The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 9.2.0.0

JRuby 9.2.x is our new major version of JRuby. It is expected to be compatible with Ruby 2.5.x and stay in sync with C Ruby. JRuby 9.2.0.0 is our first release for 2.5 support.

If you do find issues then report them on using our issue tracker at https://github.com/jruby/jruby/issues. We also encourage users to join our IRC channel (#jruby on Freenode) and mailing lists. You may also follow @jruby on Twitter for updates.

Highlights:

Ruby 2.5 language and stdlib support

Improved support for non-ASCII identifiers and symbols

Improved Ruby method call performance

225 issues fixed for 9.2.0.0

Github Issues resolved for 9.2.0.0