# \[ANN\] Ruby-GNOME2 2.1.0

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-ruby-gnome2-2-1-0/238251>\
**Category:** Ruby-Gnome 2\
**Created:** [December 29, 2013, 1:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-ruby-gnome2-2-1-0/238251 "2013-12-29T01:55:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 29, 2013, 1:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-ruby-gnome2-2-1-0/238251/1 "2013-12-29T01:55:30Z")

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Hi,

The Ruby-GNOME2 project released Ruby-GNOME2 2.1.0:  
[http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?News\_20131229\_1](http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?News_20131229_1)

This release supports Ruby 2.1.0 that is released  
2013/12/25.

This release improves Windows support! (Thanks Regis and  
Masafumi for testing Ruby-GNOME2 2.0.3!)

Ruby-GNOME2 2.0.2 has problems on Windows. They are solved  
in Ruby-GNOME2 2.1.0!

Ruby-GNOME2 2.1.0 is a new release for the first time in  
half a year. There are many improvements. Try it!

== Install

% gem install gtk2  
% gem install gtk3

=== Changes

==== All

- Improvements
  - Removed Ruby 1.8 from supported Ruby in READMEs.  
[GitHub#166] [Reported by Markus Heiler] [Patch by Masafumi  
Yokoyama]
  - Supported Ruby 2.1.0. [GitHub#181] [cosmo0920][Masafumi Y.]
  - Made rcairo optional to required because we dropped old GTK+ that  
doesn’t use cairo. (Cairo isn’t used library such as GLib doesn’t  
require rcairo. But Ruby/GLib2 requires rcairo on Windows because  
it uses zlib bundled in rcairo.) [GitHub#193] [cosmo0920]
  - Updated LGPL 2.1 files. [GitHub#196] [Reported by ktdreyer]
  - Supported tests on Travis CI. [Masafumi Y.][cosmo0920]
  - Supported rake-compiler 0.9.1.
  - Set license information to gem.

- Fixes
  - [windows] Added missing binaries for Ruby 2.1.0.  
[GitHub#123] [Patch by Masafumi Y.]

==== Ruby/GLib2

- Improvements
  - Set UTF-8 encoding to exception message.
  - Added GLib::GetText.bindtextdomain.
  - Dropped GLib \< 2.12 because CentOS 5 has GLib 2.12.3.  
[GitHub#190] [cosmo0920]
  - Added GValue#to\_s.
  - [windows] Updated bundled GLib to 2.38.2 from 2.36.2.

==== Ruby/GObjectIntrospection

- Improvements
  - Supported GList return type.
  - Supported freeing UTF-8 return type.
  - Supported freeing array return type.
  - Supported NULL as array return value.
  - Supported freeing GObject return value.
  - Supported freeing structure return value.
  - Supported NULL character for gint8 array.

- Fixes
  - Fixed type conversion from VALUE to GType.  
[GitHub#186] [Patch by Hiroyuki Tanaka]

==== Ruby/ATK

- Improvements
  - Dropped ATK \< 1.12 support because CentOS 5 has GTK+ 1.12.2.  
[GitHub#191] [cosmo0920]
  - [windows] Updated bundled ATK to 2.10.0 from 2.8.0.

==== Ruby/Pango

- Improvements
  - Supported cairo 1.6.  
[GitHub#172] [Patch by Grant S.]
  - Dropped Pango \< 1.14 support because CentOS 5 has GTK+ 1.14.9.  
[GitHub#192] [cosmo0920]
  - Added Pango::Layout#height=.  
[GitHub#210] [Patch by Vasily Fedoseyev]
  - Added Pango::Layout#ellipsized?.  
[GitHub#210] [Patch by Vasily Fedoseyev]
  - [windows] Updated bundled Pango to 1.36.1 from 1.34.1.

==== Ruby/GdkPixbuf2

- Improvements
  - [windows] Added rcairo dependency on Windows for using libpng and  
zlib  
bundled in rcairo.
  - [windows] Updated bundled gdk-pixbuf to 2.30.2 from 2.28.1.

==== Ruby/GTK2

- Improvements
  - Dropped GTK+ \< 2.10 support because CentOS 5 has GTK+ 2.10.4.  
[GitHub#182] [Patch by cosmo0920]
  - [windows] Updated bundled GTK+ to 2.24.22 from 2.24.18.

==== Ruby/GDK3

- Improvements
  - [test] Made more stable. [GitHub#178] [Reported by mtasaka]
  - Added Gdk::Device#ungrab. [cosmo0920]
  - Added Gdk::DeviceManager. [cosmo0920]
  - Added Gdk::Device#get\_position. [cosmo0920]
  - Added Gdk::Device#warp. [cosmo0920]
  - Added Gdk::Device#grab. [cosmo0920]
  - Added Gdk::Window#get\_device\_position. [cosmo0920]
  - [windows] Updated bundled GTK+ to 3.10.6 from 3.8.2.
  - [windows] Bundled hicolor-icon-theme. It may fix a problem that  
Windows theme is not applied.  
[ruby-gnome2-devel-en] [Reported by Regis d’Aubarede]

==== Ruby/GTK3

- Improvements
  - [sample] Updated for GTK+ 3. [Masafumi Y.]
  - Removed Gtk::BindingSet#add\_path.
  - Added Gtk.show\_uri.

- Fixes
  - Fixed a bug that Gtk::ActionGroup#add\_radio\_actions always fails.  
[ruby-gnome2-devel-ja] [Reported by S. Kitagawa]

==== Ruby/GStreamer

- Improvements
  - Supported calling module functions of Gst module such as  
Gst.version before calling Gst.init.
  - Added Gst::Registry#plugins.
  - Added Gst::Registry#get\_features.
  - Added Gst::ElementFactory#long\_name.
  - Added Gst::ElementFactory#klass.
  - Added Gst::ElementFactory#author.
  - Added Gst::ElementFactory#static\_pad\_templates.
  - Added Gst::Caps#structures.
  - Added Gst::Structure#fields.
  - Gst::Element#flags returns flag object instead of raw integer  
value.  
Use Gst::Element#flags\_raw for raw integer value.
  - Gst::PluginFeature#rank returns Gst::Rank instead of raw integer  
value.  
Use Gst::PluginFeature#rank for raw integer value.
  - Supported GstValueList.
  - [windows] Updated bundled GStreamer to 1.2.1 from 1.0.7.

==== Ruby/Clutter

- Improvements
  - [sample] Updated for Clutter 1.12 or later.  
[Patch by Kentaro F.]
  - [windows] Updated bundled Clutter to 1.16.2 from 1.14.4.

==== Ruby/ClutterGStreamer

- Improvements
  - [sample] Added.  
[Masafumi Y.]
  - Fixed a typo in sample.  
[Reported by Toyo Abe]
  - [windows] Updated bundled Clutter-GStreamer to 2.0.8 from 2.0.2.

==== Ruby/Poppler

- Improvements
  - Dropped Popper \< 0.12 because CentOS has Poppler 0.12.4.  
[GitHub#212] [cosmo0920]
  - [windows] Bundled Poppler 0.24.4.

==== Ruby/RSVG

- Improvements
  - [windows] Bundled librsvg 2.40.1.

==== Ruby/GtkSourceView3

- Improvements
  - Supported auto GtkSourceView install on OS X.  
[GitHub#177] [Masafumi Y.]
  - [windows] Updated bundled GtkSourceView to 3.10.1 from 3.8.1.

==== Ruby/GooCanvas

- Improvements
  - [sample] Followed changes caused by migrating to  
Ruby/GObjectIntrospection.  
[Masafumi Y.]
  - Updated FSF address.  
[GitHub#201] [Reported by ktdreyer]

- Fixes
  - Fixed wrong dependency.  
[ruby-gnomde2-devel-ja] [Reported by Masafumi Y.]

=== Thanks

- Kentaro F.
- S. Kitagawa
- Markus Heiler
- Masafumi Y.
- Grant S.
- Toyo Abe
- mtasaka
- cosmo0920
- Hiroyuki Tanaka
- ktdreyer
- Regis d’Aubarede

## Thanks,

kou