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= NEWS
This document is a list of user visible feature changes made between
releases except for bug fixes.
Note that each entry is kept so brief that no reason behind or
reference information is supplied with. For a full list of changes
with all sufficient information, see the ChangeLog file.
== Changes since the 1.9.1 release
=== Library updates (outstanding ones only)
* builtin classes
* Enumerator#rewind
Now calls the "rewind" method of the enclosed object if defined.
* rss
* 0.2.4 -> 0.2.5
* RSS::Maker.make
* raise an exception not returns nil for invalid feed making.
* requires block.
* RSS::Maker.[]
* new method to return maker class.
* REXML
* REXML::Document.entity_expansion_limit=
New method to set the entity expansion limit. By default the limit is
set to 10000. See the following URL for details.
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2008/08/23/dos-vulnerability-in-rexml/
* logger
* imported upstream version (logger/1.2.7)
* do not raise an exception even if log writing failed.
* do not raise ShiftingError if an aged file already exists.
(no ShiftingError will be raised from 1.2.7, just warn() instead)
=== Compatibility issues (excluding feature bug fixes)
* Enumerator#rewind
See above.

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Changes for 1.9
Incompatible (Severe)
* New syntax and semantics
o Block arguments are always local
o Block arguments
o New semantics for block arguments
o Block local variables
* Array
o Array#nitems was removed (use count {|i| !i.nil?})
o Array#choice was removed (use sample)
* String
o No longer an Enumerable
o ?c semantics
o "One-char-wide" semantics for String#[] and String#[]= [Ruby2]
o Encoding-awareness
* IO operations
o IO#getc
Incompatible (Trivial)
* New syntax and semantics
o Method used for splat arguments: #to_splat
o defined? and local variables
* Kernel and Object
o Kernel#require
* Class and Module
o Class variables behavior
o Module#attr is an alias of attr_reader
o Module#instance_methods, #private_instance_methods, #public_instance_methods
o Extra subclassing check when binding UnboundMethods
* Exceptions
o Equality of exceptions
o SystemStackError
o SecurityError
o Removed Exception#to_str [Ruby2]
* Array
o Array#[m,n] = nil places nil in the array.
* Hash
o Hash#to_s is equivalent to Hash#inspect
o Semantics for Hash#each and Hash#each_pair
o Hash#select
* Integer
o Integer(nil) raises TypeError
* Struct
o Struct#inspect
* File and Dir operations
o #to_path in File.path, File.chmod, File.lchmod, File.chown, File.lchown, File.utime, File.unlink... [Ruby2]
o Dir.[], Dir.glob
o Dir.exist?
* IO operations
o Non-blocking IO
o Kernel#open takes "t" for newline conversion
o Kernel#open takes encoding specified
o IO#initialize now accepts an IO argument
o StringIO#readpartial
o IO.try_convert
o Limit input in IO#gets, IO#readline, IO#readlines, IO#each_line, IO#lines, IO.foreach, IO.readlines, StringIO#gets, StringIO#readline, StringIO#each, StringIO#readlines
o IO#ungetc, StringIO#ungetc
o IO#internal_encoding, IO#external_encoding, IO#set_encoding
o IO.pipe takes encoding option
* Time
o New format in Time#to_s
o Timezone information preserved on Marshal.dump/load
* Symbols: restriction on literal symbols
* Readline
o If Readline uses libedit, Readline::HISTORY[0] returns the first of the history.
* $SAFE and bound methods
* Deprecation
o VERSION and friends
o Kernel.to_a
o Kernel#getc
o Object#type
o Hash#index
o ENV.index
o Symbol#to_int
o Removed Array and Hash #indices, #indexes
o libraries: base64, mailread, getopts, parsearg, soap, wsdl
Compatible
* New syntax and semantics
o New literal hash syntax
o New syntax for lambdas
o .() and calling Procs without #call/#[]
o Mandatory arguments after optional arguments allowed
o Multiple splats allowed
o Arguments to #[]
o printf-style formatted strings (%)
o Newlines allowed before ternary colon
* Kernel and Object
o BasicObject
o Object#=~
o Kernel#instance_variable_defined?
o Kernel#define_singleton_method
o Kernel#singleton_methods, Kernel#methods
* Class and Module
o Module#const_defined?, #const_get and #method_defined?
o Module#class_variable_defined?
o #class_variable_{set,get}
o Class of singleton classes
* Binding#eval
* Blocks and Procs
o Arity of blocks without arguments
o proc is now a synonym of Proc.new
* Blocks and Procs
o Proc#yield
o Passing blocks to #[]
o Proc#lambda?
* Enumerable and Enumerator
o Enumerable#map,collect_all called without a block returns
an enumerator.
* Regexp#match, String#match
o Regexp#match, String#match
* Encoding
* Encoding::Converter
* Fiber: coroutines/micro-threads
* Array
o Array#delete returns a deleted element rather than a given
object
o Array#to_s is equivalent to Array#inspect
o Array.try_convert
* Hash
o preserving item insertion order
o Hash#_compare_by_identity and Hash#compare_by_identity?
o Hash.try_convert
* Numeric
o Numeric#upto, #downto, #times, #step
o Numeric#scalar?, Complex#scalar?
o Numeric#div
o Numeric#fdiv
* Range
o Range#include? iterates over elements and compares the
given value with each element unless the range is numeric.
Use Range#cover? for the old behavior, i.e. comparison
with boundary values.
o Range#min, Range#max
* Regexp
o Regexp#=== matches symbols
o Regexp.try_convert
* String
o String#clear
o String#encoding
o String#force_encoding
o String#unpack with a block
o String#hash
o String.try_convert
o String.encoding, String#force_encoding, String#encode
* Symbol
o Zero-length symbols allowed
o Symbol#=== matches strings
o Symbol#intern
o Symbol#encoding
o Symbol methods similar to those in String
* Math
o Math#log and Math#log2
* File and Dir operations
o New methods
* Process
o Process.daemon
* Readline
o Readline.vi_editing_mode?
o Readline.emacs_editing_mode?
o Readline::HISTORY.clear
* Misc. new methods
o public_send
o GC.count
o ObjectSpace.count_objects
o Method#hash, Proc#hash
o __callee__
* Implementation
* Memory Diet
* Object Compaction - Object, Array, String, Hash, Struct, Class, Module
* st_table compaction (inlining small tables)
* YARV