PLNews: Programming Language News

Ruby 1.9.1 Preview 2 has been released. Ruby is a dynamic, cross-platform, object-oriented language.

This release includes: support for 21 new character encodings, better handling of system stack overflows, faster process termination, support for long-style options in RUBYOPT, bug fixes, and other changes.

The Fukuoka Ruby Award has been announced. It is "conducted with the dual aims of promotion of software industry and prevalence of Ruby in the world."

Applications are due on December 26, 2008. The winner will receive 1 million yen.

Parrot 0.8.1 has been released. Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently execute dynamic languages.

This release includes: the removal of the pseudo PIR opcode 'addr', the addition of the 'box' opcode, the use of .tailcall instead of .return for tailcalls, improved debugging support, the JIT compilation of NCI signatures on x86-32, updates to the Perl 6 and Ruby language implementations, documentation updates, improvements to the OpenGL bindings, bug fixes, and other changes.

It has been announced that the next Hartford Ruby Brigade meeting will be held on November 24, 2008.

MountainWest RubyConf 2009 has put out a call for proposals. The proposal submission deadline is December 31, 2008, with the conference being held on March 13 and 14, 2009, in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

JRuby 1.1.5 has been released. JRuby is a Ruby interpreter written in Java.

This release includes: per-class method caching, constant cache support, reduced memory usage, Java integration fixes, updated FFI support, improved Ruby 1.9 mode support, bug fixes, and other changes.

Ruby 1.9.1 preview1 has been released. Ruby is a dynamic, cross-platform, object-oriented language.

Parrot 0.8.0 has been released. Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently execute dynamic languages.

This release includes: the expansion of float precision from 6 significant digits to 15, the auto-promotion of large integers in PIR to avoid precision loss, improved precision of complex square root, support for exception handlers registering the types of exceptions they catch, updates to the Cardinal implementation of Ruby, updates to the Rakudo implementation of Perl 6, new and updated examples, documentation updates, bug fixes, and other changes.

Ruby 1.9.0-5 has been released. Ruby is a dynamic, cross-platform, object-oriented language.

It has been announced that registration is now open for the Great Lakes Ruby Bash. It is a one-day Ruby conference being held on October 11, 2008, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Parrot 0.7.1 has been released. Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently execute dynamic languages.

This release includes: preliminary support for resumable exceptions, updates to the Rakudo (Perl 6) and Cardinal (Ruby) language implementations, documentation updates and cleanups, and other changes.

JRuby 1.1.4 has been released. JRuby is a Ruby interpreter written in Java.

This release includes: a refactoring of the Java integration layer, performance improvements, support for raising and handling Java exceptions directly from Ruby, reduced memory usage, initial Ruby 1.9 support, thread pooling improvements, bug fixes, and other changes.

Ruby 1.9.0-4 has been released. Ruby is a dynamic, cross-platform, object-oriented language.

This release includes: a new Encoding::Converter class, universal newline support, and other changes.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Melbourne Ruby User Group will be held on August 28, 2008.

It has been announced that videos from Ruby Hoedown 2008 are now available online.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Hartford Ruby Brigade will be held on August 25, 2008.

Ruby 1.8.6-p287 has been released. Ruby is a dynamic, cross-platform, object-oriented language.

This release includes fixes.

Ruby 1.8.7-p72 has been released. Ruby is a dynamic, cross-platform, object-oriented language.

This release includes fixes.

It has been announced that the next Phoenix Ruby User Group meeting will be held on August 11, 2008.

Ruby 1.8.6-p286 has been released. Ruby is a dynamic, cross-platform, object-oriented language.

This release includes fixes.

Ruby 1.8.7-p71 has been released. Ruby is a dynamic, cross-platform, object-oriented language.

This release includes fixes.

Planet Vancouver.rb has been announced. It is a aggregator drawing together Ruby-related information pertaining to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Ruby 1.9.0-3 has been released. Ruby is a dynamic, cross-platform, object-oriented language.

JRuby 1.1.3 has been released. JRuby is a Ruby interpreter written in Java.

This release includes: improved interpreter performance, memory usage improvements, IO-related fixes, better debugging support, bug fixes, and other changes.

It has been announced that the next Phoenix Ruby Users Group meeting will be held on July 14, 2008.