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NEWS for Ruby 3.2.0
This document is a list of user-visible feature changes since the 3.1.0 release, except for bug fixes.
Note that each entry is kept to a minimum, see links for details.
Language changes
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Anonymous rest and keyword rest arguments can now be passed as arguments, instead of just used in method parameters. [Feature #18351]
def foo(*) bar(*) end def baz(**) quux(**) end
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A proc that accepts a single positional argument and keywords will no longer autosplat. [Bug #18633]
proc{|a, **k| a}.call([1, 2]) # Ruby 3.1 and before # => 1 # Ruby 3.2 and after # => [1, 2]
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Constant assignment evaluation order for constants set on explicit objects has been made consistent with single attribute assignment evaluation order. With this code:
foo::BAR = baz
foo
is now called beforebaz
. Similarly, for multiple assignments to constants, left-to-right evaluation order is used. With this code:foo1::BAR1, foo2::BAR2 = baz1, baz2
The following evaluation order is now used:
foo1
foo2
baz1
baz2
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"Find pattern" is no longer experimental. [Feature #18585]
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Methods taking a rest parameter (like
*args
) and wishing to delegate keyword arguments throughfoo(*args)
must now be marked withruby2_keywords
(if not already the case). In other words, all methods wishing to delegate keyword arguments through*args
must now be marked withruby2_keywords
, with no exception. This will make it easier to transition to other ways of delegation once a library can require Ruby 3+. Previously, theruby2_keywords
flag was kept if the receiving method took*args
, but this was a bug and an inconsistency. A good technique to find the potentially-missingruby2_keywords
is to run the test suite, for where it fails find the last method which must receive keyword arguments, useputs nil, caller, nil
there, and check each method/block on the call chain which must delegate keywords is correctly marked asruby2_keywords
. [Bug #18625] [Bug #16466]def target(**kw) end # Accidentally worked without ruby2_keywords in Ruby 2.7-3.1, ruby2_keywords # needed in 3.2+. Just like (*args, **kwargs) or (...) would be needed on # both #foo and #bar when migrating away from ruby2_keywords. ruby2_keywords def bar(*args) target(*args) end ruby2_keywords def foo(*args) bar(*args) end foo(k: 1)
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eval
and related methods are able to generate code coverage. Enabled usingCoverage.setup(:all)
orCoverge.setup(eval: true)
. [Feature #19008] -
Coverage.supported?(mode)
enables detection of what coverage modes are supported. [Feature #19026]
Command line options
Core classes updates
Note: We're only listing outstanding class updates.
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Fiber
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Introduce Fiber.[] and Fiber.[]= for inheritable fiber storage. Introduce Fiber#storage and Fiber#storage= (experimental) for getting and resetting the current storage. Introduce
Fiber.new(storage:)
for setting the storage when creating a fiber. [Feature #19078]Existing Thread and Fiber local variables can be tricky to use. Thread local variables are shared between all fibers, making it hard to isolate, while Fiber local variables can be hard to share. It is often desirable to define unit of execution ("execution context") such that some state is shared between all fibers and threads created in that context. This is what Fiber storage provides.
def log(message) puts "#{Fiber[:request_id]}: #{message}" end def handle_requests while request = read_request Fiber.schedule do Fiber[:request_id] = SecureRandom.uuid request.messages.each do |message| Fiber.schedule do log("Handling #{message}") # Log includes inherited request_id. end end end end end
You should generally consider Fiber storage for any state which you want to be shared implicitly between all fibers and threads created in a given context, e.g. a connection pool, a request id, a logger level, environment variables, configuration, etc.
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Fiber::Scheduler
- Introduce
Fiber::Scheduler#io_select
for non-blocking IO.select. [Feature #19060]
- Introduce
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IO
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Introduce IO#timeout= and IO#timeout which can cause IO::TimeoutError to be raised if a blocking operation exceeds the specified timeout. [Feature #18630]
STDIN.timeout = 1 STDIN.read # => Blocking operation timed out! (IO::TimeoutError)
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UNIXSocket
- Add support for UNIXSocket on Windows. Emulate anonymous sockets. Add support for File.socket? and File::Stat#socket? where possible. [Feature #19135]
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Class
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Class#attached_object, which returns the object for which the receiver is the singleton class. Raises TypeError if the receiver is not a singleton class. [Feature #12084]
class Foo; end Foo.singleton_class.attached_object #=> Foo Foo.new.singleton_class.attached_object #=> #<Foo:0x000000010491a370> Foo.attached_object #=> TypeError: `Foo' is not a singleton class nil.singleton_class.attached_object #=> TypeError: `NilClass' is not a singleton class
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Data
- New core class to represent simple immutable value object. The class is similar to Struct and partially shares an implementation, but has more lean and strict API. [Feature #16122]
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Encoding
- Encoding#replicate has been deprecated and will be removed in 3.3. [Feature #18949]
- The dummy
Encoding::UTF_16
andEncoding::UTF_32
encodings no longer try to dynamically guess the endian based on a byte order mark. UseEncoding::UTF_16BE
/UTF_16LE
andEncoding::UTF_32BE
/UTF_32LE
instead. This change speeds up getting the encoding of a String. [Feature #18949]
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Enumerator
- Enumerator.product has been added. Enumerator::Product is the implementation. [Feature #18685]
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Exception
- Exception#detailed_message has been added. The default error printer calls this method on the Exception object instead of #message. [Feature #18564]
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Hash
- Hash#shift now always returns nil if the hash is empty, instead of returning the default value or calling the default proc. [Bug #16908]
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Integer
- Integer#ceildiv has been added. [Feature #18809]
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Kernel
- Kernel#binding raises RuntimeError if called from a non-Ruby frame (such as a method defined in C). [Bug #18487]
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MatchData
- MatchData#byteoffset has been added. [Feature #13110]
- MatchData#deconstruct has been added. [Feature #18821]
- MatchData#deconstruct_keys has been added. [Feature #18821]
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Module
- Module.used_refinements has been added. [Feature #14332]
- Module#refinements has been added. [Feature #12737]
- Module#const_added has been added. [Feature #17881]
- Module#undefined_instance_methods has been added. [Feature #12655]
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Proc
- Proc#dup returns an instance of subclass. [Bug #17545]
- Proc#parameters now accepts lambda keyword. [Feature #15357]
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Process
- Added
RLIMIT_NPTS
constant to FreeBSD platform
- Added
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Regexp
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Regexp.new now supports passing the regexp flags not only as an Integer, but also as a String. Unknown flags raise ArgumentError. Otherwise, anything other than
true
,false
,nil
or Integer will be warned. [Feature #18788] -
Regexp.timeout= has been added. Also, Regexp.new new supports timeout keyword. See [Feature #17837]
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Refinement
- Refinement#refined_class has been added. [Feature #12737]
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RubyVM::AbstractSyntaxTree
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Add
error_tolerant
option forparse
,parse_file
andof
. [Feature #19013] With this option- SyntaxError is suppressed
- AST is returned for invalid input
end
is complemented when a parser reachs to the end of input butend
is insufficientend
is treated as keyword based on indent
# Without error_tolerant option root = RubyVM::AbstractSyntaxTree.parse(<<~RUBY) def m a = 10 if end RUBY # => <internal:ast>:33:in `parse': syntax error, unexpected `end' (SyntaxError) # With error_tolerant option root = RubyVM::AbstractSyntaxTree.parse(<<~RUBY, error_tolerant: true) def m a = 10 if end RUBY p root # => #<RubyVM::AbstractSyntaxTree::Node:SCOPE@1:0-4:3> # `end` is treated as keyword based on indent root = RubyVM::AbstractSyntaxTree.parse(<<~RUBY, error_tolerant: true) module Z class Foo foo. end def bar end end RUBY p root.children[-1].children[-1].children[-1].children[-2..-1] # => [#<RubyVM::AbstractSyntaxTree::Node:CLASS@2:2-4:5>, #<RubyVM::AbstractSyntaxTree::Node:DEFN@6:2-7:5>]
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Add
keep_tokens
option forparse
,parse_file
andof
. Add#tokens
and#all_tokens
for RubyVM::AbstractSyntaxTree::Node [Feature #19070]root = RubyVM::AbstractSyntaxTree.parse("x = 1 + 2", keep_tokens: true) root.tokens # => [[0, :tIDENTIFIER, "x", [1, 0, 1, 1]], [1, :tSP, " ", [1, 1, 1, 2]], ...] root.tokens.map{_1[2]}.join # => "x = 1 + 2"
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Set
- Set is now available as a built-in class without the need for
require "set"
. [Feature #16989] It is currently autoloaded via the Set constant or a call to Enumerable#to_set.
- Set is now available as a built-in class without the need for
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Socket
- Added the following constants for supported platforms.
SO_INCOMING_CPU
SO_INCOMING_NAPI_ID
SO_RTABLE
SO_SETFIB
SO_USER_COOKIE
TCP_KEEPALIVE
TCP_CONNECTION_INFO
- Added the following constants for supported platforms.
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String
- String#byteindex and String#byterindex have been added. [Feature #13110]
- Update Unicode to Version 14.0.0 and Emoji Version 14.0. [Feature #18037] (also applies to Regexp)
- String#bytesplice has been added. [Feature #18598]
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Struct
- A Struct class can also be initialized with keyword arguments
without
keyword_init: true
on Struct.new [Feature #16806]
- A Struct class can also be initialized with keyword arguments
without
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Time
- Time#deconstruct_keys is added, allowing to use Time instances in pattern-matching expressions [Feature #19071]
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SyntaxError
- SyntaxError#path has been added. [Feature #19138]
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TracePoint
- TracePoint#binding now returns
nil
forc_call
/c_return
TracePoints. [Bug #18487] - TracePoint#enable
target_thread
keyword argument now defaults to the current thread iftarget
andtarget_line
keyword arguments are not passed. [Bug #16889]
- TracePoint#binding now returns
Stdlib updates
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ERB
-S
option is removed fromerb
command.
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FileUtils
- Add FileUtils.ln_sr method and
relative:
option to FileUtils.ln_s. [Feature #18925]
- Add FileUtils.ln_sr method and
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SyntaxSuggest
- The feature of
syntax_suggest
formerlydead_end
is integrated in Ruby. [Feature #18159]
- The feature of
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The following default gems are updated.
- RubyGems 3.4.0.dev
- benchmark 0.2.1
- bigdecimal 3.1.2
- bundler 2.4.0.dev
- cgi 0.3.6
- date 3.3.0
- delegate 0.3.0
- digest 3.1.1
- drb 2.1.1
- erb 4.0.2
- error_highlight 0.5.1
- etc 1.4.1
- fcntl 1.0.2
- fiddle 1.1.1
- fileutils 1.7.0
- forwardable 1.3.3
- getoptlong 0.2.0
- io-console 0.5.11
- io-nonblock 0.2.0
- io-wait 0.3.0.pre
- ipaddr 1.2.5
- irb 1.5.1
- json 2.6.2
- logger 1.5.2
- mutex_m 0.1.2
- net-http 0.3.1
- net-protocol 0.2.0
- nkf 0.1.2
- open-uri 0.3.0
- openssl 3.1.0.pre
- optparse 0.3.0
- ostruct 0.5.5
- pathname 0.2.1
- pp 0.4.0
- pstore 0.1.2
- psych 5.0.0
- racc 1.6.1
- rdoc 6.5.0
- reline 0.3.1
- resolv 0.2.2
- securerandom 0.2.1
- set 1.0.3
- stringio 3.0.4
- syntax_suggest 1.0.1
- timeout 0.3.0
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The following bundled gems are updated.
- minitest 5.16.3
- power_assert 2.0.2
- test-unit 3.5.5
- net-ftp 0.2.0
- net-imap 0.3.1
- net-pop 0.1.2
- net-smtp 0.3.3
- rbs 2.8.1
- typeprof 0.21.3
- debug 1.7.0
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The following default gems are now bundled gems.
Compatibility issues
Note: Excluding feature bug fixes.
Removed constants
The following deprecated constants are removed.
Fixnum
andBignum
[Feature #12005]Random::DEFAULT
[Feature #17351]Struct::Group
Struct::Passwd
Removed methods
The following deprecated methods are removed.
Dir.exists?
[Feature #17391]File.exists?
[Feature #17391]Kernel#=~
[Feature #15231]Kernel#taint
,Kernel#untaint
,Kernel#tainted?
[Feature #16131]Kernel#trust
,Kernel#untrust
,Kernel#untrusted?
[Feature #16131]
Source code incompatiblity of extension libraries [Bug #19100]
- Extension libraries provide PRNG, subclasses of Random, need updates. See [PRNG update] below for more information.
Stdlib compatibility issues
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Psych no longer bundles libyaml sources. And also Fiddle no longer bundles libffi sources. Users need to install the libyaml/libffi library themselves via the package manager like apt, yum, brew, etc.
Psych and fiddle supported the static build with specific version of libyaml and libffi sources. You can build psych with libyaml-0.2.5 like this.
$ ./configure --with-libyaml-source-dir=/path/to/libyaml-0.2.5
And you can build fiddle with libffi-3.4.4 like this.
$ ./configure --with-libffi-source-dir=/path/to/libffi-3.4.4
C API updates
Updated C APIs
The following APIs are updated.
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PRNG update
rb_random_interface_t
updated and versioned. Extension libraries which use this interface and built for older versions. Alsoinit_int32
function needs to be defined.
Removed C APIs
The following deprecated APIs are removed.
rb_cData
variable.- "taintedness" and "trustedness" functions. [Feature #16131]
Implementation improvements
- Fixed several race conditions in Kernel#autoload. [Bug #18782]
- Cache invalidation for expressions referencing constants is now
more fine-grained.
RubyVM.stat(:global_constant_state)
was removed because it was closely tied to the previous caching scheme where setting any constant invalidates all caches in the system. New keys,:constant_cache_invalidations
and:constant_cache_misses
, were introduced to help with use cases for:global_constant_state
. [Feature #18589]
JIT
YJIT
- YJIT now supports both x86-64 and arm64/aarch64 CPUs on Linux, MacOS, BSD and other UNIX platforms.
- This release brings support for Mac M1/M2, AWS Graviton and Raspberry Pi 4 ARM64 processors.
- Building YJIT requires Rust 1.58.0+. [Feature #18481]
- In order to ensure that CRuby is built with YJIT, please install rustc >= 1.58.0 and
run
./configure
with--enable-yjit
. - Please reach out to the YJIT team should you run into any issues.
- In order to ensure that CRuby is built with YJIT, please install rustc >= 1.58.0 and
run
- Physical memory for JIT code is lazily allocated. Unlike Ruby 3.1,
the RSS of a Ruby process is minimized because virtual memory pages
allocated by
--yjit-exec-mem-size
will not be mapped to physical memory pages until actually utilized by JIT code. - Introduce Code GC that frees all code pages when the memory consumption
by JIT code reaches
--yjit-exec-mem-size
.- RubyVM::YJIT.runtime_stats returns Code GC metrics in addition to
existing
inline_code_size
andoutlined_code_size
keys:code_gc_count
,live_page_count
,freed_page_count
, andfreed_code_size
.
- RubyVM::YJIT.runtime_stats returns Code GC metrics in addition to
existing
- Most of the statistics produced by RubyVM::YJIT.runtime_stats are now available in release builds.
- Simply run ruby with
--yjit-stats
to compute stats (incurs some run-time overhead).
- Simply run ruby with
- YJIT is now optimized to take advantage of object shapes. [Feature #18776]
- Take advantage of finer-grained constant invalidation to invalidate less code when defining new constants. [Feature #18589]
- The default
--yjit-exec-mem-size
is changed to 128 (MiB). - The default
--yjit-call-threshold
is changed to 30.
MJIT
- The MJIT compiler is re-implemented in Ruby as a standard library
mjit
. - MJIT compiler is executed under a forked Ruby process instead of
doing it in a native thread called MJIT worker. [Feature #18968]
- As a result, Microsoft Visual Studio (MSWIN) is no longer supported.
- MinGW is no longer supported. [Feature #18824]
- Rename
--mjit-min-calls
to--mjit-call-threshold
. - Change default
--mjit-max-cache
back from 10000 to 100.