News from April, 2007

The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 0.9.9.

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

This release has largely been a stabilization release where we have spent
more focus on Ruby compatibility. We are gearing up for a 1.0 release. Here
are some of the more significant acheivements for 0.9.9:

Major compatibility and performance overhaul of String, Array, Hash

Many YAML and Marshalling issues have been fixed

Java Integration overhaul fixing many outstanding issues

180 Jira issues resolved

Several more bottlenecks removed

Rails applications like Mephisto and plugins like Goldberg are running without hitches

Performance has improved by 40% over 0.9.8 based on YARV benchmarks
With all the hard work done by Marcin Mielżyński and Bill Dortch we are adding
them as core committers. Their contributions have made a huge difference in
our progress as of late.

We also want to thank all people who hang out on IRC, triage/report/patch
issues, and communicate on our mailing lists. Their interest has really
helped shape JRuby into a better implementation.

Please take JRuby 0.9.9 for a spin and help us root out the last issues
before our 1.0 release!