[ANN] Ruby 1.9.1 Preview 2 Released

[Yugui (Yuki Sonoda)]

Ruby 1.9.1 Preview 2 has been released.

This is a preview release of Ruby 1.9, which will be the first stable
version of Ruby 1.9 series.
If you encounter a bug or a problem, please let us know it via the
official issue tracking system (http://redmine.ruby-lang.org ).

== Location
* ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.1-preview2.tar.bz2
SIZE: 6148131 bytes
MD5: 62126475998ede5318c1bc82c40d5f48
SHA256: 2c419dc325c6a75fb7b961496c0dd54f2729e6e01730589c4fb06e34ddd7a7cc

* ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.1-preview2.tar.gz
SIZE: 7375483 bytes
MD5: 7699b9e54c53b16640d40a213588e704
SHA256: dd737d26212d68c26ecb4d6e2ed180a0d7d5e27fb7bd2c819935494daa1cf50b

* ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.1-preview2.zip
SIZE: 8612618 bytes
MD5: d3ae200280b75801bfc5c090d3592577
SHA256: 96b6a2745b64f03ffbd5da97f93a2676365e3900cb8f6bf820f47739ef8d3fa9

== Improvements
* supports 21 new character encodings.
* works better with RubyGems.
* handles SEGV better when system stack overflows.
* fixed a bit of regexp imcompatiblity to Perl5 and old Ruby.
* many bugs in Time#strftime and Date#strftime fixed.
* process termination got faster.
* allows long style options in RUBYOPT.
* You can "make test" without installing ruby.
* You can derive a class from Fiber correctly.
* many bugs fixed.

== Release schedule
Current Status:
* Language features are effectively "frozen".
* But we could not finish multilingualization tasks for standard
libraries. For example, irb does not recognize magic comments.
* So changes to some of standard libraries continue.
* irb
* erb
* cgi
* ...

Schedule:
* 25 Dec, 2008: Ruby 1.9.1 release candidate
* 25 Jan, 2009: Ruby 1.9.1


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