Created by admin on 2012-04-05. Updated: 2012-04-13, 15:34

A new Release Candidate in the Scala 2.9.x series is now available for download: 2.9.2 RC3. This release includes many bugfixes, as well as backported documentation and scaladoc improvements from the community.

This RC3 release candidate is made available for testing purposes only and is not intended for production environments: a final 2.9.2 release will follow at the end of the RC cycle. Please help us with the testing of this candidate, and let us know of any issues that you may encounter.

Here's a list of the issues that have been fixed since 2.9.1-1:

c9e254ec27 Backport fix for SI-4545, SI-5633. 11cb359863 Document regex replacement strings behavior. 125b5037c8 Fix for a bug in CharArrayReader which made tri... a26dd939b8 Revert attempt to limit private types in lubs. 3cfbfa3d0e Fixes SI-5380: non-local return of try expression (cherry picked from commit 02e260a8e67e2b2b6f876aafe76cd61248a89374) 1864e6d1c1 Add test case for SI-4835 (https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-4835) 841f074e2b Fixed SI-4835 (https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-4835). da794bb4ee Fixes NPE using iterator with an XML attribute ... b783e17319 Fix various InnerClasses bugs. 28be69e263 Close file descriptor leak in sys.process. 2e66a13e26 fixes SI-5506. better cps type propagation for polymorphic and multi-argument list methods. 9c3cbde0fd Fix for error printing regression. e1810d1e88 Migration message and version cleanup b57f68f34e Improve description of flatten, flatMap 0fcc5ce9c5 Explain Function1 vs PartialFunction 634382969a Fixes SI-4507. d1870c2162 Fixes to javascript in Scaladoc, contributed by... f4dec8a8af Scaladoc now hides members with @bridge annotat... 4f6cd102de Improves the usability of Scaladoc when images ... 1fb3760f96 Minor changes to the Scaladoc stylesheets, as s... be067ac8de Scaladoc shouldn't drop type arguments to alias... e54aa8c7bf Fixes SI-4641 again. 2701d7fa47 Backported commit 7a99c03da1d31ac5950eecb30f422f43c5e3d04e from master

Special thanks to all the contributors!

54 Paul Phillips 32 Josh Suereth 22 Heather Miller 17 Kato Kazuyoshi 11 Daniel C. Sobral 7 Iulian Dragos 3 Tiark Rompf 3 Martin Odersky 2 Vlad Ureche 2 Szabolcs Berecz 2 Simon Ochsenreither 2 michelou 2 Kota Mizushima 2 Josh Marcus 2 Blair Zajac 2 Aleksandar Prokopec 1 Robert J. Macomber 1 Philipp Haller 1 Petr Hosek 1 Pedro Furlanetto 1 Mirco Dotta 1 Matthew Farwell 1 Lukas Rytz 1 Hubert Plociniczak 1 Grzegorz Kossakowski 1 fedgehog 1 Adriaan Moors

Here's a complete list of changes: