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Ruby 1.8.6

Under maintenance mode

57%

12 closed (57%)   9 open (43%)

Related issues
Backport #1210: Array behavior for minus/uniq is not as expected for hash elements
Backport #1315: incorrect string escaping in passing command to Ruby on Windows system

Ruby 1.8.7

Under maintenance mode

58%

24 closed (47%)   27 open (53%)

Related issues
Feature #2594: 1.8.7 Patch: Reduce time spent in gc.c is_pointer_to_heap().
Feature #4588: exec(env, cmd) fails in Ruby 1.8; works in 1.9
Backport #1268: Test fix not backported from trunk to ruby_1_8
Backport #2462: Bignum comparison fail [ruby-dev:38672]
Backport #2556: Should r24500 be backported to 1.8?
Backport #3474: SocketError on SnowLeopard (during make test-all)
Backport #4206: failed to set ext option for win32/configure.bat
Backport #4212: Option :ftp_active_mode on open-uri not merged with current distribution of ruby-1.8.7
Backport #4661: Please backport r31365 to 1.8.7 stable branch
Backport #5212: [*nil] behaves diferently from 1.8.7 to 1.9.3
Backport #6299: Adding PATCH to Net::HTTP

Ruby 1.8.8

Next stable version of Ruby 1.8 series. under development

68%

31 closed (66%)   16 open (34%)

Related issues
Feature #1032: ERB::DefMethod#def_erb_method にオプションを追加。
Feature #1866: redefinable not (!) operators for 1.8
Feature #1968: Looser splat for 1.8
Feature #4148: Time#strftime with %T broken on Windows
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?
Backport #621: When to call Class#inherited
Backport #838: faster gcd for 187
Backport #1183: Adding support for the new hash literal syntax
Backport #1812: backport r22303
Backport #2180: request: add *Method#source_location to 1.8.x
Backport #2430: No StringIO#{readpartial,read_nonblock}
Backport #3191: imap exits on login with invalid credentials
Backport #3273: Float string conversion
Backport #3280: BigMath::log is very slow
Backport #3900: symbol table のあふれがエラーにならない
Backport #4175: OpenSSL::BN#prime? raises TypeError