Ruby 3.5.0 preview1 Released

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We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 3.5.0-preview1. Ruby 3.5 updates its Unicode version to 15.1.0, and so on.

Language changes

• *nil no longer calls nil.to_a, similar to how **nil does not call nil.to_hash. [[Feature #21047]]

Core classes updates

Note: We’re only listing notable updates of Core class.

• Binding

  <ul>
    <li><code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">Binding#local_variables</code> does no longer include numbered parameters.
  

  Also, Binding#local_variable_get and Binding#local_variable_set reject to handle numbered parameters.
  [[Bug #21049]]

IO

<ul>
  <li><code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">IO.select</code> accepts +Float::INFINITY+ as a timeout argument.

[[Feature #20610]]

String

<ul>
  <li>Update Unicode to Version 15.1.0 and Emoji Version 15.1. [[Feature #19908]]

(also applies to Regexp)

Standard Library updates

Note: We’re only listing notable updates of Standard librarires.

• ostruct 0.6.1
• pstore 0.2.0
• benchmark 0.4.0
• logger 1.7.0
• rdoc 6.13.1
• win32ole 1.9.2
• irb 1.15.2
• reline 0.6.1
• readline 0.0.4
• fiddle 1.1.6

Compatibility issues

Note: Excluding feature bug fixes.

Standard library compatibility issues

C API updates

Miscellaneous changes

See https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025/04/18/ruby-3-5-0-preview1-released/