# Ruby 1.9.0-4 is released

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-9-0-4-is-released/146806>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 25, 2008, 7:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-9-0-4-is-released/146806 "2008-08-25T19:08:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Yugui\_SYuki\_S.S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/dec6dc/32.png) [@Yugui\_SYuki\_S.S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Yugui_SYuki_S.S)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 7:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-9-0-4-is-released/146806/1 "2008-08-25T19:08:23Z")

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Hi,

Ruby 1.9.0-4 has just been released. This is a snapshot release.

The next release is 1.9.0-4. It will be released at 25 Sep. See  
[ruby-core:17644] for more details.

== Location  
You can fetch it from:

ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/ruby-1.9.0-4.tar.bz2  
MD5=429cf38c075332118860f58152291954  
SHA256=09a91a60fba308a45ab8d3e691ec5ab279b36b646e75ad68d1d45679bdc4cbce  
SIZE=5546544

ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/ruby-1.9.0-4.tar.gz  
MD5=12836c96133f6a656bfe9159477a4575  
SHA256=99a1d460fe0b5b3ba1e2465f3744aea6b1176b2803222a0e7113f4dde8bc8ff8  
SIZE=6699896

ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/ruby-1.9.0-4.zip  
MD5=06ae8573bcab645741c03dc63fbb8193  
SHA256=6116d479820a836e3304db1d09131de2840aca7341d50e2d31da02cf13e15a53  
SIZE=7889585

== News

- transcode  
Encoding::Converter: new class

- Universal newline

== Maintainers are wanted  
The following platforms was supported once by Ruby but now Ruby has no  
active maintainer for them. Perhaps Ruby 1.9.0-4 does not work on them.

- BeOS
- WinCE
- OS/2
- bcc32
- Classic MacOS
- VMS
- djgpp
- human68k

I will remove platform-specific codes for WinCE, OS/2, bcc32, Classic  
MacOS, VMS, djgpp, and human68k from Ruby, unless someone  
become a maintainer for it by 25 Sep.

see [ruby-talk:311117] for more details.

Regards,

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**Author:** ![Yugui\_SYuki\_S.S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/dec6dc/32.png) [@Yugui\_SYuki\_S.S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Yugui_SYuki_S.S)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 6:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-9-0-4-is-released/146806/2 "2008-08-27T06:04:12Z")

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On Monday 25 August 2008 12:03:31 Yugui (Yuki S.) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Ruby 1.9.0-4 has just been released. This is a snapshot release.
> 
> The next release is 1.9.0-4.

Probably 1.9.0-5? Or you could just release this one again…

Thanks, though – compiling now.

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**Author:** ![Yugui\_SYuki\_S.S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/dec6dc/32.png) [@Yugui\_SYuki\_S.S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Yugui_SYuki_S.S)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 6:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-9-0-4-is-released/146806/3 "2008-08-27T06:20:00Z")

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Ruby 1.9.0-4 instantly broke Hpricot. Reinstalling from the gem fixed  
it.

Now, this shouldn’t happen, but I’m compiling the development version of  
Ruby  
from source, so I should be expecting issues like this.

But for that particular problem, is there a way to automagically rebuild  
all  
gems? Or at least those with native extensions – I’d guess those would  
be  
the first to break.

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**Author:** ![Yugui\_SYuki\_S.S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/dec6dc/32.png) [@Yugui\_SYuki\_S.S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Yugui_SYuki_S.S)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 6:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-9-0-4-is-released/146806/4 "2008-08-27T06:53:20Z")

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On Tuesday 26 August 2008 23:33:39 Tim P. wrote:

> You would need to write a script that dumps a list of your gems with  
> native extensions (look for .so or .bundle files), upgrade ruby, then  
> run the script again to reinstall the native gems.

In which case, probably easier to just reinstall all of them.

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**Author:** ![Yugui\_SYuki\_S.S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/dec6dc/32.png) [@Yugui\_SYuki\_S.S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Yugui_SYuki_S.S)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 6:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-9-0-4-is-released/146806/5 "2008-08-27T06:38:44Z")

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On Aug 26, 2008, at 10:14 PM, David M. wrote:

> would be  
> the first to break.

You would need to write a script that dumps a list of your gems with  
native extensions (look for .so or .bundle files), upgrade ruby, then  
run the script again to reinstall the native gems.

Hey, new ruby quiz!

Blessings,  
TwP