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layout: news_post
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title: "Ruby 2.4.0-preview2 Released"
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author: "naruse"
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translator:
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date: 2016-09-08 18:00:00 +0900
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lang: en
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---
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We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.4.0-preview2.
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Ruby 2.4.0-preview2 is the second preview of Ruby 2.4.0.
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This preview2 is released to get feedback from the community.
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Feel free to
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[send feedback](https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/projects/ruby/wiki/HowToReport)
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since you can still influence the features.
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## [Unify Fixnum and Bignum into Integer](https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12005)
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Though [ISO/IEC 30170:2012](http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=59579)
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doesn't specify details of the Integer class,
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Ruby had two visible Integer classes: Fixnum and Bignum.
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Ruby 2.4 unifies them into Integer.
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All C extensions which touches Fixnum or Bignum class needs to be fixed.
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See also [the ticket](https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12005) and [akr's slides](http://www.a-k-r.org/pub/2016-09-08-rubykaigi-unified-integer.pdf).
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## [String supports Unicode case mappings](https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/10085)
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`String/Symbol#upcase/downcase/swapcase/capitalize(!)` now handle
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Unicode case mappings instead of only ASCII case mappings.
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## Performance improvements
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Ruby 2.4 also contains the following performance improvements including
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language changes:
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### [Array#max, Array#min](https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12172)
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`[x, y].max` and `[x, y].min` are optimized to not create a temporary array
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under certain conditions.
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### [Regexp#match?](https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8110)
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Added `Regexp#match?`, which executes a regexp match without creating
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a back reference object and changing `$~` to reduce object allocation.
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### Other performance improvements
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* [speed up instance variable access](https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12274)
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## Debugging
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### [Thread#report_on_exception and Thread.report_on_exception](https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6647)
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Ruby ignores exceptions in threads unless another thread explicitly joins them.
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With `report_on_exception = true`,
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you can notice if a thread has died due to an unhandled exception.
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Send us feedback what should be the default for `report_on_exception`
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and about report-on-GC, which show a report when a thread is GCed without join.
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### [Thread deadlock detection now shows threads with their backtrace and dependency](https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8214)
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Ruby has deadlock detection around waiting threads, but its report doesn't
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include enough information for debugging.
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Ruby 2.4's deadlock detection shows threads with their backtrace and
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dependent threads.
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Try and enjoy programming with Ruby 2.4.0-preview2, and
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[send us feedback](https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/projects/ruby/wiki/HowToReport)!
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## Notable Changes since 2.3
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* Support OpenSSL 1.1.0
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* ext/tk is now removed from stdlib [Feature #8539]
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See [NEWS](https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/v2_4_0_preview2/NEWS)
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and [ChangeLog](https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/v2_4_0_preview2/ChangeLog)
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for details.
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With those changes,
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[2353 files changed, 289057 insertions(+), 73847 deletions(-)](https://github.com/ruby/ruby/compare/v2_3_0...v2_4_0_preview2)
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since Ruby 2.3.0!
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## Download
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* <https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.4/ruby-2.4.0-preview2.tar.bz2>
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* SIZE: 12463225 bytes
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* SHA1: 95a501624f1cf4bb0785d3e17afd0ad099f66385
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* SHA256: 2224c55b2d87b5c0f08d23a4618e870027dbc1cffbfb4a05efd19eac4ff4cf1d
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* <https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.4/ruby-2.4.0-preview2.tar.gz>
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* SIZE: 15586514 bytes
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* SHA1: 492a13c4ddc1c0c218433acb00dcf7ddeef96fe0
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* SHA256: fec544836428aada2dc593a8cc42ce330798a805e49ecb807a0e21b386fd0b14
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* <https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.4/ruby-2.4.0-preview2.tar.xz>
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* SIZE: 9886832 bytes
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* SHA1: 95d5fd7d54d86497194f69ec433755a517dcde8f
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* SHA256: 6c2d25bedc50c2f19b0e349f0ffd9b9a83000d9cb6a677bf5372fb493d33e16a
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* SHA512: b9bd898d17583103ee61b4764ac86eb62c9661fca1f41ff0d06a15965a0a1ba581491d4b8a342e527d63e102b6ddcb2acebdabe5b246409ce9711e13f9428d5b
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* <https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.4/ruby-2.4.0-preview2.zip>
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* SIZE: 17401564 bytes
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* SHA1: 5f3a5b2fd03f70d49e74ec36be3e0c110f6c17cc
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* SHA512: 0ef2098d995238580245a4bcee843641199c1194189be13614611e2ffec329278072319a799d409eaf13b1cff45f05a0eae02d9ea8ccc69058fa49e03eca0130
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## Release Comment
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See also the release schedule and other information:
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[ReleaseEngineering24](https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/projects/ruby-trunk/wiki/ReleaseEngineering24)

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