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# NEWS for Ruby 2.8.0 (tentative; to be 3.0.0)
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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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* $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.
[[Feature #15575]]
## Command line options
## Core classes updates (outstanding ones only)
* Dir
* Modified method
* Dir.glob and Dir.[] now sort the results by default, and
accept `sort:` keyword option. [[Feature #8709]]
* Hash
* Modified method
* Hash#transform_keys now accepts a hash that maps keys to new
keys. [[Feature #16274]]
* Symbol
* Modified method
* Symbol#to_proc now returns a lambda Proc.
[[Feature #16260]]
## Stdlib updates (outstanding ones only)
* Net::HTTP
* New method
* Add Net::HTTP#verify_hostname= and Net::HTTP#verify_hostname
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to skip hostname verification. [[Feature #16555]]
## Compatibility issues (excluding feature bug fixes)
* Regexp literals are frozen [[Feature #8948]] [[Feature #16377]]
```ruby
/foo/.frozen? #=> true
```
* 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.
## Stdlib compatibility issues (excluding feature bug fixes)
## C API updates
## Implementation improvements
## Miscellaneous changes
[Feature #8709]: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8709
[Feature #8948]: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8948
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[Feature #15575]: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/15575
[Feature #16131]: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/16131
[Feature #16260]: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/16260
[Feature #16274]: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/16274
[Feature #16377]: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/16377
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[Feature #16555]: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/16555