The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 1.6.0.RC1.
- Homepage: http://www.jruby.org/
- Download: http://www.jruby.org/download
JRuby 1.6.0.RC1 is the first release candidate of JRuby 1.6.0.
JRuby 1.6.0 is the largest release of JRuby to date. This release
fixes hundreds
of user issues and brings compatibility with Ruby 1.9.2 to a very high
level. We
have made Windows a primary supported platform by adding it as a continuous
integration platform, and JRuby 1.6 will provide Windows-based Ruby users with
the best experience yet. This release integrates experimental support for C
extensions based on Ruby's C API. And as with all major releases, we have
improved stability and performance across the board in response to real-world
user input.
We encourage Ruby and JRuby users alike to test out 1.6.0.RC1 to help us shake
out remaining issues. It would be especially helpful if users would test out
1.9 mode (by passing --1.9 flag) to help us round out our 1.9.2 compatibility
before the final 1.6.0 release.
Major Features:
* Ruby 1.9.2 language and API compatibility
** Not implemented: Encoding::Converter, non-ASCII identifiers, ripper, fiddle
* Improved Ruby call performance
* Built-in profiler (--profile, --profile.graph)
* RubyGems 1.4.2
* RSpec no longer bundled
* Ruby-debug gem unbundled, since it installs correctly now
* C Extension support (experimental)
* RubyGems Maven support (preview)
* Improved compatibility and user experience on Windows
* jruby-complete.jar now includes 1.9 standard library
* Embedding API refinements
* Over 2000 commits and 265 issues resolved.
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