0.695 - 2009-03-01

• Alpha versions of vPim agent (agent.octetcloud.com)

• Fixed: reminder app had drifted out of sync with API change

0.657 - 2008-08-14

• Date#to_time renamed to Date#vpim_to_time. Apparently Rails also patches the core.

• Debian doesn't like RFCs. I think there is a problem with the DFG, not the IETF. The value of a standard is that it can't be modified (if anybody could publish a modified version of an RFC without restriction chaos would ensue). Still, we lost that argument, and I'll try and help packagers out.

• View, gives various views of calendars. Experimental.

• Fixed doc comment refs to common Property module.

• Vtodo#duration and due now work correctly (the missing one will be calculated from the other).

• Vevent::Maker#add_rrule, set_rrule are new, using Rrule::Maker.

• There is now (half-of) an Rrule::Maker class to help construct RRULE values.

• Vjournal can be encoded now (it was broken).

• Better code coverage by the tests.

• Recurrence#occurrences now returns an Enumerator instead of an Rrule. Both have each, and both yield the same thing, so that isn't an API change. However, Rrule had an each_until, and the Enumerator doesn't. Use the dountil argument to occurrences to get the same effect. The asymetry of this API caused me (non-aesthetic) trouble, now Rrule is an internal implementation detail. Also, this would have had to change eventually, because occurrences need to be the union of multiple RRULE and RDATE fields.

• Recurrence#rrule, returns an Rrule for the first RRULE field. Can be used as transition.

• Icalendar#calscale was broken, and is now unit tested, along with version and protocol?.

• Icalendar#{each,events,todos,journals} all yield components, or return an enumerator.

• Icalendar is enumerable.

• Repo and Repo::Calendar are enumerable.

• occurrences will call Rrule#each if a block is provided

• Recurrence rules with DTSTART in UTC will now sortof work (thanks to Max Werner for providing the patch).

• Added convenience methods for setting and getting title and org fiels (thanks to Jade Meskill for providing the patch).

• Modified Icalendar#create2 so only prodid can be supplied and cal is yielded so events/etc. can be pushed.

• Support Highrisehq.com's broken google talk field (see test_vcard.rb for examples, thanks to Terry Tong for reporting).

0.619 - 2008-03-30

• Fixed some problems with rescue statements not being specific enough.

• Vcard#birthday may now return a DateTime.

• Added Vcard#urls

• Fixed a mispelled Uri in Vcard#url

• Global fix of misspellings of “occurrence”

• KAddressBook compatibility fix - allow / in field names, even though it is illegal in vCard 3.0.

0.604 - 2008-03-13

• Fixed a bug with lower-case UTF-16 encoded cards not being detected properly.

• Skip over invalidly encoded vCard fields when enumerating them.

0.602 - 2008-03-12

• Updated reminder utility to work with iCal 3.

• Reworked gem to include tests, samples, and binaries.

0.597 - 2008-03-01

• Support for BYSETPOS in recurrence rules (development supported by ZipDX.com)

• Support for FREQ=weekly in recurrence rules (development supported by ZipDX.com)

• Fixed an encode_text() bug (patch supplied by Jan Becvar)

• Fixed problem with interaction between BYMONTH and BYDAY (patch supplied by Sam Stephenson of 32signals.com)

• Vevent::Maker - Started adding high-level iCalendar encoding APIs

• Vpim::Vcard::Maker - the vCard maker is moved here

• Vpim::Maker - deprecated

• Vcard::make, Maker::Vcard#delete_if - new

• Vcard::Maker#add_name - deprecate, see Vcard::Maker#name

• Vcard::Maker#fullname= - deprecate, see Vcard::Maker#name

• Added high-level vCard decoding API.

• Beginning to depend on ruby1.8. I'm willing to try for backwards compat if I get feedback that this causes difficulties.

• Icalendar#components - new

• Icalendar#vevents - deprecated, see Icalendar#components

• split Vtodo and Vjournal into own files

• Added Recurrence module to Vtodo and Vjournal

• Property::Common#sequence - new

• Property::Common#attachments - new

• Icalendar::Attachment - new

• Maker::Vcard#add_url - new

• ex_mkyourown.rb - new example

• Modularized the component property accessor methods, and added lots of Icalendar property support for Vevent, Vtodo, and Vjournal.

• Fixed support for TEXT decoding.

• Use Subversion revision as release sub-version.

• It appears that a top-level vpim.rb that requires everything else is needed for ruby-gems, gemspec seems to work now.

• Don't package backup files (…/*.rb~).

• Icalendar decoding optimizations. Icalendar.decode is about twice as fast now, and more optimizations are scheduled.

• Continue the move to using uppercase for all syntactic elements that can be mixed case. The API might eventually allow only uppercase, it appears case-insensitive comparisons still have a noticeable effect on performance.

0.17 - 2006-03-08

• DirectoryInfo#delete - new

• Maker::Vcard#fullname - new

• Provide an example of how to create, copy, and modify version 2.1 vCards.

• Maker::Vcard.make2 - new

• Maker::Vcard.make - deprecated

• Profiled decoding of a huge iCalendar file. Performance appears to be dominated by overhead of String#downcase (20% of time spent in Field#name?). Keeping the field group, field name, and field's parameter's names internally in uppercase and using ruby 1.8's String#casecmp? is a first attempt at optimization. This is a change in the default case returned, but it aligns with the RFC and common usage.

• Maker::Vcard.make - full_name is now optional, it will be derived from name/N:

• Maker::Vcard#add_field - better argument checking

• Maker::Vcard#copy - new

• Vcard#[] - now limits return to fields with values

• Vcard#name - new

• Vcard::Name - new

• Vcard#nicknames - new

• Field#params and Field#param - deprecated and undocumented, I could never remember the difference

• Field#pnames - new

• Field#pvalues - new

• Methods.casecmp? - new

• Field#pref= - new

• Field#pvalue_idel - new

• Field#pvalue_iadd - new

0.16 - 2006-02-19

• Packaged in gem format, experimental.

• Read vCards in UTF-8 or UTF-16, big or little endian, with or without a byte order mark (BOM).

• Fixed bug with rrule occurences containing the end of the interval. Reported with patch by Brad Ediger.

0.15 - 2005-07-29

• Fixed bug with param values with quoted strings, particularly a quoted string containing a : character, like

  name;param="file:///":value

  Thanks to Tamiji Homma for reporting this and sending me an example calendar.

• Vtodo.create - new

• Icalendar#push - allow Vtodos to be added

  Thanks to Maximillian Dornseif for contributing the above two Vtodo patches.

• Vevent.duration - bug fixes so duration can be calculated from begin/end, and end can be calculated from begin/duration

• Vcard#nickname that strips whitespace to see if there really is a nickname

• Vcard#birthday - returns birthday as a date

• Vevent#create_yearly - easy, cheesy way to create yearly recurring events

• vcf-to-ics.rb: example of how to create calendars of bdays from vcards

• Icalendar.create() like Vevent.create(), it will take arrays of Fields, or Hashes of String => value.

• maker/vcard.rb: Added support for X-AIM, an Apple extension.

0.14 - 2005-02-01

• Fix: if an RRULE didn't ever yield an event (a bug in the rule) dountil was never tested.

• Change: don't throw an ArgumentError with infinite events, just stop when the Time is no longer representable

0.13 - 2005-01-20

• Was calling to_time with an arg, fixed.

0.12 - 2005-01-17

• Removed require of pp from the library and utilities where it wasn't needed, it was causing problems because it doesn't exist on ruby 1.6 systems.

• Added Field#to_date, returns field value as an array of Date objects

• Changed Field#to_time - it now auto-detects format of values (DATE/DATE-TIME), and doesn't take/require a default_kind argument.

• Added IMPP support to Vpim::Maker::Vcard.

• Makefile wasn't copying the Maker classes into the release.

• Duration value not returned unless it was negative, fixed.

• An RRULE's UNTIL was always being assumed to be a DATE-TIME, but it can be a DATE. I fixed this, but is something of a hack, see comments and TODO.

• Use String#scan instead of String#gsub, when appropriate (I didn't know it existed when I stated the project).

• Run tests on 3 ruby versions.

• Don't include docs in release package, it makes it way too large.

• Change: use String.unpack instead of iconv to convert UCS-2 to UTF-8, removing dependency on iconv (it wasn't standard in ruby 1.6).

• Change: simplified mutt_ab_query.rb, and renamed to vcf-to-mutt.

• Change: reminder.rb sorts todo items by priority.

• New: Vtodo#priority - the priority of the vTodo component.

0.11 - 2004-11-17

• Added a Vpim::Maker::Vcard class to simplify the creation of vCards, modelled after the RSS maker from ruby's RSS library.

0.10 - 2004-11-07

• If events don't have a recurrence rule, they occur once, but they were being returned even if they occurred after “dountil”. Fixed.

• New sample of converting tab-delimited files to a vcard file, from Dane G. Avilla. Thanks!

0.9a - 2004-10-31

• Made sure all events occur once in rrules.

• New sample of encoding: mutt-aliases-vcard.rb

• Added ToDo support to reminder.rb.

0.9 - 2004-06-17

• Field now is mutable, you can change the group, value, params, etc.

• Using the Enumerator object for DirectoryInfo now, instead of all the

each_by_X, and field_by_X() APIs.

• Moved homepage and docs to Ruby Forge.

• DirectoryInfo.create: added a profile argument

• DirectoryInfo#push: now pushes to 1 before the end

• DirectoryInfo#push_end: pushes onto end, in case you really want to

• Field.create: a Date or Time object value will now be encoded as date or time

• Vpim.encode_date(): encodes an RFC2425 date

• Vpim.encode_time(): encodes an RFC2425 time

• Vpim.encode_date_time(): encodes an RFC2425 date-time

• Icalendar#encode(): encodes an Icalendar

• Icalendar#push(): pushes a calendar component onto a calendar

• Vevent#accept(): accepts an event invitation

• Vevent#create(): creates a new event

• Address#copy(): create a copy of Address. If the original Address was frozen,

this one won't be.

• Address#partstat=(): set or change the PARTSTAT.

• Field#copy(): create a copy of Field. If the original Field was frozen, this

one won't be.

0.8 - 2004-04-01

• Moved DirectoryInfo::Field into it's own file, vpim/field.rb.

• New: Vpim::Duration - crude way of getting days/hours/mins/secs from a

duration in seconds.

• New: Icalendar#create() and Icalendar#create_reply()

• New: Icalendar#encode(), to_s is an alias to encode.

• New: Icalendar#protocol?()

• Change: Icalendar#version() raises an error if there is no VERSION

• Change: made all the DirectoryInfo, Vcard, and Field .new() class methods

private, and replaced with the 2 class methods:

- decode() decodes a string, returning a ruby object
- create() creates a new object

and all objects now get encoded using:

- encode() takes a ruby object, and encodes it as a string

They become more symetrical, and the overloaded meanings of .new() dissappear - with .new() are you decoding, encoding, creating…?

• Change: Icalendar::Vevent#attendees() can return only attendees

with a particular URI.

• New: Icalendar::Address#==()

• New: Icalendar::Vevent#attendee?()

• Fixed bug: Field#encode() was adding an unexpecte NL to the line.

• Change: Field#name?() can accept a symbol.

• New: DirectoryInfo has an each(), so I included Enumerable. Because of this

to_a() now returns all the Fields in a DirectoryInfo.

• New: DirectoryInfo#push() and DirectoryInfo().

• Change: DirectoryInfo#<<() is now an alias for DirectoryInfo#push()

• Change: DirectoryInfo#each() and DirectoryInfo#each_by() now return self

instead of nil, I think this is more rubyish.

• New: Date#to_time() - converts a Date, and maybe a DateTime, to a Time

• New: Icalendar#protocol()

• New: Icalendar::Address

• New: Icalendar::Vevent#organizer()/attendees(), which return an

Icalendar::Address

• New: An array of all the values of fields named name, converted to text,

using Field.to_text().

0.7 - 2004-03-21

• Bug fixes, not all files were requiring vpim.rb, which had the definition of

the invalid encoding error.

• Implemented much requested feature: ignore empty lines in input. This is an

invalid encoding, but I'm tired of fighting it.

0.6 - 2004-03-20

WARNING: major API renamings!

• Replaced the Vpim::Errors::*Error exception classes with a single exception

class: Vpim::InvalidEncodingError. That, and a message, is all I really need. I don't think people need different classes for different types of encoding errors, either the library can decode it for them, or it can't.

• Renamed project to “vpim” (to reflect vCard and vCalendar/iCalendar support),

renamed top-level Rfc2425 module to Vpim, split vard.rb into multiple files.

• Add support for iCalendar (RFC2445), see vpim/icalendar.rb. Currently only

supports VEVENT, no VTODO or VALARM yet, but is useable to print my upcoming iCal events.

• Implemented the iCalendar recurrence rules mini-language, which is possibly

of more general use than just for iCalendar.

• Fixed bug in time decoding where usec would be nil instead of zero when no

usec were present in the time value.

• Field#to_time now assumes that time is in local time, unless the timezone is

“Z”, meaning UTC.

• Field#to_text - new method, unescapes newlines, commas, and escape

characters.

• Field#field(name) - new method, returns the first field named name.

0.5 - 3003-11-23

• ab-query.rb - short option for –me was mistyped as -v, instead of -m.

• mutt_ab_query.rb - added a –pipe option, so that the output of an other

script can be directly queried.

• New method: Rfc2425.version

• Decode vCard 2.1 abbreviated parameters (ones where the name of the parameter

is missing, only the value is present, which only works for type and encoding).

• Vcard.decode() now support UCS-2 encoded vCards, by translating anything that

looks like UCS-2 to UTF-8 before decoding.

0.4 - 2003-04-14

• More support for decoding date, time, and date-time values.

• New method Field#to_time().

• Can pass an IO object to decode APIs, its entire contents is read as a

string.

• Field#group?() now considers nil as equivalent to no group, so you can use

each_group(nil) to iterate through all fields without a group.

0.3 -

• Added description of how to use mutt_ab_query.rb

• Added support for querying the kind of a value, and began support for

decoding date and time values.

0.2 -

• Supports encoding.

• Supports accessing values using [].

• No longer have methods return an Array, or nil if the array is zero length, I

just return an Array.

• mutt_ab_query.rb - an example of using vcard.rb to do lookups in the OS X

Address Book from Mutt

0.1 -

• First release.

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