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# -*- rdoc -*-
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= NEWS for Ruby 2.1.0
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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 2.0.0 release
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=== Language changes
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=== Core classes updates (outstanding ones only)
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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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* 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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* Kernel
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* New methods:
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* Kernel#singleton_method
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* Mutex
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* misc
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* Mutex#owned? is no longer experimental.
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* String
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* New methods:
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* String#scrub and String#scrub! 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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* pack/unpack (Array/String)
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* Q! and q! directives for long long type if platform has the type.
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=== Core classes compatibility issues (excluding feature bug fixes)
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* IO
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* incompatible changes:
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* open ignore internal encoding if external encoding is ASCII-8BIT.
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* Module#ancestors
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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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=== Stdlib updates (outstanding ones only)
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* Digest
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* extended methods:
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* Digest::Class.file takes optional arguments for its constructor
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* Matrix
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* Added Vector#cross_product.
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* Net::SMTP
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* Added Net::SMTP#rset to implement the RSET command
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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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* OpenSSL::BN
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* extended methods:
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* OpenSSL::BN.new allows Fixnum/Bignum argument.
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* open-uri
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* Support multiple fields with same field name (like Set-Cookie).
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* Resolv
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* New methods:
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* Resolv::DNS.fetch_resource
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* One-shot multicast DNS support
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* Support LOC resources
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* Rinda::RingServer, Rinda::RingFinger
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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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* Socket
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* New methods:
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* Socket.getifaddrs
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* StringScanner
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* extended methods:
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* StringScanner#[] supports named captures.
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* Tempfile
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* New methods:
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* Tempfile.create
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=== Stdlib compatibility issues (excluding feature bug fixes)
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* URI
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* incompatible changes:
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* URI.decode_www_form follows current WHATWG URL Standard.
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It gets encoding argument to specify the character encoding.
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It now allows loose percent encoded strings, but denies ;-separator.
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* URI.encode_www_form follows current WHATWG URL Standard.
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It gets encoding argument to convert before percent encode.
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UTF-16 strings aren't converted to UTF-8 before percent encode by default.
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=== C API updates
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