Ruby 1.8.7-p72 and 1.8.6-p287 released

Posted by Shugo Maeda on 11 Aug 2008

Ruby 1.8.7-p72 and 1.8.6-p287 have been released. The last releases were incomplete, and the new releases include fixes of the previously announced vulnerability of dl.

The released source archives are available at:

Checksums:

MD5(ruby-1.8.6-p287.tar.gz)= f6cd51001534ced5375339707a757556
SHA256(ruby-1.8.6-p287.tar.gz)= 6463d1932c34ff72b79174ac7d2c28940d29d147928250928a00a0dbee43db57
SIZE(ruby-1.8.6-p287.tar.gz)= 4590393

MD5(ruby-1.8.6-p287.tar.bz2)= 80b5f3db12531d36e6c81fac6d05dda9
SHA256(ruby-1.8.6-p287.tar.bz2)= ac15a1cb78c50ec9cc7e831616a143586bdd566bc865c6b769a0c47b3b3936ce
SIZE(ruby-1.8.6-p287.tar.bz2)= 3956902

MD5(ruby-1.8.6-p287.zip)= e555d51f5b387fdd52ae53d9bafa13f5
SHA256(ruby-1.8.6-p287.zip)= 844c66c015565839531a34b83e0526cd4fa2a71cc0f5cc8ddb0d4c158403543a
SIZE(ruby-1.8.6-p287.zip)= 5606238

MD5(ruby-1.8.7-p72.tar.gz)= 5e5b7189674b3a7f69401284f6a7a36d
SHA256(ruby-1.8.7-p72.tar.gz)= e15ca005076f5d6f91fc856fdfbd071698a4cadac3c6e25855899dba1f6fc5ef
SIZE(ruby-1.8.7-p72.tar.gz)= 4805594

MD5(ruby-1.8.7-p72.tar.bz2)= 0b215c46b89b28d7ab8d56d96e72d5b9
SHA256(ruby-1.8.7-p72.tar.bz2)= a8f8a28e286dd76747d8e97ea5cfe7a315eb896906ab8c8606d687d9f6f6146e
SIZE(ruby-1.8.7-p72.tar.bz2)= 4127450

MD5(ruby-1.8.7-p72.zip)= b44fe5a12d4bf138ba0d3660e13a8216
SHA256(ruby-1.8.7-p72.zip)= 77e67be4aa8c3e041e1d20d24e5fcf2e33ad9bccb3da3332b6c0a5b648334903
SIZE(ruby-1.8.7-p72.zip)= 5855902

For a full list of all changes, see the bundled files named ChangeLog, which are also available at the following locations:

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