Ruby 2.1.0-preview1 is released

Posted by nurse on 23 Sep 2013

We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.1.0-preview1. Please check out the new features in Ruby 2.1 before the final release!

Download

We recommend to use https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.1/ via Fastly.

• https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.1/ruby-2.1.0-preview1.tar.bz2

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• https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.1/ruby-2.1.0-preview1.tar.gz

  SIZE:   14449544 bytes
  MD5:    9df4f546f6b961895ba58a8afdf857da
  SHA256: 747472fb33bcc529f1000e5320605a7e166a095d3805520b989e73b33c05b046
  

• https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.1/ruby-2.1.0-preview1.zip

  SIZE:   16124069 bytes
  MD5:    f9bc3f9a10174a022381ce2c60a59e64
  SHA256: 28855621f7d364277e7f258d5cc380e005896ef8ebc36e5cbf78d2bf763c291b
  

Changes

The notable changes are:

• VM (method cache)
• RGenGC (See ko1’s RubyKaigi presentation and EuRuKo presentation)
• refinements
• syntax
  • Decimal Literal
  • Frozen String Literal
• def’s return value
• Bignum
  • 128bit
  • GMP
• String#scrub
• Socket.getifaddrs
• new RubyGems

See more details of changes: NEWS in Ruby repository (WIP).

ko1 exhibited toruby presentation: Summary of 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