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* If invalid: :replace is specified for String#encode, replace
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invalid byte sequence even if the destination encoding equals to
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the source encoding.
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2013-04-02 11:28:57 +00:00
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* pack/unpack (Array/String)
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2013-04-02 14:58:32 +00:00
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* Q! and q! directives for long long type if platform has the type.
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2013-04-02 11:28:57 +00:00
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2013-02-23 14:23:39 +00:00
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=== Core classes compatibility issues (excluding feature bug fixes)
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2013-03-07 17:54:49 +00:00
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* Module#ancestors
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2013-03-30 03:03:58 +00:00
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The ancestors of a singleton class now include singleton classes,
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in particular itself.
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2013-03-07 17:54:49 +00:00
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2013-02-23 14:23:39 +00:00
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=== Stdlib updates (outstanding ones only)
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2013-03-11 17:27:03 +00:00
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2013-04-13 03:08:28 +00:00
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* Matrix
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* Added Vector#cross_product.
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2013-03-11 17:27:03 +00:00
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* Net::SMTP
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2013-04-03 11:43:42 +00:00
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* Added Net::SMTP#rset to implement the RSET command
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2013-03-23 20:36:42 +00:00
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2013-04-04 11:12:12 +00:00
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* Pathname
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* New methods:
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* Pathname#write
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* Pathname#binwrite
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2013-04-09 10:53:41 +00:00
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* open-uri
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* Support multiple fields with same field name (like Set-Cookie).
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2013-04-06 13:16:36 +00:00
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* Resolv
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* New methods:
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* Resolv::DNS.fetch_resource
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2013-04-06 14:32:34 +00:00
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* One-shot multicast DNS support
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2013-04-06 14:52:48 +00:00
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* Support LOC resources
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2013-04-06 13:16:36 +00:00
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2013-03-23 20:10:11 +00:00
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* Rinda::RingServer, Rinda::RingFinger
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2013-03-23 20:36:42 +00:00
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* Rinda now supports multicast sockets. See Rinda::RingServer and
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Rinda::RingFinger for details.
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2013-03-11 17:27:03 +00:00
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2013-02-23 14:23:39 +00:00
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=== Stdlib compatibility issues (excluding feature bug fixes)
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=== C API updates
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