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
).
Keyword arguments are now separated from positional arguments. Code that resulted in deprecation warnings in Ruby 2.7 will now result in ArgumentError or different behavior. [Feature #14183]
Procs accepting a single rest argument and keywords are no longer subject to autosplatting. This now matches the behavior of Procs accepting a single rest argument and no keywords. [Feature #16166]
pr = proc{|*a, **kw| [a, kw]} pr.call([1]) # 2.7 => [[1], {}] # 3.0 => [[[1]], {}] pr.call([1, {a: 1}]) # 2.7 => [[1], {:a=>1}] # and deprecation warning # 3.0 => [[[1, {:a=>1}]], {}]
$SAFE is now a normal global variable with no special behavior. [Feature #16131]
yield in singleton class definitions in methods is now a SyntaxError instead of a warning. yield in a class definition outside of a method is now a SyntaxError instead of a LocalJumpError. [Feature #15575]
Outstanding ones only.
Modified method
Dir.glob and Dir.[] now sort the results by default,
and accept sort:
keyword option. [Feature #8709]
Modified method
Hash#transform_keys now accepts a hash that maps keys to new keys. [Feature #16274]
Modified method
Kernel#clone when called with freeze: false
keyword will call
initialize_clone with the freeze: false
keyword. [Bug #14266]
Kernel#eval when called with two
arguments will use "(eval)" for __FILE__
and 1 for
__LINE__
in the evaluated code. [Bug #4352]
Modified method
Module#include now includes the arguments in modules and classes that have already included or prepended the receiver, mirroring the behavior if the arguments were included in the receiver before the other modules and classes included or prepended the receiver. [Feature #9573]
Modified method
Symbol#to_proc now returns a lambda Proc. [Feature #16260]
Outstanding ones only.
Net::HTTP
New method
Add Net::HTTP#verify_hostname= and Net::HTTP#verify_hostname to skip hostname verification. [Feature #16555]
Modified method
Net::HTTP.get, Net::HTTP.get_response, and Net::HTTP.get_print can take request headers as a Hash in the second argument when the first argument is a URI.
Excluding feature bug fixes.
Regexp literals are frozen [Feature #8948] [Feature #16377]
/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 github.com/ruby/xmlrpc or github.com/ruby/net-telnet.
EXPERIMENTAL: Hash#each consistently yields a 2-element array [[Bug #12706]]
Now { a: 1 }.each(&->(k, v) { })
raises an ArgumentError due to lambda's arity check.
This is experimental; if it brings a big incompatibility issue, it may be reverted until 2.8/3.0 release.
Excluding feature bug fixes.
C API functions related to $SAFE have been removed. [Feature #16131]
Methods using ruby2_keywords
will no longer keep empty keyword
splats, those are now removed just as they are for methods not using
ruby2_keywords
.
Taint deprecation warnings are now issued in regular mode in addition to verbose warning mode. [Feature #16131]