JRuby

The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 1.6.1.

• Homepage: https://www.jruby.org/
• Download: https://www.jruby.org/download

JRuby 1.6.1 is our first update to 1.6.0. The primary goal of the 1.6.x series is to round out our 1.9 support by fixing any reported incompatibilities. Of course, as with any JRuby release, we will continue fixing any found incompatibilities and also improve performance. All users of 1.6.0 (and lower) are encouraged to upgrade to 1.6.1.

Notable Changes:

• Numerous 1.9-mode features and bugs fixed
• Various fixes to installing and running C extensions
• Kernel.exec on windows does a native exec (CreateProcess)
• Performance fixes for non-blocking IO methods
• Performance tweaks for Array, String, and a few other core classes
• Updated JSR292 (invokedynamic) support
• 193 commits and 47 issues resolved since 1.6.0

1.6.1 Issues Resolved:

• JRUBY-2126 jirb outputs ???? instead of Japanese characters
• JRUBY-2488 Ctrl-D does not work in ‘jirb’
• JRUBY-3943 19: IO objects should use internal encoding to transcode output strings
• JRUBY-4791 IRB with readline “leaks” streams, leaving GC to clean them up
• JRUBY-5044 JRuby throws invalid runtime exception when loading C extensions in different runtimes
• JRUBY-5285 jruby-rake-plugin doesn’t play nice with bundler
• JRUBY-5396 19: YAML anchors & alias merging regression
• JRUBY-5590 IRB completion fails in 1.9 with multiple dot notation elements
• JRUBY-5591 Kconv.kconv throws an NPE
• JRUBY-5592 JRuby 1.6 done blowed up RUBYOPT
• JRUBY-5594 Seeing ConnectionPendingException in my code
• JRUBY-5596 Improve Dalli IO performance
• JRUBY-5597 assignment to Java::byte[] creates range error for values greater than 127 JRUBY-5598 cext/src/invoke.cpp doesn’t include alloca.h
• JRUBY-5599 install-dev-gems target has gems ordered incorrectly
• JRUBY-5600 dist-bin ant target fails because rspec is not installed.
• JRUBY-5601 C extension fails to build on Solaris with newer GCC because of -std=c99
• JRUBY-5602 IndexOutOfBoundsException in Dir.glob_helper for file: path
• JRUBY-5604 JRuby version string should use MRI’s format
• JRUBY-5606 asprintf does not exist on Solaris, so C extensions do not build
• JRUBY-5607 Installing Maven artifacts via rubygems fails: de.saumya.mojo:ruby-tools:jar:0.6-SNAPSHOT is missing
• JRUBY-5608 java.lang.ClassFormatError under IBM JVM
• JRUBY-5609 rubygems maven support does not install artifact from extra repositories
• JRUBY-5610 Socket#accept_nonblock unconditionally raises Errno::EAGAIN
• JRUBY-5624 Class.new { p eval(“self”, binding) }
• JRUBY-5627 JRuby flock silently converts LOCK_EX to LOCK_SH on read-only files
• JRUBY-5628 Missing write_array_of_<foo>() methods
• JRUBY-5629 Backtraces report modules as classes
• JRUBY-5632 19: Incompatible behaviour of splat operator (*) with objects that implement #to_a (w.r.t. MRI)
• JRUBY-5634 File.new (and related paths) unconditionally calling to_int on first arg
• JRUBY-5637 Default exception message uses singleton class when it should not
• JRUBY-5640 Dir#pos= dies if negative value provided
• JRUBY-5641 String.each_line: Newline handling differs between 1.9 and 1.8 compatibility mode
• JRUBY-5646 RubyString.newUnicodeString in 1.9 mode produces ASCII-8BIT
• JRUBY-5648 Method#source_location is nil for methods whose visibility is overridden JRUBY-5649 requiring ‘jruby/profiler’ on a Rakefile causes exception
• JRUBY-5651 java.util.ConcurrentModificationException still occurs
• JRUBY-5680 eval(“self”, Kernel.binding)
• JRUBY-5682 Bundler fails to read some gemspecs under JRuby in 1.9 mode
• JRUBY-5685 IO.popen4 does not work when arguments contain *
• JRUBY-5686 ‘Stabby’ lambdas throw NullPointerException
• JRUBY-5687 Process::Status#exitstatus does not return correct exit status
• JRUBY-5688 Process::Status#pid is missing
• JRUBY-5690 cext GC collects classes and modules that are still in use
• JRUBY-5693 19: Fixnum#** sometimes returns wrong Bignum
• JRUBY-5694 DATA points to wrong file
• JRUBY-5705 Open3.popen3 fails under –1.9 mode