Ruby 1.9.1 preview1 is out

[Yugui (Yuki Sonoda)]

Hi all,

I released Ruby 1.9.1-preview 1. You can download it from the following
locations.

This is a preview release of Ruby 1.9.1, which will be the first stable
version of Ruby 1.9 series. Try it early and have a experience of
modern, faster, with clearer syntax, multilingualized and much improved
Ruby world.

If you encounter a bug or a problem, please let us know it via the
official issue tracking system (http://redmine.ruby-lang.org ).

== Location
You can download the release from;
* ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.1-preview1.tar.bz2
SIZE: 6169022 bytes
MD5: 0d51dc949bb6b438ad4ebfabbb5f6754
SHA256: dc39000537d7c7528ef26af8e1c3a6215b30b6c579c615eaec7013513410456a

* ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.1-preview1.tar.gz
SIZE: 7409682 bytes
MD5: 738f701532452fd5d36f5c155f3ba692
SHA256: 99443bdae9f94ba7b08de187881f8cbee172379edf9c5fa85fc04c869150ff6d

* ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.1-preview1.zip
SIZE: 8569116 bytes
MD5: 5f68246246c4cd29d8a3b6b34b29b6ac
SHA256: a6c3a7bf7ea83b595024764926353e08596a78e40c57ac58c568662e5e88df95

== New release schedule
The release schedule of Ruby 1.9.1 changed. The new schedule is,

* 28 Oct, 2008: Ruby 1.9.1-preview1
* Basically, the language features are frozen.
* But most of standard libraries need more changes for
multilingualization.

* 25 Nov, 2008: Ruby 1.9.1-preview2
* shows improvements since the previous preview.

* 25 Dec, 2008: Ruby 1.9.1 release candidate

cool down phase ....

* 25 Jan, 2009: Ruby 1.9.1

== Known error
"./configure && make && ./ruby -e 1" will fail and you need to "make
install" before running ruby at first.

This problem will be fixed by the preview 2.


Thanks

 

[Roger Pack]

This is a preview release of Ruby 1.9.1, which will be the first stable

version of Ruby 1.9 series. Try it early and have a experience of
modern, faster, with clearer syntax, multilingualized and much improved
Ruby world.

I assume this version passes all tests? Are there any known outstanding
bugs?
Thanks!
-=R

 

[Neo Lee]

Hi all,

I released Ruby 1.9.1-preview 1. You can download it from the following
locations.

Thanks a lot!

One question of mine is, is that the same as the newest svn trunk? Or
what the major difference between them?

 

[jzakiya]

Thanks a lot!

One question of mine is, is that the same as the newest svn trunk? Or
what the major difference between them?

I have code developed in 1.9.0-1 that ran a series of benchmarks fine
with it, but some of the benchmarks inexplicably produce SEG faults in
version 1.9.0-2 thru 1.9.0-5. My code and benchmarks can now run with
no problems in 1.9.1-preview1 but the benchmark times are reproducibly
slower (by 10-20%). So its great to see 1.9.1 can run my code cleanly,
but I hope future versions also become as fast, or faster than,
1.9.0-1.

 

[Roger Pack]

I have code developed in 1.9.0-1 that ran a series of benchmarks fine

with it, but some of the benchmarks inexplicably produce SEG faults in
version 1.9.0-2 thru 1.9.0-5. My code and benchmarks can now run with
no problems in 1.9.1-preview1 but the benchmark times are reproducibly
slower (by 10-20%). So its great to see 1.9.1 can run my code cleanly,
but I hope future versions also become as fast, or faster than,
1.9.0-1.

gprof is your friend--I'd post to core with this sometime.

Re: what version is preview 1
I think it's an SVN trunk snashot.

-=R

 

[Ken Bloom]

gprof is your friend--I'd post to core with this sometime.

Re: what version is preview 1
I think it's an SVN trunk snashot.

No. There's a ruby_1_9_1 branch now. preview 1 comes from there.