JRuby 0.9.2 Released

By Peter Cooper

The JRuby team has just announced the release of JRuby 0.9.2 (download). Despite being a minor point release, a lot of things have been tweaked and added. Direct from the team:

This release has some great improvements: Extensions openssl and readline now working

Code for a new graphical irb console

Partial support for iconv and bigdecimal extensions

RSpec now supported

Improved Rails support

Fixed all known block and scoping bugs

Enhanced parser performance

More compiler and performance work

Refactored variable scoping logic

127 Jira issues resolved since 0.9.1

Congratulations to the JRuby team for their continuing efforts!