The revised schedule for the Ruby 1.9.2 release has been announced yesterday. A few weeks ago, Ruby 1.9.2 finally passed all RubySpec tests. The new schedule now looks as follows:

• 31 Mar. freeze the spec
• 30 Apr. freeze the code
• 31 May. release 1.9.2-preview2
• 30 Jun. release 1.9.2-rc
• 31 Jul. release 1.9.2-p0

The spec freeze that is due at the End of March will freeze the list of features that might get included in the release. These features then need to be implemented before the code is frozen at April 30, otherwise the feature will be excluded from the release. After that, another month is spent on stabilizing the release, eventually resulting in the preview2 release. If everything goes well the final release should be due in mid-August.

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