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Ruby 2.4.1 Released

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I (and others) are upset at Ruby's normally great messaging being totally absent here. As a lay user of Ruby, I have no idea what changed in this release.

Well, they did say "TEENY" so I just take it as "nothing changed, some bugs were fixed, etc". They also link to the list of commits, and looking at that list you can see a lot of bug fixes (leaks, race conditions... etc), improvements (number precision, better docs)...

That's no excuse for a proper changelog. What if you were affected by one of these bug that got fixed?

https://medium.com/rubyinside/ruby-2-4-1-released-whats-chan... is a write up and analysis I've just done.

Are there any notable changes?

The changelog, which points to the commit log, is pretty atrocious to read through and the commits themselves are not very descriptive.

I'm still only a little way into analyzing it, but here's what I wrote for my own summary so far:

Along with the usual tweaks, Onigmo has been updated (and now supports a new operator), OpenSSL (2.0.2 to 2.0.3), RubyGems (2.6.8 to 2.6.10), a race between read and close has been fixed, fixing including multiple proc blocks as literal hash values, and more.

I'm particularly interested to work out what the new 'absent operator' in regexes is for and am studying it now: https://github.com/k-takata/Onigmo/issues/82

That's yuge! (about the absent operator) very, very cool too bad it wasn't on the release page I think this would be getting more up votes.

I'm doing my own write up of both the operator and the overall release with the most major changes for Ruby Weekly tomorrow, simply because, yeah, I can't really link to the main release page as it has nothing on it(!) :-)

https://medium.com/rubyinside/ruby-2-4-1-released-whats-chan... for more. Am now working on the absent operator post..!

And I've done that as well now: https://medium.com/rubyinside/the-new-absent-operator-in-rub...

Now to sleep..!

Congrats on the Ruby team. It's mostly bug fixes and some performance improvements. I love this kind of releases.

You are seriously congratulating the sloppy "see the commit log for changes". I've never seen a release announcement worse than that. Not even a one paragraph summary. A shame

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