Great news!

-Charles

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Tomas Matousek <
tomas.matou...@microsoft.com> wrote:

>  The IronRuby team is pleased to announce the release of *IronRuby 1.1.1*for 
> .NET Framework 4, Silverlight 4 and Windows Phone 7, and
> *IronRuby Tools for Visual Studio*!
>
> All of these are of Alpha quality, the last stable version is still
> IronRuby 1.0.
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>
> *Download IronRuby 1.1.1 now:***
>
> *http://ironruby.codeplex.com/releases/view/49097***
>
> * *
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>
> This is the first release of IronRuby that aims to be *compatible with
> Ruby 1.9.2* and drops support for features specific to previous Ruby
> versions. We made the decision to not support 1.8.6, 1.8.7 and 1.9.1 anymore
> to simplify the implementation. We recommend using IronRuby 1.0 if you need
> 1.8.6 compatibility.
>
> In this release we implemented many 1.9.2 features. The language grammar is
> now fully compatible with 1.9.2, so any file that is a valid Ruby 1.9.2 file
> should be correctly parsed. The runtime is not yet feature complete though.
> The list of unsupported features includes optional parameters to blocks,
> nested method parameters, some regular expression features, and others. In
> spite of these missing pieces, IronRuby 1.1.1 *runs simple Ruby on Rails 3
> * *applications* and passes most of the tests in RoR 3 suite.
>
> For the first time we are also releasing *IronRuby integration to Visual
> Studio 2010*. It is bundled into the single IronRuby.msi you can download
> from CodePlex following the link above. The installer offers you an option
> to install IronRuby Tools if you have any non-Express SKU of Visual Studio
> 2010 installed on the machine. The tools also work with the free Visual
> Studio 2010 Integrated 
> Shell<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=8e5aa7b6-8436-43f0-b778-00c3bca733d3&displaylang=enhttp://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=8e5aa7b6-8436-43f0-b778-00c3bca733d3&displaylang=en>.
> The integration includes Ruby colorizer and syntax checker, interactive
> loop window, directory based project, and templates for common Ruby
> applications (including Ruby on Rails 3, Sinatra, Gems and Silverlight based
> browser scripting app).
>
> This release also fixes the following bugs:
> 4506 <http://ironruby.codeplex.com/workitem/4506> irb 1.9
> 4600 <http://ironruby.codeplex.com/workitem/4600> require 'rubygems' fails
> for 64Bit Process
> 5190 <http://ironruby.codeplex.com/workitem/5190> Thread Safety Bugs in
> RubyMetaBinderFactory.cs - Exception Thrown on Method's First Invocation
> 4958 <http://ironruby.codeplex.com/workitem/4958> foo = if 3.odd? ... gets
> NoMethodError
> 4994 <http://ironruby.codeplex.com/workitem/4994> several socket constants
> missing
> 4429 <http://ironruby.codeplex.com/workitem/4429> Release automation
> 4611 <http://ironruby.codeplex.com/workitem/4611> missing RUBY_DESCRIPTION
> 4957 <http://ironruby.codeplex.com/workitem/4957> Can't safely subclass
> IronRuby libraries ("super" doesn't resolve correctly)
> 4432 <http://ironruby.codeplex.com/workitem/4432> Improve irtests -p
> 5037 <http://ironruby.codeplex.com/workitem/5037> Incorrect loading of
> nested type groups in RubyModule.LoadNestedTypes
>
> IronRuby 1.1.1 is the last release from Microsoft before turning it to the
> new non-Microsoft coordinators. See Jason’s blog 
> post<http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jasonz/archive/2010/10/21/new-components-and-contributors-for-ironpython-and-ironruby.aspx>that
>  announces this transition for details.
>
> As always, if you find any bugs or have a feature request, please open an
> issue on CodePlex <http://ironruby.codeplex.com/WorkItem/Create.aspx>.
>
> Sincerely,
> *The IronRuby Core Team*
> Jim Deville <http://blog.jredville.com/>, Tomas 
> Matousek<http://blog.tomasm.net/>,
> and Jimmy Schementi <http://blog.jimmy.schementi.com/>
>
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