JRuby 1.5.6 Released

The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 1.5.6.

JRuby 1.5.6 is a minor follow-up release to address problems with
mirroring
of 1.5.5 in maven, update to 1.0.3 of jruby native launcher, and a few
undesirable issues in windows. All users of JRuby 1.5.5 (and lower)
are recommended to upgrade to 1.5.6.

1.5.6 Issues Resolved:

  • JRUBY-4352 Rbconfig’s Config::CONFIG provides wrong name for Windows
    2008 Server, based on input from Rakesh A…
    (See 07fb757.)
  • JRUBY-4774 Fix classpath and load path issues related to file paths
    containing
    spaces
  • JRUBY-4898 java.util.ConcurrentModificationException
  • JRUBY-5127 become_java! doesn’t add Ruby class methods as statics on
    the
    resulting Java class
  • JRUBY-5223 Marshal.load fails when Kernel.read is defined

Not in our tracking system:

  • ant.bat should be specified on Windows

MANY MANY MANY THANKS FOR THIS WONDERFUL LIBRARY, IT’S FANTASTIC !!!