Issue #19289 has been updated by peterzhu2118 (Peter Zhu). I'm not sure why ABI version checking was removed for release versions of Ruby. In the development meeting for the feature, it was decided that we'll keep the same behaviour for development and release versions.
ko1: Will the ABI version be included in the release version? Or it is only for master branch? peter: Curently, the check is done only for development branch mame: I don't like a check only for development branch. When we try to create a tarball for release, something weird may happen. ko1: If so, we can leave the ABI version for release branch.
[Source](https://github.com/ruby/dev-meeting-log/blob/master/DevMeeting-2022-02-17.md...) ---------------------------------------- Bug #19289: RbConfig::CONFIG["STRIP"] should keep `rb_abi_version` and `rb_abi_version` should always be part of Ruby https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19289#change-100906 * Author: Eregon (Benoit Daloze) * Status: Open * Priority: Normal * Backport: 2.7: UNKNOWN, 3.0: UNKNOWN, 3.1: UNKNOWN, 3.2: UNKNOWN ---------------------------------------- From https://github.com/grpc/grpc/pull/31970 and https://github.com/redis-rb/redis-client/issues/58 First, I think we could add `-K rb_abi_version` to `RbConfig::CONFIG["STRIP"]` so it's automatically kept if `RbConfig::CONFIG["STRIP"]` is used (and that should be used if one strips any native extension). Second, I think it would be much better if the symbol is kept also for releases. The check could be kept too for safety (e.g., it can detect Ruby 3.3.0 gems used by Ruby 3.2.0), the value of `rb_abi_version` would just be the same as `RbConfig::CONFIG["ruby_version"]`, i.e., 3.2.0 for Ruby 3.2.x. Any difference between dev and release builds is a risk of not properly testing the release, and there is proof here that removing the symbol in releases causes troubles. Doing both of these would avoid complex and brittle logic upstream as in grpc and redis-client to deal with the new symbol. cc @nobu @peterzhu2118 -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/