Re: [ANN] IronRuby 1.1 Released!

Philippe Monnet
Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:32:04 -0000

Congratulations
to the whole team! Great work and delivery pace! +1 on the Apache
licensing change too!

-Philippe (@techarch)

On 7/17/2010 2:01 AM, Jimmy Schementi wrote:

  The IronRuby team is pleased to announce the
release of IronRuby
1.1!

  Download
IronRuby 1.1 now:

  http://ironruby.net/download

  Direct download links:

  http://ironruby.codeplex.com/releases/view/43540

  Online release notes:

  http://ironruby.codeplex.com/releases/view/43540#ReleaseNotes

  IronRuby 1.1 is
the first release after IronRuby 1.0, the first stable version of the Ruby
1.8.6 compiler
for the .NET framework. IronRuby 1.1 is NOT fully
backwards compatible with IronRuby 1.0; most notably that IronRuby 1.1
no longer supports .NET 2.0 SP1. .NET 3.5 is the minimum requirement
for IronRuby 1.1, though using .NET 4.0 is strongly advised. Also,
though this release is primarily bug-fixes for 1.0, consider any new
features "Alpha" quality.

This release adds support for .NET extension methods in
IronRuby. This works by calling the using_clr_extensions method,
which activates all extension methods defined on classes defined in a
given namespace, regardless of the assembly they are defined in;
assemblies loaded in the future that define extension methods in the
activated namespace will automatically appear on the correct types.
Here’s a simple example of using LINQ extension
methods:

  load_assembly "System.Core"

  using_clr_extensions System::Linq

  # ...

  products.

    where(lambda { |p| p.units_in_stock
== 0 }).

    each { |x| puts x.product_name }

  For
more information see the LINQ 101
sampes ported to IronRuby

IronRuby 1.1 is now licensed under the Apache
License (Version 2), rather than the Microsoft Public
License. This decision is based upon continual feedback and questions
from the community, as well as for consistency between IronPython and
the Dynamic
Language Runtime, which are now also licensed
under the Apache License.

Other fixes in IronRuby 1.1:

- 1754 CLR method enumeration returns
invisible members

- 1462 eval''ing a heredoc and defining a
method causes an ArgumentError

- 4363 Dir.glob should support more than
one argument

- 4003 "".rindex("somestring") raises
RangeError

- 4204 require and $" issue. MRI
difference

- 4448 IO.readline does not take account
of the optional separator

- 4446 enumerator#each_cons

- 4089 "Start and End must be well
ordered" using Heredoc in console.

- 4128 Can''t send SIGINT to autospec

- 4031 Rubygems are very slow after
including Windows forms

- 3392 overriding indexer

- 3279 Python-Ruby interop issues

- 2609 Splatting COM out params

- 2243 C# constructor with internal
visibility inaccessible when using -X:PrivateBinding

- 772 System::TypeLoadException when
including C/CLI interface with modopts

For more detailed list of changes and bugfixes please see the
CHANGELOG.txt in the release.

As always, if you find any bugs or have a feature request, please open an
issue on CodePlex.

Sincerely,

  The IronRuby Core
Team

  Jim Deville, Tomas
Matousek, and Jimmy
Schementi

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