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From: Kirk Haines on 5 Feb 2010 10:13
Ruby 1.8.6 pl399 has been released. This release fixes a problem that
was encountered yesterday with builds on some platforms. The only
difference between pl399 and pl398 is that pl399 required a minor
syntax change in one macro, and purged some dead code left behind by
earlier changes.

It can be found here:

ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/ruby-1.8.6-p399.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/ruby-1.8.6-p399.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/ruby-1.8.6-p399.tar.zip

MD5(ruby-1.8.6-p399.tar.bz2)= f77c307cb72fb8808b0e85af5d05cefc
SHA256(ruby-1.8.6-p399.tar.bz2)=
20ca08aeefa21ca2581a9791f8f9ace3addc92bd978cf36f2f95c109085a50a7
SIZE(ruby-1.8.6-p399.tar.bz2)= 3972399

MD5(ruby-1.8.6-p399.tar.gz)= c3d16cdd3c1ee8f3b7d1c399d4884e33
SHA256(ruby-1.8.6-p399.tar.gz)=
04efd2a260116c2f4efdb9f2408da086c33ac81146bb030c50a1378951a581e3
SIZE(ruby-1.8.6-p399.tar.gz)= 4580988

MD5(ruby-1.8.6-p399.zip)= 75c4e8926586475962fcacee1a2fc947
SHA256(ruby-1.8.6-p399.zip)=
6db16f10fdb87fdba73ca0260875a6092b83549ec772b23685dbe6adcc58fd50
SIZE(ruby-1.8.6-p399.zip)= 5627074

As always, if you encounter any unexpected behavior, please contact me.


Kirk Haines
khaines(a)engineyard.com

From: Wayne E. Seguin on 5 Feb 2010 10:57
[Note: parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]

Awesome turnaround time Kirk!

For anyone using rvm, the latest git head (rvm update --head) now has p399
as default for 1.8.6. It will be default for release 0.1.8.

~Wayne

From: dan on 5 Feb 2010 12:07
Kirk Haines <wyhaines(a)gmail.com> writes:

> Ruby 1.8.6 pl399 has been released. This release fixes a problem that
> was encountered yesterday with builds on some platforms. The only
> difference between pl399 and pl398 is that pl399 required a minor
> syntax change in one macro, and purged some dead code left behind by
> earlier changes.

Forgive my ignorance, but why would one want to use this instead of
1.8.7? Is 1.8.7 closer to the bleeding edge than I believed it was, or
is the 1.8.6 line maintained purely for existing applications that
really really don't need *any* API changes?

I'm sure there's a perfectly sensible reason for apparently having three
MRI versions (1,8.6, 1.8.7, 1.9.x) on the go at once, but I don't know
what that reason is or where the boundaries are.


-dan
From: Wayne E. Seguin on 5 Feb 2010 12:34
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Dan,

Many people have production applications running on 1.8.6 and upgrades would
happen at a cost that the company might not want to foot just yet.

Kirk maintains the 1.8.6 branch for such people back porting security
patches, bug fixes and enhancements from 1.8.7 so that such people can still
get the benefits & stability.

The upgrade path for some companies is excruciatingly slow :)

IMHO if you are new to ruby you should be using 1.9.X and don't look back.

~Wayne

From: Roger Pack on 19 Feb 2010 14:43

> Ruby 1.8.6 pl399 has been released. This release fixes a problem that
> was encountered yesterday with builds on some platforms. The only
> difference between pl399 and pl398 is that pl399 required a minor
> syntax change in one macro, and purged some dead code left behind by
> earlier changes.

Any chance you could email James Gray with the news so he can post a
blog about the update to http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
?
Thanks.
-r
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