RubyInstaller 1.8.7-p370 released

In combination with the rest of the RubyInstaller team, I’m very
pleased to announce the release of RubyInstaller packages for Ruby
1.8.7-p370

As usual, installer and 7z packages are available at RubyInstaller
website and RubyForge for download:

http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=167&release_id=46836

For verification, MD5 signatures of each file released are provided:

f03a99f73fbf5d94a119a30576c18815 *ruby-1.8.7-p370-doc-chm.7z
33fc1ab6d993f4572ac7daa3e96d09ba *ruby-1.8.7-p370-i386-mingw32.7z
8bcca24f702a47e0ad4d47a080bd0052 *rubyinstaller-1.8.7-p370.exe

Installer is also digitally signed to avoid alterations and UAC
warnings.

You can read Ruby’s own announcement here:

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/396992

= What’s new?

Beyond what is covered by Ruby itself, we have our own set of
improvements:

  • Enhancements:
  • Upgraded Ruby 1.8.7 to patchlevel 370
  • Add support for Japanese language installers.
  • Enhance Inno scripts to enable multi-language installers.
  • Upgraded documentation generator dependency (rdoc_chm) to 3.1.0.
    Closes #63
  • Upgraded RubyGems to 1.8.24 on all versions of Ruby
  • Upgraded OpenSSL to version 1.0.0j
  • Upgraded libffi to version 3.0.11
  • Upgraded ZLib to version 1.2.7
  • Upgraded Iconv to version 1.14