We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.1.0-preview1.Please check out the new features in Ruby 2.1 before the final release!
Download
We recommend to usehttp://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.1/via Fastly.
http://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.1/ruby-2.1.0-preview1.tar.bz2
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http://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.1/ruby-2.1.0-preview1.tar.gz
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http://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.1/ruby-2.1.0-preview1.zip
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Changes
The notable changes are:
VM (method cache) RGenGC (See ko1’s RubyKaigi presentation and EuRuKo presentation) refinements syntax Decimal Literal Frozen String Literal def’s return value Bignum 128bit GMP String#scrub Socket.getifaddrs new RubyGems
See more details of changes: NEWS in Ruby repository (WIP).
ko1 exhibited toruby presentation: Summary of Ruby 2.1
Konstantin Haase (@konstantinhaase) wrote a good summary in his blog posts: What’s new in Ruby 2.1?.
Release Comment
Known issues are:
http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/projects/ruby-trunk/issues?query_id=102
See also the release schedule and other information:
http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/projects/ruby-trunk/wiki/ReleaseEngineering210
Posted by nurse on 23 Sep 2013
