relnotes/v0.36.0.md
An epic release - the one which contains the most new features and
bugfixes since the inception of the project! A huge thanks to the
amazing contributors who helped make it a reality!
Notably, this release adds support for Ruby 2.3 and introduces the
important concept of a target Ruby version - meaning RuboCop will no
longer try to parse the code with a parser matching the interpreter
you're using, but a parser matching the target Ruby version you
specified in `.rubocop.yml`. This way you won't introduce accidentally
syntax from a newer Ruby when you want to maintain
compatibility with certain older Rubies.
Enjoy!
### New features
* [#2598](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/pull/2598): New cop `Lint/RandOne` checks for `rand(1)`, `Kernel.rand(1.0)` and similar calls. Such call are most likely a mistake because they always return `0`. ([@DNNX][])
* [#2590](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/pull/2590): New cop `Performance/DoubleStartEndWith` checks for two `start_with?` (or `end_with?`) calls joined by `||` with the same receiver, like `str.start_with?('x') || str.start_with?('y')` and suggests using one call instead: `str.start_with?('x', 'y')`. ([@DNNX][])
* [#2583](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/pull/2583): New cop `Performance/TimesMap` checks for `x.times.map{}` and suggests replacing them with `Array.new(x){}`. ([@DNNX][])
* [#2581](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/pull/2581): New cop `Lint/NextWithoutAccumulator` finds bare `next` in `reduce`/`inject` blocks which assigns `nil` to the accumulator. ([@mvidner][])
* [#2529](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/pull/2529): Add EnforcedStyle config parameter to IndentArray. ([@jawshooah][])
* [#2479](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/pull/2479): Add option `AllowHeredoc` to `Metrics/LineLength`. ([@fphilipe][])
* [#2416](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/pull/2416): New cop `Style/ConditionalAssignment` checks for assignment of the same variable in all branches of conditionals and replaces them with a single assignment to the return of the conditional. ([@rrosenblum][])
* [#2410](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/pull/2410): New cop `Style/IndentAssignment` checks the indentation of the first line of the right-hand-side of a multi-line assignment. ([@panthomakos][])
* [#2431](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2431): Add `IgnoreExecutableScripts` option to `Style/FileName`. ([@sometimesfood][])
* [#2460](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/pull/2460): New cop `Style/UnneededInterpolation` checks for strings that are just an interpolated expression. ([@cgriego][])
* [#2361](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/pull/2361): `Style/MultilineAssignmentLayout` cop checks for a newline after the assignment operator in a multi-line assignment. ([@panthomakos][])
* [#2462](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2462): `Lint/UselessAccessModifier` can catch more types of useless access modifiers. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#1677](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/1677): Add new `Performance/Casecmp` cop. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#1677](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/1677): Add new `Performance/RangeInclude` cop. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#1677](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/1677): Add new `Performance/RedundantSortBy` cop. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#1677](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/1677): Add new `Performance/LstripRstrip` cop. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#1677](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/1677): Add new `Performance/StartWith` cop. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#1677](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/1677): Add new `Performance/EndWith` cop. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#1677](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/1677): Add new `Performance/RedundantMerge` cop. ([@alexdowad][])
* `Lint/Debugger` cop can now auto-correct offenses. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#1677](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/1677): Add new `Performance/RedundantMatch` cop. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#1677](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/1677): Add new `Performance/RedundantBlockCall` cop. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#1954](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/1954): `Lint/UnneededDisable` can now autocorrect. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2501](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2501): Add new `Lint/ImplicitStringConcatenation` cop. ([@alexdowad][])
* Add new `Style/RedundantParentheses` cop. ([@lumeet][])
* [#1346](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/1346): `Style/SpecialGlobalVars` can be configured to use either `use_english_names` or `use_perl_names` styles. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2426](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2426): New `Style/NestedParenthesizedCalls` cop checks for non-parenthesized method calls nested inside a parenthesized call, like `method1(method2 arg)`. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2502](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2502): The `--stdin` and `--auto-correct` CLI options can be combined, and if you do so, corrected code is printed to stdout. ([@alexdowad][])
* `Style/ConditionalAssignment` works on conditionals with a common aref assignment (like `array[index] = val`) or attribute assignment (like `self.attribute = val`). ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2476](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2476): `Style/GuardClause` catches if..else nodes with one branch which terminates the execution of the current scope. ([@alexdowad][])
* New `Style/IdenticalConditionalBranches` flags `if..else` and `case..when..else` constructs with an identical line at the end of each branch. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#207](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/207): Add new `Lint/FloatOutOfRange` cop which catches floating-point literals which are too large or too small for Ruby to represent. ([@alexdowad][])
* `Style/GuardClause` doesn't report offenses in places where correction would make a line too long. ([@alexdowad][])
* `Lint/DuplicateMethods` can find duplicate method definitions in many more circumstances, even across multiple files; however, it ignores definitions inside `if` or something which could be a DSL method. ([@alexdowad][])
* A warning is printed if an invalid `EnforcedStyle` is configured. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#1367](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/1367): New `Lint/IneffectiveAccessModifier` checks for access modifiers which are erroneously applied to a singleton method, where they have no effect. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#1614](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/1614): `Lint/BlockAlignment` aligns block end with splat operator when applied to a splatted method call. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2263](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2263): Warn if `task.options = %w(--format ...)` is used when configuring `RuboCop::RakeTask`; this should be `task.formatters = ...` instead. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2511](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2511): `--no-offense-counts` CLI option suppresses the inclusion of offense count lines in auto-generated config. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2504](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2504): New `AllowForAlignment` config parameter for `Style/SingleSpaceBeforeFirstArg` allows the insertion of extra spaces before the first argument if it aligns it with something on the preceding or following line. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2478](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2478): `Style/ExtraSpacing` has new `ForceEqualSignAlignment` config parameter which forces = signs on consecutive lines to be aligned, and it can auto-correct. ([@alexdowad][])
* `Lint/BlockAlignment` aligns block end with unary operators like ~, -, or ! when such operators are applied to the method call taking the block. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#1460](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/1460): `Style/Alias` supports both `prefer_alias` and `prefer_alias_method` styles. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#1569](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/1569): New `ExpectMatchingDefinition` config parameter for `Style/FileName` makes it check for a class or module definition in each file which corresponds to the file name and path. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2480](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/pull/2480): Add a configuration to `Style/ConditionalAssignment` to check and correct conditionals that contain multiple assignments. ([@rrosenblum][])
* [#2480](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/pull/2480): Allow `Style/ConditionalAssignment` to correct assignment in ternary operations. ([@rrosenblum][])
* [#2480](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/pull/2480): Allow `Style/ConditionalAssignment` to correct comparable methods. ([@rrosenblum][])
* [#1633](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/1633): New cop `Style/MultilineMethodCallIndentation` takes over the responsibility for checking alignment of methods from the `Style/MultilineOperationIndentation` cop. ([@jonas054][])
* [#2472](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/pull/2472): New cop `Style/MultilineArrayBraceLayout` checks that the closing brace in an array literal is symmetrical with respect to the opening brace and the array elements. ([@panthomakos][])
* [#1543](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/1543): `Style/WordArray` has both `percent` and `brackets` (which enforces the use of bracketed arrays for strings) styles. ([@alexdowad][])
* `Style/SpaceAroundOperators` has `AllowForAlignment` config parameter which allows extra spaces on the left if they serve to align the operator with another. ([@alexdowad][])
* `Style/SymbolArray` has both `percent` and `brackets` (which enforces the user of bracketed arrays for symbols) styles. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2343](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2343): Entire cop types (or "departments") can be disabled using in .rubocop.yml using config like `Style: Enabled: false`. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2399](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2399): New `start_of_line` style for `Lint/EndAlignment` aligns a closing `end` keyword with the start of the line where the opening keyword appears. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#1545](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/1545): New `Regex` config parameter for `Style/FileName` allows user to provide their own regex for validating file names. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2253](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2253): New `DefaultFormatter` config parameter can be used to set formatter from within .rubocop.yml. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2481](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2481): New `WorstOffendersFormatter` prints a list of files with offenses (and offense counts), showing the files with the most offenses first. ([@alexdowad][])
* New `IfInsideElse` cop catches `if..end` nodes which can be converted into an `elsif` instead, reducing the nesting level. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#1725](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/1725): --color CLI option forces color output, even when not printing to a TTY. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2549](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2549): New `ConsistentQuotesInMultiline` config param for `Style/StringLiterals` forces all literals which are concatenated using \ to use the same quote style. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2560](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2560): `Style/AccessModifierIndentation`, `Style/CaseIndentation`, `Style/FirstParameterIndentation`, `Style/IndentArray`, `Style/IndentAssignment`, `Style/IndentHash`, `Style/MultilineMethodCallIndentation`, and `Style/MultilineOperationIndentation` all have a new `IndentationWidth` parameter which can be used to override the indentation width from `Style/IndentationWidth`. ([@alexdowad][])
* Add new `Performance/HashEachMethods` cop. ([@ojab][])
* New cop `Style/FrozenStringLiteralComment` will check for and add the comment `# frozen_string_literal: true` to the top of files. This will help with upgrading to Ruby 3.0. ([@rrosenblum][])
### Bug Fixes
* [#2594](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2594): `Style/EmptyLiteral` autocorrector respects `Style/StringLiterals:EnforcedStyle` config. ([@DNNX][])
* [#2411](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2411): Make local inherited configuration override configuration loaded from gems. ([@jonas054][])
* [#2413](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2413): Allow `%Q` for dynamic strings with double quotes inside them. ([@jonas054][])
* [#2404](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2404): `Style/Next` does not remove comments when auto-correcting. ([@lumeet][])
* `Style/Next` handles auto-correction of nested offenses. ([@lumeet][])
* `Style/VariableInterpolation` now detects non-numeric regex back references. ([@cgriego][])
* `ProgressFormatter` fully respects the `--no-color` switch. ([@savef][])
* Replace `Time.zone.current` with `Time.current` on `Rails::TimeZone` cop message. ([@volmer][])
* [#2451](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2451): `Style/StabbyLambdaParentheses` does not treat method calls named `lambda` as lambdas. ([@domcleal][])
* [#2463](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2463): Allow comments before an access modifier. ([@codebeige][])
* [#2471](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2471): `Style/MethodName` doesn't choke on methods which are defined inside methods. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2449](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2449): `Style/StabbyLambdaParentheses` only checks lambdas in the arrow form. ([@lumeet][])
* [#2456](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2456): `Lint/NestedMethodDefinition` doesn't register offenses for method definitions inside an eval block (either `instance_eval`, `class_eval`, or `module_eval`). ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2464](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2464): `Style/ParallelAssignment` understands aref and attribute assignments, and doesn't warn if they can't be correctly rearranged into a series of single assignments. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2482](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2482): `Style/AndOr` doesn't raise an exception when trying to autocorrect `!variable or ...`. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2446](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2446): `Style/Tab` doesn't register errors for leading tabs which occur inside a string literal (including heredoc). ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2452](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2452): `Style/TrailingComma` incorrectly categorizes single-line hashes in methods calls. ([@panthomakos][])
* [#2441](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2441): `Style/AlignParameters` doesn't crash if it finds nested offenses. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2436](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2436): `Style/SpaceInsideHashLiteralBraces` doesn't mangle a hash literal which is not surrounded by curly braces, but has another hash literal which does as its first key. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2483](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2483): `Style/Attr` differentiate between attr_accessor and attr_reader. ([@weh][])
* `Style/ConditionalAssignment` doesn't crash if it finds a `case` with an empty branch. ([@lumeet][])
* [#2506](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2506): `Lint/FormatParameterMismatch` understands %{} and %<> interpolations. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2145](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2145): `Lint/ParenthesesAsGroupedExpression` ignores calls with multiple arguments, since they are not ambiguous. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2484](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2484): Remove two vulnerabilities in cache handling. ([@jonas054][])
* [#2517](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2517): `Lint/UselessAccessModifier` doesn't think that an access modifier applied to `attr_writer` is useless. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2518](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2518): `Style/ConditionalAssignment` doesn't think that branches using `<<` and `[]=` should be combined. ([@alexdowad][])
* `CharacterLiteral` auto-corrector now properly corrects `?'`. ([@bfontaine][])
* [#2313](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2313): `Rails/FindEach` doesn't break code which uses `order(...).each`, `limit(...).each`, and so on. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#1938](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/1938): `Rails/FindBy` doesn't autocorrect `where(...).first` to `find_by`, since the returned record is often different. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#1801](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/1801): `EmacsFormatter` strips newlines out of error messages, if there are any. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2534](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2534): `Style/RescueEnsureAlignment` works on `rescue` nested inside a `class` or `module` block. ([@alexdowad][])
* `Lint/BlockAlignment` does not refer to a block terminator as `end` when it is actually `}`. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2540](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2540): `Lint/FormatParameterMismatch` understands format specifiers with multiple flags. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2538](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2538): `Style/SpaceAroundOperators` doesn't eat newlines. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2531](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2531): `Style/AndOr` autocorrects in cases where parentheses must be added, even inside a nested begin node. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2450](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2450): `Style/Next` adjusts indentation when auto-correcting, to avoid introducing new offenses. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2066](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2066): `Style/TrivialAccessors` doesn't flag what appear to be trivial accessor method definitions, if they are nested inside a call to `instance_eval`. ([@alexdowad][])
* `Style/SymbolArray` doesn't flag arrays of symbols if a symbol contains a space character. ([@alexdowad][])
* `Style/SymbolArray` can auto-correct offenses. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2546](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2546): Report when two `rubocop:disable` comments (not the single line kind) for a given cop appear in a file with no `rubocop:enable` in between. ([@jonas054][])
* [#2552](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2552): `Style/Encoding` can auto-correct files with a blank first line. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2556](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2556): `Style/SpecialGlobalVariables` generates auto-config correctly. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2565](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2565): Let `Style/SpaceAroundOperators` leave spacing around `=>` to `Style/AlignHash`. ([@jonas054][])
* [#2569](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2569): `Style/MethodCallParentheses` doesn't register warnings for `object.()` syntax, since it is handled by `Style/LambdaCall`. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2570](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2570): `Performance/RedundantMerge` doesn't break code with a modifier `if` when autocorrecting. ([@alexdowad][])
* `Performance/RedundantMerge` doesn't break code with a modifier `while` or `until` when autocorrecting. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2574](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2574): `variable` style for `Lint/EndAlignment` is working again. ([@alexdowad][])
* `Lint/EndAlignment` can autocorrect offenses on the RHS of an assignment to an instance variable, class variable, constant, and so on; previously, it only worked if the LHS was a local variable. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2580](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2580): `Style/StringReplacement` doesn't break code when autocorrection involves a regex with embedded escapes (like /\n/). ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2582](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2582): `Style/AlignHash` doesn't move a key so far left that it goes onto the previous line (in an attempt to align). ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2588](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2588): `Style/SymbolProc` doesn't break code when autocorrecting a method call with a trailing comma in the argument list. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2448](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2448): `Style/TrailingCommaInArguments` and `Style/TrailingCommaInLiteral` don't special-case single-item lists in a way which contradicts the documentation. ([@alexdowad][])
* Fix for remote config files to only load from on http and https URLs. ([@ptrippett][])
* [#2604](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2604): `Style/FileName` doesn't fail on empty files when `ExpectMatchingDefinition` is true. ([@alexdowad][])
* `Style/RedundantFreeze` registers offences for frozen dynamic symbols. ([@segiddins][])
* [#2609](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2609): All cops which rely on the `AutocorrectUnlessChangingAST` module can now autocorrect files which contain `__FILE__`. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2608](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2608): `Style/ConditionalAssignment` can autocorrect `=~` within a ternary expression. ([@alexdowad][])
### Changes
* [#2427](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/pull/2427): Allow non-snake-case file names (e.g. `some-random-script`) for Ruby scripts that have a shebang. ([@sometimesfood][])
* [#2430](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/pull/2430): `Lint/UnneededDisable` now adds "unknown cop" to messages if cop names in `rubocop:disable` comments are unrecognized, or "did you mean ..." if they are misspelled names of existing cops. ([@jonas054][])
* [#947](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/947): `Style/Documentation` considers classes and modules which only define constants to be "namespaces", and doesn't flag them for lack of a documentation comment. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2467](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2467): Explicitly inheriting configuration from the rubocop gem in .rubocop.yml is not allowed. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2322](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2322): Output of --auto-gen-config shows content of default config parameters which are Arrays; this is especially useful for SupportedStyles. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#1566](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/1566): When autocorrecting on Windows, line endings are not converted to "\r\n" in untouched portions of the source files; corrected portions may use "\n" rather than "\r\n". ([@alexdowad][])
* New `rake repl` task can be used for experimentation when working on RuboCop. ([@alexdowad][])
* `Lint/SpaceBeforeFirstArg` cop has been removed, since it just duplicates `Style/SingleSpaceBeforeFirstArg`. ([@alexdowad][])
* `Style/SingleSpaceBeforeFirstArg` cop has been renamed to `Style/SpaceBeforeFirstArg`, which more accurately reflects what it now does. ([@alexdowad][])
* `Style/UnneededPercentQ` reports `%q()` strings with what only appears to be an escape, but is not really (there are no escapes in `%q()` strings). ([@alexdowad][])
* `Performance/StringReplacement`, `Performance\StartWith`, and `Performance\EndWith` more accurately identify code which can be improved. ([@alexdowad][])
* The `MultiSpaceAllowedForOperators` config parameter for `Style/SpaceAroundOperators` has been removed, as it is made redundant by `AllowForAlignment`. If someone attempts to use it, config validation will fail with a helpful message. ([@alexdowad][])
* The `RunRailsCops` config parameter in .rubocop.yml is now obsolete. If someone attempts to use it, config validation will fail with a helpful message. ([@alexdowad][])
* If .rubocop.yml contains configuration for a custom cop, no warning regarding "unknown cop" will be printed. The custom cop must inherit from RuboCop::Cop::Cop, and must be loaded into memory for this to work. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2102](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2102): If .rubocop.yml exists in the working directory when running --auto-gen-config, any `Exclude` config parameters in .rubocop.yml will be merged into the generated .rubocop_todo.yml. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#1895](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/1895): Remove `Rails/DefaultScope` cop. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2550](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2550): New `TargetRubyVersion` configuration parameter can be used to specify which version of the Ruby interpreter the inspected code is intended to run on. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2557](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2557): `Style/GuardClause` does not warn about `if` nodes whose condition spans multiple lines. ([@alexdowad][])
* `Style/EmptyLinesAroundClassBody`, `Style/EmptyLinesAroundModuleBody`, and `Style/EmptyLinesAroundBlockBody` accept an empty body with no blank line, even if configured to `empty_lines` style. This is because the empty lines only serve to provide a break between the header, body, and footer, and are redundant if there is no body. ([@alexdowad][])
* [#2554](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2554): `Style/FirstMethodArgumentLineBreak` handles implicit hash arguments without braces; `Style/FirstHashElementLineBreak` still handles those with braces. ([@alexdowad][])
* `Style/TrailingComma` has been split into `Style/TrailingCommaInArguments` and `Style/TrailingCommaInLiteral`. ([@alexdowad][])
* RuboCop returns process exit code 2 if it fails due to bad configuration, bad CLI options, or an internal error. If it runs successfully but finds one or more offenses, it still exits with code 1, as was previously the case. This is helpful when invoking RuboCop programmatically, perhaps from a script. ([@alexdowad][])
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