Ruby 2.1.6 Released

Posted by usa on 13 Apr 2015

Ruby 2.1.6 has been released.

This release includes a security fix for OpenSSL extension. Please view the topic below for more details.

And, many bug fixes are also included. See tickets and ChangeLog for details.

Download

  • https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.1/ruby-2.1.6.tar.bz2

    SIZE:   12011651 bytes
    SHA1:   380c3a5fa508fdaa2b227dbc00c56f703fd271d4
    SHA256: 7b5233be35a4a7fbd64923e42efb70b7bebd455d9d6f9d4001b3b3a6e0aa6ce9
    SHA512: 75d58120b5f387bcadbf6d19e85624f78c74f81b9018baef39207214673f7ebc0700ab31145acd88b4071c896ba8e1302a29c90955bcf5f8c863634125022aa6
    
  • https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.1/ruby-2.1.6.tar.gz

    SIZE:   15141710 bytes
    SHA1:   426289b6647ce35ad101091825b6e7e5fce207f3
    SHA256: 1e1362ae7427c91fa53dc9c05aee4ee200e2d7d8970a891c5bd76bee28d28be4
    SHA512: 6563d8f39623ed5ba227725c54e630886412938bdf7c4cf03337d6c245af58d92274a098ea0e03bfd0e94970f4ee82909c366ae81db4b9317c10b92167bfc46d
    
  • https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.1/ruby-2.1.6.tar.xz

    SIZE:   9381724 bytes
    SHA1:   e429644f27c243474268bf548e6fa95d05579aaf
    SHA256: 137b27bffefd795fd97c288fff539d135f42320f8a1afddde99a34e1fbe7314e
    SHA512: 0cf91fe7ae53a3f9c034fa5996eeed91889b942b8e595e84be4e244adc30d79aa3f540cc6f657982715069dfb14af20786557689d9a8fe4bbfc66280e84dd6cf
    
  • https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.1/ruby-2.1.6.zip

    SIZE:   16671680 bytes
    SHA1:   e79a033ab847e0d67940e31bac0debf197fad615
    SHA256: ecbc4b97cc78e96e01375b961936133279db806044fd4d23771136dae4c1056d
    SHA512: d1450bd013dbaabf10d7097e9dcd8c3f027110c08693ee7c94c002ea96b7e6e171c951b8b1ca3971b7f89e05b15df00ec56a006f9393889ae7f8045e9b328fad
    

Release Comment

Thanks to everyone who helped with this release, especially, nagachika.

The maintenance of Ruby 2.1, include this release, is based on the “Agreement for the Ruby stable version” of the Ruby Association.

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