Ruby 2.5 now available on Bitnami

We are happy to announce the release of Ruby 2.5. The Bitnami Ruby Stack provides a complete, ready-to-run development environment for Ruby on Rails. This release comes with lots of new features and improvements.

Here are some highlights:

• rescue/else/ensure are allowed inside do/end blocks.
• Add yield_self to yield given block in its context. Unlike tap, it returns the result of the block. 
• Support branch coverage and method coverage measurement. The branch coverage indicates which branches are executed and which are not.
• Struct.new can create classes that accept keyword arguments.
• Top-level constant look-up is no longer available.
• About 5-10% performance improvement by removing all trace instructions from overall bytecode (instruction sequences).
• Block passing by a block parameter is about 3 times faster than Ruby 2.4.
• Mutex is rewritten to be smaller and faster.
• ERB now generates code from a template twice as fast as Ruby 2.4.

You can read about all the new features and improvements in the official release notes.

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