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

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

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

Version 0.16.1

Bugfixes

• Fixed typo in keyword module function wrappers

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

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

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

Version 0.13.2

Features

• Windows support for the default mruby implementation

Usability

• CI for MRI (on Linux)

Bugfixes

• Fixed macro error for MRI

Version 0.13.1

Bugfixes

• Fixed documentation

Version 0.13.0

Features

• Full MRI Ruby as alternative implementation
• AnyolitePointer helper class for accessing pointers
• Infrastructure to convert script files into bytecode at runtime and compiletime
• Support for setting and getting instance, class and global variables from Crystal

Breaking changes

• Changed RClass* to RClassPtr to allow compatibility with MRI
• Reorganized some macros
• Changed directory structure
• Several code changes for compatibility with MRI
• Block variables for functions definitions have now an underscore in front of them

Usability

• Option for defaulting to usage of RbValue as data container for regular arguments
• Alternate build paths are now passed to Anyolite via the environment variable ANYOLITE_BUILD_PATH

Security

• Error messages for problems when loading scripts or bytecode files

Bugfixes

• Alternate build paths are not recognized properly in implementation files
• Fixed typo in name of rb_str_to_cstr
• Fixed inconsistent usage of rb in many functions