Releases
v1.9.0
1.9.0 / 2018-12-17
Security Notes
Notable non-functional changes
Decrease installation size by removing many unneeded files (e.g., /test
) from the packaged gems. [#1719 ] (Thanks, @stevecrozz !)
Features
XML::Attr#value=
allows HTML node attribute values to be set to either a blank string or an empty boolean attribute. [#1800 ]
Introduce XML::Node#wrap
which does what XML::NodeSet#wrap
has always done, but for a single node. [#1531 ] (Thanks, @ethirajsrinivasan !)
[MRI] Improve installation experience on macOS High Sierra (Darwin). [#1812 , #1813 ] (Thanks, @gpakosz and @nurse !)
[MRI] Node#dup supports copying a node directly to a new document. See the method documentation for details.
[MRI] DocumentFragment#dup is now more memory-efficient, avoiding making unnecessary copies. [#1063 ]
[JRuby] NodeSet has been rewritten to improve performance! [#1795 ]
Bug fixes
NodeSet#each
now returns self
instead of zero. [#1822 ] (Thanks, @olehif !)
[MRI] Address a memory leak when using XML::Builder to create nodes with namespaces. [#1810 ]
[MRI] Address a memory leak when unparenting a DTD. [#1784 ] (Thanks, @stevecheckoway !)
[MRI] Use RbConfig::CONFIG instead of ::MAKEFILE_CONFIG to fix installations that use Makefile macros. [#1820 ] (Thanks, @nobu !)
[JRuby] Decrease large memory usage when making nested XPath queries. [#1749 ]
[JRuby] Fix failing tests on JRuby 9.2.x
[JRuby] Fix default namespaces in nodes reparented into a different document [#1774 ]
[JRuby] Fix support for Java 9. [#1759 ] (Thanks, @Taywee !)
Dependencies
[MRI] Upgrade mini_portile2 dependency from ~> 2.3.0
to ~> 2.4.0
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