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@larskanis larskanis released this 31 Mar 04:41
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2.4.1-1rc1
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The following notable changes are for the transition from RubyInstaller1 to RubyInstaller2

Added

  • Provides ridk tool for easy MSYS2 installation/usage and system version information.
  • RubyInstaller2 bundles its own SSL/TLS CA list derived from the current Mozilla CA list into <installpath>/ssl/. See SSL-README.
  • Create a default .irbrc file for tab completition and history in irb.
  • Ability to add and use rubyinstaller-build.gem for customized Ruby-Applications. Documentation coming soon...
  • Run CI tests on AppVeyor for each git push to repository.
  • Build and deploy rubyinstaller.exe and 7z packages per AppVeyor and GitHub releases.

Changed

  • Built with MINGW GCC-6.3 from the MSYS2 repository.
  • Updated to Ruby-2.4.1.
  • Updated bundled libraries/DLLs.
  • Encoding.default_external is now UTF-8 — no longer ancient cpXYZ encoding when reading files.
  • RubyInstaller2 uses a separate DLL directory to avoid conflicting DLLs in the PATH.
  • RubyInstaller2 uses a DLL loading mechanism which ignores the PATH environment variable for DLL lookups, but provides a API for DLL directory-addition.
  • Use pure HTML for Ruby Core + stdlib documentation instead of CHM files.
  • Add Ruby to the PATH and have .rb + .rbw file association by default.
  • New versioning scheme: rubyinstaller-<rubyver>-<pkgrel>-<arch>.exe with pkgrel counting from 1 per rubyver.

Removed

  • No more DevKit, but integrates with MSYS2 libraries and toolchain.
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