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Mechanize v2.6.0 Release Notes

    • 🆕 New Features

      • Mechanize#start and Mechanize#shutdown (Thanks, Damian Janowski!)
      • Added Mechanize::Agent#allowed_error_codes for setting an Array of status codes which should not raise an error. #248 Laurence Rowe.
      • Added File.save! for overwriting existing files #219.
      • DirectorySaver::save_to now accepts an option to decode filename. #262
      • element(s)_with methods now accept a :search option for doing xpath/css selector searching. #287 Philippe Bourgau
      • Added httponly option for Mechanize::Cookie #242 by Paolo Perego.
      • Added Mechanize::XmlFile as a default pluggable parser for handling XML responses. #289

    • Minor enhancements

      • Added Mechanize::Download#save_as as an alias to #save. #246
      • Fix documentation for Mechanize::Page element matchers. #269
      • Added Mechanize::Form::Field#raw_value for fetching a fields value before it's sent through Mechanize::Util.html_unescape. #283
      • Added iPad and Android user agents. #277 by sambit, #278 by seansay.

    • 🐛 Bug fix

      • Mechanize#cert and Mechanize#key now return the values set by #cert= and #key=. #244, #245 (Thanks, Robert Gogolok!)
      • Mechanize no longer submits disabled form fields. #276 by Bogdan Gusiev, #279 by Ricardo Valeriano.
      • Mechanize::File#save now behaves like Mechanize::Download#save in that it will create the parent directory before saving. #272, #280 by Ryan Kowalick
      • Ensure application/xml is registered as an XML parser in PluggableParser, not just text/xml. #266 James Gregory
      • Mechanize now writes cookiestxt with a prefixed dot for wildcard domain handling. #295 by Mike Morearty.