Ruby driver 1.12.0.rc1 released

Version 1.12.0.rc1 of the MongoDB Ruby driver has been released. It is the second release candidate for version 1.12.0, which supports MongoDB 2.8.
It is not recommended for production use but your assistance in testing this new release is greatly appreciated. Please give it a try in your staging environments.

This release candidate has the following changes since the first release candidate:

• Replica Set test suite changes (RUBY-800)
• Documentation updates (RUBY-837)
• Ensure that a socket is always checked in after sending a message with gle (@cheald)

You can refer to the list of changes here:
https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-ruby-driver/releases/tag/1.12.0.rc1


The release candidate can be installed explicitly:

gem install mongo --version 1.12.0.rc1 

gem install bson --version 1.12.0.rc1

gem install bson_ext --version 1.12.0.rc1

or use the --pre flag:

gem install mongo --pre

gem install bson --pre

gem install bson_ext --pre


If you find any issues, please open a ticket in the JIRA Ruby driver project:
https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/RUBY