# JRuby 1.1.6 Released **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [December 17, 2008, 9:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jruby-1-1-6-released/155882 "2008-12-17T21:51:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **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:** [December 17, 2008, 9:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jruby-1-1-6-released/155882/1 "2008-12-17T21:51:53Z")
The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 1.1.6 Homepage: [http://www.jruby.org/](http://www.jruby.org/) Download: [http://dist.codehaus.org/jruby/1.1.6](http://dist.codehaus.org/jruby/1.1.6) JRuby 1.1.6 is the sixth 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: - Additional Ruby 1.9 support (via --1.9) - Full 1.9 parser - Most core 1.9 methods/libraries/classes - An evergrowing list of dead IO references bug fixed - Much faster Array.sort - Run gems out of jar files without having to unpack them. - Store gem repositories in jars and load them via the classpath. - Improved JavaEmbedUtils for embedders - Removed two measurable memory leaks during RC process - 74 bugs fixed since 1.1.5 Key Summary JRUBY-441 Java integration code does not report errors well JRUBY-1133 $KCODE is ignored when multibyte character is used inside regular expression JRUBY-1181 Rake batch file for Windows environments JRUBY-1476 jruby.home extraction / jar-complete / content mismatch JRUBY-1489 Adding encapulated parse methods for external uses, such as JSR223 API implementation JRUBY-1801 Support Ruby 1.9 stabby lambda syntax JRUBY-2028 LocalJumpError is displayed when a block is invoked in a java thread. JRUBY-2183 handling method\_missing is slower than in MRI JRUBY-2198 Array#sort is slower than MRI JRUBY-2209 An Interrupt wipes out END {} blocks JRUBY-2210 permissions on $JRUBY\_HOME/lib/ruby/gem/1.8 not wide enough JRUBY-2224 jirb breaks method\_added for classes JRUBY-2279 JRuby’s Signal pollutes Kernel namespace with signal-specific constants JRUBY-2290 form.datetime\_select not working with IE in 1.1RC2 (but does with Firefox) JRUBY-2301 JRuby script would work when java is installed but JAVA\_HOME not set JRUBY-2380 Thread.list has a race condition JRUBY-2546 Using reflection to set a String on a field results in an error JRUBY-2602 Lots of Readline::HISTORY rubyspec failures JRUBY-2613 Readline.readline wants two arguments JRUBY-2703 Indexed methods are no longer supported, and options and code related to them should be removed or deprecated. JRUBY-2746 jruby -S flag does not search PATH, not support relative locations within PATH JRUBY-2780 RegexpError: target of repeat operator is invalid JRUBY-2798 File.open rubyspec failure on Mac OS X, Soylatte JRUBY-2799 Need some mechanism to call masked java methods (initialize) JRUBY-2834 More than 50 RubySpec failures for ARGF JRUBY-2852 rcov.rb:654:in `aggregate_data': NilClass can't be coerced into Fixnum (TypeError) when running jruby -S rake spec:rcov JRUBY-2948 Exceptions do not cut off at binding evals after change reported in JRUBY-2945 JRUBY-3078 require should be made either threadsafe or guaranteed to run the discovered file exactly once JRUBY-3104 Ruby 1.9 parser support JRUBY-3107 Ability to get extra position information from DefaultRubyParser JRUBY-3108 a REXML XPath query fails to run correctly JRUBY-3111 JRuby does not handle '@' sign in YAML file correctly. JRUBY-3112 Some Ruby instances are not roundtripping from Ruby to Java and back JRUBY-3117 Constant lookup from method inside class ::Object is incorrect JRUBY-3118 Creating a subclass of MatchData that's instantiable blows up because there's no allocator JRUBY-3122 Arity.required(3) ends up reporting the wrong arity JRUBY-3126 Allow Rubygems to be loaded and used from within jar files JRUBY-3130 JRuby selects wrong static method on Java class JRUBY-3131 obj.send :binding does not set the binding's 'self' to obj JRUBY-3132 String.split is broken JRUBY-3133 'jgem update' causes: java.lang.AssertionError: UpdateCommand is not interned JRUBY-3134 Define RubyRange.min/max JRUBY-3135 RubyException doesn't define to_str JRUBY-3138 import 'java.lang' and similar break due to missing PackageSearch class JRUBY-3140 Const lookup failures in precompiled specs JRUBY-3141 Array index error in JCodings running latest String#rindex specs JRUBY-3145 Module#include detects cyclic includes JRUBY-3149 Float#to_s returns a string representation of self, possibly Nan, -Infinity, +Infinity JRUBY-3155 TCPSocket#puts block when the socket is waiting in read JRUBY-3156 Import of Java classes in "main" object has no effect JRUBY-3161 java interface in base class cannot implement in derived class JRUBY-3162 Dir.glob does not like encodings, and will fail when used with File.expand_path JRUBY-3172 Error in YAML.dump JRUBY-3173 require in 1.1.5 prefers files in the current directory despite loadpath (even with "." removed) JRUBY-3176 Thread#wakeup doesn't wake up a sleeping thread JRUBY-3181 [PATCH] Stack trace lost when re-raising an exception JRUBY-3182 Symlink doesn't work with relative path destinations and Dir.chdir JRUBY-3185 Ruby.descriptors was leaking endless WeakReferences (with Integer key). JRUBY-3188 NPE when loading file in tzinfo (used by ActiveSupport) JRUBY-3189 java.lang.Iterable should have an each method JRUBY-3191 Including same Java interface twice causes ClassFormatError JRUBY-3192 Return type coercion to java interfaces broken by new JI JRUBY-3195 jruby-openssl fails to load but reports no error JRUBY-3197 Fix "undefined method `uid’ for nil:NilClass" problem with Rubygems 1.3.1 JRUBY-3198 String#slice! not working correctly when used with string read from file JRUBY-3201 JRubyApplet failing when using TrivialFacade. JRUBY-3209 “java -jar jruby-complete.jar -S jirb” does not run if ~/.jruby exists JRUBY-3210 the ./ behavior with load is not MRI compatible JRUBY-3213 for loop broken for 1.9 JRUBY-3217 Memory Leak with Adopted Threads JRUBY-3225 [Regression] slowdown in Jruby 1.1.6RC2 using Rails 2.1.1 JRUBY-3230 Hpricot broke from 1.5 to 1.6 JRUBY-3233 JRuby with Rails 2.2.2 unable to instantiate a java class JRUBY-3234 Difference in require behaviour with MRI with “.rb” suffix