We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.1.0.
Ruby 2.1 has many improvements including speedup without severeincompatibilities.
Try it!
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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.
Posted by nurse on 25 Dec 2013
