mruby 2.1.1

We are announcing the stable release of mruby 2.1 series - mruby 2.1.1.

New Features

Core Language Features

Ruby 2.7 features

  • Numbered parameters as default block parameters are introduced. (72d57ad0)

Core Libraries

Ruby 2.7 features

  • Revert Implement Ruby2.7’s frozen strings from Symbol#to_s. (a367373f)

Update Features

Core Language Features

  • Always enable the rational and complex literals. (351c9c80)

Core Libraries

  • The #prepend_features and #module_function methods are not haves for class objects. (cc52fa66)
  • Remove location info from Exception#inspect. (d2f2f9db)
  • Allow true/false argument to Kernel#exit. (mrbgems/mruby-exit) (d81e4d71)
  • Improved the judgment of absolute path on Windows. #4950

Tools

  • Support short options concatenation to mruby command. (9de7130a)
  • Support -- (end of options) to mruby command. (f4b528e0)
  • Quit mruby -v immediately if no program is given for Ruby compatibility. (49653b81)

for mruby Developer

  • Add assertion to RVALUE size. (6cf99d12)

Compatibility

Core Libraries

  • Add File#size and File#truncate. (mrbgems/mruby-io) (6d9ac89f)
  • Add IO#pread and IO#pwrite. (mrbgems/mruby-io) (4c6d524c)
  • Support bit flags for IO.open. (mrbgems/mruby-io) (69619aee)

Changes

Build system

  • Abandon minirake. Use rake for compilation.
    Currently, minirake is left for compatibility, but it will be removed in the future. (de17f63)

Breaking Changes

  • Remove MRB_INT16 configuration option. (ff57c027)

Major bug fixes

  • Parser rejects heredoc without following comma or closing bracket in array/hash literal. #4796
  • Segfault due to invalid read in str_init_shared. #4807
  • Invalid read in array_copy and mrb_ary_unshift_m. #4808
  • Parser segfault (invalid read) in local_add_f. #4810
  • Parser rejects some heredoc in hash literal. #4815
  • Rakefile in mruby build emits warnings with Windows paths. #4817
  • Coredump when use ensure in Kernel#eval script. #4833
  • Fix keyword arguments not be obtained with mrb_get_args(). #4855
  • Undefined method `Pathname’ for MRuby::Toolchain::Android. #4895
  • Cygwin compile error. #4904
  • String#to_f should not allow hexdecimal format. #4924
  • Heap use after free in hash_values_at in mrbgems/mruby-hash-ext/src/hash-ext.c:33. #4926
  • The method name becomes call in backtrace inside a block outside a method. #4936
  • Segmentation fault at mrbgems/mruby-metaprog/src/metaprog.c:142. #4955
  • Test mruby-io in tmpdir when AF_UNIX cannot be created on cwd. #4981
  • IO#readlines/IO#getc hangs while reading over TCPSocket #4982
  • p->locals may be NULL when error occurs before the point. oss-fuzz: Issue 19886
  • Fix buffer overflow in mrb_str_len_to_dbl. oss-fuzz: Issue 19902
  • Fix file/directory name parameter for git command.
  • Fix MRB_FIXNUM_SHIFT with MRB_WORD_BOXING, MRB_INT32 and MRB_64BIT.
  • Build when directories and files have spaces.
  • Fix argument specs of below methods.
    • Exception
      Exception#exception.
    • IO (mrbgems/mruby-io)
      IO._popen, IO.for_fd, IO.select, IO.sysopen, IO.new, IO#sysread and IO#sysseek.
    • File (mrbgems/mruby-io)
      File.umask.
    • Integer
      Integer#ceil, Integer#floor, Integer#round and Integer#truncate.
    • Kernel
      BasicObject#instance_eval, Kernel#integer, Kernel#define_singleton_method, Kernel#send, Kernel#proc, Kernel#sprintf, Kernel#format and Kernel#respond_to?.
    • Hash
      Hash.new and Hash#default.
    • Fiber (mrbgems/mruby-fiber)
      Fiber.new.

We have done 321 commits to 134 files, 4,084 lines were added, 2,742 lines removed since mruby 2.1.0. For more detail of the updates, see Commit Log.

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