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@@ -1,146 +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 - - * Float - * new constant: - * File::NULL - name of NULL device. - * extended method: - * String#unpack supports endian modifiers - - * 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 - * new method: - * String#prepend - - * Time - * extended method: - * Time#strftime supports %:z and %::z. - -* io/console - * new methods: - * IO#noecho {|io| } - * IO#echo= - * IO#echo? - * IO#raw {|io| } - * IO#raw! - * IO#getch - * IO#winsize - * IO.console - -* optparse - * support for bash/zsh completion. - -* RDoc - * RDoc has been upgraded to RDoc 3.1. For full release notes see - http://rdoc.rubyforge.org/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. - -* stringio - * extended method: - * StringIO#set_encoding can get 2nd argument and optional hash. - -* 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 - -=== 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. - -* REXML::Document#encoding, REXML::XMLDecl#encoding, - REXML::Output#encoding and REXML::Source#encoding - - Return an Encoding object not encoding name as a String. |