# -*- 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 methods: * IO#advise * IO.write(name, string, [offset] ) Write `string` to file `name`. Opposite with File.read. * IO.binwrite(name, string, [offset] ) binary virsion of IO.write. * Kernel * Kernel#respond_to? now returns false for protected methods. * 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 * Kernel.BigDecimal and BigDecimal.new now accept instances of Integer, Rational, and Float. 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. * 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 gives an empty string: DateTime.new(1<<10000).strftime('%Y') #=> "" * 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 * 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. * 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 0.9.2.1. For full release notes see https://github.com/jimweirich/rake/blob/master/CHANGES * RDoc * RDoc has been upgraded from 2.5.8 to 3.7. 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. * --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) * Kernel#respond_to? See above.