F44 Change Proposal: Ruby 3.5 [SystemWide]

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Ruby 3.5

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This is a proposed Change for Fedora Linux.
This document represents a proposed Change. As part of the Changes process, proposals are publicly announced in order to receive community feedback. This proposal will only be implemented if approved by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee.

Summary :open_book:

Ruby 3.5 is the latest stable version of Ruby. Many new features and improvements are included for the increasingly diverse and expanding demands for Ruby. With this major update from Ruby 3.4 in Fedora 43 to Ruby 3.5 in Fedora 44, Fedora becomes the superior Ruby development platform.

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Detailed Description :open_book:

Ruby 3.5 is upstream’s new major release of Ruby. Many new features and improvements are included.

=== Language changes ===

  • *nil no longer calls nil.to_a, similar to how **nil does not call nil.to_hash.

  • Logical binary operators (||, &&, and and or) at the beginning of a line continue the previous line, like fluent dot.

=== Core classes updates ===

Note: We’re only listing outstanding class updates.

  • Kernel

    • Kernel#inspect now checks for the existence of a #instance_variables_to_inspect method, allowing control over which instance variables are displayed in the #inspect string.

  • 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.

  • IO

    • IO.select accepts Float::INFINITY as a timeout argument.

  • Math

    • Math.log1p and Math.expm1 are added.

  • Socket

    • Socket.tcp & TCPSocket.new accepts open_timeout as a keyword argument to specify the timeout for the initial connection.

  • Ractor

    • Ractor::Port class was added for a new synchronization mechanism to communicate between Ractors.

      Ractor::Port provides the following methods:

      • Ractor::Port#receive
      • Ractor::Port#send (or Ractor::Port#<<)
      • Ractor::Port#close
      • Ractor::Port#closed?

      As result, Ractor.yield and Ractor#take were removed.

    • Ractor#join and Ractor#value were added to wait for the termination of a Ractor. These are similar to Thread#join and Thread#value.

    • Ractor#monitor and Ractor#unmonitor were added as low-level interfaces used internally to implement Ractor#join.

    • Ractor.select now only accepts Ractors and Ports. If Ractors are given, it returns when a Ractor terminates.

    • Ractor#default_port was added. Each Ractor has a default port, which is used by Ractor.send, Ractor.receive.

    • Ractor#close_incoming and Ractor#close_outgoing were removed.

    • Ractor.shareable_proc and Ractor.shareable_lambda is introduced to make shareable Proc or lambda.

  • Set

    • Set is now a core class, instead of an autoloaded stdlib class.

  • String

    • Update Unicode to Version 16.0.0 and Emoji Version 16.0. (also applies to Regexp)

  • Thread

    • Introduce support for Thread#raise(cause:) argument similar to Kernel#raise.

  • Fiber

    • Introduce support for Fiber#raise(cause:) argument similar to Kernel#raise.

  • Fiber::Scheduler

    • Introduce Fiber::Scheduler#fiber_interrupt to interrupt a fiber with a given exception. The initial use case is to interrupt a fiber that is waiting on a blocking IO operation when the IO operation is closed.

  • Pathname

    • Pathname has been promoted from a default gem to a core class of Ruby.

=== Stdlib updates ===

The following bundled gems are promoted from default gems.

  • ostruct 0.6.3
  • pstore 0.2.0
  • benchmark 0.5.0
  • logger 1.7.0
  • rdoc 6.15.0
  • win32ole 1.9.2
  • irb 1.15.2
  • reline 0.6.2
  • readline 0.0.4
  • fiddle 1.1.8

We only list stdlib changes that are notable feature changes.

Other changes are listed in the following sections. We also listed release history from the previous bundled version that is Ruby 3.3.0 if it has GitHub releases.

The following default gem is added.

  • win32-registry 0.1.1

The following default gems are updated.

  • RubyGems 4.0.0.dev
  • bundler 4.0.0.dev
  • date 3.5.0
  • digest 3.2.1
  • english 0.8.1
  • erb 5.1.3
  • etc 1.4.6
  • fcntl 1.3.0
  • fileutils 1.8.0
  • io-console 0.8.1
  • io-nonblock 0.3.2
  • io-wait 0.3.2
  • json 2.15.2
  • net-http 0.7.0
  • openssl 4.0.0.pre
  • optparse 0.8.0
  • pp 0.6.3
  • prism 1.6.0
  • psych 5.2.6
  • resolv 0.6.3
  • stringio 3.1.8.dev
  • strscan 3.1.6.dev
  • timeout 0.4.4
  • uri 1.1.0
  • weakref 0.1.4
  • zlib 3.2.2

The following bundled gems are added.

The following bundled gems are updated.

  • minitest 5.26.0
  • rake 13.3.1
  • test-unit 3.7.0
  • rexml 3.4.4
  • net-ftp 0.3.9
  • net-imap 0.5.12
  • net-smtp 0.5.1
  • matrix 0.4.3
  • prime 0.1.4
  • rbs 3.9.5
  • debug 1.11.0
  • base64 0.3.0
  • bigdecimal 3.3.1
  • drb 2.2.3
  • syslog 0.3.0
  • csv 3.3.5
  • repl_type_completor 0.1.11

=== Supported platforms ===

=== Compatibility issues ===

  • The following methods were removed from Ractor due because of Ractor::Port:

    • Ractor.yield
    • Ractor#take
    • Ractor#close_incoming
    • Ractor#close_outgoging

  • ObjectSpace._id2ref is deprecated.

=== Stdlib compatibility issues ===

  • CGI library is removed from the default gems. Now we only provide cgi/escape for the following methods:

    • CGI.escape and CGI.unescape
    • CGI.escapeHTML and CGI.unescapeHTML
    • CGI.escapeURIComponent and CGI.unescapeURIComponent
    • CGI.escapeElement and CGI.unescapeElement

  • With the move of Set from stdlib to core class, set/sorted_set.rb has been removed, and SortedSet is no longer an autoloaded constant. Please install the sorted_set gem and require 'sorted_set' to use SortedSet.

=== C API updates ===

  • IO
    ** rb_thread_fd_close is deprecated and now a no-op. If you need to expose file descriptors from C extensions to Ruby code, create an IO instance using RUBY_IO_MODE_EXTERNAL and use rb_io_close(io) to close it (this also interrupts and waits for all pending operations on the IO instance). Directly closing file descriptors does not interrupt pending operations, and may lead to undefined behaviour. In other words, if two IO objects share the same file descriptor, closing one does not affect the other.

=== Implementation improvements ===

==== Ractor ====

A lot of work has gone into making Ractors more stable, performant, and usable. These improvements bring Ractors implementation closer to leaving experimental status.

  • Performance improvements
    ** Frozen strings and the symbol table internally use a lock-free hash set
    ** Method cache lookups avoid locking in most cases
    ** Class (and geniv) instance variable access is faster and avoids locking
    ** Cache contention is avoided during object allocation
    ** object_id avoids locking in most cases
  • Bug fixes and stability
    ** Fixed possible deadlocks when combining Ractors and Threads
    ** Fixed issues with require and autoload in a Ractor
    ** Fixed encoding/transcoding issues across Ractors
    ** Fixed race conditions in GC operations and method invalidation
    ** Fixed issues with processes forking after starting a Ractor

=== 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 3.5.0-preview2, ZJIT is not yet ready for speeding up most benchmarks. Please refrain from evaluating ZJIT just yet. Stay tuned for the Ruby 3.5 release.
  • RJIT
    ** –rjit is removed. We will move the implementation of the third-party JIT API to the [GitHub - ruby/rjit ruby/rjit] repository.

Feedback :open_book:

Benefit to Fedora :open_book:

With a latest release, Ruby language is supporting the newest language features, which enables even faster and easier development of Ruby applications.

Scope :open_book:

  • Proposal owners:
    ** Finish packaging of Ruby 3.5. Current changes available in branch Making sure you're not a bot!
    ** Rebuilding of Ruby packages providing native extensions (i.e. packages which depends on libruby).

** Rebuild of packages with binary extensions (i.e. packages which depends on libruby) will be handled automatically, but some packages might need fixes/updates to support Ruby 3.5 properly.

** The packages are going to be rebuild in side-tag, but that does not need releng involvement nowadays.

  • Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)

  • Alignment with the Fedora Strategy:

Upgrade/compatibility impact :open_book:

  • User specific Ruby binary extensions need to be rebuild.
  • Adjustments to new language features will be needed.
  • Ruby packages/application dependencies might need to be adjusted if newly bundled gems are used.

Early Testing (Optional) :open_book:

How To Test :open_book:

  • No special hardware is needed.
  • To test, install Ruby 3.5. The test builds are published in copr Making sure you're not a bot!
  • Try to locally rebuild your packages using Ruby 3.5.
  • Use the packages with your applications previously written in Ruby.
  • If something doesn’t work as it should, let us know.

User Experience :open_book:

The Ruby programs/scripts should behave as they were used to.

Dependencies :open_book: 

$ dnf repoquery --disablerepo='*' --enablerepo=rawhide --enablerepo=rawhide-source --arch=src --whatrequires 'ruby-devel' | sort | uniq | wc -l
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Contingency Plan :open_book:

Documentation :open_book:

Release Notes :open_book:

Last edited by @alking 2025-11-10T14:31:08Z

Last edited by @alking 2025-11-10T14:31:08Z

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How do you feel about the proposal as written?

  • Strongly in favor
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  • Neutral
  • Opposed, but could be convinced
  • Strongly opposed
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FTR, upstream changed the next version from 3.5 to 4.0 Ruby 4.0.0 preview2 Released

I have moved the wiki page to Changes/Ruby 4.0 - Fedora Project Wiki and changed linked repos, builds, mentions, and so on, to the recent version.

Aside from the number change, the plan and all other outlined items from the original proposal remain the same.

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This change proposal has now been submitted to FESCo with ticket #3508 for voting.

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