[ANN] JRuby 1.6.0.RC1 released

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Maven artifacts have now been pushed for Maven users. Sorry it took
this long to clear this up.

-Tom

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On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Thomas E Enebo <tom.enebo@gmail.com> wrote:

I should also mention due to a dependent project forgetting to push
their maven poms, we are unable to push RC1 until they do...So maven
users will have to wait a short amount of time until we get things
straightened out.

-Tom

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Thomas E Enebo <tom.enebo@gmail.com> wrote:

The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 1.6.0.RC1.

- Homepage: http://www.jruby.org/
- Download: Downloads — JRuby.org

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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