relnotes/v0.51.0.md
### New features
* [#4791](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/pull/4791): Add new `Rails/UnknownEnv` cop. ([@pocke][])
* [#4690](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/4690): Add new `Lint/UnneededRequireStatement` cop. ([@koic][])
* [#4813](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/pull/4813): Add new `Style/StderrPuts` cop. ([@koic][])
* [#4796](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/pull/4796): Add new `Lint/RedundantWithObject` cop. ([@koic][])
* [#4663](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/4663): Add new `Style/CommentedKeyword` cop. ([@donjar][])
* Add `IndentationWidth` configuration for `Layout/Tab` cop. ([@rrosenblum][])
* [#4854](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/pull/4854): Add new `Lint/RegexpAsCondition` cop. ([@pocke][])
* [#4862](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/pull/4862): Add `MethodDefinitionMacros` option to `Naming/PredicateName` cop. ([@koic][])
* [#4874](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/pull/4874): Add new `Gemspec/OrderedDependencies` cop. ([@sue445][])
* [#4840](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/pull/4840): Add new `Style/MixinUsage` cop. ([@koic][])
* [#1952](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/1952): Add new `Style/DateTime` cop. ([@dpostorivo][])
### Bug fixes
* [#3312](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/3312): Make `Rails/Date` Correct false positive on `#to_time` for strings ending in UTC-"Z". ([@erikdstock][])
* [#4741](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/4741): Make `Style/SafeNavigation` correctly exclude methods called without dot. ([@drenmi][])
* [#4740](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/4740): Make `Lint/RescueWithoutErrorClass` aware of modifier form `rescue`. ([@drenmi][])
* [#4745](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/4745): Make `Style/SafeNavigation` ignore negated continuations. ([@drenmi][])
* [#4732](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/4732): Prevent `Performance/HashEachMethods` from registering an offense when `#each` follows `#to_a`. ([@drenmi][])
* [#4730](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/4730): False positive on Lint/InterpolationCheck. ([@koic][])
* [#4751](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/4751): Prevent `Rails/HasManyOrHasOneDependent` cop from registering offense if `:through` option was specified. ([@smakagon][])
* [#4737](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/4737): Fix ReturnInVoidContext cop when `return` is in top scope. ([@frodsan][])
* [#4776](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/4776): Non utf-8 magic encoding comments are now respected. ([@deivid-rodriguez][])
* [#4241](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/4241): Prevent `Rails/Blank` and `Rails/Present` from breaking when there is no explicit receiver. ([@rrosenblum][])
* [#4814](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/4814): Prevent `Rails/Blank` from breaking on send with an argument. ([@pocke][])
* [#4759](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/4759): Make `Naming/HeredocDelimiterNaming` and `Naming/HeredocDelimiterCase` aware of more delimiter patterns. ([@drenmi][])
* [#4823](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/4823): Make `Lint/UnusedMethodArgument` and `Lint/UnusedBlockArgument` aware of overriding assignments. ([@akhramov][])
* [#4830](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/4830): Prevent `Lint/BooleanSymbol` from truncating symbol's value in the message when offense is located in the new syntax hash. ([@akhramov][])
* [#4747](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/4747): Fix `Rails/HasManyOrHasOneDependent` cop incorrectly flags `with_options` blocks. ([@koic][])
* [#4836](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/4836): Make `Rails/OutputSafety` aware of safe navigation operator. ([@drenmi][])
* [#4843](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/4843): Make `Lint/ShadowedException` cop aware of same system error code. ([@koic][])
* [#4757](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/4757): Make `Style/TrailingUnderscoreVariable` work for nested assignments. ([@donjar][])
* [#4597](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/pull/4597): Fix `Style/StringLiterals` cop not registering an offense on single quoted strings containing an escaped single quote when configured to use double quotes. ([@promisedlandt][])
* [#4850](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/4850): `Lint/UnusedMethodArgument` respects `IgnoreEmptyMethods` setting by ignoring unused method arguments for singleton methods. ([@jmks][])
* [#2040](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2040): Document how to write a custom cop. ([@jonatas][])
### Changes
* [#4746](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/pull/4746): The `Lint/InvalidCharacterLiteral` cop has been removed since it was never being actually triggered. ([@deivid-rodriguez][])
* [#4789](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/pull/4789): Analyzing code that needs to support MRI 1.9 is no longer supported. ([@deivid-rodriguez][])
* [#4582](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/4582): `Severity` and other common parameters can be configured on department level. ([@jonas054][])
* [#4787](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/pull/4787): Analyzing code that needs to support MRI 2.0 is no longer supported. ([@deivid-rodriguez][])
* [#4787](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/pull/4787): RuboCop no longer installs on MRI 2.0. ([@deivid-rodriguez][])
* [#4266](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/4266): Download the inherited config files of a remote file from the same remote. ([@tdeo][])
* [#4853](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/pull/4853): Make `Lint/LiteralInCondition` cop aware of `!` and `not`. ([@pocke][])
* [#4864](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/pull/4864): Rename `Lint/LiteralInCondition` to `Lint/LiteralAsCondition`. ([@pocke][])
[@pocke]: https://github.com/pocke
[@koic]: https://github.com/koic
[@donjar]: https://github.com/donjar
[@rrosenblum]: https://github.com/rrosenblum
[@sue445]: https://github.com/sue445
[@dpostorivo]: https://github.com/dpostorivo
[@erikdstock]: https://github.com/erikdstock
[@drenmi]: https://github.com/drenmi
[@smakagon]: https://github.com/smakagon
[@frodsan]: https://github.com/frodsan
[@deivid-rodriguez]: https://github.com/deivid-rodriguez
[@akhramov]: https://github.com/akhramov
[@promisedlandt]: https://github.com/promisedlandt
[@jmks]: https://github.com/jmks
[@jonatas]: https://github.com/jonatas
[@jonas054]: https://github.com/jonas054
[@tdeo]: https://github.com/tdeo