Multiple vulnerabilities in Ruby
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ruby. It's recommended that you upgrade to the latest versions.
Posted by Shugo Maeda on 08 Aug 2008
RubyConf 2008 Proposals Now Being Accepted
RubyConf 2008 will be held in Orlando, Florida, USA, from November 6 to November 8.
Proposals for presentations are now begin accepted. All proposals must be received by August 21.
Posted by james on 04 Aug 2008
Arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities
Multiple vulnerabilities in Ruby may lead to a denial of service (DoS) condition or allow execution of arbitrary code.
Posted by Shugo Maeda on 20 Jun 2008
RubyNation 2008
RubyNation is an annual Ruby conference serving the Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, DC areas. This year's RubyNation will happen on August 1&2, 2008 in Herndon, VA. Please visit the RubyNation site for more details.
Posted by James Edward Gray II on 16 Jun 2008
Ruby 1.8.7 has been released
Akinori MUSHA announced today that Ruby 1.8.7 has been released.
The new version of Ruby includes many bug fixes, lots of feature enhancements backported from 1.9 and some performance improvements since 1.8.6 while maintaining stability and backward compatibility with the previous release to a high degree. See the bundled documentation for details about compatibility issues.
The source code package is available in three formats at the following locations:
- ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7.tar.bz2
- ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7.zip
Checksums:
- MD5 (ruby-1.8.7.tar.bz2) = f17f14c8d55e731b3ce1bc35c42f0a6c
- SHA256 (ruby-1.8.7.tar.bz2) = 65f2a862ba5e88bac7a78cff15bcb88d7534e741b51a1ffb79a0136c7041359a
- SIZE (ruby-1.8.7.tar.bz2) = 4100024
- MD5 (ruby-1.8.7.tar.gz) = de906850f9a012c12ffc6e9f56fb1b66
- SHA256 (ruby-1.8.7.tar.gz) = 600dccf13bca3e4179fa6ff554220ce4ba67ffc72bce1ac3bf74c2599c03a0ca
- SIZE (ruby-1.8.7.tar.gz) = 4799732
- MD5 (ruby-1.8.7.zip) = 14d3eb37b32e4a26966bdd80f361ccd2
- SHA256 (ruby-1.8.7.zip) = 805987ad167d8f9cac90e4b9342686e96a7708664111be27a3c6d680ce21d6c1
- SIZE (ruby-1.8.7.zip) = 5851408
For a brief list of user visible changes and a full list of all changes, see the bundled files named NEWS and ChangeLog, which are also available at the following locations:
- http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/v1_8_7/NEWS
- http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/v1_8_7/ChangeLog
Posted by james on 31 May 2008