Posted by nurse on 25 Dec 2013
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.1.0.
Ruby 2.1 has many improvements including speedup without severe incompatibilities.
Try it!
Download
- https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.1/ruby-2.1.0.tar.bz2
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- https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.1/ruby-2.1.0.tar.gz
- SIZE: 15076389 bytes
- MD5: 9e6386d53f5200a3e7069107405b93f7
- SHA256: 3538ec1f6af96ed9deb04e0965274528162726cc9ba3625dcf23648df872d09d
- https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.1/ruby-2.1.0.zip
- SIZE: 16603067 bytes
- MD5: 2fc3a80b56da81b906a9bb6fc7ca8399
- SHA256: d40d7bfb39ca2e462dea61dcbbcf33426b60e6e553335c3afb39b4d827a6891c
Changes since 2.0
The notable changes are:
- VM (method cache)
- RGenGC (See ko1’s RubyKaigi presentation and RubyConf 2013 presentation)
- refinements #8481 #8571
- syntax changes
- Bignum
- use GMP #8796
- String#scrub #8414
- Socket.getifaddrs #8368
- RDoc 4.1.0 and RubyGems 2.2.0
- “literal”.freeze is now optimized #9042
- add Exception#cause #8257
- update libraries like BigDecimal, JSON, NKF, Rake, RubyGems, and RDoc
- remove curses #8584
See more details of changes: NEWS in Ruby repository.