Ruby 2.7.3 Released (2021-04-05)
This release includes security fixes. Please check the topics below for
details.
* CVE-2021-28965: XML round-trip vulnerability in REXML
* CVE-2021-28966: Path traversal in Tempfile on Windows
See the commit logs for details.
Update ruby27 to 2.7.2.
Ruby 2.7.2 Released
Posted by nagachika on 2 Oct 2020
Ruby 2.7.2 has been released.
This release contains intentional incompatibility. The deprecated warnings
are off by default on 2.7.2 and later. You can turn on the deprecated
warnings by specifing command line option -w or -W:deprecated. Please check
the topics below for details.
* Feature #17000 2.7.2 turns off deprecation warnings by default
* Feature #16345 Don¡Çt emit deprecation warnings by default.
This release contains the new version of webrick with a security fix
described in the article.
* CVE-2020-25613: Potential HTTP Request Smuggling Vulnerability in WEBrick
Update ruby27-base (and ruby27) to 2.7.1.
2.7.1 (2020-03-31)
This release includes security fixes. Please check the topics below for
details.
* CVE-2020-16255: Unsafe Object Creation Vulnerability in JSON (Additional
fix)
* CVE-2020-10933: Heap exposure vulnerability in the socket library
Add ruby27-base 2.7.0 package. This package is Ruby 2.7 release
minimum base package.
Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and
easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to
process text files and to do system management tasks (as in
Perl). It is simple, straight-forward, and extensible.
Features of Ruby are shown below.
+ Simple Syntax
+ *Normal* Object-Oriented features (ex. class, method calls)
+ *Advanced* Object-Oriented features (ex. Mix-in, Singleton-method)
+ Operator Overloading
+ Exception Handling
+ Iterators and Closures
+ Garbage Collection
+ Dynamic Loading of Object files (on some architecture)
+ Highly Portable (works on many UNIX machines, and on DOS, Windows,
Mac, etc.)
Ruby 2.7 introduces a number of new features and performance
improvements, most notably:
* Pattern Matching (Experimental)
* REPL improvement
* Compaction GC
* Separation of positional and keyword arguments
