In combination with the rest of the RubyInstaller team, I’m very
pleased to announce the release of RubyInstaller packages for Ruby
1.9.3-p286
As usual, installer and 7z packages are available at RubyInstaller
website and RubyForge for download:
http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=167&release_id=46999
For verification, MD5 signatures of each file released are provided:
c44504cd9ba6c21da981803579c60f9f *ruby-1.9.3-p286-doc-chm.7z
8ba0d2203590dbf8e9d59d9d731c05d0 *ruby-1.9.3-p286-i386-mingw32.7z
256140c747422009ea04b10c8d638716 *rubyinstaller-1.9.3-p286.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/400281
= What’s new?
Beyond what is covered by Ruby itself, we have our own set of
improvements:
-
Enhancements:
- Upgraded Ruby 1.9.3 to patchlevel 286
- Convert gdbm recipe to use Knapsack binaries
- Convert pdcurses recipe to use Knapsack binaries
- Convert tcl and tk recipes to use Knapsack binaries
-
Bugfixes:
- Decreased file descriptors for 1.9.x to 2K. Closes #104 (again)
Ruby associates a file descriptor to a socket, so can’t use more
than
2048 FDs
- Decreased file descriptors for 1.9.x to 2K. Closes #104 (again)