Merry Christmas, We finally announce the release of final stable 1.8.2 at ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/ruby-1.8.2.tar.gz This is mainly a bug fix release. The list of changes is comming soon. the Md5 check sum is 918fc7e14305a08f5f0d81d7b0219c1b ruby-1.8.2.tar.gz I hope you enjoy Happy Hacking Holidays. matz.