Posted by nurse on 22 Nov 2013
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.1.0-preview2. Please test the new features in Ruby 2.1 before the final release!
Notable changes from preview 1
- fix Heap Overflow in Floating Point Parsing (CVE-2013-4164)
- “literal”.freeze is now optimized #9042
- f suffix of String Literal is removed #9042
- fix memory consuming issue on RGenGC (r43532 and r43755)
- add Exception#cause #8257
- update libraries like json, nkf, rake, RubyGems, and RDoc.
Download
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https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.1/ruby-2.1.0-preview2.tar.bz2
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https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.1/ruby-2.1.0-preview2.tar.gz
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https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.1/ruby-2.1.0-preview2.zip
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Changes from 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
- String#scrub #8414
- Socket.getifaddrs #8368
- RDoc 4.1.0.preview.2 and RubyGems 2.2.0.preview.2
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