RubyInstaller-2.4.2-1 - 2017-09-15

Added

• Sign published files per PGP signature.
• Set LANG variable in ridk enable because some MSYS apps require a valid setting.
  This also enables message translation of gettext enabled apps.
• Add stdlib gem "dbm", which was missing in previous RI2 versions. #65
• Add OS name and version to ridk version.

Changed

• Upload signed files directly from Appveyor to Github for releases.
• Update of the SSL CA certificate list.
• Fix gdbm open error by downgrading to gdbm-1.10. #4

Removed

• Remove deprecated RubyInstaller.add_dll_directory.
• Remove superflous build flags for libffi from RbConfig. #8

RubyInstaller-2.4.1-2 - 2017-07-04

Added

• Add package called 'rubybundle' with embedded MSYS2 tree as preview.
• Add daily ruby-2.5 snapshot builds, downloadable from Appveyor.
• Add possibility to set DLL paths per environment variable RUBY_DLL_PATH. Fixes #51
• Don't run 'ridk install' when installing with silent option. Fixes #43

Changed

• Do full MSYS2 system update instead of inventory update only.
  Fixes possible library inconsistences on a partially updated system.
• Spin off compile task to https://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller2-packages to speedup packaging.
• Update of dependent DLLs and build tools to latest MSYS2 versions.
• Update of the SSL CA certificate list.

RubyInstaller-2.4.1-1 - 2017-05-25

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.
• Allow MSYS2 to be shipped together with Ruby, when installed side by side or within the ruby directory.
  Refer to the FAQ.
• Add an installer option to set RUBYOPT=-Eutf-8, which sets Encoding.default_external to UTF-8.

Changed

• Built with MINGW GCC-6.3 from the MSYS2 repository.
• Updated to Ruby-2.4.1.
• Updated bundled libraries/DLLs.
• 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.

RubyInstaller-2.4.1-1rc3 - 2017-05-20

Added

• Add an "inofficial" RubyInstaller-2.3 build target. #33

Changed

• Revert default encoding from 'UTF-8' back to 'locale' due to some issues described in #38.
• Add an installer option to set the default external encoding to UTF-8.
• Install rb-readline in site_ruby instead of as a gem. Fixes #36
• Fix shebang line in bin/rake. Fixes #34
• Remove two unnecessary build patches. #35

RubyInstaller-2.4.1-1rc2 - 2017-04-17

Added

• Allow MSYS2 to be shipped together with Ruby, independent from the install path.

Changed

• Removed some unecessary DLLs previously shipped with the installer.
• Decrease the number of MSYS2 packages installed per default using 'ridk install'.

RubyInstaller-2.4.1-1rc1 - 2017-03-31

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.

2.4.0-8

Update README [ci skip]

2.4.0-7

Bump pkgrel to 7

2.4.0-6

Append the PATH when running rubydevkit.

2.4.0-5

Bump pkgrel to 5