The JRuby team is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 0.9.2.

Download: http://dist.codehaus.org/jruby/

This release has some great improvements:

• Extensions openssl and readline now working
• Code for a new graphical irb console
• Partial support for iconv and bigdecimal extensions
• RSpec now supported
• Improved Rails support
• Fixed all known block and scoping bugs
• Enhanced parser performance
• More compiler and performance work
• Refactored variable scoping logic
• 127 Jira issues resolved since 0.9.1

Ola Bina gets accolades for completely writing an openssl clone in Java from
scratch! We are not worthy

Damian Steer has written a beautiful irb console in Java Swing which has color
highlighting and popup code completion.

Thanks to several new and returning contributors: Anders Bengtsson, Aslak Hellesoy,
Peter K Chan, Thomas Palmer, and Wes Nakamura.

Additional thanks to all the people on our mailing lists who help give feedback and
ideas.