JRuby 9.3.7.0 Released

The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 9.3.7.0

• Homepage: https://www.jruby.org/
• Download: https://www.jruby.org/download

JRuby 9.3.x is compatible with Ruby 2.6.x and stays in sync with C Ruby. As always there is a mix of miscellaneous fixes so be sure to read the issue list below.

Thanks to our contributors this cycle for helping to improve stability and compatibility of JRuby 9.3: [@evaniainbrooks], [@k77ch7], [@ccutrer], [@jimtng]

22 Github Issues resolved for 9.3.7.0

• #7120 – Gem.install caused a BootstrapMethodError
• #7185 – Spurious constant replacement warning when using include_package
• #7211 – require_relative doesn’t work inside Jar with 9.3.4.0
• #7218 – Empty rescue block returns exception object instead of nil
• #7264 – update jar-dependencies gem hooks
• #7267 – Circular exception handling can cause infinite loop since 9.3.4.0
• #7268 – com.sun.nio.file.ExtendedOpenOption not available in OSGi bundles on Windows since JRuby 9.3.0.0
• #7271 – Fix BootstrapMethodError in runtime helpers
• #7279 – simple timeout script does not work
• #7280 – Eliminate JI-specific const replacement warning
• #7281 – Use the wide versions of these functions always
• #7282 – Fixes #7218. Empty rescue block returns exception object instead of nil.
• #7288 – Clear errinfo after each finalizer runs
• #7289 – Revert “update jar-dependencies gem hooks”
• #7291 – update jar-dependencies 0.4.2 reference in lib/pom.rb
• #7292 – Always pass filename into AOT root scope creation
• #7298 – Revert “update jar-dependencies 0.4.2 reference in lib/pom.rb”
• #7299 – Fix for issue 7256: Undefined constants when including a module that has been prepended
• #7302 – Fix for issue 7256 (jruby-9.3)
• #7304 – Only use NOSHARE_DELETE if accessible
• #7306 – Syntax Error occurs in regex
• #7314 – Fix parsing Regexp for #7306