Folks, It is my pleasure to announce that Ruby 1.8.7 has just been released. The new version of Ruby includes many bug fixes, lots of feature enhancements backported from 1.9 and some performance improvements since 1.8.6 while maintaining stability and backward compatibility with the previous release to a high degree. See the bundled documentation for details about compatibility issues. The source code package is available in three formats at the following locations: ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7.tar.gz ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7.zip Checksums: MD5 (ruby-1.8.7.tar.bz2) = f17f14c8d55e731b3ce1bc35c42f0a6c SHA256 (ruby-1.8.7.tar.bz2) = 65f2a862ba5e88bac7a78cff15bcb88d7534e741b51a1ffb79a0136c7041359a SIZE (ruby-1.8.7.tar.bz2) = 4100024 MD5 (ruby-1.8.7.tar.gz) = de906850f9a012c12ffc6e9f56fb1b66 SHA256 (ruby-1.8.7.tar.gz) = 600dccf13bca3e4179fa6ff554220ce4ba67ffc72bce1ac3bf74c2599c03a0ca SIZE (ruby-1.8.7.tar.gz) = 4799732 MD5 (ruby-1.8.7.zip) = 14d3eb37b32e4a26966bdd80f361ccd2 SHA256 (ruby-1.8.7.zip) = 805987ad167d8f9cac90e4b9342686e96a7708664111be27a3c6d680ce21d6c1 SIZE (ruby-1.8.7.zip) = 5851408 For a brief list of user visible changes and a full list of all changes, see the bundled files named NEWS and ChangeLog, which are also available at the following locations: http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/v1_8_7/NEWS http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/v1_8_7/ChangeLog Enjoy! -- Akinori MUSHA / http://akinori.org/
dev-lang/ruby-1.8.7_p22 is in CVS. Note that it currently is package.masked, and I think it will stay that way for some time to come. The reason for this is that ruby 1.8.6 and ruby 1.8.7 are not compatible, and a lot of more complex ruby stuff breaks with 1.8.7. Examples I know of are rails before 2.1.x and ruby-gtk2 0.16, but I expect there will be additional issues with other software.
