We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.1.0-rc1.Please test the new features in Ruby 2.1 before the final release scheduled on 2013-12-25!
Notable changes since preview 2 remove curses #8584
for other changes, see NEWS.
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The notable changes are:
VM (method cache) RGenGC (See ko1’s RubyKaigi presentation and RubyConf 2013 presentation) refinements #8481 #8571 syntax changes Rational/Complex Literal #8430 def’s return value #3753 Bignum use GMP #8796 String#scrub #8414 Socket.getifaddrs #8368 RDoc 4.1.0 and RubyGems 2.2.0 “literal”.freeze is now optimized #9042 add Exception#cause #8257 update libraries like BigDecimal, JSON, NKF, Rake, RubyGems, and RDoc remove curses #8584
See more details of changes: NEWS in Ruby repository (WIP).
ko1 talked about the new features of Ruby 2.1 at toruby: All about Ruby 2.1
Konstantin Haase (@konstantinhaase) wrote a good summary in his blog post: What’s new in Ruby 2.1?.
Release Comment
Known issues are:
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/projects/ruby-trunk/issues?query_id=102
See also the release schedule and other information:
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/projects/ruby-trunk/wiki/ReleaseEngineering210
Posted by nurse on 20 Dec 2013
