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-= NEWS
-
-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
-
- * Tk::X_Scrollable (Y_Scrollable) is renamed to Tk::XScrollable
- (YScrollable). Tk::X_Scrollable (Y_Scrollable) is still available,
- but it is an alias name.
-
- * Updated Tile extension support based on Tile 0.7.8.
-
- * Support --without-X11 configure option for non-X11 versions of
- Tcl/Tk (e.g. Tcl/Tk Aqua).
-
- * New sample script: irbtkw.rbw -- IRB on Ruby/Tk. It has no trouble
- about STDIN blocking on Windows.
-
-=== 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
-
- * String#intern now raises SecurityError when $SAFE level is greater
- than zero.
-
-* 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")