Ruby 2.1.0 is released

Posted by nurse on 25 Dec 2013

We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.1.0.

Ruby 2.1 has many improvements including speedup without severe incompatibilities.

Try it!

Download

• https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.1/ruby-2.1.0.tar.bz2
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• https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.1/ruby-2.1.0.tar.gz
  • SIZE: 15076389 bytes
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  • SHA256: 3538ec1f6af96ed9deb04e0965274528162726cc9ba3625dcf23648df872d09d
• https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.1/ruby-2.1.0.zip
  • SIZE: 16603067 bytes
  • MD5: 2fc3a80b56da81b906a9bb6fc7ca8399
  • SHA256: d40d7bfb39ca2e462dea61dcbbcf33426b60e6e553335c3afb39b4d827a6891c

Changes since 2.0

The notable changes are:

• VM (method cache)
• RGenGC (See ko1’s RubyKaigi presentation and RubyConf 2013 presentation)
• refinements #8481 #8571
• syntax changes
  • Rational/Complex Literal #8430
  • def’s return value #3753
• Bignum
  • use GMP #8796
• String#scrub #8414
• Socket.getifaddrs #8368
• RDoc 4.1.0 and RubyGems 2.2.0
• “literal”.freeze is now optimized #9042
• add Exception#cause #8257
• update libraries like BigDecimal, JSON, NKF, Rake, RubyGems, and RDoc
• remove curses #8584

See more details of changes: NEWS in Ruby repository.