The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 1.7.17
Homepage: http://www.jruby.org/
Download: http://www.jruby.org/download
JRuby 1.7.17 is our twentieth update release since JRuby 1.7.0. The primary
goal of 1.7 point releases is to fill out any missing compatibility issues
with Ruby 1.9.3.
Highlights:
- 56 issues fixed for 1.7.17
- native crypt()
- wrong encoding of “hen string interpolation is involved
- popen2+ now works properly with env hash
- improvements to align MRI and JRuby FFI
- updated stdlib to 1.9.3p392 (+ rexml security fixes)
Github Issues resolved for 1.7.17
#2271 - refactor FileResource.inputStream to be easier to use
#2264 - Illegal hex characters in escape (%) pattern
#2258 - Encoding issue with backticks
#2249 - Improve error message when adding file to X509Store fails
#2231 - Was the --indy cli option removed? (1.7.16.1)
#2223 - test Kernel.system on windows
#2219 - JRuby Complete 1.7.16.1 does not move asm to other package
#2173 - on jboss wildfly when starting a rack application: stat
unsupported or native support failed to load
#2169 - Upgrade jcraft/jzlib dependency
#2123 - Fix for issue 2050 : BigDecimal and nil multiplication
#2120 - require 'win32/registry' fails
#2115 - Limit searches for service libraries to once per baseName,
rather than once per suffix.
#2088 - Allow partial but not actual esoteric interpolation sequences
to be regexp values
#2079 - Error running rspec (LoadError: load error: jopenssl/load --
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/bouncycastle/asn1/DERBoolean)
#2078 - Very large retained heap size for
org.jruby.RubyRegexp$RegexpCache in JRuby Rails App
#2077 - jruby can't be used w/ jdk 9
#2075 - Provide better error message when using :: in java_import
(fixes #2074)
#2074 - java_import does not accept :: for static nested classes
#2072 - Old tzdata in JRuby
#2068 - Made Exception#set_backtrace compliant with Ruby documentation
#2064 - improve handling of non ascii character after backslash
#2060 - Instance_eval tramples over block's binding's ivars
#2057 - Rubygems broken due to psych problem for 1.7.16 in 1.8 mode
#2055 - extensions found on classpath do not load
#2042 - Gem class missing in jruby-complete 1.7.16 when running from
network folder (Windows only)
#2040 - jruby -S irb broken on solaris in 1.7.16 with JDK 7
#2032 - JRuby 1.7.16's complete.jar has a path regression from 1.7.15
#2017 - load path with jars not working anymore with 1.7.16
#2016 - java.library.path on Fedora
#2011 - Fix for issue 1695 : BigDecimal and Rational multiplication
#2008 - Implemented multi args 'system' method on Windows fix #1074
#2006 - Coding Conventions guide uses wrong link for sun java coding
standards
#2004 - jruby-complete-1.7.16.jar includes /Users directory
#2003 - fix enums to return nil on unknown symbol
#2002 - tweak include order
#1999 - Land master File.readlink fix
(084eef9c25860cccdd65b625a877e7e230414175)
#1983 - java -jar jruby-complete.jar -S irb doesn't work anymore
#1962 - Array() does not coerce according to MRI 1.9 logic
#1954 - FFI::Library#enum_value difference between MRI and JRuby
#1934 - Deprecate overloaded `setProfile`, prefer `setProfilingMode`
#1919 - Call Exception#set_bactrace when raising exception
#1875 - __FILE__ is wrong when using PathType.CLASSPATH so
require_relative can't work
#1870 - Module#ancestors now includes singletons themselves
#1869 - ScriptingContainer.parse(PathType.CLASSPATH, "some.rb").run()
fails
#1791 - scriptingcontainer native memory leak?
#1768 - OpenSSL cipher list mismatch
#1758 - Binding bug
#1752 - warning: Tempfile#unlink or delete called on open file; ignoring
#1695 - BigDecimal and Rational multiplication rounds the rational
number
#1681 - Optimize SipHash using sun.misc.Unsafe
#1549 - openssl issue with rails and installed default gems
#1547 - Passing environment hash to Open3#popen3 causes IOError
#1290 - JRuby 1.7.8 (1.9) Open3 `capture3` bug
#1074 - Kernel#system with two parameter on Windows fails
#1035 - String#crypt behaving differently that in MRI
#957 - Time marshaling is incorrect
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