Ruby Forum Ruby > Ruby 1.9.1 preview1 is out

Posted by Yugui (Yuki Sonoda) (Guest)
on 28.10.2008 07:10
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Hi all,

I released Ruby 1.9.1-preview 1. You can download it from the following
locations.

This is a preview release of Ruby 1.9.1, which will be the first stable
version of Ruby 1.9 series. Try it early and have a experience of
modern, faster, with clearer syntax, multilingualized and much improved
Ruby world.

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
You can download the release from;
* ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.1-preview1.tar.bz2
   SIZE: 6169022 bytes
   MD5: 0d51dc949bb6b438ad4ebfabbb5f6754
   SHA256: 
dc39000537d7c7528ef26af8e1c3a6215b30b6c579c615eaec7013513410456a

* ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.1-preview1.tar.gz
   SIZE: 7409682 bytes
   MD5: 738f701532452fd5d36f5c155f3ba692
   SHA256: 
99443bdae9f94ba7b08de187881f8cbee172379edf9c5fa85fc04c869150ff6d

* ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.1-preview1.zip
   SIZE: 8569116 bytes
   MD5: 5f68246246c4cd29d8a3b6b34b29b6ac
   SHA256: 
a6c3a7bf7ea83b595024764926353e08596a78e40c57ac58c568662e5e88df95

== New release schedule
The release schedule of Ruby 1.9.1 changed. The new schedule is,

 * 28 Oct, 2008: Ruby 1.9.1-preview1
    * Basically, the language features are frozen.
    * But most of standard libraries need more changes for
multilingualization.

 * 25 Nov, 2008: Ruby 1.9.1-preview2
    * shows improvements since the previous preview.

 * 25 Dec, 2008: Ruby 1.9.1 release candidate

     cool down phase ....

 * 25 Jan, 2009: Ruby 1.9.1

== Known error
"./configure && make && ./ruby -e 1" will fail and you need to "make
install" before running ruby at first.

This problem will be fixed by the preview 2.


Thanks
Posted by Roger Pack (rogerdpack)
on 28.10.2008 16:33
> This is a preview release of Ruby 1.9.1, which will be the first stable
> version of Ruby 1.9 series. Try it early and have a experience of
> modern, faster, with clearer syntax, multilingualized and much improved
> Ruby world.

I assume this version passes all tests?  Are there any known outstanding 
bugs?
Thanks!
-=R
Posted by Neo Lee (neolee)
on 29.10.2008 03:59
Yugui (Yuki Sonoda) wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I released Ruby 1.9.1-preview 1. You can download it from the following
> locations.

Thanks a lot!

One question of mine is, is that the same as the newest svn trunk? Or 
what the major difference between them?
Posted by jzakiya (Guest)
on 31.10.2008 04:31
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On Oct 28, 10:59 pm, Neo Lee <neo....@gmail.com> wrote:
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I have code developed in 1.9.0-1 that ran a series of benchmarks fine
with it, but some of the benchmarks inexplicably produce SEG faults in
version 1.9.0-2 thru 1.9.0-5. My code and benchmarks can now run with
no problems in 1.9.1-preview1 but the benchmark times are reproducibly
slower (by 10-20%). So its great to see 1.9.1 can run my code cleanly,
but I hope future versions also become as fast, or faster than,
1.9.0-1.
Posted by Roger Pack (rogerdpack)
on 31.10.2008 15:19
> I have code developed in 1.9.0-1 that ran a series of benchmarks fine
> with it, but some of the benchmarks inexplicably produce SEG faults in
> version 1.9.0-2 thru 1.9.0-5. My code and benchmarks can now run with
> no problems in 1.9.1-preview1 but the benchmark times are reproducibly
> slower (by 10-20%). So its great to see 1.9.1 can run my code cleanly,
> but I hope future versions also become as fast, or faster than,
> 1.9.0-1.

gprof is your friend--I'd post to core with this sometime.

Re: what version is preview 1
I think it's an SVN trunk snashot.

-=R
Posted by Ken Bloom (Guest)
on 31.10.2008 17:11
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On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:18:17 -0500, Roger Pack wrote:

> Re: what version is preview 1
> I think it's an SVN trunk snashot.

No. There's a ruby_1_9_1 branch now. preview 1 comes from there.