Ruby 2.6.3 Released

Posted by naruse on 17 Apr 2019

Ruby 2.6.3 has been released.

This release adds support for New Japanese Era “令和” (Reiwa). It updates the Unicode version to 12.1 beta (#15195) and updates the date library (#15742).

This release also includes some bug fixes. See the commit logs for details.

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  • https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.6/ruby-2.6.3.tar.gz

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  • https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.6/ruby-2.6.3.zip

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  • https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.6/ruby-2.6.3.tar.bz2

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  • https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.6/ruby-2.6.3.tar.xz

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Release Comment

Many committers, developers, and users who provided bug reports helped us make this release. Thanks for their contributions.

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