[ruby-talk:444425] [ANN] JRuby 9.4.6.0 Released

The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 9.4.6.0.

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

JRuby 9.4.x targets Ruby 3.1 compatibility.

Thank you to our contributors this release, you help keep JRuby moving
forward! @evaniainbrooks, @ahorek, @kares, @most00, @ntkme, @sk757a
Ruby Compatibility

- Support for the new Prism parser for Ruby code has been merged in. A
blog post will follow soon. #8103
- IO#fcntl had inverted logic for setting O_NONBLOCK (setting it cleared
the value, etc). [#8081], [#8090]
- Many fixes to language and core class compatibility, see issue list.
- Warnings should match verbosity levels of CRuby, with many unwanted
warnings now properly omitted without verbose enabled. #7183, #8071

Standard Library

- json is updated to 2.7.1. #7752, #7954
- io-console is updated to 0.7.2. This version fixes IRB on Apple
M-series by using stty for console manipulation. #8012
- nkf is now supported by gem version 0.2.0. #8077
- strscan is updated to 3.1.0. #8074, [#8086]
- reline is updated to 0.4.2 #8102
- jruby-openssl is updated to 0.14.3 #8107

JVM Integration

- Ruby Symbols can be use as arguments to JVM methods that receive Java
String. #8015, #8057
- Starting with Java 17, package-private methods will no longer be bound
automatically even if they can be made visible. #8061, #8093

Native Integration

- The subsystem used for native calls has been updated to support
RHEL/CentOS 7 and the Java 9+ Cleaner API. [#8104]

Performance

- Performance of keyword argument handling has been improved. #8021
- Pattern matching is now supported in JRuby’s JIT compiler. #8026, #8027

77 Github Issues resolved for 9.4.6.0

    #4808 Rework global variables, caching to eliminate race conditions
    #6430 Using <internal: for core library methods defined in Ruby
    #7151 File.identical? should use stat to compare files
    #7183 Various alias forms warn on redefine when they should not
    #7523 Define IO::READABLE, WRITABLE, PRIORITY for IO#wait
    #7695 jffi ships with binaries requiring glibc 2.27
    #7721 jirb on win10 : The signal TSTP is in use by the JVM and will not
work correctly on this platform
    #7729 Sock fixes
    #7752 Update JSON gem to not use Bigdecimal.new
    #7759 irb on CentOS7, JRuby 9.4.2.0 , and JDK 1.8
    #7760 Failure to load FFI gives an outdated message
    #7845 Including a module again after prepending another module to it
isn’t idempotent
    #7862 Ruby 2.7 conformance: ObjectSpace::WeakMap is broken for FixNum
keys
    #7939 Yaml exception when trying to install rdoc-data
    #7954 Update json for BigDecimal.new fix
    #7958 Prepend internal marker to internal sources
    #7974 [ji] support java_alias with constructor
    #7981 Less instrs
    #7996 Add %aA for printf and friends
    #8001 Fix various specs
    #8002 Time spec fixes
    #8003 Fix issues in global variable thread-safety
    #8005 New MRI test failures on less common architectures
    #8007 Fix intermittent fails in CI
    #8009 Expand WeakMap to allow floats and fixnums
    #8010 Kernel#send does not strip off empty keywords hashes before
calling eventual method
    #8011 Fixes #8010. Kernel#send + empty kwargs hash error
    #8012 Update io-console
    #8013 Tag sweep2
    #8014 Fixes language specs involving blocks/yield
    #8015 Java method lookup for arity-1 method with inexact argument fails
in the presence of arity-2 method with same name
    #8016 Lang specs
    #8021 Reduce overhead of kwargs for no-arg methods and blocks
    #8022 Remove implicit prologue state to methods/blocks if that state is
unused
    #8026 Full JIT support for pattern matching
    #8027 Pattern jit
    #8031 Reuse thread-local jump exceptions to avoid construction
    #8033 Implement Exception.to_tty?
    #8039 Implement Exception.to_tty?
    #8040 Match Exception#full_message with MRI 3.2
    #8045 Try to find class resource to avoid exception
    #8046 Socket::IFF_* are missing
    #8047 add socket flags for zeroconf
    #8048 Try and make UDP look a little more like MRI (and hopefully make
it more functional)
    #8049 Fix String#unpack from using capacity() and causing wrong error
    #8050 Various cleanups for String operations
    #8052 ignore codes logic was not doing anything in unpack
    #8053 More arity splitting
    #8054 A bit confusing error: “FrozenError: can’t modify frozen NilClass”
    #8055 override getDelegate in PrependedModule to return origin
    #8056 Add hex exponential notation for Kernel::Float
    #8057 recognize RubySymbol as assignable to String
    #8060 Inspect frozen object for error
    #8061 enumerable.map raise wrong number of arguments only when Ruby
script is executed from Gradle using JDK 21
    #8063 Fix typos in cli options
    #8070 Attribute definition on singleton should call
singleton_method_added
    #8071 Update some warnings to deprecated
    #8072 Added Module#refinements and Refinement#refined_class
    #8074 Update strscan to fix improper sharing
    #8077 Switch to default gem for nkf
    #8080 [fix] avoid Class#subclasses deprecation with class.rb ext
    #8083 (master) rdoc test suite failing with
Java::JavaLang::ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
    #8088 Update strscan to 3.1.0 for OOB fix
    #8091 Ripper is not returning unary minus with proper symbol
    #8093 Rework visibility checks for Java integration
    #8095 Tweak kwargs logic to improve JIT inlining
    #8099 [ji] fix java_import when constant exists in Object
    #8100 Extra splat instr which did nothing
    #8101 Flip File.identical? logic to try native first
    #8102 Update reline to 0.4.2
    #8103 Prism pluggable integration work
    #8105 Update JNR dependencies
    #8107 update jruby-openssl to 0.14.3
    #8108 fix undef_method error message
    #8109 Simple error string mismatch. Also corrected for m17n naming to
prin…
    #8110 Re-arrange indexerror string when matching group name cannot be
found
    #8111 NameError and NoMethodError should be dup’ing receiver

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