NEWS

Version 0.5.0 (2024-03-27)

Improvements

• Allow case-insensitive strings for SASL mechanism https://github.com/ruby/net-smtp/pull/64
• Make #auth_capable? public https://github.com/ruby/net-smtp/pull/63
• Add XOAUTH2 authenticator https://github.com/ruby/net-smtp/pull/80

Others

• Remove unused private auth_method https://github.com/ruby/net-smtp/pull/67
• Delegate checking auth args to the authenticator https://github.com/ruby/net-smtp/pull/73
• Updated docs, especially TLS and SASL-related https://github.com/ruby/net-smtp/pull/66
• Renew test certificates https://github.com/ruby/net-smtp/pull/75
• Fix version extraction to work with non ASCII characters with any LANG https://github.com/ruby/net-smtp/pull/76
• Replace non-ASCII EM DASH (U+2014) with ASCII hyphen (U+002D) https://github.com/ruby/net-smtp/pull/78
• Use reusing workflow for Ruby versions https://github.com/ruby/net-smtp/pull/79
• Make the test suite compatible with --enable-frozen-string-literal https://github.com/ruby/net-smtp/pull/81

Version 0.4.0 (2023-09-20)

Improvements

• add Net::SMTP::Authenticator class and auth_* methods are separated from the ::Net::SMTP class. https://github.com/ruby/net-smtp/pull/53 This allows you to add a new authentication method to Net::SMTP. Create a class with an auth method that inherits Net::SMTP::Authenticator. The auth method has two arguments, user and secret. Send an instruction to the SMTP server by using the continue or finish method. For more information, see lib/net/smtp/auto _*.rb.
• Add SMTPUTF8 support https://github.com/ruby/net-smtp/pull/49

Fixes

• Revert "Replace Timeout.timeout with socket timeout" https://github.com/ruby/net-smtp/pull/51
• Fixed issue sending emails to unaffected recipients on 53x error https://github.com/ruby/net-smtp/pull/56

Others

• Removed unnecessary Subversion keywords https://github.com/ruby/net-smtp/pull/57

Version 0.3.3 (2022-10-29)

• No timeout library required https://github.com/ruby/net-smtp/pull/44
• Make the digest library optional https://github.com/ruby/net-smtp/pull/45

Version 0.3.2 (2022-09-28)

• Make exception API compatible with what Ruby expects https://github.com/ruby/net-smtp/pull/42

Version 0.3.1 (2021-12-12)

Improvements

• add Net::SMTP::Address.
• add Net::SMTP#capable? and Net::SMTP#capabilities.
• add Net::SMTP#tls_verify, Net::SMTP#tls_hostname, Net::SMTP#ssl_context_params

Version 0.3.0 (2021-10-14)

Improvements

• Add tls, starttls keyword arguments.

  # always use TLS connection for port 465.
  Net::SMTP.start(hostname, 465, tls: true)
  
  # do not use starttls for localhost
  Net::SMTP.start('localhost', starttls: false)

Incompatible changes

• The tls_* paramter has been moved from start() to initialize().

Version 0.2.2 (2021-10-09)

• Add response to SMTPError exceptions.
• Net::SMTP.start() and #start() accepts ssl_context_params keyword argument.
• Replace Timeout.timeout with socket timeout.
• Remove needless files from gem.
• Add dependency on digest, timeout.

Version 0.2.1 (2020-11-18)

Fixes

• Update the license for the default gems to dual licenses.
• Add dependency for net-protocol.

Version 0.2.0 (2020-11-15)

Incompatible changes

• Verify the server's certificate by default. If you don't want verification, specify start(tls_verify: false). https://github.com/ruby/net-smtp/pull/12

• Use STARTTLS by default if possible. If you don't want starttls, specify:

  smtp = Net::SMTP.new(hostname, port)
  smtp.disable_starttls
  smtp.start do |s|
    s.send_message ....
  end

  https://github.com/ruby/net-smtp/pull/9

Improvements

• ::Net::SMTP.start and Net::SMTP#start arguments are keyword arguments.

  start(address, port = nil, helo: 'localhost', user: nil, secret: nil, authtype: nil) { |smtp| ... }

  password is an alias of secret. https://github.com/ruby/net-smtp/pull/7

• Add tls_hostname parameter to start(). If you want to use a different hostname than the certificate for the connection, you can specify the certificate hostname with tls_hostname. https://github.com/ruby/net-smtp/pull/14

• Add SNI support to net/smtp https://github.com/ruby/net-smtp/pull/4

Fixes

• enable_starttls before disable_tls causes an error. https://github.com/ruby/net-smtp/pull/10
• TLS should not check the hostname when verify_mode is disabled. https://github.com/ruby/net-smtp/pull/6

Version 0.1.0 (2019-12-03)

This is the first release of net-smtp gem.