Author: The JRuby Team
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The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 9.4.6.0.
- Homepage: https://www.jruby.org/
- Download: https://www.jruby.org/download
JRuby 9.4.x targets Ruby 3.1 compatibility.
Thank you to our contributors this release, you help keep JRuby moving forward! @evaniainbrooks, @ahorek, @kares, @most00, @ntkme, @sk757a
Ruby Compatibility
- Support for the new Prism parser for Ruby code has been merged in. A blog post will follow soon. #8103
- IO#fcntl had inverted logic for setting O_NONBLOCK (setting it cleared the value, etc). [#8081], [#8090]
- Many fixes to language and core class compatibility, see issue list.
- Warnings should match verbosity levels of CRuby, with many unwanted warnings now properly omitted without verbose enabled. #7183, #8071
Standard Library
- json is updated to 2.7.1. #7752, #7954
- io-console is updated to 0.7.2. This version fixes IRB on Apple M-series by using stty for console manipulation. #8012
- nkf is now supported by gem version 0.2.0. #8077
- strscan is updated to 3.1.0. #8074, [#8086]
- reline is updated to 0.4.2 #8102
- jruby-openssl is updated to 0.14.3 #8107
JVM Integration
- Ruby Symbols can be use as arguments to JVM methods that receive Java String. #8015, #8057
- Starting with Java 17, package-private methods will no longer be bound automatically even if they can be made visible. #8061, #8093
Native Integration
- The subsystem used for native calls has been updated to support RHEL/CentOS 7 and the Java 9+ Cleaner API. [#8104]
Performance
- Performance of keyword argument handling has been improved. #8021
- Pattern matching is now supported in JRuby’s JIT compiler. #8026, #8027
77 Github Issues resolved for 9.4.6.0
- #4808 Rework global variables, caching to eliminate race conditions
- #6430 Using <internal: for core library methods defined in Ruby
- #7151 File.identical? should use stat to compare files
- #7183 Various alias forms warn on redefine when they should not
- #7523 Define IO::READABLE, WRITABLE, PRIORITY for IO#wait
- #7695 jffi ships with binaries requiring glibc 2.27
- #7721 jirb on win10 : The signal TSTP is in use by the JVM and will not work correctly on this platform
- #7729 Sock fixes
- #7752 Update JSON gem to not use Bigdecimal.new
- #7759 irb on CentOS7, JRuby 9.4.2.0 , and JDK 1.8
- #7760 Failure to load FFI gives an outdated message
- #7845 Including a module again after prepending another module to it isn’t idempotent
- #7862 Ruby 2.7 conformance: ObjectSpace::WeakMap is broken for FixNum keys
- #7939 Yaml exception when trying to install rdoc-data
- #7954 Update json for BigDecimal.new fix
- #7958 Prepend internal marker to internal sources
- #7974 [ji] support java_alias with constructor
- #7981 Less instrs
- #7996 Add %aA for printf and friends
- #8001 Fix various specs
- #8002 Time spec fixes
- #8003 Fix issues in global variable thread-safety
- #8005 New MRI test failures on less common architectures
- #8007 Fix intermittent fails in CI
- #8009 Expand WeakMap to allow floats and fixnums
- #8010 Kernel#send does not strip off empty keywords hashes before calling eventual method
- #8011 Fixes #8010. Kernel#send + empty kwargs hash error
- #8012 Update io-console
- #8013 Tag sweep2
- #8014 Fixes language specs involving blocks/yield
- #8015 Java method lookup for arity-1 method with inexact argument fails in the presence of arity-2 method with same name
- #8016 Lang specs
- #8021 Reduce overhead of kwargs for no-arg methods and blocks
- #8022 Remove implicit prologue state to methods/blocks if that state is unused
- #8026 Full JIT support for pattern matching
- #8027 Pattern jit
- #8031 Reuse thread-local jump exceptions to avoid construction
- #8033 Implement
Exception.to_tty? - #8039 Implement
Exception.to_tty? - #8040 Match
Exception#full_messagewith MRI 3.2 - #8045 Try to find class resource to avoid exception
- #8046 Socket::IFF_* are missing
- #8047 add socket flags for zeroconf
- #8048 Try and make UDP look a little more like MRI (and hopefully make it more functional)
- #8049 Fix String#unpack from using capacity() and causing wrong error
- #8050 Various cleanups for String operations
- #8052 ignore codes logic was not doing anything in unpack
- #8053 More arity splitting
- #8054 A bit confusing error: “FrozenError: can’t modify frozen NilClass”
- #8055 override getDelegate in PrependedModule to return origin
- #8056 Add hex exponential notation for Kernel::Float
- #8057 recognize RubySymbol as assignable to String
- #8060 Inspect frozen object for error
- #8061
enumerable.mapraise wrong number of arguments only when Ruby script is executed from Gradle using JDK 21 - #8063 Fix typos in cli options
- #8070 Attribute definition on singleton should call singleton_method_added
- #8071 Update some warnings to deprecated
- #8072 Added Module#refinements and Refinement#refined_class
- #8074 Update strscan to fix improper sharing
- #8077 Switch to default gem for nkf
- #8080 [fix] avoid Class#subclasses deprecation with class.rb ext
- #8083 (master) rdoc test suite failing with Java::JavaLang::ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
- #8088 Update strscan to 3.1.0 for OOB fix
- #8091 Ripper is not returning unary minus with proper symbol
- #8093 Rework visibility checks for Java integration
- #8095 Tweak kwargs logic to improve JIT inlining
- #8099 [ji] fix java_import when constant exists in Object
- #8100 Extra splat instr which did nothing
- #8101 Flip File.identical? logic to try native first
- #8102 Update reline to 0.4.2
- #8103 Prism pluggable integration work
- #8105 Update JNR dependencies
- #8107 update jruby-openssl to 0.14.3
- #8108 fix undef_method error message
- #8109 Simple error string mismatch. Also corrected for m17n naming to prin…
- #8110 Re-arrange indexerror string when matching group name cannot be found
- #8111 NameError and NoMethodError should be dup’ing receiver
