ruby/NEWS

# -*- rdoc -*-

= NEWS for Ruby 2.5.0

This document is a list of user visible feature changes made between
releases 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. <tt>https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/$FEATURE_OR_BUG_NUMBER</tt>)

== Changes since the 2.4.0 release

=== Language changes

* Top-level constant look-up is removed.  [Feature #11547]

* rescue/else/ensure are allowed inside do/end blocks.  [Feature #12906]

* refinements take place in string interpolations.  [Feature #13812]

=== Core classes updates (outstanding ones only)

* Array

  * New methods:

    * Array#append  [Feature #12746]
    * Array#prepend  [Feature #12746]

* Data

  * Is deprecated. It was a base class for C extensions, and it's not
    necessary to expose in Ruby level. [Feature #3072]

* Exception

  * New methods:

    * Exception#full_message to retrieve a String expression of an exception,
      formatted in the same way with that Ruby prints an uncaught exception out.
      [Feature #14141] [experimental]

* Dir

  * Dir.glob provides new optional keyword argument, :base.
    [Feature #13056]

  * New methods:

    * Dir.children  [Feature #11302]
    * Dir.each_child  [Feature #11302]

* Enumerable

  * Enumerable#{any?,all?,none?,one?} accept a pattern argument [Feature #11286]

* File

  * File.open accepts :newline option to imply text mode.  [Bug #13350]
  * File#path raises an IOError for files opened with
    File::Constants::TMPFILE option. [Feature #13568]
  * File.stat, File.exist?, and other rb_stat()-using methods release GVL
    [Bug #13941]
  * File.rename releases GVL [Feature #13951]
  * File::Stat#{atime,mtime,ctime} support fractional second timestamps on
    Windows 8 and later  [Feature #13726]
  * File::Stat.ino and File.indentical? supports ReFS 128bit ino on Windows 8.1
    and later  [Feature #13731]

  * New method:

    * File.lutime  [Feature #4052]

* Hash

  * New methods:

    * Hash#transform_keys  [Feature #13583]
    * Hash#transform_keys!  [Feature #13583]
    * Hash#slice  [Feature #8499]

* IO

  * New methods:

    * IO#pread  [Feature #4532]
    * IO#pwrite  [Feature #4532]
    * IO#copy_stream tries copy offload with copy_file_range(2) [Feature #13867]
    * IO#write accepts multiple arguments  [Feature #9323]

* IOError

  * IO#close might raise an error with message "stream closed",
    but it is refined to "stream closed in another thread". The new message
    is more clear for user.
    [Bug #13405]

* Integer

  * Integer#step wrongly hid errors from coerce method, when
    a given step value which cannot be compared with #> to 0.
    [Feature #7688]
  * Integer#{round,floor,ceil,truncate} always return an Integer.
    [Bug #13420]
  * Integer#pow accepts modulo argument for calculating modular
    exponentiation.  [Feature #12508] [Feature #11003]

  * New methods:

    * Integer#allbits?, Integer#anybits?, Integer#nobits? [Feature #12753]
    * Integer.sqrt  [Feature #13219]

* Kernel

  * Kernel#yield_self   [Feature #6721]
  * Kernel#pp  [Feature #14123]
  * Kernel#warn(..., uplevel:n)  [Feature #12882]

* Method

  * New methods:

    * Method#=== that invokes Method#call, as same as Proc#=== [Feature #14142]

* Module

  * Module#{attr,attr_accessor,attr_reader,attr_writer} become public [Feature #14132]
  * Module#{define_method,alias_method,undef_method,remove_method} become public [Feature #14133]

* Numeric

  * Numerical comparison operators (<,<=,>=,>) no longer hide exceptions
    from #coerce method internally. Return nil in #coerce if the coercion is
    impossible.  [Feature #7688]

* Process

  * Precision of Process.times is improved if getrusage(2) exists. [Feature #11952]

  * New method:

    * Process.last_status as a alias of $? [Feature #14043]

* Range
  * Range#initialize no longer hide exceptions when comparing begin and
    end with #<=> and raise a "bad value for range" ArgumentError
    but instead let the exception from the #<=> call go through.
    [Feature #7688]

* Regexp

  * Updated to Onigmo 6.1.3-669ac9997619954c298da971fcfacccf36909d05.

    * Support absent operator https://github.com/k-takata/Onigmo/issues/82

  * Support new 5 emoji-related Unicode character properties

* String

  * String#-@ deduplicates unfrozen strings.  Already-frozen
    strings remain unchanged for compatibility.  [Feature #13077]
  * -"literal" (String#-@) optimized to return the same object
    (same as "literal".freeze in Ruby 2.1+) [Feature #13295]
  * String#{casecmp,casecmp?} return nil for non-string arguments
    instead of raising a TypeError. [Bug #13312]
  * String#start_with? accepts a regexp [Feature #13712]

  * New methods:

    * String#delete_prefix, String#delete_prefix! [Feature #12694]
    * String#delete_suffix, String#delete_suffix! [Feature #13665]
    * String#each_grapheme_cluster and String#grapheme_clusters to
      enumerate grapheme clusters [Feature #13780]

* Struct

  * Struct.new takes `keyword_init: true` option to initialize members
    with keyword arguments. [Feature #11925]

* Regexp/String: Update Unicode version from 9.0.0 to 10.0.0 [Feature #13685]

* Thread

  * Description set by Thread#name= is now visible on Windows 10.

  * New method:
    * Thread#fetch  [Feature #13009]

* Time

  * Time#at receives 3rd argument which specifies the unit of 2nd argument.
    [Feature #13919]

* KeyError

  * New methods:

    * KeyError#receiver [Feature #12063]
    * KeyError#key      [Feature #12063]

* FrozenError

  * New exception class. [Feature #13224]

=== Stdlib updates (outstanding ones only)

* Bundler

  * Add Bundler to Standard Library. [Feature #12733]

* Coverage

  * Support branch coverage and method coverage [Feature #13901]

* DRb

  * ACL::ACLEntry.new no longer suppresses IPAddr::InvalidPrefixError.

* ERB

  * Add ERB#result_with_hash to render a template with local variables passed
    with a Hash object. [Feature #8631]
  * Default template file encoding is changed from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 in erb
    command. [Bug #14095]

  * Carriage returns are changed to be trimmed properly if trim_mode is specified
    and used. Duplicated newlines will be removed on Windows. [Bug #5339] [Bug #11464]

* IPAddr

  * IPAddr no longer accepts invalid address mask. [Bug #13399]
  * IPAddr#{ipv4_compat,ipv4_compat?} are marked for deprecation. [Bug #13769]

  * New methods:

    * IPAddr#prefix
    * IPAddr#loopback?
    * IPAddr#private? [Feature #11666]
    * IPAddr#link_local? [Feature #10912]


* IRB

  * `binding.irb` automatically requires irb and runs [Bug #13099] [experimental]
  * `binding.irb` show source around a line called `binding.irb` on
    its start [Feature #14124]

* Matrix

  * New methods:

    * Matrix.combine and Matrix#combine [Feature #10903]
    * Matrix#{hadamard_product,entrywise_product}

* Net::HTTP

  * Net::HTTP.new supports no_proxy parameter [Feature #11195]
  * Net::HTTP#{min_version,max_version}, [Feature #9450]
  * Add more HTTP status classes
  * Net::HTTP::STATUS_CODES is added as HTTP Status Code Repository [Misc #12935]
  * Net::HTTP#{proxy_user,proxy_pass} reflects http_proxy environment variable
    if the system's environment variable is multiuser safe. [Bug #12921]

* Pathname

  * New method:

    * Pathname#glob [Feature #7360]

* Psych

  * Updated to Psych 3.0.0.

    * Add :symbolize_names option to Psych.load, Psych.safe_load like JSON.parse
      https://github.com/ruby/psych/pull/333, https://github.com/ruby/psych/pull/337
    * Add Psych::Handler#event_location
      https://github.com/ruby/psych/pull/326
    * Make frozen string literal = true
      https://github.com/ruby/psych/pull/320
    * Preserve time zone offset when deserializing times
      https://github.com/ruby/psych/pull/316
    * Remove deprecated method aliases for syck gem
      https://github.com/ruby/psych/pull/312

* RbConfig

  * RbConfig::LIMITS is added to provide the limits of C types.
    This is available when rbconfig/sizeof is loaded.

* Ripper

  * Ripper::EXPR_BEG and so on for Ripper#state.

  * New method:

    * Ripper#state to tell the state of scanner. [Feature #13686]

* RDoc

  * Update to RDoc 6.0.0.beta3.
    * Replaced IRB based lexer with Ripper. It much improves the speed of generating document.
    * https://github.com/ruby/rdoc/pull/512

* Rubygems

  * Update to Rubygems 2.7.0.
    * http://blog.rubygems.org/2017/11/01/2.7.0-released.html
    * http://blog.rubygems.org/2017/08/27/2.6.13-released.html
    * http://blog.rubygems.org/2017/10/09/unsafe-object-deserialization-vulnerability.html

* SecureRandom

  * New method:

    * SecureRandom.alphanumeric

* Set

  * New methods:

    * Set#to_s as alias to #inspect [Feature #13676]
    * Set#=== as alias to #include? [Feature #13801]
    * Set#reset [Feature #6589]

* StringIO

  * StringIO#write accepts multiple arguments

* StringScanner

  * New methods:

    * StringScanner#size, StringScanner#captures, StringScanner#values_at  [Feature #836]

* WEBrick

  * Add Server Name Indication (SNI) support [Feature #13729]

* Zlib

  * Zlib::GzipWriter#write accepts multiple arguments

=== Compatibility issues (excluding feature bug fixes)

* Socket

  * BasicSocket#read_nonblock and BasicSocket#write_nonblock no
    longer sets the O_NONBLOCK file description flag as side effect
    (on Linux only) [Feature #13362]

* Random

  * Random.raw_seed renamed to become Random.urandom.  It is now
    applicable to non-seeding purposes due to [Bug #9569].

* Socket

  * Socket::Ifaddr#vhid is added [Feature #13803]

* ConditionVariable, Queue and SizedQueue reimplemented for speed.
  They no longer subclass Struct. [Feature #13552]

=== Stdlib compatibility issues (excluding feature bug fixes)

* Net::HTTP

  * Net::HTTP#start now pass :ENV to p_addr by default. [Bug #13351]
    To avoid this, pass nil explicitly.

* mathn.rb

  * Removed from stdlib. [Feature #10169]

* Rubygems

  * Removed "ubygems.rb" file from stdlib. It's needless since Ruby 1.9.

=== C API updates

=== Supported platform changes

* Drop support of NaCl platform

  * https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=239656#c160

=== Implementation improvements

* (This might not be a "user visible feature change" but) Hash class's
  hash function is now SipHash13. [Feature #13017]

* SecureRandom now prefers OS-provided sources than OpenSSL. [Bug #9569]

* Mutex rewritten to be smaller and faster [Feature #13517]

* Performance of block passing using block parameters is improved by
  lazy Proc allocation [Feature #14045]

* Dynamic instrumentation for TracePoint hooks instead of using "trace"
  instruction to avoid overhead [Feature #14104]

=== Miscellaneous changes

* Print backtrace and error message in reverse order if STDERR is unchanged and a tty.
  [Feature #8661] [experimental]

* Print error message in bold/underlined text if STDERR is unchanged and a tty.
  [Feature #14140] [experimental]

* configure option --with-ext now mandates its arguments.  So for
  instance if you run ./configure --with-ext=openssl,+ then the
  openssl library is guaranteed compiled, otherwise the build fails
  abnormally.

  Note however to always add the ",+" at the end of the argument.
  Otherwise nothing but openssl are built.  [Feature #13302]