1.8.2

Standard Library

Collection

• Fix codegen bug with Iterator::ChainIterator (#13412, thanks @straight-shoota)

Log

• Fix Log::Metadata#dup crash with 2+ entries (#13369, thanks @HertzDevil)

Serialization

• Fixup for JSON::Serializable on certain recursively defined types (#13430, thanks @kostya)

Text

• Fix String#scan with empty Regex match at multibyte char (#13387, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (performance) Check subject UTF-8 validity just once for String#gsub, #scan, #split (#13406, thanks @HertzDevil)

Compiler

Codegen

• Always use 0 for offset of StaticArray's @buffer (#13319, thanks @HertzDevil)

Other

• Backport bugfixes to release/1.8 for release 1.8.2 (#3435, thanks @straight-shoota)