This is a bug-fix release. All users are urged to update.

The pure-Ruby version of EventMachine is proceeding rapidly to an alpha release, although sadly, it's not 100% pure Ruby. There are a couple of small functions in C (not C++), required to cover Ruby's incomplete support for nonblocking I/O. Additionally, we're going to start releasing some pre-written handlers for standard protocols into the EventMachine stack, so you can write custom servers just by handling the protocol messages. At this point, it looks like HTTP/S will be the first.

Finally, we'd like to start collecting stories and use-cases about EventMachine from your experiences. We'll publish them in our Wiki and on the (coming) EventMachine website so that others may benefit. Please get in touch with any of the project members by email if you want to be live forever in the annals of the EventMachine project! ;-)