# JRuby 1.2.0RC1 Released **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [February 25, 2009, 2:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jruby-1-2-0rc1-released/161289 "2009-02-25T02:23:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **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:** [February 25, 2009, 2:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jruby-1-2-0rc1-released/161289/1 "2009-02-25T02:23:02Z")
The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 1.2.0RC1 Homepage: [http://www.jruby.org/](http://www.jruby.org/) Download: [http://dist.codehaus.org/jruby/](http://dist.codehaus.org/jruby/) JRuby 1.2.0RC1 has fixed many many compatibility issues and continued to improve general performance. Due to popular demand we have a new versioning system. 1.x.y was our old number system where x was the major release and y was the minor release. Our new system just chops off the vestigial ‘1.’ from the front. 1.3, 1.4, …, 1.x will just be minor releases of our current major release. **Please try your apps against 1.2.0RC1 ASAP and report problems** Highlights: - Improved Ruby 1.9 support (via --1.9) - Compiler now works - Almost all of the missing 1.9 methods have been added - New experimental --fast flag which does more aggressive optimizations - Large scale compiler and runtime cleanup and performance audit - Parsing is 3-6x faster now. - Preliminary android support (Ruboto) - Rails pathname issue fixed on Windows - Major bug triage since last release - 1052 revisions since 1.1.6 - 232 bugs fixed since 1.1.6 Key Summary JRUBY-414 Serialization of wrapped Java objects could be handled as user-marshalled data by Marshal JRUBY-551 JRUBY-549 bfts test\_file\_test failures JRUBY-750 defineAlias reports original name and not aliased one in stack traces JRUBY-852 jirb exits on ESC followed by any arrow key followed by return JRUBY-1079 IO.sysopen not defined JRUBY-1201 TCPSocket.new(dest\_adrr, dest\_port, src\_addr, src\_port) missing from JRuby JRUBY-1235 DRb hangs when transferring Ruby objects created in Java JRUBY-1401 Pathname#realpath fails for Windows drive letters JRUBY-1470 FileTest methods only work with string arguments JRUBY-1555 DST bug in second form of Time.local JRUBY-1576 multi-byte character encoding probrem JRUBY-1606 File.expand\_path does not work as expected JRUBY-1639 Exception when stopping WEBrick running the new rails application JRUBY-1803 Support Ruby 1.9 M17N strings JRUBY-1853 define\_method methods do not display the correct stack trace, may not be using frame safely JRUBY-1854 def is almost 3x slower in JRuby JRUBY-1855 EOF handling in case of reading program from standard input JRUBY-1872 next statement should return the argument passed, not nil JRUBY-1884 handling of file close while reading differs from mri JRUBY-1950 -i flag not supported JRUBY-2003 rexml pretty printing wrap() error JRUBY-2040 new samples/jnlp dir: includes both unsigned and signed examples that work in Java 1.5 and 1.6 JRUBY-2108 IOWaitLibrary ready? returns nil when ready JRUBY-2120 Wrong stacktraces from exceptions about wrong number of arguments JRUBY-2131 Select with nil arrays should throw an exception JRUBY-2139 jruby.compile.frameless=true cause “Superclass method ‘initialize’ disabled.” JRUBY-2168 test\_io (test\_copy\_dev\_null) fails under WinXP JRUBY-2170 Very unverbose message when problem with native library exists JRUBY-2174 Method#to\_proc.call invocations much slower than normal Method#call invocations JRUBY-2180 break performance is slower than MRI, sometimes slower than interpreted JRUBY-2211 SNMP Requests does not timeout properly JRUBY-2252 Kernel#exec should not raise SystemExit JRUBY-2262 Java toString() mapping to invoke(… to\_s …).toString() doesn JRUBY-2264 Include Nailgun in release binary packages JRUBY-2285 Regression: rubyspec run with -V option breaks JRuby JRUBY-2288 UDP locking problems when receiving from multiple senders on same port JRUBY-2296 convertToRuby does not work if to\_s does not return a String (but for example nil) JRUBY-2305 File output cuts off at a certain point? JRUBY-2307 DRb from MRI server to JRuby client fails with long messages JRUBY-2326 Invalid cast during parsing of recursive.rb in facelets-2.3.0 (org.jruby.ast.YieldNode cannot be cast to org.jruby.ast.BlockAcceptingNode) JRUBY-2328 Overriding require causes eval to give wrong **FILE** in certain circumstances JRUBY-2333 usage of unexistant variable in REXML::SourceFactory JRUBY-2346 Nailgun does not compile under HP-UX JRUBY-2353 Process.kill breaks up JRuby, while works in MRI on Windows JRUBY-2369 ‘ant spec’ failures on on MacOS JRUBY-2389 java.util.ConcurrentModificationException JRUBY-2410 Multiple assignment could be made faster by not returning unused array JRUBY-2424 running with -rprofile with multithreaded test causes NPE JRUBY-2426 JRuby trunk does not build with IBM JVM 1.5 JRUBY-2435 Aliasing eval and other “special” methods should display a warning JRUBY-2455 “jruby” script failed to find JRUBY\_HOME leads to class not found JRUBY-2484 unicode symbol not supported as in MRI JRUBY-2504 JAR URLs are inconsistently supported by APIs that access the filesystem JRUBY-2506 Marshal/IO.eof bug JRUBY-2518 Dir[“some glob”] doesn’t work for files inside a jar JRUBY-2521 Compilation Warning for Sun proprietary API using JRUBY-2522 Can not execute JRuby 1.1.1 “ant test” with IBM JDK JRUBY-2542 DATA.flock causes ClassCastException JRUBY-2545 Recursively locking on a mutex results in deadlock JRUBY-2548 JRuby conversion of String to Java String is arcane JRUBY-2557 NPE when yielding method JRUBY-2603 Couple of new rubyspec failures for URI library JRUBY-2655 TCPSocket.new(‘localhost’, 2001) connects on the wrong interface JRUBY-2661 specs hang under Apple Java 5 JRUBY-2672 BasicSocket#close\_read and #close\_write not working JRUBY-2675 jirb + jline do not work in cygwin JRUBY-2699 If user’s PATH contains ‘.’ and ‘jruby’ resolves to ‘./jruby’, JRUBY\_HOME is incorrectly set to ‘.’, leading to ‘NoClassDefFoundError’ JRUBY-2727 ActiveScaffold 1.1.1 fails with JRuby 1.1.2, probable path problem JRUBY-2732 org.jruby.util.RubyInputStream is unused JRUBY-2757 Compiled argument processing and arity checking are too large, too much bytecode JRUBY-2759 Time Zone “MET” maps to Asia/Tehran JRUBY-2761 Thread#wakeup fails when sleep is called with a parameter JRUBY-2772 Zlib::Deflate doesn’t appear to deflate JRUBY-2782 “No such file or directory (IOError)” when JAR file named in java.class.path but not active filesystem JRUBY-2788 Make Time.now monotonically increasing JRUBY-2794 Failure in String#crypt specs, Mac OS X, Soylatte JRUBY-2796 Missing constant in Process::Constants on Mac OS X (darwin) JRUBY-2797 File.expand\_path rubyspec failure on Mac OS X, Soylatte JRUBY-2802 JRuby wrapped Java objects formerly exposed readers for non-public fields JRUBY-2804 IO.popen of ‘yes’ process hangs on close JRUBY-2815 System triggered from inside of tracing behaves oddly JRUBY-2817 File.chown works with 64bit JDK, but raises NotImplementedError on 32 bit JDK JRUBY-2820 Most Etc methods behave diferently on Windows under x32 and x64 JVMs JRUBY-2826 Array#pack(‘w’) is broken (exceptions and wrong results) JRUBY-2830 String#unpack with ‘w’ is completely unimplemented JRUBY-2845 -S switch breaks if you have directory in pwd matching name of file in bin/PATH JRUBY-2846 gem generate\_index broken JRUBY-2849 CCE using proc{} in AR callbacks JRUBY-2855 Classpath search order is not respected by require when classpath includes both jars and directories JRUBY-2858 test\_file.rb::test\_opening\_readonly\_file\_for\_write\_raises\_eacces() fails with “IOError: Permission denied” on FreeBSD 7.0 amd64 + java 1.6.0\_07 JRUBY-2861 Cannot call super inside a method that overrides a protected method on Java base class JRUBY-2868 ThreadService.getRubyThreadFromThread supports only one non-rubynative thread at a time. JRUBY-2896 jruby -S picks up script from local directory JRUBY-2898 Exception trying to use BSF (java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/bsf/util/BSFEngineImp) JRUBY-2901 JRuby does not support options in shebang line JRUBY-2917 Missing peephole optimizations in parser, compiler JRUBY-2921 Newly overridden methods are not called if the old superclass method has already been called JRUBY-2933 Ruby runtimes are pinned to memory due to ChannelStream JRUBY-2941 popen IO lockup with multiple threads JRUBY-2950 Net::IMAP#authenticate stalls / blocks in recent versions of JRuby JRUBY-2951 repeated popen call may throw NULL pointer exception JRUBY-2970 Timeout.rb is not working in special cases (Thread may block whole application). JRUBY-2974 multi-byte exception message turned into garbled characters when Java Exception nested NativeException. JRUBY-2979 File#getc fails on illegal seek when reading from /dev/ttyS0 on Linux JRUBY-2981 alias\_method\_chain pattern is extremely show on jruby JRUBY-2982 Unicode regular expressions by UTF-8 don’t work JRUBY-2988 jirb does not echo characters to the terminal after suspend and resume in the shell JRUBY-2997 Dir[] results in NPE depending on permissions JRUBY-2999 Regression: Inheriting method with same name from two Java interfaces causes Java classloader error JRUBY-3000 integration issues with Java classes containing inner classes JRUBY-3003 ArrayStoreException in compiler when calling Array.fill JRUBY-3005 Stomp gem hangs in Stomp::Client#subscribe JRUBY-3007 Message method value of Exception is missing in Java when exception raised in ruby JRUBY-3011 java classes with non-public constructors are incorrectly instantiated JRUBY-3017 DRb “premature header” error on JRuby client JRUBY-3035 Get Rails tests running in a CI server somewhere before 1.1.6 release, to ensure no future breakages JRUBY-3038 Unable to insert YAML into t.text field (behavior different from Ruby 1.8.6) JRUBY-3054 Thread#status is “run” when thread is blocking on condition variable JRUBY-3055 permission javax.management.MBeanServerPermission “createMBeanServer”; JRUBY-3061 NKF(unsupported Q encode stream) JRUBY-3065 New public LoadService#findFileToLoad method JRUBY-3071 Illegal seek error trying to read() from pipe JRUBY-3073 JRuby script engine does not load on IBM JDK JRUBY-3076 RubyUDPSocket.send tries to do inet address lookup, pauses too long for inet6 failure JRUBY-3077 Update ruby\_test tests and incorporate changes into build JRUBY-3085 Add constant caching for Colon2 and Colon3 (specific module and Object cases) JRUBY-3088 “RStone” port of PyStone is slower on JRuby than 1.9 JRUBY-3089 Digest::Base stores in memory all bytes passed to the digest, causing OutOfMemoryError JRUBY-3103 Compiler closures use two different binding mechanisms, need better construction and caching logic JRUBY-3109 Update stdlib to an appropriate 1.8.6 patchlevel JRUBY-3116 ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in tmail JRUBY-3120 Regression: error serializing array of objects with custom to\_yaml def to yaml JRUBY-3125 Some Socket constants not supported. JRUBY-3127 Inconsistent DynamicScope instances in evalScriptlet JRUBY-3128 Different jruby behaviour that ruby 1.8.6/1.8.7/1.9 when running file that is named as one of required file. JRUBY-3142 Dir.pwd correctly displays dirs with unicode characters in them JRUBY-3146 Time#\_dump RubySpec failures JRUBY-3147 Time#\_load RubySpec failures JRUBY-3148 Array#fill spec failures JRUBY-3152 Process.times returns invalid values JRUBY-3158 Wrong ruby methods called on object of same class from Java code. JRUBY-3160 REXML returns error for add\_attribute JRUBY-3174 FFI MemoryPointer#get\_string(0, x) gets confused by null byte in the buffer JRUBY-3175 Cloning java byte array returns incorrect object JRUBY-3177 ConcurrentModificationException JRUBY-3178 http spec tests fail when webrick starts on address 0.0.0.0 JRUBY-3179 JRuby can’t handle do/end blocks within String-inlined expressions JRUBY-3180 Class in default package can’t be reopened under Java namespace JRUBY-3187 JRuby command line scripts do not work with spaces in the path JRUBY-3190 method `module\_eval’ for main:Object should be undefined? JRUBY-3204 IO.read and IO.readlines do not take a block JRUBY-3207 super error message is inaccurate when superclass doesn’t implement method. JRUBY-3208 ant task api-docs runs out of memory, patch included JRUBY-3211 builder library is slower in JRuby than in MRI JRUBY-3214 load and require don’t work correctly for .class files JRUBY-3217 Memory Leak with Adopted Threads JRUBY-3218 Import is sometimes confused by unquoted class name JRUBY-3221 Rubinius -bad instanceof tests in RubiniusMachine for attempt at fast path evaluation JRUBY-3224 Array#to\_java with java object reference doesn’t carry over object identity JRUBY-3226 Including more than one java interface stops Test::Unit execution JRUBY-3232 Zlib::GzipReader.each\_line yields compressed data 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 JRUBY-3238 Jruby 1.1.7 still leaking weakreferences JRUBY-3242 Performance degradation on write operations JRUBY-3244 [PATCH] Support atime updates via utime JRUBY-3248 jruby can’t load file produced with jrubyc JRUBY-3250 test\_java\_pkcs7.rb - Problem coercing Bignum into class java.math.BigInteger JRUBY-3251 ConcurrencyError bug when installing Merb on JRuby JRUBY-3253 Lack of default jruby.home in embedded usage causes NPE JRUBY-3254 Make JRuby’s Time#local behave more like MRI JRUBY-3255 jruby -S script/server fails in Rails application JRUBY-3257 RaiseException#printStrackTrace doesn’t deal well with nil messages JRUBY-3262 JRuby 1.1.6 regression: ClassFormatError if Ruby superclass of Ruby class implements super-interface of Java interface JRUBY-3267 patch attached to update eclipse .classpath to refer to bytelist-1.0.1.jar JRUBY-3269 SystemStackError with YAML.dump JRUBY-3270 using activerecord ‘to\_xml’ method crashes JRuby (and debugger) JRUBY-3274 Many new Array#pack failures in updated RubySpecs JRUBY-3275 New ARGF spec failures JRUBY-3276 New IO#readpartial and IO#seek spec failures JRUBY-3277 Constant lookup should omit topmost lexical scope; not bail out on first Object-hosting lexical scope JRUBY-3280 patch attached to update eclipse .classpath to add new jars in build\_lib/ JRUBY-3287 Add public RubyInstanceConfig#setCompatVersion JRUBY-3289 ArgumentError: dump format error() when unmarshalling Rails session and EOFError when unmarshalling hash with containing value of type ActionController::Flash::FlashHash JRUBY-3290 Float range to restrictive in FFI code JRUBY-3296 Etc.getpwuid should raise TypeError if invalid type JRUBY-3298 Kernel.srand calls #to\_i on number JRUBY-3303 [1.9] splat of array at front of assignment broken (same for other grammatical constructs) JRUBY-3305 Fixnums & Floats should be coerced to the narrowest java.lang.Number when passed to a java method that expects Object JRUBY-3307 tempfile.rb sucks in JRuby JRUBY-3308 Deadlock between RubyModule.includeModule() and RubyClass.invalidateCacheDescendants() JRUBY-3310 Race condition in JRuby when Active Support is overriding Kernel.require JRUBY-3314 Pull in final 1.9.1 stdlib when released JRUBY-3316 Group expression class path fails to parse JRUBY-3317 require “tempfile”; Dir.tmpdir fails JRUBY-3318 If ‘jruby’ executable is a relative symlink, JRuby won’t start JRUBY-3324 Error in string encoding conversion JRUBY-3328 Incorrect behavior for case/when when true or false are the first conditions JRUBY-3329 Major divergence in threading behaviour between Ruby 1.8.6 and JRuby 1.1.6 JRUBY-3331 to\_f near Float::MAX JRUBY-3332 ConcurrentModificationException In Application Startup JRUBY-3339 java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in RubyArray.java JRUBY-3340 String#unpack(‘m’) fails with ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException JRUBY-3351 Tempfile defaults to a directory that does not exist on Windows JRUBY-3360 Pure-Java tempfile does not use a #make\_tmpname callback JRUBY-3361 Compiled case/when blows up with arrays as when clauses JRUBY-3362 attr\_accessor, attr\_reader, attr\_writer, and attr not obeying visibility JRUBY-3363 OutOfMemoryError when using soap4r on jruby 1.1.6 JRUBY-3365 Objects with custom to\_yaml methods break collection to\_yaml JRUBY-3366 Faulty marshalling error blows up in ActiveSupport JRUBY-3367 Dir.glob processes nested braces incorrectly JRUBY-3372 [PATCH] FFI: passing nil for a declared string parameter blows up JRUBY-3373 [PATCH] FFI: assigning Struct to a pointer fails JRUBY-3374 [PATCH] FFI::ManagedStruct instantiated objects are of the wrong class JRUBY-3375 ‘attr’ implementation is incompatible with MRI 1.9.1 behavior JRUBY-3377 Need FFI platform files generated for x86\_64 darwin JRUBY-3386 Array#eql? rubyspec failure JRUBY-3387 Array#== rubyspec failure JRUBY-3390 RubySpec: Numeric#coerce calls #to\_f to convert other if self responds to #to\_f JRUBY-3392 RubySpec: Thread.stop resets Thread.critical to false JRUBY-3397 defined? CONST is not following proper constant lookup rules JRUBY-3398 Attributes defined from Java tried to use current frame for visibility JRUBY-3405 popen breaks input channel for IRB JRUBY-3407 FFI Stack Level Too Deep on Library.send(:method, args) JRUBY-3408 FFI non-string args for methods are turned into strings anyway JRUBY-3410 Add -y flag to debug the parser JRUBY-3411 JRuby does not build or run on AIX due to exceptions in org.jruby.ext.ffi.Platform JRUBY-3420 [PATCH] Added basic\_word\_break\_characters method to Readline JRUBY-3432 String#hash needs to be made encoding-aware JRUBY-3436 [PATCH] FFI should allow passing nil as a callback parameter JRUBY-3437 pid-returning methods should make a best effort to get a real pid JRUBY-3439 super in top level go boom ---
**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:** [February 25, 2009, 11:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jruby-1-2-0rc1-released/161289/2 "2009-02-25T11:23:19Z")
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Thomas E. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: Great work! I have a small issue though, seems that the src tarball was created on a machine with a timestamp in the future. Of course one can still extract with tar -xmzf \<…\> but I thought you might want to know. Cheers Robert There are some people who begin the Zoo at the beginning, called WAYIN, and walk as quickly as they can past every cage until they get to the one called WAYOUT, but the nicest people go straight to the animal they love the most, and stay there. ~ A.A. Milne (from Winnie-the-Pooh) ---
**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:** [February 25, 2009, 3:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jruby-1-2-0rc1-released/161289/3 "2009-02-25T15:00:37Z")
Robert D. wrote: > There are some people who begin the Zoo at the beginning, called > WAYIN, and walk as quickly as they can past every cage until they get > to the one called WAYOUT, but the nicest people go straight to the > animal they love the most, and stay there. ~ A.A. Milne (from > Winnie-the-Pooh) Yeah we noticed that one file in jffi had the wrong date already. We will either correct that or it will correct itself depending on how long the RC process takes 🙂 Thanks for reporting it though… -Tom ---
**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:** [February 25, 2009, 5:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jruby-1-2-0rc1-released/161289/4 "2009-02-25T17:53:04Z")
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Thomas E. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > > Yeah we noticed that one file in jffi had the wrong date already. We will > either correct that or it will correct itself depending on how long the RC > process takes 🙂 > Should be about time of selfcorrection now LOL > > Thanks for reporting it though… > My pleasure, given the time difference the main purpose was to help > fellow downloaders with the -m option of tar, not everybody has man > pages (e.g. Netbooks). > Robert ---
**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:** [February 25, 2009, 9:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jruby-1-2-0rc1-released/161289/5 "2009-02-25T21:58:54Z")
Thomas E. wrote: > Yeah we noticed that one file in jffi had the wrong date already. We > will either correct that or it will correct itself depending on how long > the RC process takes 🙂 Somewhat unrelated, but is there any precedent in software releasing to touch every file before building the release archive? Then they’d all presumably have the same date. I don’t see how it would break anything, and it would allow one to look at any file in the dist to know when the entire thing was released. Just an idle thought… - Charlie ---
**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:** [February 25, 2009, 10:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jruby-1-2-0rc1-released/161289/6 "2009-02-25T22:31:55Z")
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Charles Oliver N. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > thing was released. > Hmm that information should be transported by the tarball anyway (or > the realease notes ) and it might be interesting to see what has > changed lately especially for beta users chasing a bug, right? (Ok > there are release notes of course but a find with some clever > modification time constraints might be very helpful). > It somehow seems wrong to me to introduce entropy. > Robert ---
**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:** [February 25, 2009, 11:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jruby-1-2-0rc1-released/161289/7 "2009-02-25T23:37:47Z")
Robert D. wrote: > Hmm that information should be transported by the tarball anyway (or > the realease notes ) and it might be interesting to see what has > changed lately especially for beta users chasing a bug, right? (Ok > there are release notes of course but a find with some clever > modification time constraints might be very helpful). > It somehow seems wrong to me to introduce entropy. I’d direct them to the SCM for that sort of information; what’s in the tarball shouldn’t be expected to reflect anything about the original dates and times. And obviously in this case, we didn’t generate that .so in the future 🙂 - Charlie ---
**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:** [February 26, 2009, 12:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jruby-1-2-0rc1-released/161289/8 "2009-02-26T00:20:34Z")
Charles Oliver N. wrote: > dates and times. And obviously in this case, we didn’t generate that > .so in the future 🙂 > > - Charlie I think I would prefer realistic time stamps…If I was looking in an expanded distro and looked at lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb (for example). It would be nice to have it reflect last time checked in. Not sure if we used -p to put them into our repo on last import, but it still seems like it could be useful… Sterilizing all dates does not seem like it would help us much. I only left the single future date in there since this was an RC and it would have involved rereleasing a subordinate package again and re-tagging. In other words, it was easy to see in testing… -Tom ---
**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:** [February 26, 2009, 6:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jruby-1-2-0rc1-released/161289/9 "2009-02-26T06:33:38Z")
Thomas E. wrote: > The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 1.2.0RC1 Sweet, thanks! – James B. [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