We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.2.0.
Ruby 2.2 includes many new features and improvements for the
increasingly
diverse and expanding demands for Ruby.
For example, Ruby’s Garbage Collector is now able to collect Symbol
type objects.
This reduces memory usage of Symbols; because GC was previously unable
to collect them before 2.2.
Since Rails 5.0 will require Symbol GC, it will support only Ruby 2.2 or
later.
(See Rails 4.2 release
post for
details.)
Also, a reduced pause time thanks to the new Incremental Garbage
Collector will be helpful for running Rails applications. Recent
developments mentioned on the Rails
blog suggest that Rails 5.0 will take
advantage of Incremental GC as well as Symbol GC.
Another feature related to memory management is an additional option
for configure.in to use jemalloc
Feature #9113.
This feature is still experimental and currently disabled by default
until we gather performance data and more use cases. When we are
convinced of the benefits, this feature will be enabled by default.
Experimental support for using vfork(2) with system() and spawn() have
also been added. You can read more detail on tanaka-san’s blog in
Japanese.
This could potentially bring huge speed-up when a large process
executes external commands many times.
However vfork(2) is still not well understood and a potentially
harmful system call. We would like to experiment to find out how much
benefit can be gained by gathering performance data and use cases.
Try and enjoy programming with Ruby 2.2.0, and report us your findings!
Notable Changes since 2.1
-
Incremental GC (YARV
Maniacs No.12) -
Symbol GC (presentation
at RubyKaigi 2014) - configure --with-jemalloc Feature
#9113 - core libraries:
- bundled libraries:
- Update Psych 2.0.8
- Update Rake 10.4.2
- Update RDoc 4.2.0
- Update RubyGems 2.4.5
- Update test-unit 3.0.8 (removed from repository but bundled
in tarball) - Update minitest 5.4.3 (removed from repository but bundled in
tarball) - Deprecate mathn
- C API
- Remove deprecated APIs
See NEWS in ruby repository
(WIP) for details.
With those changes, 1557 files changed, 125039 insertions(+), 74376
deletions(-) from v2.1.0!
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