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
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ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.1-preview2.zip
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== 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
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