Dear all, Here is a brief summary of recent articles posted on ruby-dev. [ruby-dev:25048] about optparse specification Minero Aoki claimed that optparse should not handle -L when --line is given. It appears that anyone is not interested in this issue, since there is no reply so far. [ruby-dev:25075] status of defects Shugo Maeda informed us that status on bug reports listed at http://mput.dip.jp/rubybugs is automatically changed to 'fixed' when we put down a string like "[ruby-dev:12345]" into a commit log. [ruby-dev:25101] non-stdio buffering Akira Tanaka summarized issues on non-stdio buffering, which is introduced for ruby-1.9. This new IO buffering mechanism affects some extension libraries. [ruby-dev:25193] 1.8.2 release schedule Matz has a plan to release ruby-1.8.2 on Dec 24. -- Takaaki Tateishi <ttate / ttsky.net>