2014 Archives

Ruby 2.2.0 Released

We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.2.0.

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Ruby 2.2.0-rc1 Released

We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.2.0-rc1. After RC1, all changes will be limited to bug fix only. The final release of Ruby 2.2.0 is scheduled on December 25, 2014.

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Ruby 2.2.0-preview2 Released

We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.2.0-preview2.

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Ruby 2.1.5 Released

Ruby 2.1.5 has been released.

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Ruby 2.0.0-p598 Released

We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.0.0-p598.

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Ruby 1.9.3-p551 Released

We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 1.9.3-p551.

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CVE-2014-8090: Another Denial of Service XML Expansion

Unrestricted entity expansion can lead to a DoS vulnerability in REXML, like “Entity expansion DoS vulnerability in REXML (XML bomb, CVE-2013-1821)” and “CVE-2014-8080: Parameter Entity expansion DoS vulnerability in REXML”. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2014-8090. We strongly recommend to upgrade Ruby.

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Tropical Ruby 2015 CFP is open

Tropical Ruby 2015, the beach Ruby conference, will take place during March 5–8th at Porto de Galinhas, a paradisiac beach located in the Brazilian northeast coast.

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Ruby 2.1.4 Released

Ruby 2.1.4 has been released.

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Ruby 2.0.0-p594 Released

We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.0.0-p594.

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Ruby 1.9.3-p550 Released

We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 1.9.3-p550.

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CVE-2014-8080: Denial of Service XML Expansion

Unrestricted entity expansion can lead to a DoS vulnerability in REXML. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2014-8080. We strongly recommend to upgrade Ruby.

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Changed default settings of ext/openssl

We changed the default setting of ext/openssl in Ruby 2.1.4, Ruby 2.0.0-p594 and Ruby 1.9.3-p550. With this change, insecure SSL/TLS options are now disabled by default. However, by this change, there is a possibility of some problems in the SSL connection.

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Ruby 2.1.3 Released

We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.1.3. This is a patchlevel release of the stable 2.1 series.

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Ruby 2.0.0-p576 Released

We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.0.0-p576, to celebrate the holding of RubyKaigi2014 in Japan now.

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Ruby 2.2.0-preview1 Released

We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.2.0-preview1.

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ConFoo 2015 is looking for Ruby speakers

We are looking for Ruby professionals to share their skills and experience at the next ConFoo. Submit your proposals until September 22nd.

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Ruby 1.9.2-p330 Released

We have released 1.9.2-p330, the final release of the 1.9.2 series.

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RubyKaigi 2014 Registration Online

RubyKaigi 2014 registration page is now online.

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EOL for Ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9.2

Extended maintenance of Ruby versions 1.8.7 and 1.9.2 will end on July 31, 2014.

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RubyWorld Conference 2014 Speaker Invite

RubyWorld Conference will be held in Matsue, Japan on November 13-14, 2014.

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Stopped mailing lists temporarily

We stopped the mailing lists on ruby-lang.org temporarily.

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Ruby 1.9.3-p547 Released

Ruby 1.9.3-p547 has just been released.

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Ruby 2.1.2 is released

We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.1.2.

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Dispute of Vulnerability CVE-2014-2734

We were recently informed about a possible security vulnerability that has been published as CVE-2014-2734. However, based on our detailed analysis below, we do not consider Ruby to be vulnerable.

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Ruby 2.0.0-p481 is released

We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.0.0-p481.

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OpenSSL Severe Vulnerability in TLS Heartbeat Extension (CVE-2014-0160)

There is a severe vulnerability in OpenSSL’s implementation of the TLS/DTLS (transport layer security protocols) heartbeat extension (RFC6520). This a serious vulnerability which has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2014-0160.

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Heap Overflow in YAML URI Escape Parsing (CVE-2014-2525)

There is an overflow in URI escape parsing of YAML in Ruby. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2014-2525.

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eurucamp 2014 dates and CFP

eurucamp 2014 will be held around Berlin on August 1st to 3rd. eurucamp is an offspring of EuRuKo 2011 and has been held ever since.

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RubyConf Taiwan 2014 Registration Now Open

RubyConf Taiwan 2014 will be held in Taipei, Taiwan on 25-26 April, 2014.

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Regression of Hash#reject in Ruby 2.1.1

In Ruby 2.1.0 or earlier, the reject method in any class that inherits Hash returns an object of its own class. But in Ruby 2.1.1, this behavior has changed accidentally to return always a plain Hash object, not of the inherited class.

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Ruby 2.0.0-p451 is released

Today, Feb. 24th, is the 21st anniversary of Ruby, so we happily announce a new patch release, Ruby 2.0.0-p451.

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Ruby 2.1.1 is released

Today, Feb. 24th, is the 21st anniversary of Ruby, so we happily announce a new patch release of Ruby 2.1, Ruby 2.1.1.

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Ruby 1.9.3-p545 is released

Happy birthday, Ruby! Today, Feb. 24th, is the 21st anniversary of Ruby. In commemoration of it, Ruby 1.9.3-p545 is released.

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2014 Ruby Hero Award Nominations

Has anyone helped you greatly in the Ruby community this past year? Maybe they taught you something, wrote a gem, or gave you some tech support? If anyone comes to mind, then please take the time to nominate them for a Ruby Hero Award.

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Abril Pro Ruby 2014, The Tropical Ruby Conference

Abril Pro Ruby 2014, the third edition of the Tropical Ruby Conference, will happen in April 26, 2014 at the Porto de Galinhas beach, a sunny paradise in the northeast of Brazil.

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Support for Ruby version 1.9.3 will end on February 23, 2015

Today we are announcing our plans for the future of Ruby version 1.9.3.

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