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Summary of the changes since 1.6.3:

: Hash#replace

  Fixed so the following code does not fail in core dump.

    h  = { 10 => 100, 20 => 200 }
    h2 = { }

    h.each { |k, v|
      if (k == 10)
        h.delete(10)
        h2.replace(h)  # => Abort core dumped
      end
    }

: File::unlink

  Changed to be forbidden under $SAFE >= 2.

: ruby -T4

  Fixed.  ARGV is now properly marked as tainted so ruby -T4 no longer
  fails in SecurityError.

: Regexp

  Fixed.  Now \1 .. \9 always mean backreferences, and referring to
  unclosed/unmatched parentheses always fails.

: String taint infection

  Fixed for the following cases.  [ruby-dev:13340]

  # []=
  s1 = "abc"
  s2 = "cde".taint
  s1[0]= s2
  p s1.tainted?             # => false

  # crypt
  s = "abc".taint
  p s.crypt("cd").tainted?  # => false

  # ljust
  s = "abc".taint
  p s.ljust(10).tainted?    # => false

  # rjust
  s = "abc".taint
  p s.rjust(10).tainted?    # => false

  # center
  s = "abc".taint
  p s.center(10).tainted?   # => false

  Now they will all be marked as tainted.

: rb_yield_0()

  Fixed so it adjusts a 1-element array when yielded from C API, as
  well.  Previously, the following code produced a wrong result:

    class X
      include Enumerable

      def each(&block)
        block.call(1)
        block.call(2)
        block.call(3)
      end
    end

    x = X.new
    p x.to_a #=> [[1], [2], [3]]

  Now it properly produces [1, 2, 3].

: $SAFE

  Fixed so aliasing global valiables is disallowed under $SAFE = 4.
 ((<ruby-dev:13287>))

: Open3::popen3

  Fixed to do exit! instead of exit so the dying process does not
  invoke at_exit. ((<ruby-dev:13170>))

: SizedQueue#pop

  Fixed so the following code does not cause a dead lock.
  ((<ruby-dev:13169>))

    ruby -r thread -e 'q = SizedQueue.new(1); q.push(1);'
                   -e 'Thread.new{sleep 1; q.pop}; q.push(1);'

: SizedQueue#max=

  Fixed so it really works. ((<ruby-dev:13170>))

: Queue
: SizedQueue

  Fixed to rescue ThreadError in case the thread is dead just before
  calling Thread#run. ((<ruby-dev:13194>))

: Array#&
: Array#|
: Array#uniq

  Fixed so they do not freeze the elements. ((<ruby-list:29665>))

    (%w(foo bar) & %w(foo baz))[0].upcase!
    => -:1:in `upcase!': can't modify frozen string (TypeError)

    %w(foo bar bar baz).uniq[0].upcase!
    => -:1:in `upcase!': can't modify frozen string (TypeError)

: shell.rb

    shell.rb 0.6 is newly imported as a standard library, along with
    documents.

: forwardable.rb

    forwardable.rb 1.1 is newly imported as a standard library, along with
    documents.

: irb & irb-tools

    irb and irb-tolls are updated to 0.7.4 and 0.7.1, respectively.

: Daylight saving time

  Fixed so it is handled correctly. [ruby-bugs-ja (PR#46)]

    env TZ=America/Managua ruby -e 'p Time.local(1998,12,1,0,59,59)'
    => Mon Nov 30 01:59:59 EST 1998
    env TZ=America/Managua ruby -e 'p Time.local(1998,12,1,0,59,59).tv_sec'   
    => 912409199

: SIGINFO

  Support SIGINFO of 4.4BSD.  [ruby-bugs-ja (PR#45)]

: Modifier rescue

  Fixed so the following code does not emit a parse error any more.
  ((<ruby-dev:13073>)), ((<ruby-dev:13292>))

    raise "" rescue []
    raise "" rescue (p "foo"; true)
    raise "" rescue -1
    raise "" rescue (-1)

: Thread

  Fixed so the following code does not cause a dead lock any more.

    Thread.start { Thread.stop }
    sleep

    => deadlock 0x40199b58: 2:0  - -:1
       deadlock 0x401a2528: 2:4 (main) - -:2
       -:2:in `sleep': Thread: deadlock (fatal)
               from -:2
       ruby 1.6.3 (2001-03-19) [i586-linux]

: Module#const_defined?
: Module#const_get
: Module#const_set

  Fixed so they do not access to anything other than constants.
  ((<ruby-dev:13019>))

: Marshal.dump

  Improved so it dumps Float with better precision: "%.12g" -> "%.16g"
  ((<ruby-list:29349>))

: Fixnum#[]

  Fixed a bug on the platforms which sizeof(long) > sizeof(int).

: Regular Expression

  Fixed a couple of minor bugs. ((<ruby-talk:13658>)), ((<ruby-talk:13744>))

: retry

  Fixed so the following code works correctly again. ((<ruby-talk:13957>))

        def WHILE(cond)
          return if not cond
          yield
          retry
        end

        i=0
        WHILE(i<3) {
          print i
          i+=1
        }

        ruby 1.6.2 (2000-12-25) [i586-linux]
        => 012

        ruby 1.6.3 (2001-03-19) [i586-linux]
        => 0

        ruby 1.6.4 (2001-05-02) [i586-linux]
        => 012

: ((<File::Stat>))#size

  Fixed to return a correct value for files larger than 1G bytes.

        File.open("/tmp/1GB", "w") {|f|
          f.seek(2**30-1, 0)
          f.puts
          f.flush
          p f.stat.size
        }

        # => ruby 1.6.3 (2001-04-03) [i586-linux]
             -1073741824
        # => ruby 1.6.4 (2001-04-19) [i586-linux]
             1073741824

: ((<Float>))#modulo, ((<Float>))#divmod

  Fixed. ((<ruby-dev:12718>))

: ((<ObjectSpace>))#_id2ref

  Fixed so it does not raise a  exception.

: recursive malloc problem

  Fixed by preallocating a buffer for stdio using setvbuf().
  ((<ruby-dev:12795>))

: ((<File>))#flock

  Fixed so it does not raise Errno::EACCES when the file to flock is
  already locked. (only applicable to the platforms which lack
  flock())

: ((<File::Stat>)).new(filename)

  Added. ((<ruby-dev:12803>))

: ((<Bignum>))#% miscalculation

  (Re-)Fixed.

        a = 677330545177305025495135714080
        b = 14269972710765292560
        p a % b  #=> 0
        p -a % b #=> 

        => ruby 1.6.3 (2001-04-02) [i386-cygwin]
           0
           14269972710765292560

        => ruby 1.6.4 (2001-04-19) [i586-linux]
           0
           0

: ((<Marshal>))

  Fixed so a Bignum is properly restored through dump & load.

: Universal Naming Convention(UNC) support (win32)

  Added.  Now the UNC form (//host/share) is supported.  Use slash
  (`(({/}))') instead of backslash (`(({\}))') for separating
  components.

: ((<Dir>)).glob (win32)

  Fixed so it works for the current directory as well.

        p Dir["./*.c"]
        => []