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Ruby 2.4.1 Released

41 points by kyledrake 10y ago

akanet 10y ago
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.
- eyko 10y ago
  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)...
  - fbernier 10y ago
    That's no excuse for a proper changelog. What if you were affected by one of these bug that got fixed?
- petercooper 10y ago
  https://medium.com/rubyinside/ruby-2-4-1-released-whats-changed-fa83346c93f3 https://medium.com/rubyinside/ruby-2-4-1-released-whats-chan... is a write up and analysis I've just done.
rubyn00bie 10y ago
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.
- petercooper 10y ago
  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 https://github.com/k-takata/Onigmo/issues/82
  - rubyn00bie 10y ago
    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.
    - petercooper 10y ago
      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(!) :-)
    - petercooper 10y ago
      https://medium.com/rubyinside/ruby-2-4-1-released-whats-changed-fa83346c93f3 https://medium.com/rubyinside/ruby-2-4-1-released-whats-chan... for more. Am now working on the absent operator post..!
      - petercooper 10y ago
        And I've done that as well now: https://medium.com/rubyinside/the-new-absent-operator-in-ruby-s-regular-expressions-7c3ef6cd0b99#.ojki501p9 https://medium.com/rubyinside/the-new-absent-operator-in-rub... Now to sleep..!
hartator 10y ago
Congrats on the Ruby team. It's mostly bug fixes and some performance improvements. I love this kind of releases.
- rurban 10y ago
  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

41 points by kyledrake 10y ago

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.

eyko 10y ago
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)...
- fbernier 10y ago
  That's no excuse for a proper changelog. What if you were affected by one of these bug that got fixed?
petercooper 10y ago
https://medium.com/rubyinside/ruby-2-4-1-released-whats-changed-fa83346c93f3 https://medium.com/rubyinside/ruby-2-4-1-released-whats-chan... is a write up and analysis I've just done.

rubyn00bie 10y ago

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.

petercooper 10y ago
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 https://github.com/k-takata/Onigmo/issues/82
- rubyn00bie 10y ago
  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.
  - petercooper 10y ago
    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(!) :-)
  - petercooper 10y ago
    https://medium.com/rubyinside/ruby-2-4-1-released-whats-changed-fa83346c93f3 https://medium.com/rubyinside/ruby-2-4-1-released-whats-chan... for more. Am now working on the absent operator post..!
    - petercooper 10y ago
      And I've done that as well now: https://medium.com/rubyinside/the-new-absent-operator-in-ruby-s-regular-expressions-7c3ef6cd0b99#.ojki501p9 https://medium.com/rubyinside/the-new-absent-operator-in-rub... Now to sleep..!

hartator 10y ago

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

rurban 10y ago
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