CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

dates are in dd-mm-yyyy format

23-06-2018 VERSION 4.3.0

• Add macOS mojave label
• Add generic android_* labels for android versions p through z.

24-12-2017 VERSION 4.2.3

• Loosened some Android label version ranges
• Browserino::Version can now also parse floats float 1.1 equals major version 1, minor version 1, patch level 0

12-10-2017 VERSION 4.2.2

• Added support for high_sierra

11-06-2017 VERSION 4.2.1

• Fixed a bug which caused arguments in the form of version: v to return true by default
• Added 174 additional clients
• Added some global properties
  • smarttv? and tablet? in addition to mobile?
  • Added device detection using device? :namOfDevice
• Added not method that allows calling client.not.firefox?. It simply inverts the original result
• Added not? method which is the opposite of is?
• Added :mediaplayer type

30-04-2017 VERSION 4.1.0

• Changed some internal naming
• Added ~200 additional browsers / bots
• Added list of browsers / bots and platforms to the documentation

22-04-2017 VERSION 4.0.0

• Complete rewrite
• Complete documentation rewrite

14-11-2016 VERSION 2.12.0

• Added support for SamsungBrowser
  • Added samsungbrowser? method
  • Added support for :samsungbrowser (Symbol and String) in methods
• Added support for Tizen
  • Added tizen? method
  • Added support for :tizen (Symbol and String) in methods
• Added support for WebOS
  • Added webos? method
  • Added support for :webos (Symbol and String) in methods
• Added support for WebOSBrowser
  • Added webosbrowser? method
  • Added support for :webosbrowser (Symbol and String) in methods
• Added Android Nougat (7.0 and 7.1) detection
• merged OS map files into /core/mappings.rb and removed the lib/maps folder
• Reduced amount of (overkill) tests

13-11-2016 VERSION 2.11.0

• Add :macos alias for :macintosh systems.
• Added support for MacOS :sierra alias in methods.
• Added deprecation notice for dropping support of Ruby < 2.0.0

19-10-2016 VERSION 2.10.1.1

• Test on ruby 2.3.1
• Fix missing questionmarks on method names in the README.
• Change gem homepage to io domain

25-08-2016 VERSION 2.10.1

• Replaced require with require_relative where possible
• Fixed cli not loading due to failing require

24-07-2016 VERSION 2.10.0

• Added support for the servo browser:

  • Added servo? method

• Added detection for various programming languages:

  • Added library? method
  • Added php? method
  • Added perl? method
  • Added python? method
  • Added java? method
  • Added curl? method
  • Added pycurl? method

29-05-2016 VERSION 2.9.0

• Stricter checking for:

• social_media?
• bot?
• browser?
• platform?

These methods used to be callable with unrelated symbols (e.g agent.platform?(:firefox) # => true), they will now correctly return false.

• Added support for consoles

• Added console? method
• Added wii?, playstation?, xbox? and nintendo_ds? methods

• Added general name method to store any browser / bot / search engine / social media agent
• social_media_name, search_engine_name and bot_name are now aliasses of name
• removed :bot_name from data structure (now stored in a general name property)
• removed :browser_name from data structure (now stored in a general name property)
• Added console_name method to get the name of a console

27-05-2016 VERSION 2.8.2

• Removed Guard gem dependency

26-05-2016 VERSION 2.8.0

• Added search_engine? method
• Added holmes? method
• Added ask? method
• Added duckduckgo? and alias ddg? methods
• Fixed respond_to? method signature
• Added executable for parsing useragents in terminal

02-03-2016 VERSION 2.7.0

• Added solaris? method

22-01-2016 VERSION 2.6.0

• Fixed to_a method
• Fixed to_s method
• Removed bot suffixes from every bot name
  • Replaced googlebot? with google?
  • Replaced msnbot? with msn?
  • Replaced bingbot? with bing?
  • Replaced yandexbot? with yandex?
  • Replaced exabot? with exa?
• Added platform? method
• Added browser? method
• Added social_media? method
• Added facebook? and fb? methods
• Added twitter? method
• Added linkedin? method
• Added instagram? method
• Added pinterest? method
• Added tumblr? method
• Added support for the Brave browser and the brave? method
• Added ff? method

20-01-2016 VERSION 2.5.4

• formatted / refactored code with rubocop
• iOS system_name full: true returns the version no. of iOS if found

19-01-2016 VERSION 2.5.3

• Minor refactoring of code

15-01-2016 VERSION 2.5.2

• DEPRECATE Custom return values (passed through Browserino.parse) will no longer alter the output of the agent object
• Added support for windows phone detection
• Added windows_phone? method

12-01-2016 VERSION 2.5.1

• Patched blackberry mapping, this used to be done by model number instead but is now corrected

12-01-2016 VERSION 2.5.0

• Added support for the Vivaldi browser
• New method #vivaldi?
• Added support for the bsd family of operating systems
• New method #bsd?
• Fixed using symbols for system version identification (e.g. :vista or :el_capitan) without a version number

11-01-2016 VERSION 2.4.1(.1)

• Caching the agent object in Rails
• DEPRECATE Using a custom return value for when a property isn't found

10-01-2016 VERSION 2.4.0

• Added rails integration

06-01-2016 VERSION 2.3.0

• Added #compat? method to test if IE is in compatibility mode
• Extended #browser_version to now also take an argument
• Added #locale method
• Empty UA's are identified as bots through #bot?

04-01-2016 VERSION 2.2.0

• Added more bots
• #bot? method can now take a bot name as argument to check for an exact bot

04-01-2016 VERSION 2.1.0

• Small restructuring of test suite
• Added bot detection
• Added #bot? method
• Added dynamic method support for bots
• Added support for the seamonkey browser

03-01-2016 VERSION 2.0.0

• IMPORTANT Changed behaviour of all dynamic methods to include version as an argument rather than in the method name.
• IMPORTANT Changed the behaviour of version checking to be more strict
• Changed tests to reflect new behaviour
• Added convenience methods #win?, #osx? and #bb?

03-01-2016 VERSION 1.6.0

• Added more tests
• Added more browsers to check: (bolt, opera mini and ucbrowser)
• Added #known? method to check if the agent is known
• Added a #ua method to return the User Agent string as given to Browserino.parse()
• Added #x64? and #x32? convenience methods to check system architecture
• Added #mobile? to check wether or not a user agent is mobile
• Moved older changelogs to its own CHANGELOG.md file
• Changed #to_s to add dashes (-) between browser names if they have a space
• #to_s now has an optional (sep = '') parameter that allows info and version numbers to be seperated

31-12-2015 VERSION 1.5.3

• Added blackberry support
• Added tests for blackberry user agent strings

31-12-2015 VERSION 1.5.2

• Added user agents
• Patterns could falsely identify a 64bit system, made the pattern more strict
• using X11 in a user agent as a synonym to a #linux? system

23-12-2015 VERSION 1.5.1.1

• Removed print statements from method
• Builds are now executed for Ruby 1.9.3 as well as 2.2.1

20-12-2015 VERSION 1.5.1

• Fixed respond_to? method which would first return inverted results (e.g. false when it should be true)

19-12-2015 VERSION 1.5.0

• Implemented to_s to return a concatenated string of property values
• Implemented to_a to return an array with arrays containing property name-value pairs
• Implemented to_h to return a hash containing property name-value pairs
• Removed unused code

19-12-2015 VERSION 1.4.0

• Added not method to invert questions about browser / system
• Added random test cases to verify that all inverted answers are correct

17-12-2015 VERSION 1.3.0

• Added Edge detection
• For supported browsers, it is now possible to check name and version through method_missing?

16-12-2015 VERSION 1.2.0

• Opera tests didn't run before
• For supported systems, it is possible to check OS and version through method_missing?

15-12-2015 VERSION 1.1.2

• User definable 'unknown' return value