Rilasciata la versione beta di Fedora 19.

The Beta release is the last important milestone before the release of Fedora 19. Only critical bug fixes will be pushed as updates, leading up to the general release of Fedora 19.

Here's a peek at some of our new tools:

• 3D modelling and printing are enabled through a variety of tools, including OpenSCAD, Skeinforge, SFACT, Printrun, and RepetierHost.

• OpenShift Origin makes it easy for you to build your own Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) infrastructure, allowing you to enable others to easily develop and deploy software.

• node.js is a popular Javascript-based platform for those building scalable network applications or real-time apps across distributed devices.

• Ruby 2.0.0. Also included: a custom Ruby loader for easy switching of interpreters.

• MariaDB, a community-developed fork of MySQL, is the default implementation of MySQL in Fedora 19, offering users a truly open MySQL implementation.

GNOME 3.8, KDE Plasma Workspaces 4.10, MATE Desktop 1.6.

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Rilasciata la versione 3.2.2 di Ruby

Rails 3.2.2 has been released. This release contains various bug fixes and two important security fixes. All users are recommended to upgrade as soon as possible.

CHANGES

Some highlights from this release are:

• Log files are always flushed

• Failing tests will exit with nonzero status code

• Elimination of calls to deprecated methods

• Query cache instrumentation includes bindings in the payload

• Hidden checkbox values are not set if the value is nil

• Various Ruby 2.0 compatibility fixes

Come anticipato Oracle ha rilasciato Java SE 7 (Java Standard Edition 7) a fine luglio. Java 7 è la prima versione di Java gestita interamente da Oracle, ed è stata accompagnata da vivaci polemiche. Download della nuova versione di Java (JDK e JRE) a partire da questa pagina.

Java SE 7 delivers:

• Language changes to help increase developer productivity and simplify common programming tasks by reducing the amount of code needed, clarifying syntax and making code easier to read. (JSR 334: Project Coin)
• Improved support for dynamic languages (including: Ruby, Python and JavaScript), resulting in substantial performance increases on the JVM. (JSR 292: InvokeDynamic)
• A new multicore-ready API that enables developers to more easily decompose problems into tasks that can then be executed in parallel across arbitrary numbers of processor cores. (JSR 166: Fork/Join Framework)
• A comprehensive I/O interface for working with file systems that can access a wider array of file attributes and offer more information when errors occur. (JSR 203: NIO.2)
• New networking and security features
• Expanded support for internationalization, including Unicode 6.0 support
• Updated versions of numerous libraries

Il rilascio di Java 7 EE (Enterprise Edition) è previsto per il terzo trimestre del 2012.

Il team di sviluppo di JRuby ha annunciato il rilascio di JRuby 1.6, una implementazione in Java del linguaggio di programmazione Ruby

This release fixes hundreds of user issues and brings compatibility with Ruby 1.9.2 to a very high level. We have made Windows a primary supported platform by adding it to our continuous integration environment. JRuby 1.6 will provide Windows-based Ruby users with the best experience yet. This release integrates experimental support for C extensions based on Ruby’s C API.

JRuby è rilasciata sotto licenza CPL, GPL o LGPL, ed è possibile scaricarla da questa pagina.

Gli sviluppatori di JRuby, una implementazione in Java del linguaggio di programmazione Ruby, hanno annunciato il rilascio della prima release candidate di JRuby 1.6.0.

JRuby 1.6.0 is the largest release of JRuby to date. This release fixes hundreds of user issues and brings compatibility with Ruby 1.9.2 to a very high level. We have made Windows a primary supported platform by adding it as a continuous integration platform, and JRuby 1.6 will provide Windows-based Ruby users with the best experience yet. This release integrates experimental support for C extensions based on Ruby’s C API. And as with all major releases, we have improved stability and performance across the board in response to real-world user input.

Annunciato il rilascio della seconda alpha di Scientific Linux 6. Note di rilascio disponibili a questa pagina, download dai mirror indicati a questa pagina.

FIXED IN ALPHA 2:
- You are now able to choose between a variety of installs, such as Desktop, Basic Server, Web Developement Workstation, and others. As an extra bonus, Minimal install is actually minimal.
- We have gotten the following packages to build, and they are in the release.
foomatic
guile
hivex
linuxdoc-tools
perl-GSSAPI
perl-Test-MockObject
python-sqlalchemy
ruby 
TurboGears2
virt-top