# Ruby 1.8.7-preview2 has been released

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-7-preview2-has-been-released/135280>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [April 20, 2008, 2:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-7-preview2-has-been-released/135280 "2008-04-20T14:36:15Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 2:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-7-preview2-has-been-released/135280/1 "2008-04-20T14:36:15Z")

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Folks,

Here is an announcement that the second preview of Ruby 1.8.7 has just  
been released. Changes from the previous preview release include  
several fixes for some incompatibility issues and bugs that have been  
addressed by now.

Addition of Symbol#to\_proc has been backed out, because it didn’t work  
as expected as intended in the test cases.

The new version of Ruby includes many bug fixes, lots of feature  
enhancements and some performance improvements since 1.8.6 while  
maintaining stability and backward compatibility with the previous  
release to a high degree.

The source code package is available in three formats at the following  
locations:

ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7-preview2.tar.bz2  
ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7-preview2.tar.gz  
ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7-preview2.tar.zip

Checksums:

```
    MD5 (ruby-1.8.7-preview2.tar.bz2) = 

```

aea3c408133a4a292198afa4b6b73af4  
SHA256 (ruby-1.8.7-preview2.tar.bz2) =  
d02c1d22bff5c8365aa4adb25387950c0b58206a18cb18afcc4f2bd9401997e5  
SIZE (ruby-1.8.7-preview2.tar.bz2) = 4013909

```
    MD5 (ruby-1.8.7-preview2.tar.gz) = 

```

776ca41fbc0b5c8d83c184cc79c3b622  
SHA256 (ruby-1.8.7-preview2.tar.gz) =  
e969a88f91b26033e32f103e2db352d34a604c826789a1eb748fcb971fc9f602  
SIZE (ruby-1.8.7-preview2.tar.gz) = 4714063

```
    MD5 (ruby-1.8.7-preview2.zip) = b70c39942184101f6f3a9cd1eb245a12
    SHA256 (ruby-1.8.7-preview2.zip) = 

```

719ab45df2ca80bebf6e5e722778126f648e41a114d0d055a07837bb6fe55ee5  
SIZE (ruby-1.8.7-preview2.zip) = 5797584

For a brief list of user visible changes and a full list of all  
changes, see the bundled files named NEWS and ChangeLog, which are  
also available at the following locations:

[http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/v1\_8\_7\_preview2/NEWS](http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/v1_8_7_preview2/NEWS)  
[http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/v1\_8\_7\_preview2/ChangeLog](http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/v1_8_7_preview2/ChangeLog)

Please test it out and drop us a report in the following tracker if  
you find any problem:

[http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?atid=22040&group\_id=426&func=browse](http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?atid=22040&group_id=426&func=browse)

Some known problems are on the list and when you find one it may be  
fixed already, so please look through all items querying with “State”  
set to “Any” before submitting a new one.

The next preview is planned on next Friday and that will hopefully be  
the last preview release.

Regards,