The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 9.4.9.0. - Homepage: https://www.jruby.org/ - Download: https://www.jruby.org/download JRuby 9.4.x targets Ruby 3.1 compatibility. Thank you to our contributors this release, you help keep JRuby moving forward! @kares, @jpcamara, @jsvd Ruby Compatibility - Various fixes for keyword arguments. #8344, #8344, #8382, #8389 - Mutex has been fixed to check for thread interrupts (Thread#kill, Thread#raise) immediately after acquiring the lock. #8403, #8404 Standard Library - The fiddle library is now a default gem and can be upgraded independently of JRuby. #8385 Developer Experience - The core jar file of JRuby can be rebuilt more quickly by calling Maven with the -Dcore flag. #8326 - Support for Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint (OpenJDK Project CRaC), which allows snapshotting a running JRuby process and quickly resuming it later. #8367 Java Integration - The "lazy" constants feature for classes imported from Java, introduced in JRuby 9.4.8.0, has been reverted due to spurious warnings. We'll revisit it in a future release. #8349, #8368, #8399, #8400, #8401 - Functions were added to allow flushing out thread-local and fiber-local storage for an entire JRuby runtime. #8369 Security - REXML was updated to 3.3.9 to get recent fixes and to address CVE-2024-49761, a ReDOS vulnerability. Only users parsing unsanitized XML with REXML are affected. #8396 -- blog: http://blog.enebo.com twitter: tom_enebo mail: tom.enebo@gmail.com