see also version independent topics.

• Status: developing
• release manager: naruse
• ABI Version: 2.6

• bump version.h
  • done at r61474, 2017-12-25
• DevelopersMeeting20180124Japan
• DevelopersMeeting20180220Japan
• DevelopersMeeting20180315Japan
• DevelopersMeeting20180419Japan
• preview1: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2018/02/24/ruby-2-6-0-preview1-released/
• preview2: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2018/05/31/ruby-2-6-0-preview2-released/
• preview3: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2018/11/06/ruby-2-6-0-preview3-released/
• Release Candidate
  • 2018-12-06
• • feature freeze
• 2018-12-24
  • create ruby_2_6 branch
  • don't fix after this unless a critical bug is found
• Release *

• without baseruby
• ruby-build
• cross compile