Ruby 2.0.0-p247 is released

Now Ruby 2.0.0-p247 is released.

This release includes a security fix about bundled OpenSSL.

And some bugfixes are also included.

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Changes

Major fixes are listed below.

See tickets and ChangeLog for details.

Keyword Arguments

  • #8040 change priority between keyword arguments and mandatory arguments.
  • #8416 super does not forward either named or anonymous **
  • #8463 Proc auto-splat bug with named arguments

VM/Language Processing

  • #8424 fix infinite loop when stack overflow with TH_PUSH_TAG()
  • #8436 __dir__ not working in eval with binding
  • #8489 Tracepoint API: B_RETURN_EVENT not triggered when “next” used
  • #8341 block_given? (and the actual block) persist between calls to a proc created from a method (using method().to_proc()).
  • #8531 block_given? (and the actual block) persist between calls to a proc created by Symbol#to_proc.

RubyGems

Bundled RubyGems version is updated to 2.0.3

Encoding

  • #8516 IO#readchar returns wrong codepoints when converting encoding

Windows

  • #8431 File.read() crash on Win32SP3 32bit

Libraries

  • #8467 Rewinding and iterating through gzipped IO leads to segmentation fault
  • #8415 Net::IMAP#capability_response raises “Net::IMAP::ResponseParseError: unexpected token CRLF” for common CAPABILITY

Release Comment

Many committers, testers and users who gave bug reports helped me to make this release. Thanks for their contributions.