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+This document is a list of user visible feature changes made between
+releases excluding 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 with Ruby 1.8.5
+
+=== New platforms/build tools support
+
+* IA64 HP-UX
+
+* Visual C++ 8 SP1
+
+* autoconf 2.6x
+
+=== Library updates (outstanding ones only)
+
+* date
+
+  * Updated based on date2 4.0.3.
+
+* digest
+
+  * New internal APIs for C and Ruby.
+
+  * Support for autoloading.
+
+  * See below for new features and compatibility issues.
+
+* nkf
+
+  * Updated based on nkf as of 2007-01-28.
+
+* tk
+
+=== New methods and features
+
+* builtin classes
+
+  * New method: Kernel#instance_variable_defined?
+
+  * New method: Module#class_variable_defined?
+
+  * New feature: Dir::glob() can now take an array of glob patterns.
+
+* digest
+
+  * New digest class methods: file
+
+  * New digest instance methods: clone, reset, new,
+    inspect, digest_length (alias size or length),
+    block_length()
+
+  * New library: digest/bubblebabble
+
+  * New function: Digest(name)
+
+* fileutils
+
+  * New option for FileUtils.cp_r(): :remove_destination
+
+* thread
+
+  * Replaced with much faster mutex implementation in C.
+    The former implementation is available with a
+    configure option `--disable-fastthread'.
+
+* webrick
+
+  * New method: WEBrick::Cookie.parse_set_cookies()
+
+=== Compatibility issues (excluding feature bug fixes)
+
+* builtin classes
+
+  * Time#to_s now returns a string in a form that
+    conforms to RFC2822.
+
+      # Before
+      "Wed Mar 03 12:34:56 JST 2007"
+      # After
+      "Wed, Mar 03 2007 12:34:56 +0900"
+
+* fileutils
+
+  * A minor implementation change breaks Rake <=0.7.1.
+    Updating Rake to 0.7.2 fixes the problem.
+
+* digest
+
+  * The constructor does no longer take an initial
+    string to feed; digest() and hexdigest() now do,
+    instead.  The following examples show how to
+    migrate:
+
+      # Before
+      md = Digest::MD5.new("string")
+      # After (works with any version)
+      md = Digest::MD5.new.update("string")
+        
+      # Before
+      hd = Digest::MD5.new("string").hexdigest
+      # After (works with any version)
+      hd = Digest::MD5.hexdigest("string")