[jruby-dev] [ANN] JRuby 1.7.8 Released

[Thomas E Enebo]

The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 1.7.8

Homepage: http://www.jruby.org/
Download: http://www.jruby.org/download

JRuby 1.7.8 is our eigth 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. The community participation lately has been great. Keep
reporting issues and sending pull requests.

This release was an insanely quick followup release to 1.7.7. We realized a
few hours ago after releasing 1.7.7 that we accidentally shipped the MacOS
bin/jruby binary launcher. JRuby 1.7.8 is essentially 1.7.7 with the single
correction to our bin dist file.

Changes of note:

- 21 issues fixed
- Fixed Windows ‘rails new’ regression (bundle install exits)
- Fixed OpenSSL gem bootstrapping problem
- Fixed Google App Engine bootstrapping problem
- A few missing 1.9+ Pathname features added

Github Issues resolved

#1214 - Support for ISO-8859-16
#1213 - Remove README.md notes on junit.jar
#1201 - Pathname#delete alias missing / not working
#1199 - Softlink jruby to jruby.bash instead of hard copy.
#1182 - incorrect RubyHash multithreaded behaviour when marshalling
#1180 - Move the guard before the use of metaclass.
#1176 - Array(array) returns a copy instead of array itself
#1171 - Rails new failed with JRuby on Windows 7
#1170 - `rindex` performance improvement
#1167 - "print" called with no arguments prints "nil"
#1165 - Bug 1092 fix
#1163 - File.expand_path should fail if ENV['HOME'] isn't an absolute path
#1157 - Fix compatibility wiht Bouncy Castle 1.49.
#1154 - Pathname.new(Dir.new('dir_name')) raises a TypeError
#1153 - Dir[*[]] behaves differently in jruby 1.7.6 the in MRI 1.9.3p448
#1151 - Too many files in JRuby 1.7.6
#1150 - rails 3.2.x with jruby-openssl in Gemfile gives uninitialized
constant OpenSSL::Digest::OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER
#1148 - Commit c7c7c7 broke AppEngine
#1139 - ClassCastException when reading non String value from Java
System.properties
#1136 - JRuby 1.7.5 doesn't compile valid class files
#1117 - #name method on java classes strips the outer class