Minor Updates for Ruby 1.8.6 and 1.8.7 Released

Over on the official Ruby news site, Urabe Shyouhei has announced the release of minor updates to both Ruby 1.8.6 and 1.8.7, namely 1.8.6p368 and 1.8.7p160:

Updates to already-released Ruby 1.8.7 and 1.8.6 have been released.

This time we have fixed dozens of bugs, including workarounds for CVE-2007-1558 and CVE-2008-1447. Many segfaults are also fixed. For a complete list of what has been fixed, please read the ChangeLogs (1, 2).

The released tarballs are available at:

• ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.6-p368.tar.gz
• ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.6-p368.tar.bz2
• ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.6-p368.zip
• ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7-p160.tar.gz
• ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7-p160.tar.bz2
• ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7-p160.zip

These updates are only worth pursuing if it's of utmost importance that you have the latest point release of your chosen Ruby version installed - in critical production environments, perhaps. For your development machine, it's more of a take it or leave it deal. I'll be sticking to the Apple supplied version of 1.8.6 (p114) for now.