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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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2011-07-10 10:54:03 -04:00
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== Changes since the 1.9.3 release
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2010-09-15 12:14:05 -04:00
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2010-09-10 04:20:47 -04:00
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=== C API updates
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2011-11-14 11:00:29 -05:00
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* NUM2SHORT() and NUM2USHORT() added. They are similar to NUM2INT, but short.
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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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2011-07-12 10:42:48 -04:00
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* builtin classes
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* Enumerable
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* added method:
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* added Enumerable#lazy method for lazy enumeration.
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2011-07-19 18:17:13 -04:00
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* Kernel
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2012-02-25 02:08:44 -05:00
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* added method:
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* added Kernel#Hash conversion method like Array() or Float().
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2011-07-19 18:17:13 -04:00
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* extended method:
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* Kernel#warn accepts multiple args in like puts.
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2011-10-22 05:58:15 -04:00
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* incompatible changes:
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* system() and exec() closes non-standard file descriptors
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(The default of :close_others option is changed to true by default.)
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2012-02-13 11:05:00 -05:00
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* respond_to? against a protected method now returns false unless
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the second argument is true.
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2011-07-19 18:17:13 -04:00
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2012-03-06 18:38:33 -05:00
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* LoadError
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* added method:
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* added LoadError#path method to return the file name that could not be
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loaded.
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2011-07-12 10:42:48 -04:00
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* Signal
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* incompatible changes:
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* Signal.trap raises ArgumentError when :SEGV, :BUS, :ILL, :FPE, :VTALRM
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are specified.
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2011-08-25 19:24:33 -04:00
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* Time
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* change return value:
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* Time#to_s returned encoding defaults to US-ASCII but automatically
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transcodes to Encoding.default_internal if it is set.
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2011-11-08 23:26:39 -05:00
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* Fiber
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* incompatible changes:
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* Fiber#resume cannot resume a fiber which invokes "Fiber#transfer".
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2011-09-09 03:48:00 -04:00
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* net/imap
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* new methods:
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* Net::IMAP.default_port
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* Net::IMAP.default_imap_port
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* Net::IMAP.default_tls_port
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* Net::IMAP.default_ssl_port
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* Net::IMAP.default_imaps_port
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2011-11-19 07:52:37 -05:00
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* pathname
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* extended method:
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* Pathname#find returns an enumerator if no block is given.
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2011-10-22 04:50:50 -04:00
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* resolv
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* new methods:
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* Resolv::DNS#timeouts=
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* Resolv::DNS::Config#timeouts=
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2012-01-12 13:49:30 -05:00
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* shellwords
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* Shellwords#shellescape() now stringifies the given object using to_s.
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* Shellwords#shelljoin() accepts non-string objects in the given
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array, each of which is stringified using to_s.
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2012-02-14 20:28:05 -05:00
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* zlib
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* Added support for the new deflate strategies Zlib::RLE and Zlib::FIXED.
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2010-10-28 07:14:05 -04:00
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=== Language changes
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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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2011-07-12 10:42:48 -04:00
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* Signal.trap
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See above.
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2011-10-22 05:58:15 -04:00
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2012-02-17 02:42:23 -05:00
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* Merge Onigmo.
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https://github.com/k-takata/Onigmo
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2012-03-11 00:53:20 -05:00
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* The :close_others option is true by default for system() and exec().
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2011-10-22 05:58:15 -04:00
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Also, the close-on-exec flag is set by default for all new file descriptors.
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This means file descriptors doesn't inherit to spawned process unless
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explicitly requested such as system(..., fd=>fd).
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2012-02-13 11:05:00 -05:00
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* Kernel#respond_to? against a protected method now returns false
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unless the second argument is true.
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