

Subject: [ANN] Ruby 1.9.1 Preview 2 Released

From: "Yugui (Yuki Sonoda)" <yugui@ g . >

Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 22:25:50 +0900

Ruby 1.9.1 Preview 2 has been released. This is a preview release of Ruby 1.9, which will be the first stable version of Ruby 1.9 series. If you encounter a bug or a problem, please let us know it via the official issue tracking system (http://redmine.ruby-lang.org ). == Location * ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.1-preview2.tar.bz2 SIZE: 6148131 bytes MD5: 62126475998ede5318c1bc82c40d5f48 SHA256: 2c419dc325c6a75fb7b961496c0dd54f2729e6e01730589c4fb06e34ddd7a7cc * ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.1-preview2.tar.gz SIZE: 7375483 bytes MD5: 7699b9e54c53b16640d40a213588e704 SHA256: dd737d26212d68c26ecb4d6e2ed180a0d7d5e27fb7bd2c819935494daa1cf50b * ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.1-preview2.zip SIZE: 8612618 bytes MD5: d3ae200280b75801bfc5c090d3592577 SHA256: 96b6a2745b64f03ffbd5da97f93a2676365e3900cb8f6bf820f47739ef8d3fa9 == Improvements * supports 21 new character encodings. * works better with RubyGems. * handles SEGV better when system stack overflows. * fixed a bit of regexp imcompatiblity to Perl5 and old Ruby. * many bugs in Time#strftime and Date#strftime fixed. * process termination got faster. * allows long style options in RUBYOPT. * You can "make test" without installing ruby. * You can derive a class from Fiber correctly. * many bugs fixed. == Release schedule Current Status: * Language features are effectively "frozen". * But we could not finish multilingualization tasks for standard libraries. For example, irb does not recognize magic comments. * So changes to some of standard libraries continue. * irb * erb * cgi * ... Schedule: * 25 Dec, 2008: Ruby 1.9.1 release candidate * 25 Jan, 2009: Ruby 1.9.1 Thanks -- Yugui <yugui / yugui.jp> http://yugui.jp