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Merge #7295
7295: Changelog for first 2.1.0 pre-release r=deivid-rodriguez a=deivid-rodriguez ### What was the end-user problem that led to this PR? The problem was that I want to release a first pre-release of bundler 2.1.0, but I don't have a changelog for it. ### What was your diagnosis of the problem? My diagnosis was that I needed to compile a changelog. ### What is your fix for the problem, implemented in this PR? My fix is write the changelog. ### Why did you choose this fix out of the possible options? I chose this fix because we used to have some automated change log handling, but I'm not sure how it work, so I instead just through each PR including user facing changes manually, with the aid of some helper tasks we have in our Rakefile. This is still a WIP, because I might include some more PRs, and I also want to elaborate a bit on the deprecations that will get enabled, but it should be ready for an initial review. Co-authored-by: David Rodríguez <deivid.rodriguez@riseup.net>
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+# Upgrading
+
+## Bundler 3
+
+The following is a summary of the changes that we plan to introduce in Bundler
+3, why we will be making those changes, and what the deprecation process will
+look like. All these deprecations will be printed by default in the upcoming
+Bundler 2.1 release.
+
+If you don't want to deal with deprecations right now and want to toggle them
+off, you can do it through configuration. Set the `BUNDLE_SILENCE_DEPRECATIONS`
+environment variable to "true", or configure it through `bundle config` either
+globally through `bundle config set silence_deprecations true` command, or
+locally through `bundle config set --local silence_deprecations true`. From now
+on in this document we will assume that all three of these configuration options
+are available, but will only mention `bundle config set <option> <value>`.
+
+As a general note, these changes are intended to improve the experience using
+bundler for _new_ users, who have no existing usage routines nor possibly biased
+opinions about how the tool should work based on how it has historically worked.
+We do understand that changing behaviour that have been existing for years can
+be annoying for old users, that's why we intend to make this process as smooth
+as possible for everyone.
+
+I'll be dividing the deprecations into three groups: CLI deprecations, DSL
+deprecations, and misc deprecations. Let's dive into each of them.
+
+#### CLI deprecations
+
+The CLI defines a set of commands and options that can be used by our users to
+create command lines that bundler can understand. There's a number of changes
+that we plan to make to this set of commands and options.
+
+* Flags passed to `bundle install` that relied on being remembered across invokations have been deprecated.
+
+ In particular, the `--clean`, `--deployment`, `--frozen`, `--no-cache`,
+ `--no-prune`, `--path`, `--shebang`, `--system`, `--without`, and `--with`
+ options to `bundle install`.
+
+ Remembering CLI options has been a source of historical confusion and bug
+ reports, not only for beginners but also for experienced users. A CLI tool
+ should not behave differently accross exactly the same invokations _unless_
+ explicitly configured to do so. This is what configuration is about after all,
+ and things should never be silently configured without the user knowing about
+ it.
+
+ The problem with changing this behavior is that very common workflows are
+ relying on it. For example, when you run `bundle install --without
+ development:test` in production, those flags are persisted in the app's
+ configuration file and further `bundle` invokations will happily ignore
+ development and test gems. This magic will disappear from bundler 3, and
+ you will explicitly need to configure it, either through environment
+ variables, application configuration, or machine configuration. For example,
+ with `bundle config set without development test`.
+
+ The removal of this kind of flag also applies to analogous commands, for
+ example, to `bundle check --path`.
+
+* The `--force` flag to `bundle install` and `bundle update` has been renamed to `--redownload`.
+
+ This is just a simple rename of the flag, to make more apparent what it
+ actually does. This flag forces redownloading every gem, it doesn't "force"
+ anything else.
+
+* `bundle viz` will be removed and extracted to a plugin.
+
+ This is the only bundler command requiring external dependencies, both an OS
+ dependency (the `graphviz` package) and a gem dependency (the `ruby-graphviz`
+ gem). Removing these dependencies will make development easier and it was also
+ seen by the bundler team as an opportunity to develop a [bundler
+ plugin](https://github.com/bundler/bundle-viz) that it's officially maintained
+ by the bundler team, and that users can take as a reference to develop their
+ own plugins. The plugin contains the same code as the old core command, the
+ only difference being that the command is now implemented as `bundle graph`
+ hich is much easier to understand. Have a look at the plugin's repo for more
+ information about how to install and use the new plugin.
+
+* The `bundle console` will be removed and replaced with `bin/console`.
+
+ Over time we found `bundle console` hard to maintain because every user would
+ want to add her own specific tweaks to it. In order to ease maintainance and
+ reduce bikeshedding discussions, we're removing the `bundle console` command
+ in favor of a `bin/console` script created by `bundle gem` on gem generation
+ that users can tweak to their needs.
+
+* The `bundle update` command will no longer update all gems, you'll need to pass `--all` to it.
+
+ The bundler team considers that updating all gems at once should not be the
+ main use case for this command, and that it's better to upgrade gems one at a
+ time (or in groups of related gems). You can still upgrade all gems at once,
+ but now you need the `--all` flag.
+
+* The `bundle install` command will no longer accept a `--binstubs` flag.
+
+ The `--binstubs` option has been removed from `bundle install` and replaced
+ with the `bundle binstubs` command. The `--binstubs` flag would create
+ binstubs for all executables present inside the gems in the project. This was
+ hardly useful since most users will only use a subset of all the binstubs
+ available to them. Also, it would force the introduction of a bunch of most
+ likely unused files into source control. Because of this, binstubs now must
+ must be created and checked into version control individually.
+
+* The `bundle config` command has a new subcommand-based interface.
+
+ We believe the old interface where the kind of operation was guessed from the
+ combination of flags and number of arguments being passed to the command was
+ confusing. Instead we have introduced a compulsory subcommand argument that
+ can be either `list`, `get`, `set` or `unset`. We believe this will make the
+ `config` command much easier to interact with. The old interface is
+ deprecated, but we are giving suggestions about the new commands that should
+ be used along with the deprecation messages.
+
+* The `bundle inject` command is deprecated and replaced with `bundle add`.
+
+ We believe the new command fits the user's mental model better and it supports
+ a wider set of use cases. The interface supported by `bundle inject` works
+ exactly the same in `bundle add`, so it should be easy to migrate to the new
+ command.
+
+#### Helper deprecations
+
+* `Bundler.clean_env`, `Bundler.with_clean_env`, `Bundler.clean_system`, and `Bundler.clean_exec` are deprecated.
+
+ All of these helpers ultimately use `Bundler.clean_env` under the hood, which
+ makes sure all bundler-related environment are removed inside the block it
+ yields.
+
+ After quite a lot user reports, we noticed that users don't usually want this
+ but instead want the bundler environment as it was before the current process
+ was started. Thus, `Bundler.with_original_env`, `Bundler.original_system`, and
+ `Bundler.original_exec` were born. They all use the new `Bundler.original_env`
+ under the hood.
+
+ There's however some specific cases where the good old `Bundler.clean_env`
+ behavior can be useful. For example, when testing Rails generators, you really
+ want an environment where `bundler` is out of the picture. This is why we
+ decided to keep the old behavior under a new more clear name, because we
+ figured the word "clean" was too ambiguous. So we have introduced
+ `Bundler.unbundled_env`, `Bundler.with_unbundled_env`,
+ `Bundler.unbundled_system`, and `Bundler.unbundled_exec`.
+
+* `Bundler.environment` is deprecated in favor of `Bundler.load`.
+
+ We're not sure how people might be using this directly but we have removed the
+ `Bundler::Environment` class which was instantiated by `Bundler.environment`
+ since we realized the `Bundler::Runtime` class was the same thing. During the
+ transition `Bundler.environment` will delegate to `Bundler.load`, which holds
+ the reference to the `Bundler::Environment`.
+
+#### DSL deprecations
+
+The following deprecations in bundler's DSL are meant to prepare for the strict
+source pinning in bundler 3, where the source for every dependency will be
+unambiguously defined.
+
+* Multiple global Gemfile sources will no longer be supported.
+
+ Instead of something like this:
+
+ ```ruby
+ source "https://main_source"
+ source "https://another_source"
+
+ gem "dependency1"
+ gem "dependency2"
+ ```
+
+ do something like this:
+
+ ```ruby
+ source "https://main_source"
+
+ gem "dependency1"
+
+ source "https://another_source" do
+ gem "dependency2"
+ end
+ ```
+
+* Global `path` and `git` sources will no longer be supported.
+
+ Instead of something like this:
+
+ ```ruby
+ path "/my/path/with/gems"
+ git "https://my_git_repo_with_gems"
+
+ gem "dependency1"
+ gem "dependency2"
+ ```
+
+ do something like this:
+
+ ```ruby
+ gem "dependency1", path: "/my/path/with/gems"
+ gem "dependency2", git: "https://my_git_repo_with_gems"
+ ```
+
+ or use the block forms if you have multiple gems for each source and you want
+ to be a bit DRYer:
+
+
+ ```ruby
+ path "/my/path/with/gems" do
+ # gem "dependency1"
+ # ...
+ # gem "dependencyn"
+ end
+
+ git "https://my_git_repo_with_gems" do
+ # gem "dependency1"
+ # ...
+ # gem "dependencyn"
+ end
+ ```
+
+#### Misc deprecations
+
+* Deployment helpers for `vlad` and `capistrano` are being removed.
+
+ These are natural deprecations since the `vlad` tool has had no activity for
+ years whereas `capistrano` 3 has built-in Bundler integration in the form of
+ the `capistrano-bundler` gem, and everyone using Capistrano 3 should be
+ already using that instead. If for some reason, you are still using Capistrano
+ 2, feel free to copy the Capistrano tasks out of the Bundler 2 file
+ `bundler/deployment.rb` and put them into your app.
+
+ In general, we don't want to maintain integrations for every deployment system
+ out there, so that's why we are removing these.