1.12.0 / 2021-08-02

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1.12.0 / 2021-08-02

Notable Addition: HTML5 Support (CRuby only)

HTML5 support has been added (to CRuby only) by merging Nokogumbo into Nokogiri. The Nokogumbo public API has been preserved, so this functionality is available under the Nokogiri::HTML5 namespace. [#2204]

Please note that HTML5 support is not available for JRuby in this version. However, we feel it is important to think about JRuby and we hope to work on this in the future. If you're interested in helping with HTML5 support on JRuby, please reach out to the maintainers by commenting on issue #2227.

Many thanks to Sam Ruby, Steve Checkoway, and Craig Barnes for creating and maintaining Nokogumbo and supporting the Gumbo HTML5 parser. They're now Nokogiri core contributors with all the powers and privileges pertaining thereto. 🙌

Notable Change: Nokogiri::HTML4 module and namespace

Nokogiri::HTML has been renamed to Nokogiri::HTML4, and Nokogiri::HTML is aliased to preserve backwards-compatibility. Nokogiri::HTML and Nokogiri::HTML4 parse methods still use libxml2's (or NekoHTML's) HTML4 parser in the v1.12 release series.

Take special note that if you rely on the class name of an object in your code, objects will now report a class of Nokogiri::HTML4::Foo where they previously reported Nokogiri::HTML::Foo. Instead of relying on the string returned by Object#class, prefer Class#=== or Object#is_a? or Object#instance_of?.

Future releases of Nokogiri may deprecate HTML methods or otherwise change this behavior, so please start using HTML4 in place of HTML.

Added

• [CRuby] Nokogiri::VERSION_INFO["libxslt"]["datetime_enabled"] is a new boolean value which describes whether libxslt (or, more properly, libexslt) has compiled-in datetime support. This generally going to be true, but some distros ship without this support (e.g., some mingw UCRT-based packages, see libxslt: Fix build failure and date/time issue in libxslt msys2/MINGW-packages#8957). See #2272 for more details.

Changed

• Introduce a new constant, Nokogiri::XML::ParseOptions::DEFAULT_XSLT, which adds the libxslt-preferred options of NOENT | DTDLOAD | DTDATTR | NOCDATA to ParseOptions::DEFAULT_XML.
• Nokogiri.XSLT parses stylesheets using ParseOptions::DEFAULT_XSLT, which should make some edge-case XSL transformations match libxslt's default behavior. [#1940]

Fixed

• [CRuby] Namespaced attributes are handled properly when their parent node is reparented into another document. Previously, the namespace may have gotten dropped. [#2228]
• [CRuby] Reparented nodes no longer inherit their parent's namespace. Previously, a node without a namespace was forced to adopt its parent's namespace. [#1712]

Improved

• [CRuby] Speed up (slightly) the compile time of packaged libraries libiconv, libxml2, and libxslt by using autoconf's --disable-dependency-tracking option. ("ruby" platform gem only.)

Deprecated

• Deprecating Nokogumbo's Nokogiri::HTML5.get. This method will be removed in a future version of Nokogiri.

Dependencies

• [CRuby] Upgrade mini_portile2 dependency from ~> 2.5.0 to ~> 2.6.1. ("ruby" platform gem only.)

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This discussion was created from the release 1.12.0 / 2021-08-02.

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Please note, if you're seeing "method redefined" or "constant redefined" warnings from Nokogumbo, please see #2205 for help upgrading.