* It fixes a critical bug in 1.4.6.
== 1.5.0 / 2011-07-01
* Notes
* See changelog from 1.4.7
* Features
* extracted sets of Node::SaveOptions into Node::SaveOptions::DEFAULT_{X,H,XH}TML (refactor)
* Bugfixes
* default output of XML on JRuby is no longer formatted due to
inconsistent whitespace handling. #415
* (JRuby) making empty NodeSets with null `nodes` member safe to operate on. #443
* Fix a bug in advanced encoding detection that leads to partially
duplicated document when parsing an HTML file with unknown
encoding.
* Add support for <meta charset="...">.
== 1.5.0 beta3 / 2010/12/02
* Notes
* JRuby performance tuning
* See changelog from 1.4.4
* Bugfixes
* Node#inner_text no longer returns nil. (JRuby) #264
== 1.5.0 beta2 / 2010/07/30
* Notes
* See changelog from 1.4.3
== 1.5.0 beta1 / 2010/05/22
* Notes
* JRuby support is provided by a new pure-java backend.
* Deprecations
* Ruby 1.8.6 is deprecated. Nokogiri will install, but official support is ended.
* LibXML 2.6.16 and earlier are deprecated. Nokogiri will refuse to install.
* FFI support is removed.
=== 1.4.7 / 2011-07-01
* Bugfixes
* Fix a bug in advanced encoding detection that leads to partially
duplicated document when parsing an HTML file with unknown
encoding. Thanks, Timothy Elliott (@ender672)! #478
=== 1.4.6 / 2011-06-19
* Notes
* This version is functionally identical to 1.4.5.
* Ruby 1.8.6 support has been restored.
=== 1.4.5 / 2011-06-15
* New Features
* Nokogiri::HTML::Document#title accessor gets and sets the document title.
* extracted sets of Node::SaveOptions into
Node::SaveOptions::DEFAULT_{X,H,XH}TML (refactor)
* Raise an exception if a string is passed to Nokogiri::XML::Schema#validate.
#406
* Bugfixes
* Node#serialize-and-friends now accepts a SaveOption object as the, erm,
save object.
* Nokogiri::CSS::Parser has-a Nokogiri::CSS::Tokenizer
* [JRUBY+FFI only] Weak references are now threadsafe. #355
* Make direct start_element() callback (currently used for
HTML::SAX::Parser) pass attributes in assoc array, just as
emulated start_element() callback does. rel. #356
* HTML::SAX::Parser should call back a block given to parse*() if any, just
as XML::SAX::Parser does.
* Add further encoding detection to HTML parser that libxml2 does not do.
* Document#remove_namespaces! now handles attributes with namespaces. #396
* XSLT::Stylesheet#transform no longer segfaults when handed a
non-XML::Document. #452
* XML::Reader no longer segfaults when under GC pressure. #439
=== 1.4.4 / Unreleased
* New Features
* XML::Node#children= sets the node's inner html (much like #inner_html=), but returns the reparent node(s).
* XSLT supports function extensions. #336
* XPath bind parameter substitution. #329
* XML::Reader node type constants. #369
* SAX Parser context provides line and column information
* Bugfixes
* XML::DTD#attributes returns an empty hash instead of nil when there are no attributes.
* XML::DTD#{keys,each} now work as expected. #324
* {XML,HTML}::DocumentFragment.{new,parse} no longer strip leading and trailing whitespace. #319
* XML::Node#{add_child,add_previous_sibling,add_next_sibling,replace} return a NodeSet when passed a string.
* Unclosed tags parsed more robustly in fragments. #315
* XML::Node#{replace,add_previous_sibling,add_next_sibling} edge cases fixed related to libxml's text node merging. #308
* Fixed a segfault when GC occurs during xpath handler argument marshalling. #345
* Added hack to Slop decorator to work with previously defined methods. #330
* Fix a memory leak when duplicating child nodes. #353
* Fixed off-by-one bug with nth-last-{child,of-type} CSS selectors when NOT using an+b notation. #354
* Fixed passing of non-namespace attributes to SAX::Document#start_element. #356
* Workaround for libxml2 in-context parsing bug. #362
* Fixed NodeSet#wrap on nodes within a fragment. #331
* Use lang/ruby/gem.mk instead of misc/rubygems/rubygem.mk.
* Update HOMEPAGE.
* Add CONFLICTS since it will install the same name commands both
ruby18 and ruby19 based packages.
Changes are too many to write here, please refer CHANGELOG.rdoc.
Nokogiri parses and searches XML/HTML very quickly, and also has correctly
implemented CSS3 selector support as well as XPath support.
Features:
* XPath support for document searching
* CSS3 selector support for document searching
* XML/HTML builder
* Drop in replacement for Hpricot (though not bug for bug)
