### New features

* [#2081](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/pull/2081): New cop `Style/Send` checks for the use of `send` and instead encourages changing it to `BasicObject#__send__` or `Object#public_send` (disabled by default). ([@syndbg][])
* [#2057](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/pull/2057): New cop `Lint/FormatParameterMismatch` checks for a mismatch between the number of fields expected in format/sprintf/% and what was passed to it. ([@edmz][])
* [#2010](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/pull/2010): Add `space` style for SpaceInsideStringInterpolation. ([@gotrevor][])
* [#2007](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/pull/2007): Allow any modifier before `def`, not only visibility modifiers. ([@fphilipe][])
* [#1980](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/pull/1980): `--auto-gen-config` now outputs an excluded files list for failed cops (up to a maximum of 15 files). ([@bmorrall][])
* [#2004](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/pull/2004): Introduced `--exclude-limit COUNT` to configure how many files `--auto-gen-config` will exclude. ([@awwaiid][], [@jonas054][])
* [#1918](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/1918): New configuration parameter `AllCops:DisabledByDefault` when set to `true` makes only cops found in user configuration enabled, which makes cop selection *opt-in*. ([@jonas054][])
* New cop `Performance/StringReplacement` checks for usages of `gsub` that can be replaced with `tr` or `delete`. ([@rrosenblum][])
* [#2001](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2001): New cop `Style/InitialIndentation` checks for indentation of the first non-blank non-comment line in a file. ([@jonas054][])
* [#2060](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2060): New cop `Style/RescueEnsureAlignment` checks for bad alignment of `rescue` and `ensure` keywords. ([@lumeet][])
* New cop `Style/OptionalArguments` checks for optional arguments that do not appear at the end of an argument list. ([@rrosenblum][])
* New cop `Lint/CircularArgumentReference` checks for "circular argument references" in keyword arguments, which Ruby 2.2 warns against. ([@maxjacobson][], [@sliuu][])
* [#2030](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2030): New cop `Style/OptionHash` checks for option hashes and encourages changing them to keyword arguments (disabled by default). ([@maxjacobson][])

### Changes

* [#2052](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/pull/2052): `Style/RescueModifier` uses token stream to identify offenses. ([@urbanautomaton][])
* Rename `Rails/Date` and `Rails/TimeZone` style names to "strict" and "flexible" and make "flexible" to be default. ([@palkan][])
* [#2035](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2035): `Style/ExtraSpacing` is now enabled by default and has a configuration parameter `AllowForAlignment` that is `true` by default, making it allow extra spacing if it's used for alignment purposes. ([@jonas054][])

### Bugs fixed

* [#2014](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/pull/2014): Fix `Style/TrivialAccessors` to support AllowPredicates: false. ([@gotrevor][])
* [#1988](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/1988): Fix bug in `Style/ParallelAssignment` when assigning from `Module::CONSTANT`. ([@rrosenblum][])
* [#1995](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/pull/1995): Improve message for `Rails/TimeZone`. ([@palkan][])
* [#1977](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/1977): Fix bugs in `Rails/Date` and `Rails/TimeZone` when using namespaced Time/Date. ([@palkan][])
* [#1973](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/1973): Do not register an offense in `Performance/Detect` when `select` is called on `Enumerable::Lazy`. ([@palkan][])
* [#2015](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2015): Fix bug occurring for auto-correction of a misaligned `end` in a file with only one method. ([@jonas054][])
* Allow string interpolation segments inside single quoted string literals when double quotes are preferred. ([@segiddins][])
* [#2026](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2026): Allow `Time.current` when style is "acceptable".([@palkan][])
* [#2029](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2029): Fix bug where `Style/RedundantReturn` auto-corrects returning implicit hashes to invalid syntax. ([@rrosenblum][])
* [#2021](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2021): Fix bug in `Style/BlockDelimiters` when a `semantic` expression is used in an array or a range. ([@lumeet][])
* [#1992](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/1992): Allow parentheses in assignment to a variable with the same name as the method's in `Style/MethodCallParentheses`. ([@lumeet][])
* [#2045](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2045): Fix crash in `Style/IndentationWidth` when using `private_class_method def self.foo` syntax. ([@unmanbearpig][])
* [#2006](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2006): Fix crash in `Style/FirstParameterIndentation` in case of nested offenses. ([@unmanbearpig][])
* [#2059](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2059): Don't check for trivial accessors in modules. ([@bbatsov][])
* Add proper punctuation to the end of offense messages, where it is missing. ([@lumeet][])
* [#2071](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/pull/2071): Keep line breaks in place on WordArray autocorrect.([@unmanbearpig][])
* [#2075](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/pull/2075): Properly correct `Style/PercentLiteralDelimiters` with escape characters in them. ([@rrosenblum][])
* [#2023](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2023): Avoid auto-correction corruption in `IndentationWidth`. ([@jonas054][])
* [#2080](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2080): Properly parse code in `Performance/Count` when calling `select..count` in a class that extends an enumerable. ([@rrosenblum][])
* [#2093](https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/issues/2093): Fix bug in `Style/OneLineConditional` which should not raise an offense with an 'if/then/end' statement. ([@sliuu][])

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