From: "Hendrickson, Eric D via Cygwin" <cygwin@cygwin.com> Subject: Ruby EOL in Cygwin 3.4.9? Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2023 16:37:29 +0000
> Hello all, > > As a ~25 year user and sometime contributor to Cygwin, I support Cygwin here > at my place of work. Does anyone know why we are deploying Ruby 2.6 which > EOL about 18 months ago? > > https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/branches/ > > I'm concerned about proliferation of EOL versions of Ruby in case some > security risk / 0Day is identified. > > Please advise. > Eric Hendrickson On my environment version of Ruby is 3.2.2. (Cygwin64)yasu@rolling[1005]% uname -a ~ CYGWIN_NT-10.0-22621 rolling 3.4.9-1.x86_64 2023-09-06 11:19 UTC x86_64 Cygwin (Cygwin64)yasu@rolling[1006]% type ruby ~ ruby is /usr/bin/ruby (Cygwin64)yasu@rolling[1007]% ruby --version ~ ruby 3.2.2 (2023-03-30 revision e51014f9c0) [x86_64-cygwin] (Cygwin64)yasu@rolling[1008]% I use https://ftp.iij.ad.jp/pub/cygwin as download site and there are surely ruby-3.2.2-2.hint, ruby-3.2.2-2.tar.xz, ruby-3.2.2-2-src.hint and ruby-3.2.2-2-src.tar.xz under https://ftp.iij.ad.jp/pub/cygwin/x86_64/release/ruby/. So I guess download site you use is out of sync. --- Yasuhiro Kimura -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
