# Ruby 1.8.5 released **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [August 25, 2006, 10:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-5-released/66407 "2006-08-25T10:48:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Yukihiro\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/c57346/32.png) [@Yukihiro\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Yukihiro_M)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2006, 10:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-5-released/66407/1 "2006-08-25T10:48:22Z")
Hello, We have just released the latest stable version of Ruby. This is a bug fix release. There should be no big difference from 1.8.4. We hope 1.8.5 is more stable and reliable than its preceding versions. ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/ruby-1.8.5.tar.gz 3fbb02294a8ca33d4684055adba5ed6f Happy Hacking! ``` matz. ``` ---
**Author:** ![Yukihiro\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/c57346/32.png) [@Yukihiro\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Yukihiro_M)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2006, 12:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-5-released/66407/2 "2006-08-25T12:08:31Z")
On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 05:45:49PM +0900, Yukihiro M. wrote: > We have just released the latest stable version of Ruby. > This is a bug fix release. There should be no big > difference from 1.8.4. We hope 1.8.5 is more stable and > reliable than its preceding versions. Good news! If anybody is interested, I’ve written a change summary: [eigenclass.org](http://eigenclass.org/hiki.rb?ruby+1.8.5+changelog) ---
**Author:** ![Yukihiro\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/c57346/32.png) [@Yukihiro\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Yukihiro_M)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2006, 2:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-5-released/66407/3 "2006-08-25T14:10:45Z")
Great! I can’t wait for the Windows Installer version of Ruby 1.8.5 (which will hopefully for a change be compiled with a recent MS compiler such as MSVC++ 20005) 🙂 Cheers, Morten ---
**Author:** ![Yukihiro\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/c57346/32.png) [@Yukihiro\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Yukihiro_M)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2006, 3:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-5-released/66407/4 "2006-08-25T15:40:57Z")
mortench wrote: > Great! I can’t wait for the Windows Installer version of Ruby 1.8.5 > (which will hopefully for a change be compiled with a recent MS > compiler such as MSVC++ 20005) 🙂 I don’t think that version of Microsoft’s programming suite is due for another 18000 years… Cheers, Dave ---
**Author:** ![Yukihiro\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/c57346/32.png) [@Yukihiro\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Yukihiro_M)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2006, 4:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-5-released/66407/5 "2006-08-25T16:27:02Z")
On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Mauricio F. wrote: > [eigenclass.org](http://eigenclass.org/hiki.rb?ruby+1.8.5+changelog) > thanks mauricio! -a ---
**Author:** ![Yukihiro\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/c57346/32.png) [@Yukihiro\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Yukihiro_M)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2006, 4:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-5-released/66407/6 "2006-08-25T16:27:01Z")
Mauricio F. wrote: > [eigenclass.org](http://eigenclass.org/hiki.rb?ruby+1.8.5+changelog) > > – > Mauricio F. - [http://eigenclass.org](http://eigenclass.org) - singular Ruby #pretty\_inspect, How’s that different from #pp and why not just #pi? T. ---
**Author:** ![Yukihiro\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/c57346/32.png) [@Yukihiro\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Yukihiro_M)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 11:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-5-released/66407/7 "2006-08-26T11:28:16Z")
e$BKNIt$G$9!#e(B e$B\ **Author:** ![Yukihiro\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/c57346/32.png) [@Yukihiro\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Yukihiro_M)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2006, 4:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-5-released/66407/8 "2006-08-25T16:39:07Z") On 8/25/06, Mauricio F. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > [eigenclass.org](http://eigenclass.org/hiki.rb?ruby+1.8.5+changelog) Thanks…this is great. –Dibya ---
**Author:** ![Yukihiro\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/c57346/32.png) [@Yukihiro\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Yukihiro_M)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 11:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-5-released/66407/9 "2006-08-26T11:32:18Z")
matz wrote: > We have just released the latest stable version of Ruby.[…] Thank you matz. 🙂 I’ve compiled it for Win32, if any of you are interested: [http://antoniocangiano.com/files/ruby\_1.8.5\_2006-08-25.zip](http://antoniocangiano.com/files/ruby_1.8.5_2006-08-25.zip) Thanks, Antonio ---
**Author:** ![Yukihiro\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/c57346/32.png) [@Yukihiro\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Yukihiro_M)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 11:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-5-released/66407/10 "2006-08-26T11:26:12Z")
On 8/25/06, mortench [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Great! I can’t wait for the Windows Installer version of Ruby 1.8.5 > (which will hopefully for a change be compiled with a recent MS > compiler such as MSVC++ 20005) 🙂 Not until certain things have been worked out. 😉 -austin ---
**Author:** ![Yukihiro\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/c57346/32.png) [@Yukihiro\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Yukihiro_M)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2006, 5:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-5-released/66407/11 "2006-08-27T05:46:58Z")
Ryan R. wrote: > Which compiler toolset? mingw? vc6? something else? Hi Ryan, I’ve used VC 7.1 (Visual C++ Toolkit 2003). HTH Antonio ---
**Author:** ![Yukihiro\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/c57346/32.png) [@Yukihiro\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Yukihiro_M)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-5-released/66407/12 "2006-08-26T16:40:50Z")
Antonio C. wrote: > matz wrote: > > > We have just released the latest stable version of Ruby.[…] > > Thank you matz. 🙂 > > I’ve compiled it for Win32, if any of you are interested: > [http://antoniocangiano.com/files/ruby\_1.8.5\_2006-08-25.zip](http://antoniocangiano.com/files/ruby_1.8.5_2006-08-25.zip) Which compiler toolset? mingw? vc6? something else? ---
**Author:** ![Yukihiro\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/c57346/32.png) [@Yukihiro\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Yukihiro_M)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 2:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-5-released/66407/13 "2006-08-28T14:20:37Z")
On 8/28/06, Stephen K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > them to others computers. Not a problem with VC 6.0,7.0,7.1. Can’t do it > with 8.0 - complains about missing manifests and all manner of things. The name to look for is SideBySide. There is some redistributable file, that will supposedly install the runtime and its manifests, so the app won’t complain. Unfortunately I don’t remember the name of the file. Perhaps vcredist\_x86.exe? This seems like good info on the topic: [http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=164465&SiteID=1](http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=164465&SiteID=1) ---
**Author:** ![Yukihiro\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/c57346/32.png) [@Yukihiro\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Yukihiro_M)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 1:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-5-released/66407/14 "2006-08-28T13:20:31Z")
> On 8/25/06, mortench [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > Great! I can’t wait for the Windows Installer version of Ruby 1.8.5 > > (which will hopefully for a change be compiled with a recent MS > > compiler such as MSVC++ 20005) 🙂 I hope not. Visual Studio 8.0 has introduced all sorts of stupidities to the C/C++ world which should have stayed confined to the .NET world. Stupidities like manifests and the inability to do LoadLibrary(“MSVCR80.DLL”) for similar reasons. I often build trivial apps for testing purposes and sometimes deploy them to others computers. Not a problem with VC 6.0,7.0,7.1. Can’t do it with 8.0 - complains about missing manifests and all manner of things. Can’t find any documentation about it. I guess I should buy a $600 Windows Installer based installer so that I can deploy my trivial app internally in the company (\*). Simpler to stick with VC 6.0 and just copy the two files required across the network. Keep it simple, use VC 6.0, 7.0 or 7.1. Stephen (\*) I did do this 5 years ago only to find that on most Windows NT 4.0 computers (in the UK at least) the MSI installer would fail and no patch from MS would fix it. Solution: Use a non “Windows Installer” installer. ---
**Author:** ![Yukihiro\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/c57346/32.png) [@Yukihiro\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Yukihiro_M)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 6:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-5-released/66407/15 "2006-08-28T18:39:29Z")
On 8/28/06, Stephen K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Stephen > > (\*) I did do this 5 years ago only to find that on most Windows NT 4.0 > computers (in the UK at least) the MSI installer would fail and no patch > from MS would fix it. Solution: Use a non “Windows Installer” installer. I can tell you for a fact that 1.8.5 version of the One-Click installer will still be VC++6 – there is no time for migrating to a new build system. Beyond that, a decision has yet to be made on whether the OCI will change to MinGW or VC++8. There was a long thread here on ruby-talk a month or so ago where I asked people to post their thoughts on the pros and cons of each choice. A lot of good information was posted, but I haven’t yet had time to analyze it (and there are still some talks with Microsoft that haven’t yet happened). My feeling is that the arguments are leaning towards MinGW, but its not at all clear cut. Thanks Stephen, for your input below. I don’t recall those facts coming out in the previous thread so I will add your comments in to the mix. Curt ---
**Author:** ![Yukihiro\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/c57346/32.png) [@Yukihiro\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Yukihiro_M)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2006, 2:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-5-released/66407/16 "2006-09-04T14:46:25Z")
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