[jruby-user] [ANN] JRuby 1.6.7 Released

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The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 1.6.7.

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

The primary goal of the 1.6.x series is to round out our 1.9 support
by fixing any reported incompatibilities. Of course, as with any JRuby
release, we will continue fixing any found incompatibilities and also
improve performance. All users of 1.6.6 (and lower) are encouraged to
upgrade to 1.6.7.

Some astute readers of our release announcements will remember this snippet:

"Because master keeps getting further and further away from our 1.6
branch we have decided to make this our last 1.6 release. We largely
fulfilled our goal of having reasonable 1.9 support."

After releasing 1.6.6, we got a smallish flood of simple to fix 1.9
compatibility issues. We realized our charter of reasonable 1.9
support had not quite been reached. So we decided to put out 1.6.7.
As of JRuby 1.6.7, we think we are leaving the 1.6 series at a nice
stopping point. Plus, 1.7.0 is less than two months away.

Thanks for releasing this version. It seems performances are back on
Windows 7 as they were in 1.6.5.1.

If I detect the opposite, I shall wait and move to 1.7.0 together with
java7 then.

I believe I read here that jruby (from version 1.7.0 onwards) will
toggle to 1.9 mode by default .

For how long will ruby 1.8.7 mode stay inside jruby and will ruby
1.8.7 mode have support/bugfixes from now on ?

For 1.7.x, for sure, we will continue to fix any bugs in 1.8 mode that
are found. 1.8 is still fully supported in 1.7.x, but it is just not
the default mode.

It is open for debate whether we actually support 1.8.7 in the next
major release in JRuby after 1.7.x. My gut instinct is we won't, but
time it takes to release JRuby 2/next/X and amount of users still
running on 1.8.7 will determine whether we drop it or not.

-Tom

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On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:23 PM, Thomas E Enebo <tom.enebo@gmail.com> wrote:

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