From: "NARUSE, Yui" <naruse@...>
Date: 2017-12-15T01:51:52+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:84271] Ruby 2.5.0-rc1 Released

We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.5.0-rc1.

Ruby 2.5.0-rc1 is the first preview release toward Ruby 2.5.0.
It introduces some new features and performance improvements, for example:

## New Features

* Print backtrace and error message in reverse order if STDERR is
unchanged and a tty.
  [Feature #8661] [experimental]

* Top-level constant look-up is removed.  [Feature #11547]

* rescue/else/ensure are allowed inside do/end blocks.  [Feature #12906]

* yield\_self [Feature #6721]

## Performance improvements

* Dynamic instrumentation for TracePoint hooks instead of using "trace"
  instruction to avoid overhead [Feature #14104]

* Performance of block passing using block parameters is improved by
  lazy Proc allocation [Feature #14045]

* Mutex rewritten to be smaller and faster [Feature #13517]

* SecureRandom now prefers OS-provided sources than OpenSSL. [Bug #9569]

## Other notable changes since 2.4

* Merge Onigmo to 6.1.3.
  It adds [absent operator](https://github.com/k-takata/Onigmo/issues/87)
  Note that Ruby 2.4.1 also includes this change.
* Merge bundler to standard libraries.
* Merge rubygems-2.7.0.
* Merge rdoc-6.0.0.beta3.
  Change lexer IRB based one to Ripper.
  It much improves the speed of generating document.
  https://github.com/ruby/rdoc/pull/512
  This also includes
  * Fix so many bugs in the last dozen years or so
  * Support new Ruby syntaxes in the last several years
* Update supported Unicode version to 10.0.0.

See [NEWS](https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/v2_5_0_rc1/NEWS)
or commit logs for details.

With those changes,
[6162 files changed, 339744 insertions(+), 28699
deletions(-)](https://github.com/ruby/ruby/compare/v2_4_0...v2_5_0_rc1)
since Ruby 2.4.0!

Enjoy Ruby 2.5.0-rc1!

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