v3.6.0 (2026-01-21)

First release of the new year!

This version comes with some performance improvements (speeds faker load time by 17%!) and removal of deprecated generators.

It also drops support to Ruby's EOL 3.0. The minimum supported Ruby version is 3.1.

Drops support for Ruby 3.0

• Drop support for Ruby EOL 3.0 by @stefannibrasil in #3167

Removes deprecated generators

• Faker::Twitter and Faker::BossaNova have been removed. Please use the new generators Faker::X and Faker::Music::BossaNova and check the new docs for more details in #3190

Improvements and bug fixes

• Autoload OpenSSL by @stefannibrasil and @thdaraujo in #3188 - this speeds faker load time by 17%!
• Fix typos in README.md by @CarlosCalgaro in #3156
• fix: badly anchored regexes by @thdaraujo in #3181
• Benchmark revamp + run benchmark as part of CI by @stefannibrasil in #3176
• Add reformat locales rake task by @thdaraujo in #3061
• Add option to trigger GH workflows manually by @stefannibrasil in #3187

Update development dependencies

• Bump bundler version by @stefannibrasil in #3165
• Add GitHub actions to dependabot workflow by @stefannibrasil in #3168
• Bump pry from 0.15.2 to 0.16.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #3175
• Bump i18n from 1.14.7 to 1.14.8 by @dependabot[bot] in #3174
• Bump yard from 0.9.37 to 0.9.38 by @dependabot[bot] in #3173
• Bump actions/checkout from 3 to 6 by @dependabot[bot] in #3170
• Bump test-unit from 3.7.1 to 3.7.7 by @dependabot[bot] in #3172
• Bump github/codeql-action from 2 to 4 by @dependabot[bot] in #3169
• Bump rubocop from 1.81.7 to 1.82.1 by @dependabot[bot] in #3171
• Bump minitest from 5.26.1 to 5.27.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #3177
• Bump 'rdoc' dependency, handle 'erb' version constraint with Ruby 3.1 and improve CI bundle cache by @stefannibrasil in #3185

New Contributors

• @CarlosCalgaro made their first contribution in #3156

Full Changelog: v3.5.3...v3.6.0