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REXML 3.4.2 - 2025-08-26

Improvement

• Improved performance.

  • GH-244
  • GH-245
  • GH-246
  • GH-249
  • GH-256
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun

• Raise appropriate exception when failing to match start tag in DOCTYPE

  • GH-247
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun

• Deprecate accepting array as an element in XPath.match, first and each

  • GH-252
  • Patch by tomoya ishida

• Don't call needless encoding_updated

  • GH-259
  • Patch by Sutou Kouhei

• Reuse XPath::match

  • GH-263
  • Patch by pboling

• Cache redundant calls for doctype

  • GH-264
  • Patch by pboling

• Use Safe Navigation (&.) from Ruby 2.3

  • GH-265
  • Patch by pboling

• Remove redundant return statements

  • GH-266
  • Patch by pboling

• Added XML declaration check & Source#skip_spaces method

  • GH-282
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun
  • Reported by Sofi Aberegg

Fixes

• Fix docs typo
  • GH-248
  • Patch by James Coleman

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Sourced from rexml's changelog.

3.4.2 - 2025-08-26 {#version-3-4-2}

Improvement

• Improved performance.

  • GH-244
  • GH-245
  • GH-246
  • GH-249
  • GH-256
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun

• Raise appropriate exception when failing to match start tag in DOCTYPE

  • GH-247
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun

• Deprecate accepting array as an element in XPath.match, first and each

  • GH-252
  • Patch by tomoya ishida

• Don't call needless encoding_updated

  • GH-259
  • Patch by Sutou Kouhei

• Reuse XPath::match

  • GH-263
  • Patch by pboling

• Cache redundant calls for doctype

  • GH-264
  • Patch by pboling

• Use Safe Navigation (&.) from Ruby 2.3

  • GH-265
  • Patch by pboling

• Remove redundant return statements

  • GH-266
  • Patch by pboling

• Added XML declaration check & Source#skip_spaces method

  • GH-282
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun
  • Reported by Sofi Aberegg

Fixes

• Fix docs typo
  • GH-248
  • Patch by James Coleman

... (truncated)

• f36916f Add 3.4.2 entry (#284)
• 5859bde Added XML declaration check & Source#skip_spaces method (#282)
• 1d876e3 Bump actions/checkout from 4 to 5 (#283)
• c87bda8 Remove ostruct from dev deps (#281)
• c60ae02 Remove bundler from dev deps (#277)
• 9b084d7 Fix & Deprecate REXML::Text#text_indent (#275)
• 04a589a Fix a bug that XPath can't be used for no document element (#268)
• 66232ea Remove redundant return statements (#266)
• 63f3e97 Use Safe Navigation (&.) from Ruby 2.3 (#265)
• d427fc5 Avoid redundant calls for doctype (#264)
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