4.4.2 (2025-11-20)

• Optimise encoding in the default case.

4.4.1 (2025-11-19)

• Restore support for some older unsupported Ruby versions (down to 2.7).

4.4.0 (2025-11-17)

• Make a few small optimisations.

• Allow decoding of entities without semicolons at end of line.

• Remove support for old unsupported Ruby versions (below 3.2).

4.3.4 (2015-07-05)

• Remove erroneous ‘Iodot’ entity (a typo’d duplicate of Idot).

4.3.3 (2014-12-25)

• Remove duplicate hash entry that causes warnings in Ruby 2.2.0.

4.3.2 (2014-05-31)

• Ruby 1.8 is no longer supported

4.3.1 (2011-11-30)

• Fix bug when working with Rails 3/Ruby 1.8.7

• Make character encoding behaviour consistent in Ruby 1.9.2/1.9.3

4.3.0 (2011-03-29)

• Use Ruby 1.9’s encoding support where available.

• Deprecated HTMLEntities.encode_entities/decode_entities interface is now removed.

4.2.4 (2011-01-30)

• Fix issue where double-escaped entities were not correctly escaped. Bug reported by Christian Kruse.

4.2.3 (2011-01-07)

• Additional entities from Junya Ishihara.

• Performance improvements.

4.2.1 (2010-04-05)

• Fixed error on Ruby 1.8.x when $KCODE was not set to “UTF8”. Thanks to Benoit Larroque for the bug report.

4.2.0 (2009-08-24)

• Added benchmarking code and improved performance.

4.1.0 (2009-08-15)

• Now works with Ruby 1.9.1 and JRuby.

• Reverted lazy loading of entity mappings as this is not thread-safe.

• Finally removed the deprecated String#encode_entities and decode_entities methods.

4.0.1 (2008-06-03)

• Added :expanded charset – the ~1000 SGML entities from ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MISC/SGML.TXT (extra code by Philip (flip) Kromer <flip@infochimps.org>, entity info from John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> #)

4.0.0 (2007-03-15)

• New instantiation-based interface (but legacy interface is preserved for compatibility.

• Handles HTML4 as well as XHTML1 (the former lacks the &apos; entity).

• Encodes basic entities numerically when :basic isn’t specified and :decimal or :hexadecimal is.

• Performs a maximum of two gsub passes instead of three when encoding, which should be more efficient on long strings.

3.1.0 (2007-01-19)

• Now understands all the entities referred to in the XHTML 1.0 DTD (253 entities compared with 131 in version 3.0.1).

• Calls to_s on parameters to play nicely with Rails 1.2.1.

• Entity mapping data is now lazily loaded.

3.0.1 (2005-04-08)

• Improved documentation.

3.0.0 (2005-04-08)

• Changed licence to MIT due to confusion with previous ‘Fair’ licence (my intention was to be liberal, not obscure).

• Moved basic functionality out of String class; for previous behaviour, require ‘htmlentities/string’.

• Changed version numbering scheme.

• Now available as a Gem.

2.2 (2005-11-07)

• Important bug fixes – thanks to Moonwolf.

• Decoding hexadecimal entities now accepts ‘f’ as a hex digit. (D’oh!)

• Decimal decoding edge cases addressed.

• Test cases added.

2.1 (2005-10-31)

• Removed some unnecessary code in basic entity encoding.

• Improved handling of encoding: commands are now automatically sorted, so the user doesn’t have to worry about their order.

• Now using setup.rb.

• Tests moved to separate file.

2.0 (2005-08-23)

• Added encoding to entities.

• Decoding interface unchanged.

• Fixed a bug with handling high codepoints.

1.0 (2005-08-03)

• Initial release.

• Decoding only.