The minitar library is a pure-Ruby library that provides the ability to deal with POSIX tar(1) archive files. This is release 0.12. This is likely the last revision before 1.0. minitar (previously called Archive::Tar::Minitar) is based heavily on code originally written by Mauricio Julio Fernández Pradier for the rpa-base project.

Text::Hyphen is a Ruby library to hyphenate words in various languages using Ruby-fied versions of TeX hyphenation patterns. It will properly hyphenate various words according to the rules of the language the word is written in. The algorithm is based on that of the TeX typesetting system by Donald E. Knuth. This is originally based on the Perl implementation of [TeX::Hyphen][] and the [Ruby port][]. The language hyphenation pattern files are based on the sources available from [CTAN][] as of 2004.12.19 and have been manually translated by Austin Ziegler. This is a small feature release adding Russian language support and fixing a bug in the custom hyphen support introduced last version. This release provides both Ruby 1.8.7 and Ruby 1.9.2 support (but please read below). In short, Ruby 1.8 support is deprecated and I will not be providing any bug fixes related to Ruby 1.8. New features will be developed and tested against Ruby 1.9 only.

<tt>minitar-cli</tt> is a pure-Ruby command-line tool that uses {minitar}[https://github.com/halostatue/minitar] to provide a command-line tool, +minitar+, for working with POSIX tar(1) archive files.

{Marlowe}[https://github.com/KineticCafe/marlowe] is a Rack middleware that extracts or creates a request ID using a pre-defined header, permitting request correlation across multiple services. When using Rails, Marlowe automatically adds itself to the middleware before <tt>Rails::Rack::Logger</tt>. As of Marlowe 3.0, a Faraday middleware is provided (<tt>require 'marlowe/faraday'</tt>).

AppIdentity is a Ruby implementation of the Kinetic Commerce application identity proof algorithm as described in its [spec][].

This release is the *last* version of cartage-rack. It will be replaced with a different tool in the future, but this release will allow installation in modern Ruby versions. cartage-rack is a plug-in for {cartage}[https://github.com/KineticCafe/cartage] to provide a Rack application that reports on release metadata. Cartage provides a repeatable means to create a package for a Rails application that can be used in deployment with a configuration tool like Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or Salt. The package is created with its dependencies bundled in +vendor/bundle+, so it can be deployed in environments with strict access control rules and without requiring development tool access.