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NEWS for Ruby 2.8.0 (tentative; to be 3.0.0)
This document is a list of user visible feature changes since the 2.7.0 release, except for bug fixes.
Note that each entry is kept so brief that no reason behind or reference
information is supplied with. For a full list of changes with all
sufficient information, see the ChangeLog file or Redmine
(e.g. https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/$FEATURE_OR_BUG_NUMBER
).
Language changes
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Keyword arguments are now separated from positional arguments. Code that resulted in deprecation warnings in Ruby 2.7 will now result in ArgumentError or different behavior. [Feature #14183]
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Procs accepting a single rest argument and keywords are no longer subject to autosplatting. This now matches the behavior of Procs accepting a single rest argument and no keywords. [Feature #16166]
pr = proc{|*a, **kw| [a, kw]} pr.call([1]) # 2.7 => [[1], {}] # 3.0 => [[[1]], {}] pr.call([1, {a: 1}]) # 2.7 => [[1], {:a=>1}] # and deprecation warning # 3.0 => [[[1, {:a=>1}]], {}]
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$SAFE is now a normal global variable with no special behavior. [Feature #16131]
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yield in singleton class definitions in methods is now a SyntaxError instead of a warning. yield in a class definition outside of a method is now a SyntaxError instead of a LocalJumpError. [Feature #15575]
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Rightward assignment statement is added. [EXPERIMENTAL] [Feature #15921]
fib(10) => x
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Endless method definition is added. [EXPERIMENTAL] [Feature #16746]
def square(x) = x * x
Command line options
--help
option
When the environment variable RUBY_PAGER
or PAGER
is present and has
non-empty value, and the standard input and output are tty, --help
option shows the help message via the pager designated by the value.
[Feature #16754]
Core classes updates
Outstanding ones only.
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Dir
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Modified method
- Dir.glob and Dir.[] now sort the results by default, and
accept
sort:
keyword option. [Feature #8709]
- Dir.glob and Dir.[] now sort the results by default, and
accept
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Hash
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Modified method
- Hash#transform_keys now accepts a hash that maps keys to new keys. [Feature #16274]
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Kernel
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Modified method
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Kernel#clone when called with
freeze: false
keyword will call #initialize_clone with thefreeze: false
keyword. [Bug #14266] -
Kernel#eval when called with two arguments will use "(eval)" for
__FILE__
and 1 for__LINE__
in the evaluated code. [Bug #4352]
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Module
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Modified method
- Module#include now includes the arguments in modules and classes that have already included or prepended the receiver, mirroring the behavior if the arguments were included in the receiver before the other modules and classes included or prepended the receiver. [Feature #9573]
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Symbol
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Modified method
- Symbol#to_proc now returns a lambda Proc. [Feature #16260]
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GC
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Modified method
- GC.start now takes an option
compact: true
to compact the heap. For exampleGC.start(compact: true)
will have the same effect asGC.compact
.
- GC.start now takes an option
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Stdlib updates
Outstanding ones only.
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RubyGems
- Update to RubyGems 3.2.0.pre1
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Bundler
- Update to Bundler 2.2.0.dev
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Net::HTTP
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New method
- Add Net::HTTP#verify_hostname= and Net::HTTP#verify_hostname to skip hostname verification. [Feature #16555]
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Modified method
- Net::HTTP.get, Net::HTTP.get_response, and Net::HTTP.get_print can take request headers as a Hash in the second argument when the first argument is a URI.
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Compatibility issues
Excluding feature bug fixes.
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Regexp literals are frozen [Feature #8948] [Feature #16377]
/foo/.frozen? #=> true
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Bundled gems
- net-telnet and xmlrpc have been removed from the bundled gems. If you are interested in maintaining them, please comment on your plan to https://github.com/ruby/xmlrpc or https://github.com/ruby/net-telnet.
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EXPERIMENTAL: Hash#each consistently yields a 2-element array [Bug #12706]
- Now
{ a: 1 }.each(&->(k, v) { })
raises an ArgumentError due to lambda's arity check. - This is experimental; if it brings a big incompatibility issue, it may be reverted until 2.8/3.0 release.
- Now
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When writing to STDOUT redirected to a closed pipe, no broken pipe error message will be shown now. [Feature #14413]
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TRUE
/FALSE
/NIL
constants are no longer defined.
Stdlib compatibility issues
Excluding feature bug fixes.
C API updates
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C API functions related to $SAFE have been removed. [Feature #16131]
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C API header file
ruby/ruby.h
was split. [GH-2991] Should have no impact on extension libraries, but users might experience slow compilations.
Implementation improvements
- The number of hashes allocated when using a keyword splat in a method call has been reduced to a maximum of 1, and passing a keyword splat to a method that accepts specific keywords does not allocate a hash.
Miscellaneous changes
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Methods using
ruby2_keywords
will no longer keep empty keyword splats, those are now removed just as they are for methods not usingruby2_keywords
. -
Taint deprecation warnings are now issued in regular mode in addition to verbose warning mode. [Feature #16131]
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When an exception is caught in the default handler, the error message and backtrace are printed in order from the innermost. [Feature #8661]