From: Zachary Brown <zac@...>
Date: 2009-03-08T00:06:20+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] JRuby 1.2.0RC2 Released

On Mar 6, 2009, at 5:35 PM, Thomas Enebo wrote:

> The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby  
> 1.2.0RC2
>
> Homepage: http://www.jruby.org/
> Download: http://dist.codehaus.org/jruby/
>
> JRuby 1.2.0RC2 has fixed many many compatibility issues and  
> continued to
> improve general performance.  Due to popular demand we have a new  
> versioning
> system.  1.x.y was our old number system where x was the major  
> release and y
> was the minor release.  Our new system just chops off the vestigial  
> '1.' from
> the front.  1.3, 1.4, ..., 1.x will just be minor releases of our  
> current
> major release.
>
> ****Please try your apps against 1.2.0RC2 ASAP and report problems****
>
> Highlights:
> - Improved Ruby 1.9 support (via --1.9)
> - Compiler now works
> - Almost all of the missing 1.9 methods have been added
> - New experimental --fast flag which does more aggressive  
> optimizations
> - Large scale compiler and runtime cleanup and performance audit
> - Parsing is 3-6x faster now.
> - Preliminary android support (Ruboto)
> - Rails pathname issue fixed on Windows
> - Major bug triage since last release
> - 1052 revisions since 1.1.6
> - 232 bugs fixed since 1.1.6
>
> ****Bugs fixed since RC1****
>
> key              summary
> JRUBY-3455        1.2RC1 case - when clause evaluation does not  
> short-circuit
> JRUBY-3456     rails command causes project to be created in the  
> wrong directory
> JRUBY-3460     java.lang.ClassCastException: org.jruby.RubyObject  
> building jruby-rack
> JRUBY-3461     Minor code conventions documentation typo
> JRUBY-3449     jruby-complete-1.2RC1.jar seems to break FFI
> JRUBY-3464     1.2.0 RC1 fails on Solaris x86_64
> JRUBY-3376     Need FFI platform files generated for x86_64 linux
> JRUBY-3378     JRuby needs a new release of JFFI
> JRUBY-3466     NPE at  
> org.jruby.runtime.callsite.RespondToCallSite.isCacheInvalid
> JRUBY-3467     bug with *one* extra space on shebang with jruby-1.2rc1
> JRUBY-2795     Process.setpriority failure in rubyspecs on Mac OS X,  
> Soylatte
> JRUBY-3370     Need Constantine release for JRuby 1.2
> JRUBY-3402     extract command still tries to run but fails; remove  
> entirely or fix
> JRUBY-3457     ast script is not making it into the dist packages
> JRUBY-3447     Rails console gets stuck on "quit"
> JRUBY-3451     Random method undefined error after change in r.8491
> JRUBY-3448     UNIXSocket file descriptor leak
> JRUBY-3424     File.expand_path does not correctly follow directory  
> changes from Dir.chdir
> JRUBY-3450     Problem with jitting ruby block in JRuby 1.2 RC1
> JRUBY-3444     Multi-line string interpolation parses under MRI but  
> gives a parse error on JRuby

I'm hurt, JRUBY-3237 isn't on there and I fixed that a couple days  
ago ;).

Either way, hooray!

-Zac