RE: [jruby-user] [ANN] JRuby 1.7.17 Released

Congratulations and Many Thanks Tom and all involved – its working well for us.

From: Thomas E Enebo [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 09 December 2014 18:34
To: [email protected]; [email protected]; ruby-talk ML
Subject: [jruby-user] [ANN] JRuby 1.7.17 Released

The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 1.7.17

    Homepage: http://www.jruby.org/
    Download: http://www.jruby.org/download

JRuby 1.7.17 is our twentieth update release since JRuby 1.7.0. The primary goal of 1.7 point releases is to fill out any missing compatibility issues with Ruby 1.9.3.

Highlights:

    - 56 issues fixed for 1.7.17
    - native crypt()
    - wrong encoding of “hen string interpolation is involved
    - popen2+ now works properly with env hash
    - improvements to align MRI and JRuby FFI
    - updated stdlib to 1.9.3p392 (+ rexml security fixes)

Github Issues resolved for 1.7.17

    #2271 - refactor FileResource.inputStream to be easier to use
    #2264 - Illegal hex characters in escape (%) pattern
    #2258 - Encoding issue with backticks
    #2249 - Improve error message when adding file to X509Store fails
    #2231 - Was the --indy cli option removed? (1.7.16.1)
    #2223 - test Kernel.system on windows
    #2219 - JRuby Complete 1.7.16.1 does not move asm to other package
    #2173 - on jboss wildfly when starting a rack application: stat unsupported or native support failed to load
    #2169 - Upgrade jcraft/jzlib dependency
    #2123 - Fix for issue 2050 : BigDecimal and nil multiplication
    #2120 - require 'win32/registry' fails
    #2115 - Limit searches for service libraries to once per baseName, rather than once per suffix.
    #2088 - Allow partial but not actual esoteric interpolation sequences to be regexp values
    #2079 - Error running rspec (LoadError: load error: jopenssl/load -- java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/bouncycastle/asn1/DERBoolean)
    #2078 - Very large retained heap size for org.jruby.RubyRegexp$RegexpCache in JRuby Rails App
    #2077 - jruby can't be used w/ jdk 9
    #2075 - Provide better error message when using :: in java_import (fixes #2074)
    #2074 - java_import does not accept :: for static nested classes
    #2072 - Old tzdata in JRuby
    #2068 - Made Exception#set_backtrace compliant with Ruby documentation
    #2064 - improve handling of non ascii character after backslash
    #2060 - Instance_eval tramples over block's binding's ivars
    #2057 - Rubygems broken due to psych problem for 1.7.16 in 1.8 mode
    #2055 - extensions found on classpath do not load
    #2042 - Gem class missing in jruby-complete 1.7.16 when running from network folder (Windows only)
    #2040 - jruby -S irb broken on solaris in 1.7.16 with JDK 7
    #2032 - JRuby 1.7.16's complete.jar has a path regression from 1.7.15
    #2017 - load path with jars not working anymore with 1.7.16
    #2016 - java.library.path on Fedora
    #2011 - Fix for issue 1695 : BigDecimal and Rational multiplication
    #2008 - Implemented multi args 'system' method on Windows fix #1074
    #2006 - Coding Conventions guide uses wrong link for sun java coding standards
    #2004 - jruby-complete-1.7.16.jar includes /Users directory
    #2003 - fix enums to return nil on unknown symbol
    #2002 - tweak include order
    #1999 - Land master File.readlink fix (084eef9c25860cccdd65b625a877e7e230414175)
    #1983 - java -jar jruby-complete.jar -S irb doesn't work anymore
    #1962 - Array() does not coerce according to MRI 1.9 logic
    #1954 - FFI::Library#enum_value difference between MRI and JRuby
    #1934 - Deprecate overloaded `setProfile`, prefer `setProfilingMode`
    #1919 - Call Exception#set_bactrace when raising exception
    #1875 - __FILE__ is wrong when using PathType.CLASSPATH so require_relative can't work
    #1870 - Module#ancestors now includes singletons themselves
    #1869 - ScriptingContainer.parse(PathType.CLASSPATH, "some.rb").run() fails
    #1791 - scriptingcontainer native memory leak?
    #1768 - OpenSSL cipher list mismatch
    #1758 - Binding bug
    #1752 - warning: Tempfile#unlink or delete called on open file; ignoring
    #1695 - BigDecimal and Rational multiplication rounds the rational number
    #1681 - Optimize SipHash using sun.misc.Unsafe
    #1549 - openssl issue with rails and installed default gems
    #1547 - Passing environment hash to Open3#popen3 causes IOError
    #1290 - JRuby 1.7.8 (1.9) Open3 `capture3` bug
    #1074 - Kernel#system with two parameter on Windows fails
    #1035 - String#crypt behaving differently that in MRI
    #957 - Time marshaling is incorrect


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