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The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 1.6.2.

    Homepage: http://www.jruby.org/
    Download: http://www.jruby.org/download

JRuby 1.6.2 is our second update to 1.6.x.  The main motivation besides spinning incremental releases quicker was a nasty YAML bug which prevented a number of Rubygems from installing (see JRUBY-5581 -- ArrayIndexOutOfBounds problem).  Expect JRuby 1.6.3 in a couple of weeks.

The primary goal of the 1.6.x series is to round out our 1.9 support by fixing any reported incompatibilities. Of course, as with any JRuby release, we will continue fixing any found incompatibilities and also improve performance. All users of 1.6.1 (and lower) are encouraged to upgrade to 1.6.2.

Notable:
- YAML problem generating an ArrayIndexOutOfBounds Exception JRUBY-5581
- Java names of the form getX were not getting aliases for get_x, x (regression)
- A couple of embedding errors (JRUBY-5734, JRUBY-5635)
- A few 1.9 issues resolved


Issues fixed since 1.6.1:
JRUBY-5805 	Kernel.warn should use 2 writes instead of 1 puts 		
JRUBY-5802 	Problem loading yaml string in 1.9 mode with JRuby 1.6 and newer
JRUBY-5791 	rvm install jruby-head rewrite's the current rakes hash-bang invocation to be: #!/usr/bin/env jruby
JRUBY-5788 	Java names with only on capital letter not getting Ruby shortcuts defined
JRUBY-5787 	ConcurrencyError from Array#choice when the Array was truncated before
JRUBY-5786 	SelectorPool file descriptor leak
JRUBY-5776 	secure_random.rb broken on jruby (RangeError: bignum too big to convert into `long')
JRUBY-5769 	SSH connection can fail unpredictably
JRUBY-5762 	Proc#=== is not same as Proc#call in 1.9 mode.
JRUBY-5740 	zip with Range argument does not work in 1.9 mode
JRUBY-5734 	Repeatedly getting ScriptEngine causes (NameError) uninitialized constant #<Class:0x.........>::ARGV
JRUBY-5733 	String#unpack: @ directive doesn't work on substrings
JRUBY-5729 	Process.respond_to?(:fork) must return false		
JRUBY-5728 	Array#pack is no longer threadsafe
JRUBY-5712 	Threading issues in 1.6.0 and 1.9 mode
JRUBY-5689 	Regression: wrapException throws unexpected exceptions depending on previously-run code
JRUBY-5674 	Cannot override Fixnum operators
JRUBY-5665 	RubySpec: String#scan failures		
JRUBY-5635 	ScriptingContainer.put() does not always work (race condition?)
JRUBY-5624 	Class.new { p eval("self", binding) }
JRUBY-5606 	asprintf does not exist on Solaris, so C extensions do not build	
JRUBY-5581 	gem install throws java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
JRUBY-4828 	Null-byte vulnerability