# Ruby 1.8.8

Next stable version of Ruby 1.8 series. under development

* Backport #621: When to call Class#inherited
* Bug #783: mathn した場合の ** の振舞いに一貫性がない
* Backport #838: faster gcd for 187
* Bug #851: Add rb_warning() around where behavior will change in 1.9.1
* Backport #1183: Adding support for the new hash literal syntax
* Bug #1330: BigDecimal オブジェクトを何度も使い回すと Bus Error が発生することがある
* Bug #1454: compatability of rational and bigdecimal (1.8 and 1.9)
* Bug #1566: sprintf with %e or %E Format Specifer Incorrectly Capitalises Inf and NaN
* Bug #1707: Proc#call Raises ThreadError on 1.8 HEAD; LocalJumpError on Other Versions
* Backport #1812: backport r22303
* Feature #1866: redefinable not (!) operators for 1.8
* Feature #1968: Looser splat for 1.8
* Backport #2180: request: add *Method#source_location to 1.8.x
* Bug #2107: Matrix: 1/any_matrix bug (fixed)
* Bug #2280: Build fails with "source files duplication" error on Windows
* Bug #2393: NoMethodError's message change in second time
* Bug #2461: ARGF.rewind does not reset ARGF.lineno to zero
* Backport #2430: No StringIO#{readpartial,read_nonblock}
* Bug #2468: Array expansion inside case/when gives unexpected results
* Bug #2474: The __FILE__ constant equals a relative path when required using a relative path FAILED on 1.8.8dev
* Bug #2600: block.callの中でsuperできない
* Bug #2794: Aborted (core dumped) BUG on Ruby/DL
* Backport #3191: imap exits on login with invalid credentials
* Bug #3233: cgi: uninitialized constant File::BINARY
* Bug #3326: ruby_1_8がAIXでコンパイルできません。
* Backport #3273: Float string conversion
* Backport #3280: BigMath::log is very slow
* Bug #3299: revision.h rule in common.mk is broken for MSVC
* Bug #3397: A bug related to ruby's regular expression!!!!!!
* Feature #4148: Time#strftime with %T broken on Windows
* Backport #4175: OpenSSL::BN#prime? raises TypeError
* Feature #4207: これから「1.8.8」の話をしよう -- 1.8がこの先生きのこるには
* Feature #4239: Let's begin a talk for "1.8.8" -- How's needed for surviving 1.8?
* Bug #1872: [ruby_1_8] Kernel#system doesn't work in forked process
* Bug #2401: Array splat bug: a=[1,2]; p [*a] #=> []
* Bug #2551: case/when matches literal *[1,2,3] but not variable *ary
* Backport #3900: symbol table のあふれがエラーにならない
* Feature #1032: ERB::DefMethod#def_erb_method にオプションを追加。
* Bug #1535: Hash#merge! Inside Iterator Can Cause RuntimeError
* Bug #2385: Re: Ruby:r25230 (ruby_1_8, trunk): * marshal.c (struct {dump,load}_arg): manage with dfree, instead
* Bug #2487: Re: set_trace_func中の例外について
* Bug #2944: ossl_ssl_session.c:110: warning:  implicit declaration of function 'TIMET2NUM'
* Bug #3011: caller for recursive function