# Mime-types 1.16 Released

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**Created:** [March 2, 2009, 6:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mime-types-1-16-released/161758 "2009-03-02T06:55:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![austin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/77aa72/32.png) [@austin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/austin)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 6:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mime-types-1-16-released/161758/1 "2009-03-02T06:55:17Z")

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After an excessive amount of time, I’ve released MIME::Types 1.16. The  
primary purpose of this release is compatibility with Ruby 1.9.1, but I  
haven’t ignored the latest IANA registered types. I have also picked up  
a few other types that others submitted as patches and scanned through  
the latest version (1.27) of the Perl MIME::Types library.

MIME::Types for Ruby allows for the identification of a file’s likely  
MIME content type based on the file’s filename extension, or provides a  
list of extensions associated with a MIME content type, if known.

- [http://mime-types.rubyforge.org/](http://mime-types.rubyforge.org/)

MIME::Types for Ruby originally based on and synchronized with the Perl  
version by Mark Overmeer, copyright 2001 - 2009. As of version 1.15, the  
data format for the MIME::Type list has changed and synchronization, if  
it happens, will be sporadic at best. The preferred source of input for  
a MIME::Type is the IANA registered list.

Homepage: [http://mime-types.rubyforge.org/](http://mime-types.rubyforge.org/)  
Copyright: 2002 - 2009, Austin Z.  
Based on prior work copyright Mark Overmeer  
Download: [http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group\_id=293](http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=293)

## LICENCE NOTES

MIME::Types is available under Ruby’s disjunctive licence with the GNU  
GPL or the Perl Artistic licence. See the file Licence.txt in the  
package for full details.

## Requirements and Installation

MIME::Types has been tested with Ruby 1.8.6, Ruby 1.8.7, Ruby 1.9.1,  
JRuby 1.1.6 (in Ruby 1.8 mode), and MacRuby 0.3.

MIME::Types can be installed with:

% ruby setup.rb

Alternatively, you can use the RubyGems version of MIME::Types available  
as mime-types-1.16.gem from the usual sources.

Changes:

## MIME::Types 1.16

- Made compatible with Ruby 1.8.6, 1.8.7, and 1.9.1.

- Switched to the ‘hoe’ gem system and added a lot of build-time tools.

- Updated the MIME types to the list based on the values in the Perl  
library  
version 1.27. Also updated based on external source information and  
bug  
reports.

- This is the last planned version of MIME::Types 1.x. Work will be  
starting soon on MIME::Types 2.x with richer data querying mechanisms  
and support for external data sources.

- [http://mime-types.rubyforge.org/](http://mime-types.rubyforge.org/)