Shopify/liquid v5.6.0

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Highlights

Architectural Changes

• Added new Environment class to manage configuration and state that was previously stored in Template
• Moved tag registration from Template to Environment
• Removed StrainerFactory in favor of Environment-based strainer creation
• Consolidated standard tags into a new Tags module with STANDARD_TAGS constant

Performance Improvements

• Optimized Lexer with a new Lexer2 implementation using jump tables for faster tokenization, requires Ruby 3.4
• Improved variable rendering with specialized handling for different types
• Reduced array allocations by using frozen empty constants

API Changes

• Deprecated several Template class methods in favor of Environment methods
• Added deprecation warnings system
• Changed how filters and tags are registered to use Environment

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed table row handling of break interrupts
• Improved variable output handling for arrays

PRs

• Add concept of Liquid::Environment by @ianks in #1815
• Handle interrupts in table row by @alexcoco in #1818
• Bump to v5.6.0.alpha by @ianks in #1819
• Speed up the lexer for Ruby 3.4+ by @ianks in #1832
• Update liquid docs for named parameters by @graygilmore in #1831
• Faster Variable BlockBody Matching by @ggmichaelgo in #1833
• fix lexer parsing comparison without whitespaces by @ggmichaelgo in #1837
• fix parsing Variable blockbody with multibyte character by @ggmichaelgo in #1835
• raise syntax error from lexer parser with UTF-8 character by @ggmichaelgo in #1839
• fix lexer parsing ID 'contains' as comparison by @ggmichaelgo in #1840
• fix parsing quirky incomplete expressions by @ggmichaelgo in #1838
• remove TagRegistry by @ggmichaelgo in #1845
• propagate Environment on new Context creation by @ggmichaelgo in #1846
• avoid allocating new empty array by @ggmichaelgo in #1843
• Remove Liquid.cache_classes option by @ianks in #1847
• clean up all warnings by using new Environment by @ggmichaelgo in #1848
• Update homepage url by @tjoyal in #1634
• Write one value at a time for array variables by @ianks in #1863
• Stop testing against liquid-c by @ianks in #1868
• Fix bug in tokenizer with nil source value by @bahar-p in #1873
• Bump version patch by @bahar-p in #1874
• Bump to v5.6.0 by @ianks in #1876

New Contributors

• @alexcoco made their first contribution in #1818
• @graygilmore made their first contribution in #1831
• @bahar-p made their first contribution in #1873

Full Changelog: v5.5.1...v5.6.0