Ruby 2.1.8 Released

Posted by usa on 16 Dec 2015

Ruby 2.1.8 has been released.

This release includes a security fix for the Fiddle and DL extensions. Please view the topic below for more details.

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

Download

  • https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.1/ruby-2.1.8.tar.bz2

    SIZE:   12014426 bytes
    SHA1:   0284eaf42ac76a641abd5cd4b6bd933abeb9934e
    SHA256: 250d0b589cba97caddc86a28849365ad0d475539448cf76bbae93190985b3387
    SHA512: 7129c012bca7f0e7cfa51c73ba0898697f7a9f31abd5ae57d38be5b6b646fd80ab33be9b262cd3e2486c66f65aaf4ec6e881ae6e5a82ec9df62f00fa072510fc
    
  • https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.1/ruby-2.1.8.tar.gz

    SIZE:   15154017 bytes
    SHA1:   c7e50159357afd87b13dc5eaf4ac486a70011149
    SHA256: afd832b8d5ecb2e3e1477ec6a9408fdf9898ee73e4c5df17a2b2cb36bd1c355d
    SHA512: 155121ed00a1a56e40a74bafd93dcc34a0ea65c56589cf36daa8318368acc12cc88cb73aba548ef204c8d2ad917b0feccf90b5608a86d1aca1203feca2263386
    
  • https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.1/ruby-2.1.8.tar.xz

    SIZE:   9382672 bytes
    SHA1:   e1f4e043006a762604c042e6aac7540854a92d8c
    SHA256: 94eeae3b3e3ac93cfd205e1aaef4c5325227b7656cbb2fc1ee217618145dd19d
    SHA512: c712ee69cb1d41ad8420177b9564e451ab795e4903f1edc20c14aa189b8e38c54c5119d913204d13a5f8fa424f2ec43bfad04c77b313ea4533e23a9b1d161392
    
  • https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.1/ruby-2.1.8.zip

    SIZE:   16686848 bytes
    SHA1:   b554328fb3d9f2a527adc5830de221b00e3ce2b9
    SHA256: 6e0491e029a6f4c40bc091033c5bc91f65438f3f9153f93f1b86889521e79cee
    SHA512: 2f9409460c8729fff96522baf5c4a74e1a648db1749a471ee3b6523d8c01e1faaf5f17afdffcaf355654f23e8c2ac392830109dd68dfc4e5a694d95155c593b6
    

Release Comment

Thanks to everyone who helped with this release.

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

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