# Mechanize 0.6.5 Released

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mechanize-0-6-5-released/86956>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [February 27, 2007, 3:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mechanize-0-6-5-released/86956 "2007-02-27T03:39:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 3:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mechanize-0-6-5-released/86956/1 "2007-02-27T03:39:47Z")

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mechanize version 0.6.5 has been released!

[http://mechanize.rubyforge.org/](http://mechanize.rubyforge.org/)

The Mechanize library is used for automating interaction with websites.  
Mechanize automatically stores and sends cookies, follows redirects,  
can follow links, and submit forms. Form fields can be populated and  
submitted. Mechanize also keeps track of the sites that you have  
visited as  
a history.

Changes:

= Mechanize CHANGELOG

== 0.6.5

- Copying headers to a hash to prevent memory leaks

- Speeding up page parsing

- Aliased fields to elements

- Adding If-Modified-Since header

- Added delete\_field! to form. Thanks to Sava C.

- Updated uri escaping to support high order characters. Thanks to  
Henrik N…

- Better handling relative URIs. Thanks to Henrik N.

- Now handles pipes in URLs  
[http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&aid=7140&group\_id=1453&atid=5709](http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&aid=7140&group_id=1453&atid=5709)

- Now escaping html entities in form fields.  
[http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&aid=7563&group\_id=1453&atid=5709](http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&aid=7563&group_id=1453&atid=5709)

- Added MSIE 7.0 user agent string