Posted by nurse on 20 Dec 2013
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.1.0-rc1. Please test the new features in Ruby 2.1 before the final release scheduled on 2013-12-25!
Notable changes since preview 2
- remove curses #8584
for other changes, see NEWS.
Download
- https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.1/ruby-2.1.0-rc1.tar.bz2
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- https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.1/ruby-2.1.0-rc1.tar.gz
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- https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.1/ruby-2.1.0-rc1.zip
- SIZE: 16107702 bytes
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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 (WIP).
ko1 talked about the new features of Ruby 2.1 at toruby: All about Ruby 2.1
Konstantin Haase (@konstantinhaase) wrote a good summary in his blog post: What’s new in Ruby 2.1?.
Release Comment
Known issues are:
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/projects/ruby-trunk/issues?query_id=102
See also the release schedule and other information:
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/projects/ruby-master/wiki/ReleaseEngineering210