# JRuby 1.1.4 Released **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [August 28, 2008, 8:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jruby-1-1-4-released/147152 "2008-08-28T20:59:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Thomas\_E](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@Thomas\_E](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Thomas_E)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 8:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jruby-1-1-4-released/147152/1 "2008-08-28T20:59:11Z")
The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 1.1.4! Homepage: [http://www.jruby.org/](http://www.jruby.org/) Download: [http://dist.codehaus.org/jruby/](http://dist.codehaus.org/jruby/) JRuby 1.1.4 is the fourth point release of JRuby 1.1. The fixes in this release are primarily obvious compatibility problems and performance enhancements. Our goal is to put out point releases more frequently for the next several months (about 3-4 weeks a release). We want a more rapid release cycle to better address issues brought up by users of JRuby. Highlights: - Massive refactoring of Java integration layer - 2-20x speed up of most features (calls, construction, arrays) - Many long-standing Ruby/Java interaction bugs fixed - Existing features made more consistent, reliable - Closures can be passed as interface to static methods, constructors - Java exceptions can be raised/rescued directly from Ruby - Massive memory efficiency improvements (a lot less GC) - Beginning of Ruby 1.9 support (enabled with --1.9 flag) - Native complex/rational - Additional efficiency, performance work in the interpreter - Memory leak under --manage repaired - FFI subsystem for calling C libraries - syslog module from Rubinius is working and included - win32 API support started - Thread pooling improved (at least one production user now) - Array concurrent-access improvements - 72 issues resolved since JRuby 1.1.3 Issues fixed: JRUBY-231 Provide attr\_reader, attr\_writer, and attr\_accessor for JavaBean style getters & setters JRUBY-1183 New closure conversion should prefer methods with convertable args over those without JRUBY-1300 Masquerading of native Java exceptions JRUBY-1326 Error invoking overloaded Java constructor JRUBY-1562 Declaration of certain method name (setJavaObject(Xxx x)) will throw an exception using BSF JRUBY-1615 Raising java exceptions from ruby causes TypeError JRUBY-1707 Unable to raise Java exceptions of derived types JRUBY-1735 Java Integration wraps to much JRUBY-1839 closure conversion fails for blocks JRUBY-1964 Determine what test/specs are needed to be written in order to refactor java integration post 1.1 JRUBY-1976 Working with JavaMethods doesn’t work. JRUBY-2136 $VERBOSE = true; require ‘tmpdir’ gives non-fatal Java exception JRUBY-2192 YAML parser does not appear to deserialize object types. JRUBY-2204 Syslog module is not available for JRuby JRUBY-2236 NPE in isDuckTypeConvertible JRUBY-2287 Storing ruby objects in java classes instances JRUBY-2377 Wrong line numbers for ArgumentError for Java calls JRUBY-2429 Cannot Catch Core Java Exceptions From JRuby Internals in Ruby Code JRUBY-2439 Trying to subclass a Java class from a signed .jar will crash on you. JRUBY-2449 Implement closure convention for static java methods JRUBY-2561 JavaField.set\_value(foo, nil) breaks JRUBY-2673 Java exceptions do not return the wrapped exception when getStackTrace is called JRUBY-2680 When JIT Compiler compiles the append\_features in the ruby\site\_ruby\1.8\builtin\javasupport\proxy\interface.rb the compiled code slows down by a factor of 10 JRUBY-2741 OSGify jruby.jar in the release jruby distribution JRUBY-2749 Make RaiseException show the exception message and the Ruby stack trace JRUBY-2803 Bad performance calling Java classes JRUBY-2823 Can’t reference Java’s constants that start with a lower case character JRUBY-2828 Rational#% differs from MRI when argument is negative JRUBY-2843 Issues with BasicSocket#close\_read JRUBY-2847 A non-existant jar + dir on the load path causes require to error JRUBY-2850 In some cases, reopened Java objects cannot find methods on Ruby objects subclassed from Java JRUBY-2854 AST offset error for StrNode and DStrNode JRUBY-2857 Coercion error with public member variables JRUBY-2863 Nested Interfaces can’t find the correct method when Java calls Ruby JRUBY-2865 Can’t extend a class in default package JRUBY-2867 Wrong overloaded Java method called when both int and float signatures exist JRUBY-2869 IO.select fails to block with nil timeout JRUBY-2870 [REGRESSION] Converting a Ruby array to a Java array (of Object references) broken JRUBY-2872 JSpinner cannot accept Fixnum for it’s value JRUBY-2873 FFI needs a way to specify call convention JRUBY-2874 TCPSocket#new and TCPServer#new crash JRuby when the specified port is out of range (negative or bigger than 65k) JRUBY-2879 net/ftp library is broken if mathn is also loaded JRUBY-2880 Regression: 17 new RubySpec failures and 3 unit tests falirues caused by r7327 (Array changes) JRUBY-2881 JAVA\_HOME with () breaks JRuby on windows JRUBY-2882 Incorrect subclass for constructor arg throws internal JRuby error JRUBY-2886 Extending a final Java class should be rescuable as a normal Ruby exception type JRUBY-2890 UDPSocket.recvfrom should block until something is available JRUBY-2891 UDPSocket.bind throws a Java Error when already bound on Java 5 JRUBY-2892 JRuby releases use random copies of joni svn HEAD JRUBY-2893 mspec runs need to pass properties through -T argument for compilation, etc JRUBY-2894 When spec runs fail, Ant is not terminating with a failure message JRUBY-2899 Using JavaEmbedUtils.rubyToJava causes problems when passing RubyObject-derived parameters back in to Ruby code JRUBY-2903 Allow implementing Java interfaces with underscored method names JRUBY-2905 NoMethodError does not give a useful message when thrown in BSF JRUBY-2906 IOError message is garbled when java.io.IOException message is multi-byte character. JRUBY-2907 method\_missing invocation paths end up boxing arguments twice, among other inefficiencies JRUBY-2910 Object#send is not specific-arity JRUBY-2915 Exception construction performance is poor JRUBY-2918 jruby 1.1.3 + activescaffold 1.1.1 generating RJS error JRUBY-2919 Time.-(Time) does not include microseconds and is off by 10 JRUBY-2923 Eliminate (unknown) from trace elements JRUBY-2924 JMX support added leaks memory like crazy JRUBY-2927 Calling interface method on specific instance from Java doesn’t work. JRUBY-2928 Same issue with hashCode and toString for Interfaces. JRUBY-2929 Java Integration with regards to arrays of classes are broken JRUBY-2931 Templater error causes merb-gen (0.9.4 and trunk) to fail on JRuby 1.1.3 JRUBY-2932 Move static soft reference timezone cache to be runtime-specific cache to remove complexity of dealing with soft references JRUBY-2938 Calling JavaUtil.convertJavaToUsableRubyObject throws AssertionError JRUBY-2943 Memory leak in closure coercion JRUBY-2944 Java caller gets null when calling a method on a Ruby object implementing an interface method declared to return Object[], and the Ruby object returns an array of Ruby objects subclass of Hash converted with #to\_java JRUBY-2946 New invokers attempt to access argument list of non-overloaded methods with incorrect arity JRUBY-2947 Multidimensional array conversion broke in recent Java integration refactoring ---
**Author:** ![Thomas\_E](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@Thomas\_E](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Thomas_E)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 9:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jruby-1-1-4-released/147152/2 "2008-08-28T21:57:50Z")
Thomas E. wrote: > Thanks for continued kick-ass work! – James B. [www.happycamperstudios.com](http://www.happycamperstudios.com) - Wicked Cool Coding [www.jamesbritt.com](http://www.jamesbritt.com) - Playing with Better Toys [www.ruby-doc.org](http://www.ruby-doc.org) - Ruby Help & Documentation [www.rubystuff.com](http://www.rubystuff.com) - The Ruby Store for Ruby Stuff ---
**Author:** ![Thomas\_E](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@Thomas\_E](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Thomas_E)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 10:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jruby-1-1-4-released/147152/3 "2008-08-28T22:23:39Z")
James B. wrote: > Thanks for continued kick-ass work! +1. The work you guys are doing is, IMHO, the real key to Ruby’s acceptance in the Corporate IT domain. That’s important, at least to me, because it’s what’ll drive real growth in paychecks\_for\_writing\_Ruby! Thanks, Bill