JRuby

The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 9.2.21.0

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

JRuby 9.2.x is compatible with Ruby 2.5.x and stays in sync with C Ruby. As always there is a mix of miscellaneous fixes so be sure to read the issue list below. All users are encouraged to upgrade.

Thanks to our contributors this cycle for helping to maintain and improve JRuby 9.2: @dee-see, @edipofederle, @DirkMahler

Ruby Compatibility

• Fixes for a memory leak in the frozen string cache have been backported. (#7021)

Java Integration

• The internal cache for nested jar file contents has been optimized and a new option added for cache expiration. (#7225, #7232, #7259)

Hardware Support

• Support for Apple’s M processors has been backported. It has not been heavily tested, but it has been confirmed working by users. (#6953, #6965, #6985)

Standard Library

• jruby-openssl update to 0.12.2. (#7140)