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jaro_winkler v1.5.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2017-10-02 // over 6 years ago

  • 🐛 Bug Fixes

    • 🆓 free codepoints before returning to prevent memory leak (8babd4f)
    • ✂ remove module functions from JaroWinkler (af249d5)

    🔋 Features

    • support encodings other than utf-8 (fe72ab4), closes #7
    • 👌 support rubinius (27090ff)

    🐎 Performance Improvements

    The C implementation is 25% faster than that of v1.4.0.

    • ⚡️ optimize single byte codepoints computation (e0cdd51)

    💥 BREAKING CHANGES

    • 👍 JaroWinkler no longer supports mixin, use class methods instead, ex. JaroWinkler.distance