JRuby

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Release Name: 0.7.0

Notes: <p> http://jruby.sourceforge.net/ </p> <p> Jruby, after a long nap, is starting up development again. This release offers a number of changes:</p> <ul> <li>Interpreter now thinks it is a ruby 1.8 interpreter (though it still sometimes behaves like a 1.6 interpreter)</li> <li>Simplified build environment (now eclipse friendly) (Thanks to Joey Gibson)</li> <li>Added functions Float,Integer,String,Array to Kernel module</li> <li>Various fixes to Kernel, Array, Dir, File, and String</li> <li>IO expanded support for</li> <ul> <li> Random Access of files (seek, rewind,...)</li> <li> File descriptors</li> <li> reopen, dup</li> <li> sysread, syswrite</li> <li> many other IO fixes</li> </ul> <li>Added FileTest </li> <li> Backout of inneffective callindexed optimization </li> <li> Able to run rubicon without hacking rubicon itself</li> <li> many other changes...</li> </ul> <p> Thanks to Jan Arne Petersen, Anders Bengtsson, Thomas E Enebo, Benoit Cerrina. Joey Gibson, Hunter Kelly and Pergiuliani Bossi for submitting fixes since the last release.</p> <p>This version also boasts improved results in rubicon passing nearly 100 more tests which translates into about 800 more assertions. Here is a test summary:</p> <pre> ======================================================================== All Tests Test Results V0.3.5 ======================================================================== Name OK? Tests Asserts Failures Errors ------------------------------------------------------------ Rubicon::TestCase 1 5 AccessControl 3 18 Array FAIL 65 469 2 1 Arrays 0 0 Assignment FAIL 4 36 2 BasicExpressions FAIL 3 12 1 Bignum 29 1598 Binding 0 0 BlocksProcs FAIL 3 9 1 BooleanExpressions 1 2 CatchThrow 1 1 Class 5 16 Classes 1 5 Comparable 7 26 Constants 3 20 Continuation FAIL 5 0 5 Dir FAIL 21 62 4 1 Enumerable 17 76 Eval FAIL 9 18 2 5 Exception FAIL 5 8 2 Exceptions 6 6 FalseClass 6 17 File FAIL 33 175 6 24 FileTest FAIL 4 16 4 File__Stat FAIL 32 128 32 Fixnum 35 414 Flip FAIL 7 26 1 Float 28 178 Floats FAIL 4 22 1 GC 4 1 Hash FAIL 42 269 1 Hashes 1 5 IO FAIL 53 1177 17 IfUnless 1 2 Integer 9 347 Integers 1 5 Invocation FAIL 6 14 4 KanjiIndex FAIL 20 63 14 Kernel FAIL 108 992 17 23 LoopStuff 16 71 Marshal FAIL 6 26 2 2 MatchData FAIL 11 17 2 Math 2 62 Method 4 11 Methods 3 11 Module FAIL 25 91 1 ModulePrivate 15 41 Modules 1 5 Names 1 5 NilClass 7 20 Numeric 10 21 Object 0 0 ObjectSpace FAIL 4 3 2 PredefinedVariables FAIL 2 6 1 Proc FAIL 4 6 1 Range 10 46 Ranges 1 5 Regexp FAIL 14 29 2 1 RegularExpressions FAIL 4 25 2 Scope FAIL 13 20 2 6 SourceLayout FAIL 8 20 3 String FAIL 79 1196 1 1 Strings 6 32 Struct 11 47 Struct__Tms FAIL 1 0 1 Symbol 8 20 Symbols 1 5 Thread FAIL 32 0 64 ThreadGroup FAIL 4 0 4 Time FAIL 41 1484 13 1 TrueClass 6 17 ======================================================================== All 71 files FAIL 933 9580 82 200 ======================================================================== </pre> <p>The source and binary releases can be found at:</p> <a href = "http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jruby/jruby-src-0.7.0.tar.gz?download">http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jruby/jruby-src-0.7.0.tar.gz?download</a> <a href = "http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jruby/jruby-bin-0.7.0.tar.gz?download">http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jruby/jruby-bin-0.7.0.tar.gz?download</a>

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Changes: <ul> <li>Interpreter now thinks it is a ruby 1.8 interpreter (though it still sometimes behaves like a 1.6 interpreter)</li> <li>Simplified build environment (now eclipse friendly) (Thanks to Joey Gibson)</li> <li>Added functions Float,Integer,String,Array to Kernel module</li> <li>Various fixes to Kernel, Array, Dir, File, and String</li> <li>IO expanded support for</li> <ul> <li>Random Access of files (seek, rewind,...)</li> <li>File descriptors</li> <li> reopen, dup</li> <li> sysread, syswrite</li> <li> many other IO fixes</li> </ul> <li>Added FileTest </li> <li> Backout of inneffective callindexed optimization </li> <li> Able to run rubicon without hacking rubicon itself</li> <li> many other changes...</li> </ul>