Hello, Ruby 1.8.2 preview 4 is available from ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.2-preview4.tar.gz md5sum: 2f53d4dc4b24e37799143645772aabd0 The final 1.8.2 will be out on December 25th (JST), unless any critical bugs will be found. matz.