Ruby 4.0.0 preview2 Released

Posted by naruse on 17 Nov 2025

We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 4.0.0-preview2. Ruby 4.0 updates its Unicode version to 15.1.0, and so on.

Language changes

  • *nil no longer calls nil.to_a, similar to how **nil does not call nil.to_hash. [[Feature #21047]]

Core classes updates

Note: We’re only listing notable updates of Core class.

  • Binding

    • Binding#local_variables does no longer include numbered parameters. Also, Binding#local_variable_get and Binding#local_variable_set reject to handle numbered parameters. [[Bug #21049]]

  • IO

    • IO.select accepts +Float::INFINITY+ as a timeout argument. [[Feature #20610]]

  • String

    • Update Unicode to Version 15.1.0 and Emoji Version 15.1. [[Feature #19908]] (also applies to Regexp)

Standard Library updates

Note: We’re only listing notable updates of Standard librarires.

  • ostruct 0.6.1
  • pstore 0.2.0
  • benchmark 0.4.0
  • logger 1.7.0
  • rdoc 6.13.1
  • win32ole 1.9.2
  • irb 1.15.2
  • reline 0.6.1
  • readline 0.0.4
  • fiddle 1.1.6

Compatibility issues

Note: Excluding feature bug fixes.

Standard library compatibility issues

C API updates

JIT

  • YJIT
    • YJIT stats
      • ratio_in_yjit no longer works in the default build. Use --enable-yjit=stats on configure to enable it on --yjit-stats.
      • Add invalidate_everything to default stats, which is incremented when every code is invalidated by TracePoint.
    • Add mem_size: and call_threshold: options to RubyVM::YJIT.enable.
  • ZJIT
    • Add an experimental method-based JIT compiler. Use --enable-zjit on configure to enable the --zjit support.
    • As of Ruby 4.0.0-preview2, ZJIT is not yet ready for speeding up most benchmarks. Please refrain from evaluating ZJIT just yet. Stay tuned for the Ruby 4.0 release.
  • RJIT
    • --rjit is removed. We will move the implementation of the third-party JIT API to the ruby/rjit repository.

Miscellaneous changes

See NEWS or commit logs for more details.

With those changes, 3607 files changed, 197451 insertions(+), 285607 deletions(-) since Ruby 3.4.0!

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