Anyolite version 1.1.1

Version 1.1.1

NOTE: This version requires recompilation of mruby and the C files.

NOTE: This version will only work with mruby 3.3.0 and above.

Usability

• Updated mruby to 3.3.0
• Updated MRI to 3.0.6
• Added error messages when Rake fails at installing
• Added error messages when mruby/MRI is missing

Bugfixes

• Fixed Regex wrapper warnings when running Anyolite with newer Crystal versions
• Fixed warning message when compiling glue files
• Fixed some annotations not working properly

Anyolite version 1.1.0

Version 1.1.0

NOTE: This version requires recompilation of mruby and the C files.

NOTE: This version will only work with mruby 3.2.0 and above.

Features

• Added direct bindings to Regex from Crystal (Regexp in Ruby)
• Added option to use a separate Ruby interpreter
• Added safeguard to catch non-fatal Crystal exceptions and raise them as Ruby errors
• Added option to transform procs into bytecode
• Added function to disable external program execution
• Added interpreter depth counter
• Updated to mruby 3.2.0
• Updated to MRI 3.0.5
• Added backtrace function for mruby
• Added option to fully protect Crystal values from the Ruby GC
• Added standalone wrappers for class properties

Usability

• Updated mruby config file to use libucrt instead of msvcrt
• Discarded old and problematic Regex mruby gem
• Made arguments for Anyolite.call_rb_method_of_object optional
• Added automatic conversion from Ruby class names to class objects in method callers
• Improved testing script
• Added check for RbValue and RbRef to some macro methods
• Added ability to pass Ruby blocks via Crystal to Ruby function calls
• Added some internal methods to mruby to handle fibers
• Added some exception checking methods
• Added methods to check reference table size
• Removed now optional Dir gem from default build config
• Removed need for use_general_object_format_chars flag for MRI
• Added global option to use keyword args for optional arguments only

Bugfixes

• Fixed error when running shards install on Windows
• Fixed compilation warning messages for Windows
• Fixed problems with Regexes due to PCRE conflicts
• Fixed problems with Anyolite on Crystal 1.5.1
• Unspecified arguments now always correctly throw warnings instead of confusing errors
• Fixed compiletime error when casting to Char
• Fixed errors when passing certain name arguments to Macros for calling Ruby functions
• Fixed Anyolite.call_rb_method_of_object argument args not being optional
• Fixed linker error due to typo in mruby bindings for block functions
• Fixed crash when casting Ruby numbers into objects in some cases
• Fixed script lines not printing exceptions
• Fixed memory leak when calling Ruby scripts and script lines
• Updated tests to account for reworked inspect method for enums
• Fixed errors when building Anyolite in a path with spaces
• Fixed problems on Linux when LD is set, but gcc should compile
• Fixed Crystal functions for accessing global variables in mruby
• Fixed Anyolite to allow enums with types different than Int32

Anyolite version 1.0.0

Version 1.0.0

This release marks the first full release of Anyolite, mostly
focussed on code quality, specs and bugfixes.

Features

• Anyolite.eval can be used to get return values from script lines
• Added check methods for Ruby references

Breaking changes

• Compacted most macro function options into hashes
• Adds default inspect and to_s methods to wrapped enums automatically
• Updated mruby to 3.1.0 and MRI to 3.0.4
• Config files now require rb_minor argument for MRI specifically

Security

• Closing an interpreter will now correctly clean class and type caches
• Fixed segmentation fault when overwriting Crystal content of a class
• Changed block cache to a stack to avoid overwriting it

Usability

• Completed all wiki entries
• Unit tests in test script
• Converted macro body variables to fresh variables wherever possible
• More compatibility between methods accepting RbRef and RbValue

Bugfixes

• Fixed error when passing blocks to certain method types
• Methods inspect, to_s and hash will now correctly respond to annotations
• Fixed UTF-8 problems in MRI tests
• Fixed crash on returning a RbRef

Anyolite version 0.17.0

Version 0.17.0

Features

• Added annotation to ignore class ancestors

Breaking changes

• Renamed master branch to main
• Changed internal representation of wrapped pointers
• Methods named == with no type specification will now return false instead of an error if types are incompatible

Usability

• Private ancestors will now be ignored automatically

Anyolite version 0.16.1

Version 0.16.1

Bugfixes

• Fixed typo in keyword module function wrappers

Anyolite version 0.16.0

Version 0.16.0

Features

• Added annotation DefaultOptionalArgsToKeywordArgs
• Added option to include bytecode as an array at compiletime
• Added environment variable for changing the mruby config path

Usability

• Added more debug information

Bugfixes

• Fixed argument error for block methods without arguments
• Fixed build error on Windows while running Github Actions

Anyolite version 0.15.0

Version 0.15.0

Features

• Methods for undefining Ruby methods

Breaking changes

• Excluding copy methods manually will undefine them from Ruby
• Checks for overflow when casting numbers

Usability

• Anyolite now respects exclusions of dup and clone
• Instance method exclude annotations on classes or modules will exclude them from all inheriting classes
• Include annotations can reverse global exclusions

Bugfixes

• Ruby exceptions instead of Crystal exceptions for casting overflows
• Casting to Number in mruby produced wrong values

Anyolite version 0.14.0

Version 0.14.0

Features

• Support for copying wrapped objects
• Ruby classes and modules can be obtained by name

Breaking changes

• All classes and structs automatically wrap the Crystal dup function as a copy constructor
• Updates in C glue functions

Anyolite version 0.13.2

Version 0.13.2

Features

• Windows support for the default mruby implementation

Usability

• CI for MRI (on Linux)

Bugfixes

• Fixed macro error for MRI

Anyolite version 0.13.1

Version 0.13.1

Bugfixes

• Fixed documentation