[ANN] JRuby 1.5.1 Released

[Thomas E Enebo]

The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 1.5.1.

* Homepage: http://www.jruby.org/
* Download: http://www.jruby.org/download

JRuby 1.5.0 was a long overdue and huge release. JRuby 1.5.1 is a
minor follow-up release to address some of the more visible issues
discovered after the release of 1.5.0. Everyone is encouraged to move
to 1.5.1. Users of JRuby=92s Java integration or those deploying on
Google AppEngine will need to upgrade to 1.5.1.

1.5.1 Issues Resolved:
* JRUBY-4799: Uncaught AccessibleObject.setAccessible fails on App Engi=
ne
* JRUBY-4839: ObjectSpace.undefine_finalizer does not work
* JRUBY-4838: JRuby exit hangs on ChannelStream.finalize
* JRUBY-4795: regression: JRuby 1.5 doesn=92t pick up JDBC drivers
from CLASSPATH
* JRUBY-4832: Memory Leak when extending Java class with
additional Ruby instance variable
* JRUBY-4790: Regression processing END between JRuby 1.4 and 1.5
* JRUBY-4803: Known bug in net/http.rb
* JRUBY-4844: jruby behaves differently from MRI with (rails
2.3.8) activerecord associations
* JRUBY-4837: FileUtils.touch does not update the mtime of
directories on Windows
* JRUBY-4821: IO#open(&block) + close sets $! which disables
Test::Unit::Autorunner
* JRUBY-4831: Multiple block args to ActiveRecord association
proxy are splatted incorrectly
* JRUBY-4825: FILE is not expanded when it is used from within a a
compiled ruby script used as the main class of an executable jar



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