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As of March 2007, the latest stable version is 1.8.6. Ruby 1.9 (with some major changes) is also in development. Poor performance of the current Ruby implementation in comparison to other more entrenched programming languages has led to the development of several virtual machines for Ruby. These include JRuby, a port of Ruby to the Java platform, IronRuby, an implementation for the .NET Framework produced by Microsoft, and Rubinius, an interpreter modeled after self-hosting Smalltalk virtual machines. The main developers have thrown their weight behind the virtual machine provided by the YARV project, which was merged into the Ruby source tree on 31 December 2006, and will be released as Ruby 2.0.