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Ruby 1.9.1 released

Ruby 1.9.1 is released. This is the first stable release of the Ruby 1.9 series.

Ruby 1.9 is a new series of Ruby. It is modern, faster, with clearer syntax, multilingualized, a much improved version of Ruby.

Ruby 1.8 series has been used since 2003 and many great products were born on it.

Today, the Ruby 1.9 series starts its history as the 1.8 series did.

Please note that Ruby 1.8 still remains. 1.8.8 will be released this year.

You can read about major changes since 1.8.7 here

7 bugs have been fixed since 1.9.1 RC2.

If you encounter any bugs or any problems, please report them using the official issue tracking system.

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Posted by james on 30 Jan 2009

Server maintenance

Services of ruby-lang.org will be unavailable for the server maintenance between 01:00-06:00 on 31 January 2009 (UTC). Sorry for any inconvenience.

Posted by Shugo Maeda on 28 Jan 2009

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