# XDG v0.5.0 released

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/xdg-v0-5-0-released/151967>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [October 28, 2008, 3:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/xdg-v0-5-0-released/151967 "2008-10-28T15:25:24Z")\
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= XDG 0.5

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

XDG provides a module for supporting the XDG Base Directory Standard[1].

If your program utilizes user or system-wide support files (eg.  
configuration files), you owe it to yourself to checkout the XDG  
standard.

In this release, \_glob methods were renamed to \_select and now can take  
a selection block in addition to, or as opposed to, the glob pattern  
argument.

What’s next? The API should be stable now. I do not forsee and reasons  
for it to change. In the future, I may add some additonal ruby-esque  
features, but that should be purely in addition to what is already  
there. If all this holds true for a hwile a 1.0 release will be  
forth-coming.

[1][XDG Base Directory Specification](http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html)

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### 0.5.0 / 2008-10-28

- Renamed \*\_glob methods to \*\_select, and added block option.