[ANN] Ruby 1.9.1-p376 is out

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Yugui (Yuki Sonoda)

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Ruby 1.9.1-p376 just has been released. This is a patch level release of
Ruby 1.9.1 and includes the fix of CVE-2009-4124.

== CVE-2009-4124
The previous release, Ruby 1.9.1-p243 has a security vulnerability that
allows heap overflow. This vulnerability was found by Emmanouel
Kellinis, KPMG London.


I recommend all Ruby 1.9.1 users to upgrade to p376. But the
vulnerability does not affect Ruby 1.8 series.

== Other fixes
In addition, 1.9.1-p376 includes > 100 bug fixes.
* Irb extension commands had been broken. It was fixed.
* Ripper had not been able to parse some Ruby codes. It was fixed.
* Fixed build failures on AIX.
* Some bug fixes of Matrix.
* Can load gems which is installed in an user's home directory.
* Some method became returning a string with a correct encoding.

See the ChangeLog for more detail.
* http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/branches/ruby_1_9_1/ChangeLog

== Location
* http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.1-p376.tar.bz2
SIZE: 7293106 bytes
MD5: e019ae9c643c5efe91be49e29781fb94
SHA256: 79164e647e23bb7c705195e0075ce6020c30dd5ec4f8c8a12a100fe0eb0d6783
* http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.1-p376.tar.gz
SIZE: 9073007 bytes
MD5: ebb20550a11e7f1a2fbd6fdec2a3e0a3
SHA256: 58b8fc1645283fcf3d5be195dffcaf55b7c85cbc210074273b57b835409b21ca
* http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.1-p376.zip
SIZE: 10337871 bytes
MD5: d4d5e62f65cb92a281f1569a7f25371b
SHA256: 486d3efdab269040ce7142964ba3a4e0d46f0a5b812136bcac7e5bafc726c14e

- -- Yugui (Yuki Sonoda) <[email protected]>
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Roger Pack

Ruby 1.9.1-p376 just has been released. This is a patch level release of
Ruby 1.9.1 and includes the fix of CVE-2009-4124.

Yea for the first version of ruby 1.9 that allows you to print long
strings to the console on windows. Thanks!

-r
 

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