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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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== Changes since the 1.9.2 release
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=== License
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* Ruby's License is changed from a dual license with GPLv2
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to a dual license with 2-clause BSDL.
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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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* ruby_vm_at_exit() added. This enables extension libs to hook a VM
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termination.
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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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* Encoding
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* new encodings:
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* CP950
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* CP951
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* UTF-16
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* UTF-32
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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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* extended methods:
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* String#unpack supports endian modifiers
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* String
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* new methods:
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* String#prepend
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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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* IO
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* extended methods:
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* IO#putc supports multibyte characters
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* Array
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* extended methods:
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* Array#pack supports endian modifiers
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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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* webrick
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* new method:
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* WEBrick::HTTPRequest#continue for generating '100 continue' response.
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* new logging directive:
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* %{remote}p for remote (client) port number.
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* uri
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* new methods:
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* URI::Generic#hostname
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* URI::Generic#hostname=
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* stringio
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* extended methods:
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* StringIO#set_encoding can get 2nd argument and optional hash.
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* rexml
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* [incompatible] support Ruby native encoding mechanism
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and iconv dependency is dropped. This means encoding
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methods (Document#encoding, XMLDecl#encoding,
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Output#encoding and Source#encoding) return an Encoding
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object instead of an encoding name.
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=== Language changes
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* Regexps now support Unicode 6.0. (new characters and scripts)
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* [experimental] Regexps now support Age property.
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Unlike Perl, current implementation takes interpretation of the
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interpretation of UTS #18.
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http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr18/
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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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* REXML::Document#encoding, REXML::XMLDecl#encoding,
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REXML::Output#encoding and REXML::Source#encoding
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Return an Encoding object not encoding name as a String.
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