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# -*- markdown -*- markup: Markdown
# NEWS for Ruby 2.6.0
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. `https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/$FEATURE_OR_BUG_NUMBER`)
## Changes since the 2.5.0 release
### Language changes
* `$SAFE` is a process global state and we can set 0 again.
[Feature #14250]
* refinements take place at block passing. [Feature #14223]
* `else` without `rescue` now causes a syntax error. [EXPERIMENTAL]
* constant names may start with a non-ASCII capital letter.
[Feature #13770]
* An endless range is introduced. You can write a range that has no end,
like `(0..)`. The following shows typical use cases. [Feature #12912]
```ruby
ary[1..] # identical to ary[1..-1]
(1..).each {|index| ... } # infinite loop from index 1
ary.zip(1..) {|elem, index| ... } # ary.each.with_index(1) { }
```
* Non-`Symbol` key in keyword arguments hash causes an exception.
### Core classes updates (outstanding ones only)
* `Array`
* Aliased methods:
* `Array#filter` is a new alias for `Array#select`.
[Feature #13784]
* `Array#filter!` is a new alias for `Array#select!`.
[Feature #13784]
* `Binding`
* New methods:
* added `Binding#source_location`. [Feature #14230]
This method returns the source location of binding, a 2-element
array of `__FILE__` and `__LINE__`. Traditionally, the same
information could be retrieved by `eval("[__FILE__, __LINE__]",
binding)`, but we are planning to change this behavior so that
`Kernel#eval` ignores binding's source location [Bug #4352].
So, users should use this newly-introduced method instead of
`Kernel#eval`.
* `Dir`
* New methods:
* added `Dir#each_child` and `Dir#children` instance methods.
[Feature #13969]
* `Enumerable`
* Aliased methods:
* `Enumerable#filter` is a new alias for `Enumerable#select`.
[Feature #13784]
* `Enumerator::Lazy`
* Aliased methods:
* `Enumerator::Lazy#filter` is a new alias for
`Enumerator::Lazy#select`. [Feature #13784]
* `Exception`
* New options:
* `Exception#full_message` takes `:highlight` and `:order` options.
[Bug #14324]
* `Hash`
* Aliased methods:
* `Hash#filter` is a new alias for `Hash#select`. [Feature #13784]
* `Hash#filter!` is a new alias for `Hash#select!`.
[Feature #13784]
* `IO`
* New options:
* new mode character `'x'` to open files for exclusive access.
[Feature #11258]
* `Kernel`
* Aliased methods:
* `Kernel#then` is a new alias for `Kernel#yield_self`.
[Feature #14594]
* New options:
* `Kernel.#Complex`, `Kernel.#Float`, `Kernel.#Integer` and
`Kernel.#Rational` take `:exception` option to specify the way of
error handling. [Feature #12732]
* `Kernel.#system` takes `:exception` option to raise an exception
on failure. [Feature #14386]
* Incompatible changes:
* `system()` and `exec()` do not close non-standard file descriptors
(The default of `:close_others` option is changed to `false` by
default. but we still set the `FD_CLOEXEC` flag on descriptors we
create). [Misc #14907]
* `KeyError`
* New options:
* `KeyError#initialize` accepts `:receiver` and `:key` options to
set receiver and key in Ruby code. [Feature #14313]
* `Module`
* New methods:
* `Module#method_defined?`, `Module#private_method_defined?` and
`Module#protected_method_defined?` now accepts the second
parameter as optional. If it's `true` (=default), checks ancestor
modules/classes, or checks only the class itself.
[Feature #14944]
* `NameError`
* New options:
* `NameError#initialize` accepts `:receiver` option to set receiver
in Ruby code. [Feature #14313]
* `NoMethodError`
* New options:
* `NoMethodError#initialize` accepts `:receiver` option to set
receiver in Ruby code. [Feature #14313]
* `Proc`
* Incompatible changes:
* `Proc#call` doesn't change `$SAFE` any more. [Feature #14250]
* `Random`
* New methods:
* added `Random.bytes`. [Feature #4938]
* `Range`
* Incompatible changes:
* `Range#===` now uses `#cover?` instead of `#include?` method.
[Feature #14575]
* `RubyVM::AST`
* New methods:
* `RubyVM::AST.parse` parses a given string and returns AST nodes.
[experimental]
* `RubyVM::AST.parse_file` parses a given file and returns AST
nodes. [experimental]
* `String`
* New features:
* `String#split` yields each substring to the block if given.
[Feature #4780]
* `TracePoint`
* New methods:
* `TracePoint#parameters` [Feature #14694]
### Stdlib updates (outstanding ones only)
* `ERB`
* New options:
* Add `:trim_mode` and `:eoutvar` keyword arguments to `ERB.new`.
Now non-keyword arguments other than first one are softly
deprecated and will be removed when Ruby 2.5 becomes EOL.
[Feature #14256]
* erb command's `-S` option is deprecated, which will be removed in
the next version.
* `FileUtils`
* New method:
* `FileUtils#cp_lr`. [Feature #4189]
* `Matrix`
* New method:
* `Matrix#antisymmetric?`
* `Net`
* New options:
* Add `:write_timeout` keyword argument to `Net::BufferedIO.new`.
[Feature #13396]
* New methods:
* Add `Net::BufferedIO#write_timeout`,
`Net::BufferedIO#write_timeout=`, `Net::HTTP#write_timeout`, and
`Net::HTTP#write_timeout=`. [Feature #13396]
* New constant:
* Add `Net::HTTPClientException` to deprecate
`Net::HTTPServerException`, whose name is misleading. [Bug #14688]
* `REXML`
* Improved some XPath implementations:
* `concat()` function: Stringify all arguments before concatenating
* `string()` function: Support context node
* `string()` function: Support processing instruction node
* Support `"*:#{ELEMENT_NAME}"` syntax in XPath 2.0
* Fixed some XPath implementations:
* `"//#{ELEMENT_NAME}[#{POSITION}]"` case
* `string()` function: Fix `function(document)` returns nodes that
are out of root elements.
* `"/ #{ELEMENT_NAME} "` case
* `"/ #{ELEMENT_NAME} [ #{PREDICATE} ]"` case
* `"/ #{AXIS}:: #{ELEMENT_NAME} "` case
* `"#{N}-#{M}"` case: One or more white spaces were required before
`"-"`
* `"/child::node()"` case
* `"#{FUNCTION}()/#{PATH}"` case
* `"@#{ATTRIBUTE}/parent::"` case
* `"name(#{NODE_SET})"` case
* `RSS`
* New options:
* `RSS::Parser.parse`: Accept options as `Hash`. `:validate`,
`:ignore_unknown_element`, `:parser_class` options are available.
* `Set`
* Aliased methods:
* `Set#filter!` is a new alias for `Set#select!`. [Feature #13784]
* `URI`
* New constant:
* Add `URI::File` to handle file URI scheme. [Feature #14035]
### Compatibility issues (excluding feature bug fixes)
* `File`
* `File.read`, `File.binread`, `File.write`, `File.binwrite`,
`File.foreach`, and `File.readlines` do not invoke external commands
even if the path starts with the pipe character `'|'`.
[Feature #14245]
* `Dir`
* `Dir.glob` with `'\0'`-separated pattern list will be deprecated, and
is now warned. [Feature #14643]
### Stdlib compatibility issues (excluding feature bug fixes)
### C API updates
### Supported platform changes
### Implementation improvements
* Speedup `Proc#call` because we don't need to care about `$SAFE` any more.
[Feature #14318]
With `lc_fizzbuzz` benchmark which uses so many `Proc#call` we can
measure x1.4 improvements. [Bug #10212]
* Speedup `block.call` where `block` is passed block parameter.
[Feature #14330]
Ruby 2.5 improves block passing performance. [Feature #14045]
Additionally, Ruby 2.6 improves the performance of passed block calling.
* Introduce an initial implementation of JIT (Just-in-time) compiler.
[Feature #14235] [experimental]
* `--enable=jit` option is added to enable JIT. `--jit-verbose=1` is good for
inspection. See `ruby --help` for others.
* This JIT relies on C compiler used to build Ruby, on runtime. Only
gcc and clang are supported for the JIT for now, and MinGW support has
some issues.
* As of 2.6.0-preview1, we're just preparing infrastructure for JIT and
very few optimizations are implemented. So it's not ready for
benchmarking Ruby's JIT performance yet. It's known that current JIT
enablement makes Rails application slower for now.
* rb_waitpid reimplemented on Unix-like platforms to maintain
compatibility [Bug #14867]
* VM generator script renewal; makes the generated VM more optimized.
[GH-1779]
* Thread cache enabled for pthreads platforms (for `Thread.new` and
`Thread.start`). [Feature #14757]
* timer thread is eliminated for platforms with POSIX timers [Misc #14937]
### Miscellaneous changes
* On macOS, shared libraries no longer include a full version number of ruby
in their names. This eliminates the burden of each teeny upgrade on the
platform that users need to rebuild every extension library.
* Before:
* libruby.2.6.0.dylib
* libruby.2.6.dylib -> libruby.2.6.0.dylib
* libruby.dylib -> libruby.2.6.0.dylib
* After:
* libruby.2.6.dylib
* libruby.dylib -> libruby.2.6.dylib
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