NEWS.md

# NEWS for Ruby 2.8.0 (tentative; to be 3.0.0)

This document is a list of user visible feature changes made between
releases except for bug fixes.

Note that each entry is kept so brief that no reason behind or reference
information is supplied with.  For a full list of changes with all
sufficient information, see the ChangeLog file or Redmine
(e.g. `https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/$FEATURE_OR_BUG_NUMBER`).

## Changes since the 2.7.0 release

### Language changes

### Command line options

### Core classes updates (outstanding ones only)

* Hash

    * Modified method

        * Hash#transform_keys now accepts a hash that maps keys to new
          keys.  [[Feature #16274]]

### Stdlib updates (outstanding ones only)

### Compatibility issues (excluding feature bug fixes)

* Regexp literals are frozen [[Feature #8948]] [[Feature #16377]]

    ```
    /foo/.frozen? #=> true
    ```

* The bundled gems

    net-telnet and xmlrpc has been removed from the bundled gems.
    If you interested in the maintain them, Please comment your plan
    to https://github.com/ruby/xmlrpc or https://github.com/ruby/net-telnet.

### Stdlib compatibility issues (excluding feature bug fixes)

### C API updates

### Implementation improvements

### Miscellaneous changes


[Feature #8948]:  https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8948
[Feature #16274]: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/16274
[Feature #16377]: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/16377