ruby-1.8.0 released!

Posted by sughimsi on 4 Aug 2003

Long time no minor version-up…

Here is an initial official release of a stable version ruby 1.8.

The download site will lead you to the source code ruby-1.8.0.tar.gz. Its MD5SUM is:

582a65e52598a4a1e9fce523e16e67d6

Binaries are going to be there.

Some features are changed from previous stable version ruby 1.6.x; See https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/changes.1.8.0.

Thank you matz, and all committers, for all your trouble!

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