# Ruby 3.0

> The "Ruby 3x3" promise, delivered on Christmas Day 2020.

- December 25, 2020: Ruby 3.0 released ("Ruby 3x3")

Ruby 3.0 shipped on **December 25, 2020**, delivering on [Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto](https://chunkybacon.dev/people/matz.md)'s long-stated "Ruby 3x3" goal of making Ruby three times faster than Ruby 2.0, alongside new concurrency tools like Ractor. Like the releases before it, it landed as part of [The Christmas-release tradition](https://chunkybacon.dev/stories/the-christmas-release-tradition.md).

## Sources
- Ruby 3.0.0 Released (official announcement, ruby-lang.org): https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2020/12/25/ruby-3-0-0-released/

---

Source: https://chunkybacon.dev/timeline/ruby-3-0/
License: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)