Ruby 1.9.3 preview1 has been released. This is a first preview of next version and there're still minor known issues. But it will be fixed in next release, Ruby 1.9.3-p0.
See ChangeLogs and NEWS for the descriptions.
Ruby Inside has published a review of this release.
Downloads
- <URL:http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.3-preview1.tar.bz2>
- <URL:http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.3-preview1.tar.gz>
- <URL:http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.3-preview1.zip>
Differences from previous version
Previous Ruby versions was licensed under "GPLv2" and "Ruby" license but "2-clause BSDL"(AKA Simplfied BSD License) and "Ruby" lisence been replacement of them.
Encoding
SJIS changed to alias for Windows-31J, instead of Shift_JIS.
Standard Libraries
- io/console: Add capabilities to IO instances.
- openssl
- test/unit: supports parallel test
Other changes
- pathname and date are re-implemented on current preview.
- A purpose of VM locking is changed.