The JRuby community recently released the latest version of JRuby 1.6.5.
JRuby is a 100% pure Java implementation of the Ruby programming language. It integrates Ruby's concise syntax and a wide range of Java class libraries.
According to the JRuby community, the 1.6.x series is mainly used to fix any known issues that are incompatible with Ruby 1.9. It is recommended that all users of earlier versions upgrade to 1.6.5.
Major improvements to this version include:
◆ Solved many Ruby 1.9 Encoding Problems.
◆ Support for. jrubyrc files for storing execution options
◆ Added the cext. enabled attribute.
◆ C extension now occupies less memory
◆ RubyGems updated to 1.8.9
◆-Added a USR2 Ruby thread uninstaller to uninstall Ruby/thread_dump.
◆ Improved the performance of using Java Maps
◆ Improves fiber Performance and supports JVM collaboration
◆ Improved zlib support
In addition, this version fixes 36 issues, see http://jruby.org/2011/10/25/jruby-1-6-5.html
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