JRuby 9.1.11.0 Released

Wednesday, June 14 2017

The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 9.1.11.0

JRuby 9000 is the newest major version of JRuby, representing years of effort and large-scale reboots of several JRuby subsystems. It is expected to be compatible with Ruby 2.x and stay in sync with C Ruby. JRuby 9.1.11.0 is our latest releaseā€¦

Major features of JRuby 9000:

  • Ruby 2.x compatibility
  • A new optimizing runtime based on a traditional compiler design
  • New POSIX-friendly IO and Process
  • Fully ported encoding/transcoding logic from MRI

If you do find issues then report them on using our issue tracker at https://github.com/jruby/jruby/issues. We also encourage users to join our IRC channel (#jruby on Freenode) and mailing lists. You may also follow @jruby on Twitter for updates.

Highlights:

  • FFI memory leak regression fixed
  • File.symlink regression on windows fixed
  • 27 issues fixed for 9.1.11.0

Github Issues resolved for 9.1.11.0

  • #4669 - File.symlink broken on windows
  • #4664 - Line numbers in backtrace with multiline method invocation are sometimes different from CRuby
  • #4663 - JRuby raises 'syntax error, unexpected kDO_BLOCK' where MRI does not
  • #4662 - LoadError with compiled multi-byte constant
  • #4661 - missing throw statements on ffi callback
  • #4658 - __dir__ won't work with embed paths such as uri:classloader: (#4611)
  • #4657 - Make Time#utc and #localtime raise RuntimeError when the object is frozen
  • #4656 - SecureRandom update to match Ruby 2.3
  • #4655 - Time#utc and #localtime can mutate a frozen object
  • #4647 - help classpath: canonicalization on Windows to fully resolve #4145
  • #4646 - try harder to avoid long overflow in Time#+ (fixes #1779)
  • #4642 - Fix missing callMethod override
  • #4641 - NPE when printing a variable in a view
  • #4639 - Fix Module inclusion order
  • #4638 - Also fix EMSGSIZE on Alpine Linux. Relates to #4606
  • #4636 - Implement Zlib::GzipReader #ungetbyte and #ungetc
  • #4631 - Zlib::GzipReader does not support #ungetc or #ungetbyte
  • #4630 - Jarified app breaks with `uri:classloader:BY\` on Windows with 9.1.10.0
  • #4625 - FFI memory leak regression
  • #4618 - Fix Float::INFINITY BigDecimal comparison
  • #4612 - REGRESSION - File.realpath fails on classpath paths
  • #4611 - [Q] __dir__ variable in jar file.
  • #4608 - Fix UDPSocket#(send|write) to raise EMSGSIZE
  • #4607 - SecureRandom.random_number doesn't accept a range
  • #4572 - Can't compare BigDecimal with Float::INFINITY got FloatDomainError: NaN
  • #1938 - Reincluded modules do not splice changes into hierarchy in the correct order
  • #1779 - Time.now + bignum incorrect