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akr afe7aac47b * lib/net/http.rb (Net::HTTP#connect): support SNI (Server Name
Indication) for HTTPS.  [ruby-dev:43164]
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4685736/openssl-server-name-indication-support-in-ruby


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# -*- rd -*-
= 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 1.9.2 release
=== License
* Ruby's License is changed from a dual license with GPLv2
to a dual license with 2-clause BSDL.
=== C API updates
* rb_scan_args() is enhanced with support for option hash argument
extraction.
* ruby_vm_at_exit() added. This enables extension libs to hook a VM
termination.
=== Library updates (outstanding ones only)
* builtin classes
* ARGF
* new methods:
* ARGF.print
* ARGF.printf
* ARGF.putc
* ARGF.puts
* ARGF.read_nonblock
* ARGF.to_write_io
* ARGF.write
* Array
* extended method:
* Array#pack supports endian modifiers
* Encoding
* new encodings:
* CP950
* CP951
* UTF-16
* UTF-32
* File
* new constant:
* File::NULL
name of NULL device.
* IO
* extended method:
* IO#putc supports multibyte characters
* new method:
* IO#advise
* Kernel
* Kernel#respond_to? now returns false for protected methods.
* move #__id__ to BasicObject.
* Module
* new methods:
* Module#private_constant
* Module#public_constant
* String
* extended method:
* String#unpack supports endian modifiers
* new method:
* String#prepend
* Time
* extended method:
* Time#strftime supports %:z and %::z.
* io/console
* new methods:
* IO#noecho {|io| }
* IO#echo=
* IO#echo?
* IO#raw {|io| }
* IO#raw!
* IO#getch
* IO#winsize
* IO.console
* net/http
* SNI (Server Name Indication) supported for HTTPS.
* optparse
* support for bash/zsh completion.
* RDoc
* RDoc has been upgraded to RDoc 3.5.3. For full release notes see
http://docs.seattlerb.org/rdoc/History_txt.html
* rexml
* [incompatible] support Ruby native encoding mechanism
and iconv dependency is dropped. This means encoding
methods (Document#encoding, XMLDecl#encoding,
Output#encoding and Source#encoding) return an Encoding
object instead of an encoding name.
* Rubygems
* Rubygems has been upgraded to rubygems 1.5.0. For full release notes see
http://rubygems.rubyforge.org/rubygems-update/History_txt.html
* stringio
* extended method:
* StringIO#set_encoding can get 2nd argument and optional hash.
* uri
* new methods:
* URI::Generic#hostname
* URI::Generic#hostname=
* webrick
* new method:
* WEBrick::HTTPRequest#continue for generating '100 continue' response.
* new logging directive:
* %{remote}p for remote (client) port number.
* zlib
* new methods:
* Zlib.deflate
* Zlib.inflate
=== Language changes
* Regexps now support Unicode 6.0. (new characters and scripts)
* [experimental] Regexps now support Age property.
Unlike Perl, current implementation takes interpretation of the
interpretation of UTS #18.
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr18/
* Turning on/off indentation warnings with directives.
("# -*- warn-indent: true -*-" / "# -*- warn-indent: false -*-")
=== Compatibility issues (excluding feature bug fixes)
* Kernel#respond_to?
See above.
* REXML::Document#encoding, REXML::XMLDecl#encoding,
REXML::Output#encoding and REXML::Source#encoding
Return an Encoding object not encoding name as a String.