Subj : Ruby 3.4 released To : All From : LWN.net Date : Thu Dec 26 2024 18:30:05 Ruby 3.4 released Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2024 18:16:18 +0000 Description: Continuing its tradition of yearly major releases on December 25, the Ruby programming-language project has released Ruby 3.4.0 (followed quickly by 3.4.1 , which simply updates the version number). Ruby 3.4 includes lots of changes, including the addition of it as a less-confusing shorthand for _1 as a block parameter, switching to Prism as the default parser , adding the Happy Eyeballs version2 algorithm to the socket library, just-in-time (JIT) compiler (YJIT) improvements, garbage-collection modularization, and more. ====================================================================== Link to news story: https://lwn.net/Articles/1003547/ --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Linux/64) * Origin: tqwNet UK HUB @ hub.uk.erb.pw (1337:1/100) .