Ruby 1.8.5 released!
Posted by maki on 29 Aug 2006
Ruby 1.8.5 has been released.
The source is https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.5.tar.gz, the md5sum is 3fbb02294a8ca33d4684055adba5ed6f, and filesize is 4,438,603 bytes.
Mauricio Fernandez wrote a summary of changes.
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