JRuby 1.1.6 is now available for download

BANGALORE, INDIA: The development team of JRuby has released their updated version of JRuby 1.1.6.

JRuby is a Java implementation of the Ruby interpreter and free software released under a three-way CPL/GPL/LGPL license.

JRuby 1.1.6 is the sixth point release of JRuby 1.1 which includes patches addressing compatibility issues and offers enhanced performance.

Thomas EneboThomas Enebo comments, "We wanted a more rapid release cycle to better address issues brought up by users of JRuby. So our goal will be to do more frequent point releases during next several months (about 3-4 weeks a release). "

Additional features of JRuby incudes:

- Additional Ruby 1.9 support (via --1.9)

- Full 1.9 parser.

- Most core 1.9 methods/libraries/classes.

- An evergrowing list of dead IO references bug fixed.

- Much faster Array sort.

- Run gems out of jar files without having to unpack them.

- Store gem repositories in jars and load them via the classpath.

- Improved JavaEmbedUtils for embedders.

- Removed two measurable memory leaks during RC process.

- 74 bugs fixed since 1.1.5.

JRuby is tightly integrated with Java to allow the embedding of the interpreter into any Java application with full two-way access between the Java and the Ruby code (compare Jython for the Python language).

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