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Today Matz announced 1.8.5-preview 4.

 ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.5-preview4.tar.gz
 c30cdad5b208116682db24d548f20b2f

I’ve been running 1.8.5 for the last few weeks and, let me tell you, you’re in store for a ton of warnings. I was totally wrong about Frosted MiniColons. Matz is deprecating the lovely where-colon, which has really gained momentum out there, notably ActiveRecord is replete. Matz gives the fix: swap the plain colon with a semi.

Also, ri is everywhere in this one. Every gem gets shaken for its ri docs. It seems like make install-doc takes a lot longer this time around. The SOAP4R scan nearly halts my 550MHz. But, hey extra docs, right?