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01/01/2026

12:30 PM Ruby Revision 26a5bcd6 (git): [ruby/prism] Fix spacing in the generated #each_child_node

https://github.com/ruby/prism/commit/91f60cb736 Eregon (Benoit Daloze)

12/31/2025

08:00 AM Ruby Feature #8948: Frozen regex

matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) wrote in #note-35:
> I still do not see enough benefit in putting in incompatible changes. Even if we can rewrite all the gems, we will still have incompatibility issues in user applications.
It seems extrem... Eregon (Benoit Daloze)

12/30/2025

09:32 PM Ruby Misc #21804: Getting setup-ruby Earlier

Earlopain (Earlopain _) wrote in #note-6:
> But I think the bigger issue here is that windows builds are not first-party. So even if the release process gets adapted, issues like what [@mdalessio (Mike Dalessio)](/users/443) wrote above... Eregon (Benoit Daloze)

09:17 PM Ruby Misc #21804: Getting setup-ruby Earlier

Eregon (Benoit Daloze) wrote in #note-2:
> So I think this is something to add to the post-release checklist:
@hsbt Would you be willing to do those steps when releasing a new version? Is there a public release checklist somewhere?
Othe... Eregon (Benoit Daloze)

08:52 PM Ruby Misc #21804: Getting setup-ruby Earlier

Earlopain (Earlopain _) wrote in #note-6:
> I don't really see the point of automerging PRs when someone still has to create the release manually. Merging the PRs is not much effort, someone just needs to do it.
I meant the release w... Eregon (Benoit Daloze)

08:38 PM Ruby Misc #21777: DevMeeting-2026-01-14

* [Feature #8948] Frozen regex (eregon)
* Can we merge it now for 4.1? Then there is plenty of time for the few gems that rely on mutable Regexp to adapt.
* We can also revert it if it turns out to be too disrupting. Eregon (Benoit Daloze)

08:37 PM Ruby Feature #8948: Frozen regex

@matz Is it OK to merge https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/14547 now for 4.1?
Then there is plenty of time for the few gems that rely on mutable Regexp to adapt.
BTW I noticed someone else also did a PR for this, so there seems to be ... Eregon (Benoit Daloze)

03:02 PM Ruby Bug #21784 (Closed): Proc#source_location start column seems strange for -> {}

Applied in changeset commit:git|c970d2941d56a862bb9bb3b808cb588c2982f436.
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[Bug #21784] Fix the Proc#source_location start_column for stabby lambdas
* Consistent with plain `blocks` and `for` blocks and methods
where the so... Eregon (Benoit Daloze)

03:02 PM Ruby Bug #21783 (Closed): {Method,UnboundMethod,Proc}#source_location returns columns in bytes and not in characters

Applied in changeset commit:git|cd66d15858a06406d1de854f3e9690d3557a9864.
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[Bug #21783] Fix documentation of {Method,UnboundMethod,Proc}#source_location Eregon (Benoit Daloze)

03:02 PM Ruby Feature #6012 (Closed): Proc#source_location also return the column

Applied in changeset commit:git|d82fc3360d7cfa7e1e1a4dddb668b4c38808538a.
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Reapply "[Feature #6012] Extend `source_location` for end position
* This reverts commit 065c48cdf11a1c4cece84db44ed8624d294f8fd5.
* This functionalit... Eregon (Benoit Daloze)