# Ruby 1.8.7-preview2 has been released **URL:** \ **Category:** ruby-talk\ **Created:** [20 April 2008 12:33 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-1-8-7-preview2-has-been-released/45988 "2008-04-20T12:33:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Akinori\_MUSHA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b782af/32.png) [@Akinori\_MUSHA](https://rubytalk.org/u/Akinori_MUSHA)\ **Post date:** [20 April 2008 12:33 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-1-8-7-preview2-has-been-released/45988/1 "2008-04-20T12:33:41Z")
Folks, Here is an announcement that the second preview of Ruby 1.8.7 has just been released. Changes from the previous preview release include several fixes for some incompatibility issues and bugs that have been addressed by now. Addition of Symbol#to\_proc has been backed out, because it didn't work as expected as intended in the test cases. The new version of Ruby includes many bug fixes, lots of feature enhancements and some performance improvements since 1.8.6 while maintaining stability and backward compatibility with the previous release to a high degree. The source code package is available in three formats at the following locations:   ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7-preview2.tar.bz2   ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7-preview2.tar.gz   ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7-preview2.tar.zip Checksums:         MD5 (ruby-1.8.7-preview2.tar.bz2) = aea3c408133a4a292198afa4b6b73af4         SHA256 (ruby-1.8.7-preview2.tar.bz2) = d02c1d22bff5c8365aa4adb25387950c0b58206a18cb18afcc4f2bd9401997e5         SIZE (ruby-1.8.7-preview2.tar.bz2) = 4013909         MD5 (ruby-1.8.7-preview2.tar.gz) = 776ca41fbc0b5c8d83c184cc79c3b622         SHA256 (ruby-1.8.7-preview2.tar.gz) = e969a88f91b26033e32f103e2db352d34a604c826789a1eb748fcb971fc9f602         SIZE (ruby-1.8.7-preview2.tar.gz) = 4714063         MD5 (ruby-1.8.7-preview2.zip) = b70c39942184101f6f3a9cd1eb245a12         SHA256 (ruby-1.8.7-preview2.zip) = 719ab45df2ca80bebf6e5e722778126f648e41a114d0d055a07837bb6fe55ee5         SIZE (ruby-1.8.7-preview2.zip) = 5797584 For a brief list of user visible changes and a full list of all changes, see the bundled files named NEWS and ChangeLog, which are also available at the following locations:   [http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/v1\_8\_7\_preview2/NEWS](http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/v1_8_7_preview2/NEWS)   [http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/v1\_8\_7\_preview2/ChangeLog](http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/v1_8_7_preview2/ChangeLog) Please test it out and drop us a report in the following tracker if you find any problem:   [http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?atid=22040&group\_id=426&func=browse](http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?atid=22040&group_id=426&func=browse) Some known problems are on the list and when you find one it may be fixed already, so please look through all items querying with "State" set to "Any" before submitting a new one. The next preview is planned on next Friday and that will hopefully be the last preview release. Regards, > **ยทยทยท** > > -- > Akinori MUSHA / [http://akinori.org/](http://akinori.org/)