Hey everyone,

I’m very excited to announce the release of the Koala 1.0 release candidate!  With this version, the 1.0 gem is effectively finished.  Assuming everything goes well, we’re on track to officially launch 1.0 on May 1st (conveniently, the one-year anniversary of the gem’s first public release).
Changelog

So what’s in the release candidate?  Some good stuff:
  • Typhoeus file uploads are now available! This is completely transparent; the only thing you should notice is faster photo uploads.
  • The Koala test suite has been completely refactored and is now massively cleaner, faster, and more awesome (thanks to joshk).
  • OAuth#url_for_oauth_code can now take a :display option (thanks to netbe).
  • Net::HTTP can now accept :timeout and :proxy options (thanks to gilles).
  • GraphAPI.search can now search places, checkins; a query is no longer required (thanks to rickyc).
  • Test users from one app can now be added to another app.
Thanks again to  the Koala user community — it’s fantastic at how many awesome features and fixes have come through pull requests.
The complete diff from beta2.1 is available here.
Installing Koala

To install Koala 1.0rc, just run
gem install koala –pre

As always, let us know how things go and if there’s anything we can help with!

Enjoy!