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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
* $SAFE is now a normal global variable with no special behavior. [Feature #16131]
* 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]]
## Stdlib updates (outstanding ones only)
* Net::HTTP
* New method
* Add #verify_hostname= and #verify_hostname to skip hostname verification
[[Feature #16555]]
## Compatibility issues (excluding feature bug fixes)
* Regexp literals are frozen [[Feature #8948]] [[Feature #16377]]
```ruby
/foo/.frozen? #=> true
```
* The bundled gems
net-telnet and xmlrpc has been removed from the bundled gems.
If you interested in the maintain them, Please comment 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
[Feature #16274]: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/16274
[Feature #16377]: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/16377