# JRuby 1.3.0RC2 Released **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [May 27, 2009, 9:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jruby-1-3-0rc2-released/168967 "2009-05-27T21:52:45Z")\ **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:** [May 27, 2009, 9:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jruby-1-3-0rc2-released/168967/1 "2009-05-27T21:52:45Z")
The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 1.3.0RC2 Homepage: [http://www.jruby.org/](http://www.jruby.org/) Download: [http://dist.codehaus.org/jruby/](http://dist.codehaus.org/jruby/) JRuby 1.3.0RC2 is a release to fix some issues which prevented JRuby from working with Google App Engine (GAE/J). We decided to put out a shorter release so that users interested in GAE/J could get going without needing to build JRuby from scratch. **Please try your apps against 1.3.0RC2 ASAP and report problems** Highlights: - Fixes so that JRuby runs in restricted environments better like GAE/J - Accessing primitive Java arrays are about 10x faster - timeout.rb is now ~40% faster - Method cache performance improvements - irb works in --1.9 mode now - Additional Miscellaneous 1.9 fixes - rubygems 1.3.3, rake 0.8.7, and rspec 1.2.6 upgrades - 58 bugs fixed since 1.2.0 JRUBY-3626 Thread Safety issue with JRuby 1.3 RC1 - JRuby abnormally exit JRUBY-3625 Multi-threading issue with RegExp JRUBY-1441 ENV should not be case-sensitive on Windows JRUBY-3617 Java array support unit tests on are failing on AIX with JRuby 1.3-dev JRUBY-3663 Can’t build JRuby on last OpenJDK builds (58+) because of uncorrect Invokdynamic support JRUBY-3638 Multi-Threading issues with JRuby 1.3RC1 and soap4r JRUBY-3678 problem with super called from method defined with define\_method JRUBY-3686 io.fcntl can also accept one-arg version JRUBY-3509 uninitialized constant when using ResourceController plugin with Rails 2.2.2 JRUBY-3699 Failure in ruby1.8/uri/test\_common JRUBY-3594 JRuby’s instance\_exec only accepts up to 3 arguments JRUBY-3677 Array#pack problem JRUBY-3633 JRuby 1.3 Fails to Execute Embedded Ruby code in Java JRUBY-3634 File.read or File.open with a url to a file resource fails with StringIndexOutOfBounds exception JRUBY-3621 relative\_path\_from returns errors for “C:/” and “C:\” JRUBY-3536 JRUBY-1441 jruby-complete gem install fails: private method `split’ called for nil:NilClass JRUBY-3647 Severe performance degradation from 3d9140fafcda9c4fe6b9d5a1fec0ae9822877e03 JRUBY-3659 Running ant spec-short without the proper Git abbreviations does not break JRUBY-3661 Incorrect super call site caching with multiple included modules JRUBY-3395 RubySpec: ConditionVariable#wait should return self JRUBY-3658 RubySpec: Range#initialize visibility and arity failures JRUBY-3396 RubySpec: Queue#num\_waiting reports the number of threads waiting on the Queue JRUBY-3357 Marshal load and dump rubyspec failures JRUBY-3644 After sucessfully launching a remotely-debugged application (using -S rdebug --stop) trying to run it crashes JRUBY-3649 IllegalArgumentException with --debug and syslog JRUBY-3671 RubySpec: Time.times is an obsolete method JRUBY-3388 RubySpec: File.open opens the file when passed mode, num and permissions JRUBY-3343 Modify require logic to block when two threads require the same file at the same time JRUBY-3585 Syslog has broken on OS X JRUBY-2518 Dir[“some glob”] doesn’t work for files inside a jar JRUBY-3496 MRI tests: test\_hash shows bug in delete\_if block argument JRUBY-3578 ByteList.endsWith fails on empty bytelist JRUBY-3586 StringIO should support to\_inputstream, to\_outputstream, and to\_channel just like IO does JRUBY-3588 Allow rescuing Java Throwables. JRUBY-1800 Ruby 1.9 Fiber support should leverage the same thread pool as pooled JRuby threading JRUBY-3345 Exception backtraces at toplevel appear to be broken JRUBY-3483 Redirecting $stdout to an object blows up the stack JRUBY-2900 Add -vm command line argument to pass classpath, etc. JRUBY-3573 Memory leak when -Djruby.thread.pool.enabled=true JRUBY-3680 closed stream error when using druby to copy a file JRUBY-3472 RubySpec: failures in after\_each for core/file JRUBY-3579 Prawn gem nil:NilClass error that doesn’t occur in MRI JRUBY-3498 New failure in MRI’s test\_time JRUBY-3679 java.nio.BufferOverflowException on every Kernel.puts call JRUBY-3670 RubySpec: A Symbol literal does not contain null in the string JRUBY-3683 JRUBY-3670 fix introduces a symbol regression JRUBY-3596 gems in a jar are not found if the current directory contains a space JRUBY-3393 RubySpec: CSV::Reader.parse calls block once for one row of input JRUBY-3698 RubyDateFormat.java does ont handle %R specifier in strftime JRUBY-3652 IO.popen drops first space between command and first argument JRUBY-3632 Jruby deployment missing batch files JRUBY-3620 JRuby shebang parsing is too simplistic JRUBY-3572 Support for anonymous callback inside function definition JRUBY-3650 Please consider allowing jruby -c to take multiple files as arguments JRUBY-3660 Dir.pwd correctly displays dirs with unicode characters in them JRUBY-2235 Minor regression: Kernel.system(‘non-existing-file’) produces some output but shouldn’t JRUBY-3615 Fiber.yield crahes if called without arguments JRUBY-3640 Minor optimizations with Map.entrySet ---
**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:** [May 27, 2009, 10:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jruby-1-3-0rc2-released/168967/2 "2009-05-27T22:45:32Z")
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Thomas E. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 1.3.0RC2 > > Homepage: [http://www.jruby.org/](http://www.jruby.org/) > Download: [http://dist.codehaus.org/jruby/](http://dist.codehaus.org/jruby/) > > JRuby 1.3.0RC2 is a release to fix some issues which prevented JRuby from > working with Google App Engine (GAE/J). We decided to put out a shorter > release so that users interested in GAE/J could get going without needing to > build JRuby from scratch. Thank you for all your great work on this. I’ve finally started to take the plunge into JRuby (including using FFI), and it has been awesome so far. You guys have really come a long way with this! -greg PS: To those using Prawn, this release should fix an issue with TTF font embedding ---
**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:** [May 28, 2009, 1:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jruby-1-3-0rc2-released/168967/3 "2009-05-28T01:09:35Z")
Thomas E. wrote: > The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 1.3.0RC2 > > Homepage: [http://www.jruby.org/](http://www.jruby.org/) > Download: [http://dist.codehaus.org/jruby/](http://dist.codehaus.org/jruby/) > > JRuby 1.3.0RC2 is a release to fix some issues which prevented JRuby from > working with Google App Engine (GAE/J). We decided to put out a shorter > release so that users interested in GAE/J could get going without > needing to > build JRuby from scratch. Sweet. Thanks for all the time and effort. ## James [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 [www.neurogami.com](http://www.neurogami.com) - Smart application development