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crystal v0.5.9 Release Notes

Release Date: 2015-02-07 // about 9 years ago
    • 0️⃣ Random is now a module, with static methods that default to the Random::MT19937 class.
    • ➕ Added Random::ISAAC engine (thanks @ysbaddaden!)
    • ➕ Added String#size (thanks @zamith!)
    • ➕ Added limit to all String#split variants (thanks @jhass!)
    • Raising inside a Thread is now rescued and re-raised on join (thanks @jhass!)
    • ➕ Added path option to Projectfile for crystal deps (thanks @naps62!)
    • 🐧 Many fixes towards making Crystal work on linux 32 bits.
    • 🔨 Huge refactors, additions and improvements for sockets: Socket, IPSocket, TCPSocket, TCPServer, UDPSocket, UNIXSocket, UNIXServer (thanks @ysbaddaden!)
    • 👍 Allow regex with empty spaces in various places.
    • ➕ Added HTML.escape(String) (thanks @naps62!)
    • ➕ Added support for %w[...], %w{...}, %w<...> as alternatives to %w(...). Same goes for %i(...) (thanks @zamith!)
    • Added Enumerable#min_of, Enumerable#max_of and Enumerable#minmax_of, Enumerable#to_h, Dir.chdir and Number#fdiv (thanks @jhass!)
    • ➕ Added String#match, String#[], String#[]? and MatchData#[]? related to regexes (thanks @jhass!)
    • 👍 Allow T::Bar when T is a generic type argument.
    • ➕ Added subclasses and all_subclasses in macros.
    • Now you can invoke to_s and inspect on C structs and unions, making debugging C bindings much easier!
    • Added #to_f and #to_i to Time and TimeSpan (thanks @epitron!)
    • ➕ Added IO.select (thanks @jhass!)
    • Now you can use ifdef inside C structs and unions.
    • ➕ Added include inside C structs, to include other struct fields (useful for composition and avoiding an explicit indirection).
    • ➕ Added Char#in_set?, String#count, String#delete and String#squeeze (thanks @jhass!)
    • ➕ Added -D flag option to the compiler to set compile-time flags to use in ifdef.
    • 👍 More support for forward declarations inside C libs.
    • Rewritten some Function primitives in Crystal itself, and added methods for obtaining the pointer and closure data, as well as for recreating a function from these.
    • ➕ Added a Logger class (thanks @ysbaddaden!)
    • 🛠 Lots of bugs fixed.