# Ruby 1.8.6

Under maintenance mode

* Bug #222: Issues with Date#<=>
* Bug #1354: stacktrace on ppc
* Bug #989: [1.8.6] Crash during build on Mac OS 10.5.3/PPC when configured with --enable-pthread
* Bug #992: Hash becomes Array for no apparent reason.
* Bug #1126: make distclean error under MinGW
* Bug #1140: Parsing error gives method_missing a nonexistant method name
* Bug #1426: REXML::Document.write wrong formatting
* Bug #1292: 1.8 compile time error with mingw gcc 4.3
* Bug #1460: IO#select returns wrong fd list after Kernel#sleep (Windows)
* Bug #1555: Inaccessible 'io' parameter in Test::Unit::UI::Console::TestRunner.initialize(x,y,io)
* Bug #986: RDoc crashes while generating HTML after parsing a Ruby DSL.
* Bug #877: [win32] Ruby Standard Library (maybe smth else): Wrong Encoding in Files, Directories and Environment Variables