Folks,

It is my pleasure to announce that Ruby 1.8.7 has just been released.

The new version of Ruby includes many bug fixes, lots of feature
enhancements backported from 1.9 and some performance improvements
since 1.8.6 while maintaining stability and backward compatibility
with the previous release to a high degree.  See the bundled
documentation for details about compatibility issues.

The source code package is available in three formats at the following
locations:

	ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7.tar.bz2
	ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7.tar.gz
	ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7.zip

Checksums:

	MD5 (ruby-1.8.7.tar.bz2) = f17f14c8d55e731b3ce1bc35c42f0a6c
	SHA256 (ruby-1.8.7.tar.bz2) = 65f2a862ba5e88bac7a78cff15bcb88d7534e741b51a1ffb79a0136c70413
59a
	SIZE (ruby-1.8.7.tar.bz2) = 4100024

	MD5 (ruby-1.8.7.tar.gz) = de906850f9a012c12ffc6e9f56fb1b66
	SHA256 (ruby-1.8.7.tar.gz) = 600dccf13bca3e4179fa6ff554220ce4ba67ffc72bce1ac3bf74c2599c03a0
ca
	SIZE (ruby-1.8.7.tar.gz) = 4799732

	MD5 (ruby-1.8.7.zip) = 14d3eb37b32e4a26966bdd80f361ccd2
	SHA256 (ruby-1.8.7.zip) = 805987ad167d8f9cac90e4b9342686e96a7708664111be27a3c6d680ce21d6c1
	SIZE (ruby-1.8.7.zip) = 5851408


For a brief list of user visible changes and a full list of all
changes, see the bundled files named NEWS and ChangeLog, which are
also available at the following locations:

	http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/v1_8_7/NEWS
	http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/v1_8_7/ChangeLog

Enjoy!

--
Akinori MUSHA / http://akinori.org/