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| # -*- 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. | |
| === 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 | |
| extraction. | |
| * 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 | |
| * 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 | |
| * Bignum | |
| * Multiplication algorithm for Bignums with a large number of digits over | |
| 150 BDIGITs is changed in order to reduce its calculation time. | |
| Now such large Bignums are multiplied by using Toom-3 algorithm. | |
| * Encoding | |
| * new encodings: | |
| * CP950 | |
| * CP951 | |
| * UTF-16 | |
| * UTF-32 | |
| * change alias: | |
| * SJIS is Windows-31J | |
| * File | |
| * new constant: | |
| * File::NULL | |
| name of NULL device. | |
| * File::DIRECT | |
| name of O_DIRECT. | |
| * IO | |
| * extended method: | |
| * IO#putc supports multibyte characters | |
| * new methods: | |
| * IO#advise | |
| * IO.write(name, string, [offset] ) | |
| Write `string` to file `name`. | |
| Opposite with File.read. | |
| * IO.binwrite(name, string, [offset] ) | |
| binary version of IO.write. | |
| * Kernel | |
| * move #__id__ to BasicObject. | |
| * extended method: | |
| * Kernel#rand supports range argument | |
| * Module | |
| * new methods: | |
| * Module#private_constant | |
| * Module#public_constant | |
| * Random | |
| * extended method: | |
| * Random.rand supports range argument | |
| * 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. | |
| * bigdecimal | |
| * BigDecimal#power and BigDecimal#** support non-integral exponent. | |
| * Kernel.BigDecimal and BigDecimal.new now accept instances of Integer, | |
| 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. | |
| * If the given offset is flonum, DateTime assumes its precision is | |
| at most second. | |
| DateTime.new(2001,2,3,0,0,0,3.0/24) == | |
| DateTime.new(2001,2,3,0,0,0,'+03:00') | |
| #=> true | |
| * If the given operand for -/+ is flonum, DateTime assumes its | |
| precision is at most nanosecond. | |
| DateTime.new(2001,2,3) + 0.5 == DateTime.new(2001,2,3,12) | |
| #=> true | |
| * Precision of offset is always at most second. | |
| Rational('0.5') == Rational('0.500001') #=> false | |
| DateTime.new(2001,2,3,0,0,0,Rational('0.5')) == | |
| DateTime.new(2001,2,3,0,0,0,Rational('0.500001')) | |
| #=> true | |
| * Ignores long offset and far reform day (with warning). | |
| * Now accepts only: | |
| -1<=offset<=1 (-24:00..+24:00) | |
| 2298874<=start<=2426355 or -/+oo | |
| (proleptic Gregorian/Julian mean -/+oo) | |
| * A method strftime cannot produce huge output (same as Time's one). | |
| * Even though Date/DateTime can handle far dates, the following causes | |
| an exception. | |
| DateTime.new(1<<10000).strftime('%Y') # Errno::ERANGE | |
| * Changed the format of inspect. | |
| * Changed the format of marshal (but, can load old dumps). | |
| * io/console | |
| * new methods: | |
| * IO#noecho {|io| } | |
| * IO#echo= | |
| * IO#echo? | |
| * IO#raw {|io| } | |
| * IO#raw! | |
| * IO#getch | |
| * IO#winsize | |
| * IO.console | |
| * json | |
| * updated to v1.5.4. | |
| * matrix | |
| * new classes: | |
| * Matrix::EigenvalueDecomposition | |
| * Matrix::LUPDecomposition | |
| * new methods: | |
| * Matrix#diagonal? | |
| * Matrix#eigen | |
| * Matrix#eigensystem | |
| * Matrix#hermitian? | |
| * Matrix#lower_triangular? | |
| * Matrix#lup | |
| * Matrix#lup_decomposition | |
| * Matrix#normal? | |
| * Matrix#orthogonal? | |
| * Matrix#permutation? | |
| * Matrix#round | |
| * Matrix#symmetric? | |
| * Matrix#unitary? | |
| * Matrix#upper_triangular? | |
| * Matrix#zero? | |
| * Vector#magnitude, #norm | |
| * Vector#normalize | |
| * extended methods: | |
| * Matrix#each and #each_with_index can iterate on a subset of the elements | |
| * Matrix#find_index returns [row, column] and can iterate on a subset | |
| of the elements | |
| * Matrix#** implements Numeric exponents (using the eigensystem) | |
| * Matrix.zero can build rectangular matrices | |
| * minitest | |
| * Minitest has been updated to version 2.2.2. | |
| * For full details, see https://github.com/seattlerb/minitest/blob/master/History.txt | |
| * net/http | |
| * SNI (Server Name Indication) supported for HTTPS. | |
| * Allow to configure to wait server returning '100 continue' response | |
| before sending HTTP request body. Set Net::HTTP#continue_timeout AND pass | |
| 'expect' => '100-continue' to a extra HTTP header. | |
| For example, the following code sends HTTP header and waits for getting | |
| '100 continue' response before sending HTTP request body. When 0.5 [sec] | |
| timeout occurs or the server send '100 continue', the client sends HTTP | |
| request body. | |
| http.continue_timeout = 0.5 | |
| http.request_post('/continue', 'body=BODY', 'expect' => '100-continue') | |
| * new method: | |
| * 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 | |
| exporting public keys to DER or PEM. Backward compatibility is | |
| ensured by (already existing) fallbacks during creation. | |
| * OpenSSL::ASN1::Constructive#new and OpenSSL::ASN1::Primitive#new | |
| (and the constructors of their sub-classes) will no longer force | |
| tagging to be set to :EXPLICIT when tag and/or tag_class are passed | |
| as parameters. tagging must be set explicitly. | |
| * Support for infinite length encodings via infinite_length attribute. | |
| * OpenSSL::PKey.read( file | string [, pwd] ) allows to read arbitrary | |
| public/private keys in DER-/PEM-encoded form with an optional password | |
| for encrypted PEM encodings. | |
| * Add new method OpenSSL::X509::Name#hash_old as a wrapper of | |
| X509_NAME_hash_old() defined from OpenSSL 1.0.0. It returns OpenSSL 0.9.8 | |
| compatible hash value. | |
| * optparse | |
| * support for bash/zsh completion. | |
| * Rake | |
| * 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 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 1.8.10. 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. | |
| * --hide-skip: Hide skip messages. You'll see the number of skips at end of | |
| test result. | |
| * 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. | |
| * yaml | |
| * The default YAML engine is now Psych. You may downgrade to syck by setting | |
| YAML::ENGINE.yamler = 'syck'. | |
| * 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) | |
| * Rational#to_d | |
| See above. |