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authormarcandre <marcandre@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e>2013-02-22 23:57:58 +0000
committermarcandre <marcandre@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e>2013-02-22 23:57:58 +0000
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* doc/NEWS-*: Update NEWS from their respective branches
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+++ b/doc/NEWS-1.9.3
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
# -*- rdoc -*-
-
= NEWS for Ruby 1.9.3
This document is a list of user visible feature changes made between
@@ -15,6 +14,13 @@ with all sufficient information, see the ChangeLog file.
* Ruby's License is changed from a dual license with GPLv2
to a dual license with 2-clause BSDL.
+=== Known platform dependent issues
+==== OS X Lion
+
+* You have to configure ruby with '--with-gcc=gcc-4.2' if you're using
+ Xcode 4.1, or, if you're using Xcode 4.2, you have to configure ruby
+ with '--with-gcc=clang'.
+
=== C API updates
* rb_scan_args() is enhanced with support for option hash argument
@@ -23,6 +29,9 @@ with all sufficient information, see the ChangeLog file.
* ruby_vm_at_exit() added. This enables extension libs to hook a VM
termination.
+* rb_reserved_fd_p() added. If you want to close all file descriptors,
+ check using this API. [ruby-core:37759]
+
=== Library updates (outstanding ones only)
* builtin classes
@@ -103,16 +112,34 @@ with all sufficient information, see the ChangeLog file.
the platform don't support supplementary groups concept.
* bigdecimal
+
* BigDecimal#power and BigDecimal#** support non-integral exponent.
* Kernel.BigDecimal and BigDecimal.new now accept instances of Integer,
- Rational, and Float. If you pass a Rational or a Float to them, you must
- specify the precision to produce the digits of a BigDecimal.
+ Rational, Float, and BigDecimal. If you pass a Rational or a Float to
+ them, you must specify the precision to produce the digits of a BigDecimal.
* The behavior of BigDecimal#coerce with a Rational is changed. It uses
the precision of the receiver BigDecimal to produce the digits of a
BigDecimal from the given Rational.
+* bigdecimal/util
+
+ * BigDecimal#to_d and Integer#to_d are added.
+
+ * Float#to_d accepts a precision.
+
+ * Rational#to_d raises ArgumentError when passing zero or negative
+ precision.
+
+ * Rational#to_d
+
+ * Zero and an implicit precision is deprecated.
+ This feature is removed at the next release of bigdecimal.
+
+ * A negative precision isn't supported.
+ Be careful it is an incompatible change.
+
* date
* Accepts flonum explicitly with limitations.
@@ -165,6 +192,9 @@ with all sufficient information, see the ChangeLog file.
* IO#winsize
* IO.console
+* json
+ * updated to v1.5.4.
+
* matrix
* new classes:
* Matrix::EigenvalueDecomposition
@@ -213,9 +243,13 @@ with all sufficient information, see the ChangeLog file.
http.request_post('/continue', 'body=BODY', 'expect' => '100-continue')
* new method:
- * Net::HTTPRequest#set_form: Added to support
+ * Net::HTTPRequest#set_form): Added to support
both application/x-www-form-urlencoded and multipart/form-data.
+* objspace
+ * new method:
+ * ObjectSpace::memsize_of_all
+
* openssl
* PKey::RSA and PKey::DSA now use the generic X.509 encoding scheme
(e.g. used in a X.509 certificate's Subject Public Key Info) when
@@ -237,18 +271,18 @@ with all sufficient information, see the ChangeLog file.
* support for bash/zsh completion.
* Rake
- * Rake has been upgraded from 0.8.7 to 0.9.2.1. For full release notes see
+ * Rake has been upgraded from 0.8.7 to 0.9.2.2. For full release notes see
https://github.com/jimweirich/rake/blob/master/CHANGES
* RDoc
- * RDoc has been upgraded from 2.5.8 to 3.8. For full release notes see
+ * RDoc has been upgraded to version 3.9.4. For full release notes see
http://docs.seattlerb.org/rdoc/History_txt.html
* rexml
* Support Ruby native encoding mechanism and iconv dependency is dropped.
* RubyGems
- * RubyGems has been upgraded to version 1.8.5.1. For full release notes see
+ * RubyGems has been upgraded to version 1.8.10. For full release notes see
http://rubygems.rubyforge.org/rubygems-update/History_txt.html
* stringio
@@ -302,4 +336,6 @@ with all sufficient information, see the ChangeLog file.
=== Compatibility issues (excluding feature bug fixes)
- None
+ * Rational#to_d
+
+ See above.