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crystal v0.7.7 Release Notes

Release Date: 2015-09-05 // over 8 years ago
    • (breaking change) Reimplemented Process.run to allow configuring input, output and error, as well as behaving well regarding non-blocking IO (thanks @technorama)
    • (breaking change) Removed the alias_method macro.
    • (breaking change) Disallow declaring defs, classes and other declarations "dynamically" (for example inside an if... this of course didn't work, but incorrectly compiled).
    • (breaking change) require is now only allowed at the top-level, never inside other types or methods.
    • (breaking change) Removed Nil#to_i
    • (breaking change) Changed API of Channel#select toward a thread-safe one.
    • (breaking change) The two methods that IO must implement are now read(slice : Slice(UInt8)) and write(slice : Slice(UInt8)).
    • 🆕 New beautiful, searchable and more functional API docs. Thanks @rosylilly for the initial design, and @BlaxPirit for some improvements.
    • 🚚 CLI: Moved browser, hierarchy and types to crystal tool ...
    • ➕ Added crystal tool context and crystal tool implementations for IDEs (thanks @bcardiff!!)
    • Int#>>(amount) and Int#<<(amount) now give zero when amount is greater than the number of bits of the integer representation.
    • ➕ Added \% escape sequence inside macros.
    • ➕ Added aliases for the many C types (thanks @BlaxPirit)
    • Added Iterator#in_groups_of (thanks @PragTob)
    • Added optional offset argument to Hash#each_with_index (thanks @sergey-kucher)
    • Added Array#combinations, Array#each_combination, Array#repeated_combinations, Array#each_repeated_combination, Array#repeated_permutations, Array#each_repeated_permutation, Array.product and Array.each_product (thanks @kostya)
    • ➕ Added Array#rotate and Array#rotate! (thanks @kostya)
    • Added MatchData#pre_match and MatchData#post_match (thanks @bjmllr)
    • ➕ Added Array#flatten
    • ➕ Added Range.reverse_each, along with Int#pred and Char#pred (thanks @BlaxPirit)
    • ➕ Added XML.parse_html (thanks @ryanworl)
    • ➕ Added ENV.keys andENV.values (thanks @will)
    • ➕ Added StaticArray==(other : StaticArray) (thanks @tatey)
    • ➕ Added String#sub in many variants (thanks @jhass)
    • Added Readline.bind_key, Readline.unbind_key, Readline.done and Readline.done= (thanks @daphee)
    • ➕ Added Hash#all?, Hash#any? and Hash#inject (thanks @jreinert)
    • ➕ Added File#pos and File#pos=
    • Added Enum.from_value and Enum.from_value?
    • ➕ Added Deque (thanks @BlaxPirit)
    • ➕ Added lots of methods to StringScanner, and documented it, making it usable (thanks @will)
    • StringIO now quacks like a File.
    • 👍 Allow sending masked data through a WebSocket, and sending long data (thanks @kumpelblase2)
    • File.new now accepts an optional perm argument (thanks @technorama)
    • 🔧 FileDescriptorIO now has configurable read/write timeouts (thanks @technorama)
    • 🚦 Signal handling is more robust and allows any kind of code (thanks @technorama)
    • Correctly handle WebSocket close packet (thanks @bebac)
    • 👀 Correctly implement seek and tell in buffered IOs (thanks @lbguilherme)
    • 👍 Allow setting several options on sockets (thanks @technorama)
    • Some improvements to crystal init for the "app" case (thanks @krisleech)
    • sleep and IO timeouts can receive TimeSpan as arguments (thanks @BlaxPirit)
    • 🖐 Handle HTTP::Response without content-length (thanks @lbguilherme)
    • ➕ Added docs for OptionParser, ENV, Regex, Enumerable, Iterator and some Array methods (thanks @porras, @will, @bjmllr, @PragTob, @decioferreira)
    • 🛠 Lots of bug fixes and small improvements