From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2008-11-04T18:57:46+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] JRuby 1.1.5 Released

FYI, the updated FFI support is feature-equivalent to the just-released 
Ruby FFI. The primary difference from 1.1.4 is callback support.

Thomas Enebo wrote:
> The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 1.1.5!
> 
> Homepage: http://www.jruby.org/
> Download: http://dist.codehaus.org/jruby/
> 
> JRuby 1.1.5 is the fifth point release of JRuby 1.1.  The fixes in this
> release are primarily obvious compatibility problems and performance
> enhancements.  Our goal is to put out point releases more frequently for
> the next several months (about 3-4 weeks a release).  We want a more
> rapid release cycle to better address issues brought up by users of JRuby.
> 
> Highlights:
> - Per-class method caching (improves __send__, respond_to?, and defined?)
> - Constant cache dramatically improves constant lookup
> - Reduced memory usage for compiled execution
> - Several Java Integration regressions fixed
> - Rubygems 1.3.1 and Rspec 1.1.11 upgrades
> - Updated ffi (Foreign Function Interface) support
> - More Ruby 1.9 mode support
> - 113 bugs fixed since 1.1.4
> 
> 
> JRUBY-194        handling protected methods in Java classes not working 
> properly
> JRUBY-1000     Illegal attempt to subclass a final Java class should 
> fail when the subclass is defined
> JRUBY-1263     JRuby is trying to parse .so files.
> JRUBY-1413     Rinda::RingFinger.primary hangs on UDPSocket.open
> JRUBY-1424     Unknown problem with ZLib::Inflate
> JRUBY-1504     In-process "ruby" launching causes test/unit to hang when 
> called from within Rake
> JRUBY-1519     hoe complains about gdiff when using jruby, doesn't 
> complain when using MRI
> JRUBY-1551     eval 'yield', b should succeed if b is a binding pulled 
> from a frame that was passed a block
> JRUBY-1712     Captures local to the block ?
> JRUBY-2048     Call site caches may not be thread safe
> JRUBY-2181     respond_to? is 2x slower than in MRI
> JRUBY-2219     Errno numeric values should be platform-specific
> JRUBY-2278     Wrong line number in SyntaxError out of eval
> JRUBY-2281     Rubyspec failure: IO#write_nonblock on a file writes all 
> of the string's bytes but does not buffer them
> JRUBY-2308     Handling on Rational numbers inconsistent with MRI
> JRUBY-2310     Rails constantize is more than twice as slow on JRuby
> JRUBY-2349     Bug in constant lookup on non Module or Class
> JRUBY-2374     Unicode chars in script/console
> JRUBY-2403     Performance issue with charlie gem.
> JRUBY-2436     real world test shows JRuby 3x slower than MRI on large 
> dataset regex matching
> JRUBY-2562     case expression is slower than on MRI
> JRUBY-2574     Etc.getpwname NPE's if user does not exist.
> JRUBY-2586     IO#readpartial is non-functional on files
> JRUBY-2686     Truncated ActionMailer emails when using JRuby 1.1.2
> JRUBY-2705     Process.uid raises error on windws, but this method is 
> now required by rubygems 1.2
> JRUBY-2750     JRuby AOT compiler should produce version information
> JRUBY-2765     Attr assign for block arguments is still slow, both in 
> bytecode and in not call-site caching
> JRUBY-2800     Get specs for JI, tracing, etc (JRuby-specific, not 
> rubyspec) incorporated into normal test runs
> JRUBY-2807     Migrate inheritance-based cache compiler to use arrays 
> for more stuff
> JRUBY-2836     Empty expressions in Hash literals crash JRuby
> JRUBY-2837     Empty expressions in Arrays handled incorrectly
> JRUBY-2840     Not all Socket::Constants are defined, cause RubySpec 
> failures
> JRUBY-2842     Get Errno::ENOTSOCK in UDPSocket.open
> JRUBY-2853     Examine each deoptimization case in ASTInspector to see 
> if it's still valid or could be eliminated
> JRUBY-2856     JRuby thinks OpenBSD doesn't support getuid
> JRUBY-2867     Wrong overloaded Java method called when both int and 
> float signatures exist
> JRUBY-2877     [][2**63-1]=2 crashes JRuby
> JRUBY-2878     Array#hash with recursive array crashes JRuby
> JRUBY-2883     Many Array methods don't handle recursive arrays properly
> JRUBY-2885     jna-posix isatty for Windows
> JRUBY-2888     Exception handling in compiler is much more bytecode now 
> that Java exceptions work too
> JRUBY-2905     NoMethodError does not give a useful message when thrown 
> in BSF
> JRUBY-2909     Tracing regression, full pathing in trace output
> JRUBY-2920     JRuby is slower than Ruby 1.9 on rock/paper/scissors bench.
> JRUBY-2922     LoadService always passes on fully-expanded paths when 
> loading files, noising up backtraces, generated class names, and such
> JRUBY-2939     When binding a restarg method, display useful error if 
> rest != true or else just do the right thing
> JRUBY-2940     test/testSocket.rb error on server socket between accept 
> and read
> JRUBY-2955     Integrate RubyGems > 1.2 fix
> JRUBY-2957     Regression: to_java fails on arrays containing nil element
> JRUBY-2958     jruby casts Integer argument to Long for java method with 
> Integer arg.
> JRUBY-2959        jetty-rails broken by trunk
> JRUBY-2960     YAML.quick_emit does not actually emit YAML
> JRUBY-2962     Patch containing regression test for line number argument 
> for EventHook
> JRUBY-2963     [patch] Enable running rubyspecs on Windows
> JRUBY-2965     Sparodic Linkage Error On Startup
> JRUBY-2966     REXML DOS issue in Ruby 1.8 libraries
> JRUBY-2969     Classes that include modules that include Java interfaces 
> and return nil for __jcreate_meta! throw an internal JRuby error
> JRUBY-2971     strftime isn't fully implemented
> JRUBY-2975     Overriding Time._dump does not behave the same as MRI
> JRUBY-2976     YAML messes up custom tag
> JRUBY-2984     Interpreted case/when is much slower than MRI
> JRUBY-2986     Include Windows 64-bit (x64 / amd64) support in included JNA
> JRUBY-2989     Cache static scopes in compiled script objects for 
> constant/variable names access without dynamic scope
> JRUBY-2991     Memory leak building Rubinius's kernel
> JRUBY-2993     implementing java class causes exception
> JRUBY-2994     Have the build unpack JNA native libs into lib and add 
> lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH for all platforms
> JRUBY-2998     socket putc does not work
> JRUBY-3001     Either an I/O or a range performance issue
> JRUBY-3002     Improve JI error reporting when Java method resolution fails
> JRUBY-3006     Requiring a library with rubygems and many libs loaded is 
> very slow
> JRUBY-3008     IO#putc flushes on every char
> JRUBY-3009     IO#putc ignores I/O errors
> JRUBY-3012     Rake tasks are empty in Mr. Bones' generated project 
> under JRuby
> JRUBY-3013     Syslog messes up with ident
> JRUBY-3014     Compiled Ruby classes cannot resolve their location 
> inside a Jar file
> JRUBY-3015     JRuby is not working on IBM JVM 1.5
> JRUBY-3018     Add field_reader, field_writer, and field_accessor
> JRUBY-3019     Data is written to end of string passed to IO#sysread 
> instead of beginning
> JRUBY-3020     IO#sysread on an accepted socket randomly fails
> JRUBY-3022     [PATCH] Fix for ShellLauncher.shouldRunInProcess not 
> being strict enough
> JRUBY-3025     File.truncate errors with "No such file or directory" 
> when the file exists.
> JRUBY-3028     ObjectSpace#each_object blows NPE when JRuby is run via 
> bootclasspath
> JRUBY-3029     .class files are loaded before .rb files ignoring the 
> load path ordering
> JRUBY-3033     FFI has warnings with verbose/debug on
> JRUBY-3034     Need to get FFI specs running as part of normal build
> JRUBY-3036     Module include bug with Test::Unit (ObjectSpace issue)
> JRUBY-3037     Test for Java class extension depends on Sun JDK specifics
> JRUBY-3039     Private constructors on org.jruby.RubyString effectively 
> cutoff subclassing
> JRUBY-3044     MatchData#begin('string') and MatchData#end('string') 
> should raise TypeError
> JRUBY-3045     MatchData#select bug
> JRUBY-3046     Method Arity is null
> JRUBY-3049     EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
> JRUBY-3050     File/IO broken with special characters in filenames
> JRUBY-3052     Cache Constants at their call site (const_node)
> JRUBY-3056     strftime %z has mixed '+' and '-'
> JRUBY-3057     External command spawning in multiple concurrent threads 
> can go boom
> JRUBY-3058     Config::CONFIG['host_os'] has incorrect value on Windows 
> 2000
> JRUBY-3059     load "foo.rb" should search for .class as well
> JRUBY-3062     Cache Constants at their call site (compiler)
> JRUBY-3066     Missing methods: Kernel::__method__ and Kernel::__callee__
> JRUBY-3074        Update to RubyGems 1.3.0.
> JRUBY-3080     java.awt.geom.Path2D fails to be imported
> JRUBY-3083     jruby -e '~"heh"' does not error out with NoMethodError
> JRUBY-3084     Investigate libdl _dl_debug_initialize libc6-i686 issue 
> on Ubuntu, come up with a workaround, and go after responsible parties
> JRUBY-3090     [PATCH] Fix endless loop with Math.frexp(inf)
> JRUBY-3091     Flaws in constant caching
> JRUBY-3093     alias plus eval plus module does not appear to be 
> reflecting correct lookup hierarchy
> JRUBY-3094     Update to RubyGems 1.3.1 and modify Etc to behave like 
> MRI when etc methods are not available.
> JRUBY-3096     New Joni and Jcodings release needed for 1.1.5
> JRUBY-3098     (/(a)b\k<1>/ =~ "aba") == 0 does not work (i.e. numbered 
> backref does not work.)
> JRUBY-3099     Issue with method max from enumerable when applied to 
> has_many association
> JRUBY-3102     Java classes with non-visible constructors should not be 
> constructible
> JRUBY-3106     to_java fails to convert arguments for jna call
> 
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