Ruby 2.6.9 has been released.

This release includes security fixes.
Please check the topics below for details.

* [CVE-2021-41817: Regular Expression Denial of Service Vulnerability of Date Parsing Methods](/en/news/2021/11/15/date-parsing-method-regexp-dos-cve-2021-41817/)
* [CVE-2021-41819: Cookie Prefix Spoofing in CGI::Cookie.parse](/en/news/2021/11/24/cookie-prefix-spoofing-in-cgi-cookie-parse-cve-2021-41819/)

See the [commit logs](https://github.com/ruby/ruby/compare/v2_6_8...v2_6_9) for details.

Ruby 2.6 is now under the state of the security maintenance phase, until the end of March of 2022.
After that date, maintenance of Ruby 2.6 will be ended.
We recommend you start planning the migration to newer versions of Ruby, such as 3.0 or 2.7.

## Download



* <https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.6/ruby-2.6.9.tar.bz2>

      SIZE: 14137792
      SHA1: a482c36645e7ff4596c6aca2cf96d15481fcfc5e
      SHA256: a0639060c4519572e51828eb742f09dd40f154c820f6007246de7a2090e3ee45
      SHA512: ff067ebc059094c0a9a0debf54a37aad2c85f7ed47be59299041c9c03a7701529f5063ff32a1b8c56d48ee8585015acba63602ed0176b2797d263d43d67aa241

* <https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.6/ruby-2.6.9.tar.gz>

      SIZE: 16202802
      SHA1: 00e69747e7e2b87155c65b4003470313e4403b0a
      SHA256: eb7bae7aac64bf9eb2153710a4cafae450ccbb62ae6f63d573e1786178b0efbb
      SHA512: 24bd6c8f528907349bcf392ed75a2d767b93a35a9f4c839267873d1dde862d3292d1682e0edc56c078a2690de76a045ef866f54eab8a330a18771f0b234c5993

* <https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.6/ruby-2.6.9.tar.xz>

      SIZE: 11590064
      SHA1: fc67ca162010aac4af49d73a8c48be5cb2fb5907
      SHA256: 6a041d82ae6e0f02ccb1465e620d94a7196489d8a13d6018a160da42ebc1eece
      SHA512: f60aa89e685cea324185eb0d13e6b44caef4e4f761cbf9ea1386ae70e39faf3866ac01e4bb5354574f2583e74290b8c80eaf63d126040d52368be6c771476451

* <https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.6/ruby-2.6.9.zip>

      SIZE: 19869379
      SHA1: 41a60c783306f4b47b867bd19d16688b546b8e3a
      SHA256: 2480dbdc72d3dc832d8254e938e4861ca54a5337edd6f358e5202fd2a5339eec
      SHA512: 9073e0fc5040434f15158f24c6a551286bc5f1c4c1cb54d6e3debb4ac039187a4f274a217bdb5c8489c72360c65d708f89eb0f2472a1f9232fcfee8e296dec57

## Release Comment

Many committers, developers, and users who provided bug reports helped us make this release.
Thanks for their contributions.