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@@ -1,172 +0,0 @@ -# -*- 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 - * change alias: - * SJIS is Windows-31J - - * 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 - * String#byteslice - - * Time - * extended method: - * Time#strftime supports %:z and %::z. - - * Process - * Process#maxgroups and Process#maxgroups= now raise NotImplementedError if - the platform don't support supplementary groups concept. - -* 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. - -* 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 - exporting public keys to DER or PEM. Backward compatibility is - ensured by (already existing) fallbacks during creation. - -* optparse - * support for bash/zsh completion. - -* RDoc - * RDoc has been upgraded to RDoc 3.6. 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. - -* test/unit - * New arguments: - * -j N, --jobs=N: Allow run N testcases at once. - * --jobs-status: Show status of jobs when parallel running. - * --no-retry: Don't retry testcases which failed when parallel running. - * --ruby=RUBY: path to ruby for job(worker) process. optional. - -* 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 - -* FileUtils - * extended method: - * FileUtils#chmod supports symbolic mode argument. - -=== 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. |